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Stardate: 20220925.2330 | |
Location: The Lab | |
Input Device: Dell 7202 | |
Audio: Picard, fan on low setting. | |
Visual: Picard S2 E2 | |
Emotional: Dreading Monday. | |
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I went to Perfect Circuit[0] in Burbank for the first time today. It | |
was recommended to me by dj buttstuf (miss you, man!) some time ago | |
but it hasn't been until now that I have visted since pandemic and | |
everything that's been going on. I have also been holding off on | |
visiting since at the time, I did not have much time or resources | |
to allocate to music. I am in a different place now and decided to | |
pay them a visit. | |
They have a nice showroom in Burbank. Very clean and lots of nice, | |
shiny equipment. There were a few customers there checking out the | |
hardware. A majority of the stuff is foreign to me and way over my | |
head (and budget.) I looked around for a little while but didn't | |
stay that long and basically just went in there for what I needed. | |
I don't need to be distracted by other things right now. | |
I've been reading and watching videos about synthesizers quite a bit | |
lately, especially since aNONradio has been doing Synth Battle Royale | |
(SBR) on Friday nights (my time.) [1] SBR, which was started by | |
chairman tob and MC'd by smj, has been really interesting and | |
inspirational. I'm learning a lot just listening to other SDFsynth | |
players at all different levels and equipment creating music on the fly | |
like that. Just listening to them set up in round 1 and play more in | |
round 2 has really piqued my interest in synthesizers again. Also, | |
chairman tob and the dubious goals committee talk quite a bit about | |
simf during the daily shows @ 1930 UTC on aNONradio. [2] | |
Growing up, I took piano lessons and learned the basics, but put it | |
down a couple years later when I started learning how to play the | |
guitar. I would futz around with the piano every now and then, but my | |
main instrument has been the guitar. | |
Throughout the years, I would pick up and put down the piano and the | |
guitar every few years, mostly to just try remembering what I used to | |
play and not really learning anything new. It was like that for some | |
time, especially when I started raising my family. | |
When my kids were old enough, I had them take piano lessons and my | |
parents even had the piano I grew up with (Kimball console piano) | |
shipped over to our house on the other side of the country. During | |
this time, I also started picking up the guitar and piano again, | |
but this time I've been learning new things and continuing with | |
fairly regular practice. | |
Since my kids have gotten older, I've had more time to allocate to | |
continuing my musical journey. I have been expanding my experience | |
of music and suprisingly, even created my own music and instruments. | |
This has been outside of anything I thought possible with myself | |
since I never really saw myself doing much with music. Maybe some | |
day I'll even learn how to read music and learn some theory. | |
If any of you reading this used to play an instrument but have put | |
it down, I encourage you to pick it back up and learn something | |
new...or even try a new instrument! The journey does not have to | |
end where you put it down. | |
[1] Synth Battle Royale | |
[2] Dubious Goals Committee | |
Addendum 20220926.1322: | |
BTW, Perfect Circuit is a synthesizer store. | |
[0] https://www.perfectcircuit.com/ | |
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