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    Thai Food

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    21 hours ago, kakapo said:

    Pickled thai garlic.  This is the one ingredient you might struggle to find, but a decent asian supermarket should have it.  Thai garlic is smaller than the usual stuff and you can find jars of whole bulbs in pickling brine.  You need 2-3 bulbs whole and 1/2 cup of the pickling liquid.  If you can't find this I have in the past substituted in generic asian white vinegar. 

    It should be pretty easy to pickle your own. Just bring asian white vinegar, salt and sugar to a boil, fill peeled garlic gloves into a jar and pour the liquid over it. Seal. Et voilà, pickled garlic. Halve the gloves before pickling them so the size is more similar to that of actual Thai garlic. Not sure how different our garlic is from Thai garlic, I guess it's just bigger but tastes the same

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    Aphex already did it

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    5 minutes ago, toaoaoad said:

    I think the "make a shitty track on purpose" game is a bit of a compromise here. You're still working towards a goal (the finished track) but without concern for the outcome (it's supposed to be bad, or at least you've released the need for it to be good) and therefore more able to just enjoy the process.  I've also done "make one track within one hour each day for x days" projects a couple of times and it's really liberating and fun, and in the end I still had a few enjoyable tracks, some total garbage and some very weird/funny shit that would never happen otherwise (and maybe shouldn't, but I had fun) 

    Where does good end and bad start? What are some "bad" decisions you'd intentionally make? Does that relate to music theory?

    If I tried to make a bad track I would probably just make harsh noise with a really nasty tonal balance limited to the maximum so it's unlistenable and harmful for the ear. Can't get any worse than that.

    Aphex already did it

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    Yes, the software/hardware/instrument you are using allows you to explore their particular world of sound and can lead you into new territory. Maybe into territory that you couldn't imagine before & couldn't have been able to come up with yourself out of nothing. Totally agreed

    I'd still like to have some brain computer interface that allows to directly create music from my mind. Would be fun

    53 minutes ago, Cryptowen said:

    i was thinking about this more generally today actually. imo even if you're framing the situation as "the process is more important than the outcome" (which I'm not saying is objectively true, just that it can be a useful frame to take), you can also recognize that we live in a culture that puts extreme emphasis on production of material artifacts, which no doubt informs our understanding of the world & what is good/valuable, even when we're trying to be aware of it. So in a sense you can kind of embrace the paradox - recognize that the process is what's giving you the important transformative experience, while also recognizing that the act of actually creating a physical object (we're calling a track a physical object here) activates certain emotional circuits in the brain, which wouldn't come online if you were just meditating on the idea of making a track or whatev. There's a certain balance to be maintained: you're creating as if you weren't concerned with an outcome, while still moving decisively towards an outcome.

    and i mean like, just because i view the process as more important on an abstract philosophical level doesn't mean i don't get importance from the result itself. i like having thousands of tracks i've made since my age was in the single digits. i genuinely like listening to them. but there's this weird art to making more of them - i move most freely when i'm able to convince myself that none of that matters. generally in life i get the best results when i'm able to stop worrying about results so much

    yeah that makes sense. overthinking stuff generally leads to headaches and takes the fun out of things

    Aphex already did it

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    I'm sceptical about this "the process is more important than the outcome" approach. What would be the point of the process of music making if there was no music in the end? I'd gladly give up the process of making music if it was possible to just create it in your head and then it's magically there. I'd prefer that

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    JAZZ - THE THREAD

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    Masterpiece:

    1 hour ago, splesh said:

    Some free jazz/free improv women, as requested. Most of these have said woman playing with other people.

    Nicole Rampersaud is a great trumpet player more people should know

    Susie Ibarra is a great drummer/percussionist

    Germaine Liu is a drummer/percussionist who should be more widely appreciated; she composes and plays composed pieces, too. She and Bea who appears below also appear on a newly recorded album of William Parker's

     

     


    Karen Borca is a great jazz bassoonist who got her start playing with the likes of Cecil Taylor and then played a bunch with Jimmy Lyons

     

     

    Kayla Milmine is a super talented saxophone player more people should know

     


    Joelle Leandre is a French bassist/cellist/vocalist

     

    Andrea Neumann and Bonnie Jones both do improvised electronics as well as some other things

     

    Christine Abdelnour is a saxophonist and Magda Mayas is a piano player


    Liz Allbee plays trumpet

     

     

    Karen Ng is a saxophonist/clarinetist who should have more recognition

     

    stolen from this post^

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    jordan peterson

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    YouTube tends to push you into extremes. Click something remotely right-wing and you get videos by Holocaust deniers, click on something remotely leftwing and you get Stalinist conspiracy theories. I wish you could customise the algorithm in some way

    Music by Women

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    45 minutes ago, splesh said:

    Some free jazz/free improv women, as requested. Most of these have said woman playing with other people.

    Nicole Rampersaud is a great trumpet player more people should know

    Susie Ibarra is a great drummer/percussionist

    Germaine Liu is a drummer/percussionist who should be more widely appreciated; she composes and plays composed pieces, too. She and Bea who appears below also appear on a newly recorded album of William Parker's

     

     


    Karen Borca is a great jazz bassoonist who got her start playing with the likes of Cecil Taylor and then played a bunch with Jimmy Lyons

     

     

    Kayla Milmine is a super talented saxophone player more people should know

     


    Joelle Leandre is a French bassist/cellist/vocalist

     

    Andrea Neumann and Bonnie Jones both do improvised electronics as well as some other things

     

    Christine Abdelnour is a saxophonist and Magda Mayas is a piano player


    Liz Allbee plays trumpet

     

     

    Karen Ng is a saxophonist/clarinetist who should have more recognition

    thanks a lot for these

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