Hey hey,
Been a while, hasn't it? How've you been? I hope life's been treating you well --and if not, that it's at least been gentle about it. For those of you who're already familiar with my work, but struggling to remember who I am, I used to be known on this platform as WolfgangMiakoda.
A lot's happened since I last posted on Newgrounds, not the least of which being that I graduated college and am now (supposedly supposed to be) a fully functioning adult person. Ok, so not really. I still have no clue what I'm doing, but I'm doing it! Also had a period of serious burnout, combined with a dream-team minor existential crisis and identity crisis, so that was fun. But I'm on the other end of all of that now. Well, I still feel some of the lingering weight of all of that, but at the very least I'm making some confident strides, and am working on music again, which is already a hell of a lot better than I was three months ago!
So then, about the name change. Why did I change from WolfgangMiakoda to RosesWolf? Well, to be honest, I made the decision to make the change over two years ago at this point. The name WolfgangMiakoda had started to feel less and less in line with the music that I was making and wanted to make, and though branding and social media has never been something I've wanted to put too much effort in, this felt more like the identity of my creative persona no longer fit the persona itself.
To me, Wolfgang Miakoda is in large part about larger, more cinematic music. Not necessarily dark, but more large scale and high-octane. The stuff you might see in movie trailers, you know? I'm talking stuff like my track with THESUS, "Opium," or the end of the track "Rolling Waves" which I'd made for the 2021 AIM contest. And to be frank, that kinda music just didn't do it for me anymore. I'd begun gravitating more and more to more intimate, relaxing music. Music that didn't need to be grandiose to make a statement, and that didn't necessarily needed to feature a large orchestration. And the name Wolfgang Miakoda just didn't fit that kind of music in my eyes.
I'd been using the name Roses Wolf as a backup account for a little while at this point too, mostly because I was starting to run out of storage space on Soundcloud, haha. But the more I thought about things, the more I started to feel like Roses Wolf just fit who I was becoming creatively more than Wolfgang Miakoda did. I've always enjoyed flower motifs, and more and more of my music these days conjures to me images of enchanted forests, faeries, and magic, and I felt that Roses Wolf fell much more neatly into that aesthetic. So Wolfgang Miakoda was retired, and Roses Wolf was adopted.
So what's next for me, and for this page? Honestly, I don't know yet. I'm still trying to figure out what exactly I want to do with my life, and how music is going to factor into that. I've got some avenues that I'm exploring, some of which I'm hoping to take a few steps on as well, but which of them -if any- I'll be treading is still completely up in the air. At the very least I want to open up my time to writing music again, so if you have a project that you'd like some music written for, or simply want to use one of my existing songs, shoot me a message!
The one thing I do know is that I've still got a lot to learn, both as a musician, and as a person. Even at 23 years old, I'm still growing. I'm not who I was four years ago. Hell, I'm not even the same as I was four months ago. Things are constantly in flux, and I'm no different. I'll change again, and maybe my name will change with it. When -or if- this will happen, I can't say. But I've found some semblance of momentum for the first time in a very long time, and I want to see how long I can keep this momentum going. I've finally felt some genuine joy and excitement when I sit behind my computer to make music, and I'll try to remember to share said music here once it's done. No promises there, though, haha. Even with the new ADD meds, I'm still scatterbrained as hell, so I may need some reminding.
I'm very excited about what's to come, but I'm gonna give it its time. These things can't be rushed, you know? Not without excessive stress, at least. But I want to share that excitement as well. So, if you've managed to make it to the end of this long post, I just want to thank you for giving me some of your time. It means a lot.
People are beautiful creatures, capable of such immense creativity. The sheer depths of emotion of which we are capable has continued to astound me as I've gotten more familiar and intimate with my own. The ways in which all of this slowly changes as we grow older, and as we take more experience and viewpoints into ourselves, eventually becoming a magnificent collage of life that's worth celebrating. You are worth celebrating, even if -or perhaps especially if- you are celebrating yourself.
Sincerely, and with love,
Roses Wolf