Official Discussion Thread (Ghost Edit)

[Bronies Are Cool]

Which user on this forum has/had the avatar of the 8bit looking guy with an Afro?

[Jokeblue]

Which user on this forum has/had the avatar of the 8bit looking guy with an Afro?

Stuntdude?

[FLAOFEI]

Promise me you won't give up that accordion sound though. The fandom, no, the world needs more of that sort of stuff c:

oh maybe you should play an accordion concerto with the orchestra lol i know john serry sr wrote an amazing one

I'm not giving anything up! I love that sound way to much for that!
I wish I could learn to play the accordion, but those thi gs are insanely expensive!

btw, aparently we have one of Swedens best young accordionist in PromenadorQuestern http://youtu.be/U__fNkCLjsE. I won't be joining there though, since they have realy high standards for the drummer... I'll be practiceing though.

[ExoBassTix]

Elsewhere, on another forum, I found an ancient thread bumped up by someone, which quotes a Facebook post from Feed Me in 2012. If you can't access the post for whatever reason, here it is:

Spoiler Facebook Post:

'This is the greatest game in the world.'

I've almost stopped doing interviews because I'm achieving nothing. If you want to find something out about me, ask me personally. If it catches my eye, I'll respond, but dragging through another interview that no one thought about for more than two minutes seems like treading very boring water. Not that they've all been that way; but it's the trend.

A well known electronic music magazine recently wanted to do a few page spread about my production techniques. They sent me a list of preliminary questions; what plugins do I use for 'dirty' sounds, what makes a good 'drop', how much 'filth is too much filth'? Who wrote this? I could play the system; give away minimal information in exchange for some printed coverage, but at this point, fuck it. The Mau5hax thing was great; I got to interface with talented people and enjoy making music. I learnt as well as got involved. I didn't sit and have my mechanical techniques picked at while my actual motivation was ignored; we made decisions together.

I don't mind the occasional production Q, but what happened to mystery in music and art? There's YouTube tutorials for days now online. Look it up; these production conversations are redundant. The truth and effect comes in the sincerity and composition of the actual piece. If I read an interview with an artist of any type, what I want to know is the 'why' - not the 'how'. Why as electronic artists are we constricted to being quizzed monotonously about our techniques, and not ever our motivation? The reason anything I made sounds the way it did is because I sat and worked out every single piece of it myself. Give every one of us the same tools, and see what we all end up with - it's our differences in expression and decision making that makes us.

I'm doing this because I honestly don't know what else I can do. Music and art for me is a necessary release, and once people picked up on what I was making I was thrown into it. I was a bottled up, angry teenager, and I was completely consumed by the satisfaction I'd found in this new idea of making my own music. It consumed my life and I found I loved what it brought to it, and now I'm on an endless journey to see where it takes me, and where I can take it. Because of it, my entire late teenage and adult life I've been travelling the world, from Spor to Feed Me, constantly humbled by the people I've met, things I've seen, extremes I've lived through - I'm nothing but overwhelmingly grateful, it's almost too much.

Some of it has been physically and mentally tough, but so far I've never quit. It's never left my mind that should I drop dead, there's a million people who would kill to take my place. I don't believe in luck necessarily; I carved this out myself, but I am honoured to have what I have. If you're going to complain about your reality when you're living another persons dream, then I think you need a massive reality check. No one's forcing you. Music is magic; and I think as artists we have a duty to keep it that way, not dissolve it down into presets, complaints, one-upmanship and catering to the market. It's not all pink candy-floss cloud rides, and I think it looks fake if you depict it that way, but it really could be a lot fucking worse.

I used to lie and listen to my favourite records and daydream about how they were thought up, get lost in the sounds. There was no one to ask or study, and the resulting domino effect of speculation led me to my own ideas. It's always been the unknown that's motivated me. Spor was what I fell in to, but Feed Me is my world, a projection of a piece of me, and a way of expressing whatever I feel like. I couldn't have built what I have without you guys supporting me, but I'll always be creating and writing it none the less. I love you all for letting me take it this far.

I don't normally post my opinions on here, but I've never got anywhere by playing the game, and sometimes I just feel I need to 1) say thanks, and 2) say why. TLDR.

Feeeed.

I responded in that thread with my thoughts on this, and I thought it worthwhile to copypaste it here.

I think the first time I read his message was half a year ago? Something like that.
Now I read it again, and my god is he right. The system decides we should play a game. Except it's like a casino, a bad one at that. The house always wins. And even then, what do they win? A fangasm?

My music is about the why. Sure I personally get excited about some of my own how's, but it's the why that makes my music the way it is. I too think music is magic, and I strive to keep it that way. I too think we are supposed to keep music, the way it should be, intact. The ignorance of the general music-listening people shouldn't cause a downfall of creativity. The game should just be forfeited all at once, thrown away with a smile, and spawn a huge party in which we are us. Take away the how. Enter the now. And go wild and have fun.

[Stuntddude]

Which user on this forum has/had the avatar of the 8bit looking guy with an Afro?

Stuntdude?

It is me, right? I don't know anybody else fitting the description.

[Bronies Are Cool]

Which user on this forum has/had the avatar of the 8bit looking guy with an Afro?

Stuntdude?

It is me, right? I don't know anybody else fitting the description.

Yes it is you.
Did you like something I posted on Facebook recently? Because I made a post and only one person liked it and he has the same image as you for their picture. But a different name. They go by miles fogle

[Bronies Are Cool]

I was nominated to do the ice bucket challenge by someone. And now I have to nominate some other people. I would like to nominate freewave and Synthis lol

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

I was nominated to do the ice bucket challenge by someone. And now I have to nominate some other people. I would like to nominate freewave and Synthis lol

Don't even bother, about 8% of the money you'd donate would actually go to research, the rest goes to the ALS foundation.

[Acsii]

I was nominated to do the ice bucket challenge by someone. And now I have to nominate some other people. I would like to nominate freewave and Synthis lol

Don't even bother, about 8% of the money you'd donate would actually go to research, the rest goes to the ALS foundation.

Do you realise how fucking heartless that is...
You know the ALS foundation helps to aid people with the disease right?

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

I was nominated to do the ice bucket challenge by someone. And now I have to nominate some other people. I would like to nominate freewave and Synthis lol

Don't even bother, about 8% of the money you'd donate would actually go to research, the rest goes to the ALS foundation.

Do you realise how fucking heartless that is...
You know the ALS foundation helps to aid people with the disease right?

no because I live under a rock, I'm saying that 8% isn't enough because all we've gotten from that research is a pill that *might* prolong someone's life for a year or so in a condition that is still horrible. If anything is gonna happen more is gonna need to be diverted to research if any better result is gonna come of it. Oh and I know they care for people with ALS, but they get 50 million dollars a year from the government to stay afloat so that part of the organization isn't in jeopardy.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Anyway, lets not drama. Go ahead and dump a bucket of ice on your head BAC, I can't stop you

[FLAOFEI]

I don't see how dumping a bucket of ice on your head helps anyone... but it sounds like something real nice to do in combination with a sauna. I'm guessing your suposed to donate and stuff too...

[LFP]

Well, the ice challenge is probably the only reason this thing has been spreading so fast, so yeah it's kinda helping a lot.

[Bronies Are Cool]

I actually don't have the money to donate. I was just doing the ice bucket challenge part

[eery]

Well, the ice challenge is probably the only reason this thing has been spreading so fast, so yeah it's kinda helping a lot.

This. Awareness is half the job really. Just riding some sort of hype doing some sort of good.

[SevenUpPony]

I like Kyoga... don't tell him I said that.

Kyoga sees all and hears all.

[ph00tbag]

Fwiw, doing the Ice Bucket Challenge in California is punishable by fine, because they're in an "exceptional" drought, right now.

[Bronies Are Cool]

Fwiw, doing the Ice Bucket Challenge in California is punishable by fine, because they're in an "exceptional" drought, right now.

That sounds really dumb. But what ever

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Fwiw, doing the Ice Bucket Challenge in California is punishable by fine, because they're in an "exceptional" drought, right now.

That sounds really dumb. But what ever

I'm gonna guess you've never experienced a severe drought. I have, and trust me when your city's reserves are at 6% you won't think fines for wasting water are 'really dumb'.

[Bronies Are Cool]

I can say that I have experienced a front before. But I cannot say that it was severe or that I stayed in it for a long amount of time.

If anything, I'm more familiar with over precipitation as last years flooding had quite the effect where I live. And the damage is still here

[Bronies Are Cool]

Also, I officially joined a furry forum.
I'm
Not even a furry

[Acsii]

Also, I officially joined a furry forum.
I'm
Not even a furry

that matters why... there are non-bronies on here

>inb4 "music forum first pony forum second"

[Jokeblue]

I'm glad that the ice bucket challenge is getting awareness for ALS, but at the same time I'm concerned that it's not teaching anything about what ALS actually is. My next door neighbor was diagnose with ALS around christmas of last year. The doctors originally thought it was parkinsons but concluded otherwise with further testing.

In the last year I've seen her slowly lose her ability to run, then walk, then stand, then move her arms, then speak, then breathe. The doctor doubts she'll make it to christmas again, but while this ALS challenge is going on it's at least given her something to be thankful for.

My point here is that while it spreads awareness, it doesn't teach anything. I don't know many people who understand what ALS is or what it does to a human being. So I think the best thing to do would be to educate yourselves, cause it's a pretty scary disease. =/

My friend was telling me the other day about Jason Becker, a brilliant musician who got ALS and lost the ability to move all but some of his upper facial region. He still creates music through a system where a scanner or something tracks his eye and facial movements and placing notes accordingly, allowing him to continue composing.

Fwiw, doing the Ice Bucket Challenge in California is punishable by fine, because they're in an "exceptional" drought, right now.

That sounds really dumb. But what ever

I'm gonna guess you've never experienced a severe drought. I have, and trust me when your city's reserves are at 6% you won't think fines for wasting water are 'really dumb'.

Where I live in Oz (Central Coast), water restrictions got to about Stage 3, and Gosford (which is pretty close to where I live) reached Stage 4 at some point. That's probably nothing compared to what your area went to. Going from your profile (Toowoomba?) and Wikipidea (lol), Toowomba/Brisbanes highest water restrictions were stage 6. That's awful.

[Acsii]

That sounds really dumb. But what ever

I'm gonna guess you've never experienced a severe drought. I have, and trust me when your city's reserves are at 6% you won't think fines for wasting water are 'really dumb'.

Where I live in Oz (Central Coast), water restrictions got to about Stage 3, and Gosford (which is pretty close to where I live) reached Stage 4 at some point. That's probably nothing compared to what your area went to. Going from your profile (Toowoomba?) and Wikipidea (lol), Toowomba/Brisbanes highest water restrictions were stage 6. That's awful.

Melbourne got to like 5 I think and was at 3a at one point... But I get what your saying the drought it Cali is really damn bad... I guess the people nominated will just have to donate instead

[ExoBassTix]

Currently in the car back home from the academy studio I'll be doing my study into producer/sound-engineer at (starting October 6th :D ).
There was a public recording session of singer-songwriter Paul Freeman. While all people sat in the room where Paul was playing, I was behind the glass with my to-be teacher and other dudes who helped, just watching, learning, applying little bits of my own knowledge and having the best kind of cheesy fun that you just can't have on the internet. This is what I've missed in my life.

It was really damn fun and also pretty educational :D