Rooms That Breathe
Eight pieces, three listening perspectives. Hear the original album, The Breathing Room, and The Long Gallery.
Listen to the albumMatt Bargar
Matt Bargar
Bargar Art
Notes on making art and trying to build something. Photography prints, Redbubble designs, Signal Bloom, and the real-time process of learning how to make the work sustainable.
Soft Machinery
Eight warm instrumental pieces. Full playback, lossless downloads and creation notes.
Listen to Soft MachineryFour Lines of Light
Eight distinct movements for a sample-based string quartet. Listen in full, download lossless, and read how it was made.
Listen to Four Lines of LightViolet Hours
Eight original electronic pieces. Listen to the full album.
Listen to Violet HoursA Boat for No One
An AI keeps running a business long after its founder is gone, still trying to understand his standing order: finish the business.
Read A Boat for No OneStarfield
A sphere dissolves into space. Set the pace, listen, or step inside in VR.
Enter StarfieldLatest writing
Five Genres, Five New Rules
Five early playable games, each exploring a different rule—and a first step toward a more ambitious idea.
Play the five gamesHer Wants to Be a Sci-Fi Movie and a Rom-Com. It Doesn’t Earn Either.
A critique of Her, its AI premise, and the metaphor it never fully earns.
starting over
I have not posted in a while. I had a down period when my Etsy shop failed to gain any kind of traction after a few months, but now I am back at it and approaching things in a different way.
How I Decided to Package My Prints
One of the early decisions I had to make when setting up my shop was how I wanted to package and ship my prints.
My First Months Running an Art Business
Almost two months ago I opened an Etsy shop to sell my photography prints. I did not really know what to expect.