Could you tell that I'm terrible at updating my website, let alone this blog?

Lately I've taken to doing weekly releases on YouTube, mostly of video game covers and sometimes the odd original. Really, I only release (or re-release) originals on YouTube whenever I can get a new song mixed and mastered and whenever I can make a music video or visualiser for it. For the most part, otherwise, it's easy for me to simply improvise piano over some themes that I cherished.

In the way of originals, over Christmas 2025 I released a music video for a song I'd written almost a year prior, called lonely, which dealt with the cultural loneliness I feel around Christmastide.

And some time before that, I released another original, in French this time, called autrefois j'avais une étoile (tr.: “once upon a time I had a star”). It's a song dealing with the loss of friendship. The video has English subtitles if you don't already understand French and would like to follow along.

In the way of improvised piano covers, I finished a Kirby's Adventure-themed series in early December, and then began a Kingdom Hearts-themed series in January. The lot can be listened to in the Video Game Covers playlist – though, bear in mind that said playlist also includes covers that I made before I began improvising almost weekly.

A chapter in my life as a musician is soon to close. In late February, I will no longer be junior choir director. However, another chapter has also simultaneously opened: in early February, I begin my position as an adult choir director, my first such position.

Of course I'm going to feel all manner of bittersweetness around this thing, but also, I must press on.