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The Lobby / Re: posting prompt experiment: how have music modules affected your life?
« on: December 21, 2023, 07:47:49 »
Made my first XM in 1996. Was crazy to discover I could make music myself, changed the course of my life: studied music in college, kept up composing as a hobby til now. Modules themselves I stopped making around 2002 when I started wanting to play with synths and algorithmic music. Then settled on Logic and GarageBand. But it was mods that started it all.
First thing I’d do every day when I came home from school in 96-97 was check TMA to see what was new. Some of the tracks people put up here really inspired me; when a new Elwood would drop, I’d have it stuck in my head for days, and it’d keep me up at night. So many other gorgeous tracks from so many people. And that’s what I loved the most: this was the new folk music. Just anonymous people making music for themselves and a few friends and the few of us who were lucky enough to be tuned in on the shiny new internet.
FT2 itself looked like a spaceship console and the white grid scolling by over a black background was like watching the stars. I think it was FT but maybe it was another piece of software that had a visualizer mode where the notes would move left to right across the screen as glowing balls; all of this gave me my first mental visualizations of notes on a grid in space and time.
It was open-source music: I could see where you guys put every note, I could make modifications and learn how it all worked.
I might have uploaded one track to TMA once. Was too perfectionistic to do it more. But m0d, you and everyone else here changed my life. You gave me a place to feel at home, and a hobby to build confidence and wonder.
Tonight I’m awake a little late and for some reason decided to come here, it’s probably been years again since my last visit. So glad to see you all still here. Thanks for all of it.
First thing I’d do every day when I came home from school in 96-97 was check TMA to see what was new. Some of the tracks people put up here really inspired me; when a new Elwood would drop, I’d have it stuck in my head for days, and it’d keep me up at night. So many other gorgeous tracks from so many people. And that’s what I loved the most: this was the new folk music. Just anonymous people making music for themselves and a few friends and the few of us who were lucky enough to be tuned in on the shiny new internet.
FT2 itself looked like a spaceship console and the white grid scolling by over a black background was like watching the stars. I think it was FT but maybe it was another piece of software that had a visualizer mode where the notes would move left to right across the screen as glowing balls; all of this gave me my first mental visualizations of notes on a grid in space and time.
It was open-source music: I could see where you guys put every note, I could make modifications and learn how it all worked.
I might have uploaded one track to TMA once. Was too perfectionistic to do it more. But m0d, you and everyone else here changed my life. You gave me a place to feel at home, and a hobby to build confidence and wonder.
Tonight I’m awake a little late and for some reason decided to come here, it’s probably been years again since my last visit. So glad to see you all still here. Thanks for all of it.