Hello! You can call me moonfloof (they/them), I've been makin' all kinds of music since I was 12 (I never promised I was any good back then, okay!), and currently reside in sunny Glasgow, Scotland.

The rest of this page is more of an autobiography and contains a lot of rambling and technical jargon about all my interests. Proceed with caution!

I've got a music player built into this site, so ▶ click me to play a couple of my songs while you read! (you can click the spinning disc to hide it too)

👩 I Changed My Username

You may actually have once known me by a different name, I made chiptune music for the longest time and still enjoy it, but needed a different outlet to make music with singing and instruments and stuff. My old username was also conveniently made using my real name, and for pretty gay reasons I no longer want to be associated with that.

All my old music is still available on Bandcamp and streaming services, and you can still get CDs if they're still in stock (they definitely are, please buy a CD), I just won't be releasing any new music under that name.

Hobbies and Interests

🎼 Music and Music Production

I've been a little obsessed with making music since I was a young kiddo. I used to write musical notes on random pieces of paper, as if it were real sheet music, then pretend to play it on a keyboard I never had (I couldn't read or write sheet music at the time, mind you). My Dad used to play me classical music as a baby, and when I was a riot and crying constantly it apparently calmed me down immediately and put me right to sleep. After that I grew up listening to pop music on the radio and rock music my Dad was interested in. I think this is where most of my influence comes from even to this day. I do genuinely like most styles of music - quite often you'll see me listening to angry heavy metal music immediately followed by cutesy K-pop, and I'll think nothing of it - which includes some of the weirder niche sub-genres.

Admittedly, when I was first able to make music on a computer, I was almost immediately drawn to chiptune. I didn't have the knowledge or ability to make "real" music, and since chiptune is usually made up of simpler waveforms, it was also something my laptop could actually handle at the time.

I stuck with chiptune for the longest time because I actually started to get good at it, and slowly started gaining an audience on YouTube for my covers and original music. I eventually reached about 4,500 subscribers and from there it really stagnated. Even though I still really enjoy making covers in the chiptune style, I now feel quite limited in what I can make in that style that I haven't already done. I released FOURTEEN albums of original chiptune music between 2013 and 2020 (and in 2016 releasing five in one year!), and it feels like there's nothing else I can do creatively in that space.

And so, in 2024 onwards, I've been absolutely loving making music with my piano, guitar, software synths, and my voice. I'm inspired by a lot of genres, and I'm excited to see what I come up with in the future!

My go-to choice for music production software is FL Studio. It seems to have this reputation for not having a very intuitive user interface, and I see a tonne of people mainly using it for hiphop and EDM, but it's actually so versatile that I've made all sorts of genres in it. That, and it has lifetime upgrades for free, in a world of subscriptions and enshittification.

In 2021 I suddenly found myself obsessed with TWICE (one of the best-selling K-pop groups, formed in 2015), and now own most of their discography on CD. I've also been collecting various 00's pop CDs from charity shops and car boot sales, and new CDs from indie artists I really enjoy.

🎥 Video Editing

Growing up, our family PC was an old AMD shitbox which could barely run Windows XP, but the moment I found Windows Movie Maker I got into making videos, timelapses, stop motion animations with blu-tack, and at 10 years old, a short film called "Time For Revenge". I still have this burned to a VCD (MPEG-1, 352x288 at 1.1Mb/s) and it's mega-cringe, but I also made behind the scenes videos too, including faked outtakes and shakily holding a camera pointed at a CRT explaining how I sped up footage in WMM. Classic.

Since then, I obtained Sony Vegas and learnt about other video editing and compositing techniques. I produced a few videos for high school projects, including a talent show video in the style of "Britain's Got Talent" - with fake acts such as "Rubiks Rick", who could supposedly solve a Rubik's Cube blindfolded, only to later lose it in the same way Velma loses her glasses, a boyband who mimed "Flying Without Wings" by Westlife, named "Tricky Question" after being asked "What's your group's name?", and an endless staring contest between two maths teachers. It's also mega-cringe, but I still look back on it very fondly.

🎮 PS2 Games

My PlayStation 2 video game collection is not massively extensive by any stretch of the imagination, but over the years I've collected over 100 games that I either played in my childhood or think I would still be interested in playing to this day. If you've ever been in a video call with me, you'll immediately see the shelf behind me filled with them! I have them all digitally backed up in case they rot or degrade over time.

Hidden away in a cupboard is an OG fat PS2 console and a slimline PS2 console. Both have been soft-modded to play backups, but I never got around to picking up a hard-drive/network adapter to play games straight from the hard drive. Until then, I either play games off a Memory Card fitted with a microSD card, or through PCSX2 with a DualSense controller. It's so wild that we can even do that. I'm quite proud to say that 100% of PS2 games in my digital collection are legal backups - I'm not sure that can be said for a lot people who play retro games.

📷 Film Photography

In 2022, I wanted to delve more into the world of analogue, which included buying a second-hand turntable and a Rollei film camera off eBay. I had seen countless hours of YouTube videos about taking film photos, and how the development process works, so I knew exactly what I was getting into. As well as taking various pictures around the city, I took this camera on holiday to Iceland. I absolutely adore how the pictures came out - the subtle noise and blurriness, and how light interacts with the film to produce stylised tones - they're also a lot more forgiving with exposure settings as values don't clip immediately to pure white or pure black compared to digital photos.

A grandparent of the friend I went with was impressed by the pictures I took and realised they had a couple of old film cameras in their attic, and offered them to me for free. Incredible! I said yes immediately, not knowing which cameras and what state they'd be in. I eventually received a Canon AE-1 (the CLASSIC go-to film camera!! First sold in 1976) and a Yashica 35 (first sold in 1959). I've still yet to use the Yashica properly, but I took the Canon on a holiday to Japan in September 2023, and loved using it. It's a lot more manual than the Rolleimat, so I found myself adjusting aperture and exposure a lot more than normal.

I might tidy this up at some point, and maybe write dedicated articles about some of them in the future - it's very rambly, especially towards the end - but it's a good amount for now!