I find generally that the world of music is really opaque to me. Talking to people, they almost all have this kind of formative experience during their teenage years where they discover some band or genre of music that helps shape their developing personality and informs at least part of their direction.
Personally I never had such an experience; when I was a teenager, most of the music I knew was written by Weird Al. I liked it because I thought it was clever. Even now I have a passionate love for mashups like those from Neil Cicierega that doesn’t seem to be shared by others.
As a result, I never really got into any particular genres of music. Most of the popular music I knew and still know is either from a Guitar Hero setlist or from one of my parents (and hence my love of ’80s rock and pop).

In my burgeoning adulthood, I still find that others get more from music than I do. Melbourne, the city where I live, is renowned for its independent music and arts scene, but going to performances with my friends often leaves me feeling unsatisfied in the same way that eating a bowl of white rice or potato chips does. I see other people dancing and wonder why they feel the need to. This is probably just me being awkward but I genuinely don’t get it, even if my reaction is performative.

To that end, I’ve made a conscious effort to try to produce my own music. I hope this will give me a better understanding of what other people like about music and help me discover more of it. In particular, I like electronic music of the “lo-fi beats to chill/study/relax to” form, but also more upbeat music that imparts feelings of certain places or experiences. I really like poolside.fm for example, it makes me feel happy and is good background noise for a social event.

I have already produced 3 songs at time of writing; I will probably upload them somewhere under my own name unless and until I find a style that feels unique, at which point I will label it with something I feel captures what I’m going for. I will edit this post with links to the music when I have uploaded it.