Newcomers - introduce yourself here!

[Jwb]

I think nimbly is anteater.

[jadis]

Great seeing you here SGR

[Guybrush]

Hey SGR, nice to see you!

I don't think we have any active members who didn't come over from MB.

I've added you to Old Timers so you can see the Secret forum 🙂

[Lisnaholic]

Alright, I've decided to cross over. And hey look, J Dubz is here!

Hey! It's great to see you here, SGR! No one banned yet, afaik, but step outta line and you could be the first

I think nimbly is anteater.

Yep! He said that somewhere

[ᑕᐧᔐᔫᓂᑯᒑᔥ]

ᐅᑯᐦᓯᒫᐤ ᐊᔨᒧᐎᓐ ᐃᔨᓂᑭᒋᓂᐦᐊᓂᒋᓇᐤ ᐁᓇ ᐃᓄᐃᑦᑐᐦᑯᐱᑲᑭᓇᐤ ᐃᓄᑯᐦᑖᐦᑯᐱᓂᐤ᙮

[Trollheart]

I'm just posting cos I'm sick of seeing that stupid child face every time I look at this thread.
Meh.
Begone, horrible child! 

[ᑕᐧᔐᔫᓂᑯᒑᔥ]

I'm just posting cos I'm sick of seeing that stupid child face every time I look at this thread.
Meh.
Begone, horrible child! 

ᐁᒋᔅᑕᓐ ᐃᐦᔑᓇᐤ ᐊᐦᑯ ᐊᐦᐃᔭᓈᐤ, ᐃᐊᐃ ᒥᐢᑕᓐ ᐊᓂᔅᓯ ᐃᐳᐢᑲ ᐊᐃᐦᔭᓂᐤ ᐃᑯᐦᑕᐦᑯᓂᐤ ᒥᓂᔮᐤ !!

[Trollheart]

So that's how it's going to be, huh?

[ᑕᐧᔐᔫᓂᑯᒑᔥ]

So that's how it's going to be, huh?

ᐁᐦᐊ

[Trollheart]

Triangles to you too.

[Rubber Soul]

Hey, Trolls, have you heard of the term, spambot?

[ᑕᐧᔐᔫᓂᑯᒑᔥ]

[innerspaceboy]

Hello SCD community! TH generously invited me to share a bit of my writing to this forum, so I'm going to post an intro here and a few new threads on the subjects of hobbies and a query about music-making hardware to test the waters.

For my introduction, I thought I'd share my unparalleled drive for musical exploration. For those who know me well from MB or WP, forgive the recap, but I'll share in case this interests any newcomers.

I've invested considerable resources building an independent music library of over 300,000 soundworks, developed and delivered a series of music lectures around the city, meticulously curating special collections, publishing quarterly reports and infographics, and worked to educate the community about experimental sound art. It's my greatest passion and my life's work.

These efforts culminated in my authoring and publishing a 1,716-page multi-volume interdisciplinary ethnomusicological treatise spanning 20th century analog classicism to contemporary digital modernity. It's basically a series of books chronicling my adventures from more than a decade of musical exploration. Here's a shot of the cover!



In the opening chapters, I delve into an intimate examination of how I identify with music. Therein I state that, perhaps the most revealing thing about me is the artistic/musical period with which I align myself - the post-minimalist modern classical movement. It is a pendulumic reactionary counterpoint to the mathematical elegance of minimalism, balancing its cerebral "music as a gradual process" precision with elements of natural, organic gentleness and expressiveness.

These works are thoughtful, highly contemplative, and provide a spectacular sonic environ for introspection. There is a graceful and cultivated intimacy to the music which speaks to me on a very personal level. These mature soundscapes evoke consideration, empathy, and place an emphasis on subtle and refined characteristics which are exquisitely beautiful when someone has the patience to embrace them but which tragically go unnoticed in the accelerated world of instant gratification.

Each of these musical properties resonates directly with my own character and values. I am this music.

I particularly enjoy minimalist music - compositions which employ static harmony, quasi-geometric transformational linearity and repetition, gradual additive or permutational processes, phase-shifting, and static instrumentation. I am captivated by the metamusical properties which are revealed as a result of strictly carried-out processes. Many of these recordings explore non-Western concepts like pure tuning, (e.g. pure frequency ratios and resonant intervals outside the 12-pitch piano scale), unmetered melodies like those of Carnatic ragas, and drones.

As Roland Barthes describes, "...it is each sound one after the next that I listen to, not in syntagmatic extension, but in it's raw and as though vertical signifying: by deconstructing itself, listening is externalized, it compels the subject to renounce his 'inwardness.'"

I'm always interested in exploring new sounds and don't limit myself to any closed set of styles. As John Cage wisely said:

"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

I also tried my hand at crafting a handy infographic - a Fruchterman-Reingold graph depicting the web-like interrelationships between my 60 favorite sub and micro-genres, (as I do so adore metadata).

It effectively sums up my musical interests. I'd enjoy reading from members with similarly intensive passions!

[Toy Revolver]

super thrilled you're here

[SGR]

Welcome, ISB! Glad to have you here - who should be poached from MusicBanter next, I wonder?