Ophiuchus
A Cornerstone Companion
an endless non-linear orchestration
an experimental application

Music, text and design
by Michael Berto
@pawsmenu.info

Paintings by
Jacob Potterfield
@jpotterfield.bsky.social

Available free of charge:
pawsmenu.itch.io/ophiuchus

bliss...

Congratulations, Eli! How wonderful.

Beautiful...

Absolutely. Much respect to tofu.

What a lovely thing to say, Winston! Thank you very much! I hope you are doing very well!

I am a big fan of passionfruit and enoki mushrooms.

As Paws Menu, I have self-produced and self-published quite a lot of music, most of which can be found here: paws.bandcamp.com as well as on all the main streaming platforms.

Highlighting here a collection of songs I am quite fond of called "The Butterfly Vault" paws.bandcamp.com/album/the-bu...

As writer, I wrote for @memoryofgod.bsky.social on Where The Goats Are and The Stillness of the Wind.

As composer, many things, including:
"Dissembler" by @ianmaclarty.com
and more recently "Of Love and Eternity" by @acornbringer.bsky.social
acornbringer.itch.io/of-love-and-...

I also had the great pleasure of making the music for one of Jonathan Djob Nkondo's shorts named CHILL
youtu.be/CpSWrUEm49A?...

Jonathan Djob Nkondo also has a beautiful website: www.absenteism.com

I made The Geography, an endless, non-linear orchestration. Essentially, a constantly changing and evolving ambient composition, paired with ever-shifting colourful renderings of the mountains of Norway. Collaborating with Titouan Millet on the generative algorithm. pawsmenu.itch.io/thegeography

I made Mooncharmer, a meditation on moon mysticism. Another 'music video art game' with a companion album, also named Mooncharmer. I worked with @joosteggermont.bsky.social on the software part.
It is available for free here: pawsmenu.itch.io/mooncharmer

I made Ebbinghouse, which released inside and alongside The Zium Exposition. Ebbinghouse is a stand-alone piece of software, as well as an album. The software is effectively an interactive music video and art game for the song Ebbinghouse, the album has nine more songs.
pawsmenu.itch.io/ebbinghouse

The Zium Exposition is the fourth instalment of The Zium Project and is now available
theziumsociety.itch.io/the-zium-exp...

There were three previous Ziums which you can find here:

theziumsociety.itch.io/the-zium-mus...
theziumsociety.itch.io/the-zium-gar...
theziumsociety.itch.io/the-zium-gal...