- The Mythology of Empathy
- Summer Sucks
- We Excavate
- Railroad to Metropolis
- No Entry
- Ancestor
There are some art works on the internet that are deliberate collections of mp3 files, which we call "albums." On this Website I am arranging a subset of those, which I call "Sunsetters albums." I call them "Sunsetters albums" because I invite you to pretend they are rock music by a fictional band called Sunsetters.
In reality, these audio files are just fancy MIDI instruments performing sheet music written by myself and by my friend Lindsay Taylor. We were high school friends in America back in the day, and together we loved rock and metal music. We would have liked to have grown up together and form a band or something, but I had to move away to England. That didn't stop us from staying best friends on the internet, though. And together we instead found MuseScore, learned how to use it, and kept sending each other files we were working on.
As for why "Sunsetters," well, that's another subject still. In my old horror stories in 2012, I had started saying some characters were "big fans" of the "Sunsetters." There were some album titles (which?), along with album covers drawn by another friend at the time, and a lot of song titles, but nothing beyond that. It was just a cute idea back then. But now that Lindsay and I were experimenting with the means to make music, we decided to take that name and make those albums a reality!
Who are the Sunsetters?
There are five members in the band. They are all American.
There's.. actually a lot to say about this project. It's made me think a lot about music, about creation, about art as a whole, about products and presentation. I have only a marginal desire to learn the songs on real instruments, and in fact if we ever produced real-instrument versions of these songs, I'd consider those to be cover versions.