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There is basically many types of artist lifestyles and none of them is easy. You just pick the one you're more comfortable with. Depends on many things but mostly on the type of character and the aims you have. Academic artist: you work in the academic environment, grants and all, you may have a job as a teacher. It has it's own disadvantages. Closed circle, a certain uptightness and conservatism might be there. There might be an perfectionism culture that kill your passion for your work. Artist as a Job: you work your art as a job, its becomes a hustle. You have to make sure it stays profitable, you have to find gigs etc. It has it's own disadvantages as well. Stress, danger of becoming jaded and burn out. Have to think about profiting your skills and art all the time. Tour life is NOT easy. Have to become a bit more commercial. Bohemian artist: You work on your stuff without any money or time constraint or barely any, as an outsider. It also has it's own disadvantages. You might live in squalor, be poor, fall ill, have no security for the future, become complacent about the quality of your work because there is little external pressure on it. Hobby artist: you work on your art on the side, it's a hobby, you may have a full time job or something else to live on. It has it's own disadvantages as well. You might lack time and energy to work on it, have a family that take some of your time on top of your job, in time some just give up because they dont have results, ambitions or energy anymore for it. Complete sell out artist: You do anything to become famous and have money with your art. It also has it's own disadvantages. Sell your soul to the devil and the Big Man. Moral corruption, lack of integrity. Have a public personage facade which is not truly you. You're a product. Art is always secondary to money and fame. And you can probably have people that fall into these different categories to different degree on the spectrum. This is all of course a theory i just made up and i might be completely wrong hahaha (I have personally met people from all those different types of lifestyles) but my point is that there is many ways to do it you just have to choose which is the one for you. Which advantages/disadvantages you're able to live with. Also which ones you can do in regard to your situation or capabilities. Not everyone can be a concert pianist, not everyone can be a rock star, not everyone can be a dad, not everyone can be a poor starving artist, not everyone can be a teacher with a doctorate.

In life you cant have it all. You can't have full time job and have full energy for music. You can't have absolute integrity and make millions of dollars. If you want something you have to sacrifice something else. If you want a stable life with secure income and security, you work full time and have to sacrifice music time. If you want more time to make music you have to sacrifice some work time and security and if you want to go even further, it also mean sacrificing other things for it like time with friends, various entertainments, discard a future with kids in most cases, having a house, etc. If you want to make money off it you'll probably have to sacrifice a degree of integrity and get in the music business. If you just want money, you'll have to play the capitalist game and find how to make money no matter what. It's all about what you're ready to sacrifice and what is more important for you and the degree of sacrifice you're ready to have for each of the aspect of your life. What do you want more? time or security? money or music? to what degree are you able to handle financial insecurity? to what degree are you able to handle lack of time and not working on music? to what degree are able to handle music business? There is degrees of the investment of time and energy in all of those and the choice is up to you. All those great artists you are looking up to have sacrificed A LOT for their work. Im talking about 8,10,12 hours a day of constant working. Some have lived poor, some have lived with the constant stress of touring, some have done intense studies at school. And then there is the usual sell out who goes for it. But you'll have to sacrifice something in the end, you cant have it all.

Myspace being like: ''join me, my brother, in the realms of digital obsolescence'' Plz yes WATMM shall survive all the social media. Long live thy nerds forum.

''When it comes to floor-filling tracks that balances smart drum programming with pure melodic bliss, you can always rely on John Beltran to deliver. The five track EP contains masterful ambient pieces with a Detroit/Chicago analog house vibe brining a warm and psychedelic feel. He joins the label’s third release with a brilliant chill-out EP entitled ‘The Peninsula’, united by another Detroit legend Luke Hess, bringing his traditional 303 upbeat sound remixing ‘Begin Again’. Visual artist Alona Rodeh also joins the release showcasing her stunning High-Vis (Future, Black) which featured in her first solo exhibition at the Christine König Galerie in Vienna last year. released January 24, 2022'' Very chill, warm tracks. Quite lush. Out on NPM

Cool VA compilation from Hyperglitch/IDM folks.

Originally created for the SHTO outdoor sound event held July 24, 2021, in Voronezh, Russia: instagram.com/shtoevent. Expanded and edited further in February 2022. released February 4, 2022

Wow look at that. Thats the GAME machine.

This 35 minutes track tho. Fuck yeah Im so glad i found this.

The complete works of one of the pioneers of Belgian early electronics. This 3CD set highlights Leo Kupper's earliest unique compositions produced during the 60's to 90'swhen he was ardently seeking out structures distinctly applicable to purely electronic sounds. His GAME machine - Générateur Automatique de Musique Electronique (Automatic Generator of Electronic Music) was constructed during such period and spirit of renewal and technical exploration. Released in our Early Electronic series credits released January 30, 2022 Leo Kupper was born in Nidrum, Hautes Fagnes (Eastern Belgium) on the 16th of April 1935. He studied musicology at the Liège Conservatory, then became the assistant of Henri Pousseur who, in 1958, had just founded the Apelac Studio in Brussels. Kupper started to work on his first pieces there, but he would finalize them only upon putting together his own studio in 1967: the Studio de Recherches et de Structurations Electroniques Auditives (which means 'studio of audio electronic research & structuring'). That is where he would compose, to this day, over forty works, most of them on instruments of his own design. In the '70s and '80s, he built a series of Sound Domes (briefly established in Rome, Linz, Venice, and Avignon), places where every sound, every phonem uttered by the listening audience was transformed by hundreds of loudspeakers of various sizes organized in a dome shape. This device transformed sounds through space AND time: something said could be morphed into another sound hours, days, perhaps years later. Leo had envisioned that a device like his, a place for contemplation, would be much-needed in cities where Nature had been evacuated. In the late '70s, after discovering Iranian music master Hussein Malek, Kupper became one of the very few Western virtuosos of the santur. His first pieces were released by Deutsche Grammophon and, later, Igloo. His latest works have been released by the New York-based label Pogus. The GAME machine In 1961, having terminated his musicology studies, Leo Kupper left Liège for Brussels. By that time, centres for music research such as those in Cologne, Paris and Milan had already produced works of experimental music, where pioneers were forging new and diverse routes in electronic music, 'musique concrète' and electro-vocal music. The GAME machine - Générateur Automatique de Musique Electronique (Automatic Generator of Electronic Music) was constructed during such period and spirit of renewal and technical exploration. The GAME consisted of a collection of variable 'sonic cells' sensitive to modulations of positive and negative voltages and programmable manually through the aid of colour-coded cables. Complex electronic loops and sound from loudspeakers and from microphone pick-ups were then either recorded by tape-machines or performed and interpreted by musicians who opened automatic channels, thus triggering automatic sound to exit the speakers. This in turn penetrated the machines by means of microphones and was replayed. Here then was an entirely new way of playing a musical instrument and how the works here were composed and performed.

That Datach'i release is sooo good. Some of the best breakcore. you know youre on a Noise bandcamp when the 10 album full discography is 6.80$ hahaha

Crucifixus bro. And the D minor Chaconne for violin. -cries- Crying to music is my favorite thing.

Dont have recommendations but thanks for the Super Manticore. Grabbed it on bandcamp.

Discovered Amhain recently. Fucking good stuff! Really, really tight abstract music. A shame it's not more known cause it's the real deal. New one released on feb 2022 https://amhain.bandcamp.com/album/bc-f-22-gn

absolutely savage

Yeah. I would mention there is many subjects and areas of practice in which one can be self-taught and still thrive without having received formal education/training. Formal education is not a requisite for everything in life. BUT Science is not one of them. You can't just search google and think you've done scientific research hahaha

Omg this. If im being honest, if this pandemic situation would have happened ten years earlier i may have fall in the conspiracy squad. I can totally see it happen with the 10 years ago me. But 10 years forward, in the mean time i forgot my hatred for science i picked up in high school and slowly started being interested in basic science vulgarization about physics and astrophysics and other things, watched a lot of videos and podcasts from World Science Festival, Brian Greene and Sean Carroll, youtube programs on science, read a few books about it and it kinda inoculated me against some of the more insane BS theory. It made me think about how important to get kids and also the general population interested in science even if only on a basic level. Even if you don't understand anything in detail and can't read the deep maths, it WILL still be useful and protect you in some ways if you were exposed to legit material and had interaction with it. When you see total crackpots disinformation you know something feels off. And if there was something the government could do more it would be this, more direct contact between scientists, the science and the rest of the population so they dont feel remote or in an ivory tower. More communication and quality science programming and education all across the board to reach people and to make basic trust in science and scientists a natural thing. Send a damn science magazine subscription to every house or something haha

spot on Its been both interesting (and scary lol) to witness the various way fear and fear of the unknown comes forward through different people and different societies. Im gonna be optimistic for once and say even if it could have been better, it could have been worse. The scientific community managed to be super motivated and focused under pressure and created quite the powerful vaccine and we have quite good vaccinations rates in a lot of countries. Imagine Omicron raging everywhere WITHOUT vaccines. Oh boy. Lots of people showed up and did the work and their duty. I also rarely meet anyone 100% batshit crazy conspiracy fueled personalities. Even reticent ones are not often that radical. There is a few but ive personally not met that many.

good ol' Beethoven

And on top of that now, i think stress and the crisis just exacerbate everything tenfold. Everyone becomes on the edge in some way or another.

that bass solo

When i hear about people being tired of the pandemic or safety measures. Sure, everyone is tired. But it wont be magically be over just because you want it to be and because you're tired of it. The plague doesn't care about your feelings or your opinions, if you're tired of lockdowns or the mask, if you don't like vaccines and want to party or meet with 200 people in a bar or in a restaurant because it's easier than being careful. It does not care if your business is not making as much money, it does not care about your mortgage, it does not care about your mental health, it does not care if you stop believing in it being dangerous. It will keep doing it's plague thing as long as it can.

lol its the people that deny the virus severity and act like nothing is happening that lack stoicism cant take the discomfort on themselves and prefer to choose the easy way and ignore reality facts dont care about your individuality a virus spreads and kills whether you believe its real or not

Its the one thing i cant stand anymore. It's delusional AND dangerous at this point.