Autumn Flaw is a one-person Ambient Techno music project by Patrick Cheatham. Autumn Flaw music fits Instrumental Electronica ethereal styles, but with faster switching and having more demanding song evolution. Autumn Flaw tracks feature experimental keyboard, and sparse electric guitar. Mixing typically incongruent musical moods is common in Autumn Flaw music. Bright and light melodies alternate or blend with dark passages, exploring musical tone. Percussion intensity, and sudden edges to starts and stops of sound fragments bring a stormier stuttered sound and pace. Autumn Flaw is named in honor of a natural philosophy appreciative of imperfection. Autumn Flaw began as the music project Drift Flaw in 2009. Patrick realized then that his recreational projects with selecting and arranging complementary music loops had reached a level of proficiency deserving publishing and release, as the only way for an artist to have his or her efforts interplay. Patrick adopts an experimental approach to making music, with the idea of allowing the music to somewhat write itself. He invests in unexpected or accidental occurrences of synergy between software instrument parts that show fair to strong potential. Foundations of songs are grown this way, after flexibly and unconcernedly composing synthesizer software instruments and their note patterns. Patrick also chooses to only refine into solid final music those interesting sound qualities he happens upon, with the artistic goal being for each song to finalize as congruent and whole, steady upon repeated listens over weeks and years, regardless of hit potential. Listeners are treated to variety, surprise, and sudden maneuver in music. Autumn Flaw music presents listeners with frequent changes to the evolving listening experience, with no song part dwelling long. Sweeping airy backdrops, swift driving synthesizers, drum sampler percussion pattern scattering, and variations of short time delays deliver an uplifting rush to listeners who are fresh with energy and ready for the musical departures.