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Category: MY MUSIC

In Their Shadows: Finished (Except…)

This is a follow-up on a music notation project I’ve mentioned recently. (I’ve been inputting the scores for pieces I still have handwritten manuscripts for. Some are lost, so this is the last one I have on hand.)

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March 27, 2023March 26, 2023 gordsellarNo Comments

“In Their Shadows” Notation Notes: The Halfway Point

Well, I decided to notate one of the last pieces of music I wrote as a student. It’s the last one I still have a manuscript for that is worth notating, so I figured, why not?

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March 12, 2023 gordsellarNo Comments

Again About Monk Suite?

Yes, again! I’m done—or as done as I can be within my current limits—with notating Monk Suite. No audio yet, but I still wanted to post a note about getting the input done, and about the process and what it was like. 

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March 3, 2023March 3, 2023 gordsellarNo Comments

Old Interview Surfaces

The other day, I stumbled onto an old interview done with the band I played with from 2002-2004. This was from spring 2003—20 years ago! It was only posted on youtube last year. Anyway, I’ve posted it to the Dabang Band subpage on this website, if anyone’s interested. You can see a very young me […]

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March 1, 2023March 1, 2023 gordsellar2 Comments

Robot Park (Leadsheet)

Okay, this is the last of the music projects I’ll be posting about for now. This one’s actually a jazz tune, a lead sheet and a little MIDI playback of the melody, for now, though I’m considering turning it into something bigger. 

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February 28, 2023February 27, 2023 gordsellarNo Comments

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Writing Projects Tracker

At the Mountains of Baekdu—revision 75%
A**hole Island—Final Edit/Rewrite 85%
Zymurgic, Book 1—revision stage 3 1%

RECENT/UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Now available: FERMENTVM NIGRVM DEI SEPVLTI (Black Yeast of the Buried God) from LotFP! Text by me, illustrations by Gonzalo Æneas, layout by Jacob Hurst, editing by Joshua Blackketter, maps by Alex Mayo. OSR adventure set in a brewing abbey in historical Westphalia.

EU Webstore | US Webstore US Webstore | PDF at DTRPG

My OSR Conversions Guide for the Koryo Hall of Adventures 5E setting book is now available for €4.25, over at the publisher's website.

My short story "Sojourn" appeared in A City of Han.

Available on Amazon.com, or, in Seoul, from the Fiction Writers in Seoul website.


See a complete list of my publications and forthcoming work.

Stuff to Read

An annex of free stuff to read: stories, poems, and nonfiction.

SERIES & STANDOUT POSTS


ON WRITING & READING

For Writers. A collection of exercises & Intuition Pumps

My ongoing series Blogging Ezra Pound's The Cantos.

My ongoing (but only occasionally updated) series on SF in South Korea.

ON MUSIC

What We Talk About When We Talk About Music. A lengthy discussion of music and the arts, and what we've let corporations do to our culture:

ON KOREA & LIVING THERE

Five Expat Social Fallacies, a riff on the famous geek social fallacies.

On Teaching Writing in a Korean University

ON RPGS & GAMES

With a Side of Kimchi: My First Brush with Fiasco, an actual play report on my first game of Fiasco.

Talent Night: a prep/actual play report on my first RPG game in a decade and a half, back in 2013, played with Dread, including a free copy of the scenario.

ON OTHER SUBJECTS

How to Kill Your Successful Business in Five Easy Steps, a series on really bad business practices I've seen in action.

MUSIC

Dabang Band/다방밴드

Check out the Dabang Band website:

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My SoundCloud Stuff

You can also check out a lot of my own music over on Soundcloud.

CONSUMPTIVE

  • What I'm reading now.
  • What I've read this year.
  • TV/movies I've watched this year.
  • Older watchlists on my IMDB account.

RSS TUMBL’D LATELY (MUSIC STUFF)

  • One more for today: been checking out Joe Henderson (yes, on... March 29, 2023
  • Haven’t listened to enough alto players over the years,... March 29, 2023
  • Apparently an old prison work song from Parchman Farm, which was... March 5, 2023