tromboneboi9

Hello, it's tromboneboi9, member of tilde.town.

And yes, I do enjoy grilled cheese. Especially sharp cheddar on sourdough.

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Last updated: 2024-08-14

Socials & Other Pages

• YouTube
• Reddit
• Bandcamp
• Itch.io
• Replit
• Scratch
• MuseScore
• Xen Wiki
• Wikibooks
• Wikipesija (Toki Pona Wikipedia)

Things I Made

Sub-pages

• Random photos from my life
• Search my music (still in development)
• My Toki Pona page, jan pi toki pona o lukin!
• Microtonal scales I've designed, in Scala format

HTML Web-apps

• A tool for Helmholtz-Ellis JI Notation (Originally made on Replit)
• A tool to convert between the different scripts of Klingon (I have not watched Star Trek)
• A tool to insert long s's as used in seventeenth century printed English (Uses weird RegEx, might not work with your browser)
• ilo nanpa, a calculator in Toki Pona (work in progress!)

Others

• An AutoHotKey script to automate writing in UCSUR Sitelen Pona

Ventures

Music

I have a Bandcamp but nothing's there as of now. Some of my more orchestral-style notated pieces and arrangements are on my YouTube.

I played trombone and tuba in school but nowadays I play electric bass and a bit of guitar and piano.

I am a composer and huge theory nerd though, especially regarding 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 rather than other composers, but if I have any human inspirations they would probably be the big twentieth-century folks like Arnold Schoenberg or Philip Glass.

Collecting

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 technically have around 10 or 12 typewriters, but I plan to sell around half since it consists of too many electric machines with broken parts or obscure ribbons that need replacing. Kind of a shame.

But now and then I find myself a good, solid mechanical from the 60's. They're like miniature printing presses.

I've been collecting playing cards since about second grade; their flexibility in design and concept peaked 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. I have a deck of Neapolitan cards, and cards from Piacenza and Piedmont are being shipped as I write this.

If that peaks your interest too, you'll want to check out TaroBear's Lair.

Language Learning

I've tried to learn several world languages, but I can't say I'm fluent in anything other than American English.

• Mandarin Chinese (traditional characters) – my strongest, around A2
• Standard German – between A1 and A2
• Japanese – very good at kana but only around A1

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 [tomo .. lon :: pona .. ..].

Linguistics & Conlangs

But I started developing my own international auxiliary language because apparently most existing IALs are terrible. For now, it's just called AKIAL. More info here.

In the future I might make a more artistic language for game development, or maybe for an RPG if I ever get into that.