A better introduction pin for Bluesky.
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saltbearerSince I can't fit this text in the alt text fields for the screenshots I'm going to take, this is going here, and I may as well pin it here, too.
On Bluesky at this link.
𝟭/𝟰 I suppose it's about time I put a proper face forward for anyone just meeting me through Bluesky, so here's a better pin.
I'm “Saltbearer”, and have remained “Saltbearer” through like 4-5 personalities that I would see as reasonably-distinct throughout my time on the Internet, because I'm still unsure of what else to call myself. I want a new username, but I haven't thought of something that encapsulates me well enough.
My life goal is, broadly, to make the experience of living more of a net-positive for myself and others. I want to be a vector for people to discover all forms of beautiful things — art and music and candies and jokes and animals and thoughtful writings and general friendship. Sometimes even beautiful things are uncomfortable or scary, but I wish everyone could always have a safe, cozy base to return to. If I were making exorbitant amounts of my own money, I'd be topping off every gofundme that were to cross my feed.
That's hard to do when you're someone who's been lying in bed with one smartphone or another for 11+ years, with a nasty cocktail of medical conditions, which in my case include/approximately-include but are not limited to: Ehlers–Danlos, POTS, chronic fatigue, severe scoliosis, endocrine hormone deficiencies caused by a tumor that damaged my pituitary gland, occasional GI flare-ups, occasional bouts of depression, a mouthful of rotten teeth, muscle atrophy from lying sedentary for so long, and probably undiagnosed and untreated ADHD or something that makes it orders of magnitude harder for me to achieve half of what I could if I were efficient about managing my copious “free” time, for which dozens of tasks compete.
My music artist name has been So?ing Machine for the past near-decade, and as much as people keep assuring me that that's a good name, it doesn't feel like Me either. I already shared an intro to my musical side here recently, so I'll put that in a reply to this pin. tl;dr I'm an experimental/IDM/ambient tracker music weirdo, and YOU, ALSO, should MASTER USING SUNVOX.
I've wanted myself to break free of executive dysfunction’s hold and pursue impulses to hone my visual art and fiction-writing skills, to express myself in new ways and meet new kinds of people through those avenues. I have ideas that wouldn't be too big for me if I were to follow through with practicing, but it will take some time.
In particular, back in May, I suddenly found myself with an OC. You may have seen them on a nasty-smelling pumpkin. If we all share the same privileged timeline and spaces, we may someday play with the boundaries and format of written and drawn fiction together.
To suggest it less-obtusely, I think the latent furry inside me might end up deciding on my fursona, sadly sooner than the committee that took it upon themselves to do so while that thing was still hibernating can come together to turn me into an “absolutely wingerized” odd-titted diphallic amalgam that might be part-vacrat (from Levelhead) and still has crippling problems with its spine.
I'm “Saltbearer”, and have remained “Saltbearer” through like 4-5 personalities that I would see as reasonably-distinct throughout my time on the Internet, because I'm still unsure of what else to call myself. I want a new username, but I haven't thought of something that encapsulates me well enough.
My life goal is, broadly, to make the experience of living more of a net-positive for myself and others. I want to be a vector for people to discover all forms of beautiful things — art and music and candies and jokes and animals and thoughtful writings and general friendship. Sometimes even beautiful things are uncomfortable or scary, but I wish everyone could always have a safe, cozy base to return to. If I were making exorbitant amounts of my own money, I'd be topping off every gofundme that were to cross my feed.
That's hard to do when you're someone who's been lying in bed with one smartphone or another for 11+ years, with a nasty cocktail of medical conditions, which in my case include/approximately-include but are not limited to: Ehlers–Danlos, POTS, chronic fatigue, severe scoliosis, endocrine hormone deficiencies caused by a tumor that damaged my pituitary gland, occasional GI flare-ups, occasional bouts of depression, a mouthful of rotten teeth, muscle atrophy from lying sedentary for so long, and probably undiagnosed and untreated ADHD or something that makes it orders of magnitude harder for me to achieve half of what I could if I were efficient about managing my copious “free” time, for which dozens of tasks compete.
My music artist name has been So?ing Machine for the past near-decade, and as much as people keep assuring me that that's a good name, it doesn't feel like Me either. I already shared an intro to my musical side here recently, so I'll put that in a reply to this pin. tl;dr I'm an experimental/IDM/ambient tracker music weirdo, and YOU, ALSO, should MASTER USING SUNVOX.
I've wanted myself to break free of executive dysfunction’s hold and pursue impulses to hone my visual art and fiction-writing skills, to express myself in new ways and meet new kinds of people through those avenues. I have ideas that wouldn't be too big for me if I were to follow through with practicing, but it will take some time.
In particular, back in May, I suddenly found myself with an OC. You may have seen them on a nasty-smelling pumpkin. If we all share the same privileged timeline and spaces, we may someday play with the boundaries and format of written and drawn fiction together.
To suggest it less-obtusely, I think the latent furry inside me might end up deciding on my fursona, sadly sooner than the committee that took it upon themselves to do so while that thing was still hibernating can come together to turn me into an “absolutely wingerized” odd-titted diphallic amalgam that might be part-vacrat (from Levelhead) and still has crippling problems with its spine.
𝟮/𝟰 To the extent that I can manage, I don't want to be seen as a brand, a liar, or a coward. I want to express Myself, as a Person, and find people who feel Seen when I share my thoughts and experiences. The wider Internet is a scary place to just do that — in my case, so far, moreso due to the risk of hair-trigger blocking by people I'd like to stay connected with than harassment. I have a public Discord you can track down, but also a more private one you can ask about, in which I'm trying to work up to less-apologetically being more of myself, and foster an environment that encourages me and others close to me to continue working on art and sharing our processes — which means it's 18+ only, as my artistic visions and personal needs are increasingly often only suitable for adults.
I'm in 100 Discord servers, and 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 about to upgrade from grandfathered Nitro Classic so I can be in more. I was and/or am present in many other communities, on other sites and platforms. Very few places have ever felt close to being Homes to me. I familiarize with fringes, and find friends from them, but I have not Fit In with any wider community in a way that made me feel more wholly Myself for what it brought to my life, or rather, out of it.
There's an undeniable core truth underlying my need to be in so many places online, while trying to do so many things, and trying to be honest, and wanting to tell certain stories in less-abstract forms, and most fearing being rejected/hidden from people: My life in bed has felt increasingly lonely and frustrating and at odds with how I'd prefer to live it, and I have a desperate hope that someday at least one person from the Internet will see me, look at the best of what I have to offer to the world, and feel inclined to help salvage me, as a truly stabilizing figure of competence in my life. That feels like a ridiculously tall 𝘢𝘴𝘬 of anyone, and certainly not a minimum requirement for wanting to get to know me, but it's what I have to start shouting loudly from wherever I am. I'm clever, I'm creative, and I have myself, most of all, to love me for those things, but I wasn't well-taught and am not well-enabled to navigate the world independently, and I have a hard enough time psyching myself up just to do easy activities that I say I love doing, let alone fix my own stupid mind and body and inspire an uplifting biopic. I want my whole picture Seen by an unreal superhero or three who won't let these ailments consume their hugless turbovirgin host, at least before undoing that last part.
Because that's finally worked its way up my hierarchy of needs, I'll say that my true experiences of gender and sexuality have been hard to pin down. It's hard to be out-and-proud about seeming to be different things on different levels at different times, and wondering what's true, or just an illusion... especially while considering all such things to be a non-actionable distraction from one's more representative musicianship, as I did. Gender-wise, it's more noncommittal thoughts of how much I identify with being nonbinary as a label than it is fluidity. I've figured that anyone properly interested in performing experiments to help figure me out would have shown more interest or determination. With myself as a reference point, I think I'm leaning toward gender being at least 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘺 a needless societal convolution of personality, the acquisition of sexual tastes being possible and something I'm open to, and none of this being something that needs to be taken as seriously as most people appear to treat it. 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 exist, and if you don't 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 what's cool about someone with your heart, or why you would love to physically coexist, I think you might be able to 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 through some approach, if you really want to.
I'm in 100 Discord servers, and 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 about to upgrade from grandfathered Nitro Classic so I can be in more. I was and/or am present in many other communities, on other sites and platforms. Very few places have ever felt close to being Homes to me. I familiarize with fringes, and find friends from them, but I have not Fit In with any wider community in a way that made me feel more wholly Myself for what it brought to my life, or rather, out of it.
There's an undeniable core truth underlying my need to be in so many places online, while trying to do so many things, and trying to be honest, and wanting to tell certain stories in less-abstract forms, and most fearing being rejected/hidden from people: My life in bed has felt increasingly lonely and frustrating and at odds with how I'd prefer to live it, and I have a desperate hope that someday at least one person from the Internet will see me, look at the best of what I have to offer to the world, and feel inclined to help salvage me, as a truly stabilizing figure of competence in my life. That feels like a ridiculously tall 𝘢𝘴𝘬 of anyone, and certainly not a minimum requirement for wanting to get to know me, but it's what I have to start shouting loudly from wherever I am. I'm clever, I'm creative, and I have myself, most of all, to love me for those things, but I wasn't well-taught and am not well-enabled to navigate the world independently, and I have a hard enough time psyching myself up just to do easy activities that I say I love doing, let alone fix my own stupid mind and body and inspire an uplifting biopic. I want my whole picture Seen by an unreal superhero or three who won't let these ailments consume their hugless turbovirgin host, at least before undoing that last part.
Because that's finally worked its way up my hierarchy of needs, I'll say that my true experiences of gender and sexuality have been hard to pin down. It's hard to be out-and-proud about seeming to be different things on different levels at different times, and wondering what's true, or just an illusion... especially while considering all such things to be a non-actionable distraction from one's more representative musicianship, as I did. Gender-wise, it's more noncommittal thoughts of how much I identify with being nonbinary as a label than it is fluidity. I've figured that anyone properly interested in performing experiments to help figure me out would have shown more interest or determination. With myself as a reference point, I think I'm leaning toward gender being at least 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘺 a needless societal convolution of personality, the acquisition of sexual tastes being possible and something I'm open to, and none of this being something that needs to be taken as seriously as most people appear to treat it. 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 exist, and if you don't 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 what's cool about someone with your heart, or why you would love to physically coexist, I think you might be able to 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 through some approach, if you really want to.
𝟯/𝟰 Meanwhile, I complain about Bluesky on Bluesky a lot, because Bluesky makes it hard for me to share all the things I want to on Bluesky. Microblogs are good platforms for shitposting, and sending people to other sites, and not much else. cohost.org was the first social media platform I truly enjoyed using enough to do so consistently — It had a 200,000-character limit for posts, which inspired me to write at length. It didn't compress images below the quality they were uploaded in. It supported inline css, which allowed people to post creative “css crimes” that were always entertaining, or just format long pieces of writing nicely. It supported audio uploads in a way that few other social platforms really have, which made it easy to share a music doodle/WIP, almost as conveniently as one can on Discord. It didn't display numbers like follower counts, which made cool artists less intimidating to approach.
I can't simply upload audio here, without trimming it to a minute and turning it into a video. If I develop my visual art skills and upload more art here directly, it will be compressed. Everyone's base potential platform size is openly quantified, so I have to fight instincts that tell me to exercise caution when interacting with nice-but-Big-Numbered people. And, lest I feel pressured to trim off nuance in the interests of keeping posting convenient, lengthy pieces of writing have to be formatted as screenshots, with the text in text form within the screenshot’s alt text, because there's at least a somewhat higher character limit there, but not in the post body, which is Asinine. (And it's not even high enough to neatly fit the text of these screenshots.)
Note that they just added better threading support, because that's how Twitter does it. That way, people can repost/quote pieces of what you're saying such that people can glance at them out of context. You still can't directly share a whole thread of thoughtful replies unless you repost them all individually — hey, another point to cohost on that one! Your best option there is to screenshot everyone such that they no longer have control over what they've posted, and can't edit or delete — oh yeah cohost also let you EDIT POSTS, like a NORMAL PLACE. Also, feeds were paginated, so it was easier to manage your place in them, and skip deeply into post histories. And your main feed could be a list of your followers on one side with a preview of their latest post, and someone's posts on the other, with repost visibility toggleable, so people could post or share as much as they wanted and reasonably feel like they weren't dominating people's feeds (at least desktop users’). Anyway, simply allowing longer posts seems like it should be simple to implement and would fix a number of issues here, but no, splitting things up into pieces that couldn't quite house a quarter of this one block of text is what we're expected to settle for now.
Bluesky is not a Home to me. I don't think it's a good place, or looking to develop toward a user experience its own designers would truly most enjoy. It's simply where people are, because it's here, and it's modeled after something more familiar — which many already hated, because this is fundamentally a bad design for a social media platform, one that hinders people’s creative output and instills toxic behavioral patterns. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 most people here decide to go somewhere else, I'll be glad to follow, if it's somewhere better than another Twitter-like, and I'm not already ahead of them.
I can't simply upload audio here, without trimming it to a minute and turning it into a video. If I develop my visual art skills and upload more art here directly, it will be compressed. Everyone's base potential platform size is openly quantified, so I have to fight instincts that tell me to exercise caution when interacting with nice-but-Big-Numbered people. And, lest I feel pressured to trim off nuance in the interests of keeping posting convenient, lengthy pieces of writing have to be formatted as screenshots, with the text in text form within the screenshot’s alt text, because there's at least a somewhat higher character limit there, but not in the post body, which is Asinine. (And it's not even high enough to neatly fit the text of these screenshots.)
Note that they just added better threading support, because that's how Twitter does it. That way, people can repost/quote pieces of what you're saying such that people can glance at them out of context. You still can't directly share a whole thread of thoughtful replies unless you repost them all individually — hey, another point to cohost on that one! Your best option there is to screenshot everyone such that they no longer have control over what they've posted, and can't edit or delete — oh yeah cohost also let you EDIT POSTS, like a NORMAL PLACE. Also, feeds were paginated, so it was easier to manage your place in them, and skip deeply into post histories. And your main feed could be a list of your followers on one side with a preview of their latest post, and someone's posts on the other, with repost visibility toggleable, so people could post or share as much as they wanted and reasonably feel like they weren't dominating people's feeds (at least desktop users’). Anyway, simply allowing longer posts seems like it should be simple to implement and would fix a number of issues here, but no, splitting things up into pieces that couldn't quite house a quarter of this one block of text is what we're expected to settle for now.
Bluesky is not a Home to me. I don't think it's a good place, or looking to develop toward a user experience its own designers would truly most enjoy. It's simply where people are, because it's here, and it's modeled after something more familiar — which many already hated, because this is fundamentally a bad design for a social media platform, one that hinders people’s creative output and instills toxic behavioral patterns. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 most people here decide to go somewhere else, I'll be glad to follow, if it's somewhere better than another Twitter-like, and I'm not already ahead of them.
𝟰/𝟰 𝙂𝙊𝙊𝘿 websites are hard to find right now, but at least one promisingly Good one is being built, which I'm sure those interested will find if they don't already know about it.
Some lowercase-g good websites you should be aware of:
Pillowfort exists for massively-long posts in a social media format, and, besides such things, has a healthy amount of visual art being shared, as well as a number of familiar faces from cohost. I want to see it grow and succeed, but right now, it's too off-puttingly janky and lacking in native (non-userscript) quality-of-life features for me to want to make it my go-to host for long texts, as a mobile user. There also aren't a lot of active users focused on music right now... or shitposting from what I've seen — which are problems fixed by being there, and such things are simple to share, but it feels redundant and off-the-vibe for me to be heavily present there as it stands. The create post → share to communities flow is something I should probably find more appealing about it than I do... if only it would autofill tags from the OP, it would feel that much smoother. Still. Don't let it die. It's not a dead or dying community, and doesn't deserve to be. Touch it at least a little.
Dreamwidth exists for massively-long posts with inline css/HTML, offers generous hosting capacity for image uploads if you compress them well, and supports comments and rss feeds by default. It's very old-school blogging, though — definitely 𝘯𝘰𝘵 user-friendly by modern standards, and I haven't even properly looked into its community aspects yet. It's Charming, for the nostalgia it tickles, but it certainly ain't modern social media.
Newgrounds is great for sharing high-quality art, music, videos, and even games, with particularly great support for presenting collaborative works in a fair fashion, and allows fairly open artistic expression as well... but there isn't a Writing Portal, nor a Share button for your followers. News posts are pretty robust, but they won't appear in front page feeds. Still, I love and support it (financially, which comes with some nice perks, like being able to share any one work on the front page every Tuesday!), and admire how Tom's tried to keep the site and its rich history afloat and relevant as it marches toward its 𝟯𝟬𝘁𝗵 birthday!
There. I think that's a much better introduction to who I am, and what I'm doing here, and what I want to be doing here, and what I plan on doing or continuing to do elsewhere. I'm posting while tired. Hopefully I don't feel like I said anything 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 in a terribly-wrong way, because this is non-trivial to edit, because Bluesky is dogshit. My DMs are open if I've left off prematurely and you're aching to read more words relating to me as a person.
Almix: I hope you feel decreasingly lonely Salt
Saltbearer: I imagined the back of my hand getting a little warmer after you said that
Almix: OvO!!!
Almix: SO I *CAN* PEE ON YOU
Saltbearer: it was a little pawpad-textured, you should see a urologist
Almix: I'M PISSIN’ HANDS
Saltbearer: you know I came to you before posting because I wanted to include a quote, but didn't want to make anything weird by having you read any thoughts before they could fully form
Saltbearer: how much context do I provide for “I'M PISSIN’ HANDS”
Almix: whole DMs [redacted slur]
Saltbearer: ... not to everyone.
Almix: I thought you didn't want to be seen as a coward :}
Saltbearer: ...
Saltbearer: I'll do five back from it
Almix: COWARD
Some lowercase-g good websites you should be aware of:
Pillowfort exists for massively-long posts in a social media format, and, besides such things, has a healthy amount of visual art being shared, as well as a number of familiar faces from cohost. I want to see it grow and succeed, but right now, it's too off-puttingly janky and lacking in native (non-userscript) quality-of-life features for me to want to make it my go-to host for long texts, as a mobile user. There also aren't a lot of active users focused on music right now... or shitposting from what I've seen — which are problems fixed by being there, and such things are simple to share, but it feels redundant and off-the-vibe for me to be heavily present there as it stands. The create post → share to communities flow is something I should probably find more appealing about it than I do... if only it would autofill tags from the OP, it would feel that much smoother. Still. Don't let it die. It's not a dead or dying community, and doesn't deserve to be. Touch it at least a little.
Dreamwidth exists for massively-long posts with inline css/HTML, offers generous hosting capacity for image uploads if you compress them well, and supports comments and rss feeds by default. It's very old-school blogging, though — definitely 𝘯𝘰𝘵 user-friendly by modern standards, and I haven't even properly looked into its community aspects yet. It's Charming, for the nostalgia it tickles, but it certainly ain't modern social media.
Newgrounds is great for sharing high-quality art, music, videos, and even games, with particularly great support for presenting collaborative works in a fair fashion, and allows fairly open artistic expression as well... but there isn't a Writing Portal, nor a Share button for your followers. News posts are pretty robust, but they won't appear in front page feeds. Still, I love and support it (financially, which comes with some nice perks, like being able to share any one work on the front page every Tuesday!), and admire how Tom's tried to keep the site and its rich history afloat and relevant as it marches toward its 𝟯𝟬𝘁𝗵 birthday!
There. I think that's a much better introduction to who I am, and what I'm doing here, and what I want to be doing here, and what I plan on doing or continuing to do elsewhere. I'm posting while tired. Hopefully I don't feel like I said anything 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 in a terribly-wrong way, because this is non-trivial to edit, because Bluesky is dogshit. My DMs are open if I've left off prematurely and you're aching to read more words relating to me as a person.
Almix: I hope you feel decreasingly lonely Salt
Saltbearer: I imagined the back of my hand getting a little warmer after you said that
Almix: OvO!!!
Almix: SO I *CAN* PEE ON YOU
Saltbearer: it was a little pawpad-textured, you should see a urologist
Almix: I'M PISSIN’ HANDS
Saltbearer: you know I came to you before posting because I wanted to include a quote, but didn't want to make anything weird by having you read any thoughts before they could fully form
Saltbearer: how much context do I provide for “I'M PISSIN’ HANDS”
Almix: whole DMs [redacted slur]
Saltbearer: ... not to everyone.
Almix: I thought you didn't want to be seen as a coward :}
Saltbearer: ...
Saltbearer: I'll do five back from it
Almix: COWARD
Earlier skeet promoting SunVox and introducing myself as a musician:
I've been at-least-toying with music production for 17 years, starting out with GarageBand for about the first two, and Renoise for the next four. In mid-2013, I became bed-bound, and have relied on phones for accessibility reasons, so I've been using SunVox for the past 11 years. For the majority of this time, So?ing Machine has been my primary artist name.
SunVox is a virtual modular synth, with a tracker UI for composition, and a two-dimensional timeline upon which patterns containing automation commands and/or MIDI data can be arranged. In lieu of VST plugins, which are unsupported in order to guarantee feature parity across all major desktop and mobile operating systems, SunVox projects can contain nested projects in the form of MetaModules. Members of the community have taken the basic modules (which have come to offer fairly robust functionality in their own right) and built more complex MetaModules out of them, e.g. vocoders, resonators, tape delays, granular synths, Karplus–Strong synths, synths inspired by classic hardware synths and drum machines...
SunVox and its users’ MetaModules are freely available for computers, and are only $6 for mobile devices, sometimes on sale for half-off. That such a viable mobile app exists for artistry in any medium is a divine miracle.
I grew up in a household with many instruments I never learned to play, with family members who were fans of Celtic music. I loved games like DDR, Spyro, and Katamari, and remain very much into such games’ soundtracks in particular. My earliest online activities were within StepMania-centric communities, where I met people who would go on to help broaden my artistic tastes in all directions, giving me a wide range of inspirations to draw from.
Some artists I like include Actress, Oneohtrix Point Never, SOPHIE, Aphex Twin, Fennesz, Machine Girl, Prefuse 73, Flying Lotus, David Sylvian, Jessica Pratt, Ryoji Ikeda, Tipper, Venetian Snares, Fire-Toolz, Proswell, Ilkae, Machinedrum, and the Spice Girls.
What I make could be broadly categorized as Experimental, and often Ambient, IDM, or House. Some other flavors have included drone, skweee, speedcore, extratone, glitch, noise, happy hardcore, DnB, RnB, dub techno, schranz, and dubstep. Recently, especially, there's been a significant presence of microtonality — usually adding color to 12TET, virtually never in any other particular tuning system.
The vast majority only exists in doodle/WIP form, shared within communities on Discord, and then compiled by quarter and uploaded to YouTube, eventually.
Two pieces of music I've made are included with SunVox, as they were highly-voted competition entries. “Some of our tracks can't be covered” is hard for me to classify beyond Experimental™, while “Minding My Business” is Celtic-inspired, with a bit of comedy.
“Go outside and breathe the fumes” is a lo-fi outsider-/phonk-house track I'd like to highlight for being released relatively recently, and for not being made against a deadline imposed by someone else like so many things I've ended up “finishing” have been.
I'm plucking my Newgrounds Audio Portal submission list out of the carrd page containing it and the rest of my links, because it contains most of my finished™ stuff from after 2018, and streaming quality should be the highest from there.
SunVox is a virtual modular synth, with a tracker UI for composition, and a two-dimensional timeline upon which patterns containing automation commands and/or MIDI data can be arranged. In lieu of VST plugins, which are unsupported in order to guarantee feature parity across all major desktop and mobile operating systems, SunVox projects can contain nested projects in the form of MetaModules. Members of the community have taken the basic modules (which have come to offer fairly robust functionality in their own right) and built more complex MetaModules out of them, e.g. vocoders, resonators, tape delays, granular synths, Karplus–Strong synths, synths inspired by classic hardware synths and drum machines...
SunVox and its users’ MetaModules are freely available for computers, and are only $6 for mobile devices, sometimes on sale for half-off. That such a viable mobile app exists for artistry in any medium is a divine miracle.
I grew up in a household with many instruments I never learned to play, with family members who were fans of Celtic music. I loved games like DDR, Spyro, and Katamari, and remain very much into such games’ soundtracks in particular. My earliest online activities were within StepMania-centric communities, where I met people who would go on to help broaden my artistic tastes in all directions, giving me a wide range of inspirations to draw from.
Some artists I like include Actress, Oneohtrix Point Never, SOPHIE, Aphex Twin, Fennesz, Machine Girl, Prefuse 73, Flying Lotus, David Sylvian, Jessica Pratt, Ryoji Ikeda, Tipper, Venetian Snares, Fire-Toolz, Proswell, Ilkae, Machinedrum, and the Spice Girls.
What I make could be broadly categorized as Experimental, and often Ambient, IDM, or House. Some other flavors have included drone, skweee, speedcore, extratone, glitch, noise, happy hardcore, DnB, RnB, dub techno, schranz, and dubstep. Recently, especially, there's been a significant presence of microtonality — usually adding color to 12TET, virtually never in any other particular tuning system.
The vast majority only exists in doodle/WIP form, shared within communities on Discord, and then compiled by quarter and uploaded to YouTube, eventually.
Two pieces of music I've made are included with SunVox, as they were highly-voted competition entries. “Some of our tracks can't be covered” is hard for me to classify beyond Experimental™, while “Minding My Business” is Celtic-inspired, with a bit of comedy.
“Go outside and breathe the fumes” is a lo-fi outsider-/phonk-house track I'd like to highlight for being released relatively recently, and for not being made against a deadline imposed by someone else like so many things I've ended up “finishing” have been.
I'm plucking my Newgrounds Audio Portal submission list out of the carrd page containing it and the rest of my links, because it contains most of my finished™ stuff from after 2018, and streaming quality should be the highest from there.
