Hello, it's tromboneboi9, member of tilde.town.
Teenage centrist (slightly libertarian). And yes, I do enjoy grilled cheese. Especially sharp cheddar on sourdough.
Townie visitors! Please write to my guestbook: << /home/tromboneboi9/guestbook.txt >>
Last updated: 2025-08-03
All of my web-apps have now been migrated to my GitHub page.
My primary endeavor has been music. I originally played trombone and tuba in school, but now I've left that world for piano and electric bass. Nowadays I compose original music—mostly for small ensembles—of high enough quality to gain the favor of a local university.
I have a Bandcamp but nothing's there as of now. Most of my notated pieces and arrangements are on my YouTube or my MuseScore.
I mess around a lot with music theory, especially tuning theory and microtonality, or “xenharmonics”. I use Scala quite often to screw around with scales. Some of the scales I've made reside here.
I tend to find inspiration from theoretical concepts or isolated aesthetics rather than other composers, but here are some people I can confidently say have influenced my work:
I'll collect just about anything that I find interesting, stuff from old computers to recorders to slide rules.
But these days I mostly focus on collecting typewriters and decks of playing cards.
I have about seven machines right now, but I've owned more than that. Most were dysfunctional electro-mechanical machines with bespoke ribbons, so I got rid of them. Luckily my collection now has more 50's-60's purely-mechanical machines.
I've been collecting playing cards since about second grade; their flexibility in design and concept piqued my interest. I'm pretty decent at card magic and a beginner at cardistry, but these days I look for obscure decks from other nations, to see how they conceptualize a deck of cards. Italian regional cards (of which around 20 designs exist) interest me a lot for that reason. If that piques your interest too, you'll want to check out TaroBear's Lair.
I've tried to learn several world languages (namely German and Mandarin Chinese), but I can't say I'm fluent in anything other than American English.
But I am very into Toki Pona: mi ken toki kepeken toki pona. tenpo mute la mi toki kepeken nimi pu kepeken nimi ku suli kepeken nimi ante pi mute lili. toki pona la nimi mi li jan Tolonpon. jan ale pi toki pona o kama pona tawa lipu mi!