END OF 2013 RETROSPECTIVE (Page 1 of 4)

Greetings, hope you all had amazing years! everyone at aana HQ was pleased to have been voted CMO's most influential weblabel, and spent the entire rest of the year mourning the continuing decline of the rhino. It's hard to do much when you're thinking about outliving the rhino.

1. Changed my major at university from Management Information Systems to Music Composition
2. Ditched my old artist name/project "The Bitman", going with my real name since it's more professional and not boring
3. I have a lot of upcoming projects with friends, both musical and hardware (thrash, teensy's, Gameboy Colors and 2xLSDJ jawns)
4. Went to BRKfest to support Shanebro and I am hoping to play BRK and MAGfest this year, if the stars align.

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I WROTE 3 SONGS IN 12 MONTHS, SUPER PRODUCTIVE 2013.

2014 IS THE YEAR OF THE SUPER SAW.

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THE GIN HAS RUN OUT, SEND MORE GIN.

Last edited by 4mat (Dec 31, 2013 8:13 pm)

SWITCH BACK

Study music and audit theory/comp courses if you can because it's fulfilling if that's what you're really passionate about, but trust me when I say that, as a music composition major at an all-Steinway conservatory-style school, and someone trying to compose for games and other media for a living, it scares the crap out of me to not have anything else more reliable to fall on. I wasted 2013 scoring and sound designing for 8 games that never released, and hardly ever actually paid me. I wish so hard I would have gotten into an IT program instead or something so that I could take hits like this without needing to eat ramen noodles for a month. Either that or plan on going to grad school and becoming a professor, or change to music education to work as a teacher in schools. You'll learn most of the same stuff, but these are also something to live on so that you can compose and still survive during dry spells.

Don't mean to be so harsh but this is you from the future talking, I wish my academic advisor would have expressed the need for further education for a reliable(?) and practical use of this degree.

But other than all of that, 2013 was pretty cool. I got featured by Destructoid and Kotaku like 4 times for various albums/videos, played guitar in a jazz trio once, been getting performances of my music in local concert halls and getting commissions from local performers, looking like 2014 might well be spent writing more for the real world and being more selective of what games I join.

Last edited by sleepytimejesse (Dec 31, 2013 8:38 pm)

wrote more music than last year
less of it was good

idk i didnt have any goals for music because its not a sport & i guess iw as more focused on staying alive and being mentally and physically well and it seems like i achieved one of those three things so uh thats great

im gnna do more eminem remixes in 2k14

Made new chiptune friends in meatspace, strengthened the core of 8BitNortheast, lead a class on chipmusic, released a few albums, wrote a lot of new shit, started getting into writing/listening to chipthrash, chiptune busked a lot, played a few shows, wrote an academic dissertation on chipmusic, finally made a name for my chip-punk band at school.

Last edited by Invisible Robot Hands (Dec 31, 2013 10:20 pm)