Thanks for inviting me to play Laura! It's always a treat to be part of your arrangements!

So excited for how this turned out, always a pleasure working with Jonathan!

Thanks so much for inviting me to play on the album!! It's always so much fun!

I'm sure I could find some producers to collab with on some ff6 lo-fi! When things settle down here a bit I'll float the idea

A friend of mine suggested that I try uploading music with just a static image. He then linked me to an example he listens to while he works, and it was a three hour AI guitar thing. He doesn't care if the music is made by a human, but that is what musicians are competing with now.

I'll look around and see if I can find a dealer that has one in stock to try!

I'll message you later! I really liked how yours sounded!

I had to return the cello that I was borrowing, so I'm going to have to look for a new one. I'm interested in a 6 string cello, tuned BEADGC probably. Carbon fiber seems like it would be interesting.

Anyone have thoughts?

Fun (?) Fact!

The "no tax on tips" thing in the US doesn't actually apply to self-employed musicians. We still have to report all our tips as income and pay tax on them because we have no employer to report the tips to that creates the deduction.

I just can't move it because I don't have the cites certificate and pythons are endangered so to use them in the construction of an erhu you have to prove they're farmed.

It's the python skin on the sound box. Mine was farmed, but lost the cites certificate so I can't move with it.

Did you know the maximum fine for being caught moving an erhu (that was accidentally separated from its CITES certificate) across an international border is US$400,000?

I'm going to need a new erhu soon.

Thanks everyone for streaming my Chrono Trigger album over the past year! It's hard to believe that it's already been a year since I uploaded it.

I'm still really proud of how it turned out, and of two weeks ago the whole album is also monetized on Spotify!

"Forest of the Nopon" (cover) 🌳 from Xenoblade Chronicles YouTube video by Becca Michaelson

new music out today:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRrq...

I hope it makes you smile and calm for a few moments

@sheaviolin.bsky.social @nicomendozamusic.bsky.social @marimbamatt913.bsky.social

I hope everyone enjoys MAG this year! I'm not able to make it, but I'm going to try to get there next year or the year after! Love seeing pictures of friends hanging out in person 😄

New glasses today! And I'm set up in my temporary studio where I recorded video yesterday for a Clair Obscur collaboration that will be published on Friday! The video is available early for patrons, thanks so much for your support!

I posted it to Patreon so you can listen to the preview if you want!

I wrote and recorded an original song, and it's really pretty.

Wow! I didn't expect to reach 300k monthly listeners and DEFINITELY didn't expect 400k. Thanks to everyone who streamed my spooky beats on Halloween!

I was worried I was going to hit 999 and get damage-capped.

Thanks!

This October over 150k new people heard my music for the first time when my original collaboration was added to a huge Halloween playlist. The number will probably go up for the *actual* Halloween night parties, but I'm feeling incredibly thankful for all of the collaborations that led up to this.

She seemed to really really enjoy it!

Someone told me that my playing made them feel the way they felt walking on singing sands in Canada today at my gig.

Thanks Evelyn!

Lost Voice (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33) // cover by Pernelle, Shea's Violin YouTube video by Pernelle.

Even more things that happened today! A collaboration on an Clair Obscur track "Lost Voice" premiered on her channel earlier. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDwO...

Typhoons

@insaneintherainmusic.com invited me to play erhu on one of the tracks for his Battle Suit Aces soundtrack, and I think it turned out great!

open.spotify.com/track/6pnfbC...

Here are two of the four, the other ones are tucked behind these in their own sleeves inside the bigger plastic case, quality looks like it could get a high grade to me, but I don't know what I'm doing.

I saw a sale on the mox diamond graded at $2k, so for those it might be worth it. I don't know though 😂

Yeah that one seems off, but some of the other high value cards seem right. I was just trying to figure out which box to put things in and what to sleeve on my first pass through 😂