Hello -- An Introduction

[racefortune]

Finally getting around to this, though I've been a member for a few weeks.

I've been scanning around electro-music.com for a few years now. I was first interested by your thread on Stanley Lunetta. I played with a band that was an opening act for Lunetta's avant garde group Amra Arma at Sacramento City College in 1975. I was briefly acquainted with Lunetta's entourage.

I've been an enthusiast about synthesizers and electronics music since the 1970s. Since I could never afford a synthesizer, I've spent the intervening years learning how they work--electronics, physics, software--in an attempt to make my own. As the years passed that became unnecessary as synthesizers became affordable, but the pain of learning was worth it. I'm interested in whatever people have to post about circuits, the MIDI, or the lines of code.

I was operating my own website for awhile, but around 2010 Google transformed into an online shopping engine, and they no longer listed personal websites in search results. I've got a page on Bandcamp now -- https://alsteffens.bandcamp.com/ although it doesn't fit into anyone's genre.

Genres are nice, but a little limiting I think. They're the creation of the music industry for packaging music as a product. And the genre names seem to mean something different to different people. I'd like to propose a genre called "listening music". It requires a certain amount of commitment from the listener. It's like sitting down to watch a movie. The lights go down, and no talking.

To that end, it would be useful to create a (largely subjective) listener scale from 1 to 10, which would indicate the relative commitment required by the listener. Commercial music would, of course, be at 1. Avant garde would be at 9 or 10. I'm personally bored unless the music could be rated at least between 2 and 5 on the commitment scale.

Orthogonal to that scale would be one that reflects (the perceived) commitment by the composer (well, maybe not orthogonal, more like at 45 degrees). This becomes relevant when the listener scale gets above 5. It's like asking if there's an artist somewhere behind the knobs and the patchcords. I'm willing to give it all a chance. I may not understand your musical language, but just perceiving human expression makes it interesting.

Which brings me to the music on electro-music.com radio. Well done, especially to my ear, the Chez Mosc station.

Thanks for reading.

[blue hell]

racefortune

[Cynosure]

Hello. Welcome to the forums