This song was created for the NOTS 9-Year Anniversary Livestream. While I usually write electronic music, I tried taking a more acoustic approach for a lighter-hearted sound this time.

This song was produced using Bitwig Studio running on Arch Linux with KDE Plasma. Instruments include the built-in Grand Piano and Mathieu Pe's Electric Guitar sounds, plus one track of Tracktion Collective for some brief strings.

Less than Serious

This song was created for broadcast use throughout the NOTS Extra Life 2021 livestream. Some portions of the melody are inspired by the song "Up To No Good" by Wontolla.

This song was produced using Bitwig Studio running on Arch Linux with KDE Plasma. Instruments include BioTek and Collective by Tracktion, Hive by u-he, and Mathieu Pe's Electric Guitar by Bitwig. Post-processing was done in Audacity.

No Good

Download this and 9 other tracks as part of the free "NOTS 10-Year Anniversary Album" on the NOTS website: https://music.nots.co

This song was created for the NOTS 10-year montage video ("A Decade of NOTS"), which aired on 11 June 2022 during the 10-year anniversary livestream.

The song was produced using Bitwig Studio (and its built-in "Grand Piano" and "Drum and Base Kit 1" presets), Tracktion Collective for the orchestral instruments and vocal/pipe synthesizer, and u-he Hive for the bass synthesizers.

NOTS 10-Year Anniversary Album

Decade

My submission for /r/RWBY Sings Divide.

Hear the final product here: https://youtu.be/w8cjhP711xA 

See also-- Jacob and Adam singing this song on the NOTS Podcast: https://youtu.be/ti4e1lqhKE4

jacobgkau-Divide

This is the first song I made after getting my MIDI controller (an Akai MPK Mini mkII.) It was created in Linux Multi-Media Studio, running on Arch Linux with KDE.

This was the first time I've made a song where sounding electronic is the intention, rather than a side effect. It was inspired by an old iOS game called "Cube Runner" and the background music for that game, which I haven't heard in some time.

This song was used as background music in the NOTS 5-Year Highlight Reel.

Cubes

This track was created for use as background music in the NOTS 5-Year Highlight Reel.

I made it using Bitwig Studio running on Arch Linux with KDE. Instruments used include Tracktion's BioTek and Collective synthesizers.

5-Year Beat

I started this track in my spare time when I just wanted to do something creative. After leaving it as a half-finished project for quite some time, I came back and completed it for use in the NOTS April Fools' Day 2018 video ("SILENTLY Configuring OSPF on Cisco IOS").

This track was created using Bitwig Studio running on Ubuntu 17.10 with GNOME. In addition to Bitwig's built-in samples and plugins, Tracktion's Collective synthesizer was used. After export, I gave it a bass boost in Audacity while I was editing the video.

No-Nonsense Networking

I originally started making this track to test out Hive, a synthesizer by u-he. The song was heavily inspired by "Namae no nai Kaibutsu" (名前のない怪物) from disc 3 of the second PSYCHO-PASS soundtrack.

I ended up building this track out to use as the background music for the NOTS 7-Year Anniversary Montage.

Hive

I created this track for use as the background music in the NOTS 8-Year Compilation video. It's fairly basic and slow, but it expresses what I feel when looking back over the past 8 years of my life.

"Rumination" means to reflect on something slowly and repeatedly, and is also used as a term in psychology to describe one's focused attention on the symptoms and causes of one's distress.

This track was produced using Bitwig Studio running on Arch Linux with KDE Plasma. In addition to built-in Bitwig instruments, it also utilized the Collective synthesizer from Tracktion.

Rumination

I make music for my video production company, Nerd on the Street. I have no formal training beyond an AP Music Theory course that I took in high school.

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