I know a lot of people, in software and otherwise, who are feeling things along these lines.
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I suppose since I talked about my life as a musical weirdo, I should link to it! I don’t have a Soundcloud; I have a completely bespoke personal web site I made from the ground up because of everything upthread.
Something dreamy and old-school:
https://innig.net/music/inthehands/brahms-ballade-10-4Something dreamy and new-school:
https://innig.net/music/scores/words/Something with a long dramatic arc:
https://innig.net/music/albums/brokenmirror/@inthehands Thank you.
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One advantage of being an artistic weirdo who makes completely commercially non-viable music is that I have a •lot• of practice forging that sense of purpose and meaning for myself when the world is aggressively not handing it to me.
Software development has been coasting on a wave of profitability / employability for several decades, and as a discipline perhaps has an underdeveloped sense of intrinsic purpose. Now is a good time to for us to redevelop that as a community, regardless of future job market prospects.
@inthehands I can tell you that, as someone who was a electronics / software hobbyist before I became a professional, I have rediscovered the joy of making for fun in retirement (I just didn't have the energy for it when I was working). The hardest part is having the discipline to finish things when there are no external drivers. Getting involved in communities of like-minded folks has been helpful there
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I suppose since I talked about my life as a musical weirdo, I should link to it! I don’t have a Soundcloud; I have a completely bespoke personal web site I made from the ground up because of everything upthread.
Something dreamy and old-school:
https://innig.net/music/inthehands/brahms-ballade-10-4Something dreamy and new-school:
https://innig.net/music/scores/words/Something with a long dramatic arc:
https://innig.net/music/albums/brokenmirror/@inthehands Just browsing through, and I note your Chopin 28/4 is from twenty years ago now; I wonder if your interpretation would change if you were to pick the piece up again? Don't think I've heard it with quite that denouement before.
(Currently working my way through 28/15 [Raindrop] myself, it's slow going...)
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@inthehands Just browsing through, and I note your Chopin 28/4 is from twenty years ago now; I wonder if your interpretation would change if you were to pick the piece up again? Don't think I've heard it with quite that denouement before.
(Currently working my way through 28/15 [Raindrop] myself, it's slow going...)
@Two9A
I don’t think my interpretation of the E minor prelude has changed significantly since I first learned it circa 1995. (Some of the others on the site I play quite differently now!)I’ve read through the Raindrop but never properly learned it. Here is a video of my teacher playing it in his home, well into his 90s at that point:
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@Two9A
I don’t think my interpretation of the E minor prelude has changed significantly since I first learned it circa 1995. (Some of the others on the site I play quite differently now!)I’ve read through the Raindrop but never properly learned it. Here is a video of my teacher playing it in his home, well into his 90s at that point:
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
(www.youtube.com)
@inthehands Don plays it wonderfully, and with such efficient low-movement attack. And I might have picked up a hint or two on how to tackle the last bars of the C#m section; thanks on both fronts.
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@inthehands Don plays it wonderfully, and with such efficient low-movement attack. And I might have picked up a hint or two on how to tackle the last bars of the C#m section; thanks on both fronts.
@Two9A
I love those videos of him in his later years. He doesn’t have the technical agility of youth (compare to https://innig.net/music/albums/betts-dimensions/#betts-dimensions-liszt-mephisto-1) and has very little left to prove; his playing is just stripped to the heart of what mattered to him, and that gives it a kind of piercing clarity. -
I suppose since I talked about my life as a musical weirdo, I should link to it! I don’t have a Soundcloud; I have a completely bespoke personal web site I made from the ground up because of everything upthread.
Something dreamy and old-school:
https://innig.net/music/inthehands/brahms-ballade-10-4Something dreamy and new-school:
https://innig.net/music/scores/words/Something with a long dramatic arc:
https://innig.net/music/albums/brokenmirror/One advantage of being the sort of person who will write software for fun as well as professionally is that it's a survival strategy. I'm now working on a particularly difficult project in part because it will help keep those skills from atrophying.
(The project, BTW: https://codeberg.org/suetanvil/loom )
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@mathew @Energetic_Nova @inthehands This is something I'm actually working on in therapy, if you believe it. The problem with relying solely on extrinsic rewards is that you kind of learn to "tolerate" them after a while, even when you get them.
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@mathew @audiodude @inthehands
I have never gotten a job. I graduated high school in 2009. I have been struggling to do anything for a very long time. I miss school but I was a special ed student… so the option of just do school isnt really there for me. I wall stare lot.
