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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 16h

Joesph Lockard's "the Myth of Virtual Community" sounds really badly dated at glance but it seems(?) to be an observation that some "virtual communities" are propped up by corpos to define a target demographic and put ppl in it, which sounds REALLY relevant today

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 16h

bro i don't know if i can survive this rabbit hole of contemporary anthropological studies of 90s internet culture. the pull is so strong. im gonna be stuck here for months

several essays from David Porter's book 1997 "Internet Culture", including titles such as:
Flesh Made Word: Sex, Text, and the Virtual Body
The Postmodern Paradiso: Dante, Cyberpunk, and the Technosophy of Cyberspace
Spam: Heteroglossia and Harassment in Cyberspace
I Flamed Freud: A Case Study in Teletextual Incendiarism
Essayistic Messages: Internet Newsgroups as an Electronic Public Sphere
Progressive Politics, Electronic Individualism, and the Myth of Virtual Community

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 1d

real af.
if you like someone's music, tell them!
if you like someone's art, tell them!

a snippet from Rene T. A. Lysloff's 2003 "Musical Community on the Internet: An On-line Ethnography" that reads as follows:
After participating in the scene for several months, I came to realize the most important form of currency in the mod scene is an e-mail message from a listener telling you that your music is awesome.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 1d

homie said fuck genai

a snippet from Rene T. A. Lysloff's 2003 "Musical Community on the Internet: An On-line Ethnography" that reads as follows:
However, despite the fact that we may be experiencing radically new forms of social interaction as a result of media technologies, the quality of these social interactions still depends on the humans that give rise to them (see Escobar 1999).

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 1d

doin some unguided research. i love love the anthropologically phrased description of "being online" from the early 00s (text from Rene T. A. Lysloff's "Musical Community on the Internet:
An On-line Ethnography", 2003)

Even though my Internet fieldwork seemed, in the realm of embodied sensation,
a rather solitary experience, it was still no less intensely social.
Although I conducted my research without ever leaving my home, my work
involved immersing myself in a new musical community, but with informants I
would never actually meet face-to-face, people whose presence I could only
infer from their textual messages. I wondered whether what I was doing really
was fieldwork because I never had to go anywhere physically, never had to
make demands on my body or endure the tangible hazards that field researchers
routinely face. Instead, fieldwork meant spending many late nights in
front of my computer, "traveling" the far corners of cyberspace.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 1d

hey check out this really cool remix of "His Theme" from Undertale that i found in the Japan-only 1992 NEC Super CD-ROM2 game Gate of Thunder

Gate of Thunder - Ending

YouTube video by Almatharen

www.youtube.com

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 6d

yeah i had to mess with a bunch of settings but it finally started behaving. pretty weird, but at least it's solved now!

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 7d

deserved

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 9d

I had a commenter that wasn't sure what I meant by "Donald no Magical World". That's the Game Gear version of McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure! check out this tune!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjRs...

and it's FM counterpart:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSjS...

Ronald in the Magical World -04- Clock Factory [Stage 3] (GAME GEAR/GG) - OST

YouTube video by SEGA 16-bit OST

www.youtube.com

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 10d

😊

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𝑨𝑴𝑰𝑮𝑨𝑽𝑰𝑺𝑰𝑶𝑵 @amiga.vision · 11d

One of the best to do it, @gst.melosylexia.com profiles (and arranges, as probably the first to do so!) musician Yoko Wada, a criminally underrated and unknown Master System / Game Gear composer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C1J...

Artist Feature #36: Yoko Wada

YouTube video by GST Channel

www.youtube.com

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 11d

I searched around a bit more and found two arrangements on Dwelling of Duels (for Master of Darkness and Putt & Putter)
but... none of my favorite tunes. :(
is it conceited to say i like my own arrangements more? 😳

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Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 13d

Tell your favorite artists you love their work

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 13d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2?

Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has.

Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something.

Tateishi: …

Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack?

Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 11d

NEW MIX!
Yoko Wada was is one of the most prolific and skilled composers that you can find on the 8-bit Sega systems. Unfortunately, that's also the only place you can find her.
I'd like to shine a light on some of the amazing work she did that's gone unnoticed and unloved.
premieres in ~15 min!

Artist Feature #36: Yoko Wada

YouTube video by GST Channel

www.youtube.com

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 12d

muffled crying. i guess i'll switch to a bskysocial handle for a bit

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