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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-22T04:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://sockpuppet.band",
  "tags": [
    "Furality",
    "The War Machine",
    "this older blog post",
    "am on Tidal",
    "this dumping ground",
    "critter",
    "anthropomorphic human",
    "releases page",
    "Logic Pro",
    "Native Instruments",
    "DaVinci Resolve",
    "Final Cut Pro",
    "Affinity Studio",
    "Krita",
    "whole article on that",
    "live performance calendar",
    "calendar",
    "my VRChat group",
    "my YouTube channel",
    "VRelium",
    "Trans Academy",
    "my Discord community",
    "@fluffy@plush.city",
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  "textContent": "Hello there! If you’re reading this in or before June of 2026, it’s quite likely that you have found me through the Furality dealer’s den. Thank you for visiting, and for being interested in my music and other creative services. I’ll try to answer the most frequently-asked questions you may have here.\n\n### Why aren’t you on…\n\n#### Spotify? All I can find is The War Machine\n\nAll of my reasons for not being on Spotify aside from The War Machine are explained in The War Machine.\n\nIf you want a bit more detail, read this older blog post.\n\n#### Tidal?\n\nI actually am on Tidal, but their artist management is currently broken in such a way that most of my releases don’t appear on my actual artist page. Hopefully this gets fixed at some point, but in the meantime you can check this dumping ground where most of my stuff seems to end up (along with a few other artists who also release as “Sockpuppet”).\n\n#### [insert other streaming provider]\n\nI try to keep my stuff on as many streaming providers as possible (except Spotify, for the reasons explained above), but not all of them accept my music for various reasons. If there’s a specific one that you’d like to see it on, please let me know and I’ll see what I can do!\n\n#### One of your releases isn’t on streaming\n\nI’ve been slowly rebuilding my streaming catalog after having an issue with a previous distributor. I’m focusing just on making releases available that I think people will actually listen to; if there’s something I’ve released that you want to hear on your streaming provider of choice and which isn’t there, please let me know!\n\n### What the heck is your avatar?\n\nI’m a critter!\n\n#### What’s that?\n\nIt’s an anthropomorphic human.\n\n#### Oh. … Wait, what?\n\nDon’t worry about it.\n\n### There’s a lot of music here. Did you make all of it?\n\nUnless otherwise specified, yep! Most of my music is my own original work, with a small handful of covers and collaborations.\n\n#### Where do I even begin listening?\n\nOver on the releases page you can filter by genre, instrument, and topic, which might help.\n\n### What software do you use?\n\nFor music I mostly use Logic Pro, which I started using in 2004 and has been my main DAW since 2005. I also make somewhat heavy use of Native Instruments instruments.\n\nFor video editing I mostly use DaVinci Resolve although for some things I still use Final Cut Pro.\n\nFor artwork I generally use Affinity Studio although I’m not super thrilled with the direction it’s going in so I’m likely to switch back to Krita, especially now that 6.0 is out.\n\n### What instruments do you play?\n\nPiano, cello, violin, viola, drums, guitar, bass, hand percussion, and a few other things to varying levels of proficiency.\n\n### What’s your live VR performance setup like?\n\nI have a whole article on that.\n\n### When/where can I see you perform live?\n\nI try to keep my live performance calendar up-to-date (and there’s also a calendar you can subscribe to via Google Calendar/iCloud/etc. if you’re so inclined), and also try to remember to post upcoming shows to my VRChat group. Past recordings usually show up on my YouTube channel.\n\nI’m also sometimes found doing karaoke or open mics with VRelium and Moonlit with Trans Academy.\n\n### How else can I keep up with you?\n\nYou could always join my Discord community. This site also has feeds you can subscribe to via your favorite feed reader, via Mastodon/Fediverse/etc. at `@sockpuppet.band@sockpuppet.band` or at @fluffy@plush.city, and via Bluesky at @bsky.sockpuppet.band.",
  "title": "Welcome Furality attendees!"
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