Hello, it's tromboneboi9, member of tilde.town.
Teenage centrist (slightly libertarian). And yes, I do enjoy grilled cheese. Especially sharp cheddar on sourdough.
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Last updated: 2025-03-03
NEW! A performance of my new composition that won me $1000 at competition! Will be on my YouTube mid-April.
In due time, these all will be moved off of the tilde.town server and onto my GitHub.
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 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 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 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!