Better Off Alone

Through The Cracks Demo

A cover of Joji's song "SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK"

Lyrics are modified slightly - I use them instead of him in this cover, as I am a non-binary person and like the idea of being inclusive in my artwork. Them could be a singular them or a plural them in this instance... up to your interpretation. Enjoy!

Original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Qzzggn--s&ab_channel=88rising

SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK

Fre$h

A cover of Ingrid Michaelson's "Take Me The Way I Am."  

(Mostly) written on one Nintendo Game Boy, (original DMG-01, 1989.)  
Acoustic guitar - Matt LaPlant
Production - Matt LaPlant
Vocals - Anthony Bradshaw

Take Me The Way I Am

Infrared is a part of the tragedy(?) of Apollo, a rock opera I am currently formulating about a humanoid machine that has an inherent love for music.

One day, Apollo is approached by a woman who admires his ability to bend technology to his will, and he falls in love.  Apollo sets out on a journey that takes him both to the corners of his home planet as well as into the depths of himself to find the characteristics of a human being so that he might better suit the needs of his new found muse.

Ultimately, Apollo fails in his pursuits.  He is crushed, his internal workings falter.  He wakes in an operating room.  Now, he must find a new purpose.


Infrared

The answers come a little bit too
late to hope to
lay to rest.

The operation's done,
the surgeons say they did their very best.

They say that when she left my mechanism
started seizing in my...
chest?

They salvaged what they could,
the memories are all that I have left.

I push on.
That’s the code.
Down the road.
Even though it all seems so old.

In my head: Infrared.
I grip on to all the things she said.
Nothing more
Left to do
Than pursue the things that you and I used to.
I’ll be fine.
Cleanse the stains on the steel with Turpentine.


Guitar, Vocals, Sequencing, Mixing - Anthony Bradshaw (Nonfinite)




More on "APOLLO AND ATROPOS"

“Apollo and Atropos” is a story of a humanoid machine named Apollo.   Apollo, serial number R-66Y, has a knack for using the tools found in his home at Disassembly and Reacquisition Factory Domicile DAR-88 for creative and unintended purposes.  While he loves all art, Apollo is particularly gifted at making music.

Apollo works his standard 00001110 hours shifts, (that’s fourteen hours if you don’t speak binary.  Machines don’t sleep, after all,) and then travels down to the Metropolis with his instruments to play for the humans of the city.  He doesn’t understand why he does this, only that he is driven to do so.  While Apollo has an appreciation for music, he cannot sing, as he has never been programmed to do so.  Apollo has many a thought blossoming in his mechanical brain, yet he has not been given the dialog to alliterate that which stirs in him.

One day, while passing the time in the Metropolis by playing songs with his self-created musical instruments, a intelligent and inquisitive but set in her ways woman, Atropos, approaches him, curious about his unique abilities to reappropriate technology.  Apollo falls in love with Atropos, a sensation he did not knew he was capable of.  He goes home to his domicile that night and begins to write.  For the first time, Apollo finds himself thinking through the perspective of another, Atropos.  With this newfound ability, the gift of empathy, Apollo begins to sing...

Infrared

A chill nanoloop session, field recorded.  All improv, loops were being created on the fly during this session.

All The Best

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Darkstar

The Kiss

For once, it actually IS Mario music.

I composed this for an ad spot that I ended up not landing...but the audio was fun so ayy

Mustache Adventure

another ad spot concept that wasn't accepted. Fun, minimal famitracker stuff.

Charmed Life

From the long-lost archives on Nonfinite, the album that never was - "Nonpareil"

Disease Demo

Out Demo

A cute, sad, wistful little waltz I made to commemorate my time with a beloved person that is no longer around. Miss you, Ash. My life is better now without your careless harm in effect here in my space-time, but I still have parts of you that I admired that are now part of me, so you will never be far away. I am you and you are me. I hope you come to understand some day.

Ashes

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http://betamod.com/releases/beta054/

If Desperation Was Enough

Instrumental cover of Joji's "Slow Dancing in the Dark". 2xLSDJ goodness.

JOJI - SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK (INSTRUMENTAL)

An song about loss, and eventually, recovery.

Salvage Spirit

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four

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