///03 Video Songs (2021-2022)

Alright so, that first track was written for my friend Neelan for his video on nightcore. I was tasked with writing an "original nightcore remix", which was a lot of fun. There's a pretty direct caramelldansen reference in there. Next was the outro music for the podcast Let's Fight a Boss. Rather than talk about the track itself, which was so much fun to write, I just want to say that this was the single most important commission I ever received. I was flattered to work on it because I'd loved that podcast for a long time, and John, Bryan and Niamh were lovеly to work with, but the actual reason is that if I hadn't gotten that gig еxactly when I did, I would have literally ran out of money, and not been able to pay rent. I was having a miserable time finding employment when I first moved to Orange County, and it was draining my savings account. Like, completely draining it. The day I got that commission was the day I got a call back from the coffee shop I'd wind up working at saying I got the job, so the money I received from this commission was what allowed me to coast just that bit longer from when I started that job to when I was given my first paycheck. Following that track was music I wrote for a piece of animation done for the webcomic, "Off The Table". Then, a song for a project my wife did back in animation school. The next three tracks are all podcast themes. The last three songs were all written for the YouTube channel Illymations, who I did audio for for a few years. She was always great to work with, and writing those tracks in the style of different game soundtracks was a blast. Technically, that last song was written a good while beforehand, and we retrofitted it into a video of hers

I miss doing commissions sometimes, it was always a lot of fun to be told "hey, I want a song in the style of this genre, go wild" and being able to realize those ideas. I sadly just don't have time anymore, even for the ones that seem really exciting or fun, because of YouTube, but honestly that's not a bad problem to have at all. So sorry if you've reached out about commissioning me, I promise I've had to turn everyone down. And speaking of the channel, here are some songs I wrote for my YouTube videos!