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.

Pensive Alternate Metroid 1 In a Hurry - Norfair

A thought about crystals floating on ice floes in the Outer Seas of Arda
submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #31 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO August 2025
the prompt for the music jam was simply "Crystal Caverns"

But I morphed it into a character study of the frustrations of Ulmo after Gondolin falls and he goes to the other Valar.  Video sequence would be something like: he travels from this ice-floe thing with crystals on it (it being something like an alternate headquarters he seldom uses compared to lower Vaiya, but being floating crystals and ice, much easier to slide around than the isle of Balar had been) around to the west side of Valinor then walks across the fields of Oromë to Valmar and has his unsuccessful council and is just hopping mad mostly at Mandos that they still won't do anything.  Aulë and Manwë are sympathetic but everyone is like "not yet".

the Exilic Noldorin "Raxëlutta" can be meant either as "breaker who sails" to refer to the island-ship or "Ruin of the Free" in a darker, poetic sense of the tension of the moment of frustration.

itch.io project page:
https://exedexes1.itch.io/ethereal-tsavoritic-raxelutta

Ethereal Tsavoritic Raxëlutta

Niquisilma Rácinaamillë (Frog’s Silver Light of the Erased City) submission for Snowly's Music Festival for Itch.IO August 2025

I didn't plan it to be a redo of Raxelutta with different instruments but i accidentally erased of my planned song with like 75 minutes to go!  So I quickly did a hack of the other jam's piece because of the concurrency-allowed rule.

Niquisilma Rácinaamillë (Frog’s Silver Light of the Erased City)

submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #32 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO September 2025  just kept this really short with a secondary nod to the obscure arcade game The Cliffhanger Edward Randy (1992) the voice intro is my brief performance and not poached digitized voice from the game.

Nice Guts! submission for WNCJ #32 (WWE Entrance) hosted by emscottish September 2025

submission for OST Composing Jam #8 hosted by lonerabbit for Itch.IO September 2025

Vaguely this game is kind of a black and white or sepia tone visual novel of a 1940's style neo noir where a wife has sabotaged her husband's yacht to blow up but her guilty conscience keeps having her coming back to the pier like some Lady MacBeth type reaction she doesn't hide it very well but nobody has reason to suspect her except her husband through adventures on the sea survives and at the finale they finally arrest her.

Age & Treachery - Knots Of Deceit

Age & Treachery - Squall's Serenade

Age & Treachery - Footprints In The Fog

Age & Treachery - Back From The Brine

submission for OST Fragments Jam #3 hosted by resident // cryptid for Itch.IO September 2025

Seventeen year-old Eärendil ​(in Sun-Year 520-521) is about ready to do the initial shakedowns of Vingilótë ​to make sure it doesn't fall apart in the middle of the harbor (that would be embarrassing...) but is having second thoughts about this whole savior of the Free Peoples idea. Círdan ​says 'if you want to dip out and run away that's your absolute right. We won't be best pleased but you are a free individual." (Knowing sagely that he will almost certainly change his mind). The young fellow goes out and has a daydream among the surrounding fields slaying bumblebees /various insects. Essentially the same premise as the 1933 poem except in this rationale both it and Eärendillinwë​​ are now about Eärendil ​, just at different stages of life.

main website:
https://exedexes1.com/

itch.io project page
https://exedexes1.itch.io/errantry-just-doesnt-last

Silmarillion Stuff list on SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/sets/silmarillion-stuff

Errantry Just Doesn't Last

Assembly Opcode March submission for Tiny Music Jam #2 hosted by Aurora595 for Itch.IO September 2025

"Assembly Opcode March" x86 opcodes (like how MOV=1011 binary as high/low) for a simple loop, played as binary tones. 

As the basis of my tune i used the x86 assembly code for a simple infinite loop. It performs a futile operation: adding 1 to the EAX register and then immediately subtracting 1, resulting in no net change, before jumping back to repeat indefinitely. Basically it's performative of computer science concepts like wasted cycles, undecidability in halting, or inefficient code in low-level programming history (nodding to early assembly optimization challenges). Decoding the binary tone sequence back to hex opcodes reveals a "pointless eternal march," symbolizing programs that run forever without progress.

loop:

    add eax, 1      ; 83 C0 01  (add 1 to EAX)

    sub eax, 1      ; 83 E8 01  (subtract 1 from EAX)

    jmp loop        ; EB F8     (short jump back to 'loop' label; disp8 = -8)

This is a decent assortment of opcodes: 83 (modR/M for ADD/SUB with immediate)

C0 (modR/M byte for ADD to EAX)

01 (immediate value 1)

E8 (modR/M byte for SUB from EAX)

EB (opcode for short JMP)

F8 (displacement for JMP, -8 in two's complement)

These cover common categories: arithmetic (ADD, SUB), control flow (JMP), and operand encoding (modR/M, immediates). 

The full machine code in hex is: 83 C0 01 83 E8 01 EB F8.

Detailed Melody Notation

Notes are listed in order, grouped by byte for readability (8 tones per group). 

Each tone is a 16th note. Played monophonically on the synth with Step-Recording.
I say that liberally, they -were- 16th notes before compression to 20seconds

Byte 1 (83 hex = 10000011): G4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, G4, G4

Byte 2 (C0 hex = 11000000): G4, G4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4

Byte 3 (01 hex = 00000001): C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, G4

Byte 4 (83 hex = 10000011): G4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, G4, G4

Byte 5 (E8 hex = 11101000): G4, G4, G4, C4, G4, C4, C4, C4

Byte 6 (01 hex = 00000001): C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, C4, G4

Byte 7 (EB hex = 11101011): G4, G4, G4, C4, G4, C4, G4, G4

Byte 8 (F8 hex = 11111000): G4, G4, G4, G4, G4, C4, C4, C4

For Pass 2, I replaced C4 with C5 (523 Hz) and G4 with G5 (784 Hz) throughout the same sequence.

Assembly OpCodes March (60sec)

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.

New tracks tagged #stoothoff