So I’ve been writing this textbook chapter on the Internet as a freelance gig, and getting into Twitter about a year too late. Maybe two years too late? Who knows.

What I mean to say is that I also write quite a bit on the Free Music Archive, so I definitely distribute those on Twitter @acsmithwastaken. Basically, instead of cross-posting or whatever I do when I redirect the huge Andrew’s-blog-reading crowd to somewhere else, I’m just going to use the Twitter.

Mostly because I tried the Facebook promo thing, and then people responded with “Hey haven’t seen you in a while,” and, well, sometimes I don’t want to push things on everyone. So, there will still be updates here, probably just as often, but the “finished” (a.k.a., comprehensible) writing will be other places.

Specifically, here.

Haven’t been to many concerts lately, which is too bad, but my previous post (at least, the Free Music Archive version of it) did get picked up by NPR.

The real reason I’m here, though, is that I’ve been working on a collection I’m calling Cryptozoology (the study of fictitious animals). I’ve got a couple finished and recorded–pardon the shaky violin playing–so have a listen. No scores yet, as it’s all just scratched on paper, in a format not really legible to anyone except myself.

You may be wondering why the American bison (Bison bison) is lumped in there with the Yeti. This is because Bison bison, while physically real, holds more power as a concept of an animal that never really existed–an animal which gained most of its meaning after its near-extinction. I’ll leave you to ruminate on that.