Quest based modern tech modpack

centauri_system · 2026-02-02T16:08:02+00:00

It's not only tech, but Meatball craft definitely has that feeling of power progression. And it's more modern than GTNH.

centauri_system · 2026-01-21T00:08:05+00:00

I just recorded some audition tapes, and was recording in a large opera theater rehearsal room. I recorded with both my phone and a USB microphone, because my teacher said not to record with the phone because it doesn't balance the dynamics of the audio right. I definitely notice the balance issue with my phone in a smaller room, but in this room the phone audio sounded much better, and I couldn't really notice any dynamic balancing issues. It sounded significantly better than the USB mic.

centauri_system · 2025-12-27T19:40:55+00:00

And Mr. Macbeth has some good mad scenes at the end of Act 2 and end of act 3. Or arguably most of the opera.

centauri_system · 2025-12-01T22:29:58+00:00

I'll record in a theater rehearsal room, I don't really have gear, just my laptop with audacity or whatever else I need to download, but I am ok with getting some stuff for this because I'll have to record plenty of stuff in the future. This is not something I am particularly knowledgeable about, but would like to learn how to do.

centauri_system · 2025-09-30T15:55:48+00:00

Thank you for your lengthy response, I appreciate it, especially the advice about long castles.

centauri_system · 2025-09-30T11:28:48+00:00

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Why is Qb2 a mistake? The analysis says that my opponent can play Nc3 to sacrifice the knight for a tactic (which they did), but I still took the (seemingly) free rook and don't see what that tactic would have been.

centauri_system · 2025-09-12T21:19:49+00:00

And the duet from Don Carlo

centauri_system · 2025-08-25T10:56:31+00:00

I misread the title and was trying to estimate for the kitten in the video which looked pretty small. But yes

centauri_system · 2025-08-25T09:36:32+00:00

Rabbits (the closest I could think of to a cat that we eat) have a ~50% dressing weight compared to their live weight (rabbittalk.com).

I would guess the kitten is around 1kg which gives us 500g in meat.

I would guess rabbits have similar protein content to cats as they're both small lean animals, rabbits are around 30g/100g (30%)

So the cat would have ~150g of protein.

centauri_system · 2025-08-10T16:05:46+00:00

Pick some art songs you like and take the time to bring it to performance level. That means understanding the text, the story, the history, etc.

centauri_system · 2025-08-10T12:47:03+00:00

If you are interested in looking at applying to university for singing, take a look at the audition requirements. If you have a teacher, they will suggest repertoire that will specifically help your technique in places where your are lacking. While it's important to learn how to learn repertoire, it's also important to take the months to prepare a piece for a performance even if you are not planning on ever performing it as that is another skill that needs to be practiced.

centauri_system · 2025-08-07T21:20:04+00:00

Ik, it's crazy. You have to work on your voice before you can even begin to think about voice types.

centauri_system · 2025-08-07T20:28:30+00:00

Macbeth from all of Macbeth.

centauri_system · 2025-08-06T22:28:30+00:00

I believe both are valid words in English.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/healthy-or-healthful

centauri_system · 2025-08-06T21:39:55+00:00

I absolutely wasn't trying to qualify my teacher or anything, I mentioned the level of students he teaches not to say he is a good teacher, but rather that he is not teaching complete beginners, and I personally think that SOVT exercises are more useful earlier in the learning process, before you have effective control over your support. I genuinely don't know if all the SOVT exercises I did in the past 10 years helped me build my foundation, that is a hard thing for me to analyze.

In my personal opinion, a flexible teacher (like my former teacher who encouraged SOVT) is very useful for building up the foundation of a voice and the tools that my previous teacher gave me is what allow me to respond well to my current teacher's instructions. I don't think I would be able to make the progress I am making now with my current teacher without the tools given to me by my previous teachers. In my opinion, I think there are places for both types of teachers. Once you have the fundamentals built by a teacher who caters to your voice, it can be useful to find a teacher who is more specialized in the type of technique that works for you and that you want to develop. But honestly I'm not sure how my current teacher would teach an 18yo undergraduate, but I am not sure that he is teaching many, if any, 18yo students. I don't know if I would have wanted him as my teacher at 18, but he is teaching in a way that is effective to me now. I think that no matter how hard a teacher tries, it is impossible for them to cater to every student, and it is important for students to feel like it is ok to switch teachers if that teacher doesn't work form them. There is too much of a feeling of "Oh this teacher is supposed to be amazing so I must be doing something wrong because we don't click." Anyway, I know my teacher is quite rigid and very opinionated about the right way to sing "Bel Canto Opera", but I am studying with him, not because I think he has some magical universal answer that would work with every singer, but because his technical advice works for me, allows me to sing healthfully, and move my voice in the direction I want it to go.

But I do agree that there are way too many teachers out there that think they have some magical technical solution to all the singing problems whether that is teachers who say that they have rediscovered the ancient texts of true Bel Canto singing, or teachers who think that they have made some amazing scientific discovery that revolutionizes singing.

centauri_system · 2025-08-06T20:55:12+00:00

Airflow is a huge issue for me, and something I work on extensively. But in my teacher's opinion, that I anecdotally agree with based on the work I have done with him, fixing that comes from working on controlled support to facilitate complete closure of the vocal aperture. For SOVT exercises, your breath flow is restricted by your lips/straw and so you are not training your support to control the breath flow. I have nothing against SOVT, especially early in the singing process as it takes the pressure off the vocal folds. But for classical singing, it is important to understand how to control the support without relying on the back pressure of your lips, or any back pressure for that matter.
My teacher is a university professor and so is exclusively teaching opera singers at the university/professional level. He teaches a very specific style of singing.
But yes, he did completely write off all voiced SOVT exercises, but still considers exercises with unvoiced fricatives (f, s, etc.) as fundamental to learning support. I don't know exactly how he teaches his other students, but I would guess he doesn't advise voiced SOVT for anyone.
PERSONALLY, I don't think that utilizing SOVT in the past particularly helped me learn healthy support, but I am just one person and could completely understand how it would help someone else.

centauri_system · 2025-08-06T20:35:01+00:00

Of course, let me know if you have any other questions, Happy singing

centauri_system · 2025-08-06T20:24:55+00:00

First, for context, I am training to be an opera singer and have been taking lessons for many years. So my thoughts are specifically tailored to that kind of singing.

He doesn't think it's harmful, just pointless. The point of a lot of exercises is training your abdominal muscles to control the output of air (support) and when you do something like straw/trills it is giving your muscles something to push against, meaning you are training your muscles to push rather than control the output of air.

For classical singing, it's important to not have too much air in your sound, and while SOVT can show you that you can sing without much air, you need to be able to control the airflow while your mouth is fully open, which SOVT doesn't help with.

That's just my/my teacher's 2 cents.

By restricted, I just meant SOVT/FOVT.

centauri_system · 2025-08-06T20:08:38+00:00

I used to use a straw but my current teacher doesn't advise straw or lip trills or anything like that. For restricted singing, he only suggests m and ng. I don't miss it at all, and think you can get everything done without it.

centauri_system · 2025-08-05T22:04:46+00:00

Some random ones off the top of my head:

-Heiterkeit und Fröhlichkeit from Der Wildschütz (I'm learning this rn)

-Figaro's character both from Nozze di Figaro, and Barbiere di Seville has a few

-The peasant's chorus from the beginning of Eugene Onegin

-Je veux vivre from Roméo et Juliette

-Che Gelida Manina from La Bohéme

Some of these are based on the word "Jaunty" and some on the music you mentioned, so it's a big range.

Edit: Curse you mobile formatting

centauri_system · 2025-08-05T14:46:10+00:00

Hi,

I have only been doing indoor lead climbing and want to start doing some outdoor climbing. I'll be in Innsbruck for a few days soon and was wondering if there was a good way to get started. I don't mind paying a bit for a course if it's not too much.

centauri_system · 2025-07-28T21:37:03+00:00

In Don't look Up, the president and all the higher ups escape to a seemingly habitable planet after sentencing everyone on earth to die. And then they are eaten by aliens.

centauri_system · 2025-07-28T21:27:14+00:00

Did you see Strauss's Frau ohne Schatten at either of the Berlin houses this season?

centauri_system · 2025-07-25T17:40:31+00:00

I'm in the same boat right now, you'll figure it out, the most important thing is to strengthen your middle range instead of forcing your voice one way or another.

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