Carnelian

Oh yeah so I was engaged with lots of smaller in-person events and house shows, focussed on more experimental and improvised music. A mix of electronic and instrumental. Lots of groovebox and synth syncing. I got pretty into ableton, and purchased an interface with 5 pin midi so I could control older synths and also record the midi outs to possibly reuse later.

Some notable highlights include one occasion when we had four korg electribes synced up and did a set that way. We joked that perhaps this was the most that had ever been used together anywhere in the world lol.

Everyone was addicted to vaping at this point in time, back when the massive cloud producing box mods were still more popular than the smaller cartridge vapes. I mention this just because I have so many fond memories of sitting in these dimmed rooms, with the lights from all of our machines flashing and diffusing through the fruity smelling cloud we were sitting in.

That’s how small and irrelevant my “scene” was btw lol, that we could sit and fill these indoor spaces with vapor without issue. I wouldn’t want to give the impression that my experience is a part of something much larger than it is, if it were to in any way affect your research. As an experimental artist I believe in delivering music to the people in front of me, and bearing witness to experience of others no matter how radical their expression. Along the way I’ve been to and thoroughly enjoyed performances of circuit bending as well as both ambient and harsh noise, some of which I credit as being the most important and moving artistic experiences of my life. But a crowd of 30 people was something I considered “ultramassive” haha, like selling out a stadium for us. More often there would be only three or four people present who were not making music themselves.

A group of open minded and charitably-thinking people to say the least, so when the virus was getting going there was an immediate agreement not to risk any in-person events. Then we began experimenting with the process itself, via primarily online means. We developed a file-sharing structure for snippets to be uploaded and processed by others automatically, created a discord server where we met weekly to keep the element of socialization, did weekly themed events where we all worked on small projects to listen to. Many people used the time to invest in furthering their music knowledge beyond what they had grown accustomed to.

I myself during this time found a renewed passion for the guitar, and began writing and singing some more folk inspired things. It became somewhat spirit crushing to sit at my computer all day at work, then come home and do it again all night. So sinking into my couch with the guitar and closing my eyes and getting wrapped into the moment became a very powerfully relaxing and meditative experience. I found myself singing about things that were very therapeutic for me to process and put into words, and propelled me into a process of joy and healing.

A difficult point to make without sounding insecure to some haha, but for me, having access to this experience is the payment for my art. I can tell, because I am not delusional, that my 90 minute meandering soundscapes are not going to make a big influence on the wider world of music, nor frankly will my attempts at more traditional music. But they have changed me, for the better by far, and by extension they have in many small ways benefited and will continue to benefit the lives of the people who come to know me.

Anyway, apologies for so much rambling, the last few days have been very stressful and I’ve been reminiscing a lot. TL;DR: we would get together often to jam, transitioned to bouncing stems and producing more planned recordings during the pandemic, and have now basically continued on with that procedural shift while also bringing in the different styles people explored during that period of isolation we all experienced

Fascinating read, yeah I’m very interested in your work! I feel like my local scene changed a lot during covid, I know I absolutely got way more bedroom oriented personally during that time and have been bleeping away since then

Certainly hope we can

Got me crying pretty bad lol. Seeing love just gently pulling him back to his child despite all of the fear and uncertainty

It matters somewhat, in that you may be able to sync things between mobile and desktop if you use the ios version of your desktop browser

Me and who

Hey different person here. But there’s a difference between this and being a typically hormonally hair triggered teenager. It’s a strange comparison to make.

That being said I read the article and only the maximum sentence is life. It’s possible he gets out in as little as 13 years. I for one am hopeful he can get better. And if he can get better, then who can’t? It’s worth it to try

Not exactly what you’re asking, as I was on reddit for many years. Never touched twitter tho, but nonetheless I’ve been really enjoying Mastodon

Same, but without the finesse and the home ownership and such

Yeah it was a trip for me as well to adapt to the new ways. For example it took me a long long time to adjust to allowing the computer to manage the multitasking for me. I would habitually always close out programs I wasn’t using, because I felt deeply from my decades of experience that running tons of things at once would cause many issues.

I was very uncomfortable letting all these “active” programs pile up, but it really turned out to be all good. The computers are designed to be used this way. And really, I’m better off for it, not having to go in and micromanage everything constantly.

What I’m trying to say is that learning is not something that is ever finished, you know? There came a day when we stopped defragmenting our hard drives, and now the day has arrived where the computer utilizes all the ram all the time

That’s normal for these computers. Idea being it doesn’t really benefit you to have a ton of empty ram sitting around waiting to be used. So the OS makes no effort to clear it out until the space is needed.

If you believe their marketing it’s actually doing the opposite, and preemptively loading stuff into ram in order to make your common tasks feel as snappy as possible. But yeah either way you’ll notice the memory is always “full”, but you never seem run out

Ha, I kept my textbooks too. Every once in a while something pops into my head and I want to crack one open