trans xennial musician

I love synthesizers, all sorts of music (mostly electronic), b/cult movies, science fiction, DIY, graphics design, PC hardware, retro computing (Commodore <3), cooking, singing. I’m truly sorry to anyone I have unintentionally hurt in my confusion about my identity. Love and light. Sorry I can’t talk like a normal human being btw, I’m trying.

Here’s some of my music, grateful if you’d give it a listen: https://etherphon.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/etherphon
The stuff up there right now is a tad old, but it is some music that deals with my struggles with my realizations about my sexuality and gender, thus some of it is a little difficult and discordant. I’m working on some more joyous music. It’s 100% hardware based (synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, effects), no computer, DAW or AI involved in recording.

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  • What kind of music do they mainly like to sing? It would help in figuring out what their needs are, some pedals have more special effects which would be good if your friend was into more experimental music, or have different delay chips used for the loops which can be more hi-fi or lo-fi depending on the chip and the clock rate they use and all that, some let you adjust those parameters. For general use I think it’s really hard to beat the Boss RC-505 or RC-202, they are well tested and have a good community around them as well.

    The TC Electronic Ditto X4 is a lot smaller, it’s not quite as flexible as those but it’s cheaper and easier to use I think. If your friend is a little more experimental you can check out the Alter Audio Time Tosser which is dsp based and allows you to mangle your loop/samples a bit more. The Chase Bliss Mood is also worth a look if they are into lofi/warbly kinda stuff. You could also look into something like a TC Helicon VoiceLive Play which is a pedal effect specifically for vocalists and includes a looper, I have no experience with this one tho




  • I have no idea how some doctors keep their licenses wow. I just wanna say be very careful with tapering, I’m sure you will be but I just wanna make sure you’re safe, I’m glad you got your appetite back that’s great!

    The real key is to not expect a great improvement, or if you start to feel better and then feel worse again one day, don’t let it discourage you too much because it will get better eventually

    Yeah I dunno, I used to buy a lot of nootropics online and they all came from China, as far as I know everything was legit, at least it didn’t kill me :P, but that was years ago. stay safe







  • Oh this comic hits. I really have no idea how it never entered my head that most of my confidence, image issues, apathy were tied to dysphoria. Before puberty I was a bubbly, fun, person, then puberty hit me like a ton of bricks and I went off the rails for… well like 30 years I guess. I had so much anger all the time (of course I still have some, who couldn’t today) about nothing in particular, anger at other people for no reason, and I just could not figure out why. It’s not like there were no signs. I enjoyed dressing up with my sister in her sparkly dance clothes when we were kids, in 7th grade I was hanging pictures of Cory Haim and Cory Feldman from Tiger Beat magazine in my room like the girls in the class were doing, I had a whole arm full of jelly bracelets which were so cool at the time, but mainly for girls. Every time I said something like “men’s clothes are so boring” what I really meant was “I really wish I could just wear womens clothes”, I won the girls screaming contest at a grade school dance we had. The more I look back the more incidents like that pile up but still I was clueless about it. I feel light as air now, I care about my body and how my legs look, I can wear shorts, clothes are fun again, life is fun again

    Funny part is I was always such an advocate of being yourself, being original and it turns out all those years I wasn’t even being myself XD







  • That sounds like exactly my experience actually, originally I had joined for a single purpose server but when I lost interest in that thing, the general servers for example twitch streamers or just general severs I didn’t have the best experience, but I also was a different person so maybe it might be better today who knows. I did get tempted to re install it to join to audio and music making focused communities but after all the headlines lately I don’t think it’s worth it