Torry Rowell

I make beats, write poetry and prose, shoot film, and build software; most of it starts as a side project I can't stop thinking about.

Contents of this portfolio
Number Section Works Years
01 Music 3 2024-2025
02 Writing 4 2023-2026
03 Photography 8 One roll
04 Coding 11 2019-2026
05 About

Music

IDM

6 tracks / 6:37

01 blue light (3_2) 0:41
02 lofi something 0:56
03 coo little synthesizer 1:09

All music

Writing

As the Mountain Is

Prose / 2026 / 695 words

In the distance, a single jagged peak looms. My eyes yearn towards the horizon; I wish I could be as the mountain is. My will would be so strong I could tear apart the sky and make a place for myself.

What seemed a jagged peak from afar was but a gravelly plateau when you stand beside it.

Read the full piece

Photography

One roll of black and white film, shot on Pender Island.

Looking out through an opening in a sea cave. The rock is almost entirely black; the gap frames open water, a far wooded shoreline with a few houses, and a single cloud.
01
A person in a cap seen in profile at dusk, hair lit from behind, resting against a boat railing with a dark treeline behind them.
02
A low wooded islet reduced to a black band between bright water and a luminous overcast sky.
03
Three vertical bars of light fall across a rocky shoreline, a light leak burned into the negative.
04

All eight frames

Coding

2019 to 2026, in whatever language got an idea built. Most of it talks to a running game from the outside instead of living inside it.

2019 Ads in a nutshell Scratch
The Scratch editor showing block scripts for an animated project called Ads in a nutshell, sprite costumes and sound cues driving a running stage.

An animation built entirely from Scratch's block scripts: costume switches on timers, sound cues, broadcast messages between sprites. The first thing that ran on its own.

2025 A Souls-like Godot

Gameplay in the editor: real movement and combat instead of a tool that plays one. The shift from utilities into making something meant to be played, not run in the background.

The full timeline

Contact

Email rowelltorry@gmail.com

Instagram @rowelltorry

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