By Buzinkai george-buzinkai SoundCloud buzinkai Twitter buzinkai Newgrounds and Michael Guy Bowman bowman Bandcamp YouTube YouTube mguybowman Twitter michaelguybowman.com Other mguybowman Instagram.
Cover art by Homestuck.
Released 12/14/2009.
Duration: 2:28.

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Download sheet music files.
Download MIDI/project files.
Read artist commentary.

Also released as:

• (201110/24/2011; about 1 year, 10 months later) Explore (Homestuck Vol. 1-4)

Tracks that reference Explore:

From Official Discography:

• Explore Remix by Gabriel Nezovic
• Descend by Toby Fox
• I Don't Want to Miss a Thing by Michael Guy Bowman
• Litrichean Rioghail by Malcolm Brown
• Hussie Hunt by Malcolm Brown
• Pipeorgankind by James Roach
• Austin, Atlantis by Clark Powell
• Expedition by Mark J. Hadley
• Noirscape by David Ellis
• I - Overture by Clark Powell
• Solar Voyage by Marcy Nabors

From Fandom:

• Explode (Candy) by Stephen Maxwell
• MeGaDanceVaNia by Catboss
• The Hymn of Making Babies by EnnuiKing
• Stalemate by Lark Mordancy
• Explore [Keygen Mix] by keyboard cait
• The Explored Ruins by RowBird and one-imperfect-rose
• Spacesplore by ostrichlittledungeon
• turnways lurker by ostrichlittledungeon
• Three in the Medley by Interrobang
• Usurp by flagellumVagueness
• 25x SHOWDOWN COMBO by Discfortune
• There's a Balcony by ostrichlittledungeon
• 『EXPLORE』 ~~BEGIN CANH ACT 2~~ by Cecily Renns
• Explored by ostrichlittledungeon
• go down (cool and new Mix) (feat. John J "Damn, Now Those Are Some Tunes" Renns) by Cecily Renns
• The Connection by Kusoro
• Please Be Ready To Kill Me And Eat My Fucking Remains by GoomFloops
• Wubchorale for Seinfeld by Makin
• national treasure by Hadron
• national weeaboo sample treasure & knuckles by koba
• The final Calldown by Shwan
• cool and new community garden by cryptologicalMystic
• the maymay sonb by Kusoro
• o by MrCheeze
• its megaman except the song is homestuck too by Hadron
• *xplore by Noisemaker
• -3x piano solo by Shwan
• Deth of Dabe by meems
• FOCUS by Hadron
• Final Confrontation by ostrichlittledungeon
• dick coordinat by ostrichlittledungeon
• Hell"o" Kermit by StarlightCalliope
• Creata (Cool and New Synth Mix) by cookiefonster
• 72.0x SHOWDOWN COMBO by Discfortune
• Actually, The Plot Snaps in Place by SplitSuns
• 7 GRAND END by Discfortune, koba, SplitSuns, Minish, TirantBacon, StarlightCalliope, Wheals, WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES, MoreEpicThanYou747, Isoleucine, ostrichlittledungeon, Noisemaker, Rom M, Cecily Renns, cookiefonster, Pipko Fanfare, Hadron, ft-rj, and Interrobang
• Gunshow 2 Theme (Instrumental) by ostrichlittledungeon
• Secretz Barz by SplitSuns
• A New World by dbnet18
• Medley by ostrichlittledungeon
• Juju Breaker by keyboard cait
• Interlude I by The Cat Herd
• Wander by Thomas Ferkol
• We Shall Not Cease From Exploration by Michael Guy Bowman
• Bowman's Credit Score: A Rock Opera by Noisemaker
• Prismatic Season by Beau Brian
• Route Theme 2 by Twix Stix
• 🎼 Fraymotif ! by Tee-vee
• ...a single singularity of being... by Interrobang
• Motif Mixture (Piano Improv) by cctv
• Explore Midnight by Swagazaki
• GALACTIC INCOHERENCE ~ Cosmic NaN Propagation by Cosmoptera
• Dusksetter by Morris

From Additional Tracks:

• luminantFlare by luminantAegis

Tracks that sample Explore:

From Official Discography:

• Explore Remix by Gabriel Nezovic

From Fandom:

• *xplore by Noisemaker
• Secretz Barz by SplitSuns

Flashes & games that feature Explore:

• [S] WV: Ascend.
• [S] Converge.

Print or download sheet music files:

• Sheet music by EuniverseCat

  • Explore - EuniverseCat.pdf (228.3 kB)
• Sheet music by Nocturne

  • Explore - Nocturne.pdf (86.1 kB)
• Piano score by Quaddy

  • Explore - Quaddy (piano score).pdf (736.4 kB)

Download MIDI/project files:

• MIDI by Unknown (orchestral mix)

  • Explore - Unknown (orchestral mix).mid (3.2 kB)
• MIDI by Goatmon

  • Explore - Goatmon.mid (11.9 kB)
• MIDI by Twix Stix (from Sburbmon)

  • Explore - Twix Stix.mid (10.4 kB)

Artist commentary:

Buzinkai:

I tried towill write something a little more thought provoking this time without too much drummage in the background. It came out smoothly, and I do think it's quite the haunting melody. I was unaware that Andrew wanted me to finish the original loop, and someone else remixed a longer ending for it, doing quite a fantastic job.

Michael Guy Bowman:

"Explore" was one of Buzinkai's distinctive snippets that I arranged - the melodies she writes are always strong, and the only appropriate scale to work on with that kind of material is grand.

7/23/2017 Michael Guy Bowman: (Bowmantown Discord, excerpt)

A hot take on Explore? I mostly remember technical stuff about it, like that was the last time I used FL slayer before I decided it sounds dumb.

I think putting together all these collab tracks really early on helped build the culture of the forum. There was this sense that what Andrew was attempting to do was to build a studio of musicians whose work would cross pollinate. There were guys like Malcolm and Mark and Seth and Bill whose work was ready to go on its own. So I worked with them less and was more interested in people like Nick or George whose work was less arranged. And I wanted to work with musicians who could bring their own playing to the work so I leaned on Fenris and Joe Aylsworth.

I don't think I knew just how "all in one" digital production was until I saw how quickly someone like Mark Hadley would turn out new hs music. It was competitive quickly. I guess my father being deeply anti-electronic music was a big influence. I wanted to work with musicians to qualify some reality to the work. To me it's very sexy to imagine the power of the ensemble. Composition might just be putting the right musicians in the room. So I practiced a lot more collaboration early on.