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J. M. Smig
@jmsmig.bsky.social
Obscure composer laureate and Minister of Silly Walks of Salem, MA.

http://smig.org
https://jmsmig.bandcamp.com
Revised artwork for Illuminatis and Beer. Update your files if you already own it.

#music #electronica #electronicmusic
Illuminatis and Beer, by J. M. Smig
4 track album
jmsmig.bandcamp.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Zappacrite - still in progress - has been revised with two more parts.

The current tracklist:

I. Knight of a Malt Shop
II. Homungulatis
III. Ranc'd Honker: Lumpy Rapey or Taboos
IV. Errs a Parent
V. Moondance

Listen or don't. Download what thou wilt.
Zappacrite (Parts 1-5) [Work in Progress], by J. M. Smig
5 track album
jmsmig.bandcamp.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:10 AM
eBay restricted my account after 26 years on the premise that they couldn't verify my identity after I submitted my driver's license and facial scan twice. I attempted to resolve the matter with customer service and the rep stopped responding for over a half hour, claiming his system was frozen....
January 27, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Last night, I watched a horror movie on live TV titled "Sweet 16". Today, my weekly LinkedIn post analysis states that my most popular post is from April 11, 2025 when I wished a Happy Sweet 16 to my first album. #Synchronicity?

www.linkedin.com/posts/jmsmig...
January 27, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Slightly creeped out but not surprised. Editing a music score on my laptop recently adding an instruction to play the piece "robotic". I logged into Indeed later and first job recommendation: Robotics Operator. Is Indeed #scraping my recent documents for keywords?
Check your firewall.
#datascraping
January 24, 2026 at 8:34 PM
1/2: Three years ago today, I attended the @embraceboston.org dedication at Boston Common ...

#embraceboston #mlk #martinlutherking
January 14, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I recently found the sheet music of the first draft of Underarm Overture, written for guitar. A photo is now included with downloads of the deluxe single.
Underarm Overture [deluxe single], by J. M. Smig
7 track album
jmsmig.bandcamp.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Happy Birthday, Robby Krieger and Jimmy Page. Consecutive birthdays and early influences as a guitarist. The two musicians who turned me onto DADGAD, demonstrated on the first Batwanger album in a jam including "The End" and "Black Mountain Side".
#guitar #opentuning
Dada Gada, by Batwanger
from the album Volume 1: Deliverance
batwanger.bandcamp.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Rat's a little,
little slick,
little slick newt.
Lives in a cave
sittin' under a boot.

Lives in a cave
and waits for the flood
'cuz little slick newts
like to play in the mud.

Havin' mud fights
with his friend
Mister Fly,
Pullin' him down
and gettin' mud
in his eye.

(Cont.)
January 9, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Say hello to the new year.
Will you say goodbye
to the same old shit?
Will you trust your eye
just a little bit?
You know.

Say goodbye to your problems.
Say a little "hi"
to forgotten dreams,
to survivors of
demolished schemes
you know. ...
January 2, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Happy Kwanzaa.
Kwanzaa Lady, by J. M. Smig
from the album Massive Elves
jmsmig.bandcamp.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
December 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Reposted by J. M. Smig
#ZAPPADAN SALE: 85% OFF 12/4-12/21

That's right! 85% off the entire discography, including Unsmigitated Audacity, Zappacrite, and Apostolatus! Cheap thrills for your ears and rears!

Enter the code "zappacrite" at checkout.

Download what thou wilt. #Music is the best!

JMS

jmsmig.bandcamp.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
1/2: "Massive Elves" comes from "Mass Ave. elves". "Elves" has been my personal slang for Berklee students since I realized that "Berklee" is an anagram for "Keebler". The piece was created by converting "Berklee" to a tone row using the musical cryptography that I developed for An Equal Sea.
Massive Elves, by J. M. Smig
3 track album
jmsmig.bandcamp.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
1/2: A week ago, I came across a sketch for a composition that I barely remember writing almost four years ago at the Copley Square Library in Boston, a great place for laptop composers to work if you have a good set of headphones.
December 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
#ZAPPADAN SALE: 85% OFF 12/4-12/21

That's right! 85% off the entire discography, including Unsmigitated Audacity, Zappacrite, and Apostolatus! Cheap thrills for your ears and rears!

Enter the code "zappacrite" at checkout.

Download what thou wilt. #Music is the best!

JMS

jmsmig.bandcamp.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Bernstein to the left of me, Mozart to the right. WREK@Georgia Tech got Classics in the Morning off to a great start. Those tech students got taste. #collegeradio #classicalmusic
December 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Andy Garcia and Eliza Dushku for the docudrama.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Dec 1
He pleaded guilty to disposing of his wife's body, but maintains that he didn't kill her. Now his case will be heard before a jury. Watch live as opening statements get underway in the murder trial of Brian Walshe: https://cnn.it/4pKfffW
December 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Finally managed to sneak in a few breaks from the real world to revise "Zappacrite" for the first time in over a year. Still far from finished but I managed to add an extra minute to the fourth movement, "Errs a Parent".
#music #classicalmusic #progressiverock
Zappacrite: IV. Errs a Parent (unfinshed), by J. M. Smig
from the album Apostolatus ( * )
jmsmig.bandcamp.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Boycott #ebay. They #outsource their customer service to an "offshore" company that suspended my 26 year old account on the premise that they couldn't verify my account. I could barely understand the broken English of the customer service person.
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM
"Man of God", released as a single on Nov. 2, 2017, later included on the album ManoFGod.
#music #electronica #edm #electronicmusic
Man Of God, by J. M. Smig
from the album Sit On A Single
jmsmig.bandcamp.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
1. Happy Satan™ - originally published 6/6/2006 on smig.org, also in the liner notes for Music For Sophisticated Schizophrenics (2009).
2. Zappa Halloween '78 box set (2025).
October 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Good morning, Atlanta #WREK.
October 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Batwanger - Deliverance.
First volume of a lo-fi compilation of jams, covers and originals recorded 1988-1992, released on this day in 2014. #guitar
Volume 1: Deliverance, by Batwanger
25 track album
batwanger.bandcamp.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
On This Day A Day Late:

The first three sections of "Zappacrite", an unfinished piece, were released as an EP on September 11, 2024. The incomplete fourth section can be previewed along with the first three sections on the subsequently released Apostolatus album.
jmsmig.bandcamp.com/album/zappac...
Zappacrite: Parts I-III, by J. M. Smig
3 track album
jmsmig.bandcamp.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:43 AM