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my love i can’t just pick up polio for a living save up for a big reveal or gather enough significant unknowing the amount it would take for this song and dance several leaves turn over choregraphed i can finally do a handstand but all for not if not enough for us

dev0jka

i started this blog awhile ago with the intention of having a space dedicated for my “writing” and am flirting with the idea of actually using it.

I've been recently learning piano and I've thought about learning some synth stuff but it's so overwhelming! I've come across your videos with Operators and I was curious how you got started with them, and also were you trained on piano first? I've been following this website back when you were still posting so I hope you still read some of these! Thank you so much!!

Hi! I just logged back into this thing after years of not using it so apologies and thanks for the question!

I was not trained in piano, no. I don’t think you need to know piano in order to play synths. Not at all. Now, that’s not to say it’s not worth taking piano lessons because learning anything musical (especially piano, which within it has so many other musical bases of value like following tempo, developing your ear, learning to read music etc) will almost always be complimentary. But it’s not necessary. In fact, seeing synths with keyboard interfaces is actually a kind of newish thing - a design added later to make synths less intimidating and more familiar/playable. I mean, “synth” is a very broad term but I’m guessing when you say synth you mean something like the microkorg or Roland Juno or similar? In any case, the best thing to do if you are interested in synthesizers is to get an app for your phone or iPad. Now, if you want to be able to “play” it while still learning sound design, then get an app with a keyboard interface (moog has a great one) but if you want to start from a completely modular basis (like with all the cables going in and out of the racks) then get something like miRack which is an awesome app. Then, get thee to YouTube where tutorials are abundant and often very very helpful. But in any case, for a very basic introduction to synthesizers, I can’t recommend enough this Suzanne Ciani clip: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=36WMySitV74. Seriously watch this first before you do anything. Anyway, hope this helps!

Post scripts from trips to New York

At the bodega on the corner of Atlantic and ? I almost bought you the biggest bouquet of flowers in a way to say - I'm finally blooming! I'd stun you with this uncharacteristic gesture, show you my petals shaking in the whim But I thought better of it. because I should probably ease you into who I am when I am alone

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from the album 'Blue Wave' out worldwide April 1st, on Last Gang Records. Pre-Order: http://shop.lastgang.com/products/blue-wave

Our first single from our first full-length is out today.

Guess what? We are playing a special set today for the wonderful @kexp who will be broadcasting it live from Kex Hostel in Reykjavik. I'm bad at riddles and hints but let's just say things will be...different.

one true love, y'all ❤️🐶

Spending my first Canadian Thanksgiving alone which I know sounds depressing but only because it totally is. Psych! I CARE ABOUT NOTHING & AM AN ISLAND. 🌊🗻

I've taken so many pictures for you, and I've written so many letters - but I always forgot to send them.

What do you call that feeling you get when you go back to the place you grew up in and think Nothing Has Changed But Everything Is Different.

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SELF UPDATE. Just found out my new book called “This” will for sure be published by Coach House in 2016. Big honour and always wanted to be published with them. Also starting a PhD in the fall on the poetics of silence (getting paid to read and write, basically). Currently taking summer off to dive in lakes and run in forests with most excellent and very much missed friends and animals outside of the city to get soul level up to 11 out of 10 before September. All love and groundlessness.

bombmagazine

Literature is very similar to the battles of samurais, but a samurai doesn’t fight against another samurai: he fights against a monster. What’s more, generally he knows he’ll be beaten. Being brave enough, already aware you’re going to be beaten, to go out and fight: that’s literature.

Roberto Bolaño (via bombmagazine)

durgapolashi

“You know, stories change, just like the lives we’ve lived and selves we’ve inhabited. Nobody’s been the same person twice. I mean really. It’s the people walking around acting and sounding especially self-assured and whole who worry me the most.

I like hearing the world’s stories about itself. That’s partly why I teach world literature. It helps me feel less incarcerated by the world, or my past, or my mistakes and confusions. It helps me remember I’m not just American. I’m not just a woman. A mother. A teacher. A wife. I find value in thinking in stories. Aren’t we all woven through with stories? Isn’t that how we think of our lives, how we survive them? Now, when someone hurts me, I remember that they are only living the terms of their own fictions—sometimes desperately—so their selves don’t unravel.

I like that idea. A woven person.

Little misshapen stars made of straw.”

Woven By Lidia Yuknavitch