James D. Doyle

I was in music school with two of the folks in this band and I am so stoked that their metal project continues to be successful. Nicest guys on the planet and super talented musicians!

This OKC team is fired up and I love it. Great to have Dub back, Chet is looking aggressive, and Mara was such a good acquisition! #ThunderUp

If any other composers have been emailed about this, just be aware that it's a study on "AI-assisted music" and your compositions will probably be used as training data! 🙃

You Can See Everything is a masterpiece. Seriously. I cannot think of the last time I saw a film that had me so invested and immediately wanting to watch it again.

Took a day off work at the research center. Cleaned the garage, got insurance issues squared away, caught up on grading, and got formatting stuff done for my dissertation proposal… and still had time to hang out with my wife and cats and watch a film. A 4-day work week would be life changing.

Original post got deleted, but here is the record: ames-astre.bandcamp.com/album/aoi

Big news: @FrameworkPuter is more than tripling its sponsorship of CachyOS, from $250/month to $10,200/year! 🎉 This helps keep our infrastructure running and brings us closer to working on CachyOS full-time. Thank you, Framework! 💚

I wasn’t the coolest guy at black metal band practice earlier, showing up with printed sheet music I made from the programmed drum parts. But you know what? I was able to read those songs straight down!

Had an excellent time presenting at the NAfME conference last week! We got to talk to several folks about the wellness needs of music students beyond academics and ways to help from small scale to large scale solutions!

Such a cool blend of ambient, black metal, punk and synth pop. What a record! Go give it a listen!

For Bandcamp Friday I picked up two records: Who Loves the Sun by @chatpileband.bsky.social & Ferried Away by Stay Inside. Chat Pile continues to put out amazing music and this new record has some bangers. I saw Stay Inside open for Sincere Engineer back in August and they put on an amazing show!

The alternate phone OS thing isn’t for me. I have too many weird niche needs at the moment. Maybe I’ll give it another go when postmarketOS is a bit more mature.

Resident Evil was so good. Zach Cregger is 3/3 and the collective internet is stupid for hating on a film before they see it.

20 year old me kind of sucked as a human so I don’t really care about his opinion.

BREAKING: TMNT & Vanilla Ice no longer opening for Ed Sheeran, according to a statement on Mikey’s IG that ended with “Cowabunga, solidarity forever!”

This is happening every day now. Pretty frustrating that none of this ever occurred before that software update.

For Bandcamp Friday we picked up “Reunion” by Mama’s Broke and “Keep Planting Flowers” by Stick To Your Guns. The second one has been in constant rotation at my house for the past several weeks. The title track is a 10/10. youtu.be/D3BhmwUJ7ag

My iPhone 15 is getting very hot and running very slow after the 26.6.1 update. Anyone else experiencing the same?

10 support acts I’ve seen that could easily headline now Clutch Ghost Drug Church Fleshgod Apocalypse Lorna Shore Ratboys Job For A Cowboy The Dear Hunter Deviates mewithoutyou

CachyOS update: 2 months in and everything is still working great. I’ve honestly forgotten that I’m running Linux most days. Fandango At Home is the only service I’ve had issues with. Elsewise, gaming, streaming, productivity apps, all great. Might try DAWs and notation software this month.

Fender right now: You can’t make that guitar, it copies our shape too much. Also Fender right now: introducing the Motion! Our new revolutionary MIDI controller for our DAW unlike anything you have seen before!

Super grateful that I no longer teach marching band.

It’s 2026 the broken heart emoji should be further up the list and easier to find

Okay y’all, the OZ Bike Park lives up to the hype. We don’t have gravity like this in most of OK and even the green trails here are fast and took a minute to acclimate to. Knees, core, and back are sore. Back to our normal XC/trail adventures today.

I’ve been daily driving CachyOS for 4 weeks now and I can comfortably say it does everything I need it to do outside of music creation. Still not letting go of the MacBook Pro for Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Max, and Dorico, but seriously for everything else I’m on board with the penguin.

Over the past week I bought a USB disc drive and started setting up a Jellyfin server. It’s pretty awesome, and I did not know it worked for music as well as it did. 1 movie, 1 series, and over 20 records now on there.

Bandcamp owned by Songtradr Songkick owned by Suno Distrokid owned by Private Equity Boiler Room owned by Superstruct Subvert owned by co-op members

My literal dream come true.

Who told all of the YouTubers about ScienceDirect? So many videos now of creators sharing one-off studies from 2006 without understanding the method and saying that it confirms what they already thought. Young people are watching this stuff thinking that’s how research is done. That sucks.

Our first Annual General Meeting is set for September 19, 2026. This is the co-op’s main moment for collective decision-making. Read in full on our blog here: www.subvert.fm/blog/subvert... RSVP at luma.com/subvert2026 Not a member? Join the co-op at subvert.fm

Called to fill in on a black metal gig in December and I said yes. Time to get my real chops back for the first time since undergrad.

Going Under is currently $2 in the Steam sale and is absolutely fantastic. I love the gameplay, the humor, everything about it. If you like roguelikes, it’s worth a look. If you just like funny games, there are plenty of easy mode settings to get you through. store.steampowered.com/app/1154810/...

Ableton Learn is now live - perfect for anyone who's wanted to try a hand at music, and for those who have been trying for a long time (like me): learn.ableton.com

Update - CachyOS rules. 30 minutes to get Steam, Heroic, Itch, and my VPN running with no issues. Limine is great for dual booting. Played a few rounds of ARC Raiders with no controller, sound, or graphics issues. We’ll see how it goes on the laptop, but so far this is actually a good experience.

I have a killer composition idea that is really exciting and innovative but it’s also really, really hard and time consuming to execute and I don’t know if I have enough in the tank to finish it and my dissertation right now. I need to finish this dang book.

The highlight of Steam Next Fest for me. A yesteryear studio building sim where you use abstract hardware synths and sequencers to compose for commissions. And you generate real exportable tracks! Amazing. Definitely worth a look if you are a synth nerd. store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/...

Also - if you like dream pop or things of a gazing nature, you might like our first single - including a limited run 7” that’s almost sold out: schoolofdesign.bandcamp.com/album/after-...

That was a legendary game. An absolutely incredible study in not giving up.

The Flappy Bird is out of the bag: Ableton will now let you create your own custom Extensions using JavaScript/TypeScript. I've been testing this and talking to the team; here's my explanation of what this can and can't do, how it works, and why it's cool:

All of these “trade Chet for Giannis” posts are bananas. If you really think that Giannis could fit with the OKC culture, it is clear you haven’t watched basketball.

Well San Antonio earned it, but I’m glad our guys didn’t just give up and kept it close until the end. We gotta look at making some trades though.

I’m so bad at social media for promotion. Here are all the tags I should include: #music #musiciansky #composer #originalmusic #musiced #concertband #gamemusic #composition