Bryn's Sounds and Zounds

@brynschurman

Author, composer, sound designer, voice actor, and wrecking-ball on the dance floor. Caustic Reverie, Sumptus Ignis, TheForgotton and a few other music projects. My 1st novel is Further Complications. PVK2, NMRIH. He/Him.

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Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Jun 13

Say awwwwww!

A pair of northern cardinals the female is opening her beak for the male for a little seed-kiss.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Apr 28

A second teaser for my upcoming single. Counting down to the cover reveal.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Apr 19

So what are y'all reading for Cape-eril, AKA Gothic April. I finished The Elementals by @michaelmcdowell.bsky.social and am halfway through @catrionaward.bsky.social's Little Eve and 1/4 into Curdle Creek by Yvonne Battle-Felton

An Ebook reader on the left with the cover of Curdle Creek. A softcover novel of Little Eve on the right. Sinister architecture abounds!

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Mar 17

Book mail day! The new one from Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden.

Front cover of the book, some sort of saint icon in the foreground, some kind of creepy goat devil behind them.

Inner illustration and a smaller, signed version.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Mar 2

A little locksport today.

A black Master lock on a blue practice pad. A tok tension wrench and a single hook pick are nearby... Probably unrelated.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Jan 31

Crafting project: chainmail glow-in-the-dark scrunchie.

A piano keyboard with a chainmail scrunchie, in full light. The links are green anodized aluminum, with glow o-rings.

The same scene with the lights off! A green glow pervades. The lines of the piano keys are a little sinister.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Jan 29

Dang, it is hard to top Nile. For the sweet spot of brutality to memorable riffs, their art style, and the fact that I feel enlightened to history and culture after reading the liner notes. Big ups to Nile!

Artwork from a long sleeve shirt from Nile's In Their Darkened Shrines tour that I got from a show in Ft. Lauderdale many moons ago.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Jan 4

Game closet reorganization in progress.

A bed covered in dozens of board games, jigsaw puzzles, and other gaming paraphernalia.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Jan 3

Went on a shopping spree today at Books-a-Million. Score!

Three hardcover books on a black table. Books by Laird Barron, Joe Hill, and Travis Baldree.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Dec 20

Ooh, new Lorts shirt day! Hail the Riden! @lordsofthetrident.bsky.social

An illustrated T-shirt with cool colors. A guardian in armor is seduced by animal-masked creeps with goblets.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Nov 29

Today's Booksgiving celebration was a success!

Novels from Christopher Moore, Jeff Vandermeer, Dennis E. Staples, and Nicholas Eames, sideways on a table.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Nov 10

It's been a two month-plus struggle but I finally got new strings on the noneucliedian monstrosity. Hopefully I can guilt myself into recording with it again.

A mobius megatar on a blue chair in a home studio with various synths, keyboards, and guitar stuff.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Oct 4

Soapmail!

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Sep 20

Tracking some e-drums today for a special cover project.

An Alesis electronic drum set with dw5000 foot pedals and 682drums mesh heads.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Aug 14

Let's do this! What are you reading for AHHH-Ghost?

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Jun 29

The backup shift is ready to relieve our surveillance frog. Definitely worth the monthly subscription.

The eyes of one frog behind a front door camera and the body of a second frog, against a mint green wall.

Side view of the two frogs behind the surveillance camera.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Jun 29

Bowling With Corpses was fun, creepy, and stylish. Maybe a little too scattershot for what I was in the mood for. Up next in comics: The Midnight - Shadows.

Holy hell that's a lot of neon! The cover to the comic book is mostly blue, pink, and purple. A glowing city of weird towers, floating eyes, maybe a moon or sky dome!

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Jun 28

Reading update... I just finished Charles Stross's The Fuller Memorandum and loved it. Next for Sci-fi June, Ghost Station by S. A. Barnes.

An e-reader displaying the cover of Ghost Station. An eerie scene with hanging spacesuits and blood. Mostly blue with some magenta touched in the background.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Jun 20

I appear to be in the early stages of a Birdemic.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Jun 19

It was fine. I think I'm going to take a break from the series after this one. I had also started The Fuller Memorandum halfway through on my e-reader and was having a better time with that version of esp+espionage. Next up, Joe Abercrombie's The Devils.

Another heckin cool skull from the classic Necroscope canon. Paperback edition of Deadspeak.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Jun 15

I've got the rough cut of my next lyric video done. Now for the polishing and eye-candy.

A screenshot from a lyric video. The lyric reads "Amplify the inputs". The Background is some sort of composite of distressed, rusted metal, foreground is an eclipsed moon overlaid with blue and green data curve stuff.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· May 20

Bookmail time! This one doesn't have the fancy edge painting but I'm still impressed by the artwork and design. Looks great, @joeabercrombie.com!

The cover of The Devils with a skull with two candles over a crown on a black background.

Behind the dust jacket: red and black embossed foil with another crown, skull and crossed bones, and other occult symbols. Love it!

Religious iconography paintings from the inside of the cover. Werewolf with a halo! Oooh yeah!

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· May 17

I finished two amazing books in the last 24 hours: SGJ's epic The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and Brian Evenson's The Burning Glassy Floor of Hell. In the immortal words of John Cleese, "And now for something completely different."

A paperback copy of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· May 2

Operation: Buffalo Swap was a success. I think this was the last red-paged copy in Leesburg. I also picked up one from @ronaldmalfi.bsky.social while I was at the store.

Two books on a wooden table: They Lurk by Ronald Malfi, and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. The latter has red-painted pages!

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Apr 28

My metal mailbox overfloweth with care packages from Daughter Chaos and Ghost!

A spread of a t-shirt, two albums, a CD and more from Daughter Chaos and Ghost.

Artwork for Daughter Chaos, Abrams Records, and the new album Noble Rot.

The records and inner sleeves for Prequelle and Skelatà. Smoke/clear on the left, purple splatter on the right.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Apr 28

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of my first novel Further Complications, it's part of the Kindle Countdown deals for the next few days. Currently $0.99. Check it out if you enjoy Florida-based crime comedies. www.amazon.com/Further-Comp...

A red background with white text with a mysterious car key.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Apr 27

And now I'd like to share one of my early attempts at making my own book cover. (dry heaving intensifies) Lots to love here... unreadable title, quirky font, the least appetizing popcorn presentation. Anyone able to guess the genre from this?

A plate of partially burned popcorn, with a kitchen knife on top, for some reason. There are puzzle pieces scattered around a dark tablecloth, as well as a couple of brass shell casings. A replica pistol is underneath the plate and mostly out of frame.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Apr 26

With apologies to @gannon.bsky.social Beautiful day for GUTTER (maintenance)

A partially cleared rain gutter, showing how deep the leaf mulch and debris had gotten. Also some kind of creeper vine!

A gutter so clean, you could eat a hearty quinoa bowl out of it.

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Apr 24

Due to poor VampApril planning and a library hold coming in way sooner than expected, I ended up reading a Grady Hendrix double feature of Southern Ladies Book Club right into Witchcraft for Wayward Girls. Up next is Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by @sgj.bsky.social

Bryn's Sounds and Zounds@brynschurman· Apr 21

Well my bookmail came in, but I'm a little disappointed that I didn't get the red pages edition I was trying to order. Hopefully Booksamillion can make this right.