Brian Gray

You’ve stumbled, almost certainly by accident, upon my personal website. This is where I tear myself away from the measured, responsible world of engineering software in a professional environment, and luxuriate in taking 6 months to get one component just right. Write and rewrite one song until I can listen to it without hating myself. And document all my efforts for the intrepid who happen by.

I really don’t update my blog much, so I’m pinning this all-purpose, introductory post to the top. Where to begin? I make music, so that’s something. I also decided to code up my own web site, and more recently my own blog to embed (you're reading it right now) in it, so that tells you a bit more. Oh yeah, here’s me:

A picture of Brian looking all cute, but also thoughtful and serious at the same time

What about that music? That sounds interesting! Well it is to me, which kind of sums it up. I write whatever’s on my mind, whatever amuses me at the moment, and often that intersects with what someone else (like a songwriting competition) challenges me to do. In the end, it turns out I’m a nerd at heart, always have been, always will be. So me writing stuff from my own head ends up being nerdy music, and an internet search informs me there’s a term for that! I mean, really all I’m trying to say is I have a web site, and I do stuff, but mostly music. So click the Music tab and give it a listen. If you like it, become a Patron, follow me on social media. If you want to follow the progress on my studio buildout or the code for this site, there are tabs for those too! And I'll probably be writing in here about my coding adventures, because that's where my brain is at lately. Stay tuned for how that changes…

Recent Posts

Click, click-click, click

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I was pretty happy with my code that allows for following along with syllables while the song plays. It even animates the highlighting as you scrub the song ...

Yeah, I’m thinking I’m back

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Lately my songwriting activity has been like that picture of Keanu sitting on the park bench. Now I’ve written a new song, and it’s more like that kitten in ...

Patreonize Me!

2 minute read

After a whole lot of thinking and talking about it, I finally got off my butt and launched my Patreon campaign!

Responsive Design

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It’s been bugging me for a while now how my site isn’t really designed for use on a mobile device. It has really just been the full desktop application, scal...

Share a Song

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By popular demand, I have made it easier to share a link that leads someone to a specific song on my web site. Essentially, whenever you navigate through the...

Fiscal Transparency

4 minute read

So all my music is free, open, and sharable. Same with the code to my web site. Why not financials?

Follow the bouncing ball

2 minute read

Or more like “follow the slightly lighter blue words”. I’m playing around with making my lyrics follow along with the song as it plays. At first I thought it...