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sphynx

Hi everyone,

I’ve been feeling quite lonely and would like to make some friends.

My interests at the moment are literature, (I read Piranesi last week and am now reading A Little Life) and autism. In the past I’ve also been fascinated by Buddhism, languages, and names. I compose contemporary classical music and write poetry about ecological, social, and mental health themes. My Masters dissertation is on listening and its potential impacts.
If you’d like to chat about of any of that, it would be cool to hear from you :)

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  • Hi,

    Interesting mix of interests.  Buddhism: almost as if invented by an autistic.  How do you do your composing?  I've messed with composing of electronic music, but have difficulties putting a whole piece of music together.  Trying to get back into though.  I had forgotten until recently that I had done GCSE Music and the teacher taught us everything from a classical music viewpoint, not sure he was supposed to mind.

    Worthy and gritty poetry themes, are these published or just for personal interest?

    Listening and potential impacts, in what context?  I hear pins drop, but miss people talking to me - autism, what can you do.

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  • Hi,

    Interesting mix of interests.  Buddhism: almost as if invented by an autistic.  How do you do your composing?  I've messed with composing of electronic music, but have difficulties putting a whole piece of music together.  Trying to get back into though.  I had forgotten until recently that I had done GCSE Music and the teacher taught us everything from a classical music viewpoint, not sure he was supposed to mind.

    Worthy and gritty poetry themes, are these published or just for personal interest?

    Listening and potential impacts, in what context?  I hear pins drop, but miss people talking to me - autism, what can you do.

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  • in reply to Autimator

    Hi, thank you for your reply!

    I definitely see what you mean about Buddhism. When I first came across it, it seemed to articulate beautifully and precisely my entire worldview, in a way nothing and no-one had before. It's so logical depending on how you read some of the teachings around deities and rebirth, (I read t as metaphor) but even if you read them literally it makes framework.ense within its ownframework. 

    How cool that you compose electronic music! I know what you mean about struggling to get through a piece. My problem is usually starting... For me the process issuapark by a conceptual idea, (something ecological, something from Buddhism, a poem...) or a musical idea, (a chord or chord cycle, a soundworld...) And then I somehow work from there. It's hard to describe it clearly, mostly because it can vary widely from piece to piece. How would you describe your electronic music? I'm sorry your teacher was so classically-focused, that can be frustrating. Even though my work is contemporary classical, I can't help feeling that a more diverse music education would have made me a more well-rounded musician and human.

    A couple of my poems have been published, but mostly at the moment I just share it with whoever is interested. I've put a collection together, which was a nice project to work on :)

    Listening — I have this concept of Ethical Listening, which basically suggests that if we can form a relationship with sound on an Ethical Listening basis, this will filter through into our other relationships, and so holds the potential for a more compassionate world. It involves things like hearing sound (including sound in our own mind, as when reading or remembering sound) as a subject, something with agency, with its own rights, needs, and desires. Also shifting our relationship from one of wanting to reduce sound to one meaning, or wanting to acquire or appropriate it, to one of loving desire, of wanting to protect and preserve both the sound and its source. If that makes any sense?!