Every year, I write up a summary of all the games that I played in the last 12 months. 2025 was particularly rich with amazing experiences! I'd love to see your lists if you have them, too! soundolevgmcovers.wordpress.com/my-2025-in-g...

Everything I finished reading in 2025📚 Looking back, this is a pretty varied assortment!

It's kind of nuts just how many amazing games have come out this year! I've had a wonderful time with Blue Prince, Silksong, Mario Kart World, and Hades II, and now Dispatch is rounding out my year nicely. It is *stunning* how good this game is—the Telltale adventure genre is back in top form.

My last Christmas recording for this year is a richly-scored Bach chorale prelude that I recorded on clarinets!🎄🎶🎄 I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday season! youtu.be/uV9qaWX5aU0

I'm continuing my yearly tradition of recording Christmas music! This is originally an organ chorale prelude, but I think it works quite well as a piano piece! youtu.be/Eri6Yd29u2Q

Eyes open, skies open for a 'Travelling at Night' announcement later today store.steampowered.com/app/2915730/...

It's time for another #gamedev thread! I had a little idea burning through my mind today, so I've started knocking up a prototype of something in #PICO8. Hopefully I'll have something ready to submit to the #CorgiJam in a month's time! #indiegames #pixelart

To celebrate the release of CorgiSpace, our new collection of 8-bit games that have short legs on purpose, Finji is hosting a game jam about making games that are SUPPOSED to be small! JOIN THE FUN: 🕹️ itch.io/jam/corgijam 🐶 discord.gg/finji

I'm finally getting some time to edit the recordings I made earlier this year—this is another spritely piece from one of my favourite duet books!🎶 youtu.be/Xz0JnnxkGoU

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For anyone that has ever been interested in supporting me in a once-off sort of way, I've started a Ko-fi page here: ko-fi.com/M4M41P80KO I'm retiring my Patreon page in the next day or so. Boundless thanks to anyone that has ever supported my work!🥰

2025 PICO-8 Advent Calendar – Day 2 Today we have Elf Cookies by ArenaLlanura! A short, cozy game about picking the right cookies for Santa. #pico8 www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=178...

I always have mixed feelings seeing posts like this. I feel like 'art is important because 1 time in a trillion it might inspire a medical advance' should move people less than 'art is an intrinsic part of being human'.

My latest cover is the 'Battle' theme from Final Fantasy I, arranged for clarinet trio! If there's a more iconic battle theme in VGM history, I haven't heard it!⚔️🎶 youtu.be/W0TVKRrJERk

Here is the last of this year's recordings that I made with the Sydney Conservatorium Clarinet Ensemble: Gordon Jacob's 'Concertino for Clarinet' (from the works of Tartini), with Justin Wang as soloist! youtu.be/aKSPe03_eYg

A bit of a test recording on my new phone (Pixel 9 Pro). This is a Saraband by Matthew Locke!

Very, VERY excited to share that in April 2026, we will be running our first Indie Showcase on @secondwindgroup.com! I loved putting these on with the team back at The Escapist, and with the audience we have now I'm even more excited to get to do it here. Stay tuned for more details!

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Here's a miniature melancholic canon that I recorded recently with one of my students! youtu.be/9hZ1pZu-T_8

New Book Day! Please tell the world. Read a comic about it here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sawyer... Or if you just want to buy it: us.macmillan.com/books/978037... Thanks everyone! It took me over a year to write, but I think you and/or your kid(s) will have many laughs together.

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Another little study from Charles Colin! These snakey lines are really satisfying to play🎶

I'm continuing to work through recording the entirety of this set of studies! This is No. 8 from Charles Colin's '35 Original Studies in Modern Rhythms'.🎶

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I'm nearly 20 hours in, and Hades II is everything I loved from the first game, only more. It's a staggering achievement.

Fun fact: there are also orchestral parts written for bass clarinet in A, an instrument that literally *does not exist*.

I'm proud to share this recording that the Sydney Conservatorium Clarinet Ensemble and I made last month! This is the profoundly affecting 'Extinction Flock' by Eleanor Brimblecombe! youtu.be/MGZC48uJuBo

What a magical sound. I adore these sorts of sparse textures.

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

I won the video category for #SoundoleChillOut2025! Thank you for having us again! 🎉

The results video for #SoundoleChillOut2025 will be premiering in about 20 minutes, I'd love for you to join me for it! youtu.be/7qPhWzPUGH0

The #SoundoleChillOut2025 results video will be premiering in just over 12 hours from now! I hope you'll be able to join me then to celebrate some amazing VGM cover artists! youtu.be/7qPhWzPUGH0

🏆The results video for the #SoundoleChillOut2025 competition will be premiering this weekend!🏆 I hope you can join me for this celebration of the VGM community's creativity! youtu.be/7qPhWzPUGH0

🏆The results video for the #SoundoleChillOut2025 competition will be premiering this weekend!🏆 I hope you can join me for this celebration of the VGM community's creativity! youtu.be/7qPhWzPUGH0

If you have a YouTube channel, I am begging you to turn off the auto-dubbing option for your vids once and for all from your settings. Your viewers don't have the option to turn that off for all videos they see. They have to do that for every damn auto-dubbed video every time it starts playing.

Its finally out! A long overdue passion project & happy to finally release! 😭 Seaside - Infinite Mana Original music by AdLibPiano @starlingoboe.itch.io @brookeferdmusic.bsky.social @soundole.bsky.social @nicolewtchang.bsky.social @zdmajor7.bsky.social Phoebe Chou youtu.be/0hln43NFWMk?...

My latest video is a little electric piano cover of a theme that has become a Mario canon staple!🎹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=imKX...

The latest Youtube feature is automatic AI dubbing, which was applied without me asking for it on a music video, meaning the default experience is an AI voice talking over an electric piano recording. I'm honestly blown away that they thought turning this on by default was a good idea.

The end of Act 2 is far enough for me. In Hollow Knight, it took me 32 hours to reach the good ending (defeating Radiance). Compare that with Silksong, where it took me 49 hours just to get to the most basic ending! It's a hefty game! What a world, what an experience.

Silksong, Hades II, the Switch 2, Blue Prince, Clair Obscur...2025 is one of those BIG years for game releases! Definitely going in the pantheon with 2017, 2007, and 1998!

🌒HADES II v1.0 is OUT NOW!! 🌘 Battle beyond the Underworld in our bewitching sequel to the godlike roguelike. Go Kill Time! Nintendo Switch 2: supergiant.games/h2switch2 Nintendo Switch: supergiant.games/h2switch Steam: supergiant.games/h2steam Epic Games Store: supergiant.games/h2egs

I see why the Cogwork Dancers are a fan favourite💃⚙️

By the way, apologies to anyone waiting on the results of #SoundoleChillOut2025. Like so many projects, it has been delayed by the launch of Silksong😅

🦨whether or not Silksong is a good game is proportional to if we're doing good or bad in the game. we've created this graph to demonstrate it currently silksong is a very bad game. tomorrow it may be peak again

Silksong's difficulty is tempered by its interconnected world—my progress has rarely been gated by just one awful boss encounter. I still don't love the runbacks, but it's nice to take a break from gitting gud sometimes to explore more of the fascinating world.

My journey in Silksong has only just begun, but my god, the world feels so alive! 7 years well spent.

Whenever I have to do some bass clarinet work, I try to record an etude or two as a send off! Almost all of the Weissenborn bassoon studies sit quite nicely on bass clarinet; this is Op. 8, Book II, No. 11.

I picked up a new bass clarinet mouthpiece this week!🎶 The Selmer Concept is similar in a lot of ways to my old one (Selmer F), but it lets me maintain a more focused sound when it's pushed—something this little excerpt hopefully demonstrates!