The Treq

A released catalog, wilderness and coastline

The Treq is a music project distributed across Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and SoundCloud, running from indie-folk through cinematic electronic and EDM, with wilderness and coastline themes throughout.

I write the lyrics, set the sonic direction, choose genre and mood, curate every output and direct the emotional arc of each track. Generative tools produce the soundscapes; the creative decisions are mine.

The tools the music required

Making the tracks kept running into technical limits, and each one turned into something I built.

WideFrequency — a WebGL music visualizer built with Three.js: five audio-reactive scenes, twenty palettes, custom GLSL shaders with bloom and ACES tone mapping, and an OBS capture mode. The audio analysis runs a 4096-point FFT with beat detection across eighteen ISO frequency bands, so the visuals track musical structure rather than overall volume.

Spin — a visualizer built for shareable video. It records the canvas through the MediaRecorder API at fixed output resolutions for TikTok and YouTube, producing clean exports straight from the source.

GrooveCore — a TR-808 style drum machine: a 16-step sequencer on Tone.js with over 100 presets, exporting standard MIDI so patterns carry into a full DAW.

Shimmer — the audio restoration and mastering suite, documented separately in this portfolio. It exists because I needed to clean up my own tracks.

Why it’s in a professional portfolio

It’s an honest picture of how I work. I started making tracks, hit real technical limits, and built tools to get past them: signal processing, real-time graphics, audio analysis, video encoding. Four working tools came out of a creative hobby.

It’s also the clearest statement of where I stand on generative AI. I use it heavily, I direct it deliberately, and I built an entire piece of software to correct what it gets wrong.