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Reclusive anti-capitalist, biscuit-powered composer of weird sounds, lecturer, sometimes-writer, wannabe (critical) theorist. he/him

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@free_play @amymcnickle_ Heck yeah. Got me a tickeroo.

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Does anybody actually like brushing their teeth? The process I mean, not the outcome

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@IndieGames_Muso That salad was a vibe

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@IndieGames_Muso @BRKeogh @MatthewHindson I would agree with @BRKeogh in the ‘broadly yes’ answer. But, I generally find that it’s not so much about finding answers as it is about increasing the ‘resolution’ of understanding of the world. It’s rarely if ever a definitive answer so much as it is increased depth.

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Making good progress. Version 2 = copy and re-write from sketch notes.

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@halfsunksound A ‘genre’ term rather than something literal. Got it. It was the lineage that put me off, cause like… I played all the original games when they were out. And this ain’t that. But a kind of ‘genre’ makes sense

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I know this is very inconsequential. But does anybody know why people keep referring to the new Zelda game as a ‘Zelda 2D’ game? At first I thought it was ‘TD’ for too-down, but now I keep seeing 2D written. And it’s very clearly 3D polygons and map.

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@ElishahTrelyn Right. So it’s just a kind of ‘genre’ term? thank you!

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Pinging pals who are way more knowledgeable than me: @IndieGames_Muso @musophrenic

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@IndieGames_Muso @musophrenic And I’m trying to be generous here with practice-led research.

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@IndieGames_Muso @musophrenic Creative arts research is fraught with problems IMO. If one looked at it purely from a creative perspective, the ‘gap’ attempts to prevent someone saying they’ve ‘invented’ a new technique due to an omission in their understanding of things. Art doesn’t exist in a vacuum

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@IndieGames_Muso That seems like a different thing to me. And you’re not doing a phd so making a contribution to knowledge shouldn’t really be the primary goal? So are you attempting to identify an area of knowledge expansion or address a deficit? I’m unclear on this

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Your periodic reminder that music is NOT a universal language

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Also been working on a solo piano piece based (loosely) on Ornette Coleman’s Lonely Woman.

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I’ve been teaching myself a little game dev with @godotengine and, while small steps, this feels pretty good. Placeholder music from another project of mine.

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@IndieGames_Muso Chasm in scholarship

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@IndieGames_Muso The antivirus becomes the virus.

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@composinghab21 Also are you familiar with Dora Hanninen’s theory of segmentation and analysis?

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@composinghab21 David Hirst also continues that work. His ‘developing analysis criteria based knowledge Denis Smalley’s timbre theories’ from 2002.

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@composinghab21 Smalley’s spectromorphology work. Also quite like Blackburn’s subsequent work.