First, we'll begin with the initial stage of music: the letter "M". This can be tricky. It involves multiple changes in direction, so it often trips up newcomers who aren't certain of where to go. Make sure to take each step slowly, straight as an arrow. If you need help, imagine a "W", but if the North Pole was the South Pole.

After that, we come to "U", more commonly referred to as "horseshoe". In order to properly recreate this character as was intended by the inventors of music, you will need to acquire an equine companion. You must build enough trust to equip them with properly-fit horseshoes, which you may then remove in any instance where the word "music" is brought up in written form.

Next comes "S", which is a much easier time. The factory process of "S" has been refined for many years, and now it is readily available in the minds (and notebooks) of every 90s child. Or... maybe it was the 80s? 60s? Uh, we don't actually really know when that pointy "S" was first discovered. But you know the one.

We approach "I" now, and not the number 1, but the letter I - also not the character |, it is in fact the letter I. it may detach its head when it wants to appear small, as it is a cryptid (everyone knows this). But do not let this strike fear into you - it has not been known to be provoked by the surroundings of music. You must capture I through whatever means necessary. This is the most dangerous step of writing music.

If you have survived, you only need "C" to finish the process. All you need to do is (oh my god this wasn't a funny bit why did I spend all this time sitting here writing this stupid news post).

And it's that easy! Now you can share your ability to write "MUSIC" with your friends and family!

Last time I celebrated a milestone in followers was back when I crossed 50, so I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone again. The 400-follower threshold was not easy to cross. Thank you all for listening to the brain juice that leaks from my head!

Among those numbers are a lot of other artists/creators who I have nothing but respect for - it's humbling to share my ideas in the same space as you. I'm often bad about reviewing (mostly because I have difficulty finding negative aspects in the current talent pool of NG artists), but I do watch and listen to what you make as well, and it keeps me feeling like there's a lot more to achieve. Thanks (but also f@$^ you talented jerks) for that.

To anyone who comments on my stuff, I always read and appreciate every bit of it, even if I don't have anything witty to reply with!

And especially thanks to anyone mad enough to stop in their feed to scroll through this thing. You're my favorite <3

Anyway, see ya soon!

With every new year comes the new post about how this is gonna be the one. This is basically that!

All told, last year was a bit of a disaster. I fizzled out twice after good startups, but life brought some good along with the bad. Lots of personal growth, plus a bit more success in putting out music than some previous years... Being an artist is a different journey for everyone, so I'll keep trying until I find what works for me. This year's theme for me is "consistency".

I'll be uploading on Fridays each week, and potentially some scattered days in between, depending on if I'd like to catch up on a content drought (like the gap from January to February). I'll avoid uploading 2 tracks on the same day unless it's an OST-related release. Add in some semiregular news posts about work that I'm doing / have done (none of which I've shared, whoops), and those are my NG plans for 2024.

better stick to 'em...

For additional stuff: I'll be working on getting my cobweb-riddled YouTube channel back in gear. No set schedule yet, but I'm working on plans for it. Spotify will also be in focus this year - I've been putting that off for longer than I should have. I also found an old Ko-fi account I made, and decided to link it here. If you are a serial donationist, feel free to throw money into a hole. :)

Lastly, I've probably made some commitments in the past that have since slipped my mind - please feel free to contact me via PM about any of those. I will happily restart the process of getting those done!

Try your best, weather your storms, and may we all hope for a good 2024.

Hey! Will keep this one brief to avoid boring rambling. To get up to speed since the last music upload:

• Was on vacation for all of May, no music-writing happened
• I had a backlog prepped to keep my uploads going (1 per week), but the tracks were also part of a non-exclusive deal that got switched over to exclusive at the start of the month - backlog kaput
• Got back at the start of June, but needed to move to a new apartment (took a loooong time to get through)
• Still currently getting things situated in the new space

My smaller goal is to get back up and running in early July, but I'm hoping to keep a general "once a week" upload schedule for the better part of this year. Need some time to replenish my backlog with new stuff (maybe some old, too) since it got chewed up.

That's all, appreciate ya!

It's about time for an actual update, I'd say! The summer's nearing its end and everything is still up in the air regarding how Chicago will go forward with public health concerns. Classes are about to start back up and I'm now down a car as well as paying more for rent than I was last year. Despite that, I think my mental health is in a better place than it has been in the past. I'm hoping to make bigger strides with music this year than I have previously, which means I'm gonna have to start churning out some more regular stuff (mostly practice sketches).

My plan is to focus on improving my orchestral composition skills first and foremost. In the environment that I work in, my ability is currently not up to the standard that I believe it should be. This doesn't mean I won't submit any other kinds of music, but expect that the lion's share will be either orchestral (cinematic/classical) or chamber-oriented.

On another topic, I'm also floating the idea of opening up for commissions; some family members have continuously asked me over the past year and a half if I would consider it, so I'm willing to give it a go and see if there's any interest. I'd be keeping pricing relatively low (< $50), but I'm not looking to have large, multi-track requests. Those are better worked out over PM, email, etc. I'd be willing to do arrangements, original pieces, collabs, what have you, so if anyone thinks that sounds up their alley, I'll set up a form to keep things easy. This is not something I'm expecting to do for very long since work can be a "feast or famine" type deal, but it could be fun!

It's a strange feeling, looking at your own work. I've always found it quite hard to see the whole picture when it comes to things I've operated on since their initial conception. Like many of us, being in our own heads, I struggle with what I can only describe as sporadic depression. I wouldn't outright call it depression unless it was from a professional's mouth, but it is an ongoing, consistent pattern of behavior that has held me back for a few years now. When I graduated from college, I realized that I had made no progress towards bettering myself at all - perhaps I had even just wasted a lot of time fumbling around in the same "one-hand-on-the-steering-wheel" state. That headspace eroded my creativity slowly, like a virus, until I started wondering if I ever liked music to begin with.

Frankly, I have never liked a piece of music that I created; all I can ever really focus on is what I dislike. Small flaws can (and likely should) be powerful motivators, but I tend to drown myself in the bottomless pool that they exist within. I've always operated without a clear goal and with little control over my artistic output. Ideas come and go at a brisk pace, and I often fail to capture the essence of any idea I start with. Even worse, I didn't really feel like I contributed a voice, or any sort of unique characteristic that could only have come from me. My poor lifestyle likely contributed much of what I felt in that regard. My ego was poisoning something which should have been beautiful: art. I didn't really want to be around it when I felt that way, and so I started to burn out more regularly and for longer periods of time.

Now, when I should be looking forward, I'm looking to course-correct. I need to fix myself as a person before I can go back out and be a writer again. As self-indulgent as this whole thing is, I just wanted to make on thing clear: take care of yourself. When you better yourself, your craft will follow suit. :)

Hello, Newgroundertianbens!

As always, it has been a while since I last posted a News update. I've thought in the past that these would be best reserved for large developments, but as time goes along, I see it wasting away on the still waters of this account. Going forward, I'm planning to use this more often so that my account doesn't appear abandoned at various times throughout the year. 

First off, it's far past due time for me to give thanks to all of you that are following this account. I passed over 100 fans a while ago, which was something I was not expecting to happen at all this year. I recall, some time ago, being stuck at 19 for what seemed like eons - I feel like that's my favorite number now. I'm aware that this influx is in no small part due to the GD community, so I owe some thanks to you guys. I've been keeping up with all of the... er... issues regarding the game and Newgrounds, and it's nice to see that, to a certain extent, things have been sorted out (Yes, I have been lurking). I, of course, am grateful for the criticism and support of anyone who follows me (or doesn't). The talent of Newgrounds knows no bounds, so it can be hard to feel like you're really making a step forward when you're focused on everything else happening around you.

Speaking of that, I have also been really bad with reviews in the past year or two. By that, I mean I've hardly made any of them. I do observe and rate a lot of the content, especially of the people I follow, but I haven't really sat myself down and written even a short message of support in a while. I used to feel like I should hold my tongue unless I had some sort of insight to share, but that paradigm has proven to accomplish nothing other than dismissing the opportunity to share the experience of art and music. Since I'm not exactly a harsh critic, it's been little more than an excuse to say nothing. I'll try to be more active with giving feedback to work.

Past that, there's not a lot to say. Life's going along. Though as artists it often seems like we are more prone to divulging the vulnerable or intimate parts of our life, I'm going to keep personal things to myself for the time being. I'm hoping to get more music done than I did last year. It shouldn't be hard; I'm already 2/3 of the way there. Hopefully you'll like what you hear! Enjoy yourselves and your summer, people!

Classes have been busy, or I've just been really lazy as of late. I had to get a Mac and Logic for my classes, so I'm currently grappling with the differences. I kind of let things slide here.

I made a new track, though. It's a work-in-progress, but it's something. Whee :U

So, as mentioned in my previous blog post, I changed my username to make things easier for me and others. However, it turns out to be an already-existing alias for a rather well-known artist. I made a small change (-R) to differentiate from it and just let it slide for the time being because I'm such a small fish that I didn't think there would be any trouble. BUUUUUUT, over the past few months, though my name change has seemed very inconsequential to anyone looking from the outside, there have been a few issues popping up:

This is a sampling of notifications I get every now and again on Twitter. It seems that some automated accounts were fed with the incorrect information that my Twitter handle (@genosyn) is the official Twitter account of another artist called "Deemo" (@DeemoRayark, I presume, but I can't be certain). As you can probably tell, no one has taken the slightest glance at my account to check the legitmacy of that information, given that I have no affiliation whatsoever with the official artist by the same name. I have tried sending a message to clear the confusion, but as far as I can tell, nothing has come of that. As you can see, there have been two tweets in the past two days promoting a concert in DC with the WRONG Twitter handle. (For the record, I've even changed my Twitter name to "Genosyn" now to distance myself from the artist as much as possible)

Though I'd normally figure that these things would settle themselves by the account holders double-checking their information, it appears that such is not the case. I can only assume that it's an isolated incident with these few automated Twitter accounts (because I only receive these concert notifications once in a blue moon), but it's irritating nevertheless. I don't like inadvertantly pulling traffic away from an artist, especially not a professional one.

Looks like I'll have to be thinking of another alias sooner than I expected :T

P.S. Isn't it delicious irony that the "R" to separate myself from the other artist ended up being the first letter of their second name-half as well? Fuuuuuu...

I don't use blog posts for short quips or updates much, but just to clear up any possible confusion, I changed my name from "Darkmetroidomega" to "Deemo-R" once the new feature hit Newgrounds (thank you NG overlords). I've been looking to do this for a while, actually. The new moniker is just an abbreviation of the old one, spelled phonetically (DMO = "Deemo"). As stupid as it sounds, the "R" is just there to separate it from other artists or licenses that share the same name. It isn't what I'd consider a "permanent" solution, but it serves just fine for now. It's less of a typing mouthful, and hopefully it will decrease the number of times I read botched spellings of my name. ;P

That's all for now. Merry Christmas (or happy holidays), peoplez. :)