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Sweet, so looks like we are doing the 6th and the 13th.

6th:

• Arrsuarez
• Colin
• Sudara

13th:

• Rewind
• Desoto

Not yet picked a date:

• Glu
• Montgomeru

Anyone else?

I am truly enjoying my association with alonetone. I have been a part of many music communities the past 8 years and I find alonetone to be paticularly unique in it's feel and approach. I look forward to many good things in the future.

Just want to say that this is on my mind this week, and this feature might even slip in ahead of the comment replies (it's quick to implement)

Hi!

I'm working on it, sorry about that! I'll update here when its done (probably by tomorrow).

Thanks!

I make mainly electronic music. In most of it, I experiment with some bit of tech and capture and refine the result. During the process, I'm intimately familiar with every blip and beep.

Fast forward a year and I'm completely disconnected. And pleased. I can't remember how I did it but I'm often amazed that I did. These reactions come mainly in the car (put your stuff onto an ipod and go for a solo drive; you cannot listen super intently and that changes things).

This process is, of course, completely different from noodling over some chords on a traditional instrument, developing that into a full on song; where you can develop an emotional attachment to the music and simultaneously be hyper critical of your playing.

Does any of this bother me? As a maker of music, you are different from those that only consume music. Making music changes how you listen. I have an intuition that people with non-musical backgrounds perceive music completely differently. And I further liken it to a blindness that, for me, would be a tragic loss. So no, I'm not bothered by the idea that I'll never hear my music the way say, my wife might hear it (she's supportive but definitely not a fan).

Let me put this differently. There are people who know Shakespeare and are completely enraptured with his work and the performances of it. And there are many more people who just don't get it. Personally, I am in neither of these extremes but forced to choose, I'd rather be part of the smaller enraptured group.

[Sorry for the unfocused ramble.]