A Dell USB floppy drive sits next to a stack of 3.5in floppy disks. The top disk is labelled Portfolio '99 disk_1 - Music & HTML

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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 23:08:48 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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   Hey, I found a MIDI file that I'd lost (luna12.mid) in my 1999 college application portfolio! I'll have to run it through the SC-55 to get the voices, but it sounds good enough to go on compilation I'm making of my early dungeon synth stuff. Might export it via Fluidsynth to give you a quick preview if I get a minute.

   I remember having a major (but polite) debate with my school music teacher, who held that my synth stuff was pastiche, while I maintained that it was a genre in its own right.

   I don't think the dungeon synth moniker had even really caught on at that point, but writing synth works of this sort was definitely a thing in my end of the black metal scene.

   I submitted the music as part of my graded work anyway, which - along with a typically catastrophic live performance - is probably why I only got a C.

   The music college I applied to took me anyway, probably because I somehow didn't fuck up the audition, but also because of my demo tapes.