aefenglom | Text; un: Elliot Craig

Name: Elliot Craig
Date: 12/13
Format: Text (with an Audio recording)

Hello everyone!

As many people have noticed, there isn't anything in the way of rock music in this world. So my friend Crow and I have been working on synthesizing the sound of rock music instruments using audio illusions using classical instruments and memory. And I'm happy to say, I think we've pulled off!

So I'm here to present the first rock style song in Aefenglom: Unfathomed Force!

Unfortunately, the process of creating a new song with audio illusions takes a long time, not everyone can learn how to do it, and honestly the quality will never be as good as having it played from a real band.

So I was wondering if there was any people out there interested in reverse engineering instruments that make rock music sound. I can help with giving isolated instrument sounds and tell you everything I know about specs, but I'll admit I'm not exactly an instrument maker. So I can't say it'll be easy. But...seeing how many worlds rock music has reached, I think it'd be a really worthwhile project.

Thanks everyone!

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[Well, so much for the theory she just isn't used to how humans interact like mikleo was]

Yeah, well I guess some tones can be easily missed over text.

But...yeah! Looks like we've studied the same thing. Not sure I'd call my studies intellectual laziness though, since it did take a lot of work.

I'll be honest, I'm historically not great in person either.

( which is both a self-deprecating joke, and like, an accurate self-assessment. it's a real skill to actively piss people off when trying to befriend them, and this isn't even the first time she's done it here and the last time there was no text message excuse. )

And no! I mean, for most people it's not. And there were parts of it that I underestimated the work involved (music history, music theory, compositional stuff), but I can hear a piece or read a piece and play it for you, I don't need practise. It was still a good experience, and I think it's been really useful in the sort of work that I do ( which is "sort of" work, ) but in the moment when I decided what to do it was kind of me being afraid of doing anything hard or having a difficult conversation with someone who wanted me to do music, so I did what he wanted me to do.

I appreciate it more than I used to.

Haha, well I...historically know some people like that too.

[That was a joke but boy some of his friends were not great with the social skills.]

Oh, I see. So you went after music because you thought it'd be an easy one to succeed in, because of what you are?

...I think I get it. That could've been me if I hadn't gone to military school first.

More or less. It was really about buying time, giving myself some space to figure some things out without a lot of pressure on. Something I'm good at is low pressure, I thought. I didn't want to jump immediately into a career which was an option I needed a way to turn down without hurting his feelings. Then I got my first book published while I was doing my undergrad, so I actually had something concrete to point to and go: look, I'm not crazy if I want something else.

( it still hurt his feelings, but there was never any real way around that. )

Everybody's got somebody they wouldn't want to hurt, right? We've all done things because it mattered to somebody close to us.

Yeah, I know what you mean. My relationship with my dad isn't so different...though he's not a musician in any sense of the word.

[Still, it was the main reason he ended up at a military academy for a year in the first place, even if he didn't regret the choice]

So you're a writer?

Fathers are invariably complicated. That seems to be the common thread among them, whatever else is going on.

I'm a poet. I sometimes write essays and art reviews, but I'm a poet.

Haha, no argument there.

Oh wow, that's cool! I don't know many poets, so I'd love to see your work sometime if that's alright.

I was kind of raised by a village. I don't think I'd trade it, though.

I'm not shy about it—I'm fairly prolific, although I haven't published anything here—but it isn't to everyone's tastes. Mostly it's about intimacy. My ex called it some of the least sexy poetry he'd ever read about fucking.

Really? That sounds pretty nice actually.

Haha, oh...it's THAT kind of poetry. Well, I still wouldn't mind taking a look sometime. Just maybe not all of it.

I think you might be thinking of something other than what I mean, but that's not unusual. You still probably wouldn't want to read all of it.

I was working on this,

Edited 2020-01-09 22:08 (UTC)

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Sorry for the late! Was on vacation

i'm just emerging from the christmashole myself 8))

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cw: domestic abuse