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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 12d

Tell your favorite artists you love their work

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 11d

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

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 14d

weird and mysterious behavior from bluesky, but if it works, i'll take it :P

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 14d

despite my love of small birds, i have 0 knowledge or experience identifying them. from some googling, i think it's a sanderling...probably? 🤔
i just see a small bird skittering and receive dopamine hehe
anyway, yeah i had a good time overall! ty!

GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 15d

is my handle invalid or not. it looks fine when im logged in "can't resolve" when im logged out. kinda rude of bsky tbh

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 15d

for now i can offer you a pic that i took while i was out (i went to the beach) (mandatory vacation business meeting thing) (i saw a bird)

a blurry pic of a small bird running super fast on the shoreline of a beach

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 15d

i think this weekend is the first time ive massively missed my self-imposed deadline. i was away for most of this past week and did NOT get any work done...
so, hopefully the video will be out by the 30th? we'll see.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 15d

(also late reply lol) yeah i was not being serious. i love obviously-incorrect names and Tom Scripts seemed like a fun "yes, and" moment

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 26d

this is Mr Scripts erasure. Tom's name is literally right there on the title screen

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 27d

thinking about it... yeah that makes sense. i try to make videos that i'd want to watch but this one might have too specific of an audience, lol

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 27d

❌ ai slop
✔ crazy bus

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 27d

i do feel a bit odd that my tritone video has flatlined, esp in the shadow of its prequel (witchcraft).
i rewrote that video 6 times, and find myself wondering: would one of the 5 earlier drafts have fared better with the algorithm or whatever?
maybe not...but. im happy with how the video came out.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 27d

there's a bunch of hubbub about how youtube quietly changed the ways views worked, resulting in a drop in desktop views between aug 10th and 14th.
curious, i checked and... my stats are wack bro.
i got nothing on those dates, but mobile views are outpacing desktop now. dunno what to think of that

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · Sep 10

ive been studying some diagrams. and i have a few things to say about tritones.
(new narrated / artsy video)

why are tritones like that...?

YouTube video by GST Channel

www.youtube.com

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