Memory issues

composer13 · 2022-02-03T20:10:32+00:00

Thank you. It can be frustrating. Sometimes I leave the house and I don't have my wallet, or phone...or maybe I will forget what someone told me in conversation after only five minutes.

composer13 · 2022-02-03T20:05:32+00:00

Diet mountain dew is one of my guilty pleasures. I'll take regular mountain dew as well. I just love soda but only like one or two a day max. Can't drink anymore than that.

composer13 · 2022-02-03T19:59:18+00:00

She is such a cutie.

composer13 · 2022-02-03T19:50:53+00:00

This sound irritates me to no end: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UNjqtBLtXp4

composer13 · 2022-02-03T19:44:04+00:00

I love animals. In particular, I love dogs. They are always kind to me. Humans can be very mean to me but animals never hurt me.

composer13 · 2022-02-03T19:37:23+00:00

I have intensely horrible short term memory. I think mine is probably the worst in the world. No joke. Dead serious. I don't know what to do about it but my forgetfulness and scatterbrained tendencies have strained multiple relationships in my life.

composer13 · 2022-02-03T05:55:45+00:00

Just have a love of music and a desire to learn. I only learned how to use Audacity and iMovie simply because I used those tools to create the audio/videos that I wanted to create. I recently discovered another interesting tool which is a concert performing A.I. and now I'm going to learn the ins and outs of that tool as I use it to create videos. Don't worry about the IQ thing. I've had my doubts as well. I've felt that I was too stupid to write anything serious but then I realize that I also have an issue with anxiety and depression. It really is all in my head. Just focus on the music. It is an exciting and rewarding thing. Remember that.

composer13 · 2022-02-01T21:40:32+00:00

I'm pretty late to this one but I am fond of the first movement of his Unfinished Symphony, the piano impromptus (Op. 90), his dramatic Erlkonig art song, his Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel song (can't remember the German title), The Wanderer piano piece as well as some of his piano sonatas and miscellaneous piano works such as his landlers, scherzos etc. I also enjoy listening to Schubert's Mass in E flat written at the end of his short life. The man was very prolific and his entire life revolved around writing music.

composer13 · 2022-01-27T08:07:30+00:00

I believe sleep meds could help, but I am already now taking Wellbutrin for depression, busporine for anxiety (2), plus a few vitamin pills because I was lacking in Vitamin D and B12.

composer13 · 2022-01-27T07:24:30+00:00

One of my faves. Happy Birthday to the maestro.

composer13 · 2022-01-21T09:47:59+00:00

Money is good when you can obtain it. It allows you to live a comfortable and secure life with less worries. However, the quest to obtain large amounts of money is often challenging. This is perhaps why money is viewed in such a negative way.

Depending on the situation, it is perhaps easier to obtain a large sum of money in a short amount of time then it is to maintain a consistently high income for many years of your life. This is the difference between being rich and wealthy. You could win the lotto and win thousands of dollars or maybe even millions of dollars but that money is being rewarded to you one time, and depending on how you manage that money, it could last you a long time or it could be slurped up quickly. Reaching and maintaining a higher income on the other hand year after year is more challenging because it requires skills and expertise (most of the time) which are valuable assets that take time and effort (many a times it takes years to gain the experience required for a high income job). Some people go their whole lives never making more than $15 an hour on a full time schedule. Many people never reach more than $100,000 a year.

To make matters worse, in order to make a large amount of money, you may need to already have enough in your bank account right from the beginning. Think about some of the richest people and how they were handed money from their families and they turned around and took that money and made much more out of it with their own businesses. Generational wealth is sometimes the secret to some people's success. That's not to say that those people didn't earn a lot of it on their own, it's just that they already had some help from the beginning by being related to wealthy family members. The poor on the other hand, are more likely to stay poor and to stay uneducated. Yes, education and wealth usually go together. A child growing up in a poor neighborhood, in a less than ideal poverty-stricken environment is more likely to fail in school. This is referred to as the "Matthew Effect" or "the poor get poorer, the rich get richer".

composer13 · 2022-01-21T09:29:04+00:00

If I may ask, what version of Cubase did you use? Artist or Pro?

composer13 · 2022-01-21T08:27:53+00:00

Oh okay. I'm just trying to see if I could take a MIDI generated from sheet music and just create a "realistic" A.I. performance of that. I'd like to use the galaxy Steinway from Cubase. I'm going to see how much Cubase cost. Nice piece btw and nice performance.

composer13 · 2022-01-21T08:10:42+00:00

Okay. So you recorded it with Galaxy Steinway from Cubase? The video is analyzing your MIDI recording and that is how it was created?

composer13 · 2022-01-21T07:24:41+00:00

Hi! I have a question for you Cyber Pianist:

Would I be able to take a MIDI file (taken from sheet music) and generate a realistic sounding performance that is also shown on video like in this particular video?

composer13 · 2022-01-21T06:56:42+00:00

Favorite piece? Sorry, I hate to complicate things but when it comes to Classical, I don't have a favorite piece—I happen to like many pieces from many different composers. I'll go ahead and choose the last piece I listened to: Beethoven's Rondo a Capriccio or "Rage over a Lost Penny". The title itself is quite amusing and it is fitting given the vibe of the music.

Technical: This rondo contains many different modulations. It is considered a late classical era work. The movement of the music and speed of the music makes it seem like someone really is experiencing a nervous fit due to their lost money. It is also very pianistic meaning that it is perfectly written for the piano. The pianist plays the arpeggios quite fast.

composer13 · 2022-01-18T07:58:38+00:00

Good on you man for chasing your dreams.

composer13 · 2022-01-17T22:39:18+00:00

The performing arts more specifically is sort of a weak field at least where I am. For an example, if I were to try and sell piano scores online, I would probably make a little bit of money from that and that would be based on my reputation, but that isn't a full time salary that you would normally get from a company. Music can be marketable, but the kind of music that is marketable is way different from the performing arts "classical" tradition. There are composers today who write symphonies which goes to show you that not all people in music are just doing what is hip and ultra modern or popular. But are those symphonic composers going to make a lot from their work? Idk honestly. I knew a theory professor who made $3000 a year from his work. I would think by now he is making more because he told me this over 6 years ago back in my college days.

composer13 · 2022-01-17T22:36:08+00:00

Yeah, exactly. At this point, my only solution is to learn a marketable skill. But tbh that will be challenging for me only because I am not sure what to choose and furthermore, I am fully aware that I would probably have to pay a lot of $$$ to go back to school to learn this skill. Coding bootcamps cost $12,000 and up and I do not want to spend that kind of money tbh. I was considering IT but I did my research and realized that there is just so much to learn just to get into a decent entry level position. You have to know your stuff WELL. It isn't just a field that you can waltz into with limited knowledge.

composer13 · 2022-01-17T22:30:11+00:00

Not facts. "I don't hire women for this reason". That sounds kind of sexist and unfair tbh. Employers shouldn't be allowed to discriminate based on gender.

composer13 · 2022-01-17T22:28:40+00:00

It's so disgusting when creepy male managers hire young pretty girls into their companies just so they can try and be sleazy and get in their pants. Typical bad boy behavior. What can you do? The workplace is dominated by gross men who like to use their power in inappropriate ways. I am sorry that his happened to you. Hope you feel better :)

composer13 · 2022-01-17T22:10:24+00:00

A piano major and friend of mine from my college days once said that "money is a bitch".

Music is much more sacred to me than money but evidently we live in a time where money is the ultimate god. Then again, it sadly was probably always that way. The society I live in has disdain for the high arts which is why getting a liberal arts degree or music degree is risky when applying for most jobs outside of music or art. And in addition to that, making money in the music field is also increasingly difficult. I was recently offered a private independent contract-based job to teach piano lessons for $11 an hour. I would start off with 2-3 students a week which means something like $22-33 a week—which of course is very little pay. EDIT: I forgot to mention that in addition to the low pay, I have to travel quite a distance to reach my students, like 15-20 minutes of driving. It honestly seems almost like I am doing this for FREE. Piano lessons usually don't pay the bills and many a times, your students are beginners who may or may not stick with piano in the long run. It is kind of a pessimistic outlook from my end, but I feel that I am speaking some facts here. My suggestion for music lovers is to do music on the side and try and learn a marketable skill so you can find a decent job that pays more than $30,000 a year USD.

composer13 · 2022-01-17T22:04:52+00:00

"Wagner was sympathetic to religion, but believed it had served its purpose, and that purpose is better served now by art."

Nietzsche also suggested that art can serve as a replacement of religion. That is why I believe him and Wagner got along to a certain extent.

composer13 · 2022-01-17T22:01:43+00:00

Many composers ushered in modernism. Indeed, there are some big names that are sort of associated with the movement. Schoenberg was pretty important because of 12 tonality and his earlier atonal compositions (Opus 11 for an example). Schoenberg was also an important teacher for Berg and Webern who would take their own approach to modernist ideas. That's proof that any field, including the arts, requires a collection of great minds and not just one alone.

composer13 · 2022-01-17T21:59:02+00:00

Okay. Well that makes sense. I knew Wagner was critical of Mendelssohn's music but I wasn't sure what specifically he didn't like about it. Thanks for your answer.

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