anathematized_one

I never know what to put as the subject of introduction threads.

Hello. I am Kyle or Sard (whichever is fine).

I love music, though that need not be stated given what this site is about. I am also really into philosophy and other intellectual things, art, etc.

I do write and play music. The styles I write/play are extreme metal, blues, jazz classical. The instruments upon which I am proficient are: guitar, bass, violin, viola, cello, concerto bass, harp, harmonica and various percussions (timpani, djembe, marching snare, melodic toms).

I think that's a good enough introduction, yeah?

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zombie kid

Hi, welcome! I can also play piano and violin

Paedantic Basterd

Welcome to MB. Why don't you tell us a bit about your favourite artists?

anathematized_one

I am quite dreadful on the piano. :P

Well, there is a broad array, so I think I will list them by genre...

Extreme metal:
Dissection
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Haggard
Anaal Nathrakh
Chthonic
Faülnis
Grabneblfürsten
Agrypnie

Blues:
Sonny Boy Williamson
Booker White
Edgar Winter
Robert Johnson

Folk:
Johnny Cash
Avett Brothers
Death in June
Current 93

Jazz:
Charlie Parker
Dizzie Gillespie
Tom Waits

Classical:
Mahler
Mendelssohn
Beethoven
Arvo Pärt
Schubert
Schumann (both Herr and Frau)
Stravinsky
George Crumb
Goreki
John Cage

There are tons of others, but I tried to keep it short and to show the full range of what I like.

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LoathsomePete

Welcome, have you heard the new Agrypnie album Aetas Cineris (2013) yet?

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zombie kid

That's okay. I've been playing piano since I was 4 years old and I learned violin when I was 9 or 10. I'm alright with guitar and I have a few guitars, but not so great at other instruments.

anathematized_one

Yes, and it is quite fantastic in my opinion. The very first track being the best, though it is not quite as good as their previous album; then again, the previous album had „Morgen” and „Der tote Trakt”, both of which are my personal all time favourites.

I don't particularly care for the drawn out instrumental atmospheric bits on Aetas..., felt like it broke the pace in a bad way. They aren't bad by themselves, but I don't care for them in that context.

I haven't got anything against that style though (I mean I do like Long Distance Calling and I like how Faülnis did it on Gehirn zwischen Wahn und Sinn).

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LoathsomePete

I didn't understand half of what you just said, you'll fit in fine around here.

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anathematized_one

Don't say that!

Every time somebody says I will fit in fine, less than a week passes before I am hated by everyone.

That happened on this site I was on for general intellectual discussion and I was inquiring as to the stereotype of "rednecks" and marijuana users loving Mountain Dew. Without incident, we determined a great theory about the rednecks then, when determining the origin for marijuana users, it broke out into an all-out ad hominem war between users and non-users.

It also happened on this site/forum I was on for philosophy where I showed the origin of the "tree in the forest does it make a sound" question (Berkeley) and then proved it did beyond any measure of doubt and it devolved into a war filled with blatantly obvious logical fallacies.

It also happened on this site I was on for young classical composers, only there I didn't do anything, they all just hated me because I wouldn't take their advice on my compositions. I compose in a neo-romanticism style and they refuse to accept anything that is not modern, serialistic and expressionless wankery like writing a bit of music based on the cotangent of -30°.

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