Okay, I don't really blame Newgrounds for not accommodating the full title of this piece, which is: "This Is My Original Character, His Name Is 'Dioptrex, the Fractal Mage of Ice and Thunder'".

The percussion in this piece was created using a technique where, starting with a seed sound (which I took to be 1 cycle of a sine tone), I chose a random clip from it in Audacity, spliced that clip onto the end and reduced its amplitude, and then took the new sound thus created and repeated the process on it. This creates a sort of self-similarity in the sound: the most audible way this manifests itself is as a subtle sort of reverb.

What was interesting was that, for the 8 different percussive sounds that play at the beginning of the piece, I applied the exact same process to get each of them, but got different pitches each time. The melody that underpins the piece was based off of these pitches.

I've now transitioned to using Supercollider to make the rest of my sounds and, unsurprisingly, it is significantly easier than Mathematica. The piece was then assembled in Tracktion 4.

This isn't entirely done yet; I'm planning on including it in an album, and ending it with a segue into the following track. For the moment, though, I'd like to preview it here. And especially since it isn't the final version, constructive criticism (or praise, or questions, or entertaining clickbait titles, whatever) would be much appreciated. And make sure to check out my other music!