I started trying my hand at composing music around 2008, pretty much entirely teaching myself from the ground up. Primarily I am working with FL Studio and playing everything by ear or improvisationally. I have never had formal music training and cannot read sheet music.
While I may not be a professional musician by any stretch, I am more than happy to collaborate on other musical tracks or projects that need music. A selective demo reel of my music can be found at music.pftq.com. Feel free to contact me if you have an interest in my work. Updates and new tracks can be followed via Bandcamp, Newgrounds, SoundCloud, Spotify, and YouTube.
 | Afterthoughts (Piano) Short, mellow piano improvisation from the Halloween weekend. For some reason I really like the ringing in the A# note, so I just ended up spamming that here lol
Originally wanted to add more ambience after the strings, but couldn't quite make it work.
Also on Newgrounds, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »Music | October 17, 2021 - November 8, 2021 |
 | Cloudless Daydream (Piano) Slow, melancholic piano improvisation I played some time about a year ago. It doesn't really go anywhere, but the melody comes back every now and then for me. The original melody and piece in Cloudless Dreams is much more uplifting, but in some ways, it feels like that only ever remained a dream while reality took this route instead.
The original Cloudless motifs, which if you like can be furt... »Music | March 29, 2020 - July 3, 2021 |
 Cloudless Sky (Piano) | Cloudless Sky (Piano) Duo piano improvisation with Azuria Sky some years back that we both forgot about. Starts with some motifs from my Cloudless melodies before branching into something different. Everything is played live on the spot with no sheet music, and it was the first time we ever played together. A video breaking out the notes by player is on YouTube, but the software stopped separating the notes about half-... »Music | December 25, 2016 - May 15, 2021 |
 | Shadows of Anuwera (Piano) Another iteration of Anuwera, bringing back some of the motifs/melodies from the actual original piece. Keep trying to put all these iterations in a single orchestral piece, but each time I start another draft, it goes in a different direction. For those curious, here's the draft of the orchestra piece in progress: https://www.pftq.com/anuwera2/
- it's been stuck for a long time, as I can't ... »Music, Piano | March 15, 2020 |
| Remnants of Anuwera (Piano) More piano improvisation off the melodies of Anuwera. Sounds a bit like an epilogue, if this were a series of chapters or stories.
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 Soloet (Piano) | Soloet (Piano) I've always kept two pianos around in the hopes of playing improvisation 1v1 against someone one day... I guess this will have to do for now.
, SoundCloud, YouTube »Music, Piano | November 28, 2018 - December 3, 2018 |
 | Anuwera Extended (Piano vers.) Pieced together draft compilation of the piano improvisations I've been playing on the main Anuwera melody throughout the year. Might try to orchestrate this into something more later. Here's a half-serious tropical island version though: Island of Anuwera
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 | Sideswept (Piano) Random bit of chaos while improvising off my last Anuwera piece. Liked it more than I thought I would and just kept it. Reflects my state of mind and why I can't get any serious music done lately lol
Also available on Newgrounds, Soundcloud, YouTube... »Music, Piano | September 4, 2018 |
 | Offkilted Tides (Piano) Short bit of improvisation from a couple days ago. Has a bit of cliche pirate feel to it as well as some borrowed melodies from my other songs (mainly Anuwera).
Also available on Newgrounds, Soundcloud, YouTube »Music, Piano | August 23, 2018 - August 26, 2018 |
 Poststorm (Piano) | Poststorm (Piano) Short piano improvisation inspired by the lightning storm going on outside while it's still sunny.
Also available on Newgrounds, Soundcloud, YouTube
»Music, Piano | May 15, 2018 |
 | Anuwera (Piano Solo vers.) Short piano solo improvisation derived from the base melody in my earlier Anuwera piece. Played in parts and cleaned up in FL Studio. Can't escape the feeling that I've heard the melody before elsewhere, so if anyone's heard it before, let me know. It might also just be stereotypical fantasy/medieval motifs.
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 | Cloudless Medley (Piano) Random piano tidbits that didn't make it into the Cloudless Dreams piece.
Also on Bandcamp, Newgrounds, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »Music | November 23, 2016 - December 26, 2016 | Last Updated December 27, 2016 |
 | Aiearih (Piano) This is probably my most thematically interesting and coincidentally longest piano piece so far. It may actually be more of a series of songs like chapters in a story, but I leave them together since it was originally played on the spot in one session. I'm also finally becoming more comfortable improvising both hands at once and switching fluidly between keys without really thinking about it.
... »Music, Artwork | May 10, 2016 - June 12, 2016 |
 | Blackened Mirrors (Piano) After about an hour of trying to work on another song, I sort of just lost it and played this instead.
Also on Bandcamp, Newgrounds.com, SoundCloud, YouTube... »Music | May 21, 2016 |
 | Hiraeia (Piano) Accidentally played this randomly at first (literally had my eyes closed and didn't know what key I was in). I actually forgot it for a few days before sitting down to record it.
The song's pretty simple to play and somewhat repetitive, but I like it. It has a nostalgic and dream-like feel to it, like you're always on a journey of sorts but never quite finding the place you belong, a longi... »Music, Artwork | February 5, 2016 - February 7, 2016 |
 | Stellarial (Piano) Short improvisation inspired by Azuria Sky's Stellaria song. Been a while since I played or recorded anything, so I'm a little rusty here.
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 | Farther (Piano) Looking for my place in the world but instead only traveling farther and farther from everything I know. Piano improvisation.
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 | Closure (Piano) The last of a series of improvisations from earlier this spring (this particular one in May). At the time I played this, I felt like a lot of things building up were coming to a close so that, in a sense, I could finally move on to other things (or try to at least). Somewhat of a bittersweet ending theme or transition from one chapter to the next.
Also available at Newgrounds.com, SoundCloud, You... »Music | May 4, 2014 - September 4, 2014 |
 | Flightless (Piano) Short improvisational piece I came up with in anticipation of my flight back in March. It's a simple melody, but it got stuck in my head. Cleaned up a few notes and aligned things to tempo, but otherwise left it largely how I played it at the time.
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 | Air of Silence (Piano) A short improvisational piece I played earlier today after walking home. Inspiration I guess is from the dreaded silence of spending every evening after working on my projects sitting at home, resting, just to get back to work the next morning and repeat.
Very basic melody - I don't know if it already exists. The ending is a variation of one of my own piano drafts that never got completed thoug... »Music | September 17, 2013 |
 | Amazing Waters (Piano) This is a second draft of a remix/cover I'm working on. The original song was called "The Amazing Water" from the game "Nights into Dreams." It was one of the first songs I learned to play by ear, way back before I knew how to record or compose anything.
The changes I made in the new draft here include more improvisation and personalization of the song on my part when playing it, rather t... »Music | July 6, 2013 - September 15, 2013 |
 | Summer Ice (Piano) Playing around with more keys/scales that I haven't tried before; there are some cliche elements I admit, was just playing whatever came to mind. Most of it improvised in one go as usual before cleaning up and polishing; I can not seem to just sit down and arrange something these days, regardless before or after I played it.
Inspiration for the song this time mainly from being frustrated with n... »Music | May 21, 2013 - June 28, 2013 |
 | Winter Driftly (Piano) Last improvisational piece I played in March, some light cleaning up of pauses but otherwise unedited. More experimentation with chords different from what I usually play. Just a really down month for me personally so this last improvisation is on the slower side.
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 | Bipolar Christmas (Piano) Another improvisational piece I played in March, no edits besides cleaning up some pauses or misplayed keys here and there. Some inspiration in the opening from Blake Robinson's Christmas songs before going into melodies from my own songs.
At the time I just figured out how to switch between keys while playing and couldn't help randomly transitioning between Christmas and Halloween moods. Als... »Music | March 4, 2013 - May 5, 2013 |
 | Badder Lucker (Piano) Some improvisational playing I did back in March, no major edits besides cleaning up some pauses or misplayed keys here and there. Just playing around in a new Halloween-sounding key I figured out. Opened with a rehash of one of my first songs Bad Lucker before introducing a lot of other old melodies as well. Just a lot of frustration for me lately and mostly playing to clear my mind.
Also avai... »Music | March 4, 2013 - May 4, 2013 |
 | Theme de La Cite des Enfants Perdus (Piano Cover) This is just a light piano cover of Theme de La Cite des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children) by Angelo Badalamenti. The original is a string arrangement and also a bit longer. Of course, this one is nowhere near as nice as the original, but I haven't heard it in piano before and got around to playing it.
Someone who actually plays piano can probably arrange this much better though as ... »Music | August 13, 2012 |
 | Dusty (Piano) Just a short improvisational piece I put together this afternoon. Seems to be another one of those so-bored-I-got-inspired pieces, and the moodiness of it probably shows. That doesn't really make for good inspiration but it's better than none I suppose.
It's short I admit, but I didn't want to force a longer melody either. Thought I might as well share in case someone finds it useful for s... »Music | July 29, 2012 |
 | Ntohnignses (Piano) More improvisation in the new key I figured out how to play. Just emptying my thoughts here so there are probably quite a few tempo issues or off-notes. Was considering cleaning up the notes a bit but I decided I rather like the way it's laid out already. Lots of frustration when playing from discontent in my own life and things seeming to go nowhere.
Lately I've only been able to work on mu... »Music | March 2, 2012 |
 | Thousand Keyes (Piano Cover) Just playing around with a new major/minor key I'm becoming familiar with and managed to improv my way into playing this song. It's not mine and is a cover of a song that already exists under a similar name. Thought it was nice enough to keep even though there are obvious playing "typos" (is that the word?) here and there. »Music | February 6, 2012 - March 1, 2012 |
 | Reminiscence (Piano) Just some piano improvisation - new key I found I was able to play while just messing around. I think this is the same key as "Blue Calm" but obviously I never tried much variation in that song.
Lots of old motifs from previous songs mixed in as well, namely the Cloudless series - we'll see where this goes. Just laying down ideas for now.
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 | Cloudfully (Piano) So I keep coming back to my older song Cloudless... The key is just really easy for me to improvise on the spot with I guess. I've managed to build on the melody a lot more than the last variation I made on it (Cloudful). This is just a quick recording of me playing it on the spot so I don't forget later, meaning it's very much just a draft. I'm hoping to make it an orchestral track like the... »Music | July 7, 2011 - July 28, 2011 |
 | Fraying Strands (Piano) Another one of the songs I stopped working on a long time ago but picked up again recently, this one from January 2011. I woke up with the beginning of the song in my head and eventually played out the rest once I got comfortable with the key signature of the song. There was supposed to be a violin playing by itself somewhere in the song, but I've forgotten where I wanted it. I guess I'm leaving... »Music | May 29, 2011 - June 7, 2011 |
 | Cloudful (Piano) Just piano and no editing or other instruments - improvisation that started off similar to one of my older songs Cloudless but gradually just became a mix of whatever I could play in the same key. There are a lot of random transitions and misplayed keys, but eh - just something I made quickly.
And yes, I know the left hand never changes. I've never taken piano lessons, so I can't really ... »Music | December 25, 2010 - December 27, 2010 |
 | Bad Lucker (Piano) Initially something I made up randomly back in April 2008. Trying to clean up the song a bit. No editing - Played live on keyboard (as if everything else isn't? Some people don't think so)
Planning to add orchestra background to it later. Some people told me they prefer just the piano though.
Using the final product for a video I'm working on for Halloween. ^_^
»Music | September 12, 2008 - September 28, 2008 |
 | No More Days Continuation of "Another Day".
Hit a bit of a creative stump; can't figure out how to transition between parts of the song and the ending - so it may seem a bit abrupt at times. Most of the tunes were played through on keyboard in one run - I think I may have messed up a few times here and there. I probably will remake this song if I ever get the chance.
Also available at Newgrounds.com... »Music | August 28, 2008 - September 8, 2008 |
 | Another Day Incomplete song. Not sure how else to continue it so I'm leaving it as is for now... maybe it works as it is.
Also available at Newgrounds.com »Music | August 21, 2008 - August 22, 2008 |
 | Torment Yay! Finally played something half-decent. Actually I played this by accident.. and just went along with it.
But I like it - sounds nice.
Also available at Newgrounds.com »Music | August 18, 2008 |