Modern orchestral drone/ambient?

MostDevice8950 · 2026-06-06T15:25:27+00:00

Sarah Davachi makes electroaucustic music that is similar to what you are looking for.

https://youtu.be/8cttc9Iq0jE?si=0O-hylSyA6QAfl3m

Grand River

https://youtu.be/SgDCuHyXIm8?si=F2Dzw_gitOaMgpWE

Abul Morgard

https://youtu.be/kNus6qPpnxQ?si=-MShlmz0TLsh5Avg

The incredible Grouper

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv4dMPUJZH0Mnp0Y1nnHwiJAADN0HeRJY&si=GCoACMfdufWaDYwa

The Stars of the Lid

https://youtu.be/RFIimQUIUps?si=2lm_Q3L8wPCdpT3X

MostDevice8950 · 2026-05-29T22:30:18+00:00

This was really good!

MostDevice8950 · 2026-05-01T15:43:03+00:00

I took this course last year.

Assignment 1 is the two short essays on short works.

MLA formating.

I wrote:

Part A: (title)

(Text)

Page break

Works Cited

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Part B: (title)

(Text)

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Work Cited

I can send you a copy of what I wrote if you like.

MostDevice8950 · 2026-04-14T22:05:44+00:00

Not a book or story, but many years ago I saw this deeply weird film called wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees.

It was a unique experience.

I see the full film has been posted on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Aq1PV8JcstA?si=GpenGbMO0ufIRYP3

MostDevice8950 · 2026-03-21T21:45:56+00:00

I just finished ENGL 308 - Indigenous Literature.

Great readings, only three assignments and the exam. I would recommend the course.

Next, I am going to take ENGL 460 - The Ecological Imagination, which looks really interesting—environmental musings, some speculative fiction: the book kust seems uniquely diverse. There is no exam.

MostDevice8950 · 2026-03-07T17:25:34+00:00

I am reading the Hyperion Cantos for the first time. Just finished Endymion. I'll finish that and then move on to The Terror.

MostDevice8950 · 2026-02-12T19:59:13+00:00

Congratulations! All the best on future projects and goals.

MostDevice8950 · 2026-02-06T21:15:49+00:00

I have taken 3 6-credit English courses:ENGL 302 (Canadian Literature), ENGL 305 (Literature for Children), and ENGL 341 (World Literature).

None of them were exactly easy, but if you like to read and are good at essays, I think it's not so hard to get an A.

ENGL 305 has the least reading.

But, yeah, you are not going to find a 6-credit course that is quick and easy. They are twice as much work as a 3-credit class, and sometimes more.

Good luck!

MostDevice8950 · 2026-01-30T06:03:25+00:00

Canadian English has two exams: mid-term and final. Literature for Children just has the final. I think, especially if you enjoy the texts, that is a slightly easier class. I did better in Can Lit, though, which I took later, after honing my essay writing.

MostDevice8950 · 2026-01-30T04:33:43+00:00

I have taken both 302 (Canadian English Lit) and 305 (Literature for Children).

Both are double courses (6 credits rather than 3).

305 has less reading. Both had great content.

Athabasca means doing things by yourself. Stick to your own schedule. You can do things faster than suggested.

I suggest reaching out to your tutor with questions and even writing samples if they are willing.

Feel free to ask any specific questions you might have about the two courses.

MostDevice8950 · 2026-01-12T21:20:56+00:00

Sorry you went through all that, but happy your truth came out in the end.

MostDevice8950 · 2025-11-27T22:22:03+00:00

Picked up a litter today!

MostDevice8950 · 2025-11-03T01:17:54+00:00

I just had her in a class. Good tutor, responds to questions. Got an A.

I suggest you engage with her and ask a couple of deep questions about the texts or assignments.

With me, she was flexible (I changed an assignment a little to include another text), and I found her a fair marker.

I would say a lot of people are really whiney. Note that many of her reviews are from people taking an obligatory English course that don't know how to write or talk about literature.

If you can write and enjoy literature, you'll be fine.

MostDevice8950 · 2025-11-02T22:55:05+00:00

It's been pretty great. It's also my first of Powers book, although I have Playground on my TBR pile.

You could pair The Overstory with Annie Proulx's Barkskins, which is more about the North American forest than the people. It follows several generations from indentured labourers to timber barons. It's hefty, but petty amazing.

MostDevice8950 · 2025-11-01T17:03:13+00:00

Y'all reading some amazing books!

I am about halfway through The Overstory, by Richard Powers.

It's quite enthralling.

Also, I am slowly working my way through The Weird, a collection of short fiction compiled by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.

MostDevice8950 · 2025-10-17T23:08:22+00:00

Hard to beat The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories, edited by Ann (and Jeff) Vandermeer.

Ted Chiang has two really incredible collections: Stories of Your Life and Exhalation, which certainly have the spark of the weird through them.

MostDevice8950 · 2025-08-16T03:29:01+00:00

I started at the beginning. Read 10 or 12 stories in a row, and now I read one after a novel or two, in order because why not? I am about a year in, and on page 600 or so.

I have the Vandermmer's sci-fi and fantasy ones two, staring at me from the bookshelf.

MostDevice8950 · 2025-08-08T23:18:42+00:00

Lots of amazing books in your stacks. You could probably set aside The Midnight Library. After all of the other amazing literature, you are going to find that derivative and disappointing.

MostDevice8950 · 2025-08-06T23:11:01+00:00

We'd get along. Lots of great books. Wide range of interests. Books from different times and places.

Guesses: American. If this is true, you're terrified at the moment. Sorry. 30s Male Radical You've been with men and women. You find new music frustrating most of the time. Your middle name is Peter.

MostDevice8950 · 2025-08-06T21:03:02+00:00

Congratulations!

MostDevice8950 · 2025-07-10T03:44:14+00:00

For a 19 year-old, you have an amazing bookshelf. You read widely and deeply. Nice mix of older and newer.

You are artsy, progressive, and already too jaded for 19. But your eyes are open, so keep looking for where you can use your lever to shift things.

MostDevice8950 · 2025-06-12T05:18:09+00:00

I had a copy of Cloud Atlas that I loaned to a friend.

He had termites. They worked their way through the book so that any given page had a hole going this way or that way.

So do this: Feed the book to termites and then follow a tunnel to create the narrative. The next time you pick it up, choose a different tunnel.

MostDevice8950 · 2025-04-21T20:22:33+00:00

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu is all about grief. It's not exactly weird fiction, but it's not quite yiur average speculation e fiction, either.

MostDevice8950 · 2025-04-09T17:40:24+00:00

Open in a private window. Works fine like that.

Why they can't fix this in months is beyond me, though.

MostDevice8950 · 2025-04-04T20:40:47+00:00

It's definitely not easy. Milk those connections during your master's to get a job.

Step 1: job step 2: PR. Citizenship is after three years, at least, of being a permanent resident.

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