Hey, all. I want to hear what your wins are for this week! Drop them in the chat below. Can't wait to hear about them!

Excited to let you know I just got another Taxi forward! I replied to a listing for INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARY INSTRUMENTALS. As the brief said "This is your opportunity to get in on the ground floor with this Library and become one of their go-to Composers. The team behind this Library knows the industry inside and out, with lots of experience placing music in Documentaries, Commercials, TV, and Radio. This is your chance to get your music in front of big audiences." Well, we will see!! Thanks to @Dawn Dineen for being extremely gracious to give good hard critiquing of the piece, and also to @Glenn Macrae for similar guidance on this one. In case you want to hear "Searching for Evidence", here it is: https://s.disco.ac/vcafaytgnlsi

Hello vault-friends, I don't believe this song will ever be played via sync. So, feel free to skip this post. This is just show and tell.... Five years ago (yesterday) I was cutting the lawn and came up with a fun little talking blues song in my head with the hook of "happy birthday to me". By the time I came inside, the song had decided it preferred to be about my childhood, my family and friends.... ok. Then it also wanted to be about sex and religion. Hmmm. Then it graduated to aging and death and covid and police brutality and racial discrimination. Apparently i have no guardrails! It ended up as a way more serious, semi-biographical FOLK song about boys becoming men. Moral of the story: Appreciate each and every birthday regardless of what has happened since your last one(s)! Today is my 67th and I'm very happy to be here with Glenn and you all. https://youtu.be/dCgILepK24M (Please forgive me if this is inappropriate for this space). Happy birthday to me!

Been quiet on my end. Let's fix that. What's the biggest thing you've been working on in your sync catalog this week? Drop it below. No context needed, just tell me what you're building.

I've written a piece that's kinda quirky. I didn't want to write a classic 12-bar blues. I wanted to go outside the box (my box, anyway). So I did this semi-folky, 12-bar blues with all kinds of weird, disparate sounds for percussive effect. The bridge is something I'm patenting as 'disco-blues'. YOUR JOB, (SHOULD YOU DECIDE TO ACCEPT IT) is to tell me if I've left the box entirely. Should I bring it back in? What else bothers you? Mind you, it's still a demo. But I think I like the form. I plan to add a real female voice and then lead acoustic guitar riffs throughout. Interesting note: I wanted this to be a female voice. So, I sang it and had AI convert it for a woman's voice. At 1:35 there's a word that AI could not figure out. So it made up what it *thought* the lyric was. Then it made up a word that rhymed just after. What do you like? But more importantly, what do you dislike? https://youtu.be/-kV3IxUvVHE