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my name is ezra! i am a non-binary, 19 year old undergraduate college student with a future career path in speech-language pathology. i'm from western new york and proud! i am a former cellist, current hobby musician, and hobby linguist. in general, i enjoy my life. i have lots of friends. i have a really lovely future in my cards. i have time to do the things i like to do. i can't complain!

my pronouns are they/them and, in spanish él/lo. se debería usar el género masculino para referirme.

i am learning spanish as a natively monolingual english speaker- have patience and politely correct me in conversation if i make some errors :).

just some more personal information about myself, because it's really smart to post about how gay you are online. anyways. i'm queer. that's about all i know about my sexuality. i hope i can update this section soon with more information about how i feel about all of it. i've never really enjoyed those kinds of labels for myself regardless. i spend a fair share of my time on the internet, but i've been trying to get off of it more and more. i like the internet. i like what it does for me.

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so. i'm a chiptune and digital fusion (digifu) musician. i mainly do my stuff on forks of the web-based open source app beepbox. to be more specific, i'm currently using slarmoo's box. you can find more information about both forks if you click on these links and scroll down! i started writing music in beepbox and its mods since around 2017-2018 when i found the website on my school chromebook. i would fart around for a long time, especially on the bus rides home from school. i've been meaning to move on to some trackers or even work with vocaloid. that would be really cool. i want a famitracker EP soon.

anyways. i've been writing for a long time, but found a really big online community in 2023. since then, thanks to some lovely people in that community, i've been posting my music on bandcamp and all major streaming platforms. i keep most of my link data on my bookmarks, which i back up every two months. i have a work in progress everything sheet that i'll be posting here soon, so, stay tuned i guess :). right now i'm working on a cover album, called digital graceland. it's going to come out next fall, hopefully. i've got a few tracks already written and one posted. it's a very loose VRC6 cover of never going back again by fleetwood mac. it's a fun cover. i love that song.

i also do some linguistics projects on the side- most importantly, my conlang somaic. it's a part of the greater poymotha project i work on with a few friends. i've been working on somaic for quite some time now, about two years. very little is written on the internet but i've been working on this language and its grammar for a long time. it's just a small passion project to work on and improve my understanding of hypothetical linguistics. in general, i've been studying linguistics ever since i was like. lowkey ten years old-- a little bit before i started writing music. i did a lot of studying proto-indo-european and historical comparative linguistics.

outside of music and linguistics, i like to hike with my friends, hammock outside, ski, write, play some games, and ride my lovely bike, seville. i am a former camp counsellor and if you know me in the REAL world it's beyond obvious.

just to summarize, here's some of my interests

• linguistics and foreign language study
• chiptune/electronic music
• music theory and analysis
• biking and hiking
• social deduction games
• readin WIKIPEDIA baby
• and more :)

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my favorite song ever, is, and forever will be graceland by paul simon. it's one of those songs i heard from my dad because he heard it from his dad, you know? this song is genetic. it's awesome. i love this song. if i had to pick two more favorites, i'd say useless by omar apollo, and lijepe žene prolaze kroz grad by azra. as for useless, i discovered that song in the fall of my junior year in high school. i love that song. the guitar tone. the shitty breakup lyrics. the etude-like bass playing at the end. stellar. as for lijepe žene prolaze kroz grad, i don't even remember where or when i found that song. i just got really into really awesome american-inspired ex-yugoslav rock/pop-punk during covid. i had a few friends who used to put me on that stuff. that whole scene was awesome. it's so american in every way except for the fact it's in serbo-croatian. it's hysterical. catchy. stupid raunchy, lyrically speaking. yeah no, it's chill, i just didn't expect it to be croatian!

anyways. if i was stranded on a desert island and i had to take 10 albums with me in no particular order...

paul simon - graceland

so. i dunno. i just really love this album. i don't think it's paul simon's best work- or even my favorite album. it just has graceland on it. i can't go without that song, man. maybe i could play it on xylophones made out of palm trees. but. i need to hear it.

stevie wonder - songs in the key of life

i would call this the best album ever made. i know it's kind of cheating to take more than one record/cd/tape/whatever but i really think this album deserves to come with me... down my dead end street. would you like to go with me? to village... ghetto land? anyways. this is one of the few 10/10 albums EVER! i love this thing. don't even play.

chuck mangione - land of make believe (live)

okay so this is an album my grandpa showed me. chuck mangione was from upstate new york (born, lived, and died in rochester). everyone here knows who he is. i think it would be a sin if i didn't take something by chuck here. this album was the first thing in his discography i ever knew about- i heard it for the first time on my grandpa's record player. this album is STELLAR!

geese - getting killed

yes i am so annoying about this album i don't care i love this album so much. an old friend showed me the singles in late june and i fell in love with them. i love geese i'm such a geesehead. i could not live on a desert island without this weird gaudy lyricism and this loud rock-revival sound... say what you want about geese fans though LOL

the beatles - the beatles (a.k.a. the white album)

this is my favorite beatles album. if i really had to pick a half to take with me i could do entirely without disc 2 because the stuff off the first half of the album is just. stellar. another album my grandpa got me into (although, i'll say my love of the beatles was instilled by my bud lenny). hashtag look at all those piggies crawling through the dirt

bjork - debut

i love her she's nuts i love her i love her i'm so gay about bjork it's insane i get so gayy off that debut by bjork i love her i fucking love her. my last hope on this island is "like someone in love". i really love her so much.

gilberto gil - refavela

my first foreign album on the list. a dear friend of mine from high school introduced me to this album a few years ago. i don't remember when; but she sent me this song off this album called "era nova". it's a lovely song, and, after a little while of listening to this album and learning what everything in it means, i fell in love. aqui e agora is an awesome song.

i used to listen to jupiter every day in middle school i'm not even kidding. i would come home and ask the alexa to play the planets. one time i saw the rochester philharmonic play it and i cried five times. i wish i was kidding. it was so awesome. i played mars in high school. it sounded like shit but it was so fun. god that cello part on mars is so tricky. anyways. my favorite movement is vi. uranus, the magician, if you're wondering.

they might be giants - flood

plavi orkestar - smrt fašižmu

i am a plavi orkestar head and i will die on this hill. not that anyone really has a problem with the fact that i like this album. but. i found this jawn during covid. i had a friend online who listened to this ex-yugoslav stuff and i LOVED it. i had a weird obsession with serbian culture as a kid. it manifests itself today in a really odd music taste. i love this album. it's punky. it's crazy. check it out.

this is a really complicated question, so. put your reading hat on.

within the beepbox sound, the biggest inspiration on my sound is, without a doubt, chiptune musician farpiedilp. it was his stuff that got me back into writing music, and in general, comitting to a chiptune sound. his stuff is really dear to me. i discovered it around 2021 and it got me throughout high school as a major source of my musical inspiration. i would above all, recommend checking farpie's stuff out.

i would also say that lenn y is a big inspiration of mine, too. he's a really special musician with a knack for all of this crazy technical mumbo jumbo especially in the program. we ended up collabing on a few tracks and plan to release a joint EP sometime!

it's impossible to talk about the sounds that influence my sound without talking about the infamous beepbox musician nobonoko. his sound is prolific, i feel like i can't escape to any corner of the internet without someone knowing about the kind of music he knows. i'm very lucky to share a small internet scene with the guy. he's really neat. check his stuff out, especially his album gato if you want a general idea of what he sounds like.

some other artists within my scene i consider huge sources of inspiration are nellative, skee.c, PJ, and impasaurus among others. (each link here is to a soundcloud, bandcamp, or youtube page! consider checking them out!)

aside from that, i'd like to cite a lot of sources for my sound. i'm a big j.s. bach fan! listening to him a lot as a kid i think made my compositions just kind of sound like that. kind of baroque. lots of counterpoint. stuff like that. if i am to cite some other composers that influence my sound, i'd say stravinsky (especially earlier on in my composition), gustav holst (in general concept), jean-philippe rameau, and antonin dvorak. all of these composers are really dear to me. i grew up listening to almost all of these composers as a kid.

i suppose i also take a large source of my inspiration from chiptune/digifu composers outside of my scene, too. mainly fearofdark, how2boss, and doctorn0gloff for some examples of big inspirational composers out of my scene.

i also take a great source of my inspiration from the music i listen to! so! you should read the blurb above this one if you haven't already!