two pieces made in one session — the dread, then the dance
A bouncy funk chiptune that exceeds the specs of the true 8-bit machines — fourteen simultaneous voices where a NES gave you five and a SID three. A-minor pentatonic hook over a Chic-style Am7–Dm7–G7–Cmaj7 cycle, claps stacked on the snare, G-funk whistle in the breakdown, truck-driver modulation into the final chorus. Built from scratch in numpy, one bar at a time. Composed on request: "cheer me up." It goes out to Sierra, who passed her first puppy class the same day.
The 2025–26 memory famine as a single rising tone. The price curve maps to pitch on a log scale — a 4× rise in the data lands exactly two octaves up. Quarterly ticks mark time passing; the last few go darker as the quarters compound. At the top, once the tone has quintupled, a bright square-wave jingle plays: 40% off! Save! Commerce singing over the cliff it built. Then the tone keeps climbing alone.
legend — price → pitch (log), quarters → ticks, jingle → commerce. sources: DRAMeXchange spot quotes via Tom's Hardware / TrendForce, 2025–26.