busybee fluffy rambles

Hey y'all, it is Bandcamp Friday, a good time to buy independent music while Bandcamp opts to release their share of the purchase price.

As always, I have my latest released album, and the share also applies to preorders of Transitions. Or you might consider checking out some of my other many albums that you might not already be familiar with, such as:

• Alt-rock songs about cats and feelings and mental health
• Electropop songs about feelings and cats and mental health
• EDM songs about feelings and mental health (no cats on this one sorry)
• A variety show in which Radiohead takes turns with comedy showtunes
• Chill lo-fi music inspired by various coffee grinders
• An audio diary from the month when I almost died of a pulmonary embolism

But also this isn’t just me shamelessly self-promoting. I’m shamelessly other-promoting, too! Here’s a list of some of the albums I’ll be buying myself:

• Beatober ‘23, You Know, and Preserves '23 - Vol I by err:rawr
• A New Beat by Ulysses Owens Jr.
• Demo by Comfort Object
• City Slicker by Ginger Root
• Constellation of Souls and Turning the Tables by lowercase t
• … on reflection and September 23 by William Basinski

And, on the last one I preordered when air collapsed within by our dear friend, the medic, which was also released very recently.

Anyway. Support independent musicians by buying their music! It’s good for you, and even better for them.

If all went well, my concert is now underway. In theory, here is the VRChat instance (but if nobody’s there check the VRC group). And in theory, the stream should be live.

In practice, I am probably currently scrambling to get everything working at this very moment.

I’ll be performing in VRChat tonight at 9 PM PDT. Join my VRChat music group for the instance link.

If you can’t join via VRChat, I’ll also be streaming on my Owncast instance, and I’ll try to engage with the stream chat although historically that hasn’t worked out so well.

And if the time doesn’t work, the stream recording will eventually go on my YouTube channel.

For this concert I’ll be trying out a new performance setup for improved sound, hand tracking, and audience engagement, and also a different venue than last time for better environmental factors.

I’m having a bad pain flareup and as much as I’d like to push through it and do the concert anyway, from experience I know that’ll just make things worse and I’m trying to get better at self-care and showing myself the same understanding I show others.

So, tentatively I’m planning on my next VR concert being on September 29, at 9 PM Pacific time, hosted on my VRChat group. And of course it’ll be streamed over on my Owncast. Here’s a Discord event link.

The great thing about performing virtually is that I don’t have to worry about venue booking. I can make my own rules for this and I don’t have to feel bad about the reality of my health.

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Hey y'all, it’s been a little while since I’ve done a VRChat music performance, and I have a hankering to try out my new performing gear. Please vote in this poll so I can figure out what the best time is for a show!

(Don’t worry about the name you put in, and I’ve also set it to hide responses from each other. Strawpoll doesn’t have any “allow anonymous responses” option for time polls, unfortunately.)