So what's the buzz about the sky falling down?
Ness-tling deep into the Onett ground?
It's all semantics, thermodynamics~

(blue blue, I'm robotic with you)
You shoot straight to the hip, 
next time just aim straight for my lips

Promise me you'll never take me home
In a crowded room, we're still just on our own
Promise me you'll never take me home
When the Starman comes, we gotta face him on our own

A bee I am
...not
I'll re-tell my tale if you've forgotten it, 
about the Apple of Enlighten--
"Don't say it!"

Buzz - Demo

Flash of Memory
I wish I could free your gentle mind all the time outside and overclocked
I know that you've been homesick, but I believe that you're roses kissed with dew
I feign that I deflect it, I'll ask you questions all about your hometown!

Red & Black
Swirling Mass
You cannot grasp this

Red & Black
Swirling Mass
You cannot grasp this attack!

I know that you've been homesick, but I believe that you're roses kissed with dew
I feign that I deflect it, I'll ask you questions all about your hometown!

I heard that void cry to the boy:
 "You cannot grasp this! I'll hand your head back to your friends! You cannot grasp this attack!"

I know that you've been homesick, but I believe that you're roses kissed with dew
I feign that I deflect it, I'll ask you questions all about your hometown!

PK....Flash [of Memory]
I wish I could free your gentle mind all the time outside and overclocked

(Red and black, swirling mass, you cannot grasp this)
I know that you've been homesick, Ness.

Homesick - Demo

Food Fight

UPDATE: This is now available as part of a charity release for the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants here: https://deerful.bandcamp.com/album/without-borders

This is my contribution to Squarepusher's MIDI Sans Frontières collaborative project, detailed here: http://www.squarepusher.net/.

I want to explain a little about this piece here. I spent the 19th to the 23rd of June this year at Stanford CCRMA, learning to begin to program music in SuperCollider. That's not a very long time, and the sum total of what I've learnt is used here; I could perhaps have done something more ambitious using another method, but I didn't want to, and here's why. The night of the referendum vote was the last full day of my classes at Stanford, and unlike my friends at home, and my partner who had dutifully acted as my proxy voter earlier in the day, I wasn't able to sleep through the counts; as my lecturers spoke I kept the BBC website open behind SuperCollider on my laptop, refreshing and refreshing until all the counts were done and I knew 52% of the population had voted to leave the EU. 

I've never stayed up to the end of a count before and never want to again. There is a powerlessness to it I couldn't have anticipated. As the only UK-based student in my class it was hard to make my American classmates and lecturers understand my distraction and upset at the referendum result, but their kindness even in the face of something comparatively unknown to them will stick with me for a long time. I worry about my friends who are people of colour in the wake of the reported rise in racist attacks; I worry about being unable to visit Germany, where my entire maternal family live without dual citizenship; I worry about a return to the depths of austerity; I worry about friends who are unemployed and my own employment prospects when I graduate; I worry about the NHS. There's a lot to worry about. It piles up like the phrases of this piece.

It's hard not to feel, now, like the country is more in ruins as a result of this referendum than any other vote in the course of my lifetime so far. As I write this we are essentially in governmental stasis with little we can do to change the situation except to exercise our democratic right when we can by voting, joining parties and unions and demonstrating if we are able, but in a smaller sense, to look out for one another, extend hands and say, I will stand with you and work with you and support you regardless of borders or government or where we are from or how we identify. In a very small way this is one attempt at doing the latter. 

Code (and vague instructions for live performance) available at http://pastebin.com/rhHAexVh. 

Special thanks to @christa_lee for making me aware of this project and for her own inspiring contribution to it, and to @brunoruviaro for his wonderful teaching.

MIDI Sans Frontières

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Emily Reo - Stronger Swimmer

Out on Orchid Tapes on October 28th.
Artwork by Brian Vu. Mastered by Emily Lazar.

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Emily Reo - Spell

The Corner Laughers' autumnal, acoustic cover of "Some Nights," by @Deerful. Karla on vocals and ukulele; Khoi on guitar. Yaya at the end says, "That's nice music."

Some Nights (Deerful cover)

I wrote this song on the day of the election. Peace and revelations to all!

NOVEMBER 9TH - PROD : WILOUGH

John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats recorded this, and I'm suddenly regretting that I didn't ask him for his story ideas earllier.

Star Wars: the Official Soundtrack

The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones

Deerful. I do sad pop music on tiny synthesisers.

In other people's bands I do or have done:
Keys/backing vocals in Owl & Mouse
Keys/backing vocals with Darren Hayman
Harmonium/accordion/vocals in Enderby's Room
Synth/electronics in free-improv duo Brute Love
Backing vocals/synth in Papernut Cambridge
Backing vocals with Citizen Helene

MIDI Sans Frontières

Deerful

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