Some pretty important news!

Firstly, this account may be changing it's name! That's right. Over the past couple months, nearly a year now me and LadyArsenic have been heavily collaborating on many songs. Even if one has no direct imprint on the other's song we are constantly exchanging ideas and suggestions. She's uploaded her own tracks here and we've uploaded our company songs.

all songs with -+[TITLE]+- are of her design
all songs with _-={TITLE}=-_ are of my design
all songs with »§« at the beginning is a collaboration effort (there should be a lot more songs with this symbol)

So in short, since there may be no sign of a co-author system for audio soon and i've grown tired of being given credit where it's not due (even when i've boldly written a song was of her design), we are looking into changing this account into our company account. Symphony of Specters as some of you may know. We opted for sos.newgrounds.com but may not get it (taken, but inactive account)

So what does that mean exactly? Will MaestroRage disappear entirely? No, rather, I will work behind the face of this company we've founded, which aspires to provide high quality custom scoring for flash developers and animators at very reasonable rates or cut basis *ie, a certain amount of the revenue of the game/animation uses ads, or a very affordable rate if it won't, or a cut of the sponsorship of game/animation if the developer/animator wills it*

I will still hang about, do what I do for Newgrounds and for our fans. If anything this new face lift will increase activity from this corner and provide even more entertainment, more free content and do our best to ensure a higher grade of quality as the flash scene here makes it's way to the professional market.

In time we hope to expand our roster, include more local NG musicians and really be a useful contributor to all.

In other news, I have also opted to take up AS3. Before I make the mighty leap of purchasing a copy of Flash CS4 (lawdy pretty pricey) I want to do my research into the language first. I've written plenty of java/VB.NET applications now so I feel switching to AS3 language shouldn't be too hard as it is also a object oriented language (kinda). So i'm hoping to pick that up and potentially make a few interesting applications! I will be under the tutelage of one The-Titan whose sprite and coding work I absolutely admire, so my transition into this new language should be even less painful.

This won't mean i'll slow down on the music front, but it can be incredibly frustrating working with just music. With programming see you can work uninspired because you know the classes you know how it connects (or research it if you don't) and you can keep hammering away at it. With music, if you feel uninspired, tired, bored, or god forbid, all 3 at once. Progress is slowed and trucking along is an difficult task.

So here's hoping the best, wish us luck!