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he/him vgm composer/enthusiast pro archivist! drums & viola pxtone proponent fan of turtles, jazz, sci-fi, mega drive, string qtet no envy, no meanness

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jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · Nov 16

"jaxcheese to the sky"
I'm here now and will post either more or less than before.
big updates on musicking activities also available on jaxcheese.net
thank you & hello

jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 8h

this thing was way more work than I expected!! but I'm really happy with all the details
there will be another volume when my willpower returns...

jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 8h

also included: historical notes about each composer, tune and game. with screenshots and photos! readers of the jaxcheese blog know that to me arrangement and performance are preservation activities, and the notes are an extension of that idea. more rationale to be found in the preface..

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jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 8h

I made a "real book" with transcriptions of 15 handpicked vgm obscurities to bring to my local vgm jam sesh!! download JAX's DEEP JAMS at jaxcheese.net/sheets
feat. tunes from MARIO ARTIST TALENT STUDIO, LEADING COMPANY, SNOOPY CONCERT, SORA NO FUDOUSAN, IHATOVO MONOGATARI, and more...

the jax zone - sheets

jaxcheese.net

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jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 12h

lol yeah!!!

jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 15h

I saw one here a couple months ago. perhaps the only violent urge I have ever experienced in my life. surely the spinning weak point on the roof is vulnerable to something

jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 1d

this is too personal for the feed

jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 1d

I have a great love and taste for both things but at heart I think I am a "dry+subtle" type, so sometimes when my friends talk about a "better world" I wonder if they're planning to leave me behind when they get there. not that it's all about me!

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jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 1d

this wkd: played loud brass music in the street. tonite: went to brutalist city hall to see some v placid, oblique experimental silent film. lot of ppl on this part of the net have been saying our Radical Resistance Art needs to be loud+horny but I wonder if there's still a place for the dry+subtle

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jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 5d

jack I started watching it this week

jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 6d

currently reading

photo of a book in my hand: "Werner Herzog - Every Man For Himself and God Against All - A Memoir"

jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 8d

this was so so good the style and the script are really compelling (was a refreshing oasis in the rest of that movie LOL).. really excited to see your next thing

jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 12d

god bless anyone who has actually read all of "the making of americans"! unfathomable

jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 12d

close to the end of this volume.. I don't like her work now as much as I once thought I did. periodic charms, sonorities and compelling puzzles but so much just feels like an exercise. I liked "four saints in three acts" a lot more than "tender buttons" which I was initially pretty excited about

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jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 12d

garfield cartoon where jon is putting food in the oven as garfield watches. jon's speech in this cartoon was famously replaced with "why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food", but in this image it is instead replaced with a photo of an excerpt from the gertrude stein book in the linked post: "Eating he heat eating he heat it eating, he heat it heat eating. He heat eating."

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jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 12d

it's bandcamp friday!

screenshot of the bandcamp app showing albums I have just purchased
- Björk - Post
- blower - zipmaster
- Cecile McLorin Salvant - Oh Snap
- crazygoji - lucid dreaming
- Elliot Smith - Roman Candle
- Alfa Mist - Roulette

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jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 16d

these would map perfectly on to a sega saturn six button controller

jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 16d

I believe this is what they call an "option select". the strong forms take significantly longer though, risky!

infographic with a shouting cartoon person and a couple of tables

Key to Applause in Opera

"Great Job!"
Bravo! said to congratulate a single male singer
Brava! said to congratulate a single female singer
Bravi! said to congratulate many singers

"Fantastic Job!"
Bravissimo! said to a single male singer
Bravissima! said to a single female singer
Bravissimi! said to many singers

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jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 16d

new update to the meta. I knew of "brava" for a woman soloist before, but just now I worked on a tape where a guy called out "bravi" after the dittersdorf viola&bass concertante. apparently that's the right form for groups. so it's about more than just reaction time, you need to know the vocabulary

jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · Aug 14

thinking about this again bc I just heard two guys do it perfectly in sync while processing an old pops tape. seems like the viable window is about 0.8s and the optimal pronunciation takes about 0.5s. not quite frame perfect but still challenging, these guys must practice to live recordings at home

jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · Mar 9

wonder what it's like to be the guy who says BRAVO in the tiny gap between the last note and the applause. listening to Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor and suddenly a quick time event appears

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jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 20d

final goodbye to my home of ~20 months. like me, it was sometimes warm and loud and sometimes cold and quiet, it contained many mysteries, and it occasionally smelled a little funny

screenshot of a twitter post from january 7 2024 by @jaxcheese. the post reads "livin in the city" and there are three cropped photos: 1. a small figure of dr. eggman holding an emerald, sitting in a windowsill with a snowy road visible through the window. 2. a desk with a laptop, a stuffed toy of kk slider, and a few other things on it. there are posters of the sonic the hedgehog (mega drive) box art and a work by kandinsky on the wall. 3. a record player sitting on a table beside two crates full of records. small perler bead sculptures of two characters from kero blaster lean against a cd player on the bottom tier of the table

the same windowsill from the other photo. eggman is conspicuously missing and it is dark outside

jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · 28d

you used to be able to call things "rayxanber iii"

devils blush @devilsblush.bsky.social · 28d

rayxanber iii / pc engine cd
data west, 1992

spaceship launching a missile at an alien ship in the dark of space

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SEGA City @segacity.bsky.social · Sep 10

'Gunstar Heroes' was released on the SEGA Mega Drive 32 years ago today in Japan.

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devils blush @devilsblush.bsky.social · Sep 9

sonic the hedgehog 3 / mega drive
sonic team, 1994

a wall of flames engulfs the familiar sonic UI

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · Sep 8

my ongoing galaxy brain take on this sort of dilemma is still that you absolutely should buy games that you don't like and which are terrible for you and you can't finish. I do this all the time and it's much more horrible and meaningful than "enjoying a game," gross

Kayin @kayin.moe · Sep 8

I don't wanna blow any one particular person up but seeing some "Why did the dev of this hard game release another hard game this is unfair to unskilled players like me" going around and I'd just like to ask "why the fuck did you buy did you buy the game??????"

like you can make decisions!!

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jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · Sep 7

on bandcamp you can also read a pretty long writeup about the song's creation and background sexytoadsandfrogsfriendcircle.bandcamp.com/track/tiny-f... (and check out the rest of the album it's incredible)

Tiny frog anniversary, by jaxcheese

from the album STAFFcirc vol. 10 - STAFFcirc vol. 1 2

sexytoadsandfrogsfriendcircle.bandcamp.com

jaxcheese @jaxcheese.bsky.social · Sep 7

without the encouragement of those two and some friends who listened early I probably would not have been brave enough to push this funny little thing over the finish line... thanks everyone and thank you for listening <3

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