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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.

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?!  

I'm not deeply into Buddhism, just explored it a bit and it made good sense, aim to be at one with yourself and the world.   Being grounded in the physical world makes sense to me more than worshipping something that's not tangible to me.

I have dabbled with different types of electronic music from back in the 1990s but at the moment prefer deep house and melodic house, so enjoying listen to whats out there an see what comes up.  On good days I can get ideas playing in my head, or get a favourite song going for bit though not all the way through.

Ethical listening, that's deep.  Mindfulness is good for really listening, no thoughts judging and reacting to sounds. You have gone deeper, and wider, than that but makes sense.

I haven't shared my music yet, always been a private/personal thing and just messing/learning really.

I've not been able to focus well on it for a long time so that hasn't helped, but better able to recently so returning to.  I was also having to use free software and sounds modules that came with it, so that limits what you can do and how good the instruments can be.  I paid to unlock my music package, and found a synth module I could pay by instalments otherwise and that really helped, now the only barrier is me organising and focusing myself so I'm now trying out ideas and the synth module and a goal is put a complete song together and share it.

It’s cool to hear you’ve made electronic music! Do you share it anywhere?

Thank you, it’s good to know that my ideas make sense to someone outside my head who isn’t my supervisor :)

It’s cool to hear you’ve made electronic music! Do you share it anywhere?

Thank you, it’s good to know that my ideas make sense to someone outside my head who isn’t my supervisor :)

I haven't shared my music yet, always been a private/personal thing and just messing/learning really.

I've not been able to focus well on it for a long time so that hasn't helped, but better able to recently so returning to.  I was also having to use free software and sounds modules that came with it, so that limits what you can do and how good the instruments can be.  I paid to unlock my music package, and found a synth module I could pay by instalments otherwise and that really helped, now the only barrier is me organising and focusing myself so I'm now trying out ideas and the synth module and a goal is put a complete song together and share it.