newsletter #1: miscellaneous updates
hi everyone!
as you may have noticed, it’s been a while since my last update! this is mainly just as i’ve been too busy with uni work to spend much time on my personal projects, but there are a few things i wanna talk about anyway:
internet record shop
we’ve released two compilations since the last update! the first, ‘NIGHTSCAPES’, is around 45 minutes long, and features a lot of chill atmospheric digital fusion music, and i’m really happy with how it turned out <3 you can find it here if you want:
the other compilation we released was the ‘Strange Places Collab’! this was a guest mix organised and put together by fruitbat, and the idea behind it was that all the composers involved tried something which was new to them - whether that be using different software to normal, writing in a genre which is unusual for them, or something else! this one is a lot shorter than the first, but all the music was originally composed specifically for this project, which was exciting <3 you can find it here:
submissions for our next compilation, ‘SNOWY PEAKS’ are also open now! if you’d be interested in contributing send an email to internetrecordshop@gmail.com or dm us on discord (@internetrecordshop) and i’ll send over the submission guidelines! the deadline for submitting is the 15th december
my own music
progress on my own EP is slow, mostly due to the uni workload - i’ve written several other pieces though, mostly for one-hour-battles hosted on battle of the bits. one of the pieces i’m most proud of is ‘breakin breaks’, written for a battle of the bits competition where the only source sounds we could work with were a sample of an apache break (a type of drum break) and a sample of a sawtooth wave, but i managed to get a lot of mileage out of those two samples:
another one i’m pretty proud of this tune i wrote in two hours, with an image prompt which was a screenshot from the game ‘Webfishing’:
aaaand lastly i wanna mention this one, which was from a one hour battle where we had to make a battle theme based on an image of a fanmade undertale character:
music i’ve been listening to
while i had been aware of it for a while, i only got around to listening to ‘Meanwhile’ by aivi & surasshu recently, and i’ve been obsessed with it, it is so lovely throughout!!!
i’ve been listening to a lot of vylet pony throughout the year, but ‘i don’t know how to tell you that you’re my best friend (and that i love you)’ is a track i discovered recently, it brings out a lot of emotions in me which not a lot of music is able to do:
it didn’t click with me at first, but now i’ve spent some more time with it i’m really beginning to love virtual riot’s recent atmospheric dubstep album, ‘Stealing Fire’:
photography
i’m not sure i wanna reduce the quality of the images to fit them into here directly, but here’s a black tailed godwit:
@avoset.bsky.social on Bluesky
black tailed godwit
and here’s a stork:
@avoset.bsky.social on Bluesky
camouflage
(these were taken at a nature reserve place, we don’t see them normally around here lol)
byeeee
i don’t think i have much else to say, but if you made it to the end then thank you! as always, if you have any comments or thoughts on anything feel free to reply or dm me on discord (@avoset), or if you’ve been up to anything you think i’d be interested in, feel free to tell me about that too!
best wishes,
avoset <3