hi, i'm Trent. they/them. 05-11-95.

i know this website is mostly in character but let's get a little ~personal~ for funsies. yeah my name is Trent. yeah the characters name is Trent too. he's me, i'm him - it's complicated.

welcome to my little corner of the web. the older i get and the more i process my decades-old relationship with the internet, the more i realize how toxic the relationship can be. you may know me from the music i've made in the past - obviously in part due to the social media aspect of it. i'm thankful for everyone who has listened and kept up, but part of the reason i have not put out music as i used to in the past few years is due to the social media aspect in general. from straight up fascist takeovers of certain social media sites to harvesting of your data and everything in between. though this is a multi faceted issue and i'm not about to use my 'about' as a diary, i've realized that having a space just for me to express myself without the parts i'm aprehensive about is probably a healthy decision.

this site is the intersection of everything that makes me: "me". music made on computers, sound design, and the animals in my head. this is mostly told through the lense of the characters in my worldbuilding project "DOG PARK RECORDINGS". i like to explore relationships and perspectives with my work. my work as an adult is also a lot different than what you may be used to hearing out of me if you are familiar with my old work. this old work is archived as it does serve to show my foundation as both an artist and a funny animal person.

i was born in Seattle, raised in CFL, lived my adult life in Nashville, and now i live in Savannah, GA. i like to get around. as a young one i'd keep to myself often, mostly with technology as it was coming up in the late 90s/early 00s. playing around in Windows 98 is a core memory of late 90s for me: not even really doing anything on the computer, but just playing around with the operating system, learning to be curious. my dad had a Sega Saturn that my mom vehemently hid from me as to not get me hooked onto video games like my dad was. turns out that didn't work out. outside of computers and video games, what captivated me most at a young age would be music. one of my earliest memories is hearing LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade" on an Entertainment Weekly Disco Compilation CD in my grandmother's car and i will never forget that initial feeling of being truly moved by sound. i would spend so much time in my early years before i was of school-age going through my parent's CD and tape collection listening to as much as i could get my paws on. these interests would converge later on in my life. i started playing guitar at a young age and started making music on computers (MIDI, .nsf, .IT) shortly after, being able to put a name to these sounds i've heard in games i enjoyed when i was younger. "breakbeat" struck a chord with me the most. now i'm in my teenage years, still a shut-in. in trying to learn how to make music on computers, i'd also spend a lot of unsupervised time on the internet where i'd come across miupix 'Peaches & Cream', then becoming familiar with the concept of 'furry'. i became interested mostly as a vehicle for branding at first, but as i'd become older i'd find myself far more interested in furry as a vehicle for expression. this ties back into exploring perspective through my work. when making a fursona the first question you ask is "what animal would i be?", but that gets you thinking: "what animal am i?". what traits - both physical and social - do you possess that would lend itself well to how you present "yourself"? wait - why is "yourself" in quotes... this is me. this relationship between humankind and our animal counterparts is so compelling to me. drawing paralells between the two to help answer questions not so innate to me that pertain to my experience is the crux of my work. i don't want to bog my 'about' down to anything past the basics, but i'm actually so serious about the furry shit.

as far as i go: i like going on hikes and seeing new places in nature. it's preferred to being out in more "social" settings. i've recently gone vegan - a choice solidified by my perspective on my relationship to animals i briefly touched on earlier. i obviously enjoy being on the computer, though the computer is mostly for making music these days. i don't keep modern with games all too much - if i'm playing anything at all i'm probably speedrunning Sonic Adventure DX or playing Melee socially. i have a little Pokemon card collection - i'll probably use my blog here to talk more about my interests as i feel like sharing them. life has been sort of hectic for me the past decade, and it's only now starting to wind-down into something i can appreciate for what it is. through the noise, i had assumed i lost sight of what makes me, me - but now that i have time for reflection and to take care of myself, i can see it's been there all along. not much has changed since being being the little one clicking around on the computer and making noise. thanks for reading and lots of love <3