hey @bennjordan.bsky.social your video about the Solar 42 had an intense impact on me. I would be unbelievably delighted if you read my essay about the music I’m making with it

What I’m Doing With My Music Your invitation to the Big Welcome state of mind

my friend asked me to explain the spirituality behind my music. weird question. had a lot of fun writing this essay to answer it.

richdecibels.substack.com/p/what-im-do...

i LOVE that book!

oh my God that rules

How I Make Viral TikTok Animations YouTube video by Ben Levin

Jem do you follow Ben Levin? my favourite music youtuber. he has some blender tutorials you may find amusing

youtu.be/7n0mLWHukvM?...

bunch of Spaniards and Catalans singing gospel songs in English, couldn't be better

ya I took twitter off my phone a month ago and now I have a weekly potluck, weekly jam, and weekly choir practice???

ya it's is a shift in attention that reveals all these other dimensions

that is so wild

have you ever had a breakthru in your thinking about music? was there a class or a book or a video or an exercise or a song that made a big impact on you?

such a step up from headphones. it's good to feel the music in my chest

oh it's new for me. moved into a small apartment so have to be extremely vigilant about containing all my stuff. like tidying up multiple times a day. kinda learning to love it

happy place fr

this goes so hard

blessed!

a homework exercise for ear training

I taught my first music lesson today. my objective is to communicate a simple intro to music theory that demystifies the music making process and closes the gap between imagination and expression

😍

new studio monitors

my aunties gave me a little bit of money from granddads inheritance and told me I had to spend it on something fun 😈😈😈

oh that's an awesome reference

we love to see it

I go to gigs to give the talking part of me a rest

I would love to know more ambient guitarists on bluesky

getting the right effects chain feels very nuanced and not so obvious, eg filtering the delayed repeats of essential for the tone I want

played 4 chords from Gershwin’s Summertime, slowed down with paulXstretch, then improvised the melody on top

guitar into volume pedal into iPad with Bias FX for compressor, delay & amp modelling; LoopyPro for recording & EOS2 reverb

video generated with a milkdrop preset from amandio c (fume)

I’m exploring how to make ambient with my guitar, here’s a little sample

I wanna know what this reminds you of, send me inspiration please 🙏

a good feature needs no explanation

lfg to you ma'am

this is a very good post, better than any other posts today

jem check back in March, I'm planning a 3 month experiment to build a cozy tpotish music scene here

I've never seen this evolving wavetable approach before. it's so satisfying. I want to learn more about the technique

oh my god it is glorious