While working on my next album (Minimum Viable Product of a Misspent Youth), I decided to have a go at building a music visualiser.

No particular reason why, I've just never done it before. It involves attaching a Web Audio API Analyser Node to a Canvas then outputting the whole thing using a MediaRecorder.

The next post has details on how the basics of this approach works and how to build your own and here are a couple of examples of the visualisations.

btw, while you're waiting, why not check out my previous albums on Spotify?

Here's a fun, spooky little song for Hallowe’en.

Writing the lyrics took about 5 minutes. Writing the music took another 5. Recording and mastering it took about an hour.

Making the darned Pac-Man maze inside Minecraft took about 6 hours. No joke.

I think this means I'm better at recording music than I am at playing Minecraft and I'm okay with that.

My lovely other half and I have launched an online shop selling unisex kids' clothes:

The idea came about after child #1 complained about the clothes in the shops getting duller and more grey the older he got. One Skateboarding Unicorn sketch later and Awsm Street was born.

You can now find Highland Cow Hoodies, Porridge t-shirts and Kid-friendly day planners.

This is the same tune recorded in two completely different styles.

Piano & double-bass:

Lo-fi hip-hop: