Sometimes I make music that sounds like vibe coding gone wrong.

“Solitude provides critical space for self-awareness and growth.”

torley.bandcamp.com/track/trio So-named ‘cuz: piano, violin, cello. Tugging on heartstrings sometimes requires tugging on literal strings. I don’t really believe in funerals, but this could be good mourning.

torley.bandcamp.com/track/thai-t... I can’t outrun alliteration. This was influenced by floating markets, gold buddhas, and most of all, my grandparents’ house with an intimidating cactus.

torley.bandcamp.com/track/stardu... I’ve never gotten tired of “glitch piano”, combining the blunt with the crisp. I’ll tend to improve a whole foundational melody in one go, then embellish.

Learn to fish your stream of consciousness — therein lies good eats!

Coming up with pithy intros is tuff. Like... friendly greetings I'm TORLEY, I make songs about realities folding into origami, emotional support lizards, Bigbooté funk, and a plethora of particularly keen obsessions...

Beyond coherent text, accurate piano-style keyboards is one of the hardest problems for gen AI imagery to crack — looking forward to when it gets the 2+3 black keys right, players aren’t fingering keys backwards, etc.

Live life as NG+

I feel just like Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another, only with sushi and dressed in neon.

I remember getting a MacBook just so I could go to coffee shops and pretend to do work and fit in with all the cool people, then I ended up actually working. I also put a classic 6-color Apple logo sticker that I got during the darkest days of the mid-90s, it reaffirms my roots.

torley.bandcamp.com/track/ripple... Piano + a clickety beat can be so satisfying. This is for the isekai in my head.

torley.bandcamp.com/track/felted Felt pianos with a bass foundation have such a warming presence. I like building up patterns and having them interlock.

FAVE MORNING RITUAL: Boot up Spectrasonics Omnisphere 3, hit Shuffle, play the first sound on that list and travel from there — it's a sonic spaceship for exploring tremendous possibilities thru audio-excursions! 🎛 ✨

No one breaks a dimensional mirror really hoping to be set free.

Grab a special nite-pet out of a spare pod and snuggle them close on their back, then as you slumber, they’ll start glowing and enhance dream vivaciousness.

torley.bandcamp.com/track/thesmi... This is based on a melody I wrote as a teenager that was used in fashion shows. This version is scintillating layers of piano builds (those highs sparkle!), drifting into the distance.

ROI is roi 👑 (Return On Investment is King in French)

torley.bandcamp.com/album/lookup WARM MUSIC FOR COLD TIMES 🔥❄️🎧

www.youtube.com/watch?v=63pH... Welcome to the AGE OF ATOMICA featuring Rocky Mountain Sounds' Atomica for Omnisphere 3, a cosmic collection of dimensionally-transcending instruments... luscious sci-fi journeys await! 🚀 🌌

torley.substack.com/p/i-highly-r... It’s healthy to practice being embarrassed: a discomfort zone may grow into a comfort one with enough iteration. I view it as a kind of beneficial colonialism of your psychological nation-states, expanding your confidence territory.

Specialist tools have their place, but find the sweet spot betwixt that and generalists that can do much more under a single umbrella — you may find that it simplifies workflow, optimizes resources, and reduces dependencies.

If Elton John started a Dune cover band it’d be called “Bene and the Gesserits”.

I wish bubble wrap was more edible.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxyg... I wove Rocky Mountain Sounds' Complexity into this tapestry with building tension, spacious beats, and singing guitar. Such delightful sounds to layer and layer, now infused with the power of Spectrasonics Omnisphere 3! 📈 🙌

Taking a Waymo to Freddy Krueger’s house is the most splattercyberpunk thing I’ve done today.

As soon as you remove “genre” from the equation and simply create what you want with elements that make you curious and excited, life gets a lot better.

One of the most useful processes is having a low-friction way to quickly capture ideas in the midst of doing other things, so you can revisit them when they have your full attention. It’s natural for tangents to spark amidst other tasks, and takes practice to gracefully navigate.

I became acutely aware I indulge in stacking harmony as much as some people lay on the hot sauce. When you’re all-in as a flavor aficionado, nothing’s gonna stop those taste buds. It feels magic when you’ve got a thin track and that bass starts grilling, filling out the burger.

When I was little, my dream job was “businessman” — inspired by dad, diligent salarymen, and cyberpunk megacorps. I roleplayed in pa’s suits with an oversized briefcase.

youtu.be/Rqr0Faf-BzQ?... The VeloGlow multis in RMS Nightglow for Omnisphere 3 are superbly scintillating! They SPARKLE 🌃 ✨ when you play drifting chords, as you can hear here... gives it a wistful introspection a la Vangelis' Blade Runner.

youtu.be/WdCKhUh8bhk?... Make your next Omnisphere soundset a Rocky Mountain Sounds one — get Nightglow, recently enhanced for v3 + FX templates + improved categories! Electric pianos + plucks + pads dancing in nocturnal harmony sooo blissful. Welcome to the New New Age. 🤓 🪷

I like evolving loops in music, because they’re a metaphor for making things better each cycle. A lot might seem the same, but there are subtle differences that deserve attention and iteration.

We're in bizarro world where people accuse "it's AI" when it's human-made, and missing the opposite. The fact most people are bad at detecting AI (and it's getting worse) speaks highly of our mortal frailty. We "I'm a human" CAPTCHAs where u goof in ways no robot could. 😜 🤖

I have a hard time restricting myself to any one “scene”, or even making music that fits squarely in an established format — so I identify with baskets of ‘em. When I draw from what I’ve learned, it’s like investing in a diversified index fund for music genres/styles/vibes.

We'll come across a truly alien species that simply can't relate to metonymy + synecdoche, and while efficiency-driven, have no use for reducing things to parts. There are no generationalizations. Thus, stereotypes are as foreign to them as they are natural to humans.

torley.substack.com/p/fan-service "Fan Service" aka the creative joy of misremembered basics

I reckon we’ll see the rise of “Megacorp In A Box” (MIAB) turnkey solutions, where a minimum number of people paired with roguish AI is viable to achieve cyberpunk fantasies.

soundcloud.com/newearth-709... TORLEY x Rocky Mountain Sounds’ New Earth for Spectrasonics Omnisphere 3 A verdant path into elevated expression, cocooned in mystic flutes and birdsong. Today we are all citizens of NEW EARTH! 🧬🌏

Crayola is Pantone for kids.

"Creative block" is often an excuse for being afraid to make something true to you because of what others will think. You should make it anyway — you just might change their mind in doing so.

Ever notice how often being "creative" simply means exploring a curiosity to its furthest extent?

soundcloud.com/uvi-official... This is like new age ambient with a twist, but the twist is subtle, yet not subversive. Created from the depths o' UVI Falcon 2026's Atmospherics 2 soundpack... L-U-S-H! 🌧️ 🤗

soundcloud.com/uvi-official... Braindance (or not) fun for UVI Falcon 2026's Modular Waves expansion pack! OH GOSH I FEEL THE GLITCHY GOODNESS COMING ON...

mynoise.net/NoiseMachine... NEON VOYAGER infinite ambience generator has launched... 🥁 🌌 enjoy the cosmic radio to get you into that relaxed-yet-deep state for sleep, study... and what else?! You decide.

Ever find yourself motivated to make a move after a good dream? Those are the real “power naps”, because they empower you to take action!

"THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE!" -Villanelle

At some point as a creative, you’ll hit a technical density ceiling — so beyond that, it’s like “Well what can I say now that no one else is expressing?”

Pick three small things that repeatedly annoy you, and spend a dedicated block of time fixing them tomorrow. Reducing friction really multiplies over a few months.