I’m a bit late to reply - but no worries about the length, what you write is indeed very insightful and I’m here to listen ;) also, yeah, the past week has been a lot for many…

I think no scene is irrelevant really, no matter how small. You put it quite nicely, music is an experience, that’s what it boils down to mostly. I totally get what you write about not being delusional about your achievements within the wider music world. I feel the same about what I do, it’s nowhere near perfect lol or close to what other DIY Producers out there do, and it took me some years to not fall into that mindset of comparing yourself with others any longer. I’m mostly doing it for fun and as a way to express myself and I won’t ever be able to reach huge amounts of people, but I’m Ok with that (now).

circuit-bending and synths sounds fun, I wish I had more time to experiment with my instruments or get into fiddling around with som tech… You had a nice group of people hanging out together, and to me it seems actually very ambitious you managed to plan weekly themed events and all of that during lockdowns! I really hope you can still get some of that spirit going now, but it sounds more like you all went their own ways in a sense. I’m curious to hear more about that process of filesharing and how you adopted different ways of making music?

Yeah, Discord, I’m not even surprised. I think the majority of music production oriented communication happens on this platform currently, unfortunately. I considered it as a research field for quite a while as I used to hang out in a few Music production servers, and it would probably have been easy to reach out to artists on there. But I deleted my account already a while back and am really happy with that desicion. Would have been really annoying to register a new account, likely with a phone number required and all that…

I can relate to what you say about making music offline or away from screens. During the pandemic I went ‘full on’ and spent all day on my computer for work and it wasn’t really a problem for me to continue elsewhere to make music. I think I already mentioned that I actually really made a lot of music back then, more than before (and after), I really benefited from being able to spend time at home and not having those daily issues of leaving the house and facing society. My music laptop is usually offline and there’s not much else on there than music related stuff, so there’s not a chance for much distraction, so maybe that helped staying in the zone…

I’ve only got really sick of spending as much time on the computer/phone after the pandemic, and had to take a break from it for a while. To me, now it’s mainly about listening to music offline - I’m not streaming as much music as I used to and got really annoyed about all that madness of keeping up with the pace on those streaming services. I think discord also played a huge role in feeling overwhelmed with all of this. Managed to reduce a bit of that noise, so now I kind of enjoy just going my own tempo with all of this again, and I feel much more inspired to actually sit down and get something done. Ok maybe now I went off-topic for a bit but it’s all kinda connected ^^

Thanks for the reply and your interest in the topic! This takes away a bit of the anxiety after having posted that chunk of text about the project (always takes a bit of courage to start sth like this to be fair)

Fascinating to read that you feel things changed a lot with covid. To me, it’s been pretty much the same than before, even though I had a lot more inner peace and in general calmer days to sit down and do music during lockdowns, so I got a lot more accomplished. Something I often struggle with now after.

Curious to hear what you noticed had changed in your local scene, but only if you feel like sharing ;)