Made on a whim and posted to blog 12 days before christmas with no prior warning. More or less the equivalent of a ytp-type mashup but for an image. Was getting into Neil's Mouth albums around this time. Originally uploaded as a gif

Decided to express growing interests in vocaloid thru creating an audio to match the previous sheet music. Backing track made in a tracker with a generic midi soundfont. I remember working on this during study sessions on my laptop in high school

UTAU is a lot harder to work with than Vocaloid3, but nonetheless I persevered and brought on a special guest for this year's vocalist. I had previously used her for talkloid memes for friends but this is the first time working with Teto for a song. I should've used the growl.
Backing track is again in openMPT but this time with the ¥Weeds¥ General MIDI SoundFont 3.0, and I made the Teto Ralsei art in paint.net

The largest project by far. This one was late and instead released christmas day. The idea came to me when I had a vague melody for these songs stuck in my head, and thought a mashup to the vocals of the christmas song would be funny. There's three songs that I used parts from here, see how many you can recognize.
I got some friends to record real guitar and drum samples to use, still in openMPT though. SynthV Teto also came out around this time, so I decided that was a logical step up from last year
The video took me a while to both think of and film; creating a twelve men star was kinda difficult, and I had to find a good time after a busy schoolday to decorate a tree outside without getting caught (didn't really feel like having to exlain what I was doing.) Also an excuse to try out Sony Nightshot
I knew the clarinet was going to sound bad bc even if I played good it just doesnt fit well. But I had to transpose that by ear, since no sheet music for that solo existed. Will upload a jpg if I ever find the music I wrote down

I did not have much time this year. A YTP of a vinyl rip was a simple but kinda unique idea. The video is just some mildly eerie footage I took of the setup at home. The sing-along ball I learned how to do on the spot in davinci resolve specifically for this

Higher quality version here, some of the detail gets lost in compresion.
This one was in the works for like three months which is kinda insane, though most of the work was done in crunch time a couple days before.
The guitar was some fucked up 80s one bought off marketplace from a guy that showed up in celica. There was no whammy bar so I used a screwdriver. The pedal I bought because it was a very early "computerized" one and I wanted to see what goofy presets it had, I ended up using a fairly normal setting but the outro used one of the ones that randomly shifts the pitch around.
I was originally gonna use the sony voice changer karaoke mic, but all of my working laptops didn't have a mic input. The Zenith was the only thing I had that would record audio on battery power so I could go scream in my car. The pitching up was done in post.
Real datamoshing is really inconvenient to do. Removing iframes is tedious and getting a video to re-encode properly is another added step. The program I found is from a collection of datamoshing-like effects that estimates movement in a video with opencv, and makes it's own motion vectors instead of extracting them from pframes. It results in a cleaner video (downside) so I layered it with a bunch of blending modes to give it the appropriate jank again.
Like always, the mediums I chose were completely new to me before using them for the song, and it was a good excuse to learn guitar, or at the very least do something creative