Tonal Drift

@tonaldrift

Tonal Drift is the solo project of producer/composer Mark Hollomon mostly focusing on Melodic Ambient and nearby genres.

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Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· 9d

More Music Background Goodness!!! * Arbitrary number of text blocks. * Rotated text. * Pixel and Percent positioning on the output. * Fonts actually work. * Stroke actually works. * Multiline text works. github.com/mhhollomon/m...

Silly demo picture for the script saying things like "Look Now!" "Multiple Text Blocks!" "rotated text" (which is rotated to read top to bottom).

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· 10d

Youtube keeps trying to subtitle my track. All it can come up with is "Heat" at random times.

Screen capture of the video for my track "Waiting". At the bottom, youtube has put the words "Heat. Heat." as the subtitles.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· 17d

Woman sitting, working at an embroidery frame while another woman looks on. Surrounding the picture is a red border with the words "Why, Yes!" "You can make memes, too!"

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· 24d

The wavy side bars are too much aren't they. Still things made with my script. Wavy things made with Magic Music Visuals. Final editing in OpenShot.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· 25d

"Upper Management"

Dark gray cat curled up on the top most level of the cat tree. This puts her at exactly the right height for me to kiss her little head - which she doesn't particularly like. I don't care.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· 26d

My WFH supervisor in her corner office.

Tabby cat curled up on a stack of banker's boxes stuck in the corner of my work-from-home office area.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· 28d

Sample output

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Jul 12

St Pancras station in legos.

Model of the St Pancras rail station created using Lego bricks. This is a view from the front.

Model of St Pancras rail station done in Lego blocks. This is a side view cut-away showing the tracks and platforms.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Jul 12

Just outside DC Union station. Day trip to see our daughter.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Jul 9

Today's mood

Truck to securely shred paper. The bin lifter looks like it has a scowling face and crossed arms.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Jul 8

Why does everything have to be a competition. Why does there need to be winners and losers?

Whiteboard with the text "Have you heard about the corporate volunteering competition"

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Jul 4

I own FL Studio (don't judge), so I thought I'd try using the visualizer that comes with it. FL Studio is -- interesting. The visualizer is powerful, but opaque. I know there is a way to get better fonts for the title, but couldn't figure it out even with the help of the internet.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Jun 14

I got a kindle for Father's Day. The cat claimed the box.

A brown tabby cat fit very snuggly into an Amazon box - asleep.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Jun 7

"Three Synths and a Drum Machine" #ATuneWithaView @musicweeklies.bsky.social #OriginalMusic #MusicSky

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Jun 4

Turkey visited our yard today.

Dark feathered turkey striding the the grass in our lawn in from of the neighbors wooden fence.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· May 31

Messing around with the new "Memory V" soft synth from #Arturia I kinda like it. #OriginalMusic #MusicSky

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· May 23

Short entry for the #Stillness #MusicChallenge @musicweeklies.bsky.social #OriginalMusic Challenge I set myself was not to use orchestral instruments. All sounds were by the Pigments Soft synth by #Arturia

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· May 10

@musicweeklies.bsky.social #FrozenTemple

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· May 2

First time seeing a Rose breasted Grosbeak on our feeder.

Blue platform feeder. Bird is perched on one of the supports. The bird has a black head. The feathers on the back are black with white splotches. The underbody is white, except for a large red patch close to the neck. The beak is very tall and short much like a Cardinal's but even taller.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Apr 25

@bsky.app Using the up arrow button in the lower left causes the navigation bar to not display correctly. Android 16

Screen shot showing the blank space where the nav bar is supposed to be.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Apr 12

@musicweeklies.bsky.social #DeepSeaRuins First time trying to use OpenShot to post a video directly. Lets see how that works.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Apr 5

Two goldfinches on my deck feeder.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Apr 4

Moon in the maple through the kitchen window.

Bright almost full moon pictures through the still bare branches of a maple tree. The pre-dawn sky is a deep blue. A dimmer reflection of the moon caused by the window glass hovers just below the main image. You can actually see details in the reflection. The main image is over exposed.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Mar 8

Small Update to the common-chords utility to add the modes of harmonic major and minor. Just in case thats your thing. mhhollomon.github.io/common-chords/

screenshot of the common chords web utility showing the menu that now allowsyou choose modes from the harmonic major and harmonic minor scales.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Feb 26

The fox guarding the hen house.

Black cat on top of a guinea pigs play pen, almost nose to nose.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Feb 26

So, I am now a "Certified" Front End Developer. And yes, that means just as little as you think it does.

Picture of a certificate from W3School claiming that I am a "professional" level Certified Front End Developer.

The crowd goes wild.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Feb 23

Only got maybe 6" of snow. But it is wet and heavy and sticks well. Lots of trees down (along with power lines) in the area.

Bird feeders on my back deck covered in snow. The flat platform feeder is totally unusable by the birds. It is filled with snow. The rails of the deck fence are capped with snow. The trees in the background are heavy with snow in the limbs.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Feb 22

Weirdness - when I try to visit the link in the post, both Chrome and Firefox gives me some variation on the below error. I was able to search on bandcamp itself and it came up with no issues 🤷‍♂️.

Error message from firefox claiming the ssl certificate is no bueno.

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Feb 15

Doctor: Eat more fruit. Me: *eating more fruit*

Bag of soft candy vaguely shaped and colored like a slice of an orange labeled "Naturally flavored orange slices"

Tonal Drift@tonaldrift· Feb 14

Mixed signals.