Tuesday, November 29, 2011

holidays
I hope the holidays went good for everyone :) I'm getting by I guess. Homework and what not. Spent time with my close family. Didn't spend anytime outside of immediate family, but don't care about them anyways. I'm sure they didn't miss us.

Life is life, it's all good. Been working on some music projects here and there in my spare time, haven't with friends for a long while. I've made enough money to buy a microphone at least, I'll probably make arrangements to do that soon. I've been dying to get an acoustic since I've sold my old one, it was too big for me haha. I'd like to do live shows again, my friends' have an acoustic project I probably would've joined, but with the time I have I need to focus on schooling.

But with music, outside of the standard heavy doom metal, I've actually been more focused on drone music and ambient/noise. For those of you that aren't familiar, it is a genre of music that is an extreme outlier of any sort of mainstream, arguably not even real music which consists of harmonic notes and cadences (which any vibrating molecules aka sound has cadence, but it doesn't mean it's pleasing to the ear), a subversive art form in itself. Anything that exists can become the music, even objects that create 'unpleasant' sound (as a reference for genres, it's like grindcore without guitars or dark wave with more use of electronics), a lot of different frequencies are used, like static (white noise), and sometimes repetition of audio clips, that mimicks the feeling of a subliminal brainwashing experiment and uneasiness. Sometimes infrasound is generated, which, for a lack of better words, can do a lot of wacky stuff to your brain. You need to be in a certain state of mind in able to stand it. Or just get really stoned off your rocker. Usually it's the latter that produces the music in the first place :P anyways, I've been messing with that, doing dark ambient stuff, (basically, really creepy electronic music). Experimental jazz stuff, instrumentals, all that. Not too familiar with dubstep, but I've been listening to that too. I don't think I understand it as well, since the only bands I know of the genre are Skirllex, which I've heard from dubstep enthusiasts suck. It's a gateway band to the music I guess lol. Oh well, they're not as good as a lot of bands, there's one where the dude from Radiohead makes some music, can't remember their name, but it's good stuff.

Wow, I was going to make this post short, but ended up ranting about music lol I love music, if I wasn't going into art therapy, I would probably teach music or music therapy. But I can't read music :P plus I wasn't planning on going to Hollywood anytime soon to produce crap. That's just me maybe :/ haha sorry for that long winded post, I'll think of something better to talk about next time. Do any of you have a hobby, work, or potential career you're absolutely passionate about? C'mon, I know you do :P g'day mates.
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