hi, i’m nuri. this is where i’ll post things i’m working on (when i remember to) — whether its music, or musings, or fiction, or video, or live events, or whatever comes next. if you want to follow along, it’s free, or you can choose to pay. you don’t get anything extra if you pay, but you help support me to keep doing the things, and i appreciate it. 💕

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trying to get the brain gunk out
maybe i’ll actually write something now.
dance with me
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leaning in to being scatterbrained

there's been a lot more activity here lately than i had been creating before. partly, i suppose, because i feel like i need an outlet for all of the various things i'm doing, and i really am committed to staying clear of (most forms of) social media.

i think the entire nature of social media, and digital interactions in general, is dehumanizing. what i've come to call the "people-in-cars" phenomena.

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lights in the darkness, every single day for revolution nuri lights in the darkness, every single day for revolution nuri

starting on marai (part 1)

I was going to share another stream-of-consciousness journal kind of piece here today, but i'm a little tired of it. The point i was going to make anyway is that i should just do the art i want to do, and i suppose part of the reason why i want to share unfinished works / works in progress here, is to drive me to finish them.

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the paint dries eventually, every single day for revolution nuri the paint dries eventually, every single day for revolution nuri

Listening back

I'm in this stage, again, of producing a song where it's nearly done. I'm listening back, over and over again — on my computer, on speakers, in my car, in earbuds — on every device I can get my hands on to see if it holds up.

This is where my production playlist comes in, too — I listen to the song against other tracks, the beginning and the end, the middle — in one order, than another.

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every single day for revolution, the neverending uke story, the paint dries eventually nuri every single day for revolution, the neverending uke story, the paint dries eventually nuri

i'm trying to post without listening

if i actually listened back to these before putting them up — i might now share them at all 🤣

consider that my voucher on quality 🫠

i'm literally going through, in the order i drafted these songs. we're almost to the "most complete" one (that's number 5) — but even that one needs a lot of work still.

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