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Brooke's Music Archive 🦇

Notice: this website is under construction! There are still a few songs missing from the timeline.

What follows are all the songs I can find that I ever created, since I started making music when I was 15.

To give you some sense of which songs are good, I've marked the songs with a three-tier system:

  • My favourite songs have a blue border.
  • Songs that are pretty good have a purple border.
  • All other songs are mediocre at best, and have no border.

If you'd like to support my music, you can buy my albums on Bandcamp.

2024

2024 so far has been a great year, and I'm excited to make more music!

sophie

february

spitvomit

january

2023

At the very end of 2022, I quit my job and moved back to New York. Among other things, this gave me a chance to dip my toe back into music-making.

peanut butter

july

brassy

july

2022

2022 was an extremely busy year for me. I graduated from college and took a (very stressful) job at a big tech company. I had to move to California for the job, and I left behind all my music-making stuff, so -- not much music.

dm9

december

2021

After recording Scrift in 2020, which was primarily an acoustic album, I had learned a lot about incorporating real instruments into my music.

So, lots of my music in 2021 was me experimenting with combining those real instrument sounds with the more electronic sounds of my earlier music.

looking

april

wave

april

set

april

turn out the lights

february

full-spectrum broadcast

february

2020

When COVID lockdown happened in 2020, my university made us all go home and take classes remotely. I was very bored and took that opportunity to make lots of new music.

At this time, I was taking a jazz history class and listening to lots and lots of jazz. I was also starting to get serious about piano and spent a lot of time learning music theory more deeply.

flash point

november

homecoming

november

bohemia

july

birthday song

july

Scrift

june

Scrift is an album I recorded the summer after COVID-19 hit. It was heavily inspired by Mac DeMarco, Dr.Dog, Stereolab, and Grizzly Bear.

There are enough songs on Scrift that it would clutter up the archive to throw them all here, so instead I'll just leave the best ones. You can listen to all the other tracks on Bandcamp or on YouTube.

Looking back at the album, my favorite song has to be French Connection which was my attempt at imitating the addictive, droning krautrock of Pack Yr Romantic Mind, which I believe was my #1 most-played song of 2020.

no time on the clock

french connection

i'd like a reason (pt. 1)

i'd like a reason (pt. 2)

lo-hip fi-hop study to/relax to beat

june

foxhole

june

2019

harmony experiment

september

LUMA 2019 soundtrack

august

In 2019, when I was in my second year of university, me and two other students worked on an interactive projection-mapped project for a local art festival called LUMA.

The project was a set of little arcade games that audience members could walk up and play. I wrote a little chiptune song for each of the games, which was pretty fun -- but most of them are fairly unremarkable.

menu theme

space invaders

tetris

duet

2018

war theme

december

don't worry

2018 is when I first went really, really hard into making music. I was listening to tons of vaporwave and synthwave at the time, and desperately wanted to make music that good myself.

At the time, I considered my efforts to be complete failures, and I scrapped all the songs I had worked on. A year or two later, however, I went back through them and found some songs that, in retrospect, were actually quite good.

So, I collected my four favourites into an EP called don't worry, although I still never went through the effort of releasing it as a full album -- I just put them up on YouTube and called it a day.

54

track 2

track 3

this life

2017

ALLITERATION

august

After a couple years of noodling around with dumb little songs, 2017 was when I first thought that I might be starting to be OK at this whole music thing.

So, I put a few of my favourite songs together into an EP called ALLITERATION and released it on Bandcamp.

millimeter

pocketwatch

astute

fold

plunder in the sunken ship

june

rtm

january

2016

jargel

december

the enemy marches

july

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