Amateurish stuff about the Silmarillion, no intent to infringe JRRT

Performed by myself in December of 2022 onward on a Roland FA-08 from memory by ear with no sheet music, as one track with 2 hands.

Silmarillion Stuff

Essentially every track of mine that is entirely my own composition including tracks based on other concepts, that are not merely arrangements but truly original in nature.

Original Compositions

Movie or TV Soundtrack Covers of Mine (not Monetized)

Bangers is (almost) everything that has 350 plays or more.

My Bangers

The vocal tracks started with The Fool's Jest (#257) and continue on into the present day.  Gradually getting better about process with these.

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Tracks With Vocals

Amateurish stuff about the Silmarillion, no intent to infringe JRRT

Performed by myself in December of 2022 on a Roland FA-08 from memory by ear with no sheet music, as one track with 2 hands.  Original composition, but not monetizing this because I dont wan't New Line or Tolkien Estate to come crush me.
Finrod+Galadriel has to do with the passage in the Silmarillion where Finrod tells Galadriel things are about to go badly.
The following paraphrase:
"Now Finrod Felagund had no wife, and Galadriel asked why this should be."
"And Finrod answered: 'An oath I too must swear, and be free to fulfill it, and go into darkness.  Nor shall anything of my realm endure that a son should inherit.' 
"

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tracks are downloadable at my Bandcamp at:
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FINROD+GALADRIEL

Amateurish stuff about the Silmarillion, no intent to infringe JRRT


The refrain follows the first four lines of the poem of the Eärendillinwë that Frodo heard when he walked off for a minute during the evening in Rivendell and suddenly heard Elvish voices chanting.  The remainder of the piece is intended to shift into sort of a theme of the Silmarillion overall (sort of a cinematic theme) and doesn't follow the rest of poem's words.
Sharp listeners will note a few influences:

1) the spots where it seems to pause are the short bit of music when Aragorn tries to give back the Evenstar to Arwen, shortly after the halfway point of the Two Towers movie (when we had discs it was a minute or 2 into the 2nd disc after Eowyn gives Aragorn the rabbit stew ("The Evenstar does not wax or wane...").  With a triumphal major-key phrase-ending intended for Beren & Luthien that differs from the Two Towers phrase.

2) a few places I borrow from the Returner's Hideout theme in Final Fantasy 6.

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Eärendillinwë 2022 06 13 Rough

My favorite track of all of Maurice-Alexis Jarre's Shogun soundtrack, is sadly not on the shorter version of the audio CD of the soundtrack.  Much later it was included on Intrada's much longer Audio CD.

Not intended of course to infringe on Jarre or the producers of the series.

Performed by myself in December of 2022 on a Roland FA-08 from memory by ear with no sheet music, as one track with 2 hands.

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SHOGUNFave

This is similar to what I uploaded earlier it's just that the miniseries used horns extensively, rather than the String section voice that I played it on the FA-08 with, so I have run it through MuseScore 4's horn voice to give an impression of what it more nearly sounds like on TV.

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SHOGUNFaveHorn

rough cut of Whimsy #1 recorded 01/24/2023

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Rhombus

Whimsy Number 1

Buy on Beatport

Just a little something that goes in a loop in different key signatures

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Odd Little Ways, Parte the First

A little short electronic ditty in A minor (at least to start)

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Dissatisfaction Expands To The Available Space

A very short ambient/jazz track with some pads in it

It is sort of like, supposed to be a cutesy update of the little amusing short piano thing in Winger's apartment before he does the pushups at the beginning of Stripes(1981) with Bill Murray.  That they play for about 2 loops.  I know how to play that by ear too and get good satisfaction out of that just laughing at it.

This one per the cover art is sort of an update to Soyjak life in current-day dystopia industrialized cities or something.  He's got his little delusion graphic in his head that things are fine and reality is the smog etc.

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Upside To Manlet Existence

Here's one for our strepsirrhine cousins.
I would bet a ringtail out there has put the pieces together for this calculation.

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(Well I Guess) Maybe I'll Bribe Her With Some Fruit

A probable encounter, should I ever see her again:

Her: "I need to talk to you."

Me: "Why are you malfunctioning? You're not supposed to want that!"

This builds on Whimsy #1 a little. After a period of pondering and wandering for about three months.

4-18-2023: I haven't forgotten anybody for followbacks.  My stuff rose so sharply Soundcloud's main thing is scolding me for following too many in 1-day.  So I gotta wait

later on 4-18: got the reciprocal follows done if y'all were wondering.  Cheers.

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Why Are You Malfunctioning / Whimsy Number 2

Dedicated to everyone on the make who is one-third to one-half of the way through the Grind.

In RPGs,
In other games.
In finance,
In love,
In life.

This one's for all of you.

Not monetized I don't want Square Enix coming after me.
All rights reserved to them and to the composer (Nobuo Uematsu)
Free track for all

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The Mid-Levelers' Anthem (FF4 Mt. Hobs / Ordeals)

Sequel to Odd Little Ways Parte The First, less of a loop, more of a singularly built track.  But some familiar threads in it.

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Odd Little Ways, Parte the Second

Dedicated warmly to DanikaXIX's cat Beans.

A short stroll around the dark, for those with the chops for it.

("I didn't know you were a musician."

"I'm capable of a -number- of things neither of us are aware of.
The real question remains -- are you going to cooperate with lifting the veil?"

--apocryphal)

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Nite Prowl

A new version of the Eärendillinwë  that I earlier released 10 months ago, but
in pure piano form, so that people can hear the chord structure
better, with a more relaxed pace where I could put the
phrases that were missing from the first one.

When I recorded in summer 2022 I had the metronome click
on and felt rushed for time - this version puts some good
things back into it.  Those with a good ear for cinematic
music will note that I am borrowing the ending phrase partly
from a scene in Richard III (1955) with Laurence Olivier.
Those who don't know it - go watch the movie.  You'll instantly
recognize where I pulled this from.

All rights reserved to the Tolkien Estate and whoever currently
holds the music rights to the Richard III movie.  This is very
pointedly a non-monetized, free track.  Just as the earlier version.

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image of Vingilot (c) Ted Nasmith

Eärendillinwë (Piano, Alternate Phrases)

This track is not heard in the 1984 Dune Movie
It was originally performed by Toto and not released until the Expanded Soundtrack CD in 1997 by PEG
All rights reserved to the owners of the intellectual property (Toto, PEG, Dune Franchise owners, the Herbert family) etc.
This is a totally free track and is not monetized at all.

It is a rather iffy sequencing job...
But it's the thought that counts.
Since it's my 19th track it is dedicated to Dune Club Teacher Lady
DanikaXIX (Comic Book Girl 19)

Much loves

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Riding The Sandworm (Toto, Instrumental Cover)

We've all been there.
Stuff is on the rocks and we have to slog through the interpersonal struggle.

A piece with repeating sections like Nite Prowl but branches into some new territory for me.

This was reprised several months later with "Luck Will Turn" (Track #87)

multi-platform link to this song:
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You're A Real Piece O'Luck

The four-part playlist link for the battle specifically is this:
soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/sets/of-the-fifth-battle-nirnaeth

This track is not monetized.
All rights reserved to the Tolkien Estate, New Line, etc, whoever holds all the Tolkien rights.  Completely free track.  Enjoy

A little very-to-the-point thing about the midsummer morning when forces lined up for the Battle of Unnumbered Tears.

IYKYK
if you dont check this
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Nirnaeth_Arnoediad

or the old fashioned way, is to find the pertinent chapter "Of The Fifth Battle..."  in the Silmarillion

Looking around soundcloud...
A bunch of other metal things go into the main course of the battle.
This here is more of a study of when they were initially hopeful at the start.
(Whereupon anyone else's main battle stuff, is completely valid following this thing, more power to that)

Sharp observers will notice phrases re-used from the two different versions of Earendillinwe in my track list, it is encouraged to also check those out (and the track notes of both).

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Lining Up For The Nirnaeth

Performed by organist Simon Preston in the movie.
Free track, not monetized at all.  All rights reserved to the holders of the music rights, the movie studio etc.


Mine is a just a bit simpler but the best I could do from memory.
When you need your little dose of corpo anthem before starting work in the mornings.

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Energy Corporation (Houston) Corporate Anthem (Cover) (Rollerball(1975))

All Rights Reserved to the owners of the music and film rights to the "Nighteen Eighty-Four" movie from 1984, to the Eurhythmics and the movie studio and wherever the rights have been transferred to.
No intent to infringe.  Not monetized, completely free track.

When you need your dose of Big Brother in just a little longer than the Two Minute Hate.
Doesn't belabor the extra horns supporting, which are some trouble to set up anyway.

Just really direct and to the point.

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Short INGSOC Medley For The Impatient

A Silmarillion theme, about the Great March from Cuiviénen to the west shores of Middle-Earth.

All rights reserved to the holders of the I.P. of the Middle-Earth franchise, Tolkien Estate, New Line, etc.
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The Great March

Didn't belabor the details of the battle itself which was short and swiftly victorious.  Mostly dwells on Fëanor getting himself killed and his final scenes.

All rights reserved to the owners of the Middle-Earth I.P., Tolkien Estate, New Line, etc.  No intent to infringe.  Non-monetized, free track for all.

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End of Dagor-nuin-Giliath / Death Of Fëanor

My first vocals for anyone in 24 1/2 years.  That's right folks, since May of 1999 at Seattle University.
So I will sound a little out of practice and secondly I set myself a hard task with the instrumental track being made first and the vocals later.

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itch.io page:
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brackets are lyrics left on the cutting room floor.

One day the fool came walking by
And the king said 'let's have laughter'
[Then the fool said 'Well I'll make a jest'
'But let's just not kill me after']
(replaced with some da-da-da'ing)

He proceeded then to make his pitch
And the king besat there, all bewitched
But there came a point which had a flaw
And the fool knew he might lose it all

[So he turned to something he felt safe]
[And the king then seemed to forget the gaffe]
But the fool well knew his lucky break
And he quickly then made his escape

Being free to muse on the fickleness of rulers
As the day grew gaunt and grey
He thanked his stars
That unlike his peers
He lived to jest another day

SexDeka

The Fool's Jest

Buy on Bandcamp

The result of a Wikipedia crawl figuring out something around meme lore.  A Snowclone is a re-usable word phrase.

"In Soviet Russia, X Y's you." etc

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Lyrics:

I used to be a snowclone
But I took an arrow to the knee
I'm not a snowclone
But I play one on TV

If Eskimos have a thousand words for snow
Snowclones surely have one word for Eskimos

I Used To Be A Snowclone, But I Took An Arrow To The Knee

The third rather experimental vocal track.  A lot of compressing sections to go faster and match instrumentals.

my main website:
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itch.io page:
http://exedexes1.itch.io

Lyrics:


And if it isn't too much trouble
I would like to know just what you were angling for
For the time... grows...short
To search for redress, tidy the mess

Riddle me this

As we sit here treading water
Why is it that you keep dodging the issue
Are the terms... too... steep
To broker a deal
What is it you feel

I didn't want, to be cruel
But there comes a time
Begging validation
Plays me for the fool

Why Are You Malfunctioning / Whimsy Number 2 (Lyrical)

The fourth lyrical track, this is Track 67 (LXVII) with the vocal track just fitted on top of it without really changing the instrumentals at all.

Don't interrupt a woman when she's trying to keep you out of trouble.

my main website:
http://exedexes1.com

itch.io page:
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Lyrics:

They're looking for a man
Who has a plan
Don't be put out by seeming
Shallow comparisons
Their abacus is always on patrol

They seek the best discard the rest
Remember they just try to build a nest
That instinct isn't really just a troll

They don't have time
To sit and wait
For you to find yourself
Until too late
The younger ones
Require being bold

SepteDeka

Be More Worried If She Says Yes (Extended Lyrical Version)

Be More Worried If She Says Yes - Lyrical Extended

Slightly autobiographical.  Although I will add for Danika's benefit I do understand that revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded, about ninety-seven percent of music is purging demons about the significant Other.

my main website:
http://exedexes1.com

itch.io page:
http://exedexes1.itch.io

Lyrics:


All the tireless individuation i was doing
While the normalites were screwing
Means that trouble has been brewing for a while

When we get around to settling
The imbalance that's been nettling
There may be a confrontation off the top of the dial

It takes a fair amount of being a pussy
To build a world based on passing the buck
But when the choice is between
Some of the men that you've seen
Is the cagey guy the one you want to fuck


Though it's indicated to be tough
And we wonder what's enough
I should be gentle all the same

But when the gadflies of the swarm
Were causing genuine harm
It takes a fair amount of being a pussy
To shield them from the blame

It Takes A Fair Amount Of Being A Pussy

Spindrift - First BHSA Music Jam hosted by Skitto/BHSA for Itch.IO

Mostly an ambient piece about the beach setting in the visual prompt for the jam.  I stay mostly quiet, but it is, after all, me.

348 : Spindrift - First BHSA Music Jam hosted by Skitto/BHSA for Itch.IO released October 23, 2024

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SoundCloud for this track:
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Spotify for this track:
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ŠalāšEšrā

Spindrift (First BHSA Music Jam hosted by Skitto/BHSA for Itch.IO)

Spindrift - First BHSA Music Jam hosted by Skitto/BHSA for Itch.IO

The idea of the game jam's prompt was to evoke a cave.  Doesn't specify what kind, could be spelunking alone but I went with a joke that it's a D&D thing where the the adventurer is in the one place that isn't deadly and stuff is closing in.  Gelatinous cubes in all directions etc.

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Rumbling Cave (submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam 3 for Itch hosted by emscottish January 2025)

Rumbling Cave - submission Weekly Note Composing Jam 3 for Itch hosted by emscottish (Electro Final)

The 34th vocal track.  Sort of a running joke set in kind of a 19th century frame about romantic rivalry and maybe the use of language and semantics.

Lyrics:
While we were searching for the legendary Cupid's Zambezi
My rival tried his best, though lazy
To conceal his damning catachrest
Halfway down the river Switchamee
I got up a wild hair
To expose this sniveling liar
He responded that he did not care
For being used as a floating signifier  

Having heard then and parried his scorn 
And though I really would not rather,
The forlorn burden of his blather was not so hard to carry then
His discourse, an embarrassment to any doctrinarian
I slid into tolerating this ultracrepidarian fool
Mildly resenting that he was philologically incompetent
But as long as what he did paid the rent
His lexicon though a travesty, made the trip a sum well spent 

His verbal sins, an egregious praxis
A malicious definist, someone engaging in willful anacrisis
A veritable saboteur-fool lexique of a worm
His method for attaining small wins 
Was a unique sigh in the annals of catachresis
Though his banal opinion of my technique 
Was that I was stubborn as a mule
I preferred the term
Smart-Person-Who-Understands-Language-Is-Instead-A-Tool

One day I got up the gumption to aver
And dared to bluster breezily
For a man who qualifies for her
You sure do scare easily  

He imperiously fired back
You petulant little elf
For your futile attempts to take this tack
You can seriously just go get wrecked
The dildo of consequence rarely arrives lubed
Or you just ironically defined yourself
Unless you tell me I'm incorrect
Then by the way
You're either free or double-trapped inside Metatron's Cube
Good luck hey hey hey HEYYY

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A Serious Case Of λογολωβητής (Logolōbētēs)

A funny track about some discussions on Twitter/X lately, it's frankly on the weirder side like Word Salad and Yes-No Column, Come To Life!

But after hearing it multiple times (like most of my things) it improves.

Lyrics:

There is difficulty to a significant degree
When battling people engaged in hoaxing
And we can clearly see
Because Hesiod said in seven hundred BC
Do not let a woman who decorates her buttocks deceive you
By wily coaxing
Because she is after your granary

Bewailing her lack of taro root
A redhead libertarian was destitute and snarked
That she didn't have a favorite prostitute
A contrarian most resolute
But a boon to have at your back during a dispute
Now that we were in cahoots, to entertain her sense of humor
I related to her the past events

If you don't quite have the stomach for horror
Try still to conceive of if you can
The complaints of a commoditized man
That vultures caused American culture
To became a jump ball for Sodom and Gomorrah

When i was younger and very very loud
I was a disgraced propagandist doing his username proud

Her lines were remarkably sultry
I was lost in thought staring at the shininess of her boot
Musing that the first step of any meaningful pursuit
Is to severely underestimate its difficulty

The one-night stand sarcastically complimented me on my range
I said you were the one to talk
But then she recommended as a dietary change
Brazilian Quinoa and Equatorial Donkey Chalk

She was quite amazing wearing fishnets
But when her lasciviousness needed satiating
Nothing quite got her wet like contemplating
Malicious compliance to get the idiots and shills upset

As i got older the fatter became my manila folder
I wondered if she'd gone too far
When she was grinding to WAP in a bar
Then berating me for touching her on the shoulder

The root of their lawfully sanctioned insurgency
Was a deeply felt need of urgency
Their transgressions begat the need to talk sense
But either they were in denial or awfully dense
Like Private Pyle they were too fat to climb over Chesterton's fence

The libertarian drew back agape as I was seized by
Poetic demons, my tongue unbound by whimsy’s cry  

Now peep their quisquilian rout, all clowned in disarray
A pox of poltroons, too shook to gainsay
Brains so obtund, they’d quaff their own toxic drip,
I smack their feckless rebellion with truculence no slip
And big up the gibbet that cancels their weak-ass affray

She smirked, Thy florid rant doth vex me sore,
A bard’s bombast best left to yore’s grim lore

Thus spake Hesiod, neath Boeotia’s dour sky 
Shun maids who cozen with a venal eye
For when iron reigns and kine grow gaunt with blight
Avaunt their guile, lest chaos claim the night

SamāššEšrā

Jump-Ball For Sodom And Gomorrah

2nd extended lyrical version of Be More Worried If She Says Yes, submission for Music Revision Challenge game jam hosted by 8 Bits To Infinity for Itch.IO in April 2025

@sanctifiedsound correctly says this isn't proper Pop but it's the closest to Pop my Folktronica Jazztronica pieces have approached to.  It has a bouncy energy.

Lyrics: 

Phantasm....glimmers fade
Her eyes...a masquerade

Her gaze sped… through maelstrom’s lure,
Fell… where dreams immure.

They're looking for a man
Who has a plan
Don't be put out by seeming
Shallow comparisons
Their abacus is always on patrol

If you don't impress, she's gonna stay
Leaving you with just dismay
Not your lucky day

Don't be a dud
When she gives her nod
The moment she agrees
Is when you seize,
Be the man she wants to hold
Who doesn't need to be told

They seek the best discard the rest
Remember they just try to build a nest
That instinct isn't really just a troll

Her patience isn't like a pool,
Dont be a fool

When she says yes, it's time to act
Show her that you're more than fact
Step up your game,

They don't have time
To sit and wait
For you to find yourself
Until too late
The younger ones
Require being bold

Evanescent… cinders drift,
Her stare… a rhapsody’s rift.

Hold… what dusk bestows,
Love… ain’t fierce, it grows.

Tišēešrā

Be More Worried If She Says Yes (2nd Extended Lyrical Version)

The fragments instruction for this game jam was "Quartal Harmony"

The "fourness" diagram in this music track's cover art is adapted from:
Nikolsky, A. (2016). Evolution of Tonal Organization in Music Optimizes Neural Mechanisms in Symbolic Encoding of Perceptual Reality. Part-2: Ancient to Seventeenth Century. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 211. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00211. Used under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.

the two track predecessors on SoundCloud are:
El Que No Transa No Avanza (I)  (track CCXCV)
https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/el-que-no-transa-no-avanza

and:
Weapons-Grade Irrationality (I, extended)  (track XXII)
https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/w-girrationalextwav

El Que No Transa No Avanza II + Weapons-Grade Irrationality II submission for OST Fragments Jam #2

My first attempt at this spoken poetry stuff, maybe out of a slight laziness, just trying it on.  I can see how some people do this because it's easier than writing to a piano melody.

Lyrics:

Brooke Shields had it right
Remember that if you're killed
You've lost a very important part of your life

As I shuffled in past the misbegotten
I saw that the ignorant knave
Had roundly forgotten the tactical proviso
That he who makes half a revolution 
Digs his own grave

I had to applaud them on their perspicacity
A society full of sinners
Judging sinners for sinning differently

To a council summons all his mighty peers
Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved
A gloomy consistory
And unleashed the pronouncement he'd prepared
He declared he'd recently resolved that
Did you even say thank you
Was the most bitchmade line in history

He said the solution came to me by hook or by crook
Without doubt it's a hell of a burden i carry
But it's always in the last place i look
A less wary prelate blurted out
Yeah bro that's tautologically necessary

The unlucky fellow was upended
And toppled reeling into a chasm
When his boss responded with better sarcasm 
Instead of being offended

We saw no reason to eat comestibles
Befitting a corporate Brahmin
The culinary pinnacle was dishwasher salmon
Paired with shrimp flavored top ramen

Who needs ChatGPT
When you can just match with a catfish
Freeze dried or pan fried
You'll certainly get your wish

How Are The Mighty Fallen

Long-awaited Alpha remaster to this piece, these kind of remasters being the sort where you just do minimal timing fixes and speed-ups to reduce hesitancy

They're Eating Out My Sustenance Like They're Supposed To (Alpha Remaster)

Long-awaited alpha remaster of this piece.

I Weird You Out For Your Own Good, You Know (Alpha Remaster)

The long-awaited alpha remaster of one of my better ones from the very very earliest stages.

You're A Real Piece O'Luck (Alpha Remaster)

Broken Telephone is a game jam series on Itch where the odd numbered jams are a graphic art contest and the even numbered jams are music which is prompted by the art and vice versa.  BT #8's image prompt was a low-poly looking style pic of a Frog that kind of looked like it was from Minecraft.

Lilypad Croak Canticle submission for Broken Telephone 8 Music Jam hosted by cjee246 for Itch.IO

Jaguar Fang Overdrive submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #20 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO

Finishing off Тврьдо with a standalone jazztronica that isn't an Itch.IO assignment at all but a freeform piece.

Akrasia's A Bitch And Then

"you know, American Jean Le Carre shit.  Steely Dan, but counter-intel."
Vaguely about a guy bouncing around with unique skills for weird niche gov't stuff getting interviewed by a fairly high up yet also obscure administrative-state lady he's decided is a creeper who just let some people go but is embroiled somewhere in the fight between Elon and Trump and the Epstein List not being released yet.

And in that way it's like another chapter after As The Say In England, Allahu Akbahr "it's nice to be in demand but the people i meet are wacko" kind of stuff.  Interesting grist for movie plots i suppose
And perhaps with Jump-Ball For Sodom And Gomorrah it's a loose trilogy? :)
N.B.: "misericord" here is in the archaic sense of a dagger like in dungeons & dragons

Lyrics: 

I heard there was a secret cord
You plug it in and you meet the Lord

From the black art of electricians
We turned to the follies of politicians
And we set our selves to seek within
But ended up scratching our gourds

She explained she was in a mire
Of having to replace a couple of DUI hires
I declined to inquire as to the reason to fire
Her previously shining direct reports

She queried my views on corporate vision
And my leadership style position
Was that my internal stance was rather patrician
I interjected after being asked my favorite vice
That the gap in my resume was 
When i was stepping in the same river twice


I'd won my rather politic argument
But she was butthurt that her rhetoric was outclassed
And then she came back and sassed
People are really pissed
That we don't have the list
It's all the evidence the government amassed
On the guy who was amassing evidence
On people in the government

It seemed these deficient people 
Couldn't afford
To survive this lady's misericord
For being insufficiently on board
So that was how it went

though my answer had to be no
and the interview was a miss
as i got up to go
it was plain as far as i could see
that they should tokenize her demonic energy
and distribute her on the chain as a service
and that conclusion was time well spent

It's A Big Club And You Ain't In It Part II

Something about the Fun in LA in 2025
warning: this is a work of fiction
the 'pallet of bricks thing' was debunked 5 yrs ago : my unreliable narrator is something of a wiener.  Take that how you will :)
Kind of like the warning at the start of 1955 Richard III with Olivier that he wasn't really a hunchback...etc
  Also the head of that store's probably the greatest cinnamon roll of a human and the gf's kid is a little demon that knocks inventory over...

Lyrics:

Community is mutually exchanged inconveniences
For the promise of magistrates' leniency

My double-major paramour was lading bread with jelly
On a shift at Canter's Deli
While we discussed the latest brigandage
And dropped some gems of knowledge

My devastating heartthrob said
That the greatest software efficiency steal
Is to hire a cheap intern whose whole job
Is to be a hater and keep it real

And stated with a leer
While discussing her change of career

That the difference between making a sandwich
And mooting relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
Is that one of the which carries
Significantly less risk
Of irreversible brain damage

My spiritual talent
Is making people i like angry at me

As we surveyed the city's commotion
She wondered why the populace
Gets into these fights
I said not to be a dick
But hit a beehive with a stick
And you will discover that 
Bees have a robust notion of property rights

When the mood of the NGO's gets really really shitty
They queue up the pallets of bricks randomly sitting round the city

For better or worse
A border is a line between personal investment
And the rest of the Universe

We later hit the Chef's paradise
For restauranting provender
As we were sauntering between the lavender and allspice
The owner's prompting wasn't very nice 
Please do keep your crotch fruit madam away from the merchandise 

The best exaction
We derived from this civic distraction
As we continued our drive
Was being able to say
It's a great beach day west of the 405

I'll Have A Coyotaje Knish And Hold The Mustard

Ballad of Midgaard's Finest Newbie, Edgar the Horrible!  Short version before it goes to the French Album Jam on Itch.IO

Ballad Of Edgar The Horrible (Abridged)

Submission to Impressions Mystery Jam #1 hosted by KaleOverlord for Itch.IO June 2025

Instrumental chronicling when Barozek was training with Krodar in Settlestone's Citadel area, before getting whisked away from Jord, later to return to Old Thalos.

The loop end-point is simply the end of the piece, it is intended to cleanly loop to the piece's start.

Barozek Trains Under Krodar Thunderhammer submission for Impressions Mystery Jam #1

Some digs both at Elon being suspected of taking ketamine and the Iran B-2 Bomber Strike, and contemporary corporate HR behavior

Lyrics:

True growth comes from being comfortable with discomfort
Mockery is just the universe's way of keeping our ego in check
Their probing had pinpointed my encumbrance
And had me by the neck
ahh ahh ahh ahh

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom 
And fly no colors at all
Their shout is a rattling of chains, always was
When back against the wall


With trepidity i turned the pages
What he'd said was not for the meek
The best way to cure your nostalgia for the middle ages
Is to shit outside for a week 


They had winkled out my side vocation
Through the free market
In a form of distributed computation
But i felt that i could still dart around 
Any verbal machicolations


HR had me in the fish bowl
Interrogation from dawn to dusk 
Imagine coming down from a k hole
And finding out you're Elon Musk


She started we're not here for manners
And since there's no time to waste
You look like someone who eats bananas
For the shape and not the taste

I retorted bananas betoken
The dietary methodology 
That cellular processing of glucose is broken 
From the onslaught of modern insults to biology

Despite the degree to which this perturbed
She regained her nerve and said very well
It says here you should be in hell
But since you were a backend developer
We will consider that time served

She thundered what I'd done
Was not a smart play
What had gone supercritical with her parishioners
Who ratted me out the other day
Was that I had openly wondered 
If i might not draw better pay as a political prisoner

She bothered to insert the word official
As i was tallying her counter-poises
When sifting through waffling interstitials
You have to listen for these itty bitty noises

She's quite the girl with which to hang
By any available means
I tried to pass her interrobang
Without spilling the beans
But for the unwary
Your mileage may vary
It's best just to keep up with your leafy greens

While extoling her masters' daring
She was wearing me down with her slow rolling 
Since i felt I still had some juice
With her pincer move prepended
I decided to bite first and extended
Low sensitivity control systems will always
Underperform and often produce the 
Opposite effect as intended 


When I got back to my desk
I felt that I'd drained concupiscence to the dregs
Mercifully this was interrupted by my neighbor
Who said
The lion does not concern himself with OSHA regs 


He said one thing from the service stuck with him
The B-2 pilots had a doggerel for when they fly
Real penetration has never been tried
Which doubled as a joke about Communism
And some lady's remembrance of THAT guy 

I had a sneaking admiration
For the ways of this little freak
And contributing to the mystique
Was the ribaldness of his technique


His bluster fell a little flat
I silently wondered if i can
Take lessons on being a man
From a dude who tucks his ears into his hat


He dipped another nacho
And tried to make it look macho
He said they used to call us squares
Then turned up the volume on Rio Bravo


I wondered at his game and thought
She tells her therapist about you
She tells her handlers about me
We are not the same 


The organization's career path
Was a little over sold
Accept the brand new label
And something under the table
And head for the pot of gold
And the ranks of the well-bred
And be led into the library of Babel
By the latent manifold

Real Penetration Has Never Been Tried / Interrobang

submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #22 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO for June 2025

the prompt for this jam was simply "roll credits"

no intent to infringe on the Middle-Earth franchise.  Non monetized-completely free track for all.  Rights are reserved to the franchise owners, the Tolkien Estate, etc.

The art square is a simplified version of the Ambarkanta map looking from the south to north, so that Valinor is on the left, Endor (Middle-Earth) in the center, and the (uninhabited) far eastern lands in the First Age near the Gates of Morn are on the right end.  The lines streaking down to Mittalmar's bottom are the Earthroots through which Ulmo listens for the news of the World.

Silmarillion End Titles

submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #24 hosted by emscottish for itch.IO July 2025, text prompt for the jam is "business venture"

Bizven submission to WNCJ24 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO July 2025

The second track to be the same length over 9 minutes as a vocal track like this, after Foul-Mouthed Parrot was the first one that was super long.

This thing in my own assessment is strong in the early to middle but cringe at the end  because of Time constraints.  It would get re-takes of all the vocals for the last third at a later time (TBD!), like one of my "Alpha Remaster" type releases.  I juggle a 9-5 job and am not full-time musician and yeah it shows lol.  It should have been either chopped to half length or the entire second half needed more takes landing the vocals on probably different melody notes against the instrumentals.

Blagъ

Film At Eleven v2

Film At Eleven

Buntline’s Overcompensated Six-Shooter Rag submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #25 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO July 2025

the text prompt for the jam was simply "Old Saloon"

And so a honky tonk piano seemed logical along with banjo approximately.

Buntline’s Overcompensated Six-Shooter Rag submission for WNCJ25 for Itch.IO

This Gamma Remaster uses entirely Mixcraft Software Synth instruments hence terming it "Akai Beta" because when dealing with Mixcraft i use my 25-key dummy MIDI keyboard instead of the FA-08

Supremely Poised To Give Me A Hard Lesson (Akai Gamma)

submission for Friendly Music Jam #4 hosted by Gullo, featuring Gullo, Xafae, elia the animal, lodesa, and RSR's samples + my connectors

modular multiple-step process on this one the most ambitious that I have done so far since 2023.  There aren't MIDI dumps or MuseScore scores of this because if i did it would be only tiny pieces of the whole thing.  It's done with random throw away lines in my text files for lyrics that didn't go into full songs so it feels like some White Album thing of half-songs or the way Alan Parsons Tales of Mystery & Imagination doesn't quite hang together because it was his first solo effort.  The samples of the contributors were paired with Roland FA-08 performances into "modules" and the ones that failed in that process for selection were replaced with Akai-MIDI keyboard performances of instruments that I got off places like Humble Bundle that are integrated with the Mixcraft 10.6 Pro Studio DAW.  And then backbones of performances which connect the sample section modules complete the process when overlaid with vocals corresponding to all (or almost all) the modules.  This went twelve draft versions, I've never done that many incremental drafts.

William Tell Should've Known Better - Chocolate-Dipped Chocolate

A Shiny Non-Euclidean Sarabande - submission for Composer Weekend Jam #3 hosted by Joe Chris of ScoringTech.NET for Itch.IO July 2025 – exedexes1

I'm getting called on the carpet by the music theorists for inaccurately (randomly) naming it a Sarabande, and they're right.  Nuff said lol.

The music jam prompt was to go find a piece of graphic art and be inspired by it.
I chose to take a tour of being slightly influenced (for 4-5 seconds each and then to veer away sharply) from various Classical Composers.
as follows:

1. Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707):
Canzonetta in A Minor BuxWV 225
Toccata in D BuxWV 155

the only composer where I used more than one piece this evening.
I spent about 3 hours on this overall submission.

2. Gioseffo Zarlino (1517–1590).

Veni sancte spiritus, motet

3. Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706).

Praeludium in D.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750).
I actually did skip JSB its already evident my entire corpus of output is already heavily influenced.

4. François Couperin (1668–1733).

Ordre 12 in E or E-, 8.L'Atalante

5. Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687).

Les folies d’espagne,

6. Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767).

36 Fantaisies for Harpsichord, TWV33, No.13 in C-

7. Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741).

Grave, for 2 trombones

8. Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757).

Sonata in C-, K.99, L.317, P.135, F.57, Allegro

9. Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764).

Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin, Suite in G/G- - 6.Les Sauvages

A Shiny Non-Euclidean Sarabande submission for Composer Weekend #3 for Itch.IO July 2025

A restrained but very tongue in cheek send up of the 8-bit Nintendo game Magic Of Scheherezade, I think differently enough that it won't cause I.P. problems. Particularly this fit the game jam's idea of the Dark Forest because the specific overworld tune during the night-time portion of the game was a decent inspiration that I had always wanted to circle back to some day.

Scintillations of Ariosche submission for WNCJ27 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO August 2025

The first vocal track of Mъdrъ / Mudru draft album.  A mix of playing an instrumental before writing the lyrics (which is a departure although has been done a little recently), and also later my older style of writing chord-per-syllable to already-written lyrics toward the end of the piece.

Overall I write pretty naive lyrical pieces.  This guy is kind of a paranoid douche but with the best intentions.  She's like absconding off to (heaven forfend) a different little splinter group than his thing but it turns out to be benign and he inflicts some minor annoying damage by sneaking into their outing.

Lyrics:

Somewhere in the past someone set us up the bomb
Culture shifted so fast that 30 Rock is now a right wing sitcom

Somewhere in Ulster's bowels
Were heard the pangs of an alarm
A girl's heterofatalism was giving her an ulcer
The ginger with a minge
Had had enough of Hinge
Since the latest respondent's saccharine charm 
Was rather laid on with a trowel
The states seemed the right place to flee
And that's how she hooked up with me

How have I hated instruction, 
And my heart despised reproof 
It was the nagging ineluctable
Erosion of fitness under our roof
And what came of it was standing aloof
As i witnessed its destruction

After being the fall guy i was focusing on
Survival in the strange waters that i was swimming
Much like tall guys have no idea 
That they are at war with short guys
Normal women have no idea they are at war with crazy women

I saw our coming doom 
Through the bloodshot glass 
At the bottom of a marinara jar
The girls had started having breadsticks parties
And a lot of gossip got said
And pretty soon our burgeoning movement
Was given up for dead
But one can take theorizing too far
Particularly if you're too well-read

And so at the risk of assaulting my intestines
I engaged in a clandestine infiltration
And the leader of her congregation
Served a sumptuously appetizing oration
On the fiscal dangers of being an oversnacker
At the end of the presentation
One presumptuously testy cracker
Pointed out that one of the high watermarks 
Of our civilization
Is the Domino's pizza tracker

You can imagine their reaction
When I said the most frugal drug
Was constant distraction
In sunshine or rain
It lessens the pain
Of trudging dissatisfaction

We got to a really dark place
And the tipping point began
Around when i was being really crass
And implied that the high priestess was an also-ran
She was really about to kick my ass
I think it was the rage of Caliban
Not seeing her own face in a glass

After several mint juleps
She went and staggered amongst the tulips
magniloquent miss molly
Chided me on my vindictive folly
She asked what are you stupid
What's the point of all this skullduggery for me

Well I am genuinely attracted to you
Having walked too close by Cupid
And that is a pretty stupid thing to be

Magniloquent Molly's Mozzarella Jolly

Submission for Composer Synthestration Jam #1 hosted by Joe Chris for Itch.IO August 2025
The jam called either for directly synthesizing a classical/romantic piece or to write an original piece entirely in synthesizers.
Technically all of my output is always done -on- synthesizers with the FA-08 or with software synths in the laptop.
However I took pains in the submitted mp3 to mostly use synth tones.
In *MuseScore* however: if I used all different synth tones the player online in MuseScore's website would give an end product where things sounded very murky and bled-into-each-other. So there are some natural-sounding instrument tones albeit electronically produced, which are indicated in the score PDF as a result of that. And there are probably a small number of natural-instrument tones in the mp3 file which is the principal submission piece: however in that case it's like 90% electronic sequence tones.

The process was to listen to the Bela Bartók piece (4 Stücke Sz 22 BB 27 No.4 "Scherzo") on the mp3 player's earbuds while manually performing similarly "inspired" sections on the FA-08 and then to export that as a wav file. this wav file was then combined in MixCraft with the MIDI export also from the FA-08 and then the MIDI export used MixCraft's instruments in addition which takes us beyond the 16-track capacity of the FA-08 on its own. There are inter-cuts of brand new variations on the Whimsy series' leitmotifs, which cause this to be designated Whimsy Number 7.

Whimsy Number 7 (Bartókian Whimsy) submission for Composer Synthestration Jam #1 hosted by Joe Chris

The text prompt for this was just "Fishing Hole"

I went with more of an ambient pad idea for the peacefulness of the activity of fishing like we were doing an early 90's PC game around it as a sport or something.  I remembered the fishing holes in Iceland that Sergeant Smith was smirking and describing as 200 USD a day to get a permit during Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy and that influenced my track art choice.

a streaming link has been provided below:

the art square attribution is Pixabay user: "renegossner"

main website:

https://exedexes1.com/

Jökulhlaup Whisper at the Basalt Brink submission for WNCJ #29 hosted by emscottish

Done in a hurry and it kinda sounds like it. I've heard like 8-bit pieces that were more grating and dissonant but that's only because Emulation made sure I'd heard thousands of them. *Cringe* you be the judge lol

Pufferfish Tide Stroll submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #30 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO August 2025

The text prompt for the jam was simply "Tropical Paradise"

main website:
https://exedexes1.com/

Pufferfish Tide Stroll

Yare Ymir’s Yawning Yield

submission for Composer Weekend Jam #4 hosted by JoeChris of ScoringTech.NET for Itch.IO August 2025

This was begun starting at 5:20pm on the submission day and it was due at 9pm including formatting all the output lol, it probably bears that fact in the quality level but I gave it what I could.

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A therapeutic journey into a mix of jazz, classical, and a blend of types of electronica.  And a wry, gradual observation that promotion tends to only go as far as you push it.  At least I make my fellow musicians laugh a little.

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