Check out her album Sonic Seasonings sometime. Really amazing atmospheric stuff!
I saw this a while back on TikTok and had to dig up my memory of this. Around 2014 I was reading an article about the person who did some of the VFX for Tron: Legacy. I bookmarked it. At some point the link was dead. Turns out they came out as trans. I don’t know if her site redesign/domain name has anything to do with that but it seeing this post always reminds me of that. https://jtnimoy.cc/item.php%3Fhandle=14881671-tron-legacy.html
She also saved Panos the wonder child ! (YouTube)
Thank you, if you hadn’t posted it, I would have. I was literally just watching this again for the umpteenth time yesterday. One of my favorite videos of all time.
why trans people make music and not massive 8ft tall burger
¿Por que no las dos?
5 years ago…
5 years ago was 2019, that statement is equally funny as it is horrifying
If you live under a stone, that might be your first time hearing that trans people exist.
Nah, it was around the time trans people became heavily politicized and their weekly outrage sources told them to be mad about it
If you live under a stone your first exposure might be tomorrow. Still doesn’t excuse the conclusion that we didn’t exist before that.
Wait…I exist?
holy shit me too
What is our purpose?
lead the revolution
Five years ago a friend celebrated the 12th anniversary of her vaginoplasty…
Yeah I saw some videos of her trying to dress up as a man in some presentation video about an electronic instrument and it just felt so out of place. She’s definitely a woman.
This seems nuts but it’s true. She had privately transitioned but hadn’t yet come out in 1970, and had to make some public appearances wearing awkward fake sideburns (and maybe a short-haired wig?) to pose as a man. More info here on Pink News.
That shit’s like buttah!
I just wish more people would talk about her music instead of her gender. I know she’s bitter or dissatisfied about Switched on Bach, but I still listen to it regularly. There aren’t many pieces of instrumental music that can actually make me laugh, but it does. Bach works on synth so well. Largely due to Carlos’ efforts.
I was in a record store a few months ago, saw a copy of Switched on Bach, thought it would be interesting, and picked it up. Blew me away. Then I googled it, learned the story and how groundbreaking it was.
Now I’ve got a few albums of hers from that era. Great stuff.
How long until chuds will claim historical records of trans people are falsified?
Already have seen this. I have seen arguments pointing out what the Nazis did to trans people, the first clinic for trans people, and the research materials on it, get met with replies that it’s revisionist, fraudulent, jewish, propaganda.
Worth noting: a lot of the material from that German trans clinic in the 1920s-30s was destroyed by the doctors themselves. Y’know. To protect their patients from the god-damned Nazis.
JK Rowling did that not too long ago. (She didn’t call it Jewish, but absolutely called it lies and propaganda that trans people and trans researchers were early targets for the Nazis and victims of the Holocaust.)
I don’t say this to obsess over the Harry Potter author, but to point out that you don’t have to go cherry picking to find this shit. She’s a prominent person using her platform to spread bigotry and misinformation.
oh yeah, i know about her, she is putting that stuff into the mainstream. Worst part is, she is likely so touchy about this because of her own gender identity issues that she has ignored rather than resolve.
Yeah. I know that calling bigots secretly closeted is problematic, but IIRC she has outright said that, if she were a young person today, she would question her gender identity.
Oh, I am not just saying this because she is anti-trans, I am saying this because she has been speaking about her issues with gender for like 20, nearly 20, years now. The more that she came out with, the more hard line anti-trans she showed herself to be. This is probably made all the worse from her trauma from rape. But hey, I am not her psychologist.
Totally understood, and I apologize for implying you might have. It was not my attention. I just meant that, even though it’s something I avoid jumping to conclude, it does happen, and there’s reason to believe it’s the case with Rowling. She’s got issues. It doesn’t absolve her of anything, but there’s a little pity in my condemnation.
Yeah, I didn’t take that comment as accusatory, just figured I would make my position clear. There is a body of evidence that shows that the more intense someone’s homophobia is, the more likely they are to be sexually aroused by homoerotic stuff. However, this does not mean homophobes are likely to be closeted queers. The vast majority of these bigots are not, in fact, homosexuals. However, every public homophobe gets a lot of reactions suggesting they are, often even from gay people. Not great.
It makes me feel icky to type it out… The terms “tranny” and “transvestite” were very common nomenclature in the 90s. In conversation, movies, television. Trans people were often a punchline. And absolutely existed.
Transvestite, I believe, is also a term applied to intersex persons as well, as far as I know… At least historically.
The condition of being intersex, as far as I’m aware, is a well known condition dating back really far.
Those people truly have no gender (and/or they’re both genders? IDK), so “trans” doesn’t really apply to them IMO.
intersex people are exactly that - somewhere outside of the binary of the two sexes. Thanks to them we see the clearest example of how gender is simply assigned to a child at birth. Majority of intersex children are forced into one of the binary sexes and then forcefully assigned a gender to match so they can be “normal”.
and it honestly comes down to the individual if they see themselves as trans or not, some might see what their parents did to be a forced transition, some might want to detransition from that, some might not
People used to use hermaphrodite as a slur not that long ago for intersex people, as well.
Every year, millions of trans folks are detransitioned against their will by the 5 year hard limit.
Hell yes, fucking slay queen!
She is the goddess of synthesizers and one of the first people I stumbled upon when I was learning about synths: https://youtu.be/UsW2EDGbDqg
She was not only a master composer, she also helped with the development of the Moog synthesizer, the first commercial synth.
Now i must learn as well, thank you! This is wonderful!
Synth sims are the cheap way to go. Cardinal is an open source fork of VCV Rack. It can be used standalone or as a plugin with your favorite DAW.
All the concepts are the same as modular “euro rack” synths. Voltage lines, oscillators, the works. You even use “wires” to connect everything.
All YouTube tutorials for VCV are generally applicable to Cardinal, btw.
If you want to go the DAW route, it should work with the free version of FL Studio. It’s just much easier to do full tracks that way. However: FL Studio is not easy to learn and even less so when you are integrating something like Cardinal.
Edit: I apologize in advance if this post is the reason you fall into the money pit that is digital music.
Thanks for the references
You left your SI in that link. It’s a tracking code Google uses to tell who you’ve been talking to on other websites.
Thanks. Got rid of it.
I had the switched on Bach cassette when I was a kid. I thought it was cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0HAWX1TSA&list=PLLICd7vQi7iGUyErozBAwgcr4F49kxiXY
Are They the ones with the sick sideburns playing with a homemade synth in that video from the 70s?
If you mean this video, then yes!
She was ahead of her time
Also Lynn Conway, the important engineer behind Mead Conway VLSI
I’ve known about this woman for years and been a Tron fan since I wore out the VHS when I was six, and I never realized they were connected.
Yep. Made the Tron score sound like a video arcade, hence the ubiquitous discordances. This piece titled The Light Sailer features the Tron Scherzo (What I think of the Tron Theme, though now the love theme is called that).
