I. Robot World Burns, Cog Help Us All

New EP Robot World Burns, Cog Help Us All was finished a few days ago! Art volunteered by Bleak-Creep. If you like the art, please visit her page! She's a very special friend and her work is always top notch <3

https://quarl.bandcamp.com/album/robot-world-burns-cog-help-us-all

As usual I'm disabling MP3 downloads for songs that are migrating to Bandcamp. I'm not sure if anyone has caught on that my albums on Bandcamp are all "name your price," which translates to 0$. Purchasing individual songs on the other hand costs $1 per track. Seeing as it's ridiculously hard to get people listening to my music in the first place I've always tried to remain accessible. You can pirate my music if you want, just don't claim you wrote the material.

Massive thank you going out to Plasmarift and Bleak-Creep. I've considered hiring a voice actor in the past, I usually hunt for samples to help add cinematic elements to my music. Plasma reached out looking for work and I love a random hustle so I gave him a mission to write and record an evil monologue. Wasn't certain what to expect but he took that prompt and delivered some amazing recordings. I chopped his monologues up into samples so I could rearrange, pick and choose from, set cadence... it's honestly a slight shame that I'm not using his material in it's entirety but I might make some more cinematic tracks with his recordings taking the center stage at a later point. Could also make the sample folders public. After the vendetta recordings I asked him to do some fictional love confessions. He was a little awkward about having to act out love but that couldn't have been a more Newgrounds response, y'all are touch starved. I really want to do a couple of orchestral pieces using the monologues, something akin to the OST work from Us but I'm kind of between DAWs, more on that later...

Robot World Burns, Cog Help Us All is a collection of sound fetish, misanthropic synthesizers, and existential angst. The product of 20 years of just banging my head against a computer screen, this EP both loves itself and hates itself. Please consider dropping more than 0$ on the EP.

II. Passing Through Texas

I'm going down to Texas with my husband in October. If your interested in a music & arts festival look up Astronox. The guy that runs the event is an old Newgrounds alumni, Nick Sumbles. I only know of one other Newgrounds user in the Texas area, apparently we just missed each other last year, he bought a day pass. The event is 5 days long, I camped the event last year in my pop up tent. Tom just made some sick additions to our camper trailer, daisy chained some battery cells together and stuffed them in a couple boxes above the wheel fenders:

We used to plug our devices into the car battery but the new battery power lets us run a fridge. Starlink unit sits in the truck bed, is enshrined by the cage we used to hoist the pop up tent onto giving us highspeed internet. We camp like a couple of spoiled yuppies, when it gets dark out he streams Futurama while I emulate Pokemon games and troll Discord :D

This is just another reason why I make my albums free. Sometimes I complain about sales... a small part of me wants my music to blow up but my other half realizes how dumb that old dream is. I have a great life, any money I make from my music eventually funnels back to people like Plasmarift and pays for my subscriber status. I'm not sure when I'll have new music up, I'm trying to make a hard shift from a DAW I've always loved to Ableton because it's free right now. My hubby got a free license of Ableton with a Sweetwater purchase and I'm getting dated out of my Reason 10 license. I'll try to put my Reason 10 copy on the new music computer Tom built but I've been told I'm screwed. I'm not in love with Ableton's interface but I'm just being a big baby about it.

III. Tom Is King Of The Bees

His latest eccentric hobby, Tom procured a couple of Nucs before our wedding last year. He just divided the hives, installed three new queens:

I have 30 minutes of video footage to edit, maybe I'll have a finished product next time. It was a very windy day so I'll have to re-record his dialogue or use closed captions. Maybe I'll just overlay Plasmarift's monologues and tell my husband I fucked up the audio? Regardless, that about wraps up the news.

IV. Tldr:

New EP, Texas, Bees.

@Bleak-Creep @Plasmarift <3 <3