Hello!
I'm both
a self-taught pianist playing by ear, and
an electronic music producer.
I got serious about playing piano about 3 years ago when I was 11 or so, but I've been able to play songs since I was maybe 6. I used to have a small "trainer's piano" of my own.
I got into producing music digitally when I was 11 or 12. I would start remixing songs like "U.N. Owen was Her?" and stuff, but I was pretty casual about it. I wasn't too great with it until around the time I turned 13. Once I found Undertale, I started to love the soundtrack and the game itself. I got motivated to the point where I wanted to create my own "AU" or Alternate Universe, called "Xenotale". I would come up with different fight scenes and premises in my head, and I would remix all the bossfight songs like the infamous "Megalovania", including some other gems like "It's Raining Somewhere Else". That's when I started improving in terms of composition and rhythmic understanding. Over time I would learn new genres and new ways to produce. From that point, I'd be good enough to produce some decent music for people to see, just as soon as I had been 13. I think the "youngest electronic producer" thing inspired me to try to become better too. unfortunately, at this point, theres no way to really prove that I produced decent music before the little Aussie DJ himself. He didn't make very great music though. His songs had a lot of problems with mixing and distortion. Anyways...!
I play the piano well enough to compose my own music on the spot, but I don't know if it'll really be up to par to anything from classical pieces. I've never been able to put my own piano pieces within any sorts of genres. It's like the notes from my piano pieces come from electronic songs or something, if there was a way to really describe that. I can't read sheet music as of yet, so all my songs are done by ear or by memory.
I produce music within multiple genres, since there are tons of genres I enjoy listening to and some have even fascinated me to the point of attempting something that works using that genre's distinctive traits. I haven't been able to really put them into a specific genre either. I'll try Extratone, but they'll wind up being a hybrid of something melodic. I've tried Breakcore, but then it becomes something melodic. I'll try IDM, but it gets to a rhythmical point that it might as well be Splittercore or Extratone, along with instruments that imply it's a Breakcore piece. I'll try Chiptune, but then... yeah. I have a hard time staying within one genre, so my songs will become hybrids. I used to use FL Studio 11 from my old Windows XP, but because it cant directly transfer music and because external devices don't seem to be able to extract anything safely from the desktop, I now use a free but very limited program called LMMS. Seriously, I cant really do much with this. But hey, it's free, and it works. It has just enough instruments to be able to come up with a decent song.
You wont find very many things that I've worked on because I rarely publish anything.
I'm currently making a song called "Entropy". It's possibly going to become an IDM/Breakcore/Drum'n'Bass/Chiptune/Extratone hybrid.
Yeah! Thats about it. Sorry about not having much material, but I do have an inactive Soundcloud with two previews of songs I made.
They have bad audio quality because the desktop I composed with didnt connect with the internet despite the wi-fi reaching my other laptop. I wound up recording them with a school tablet.
So uhh... here's the link to my cringy Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/user-819322441Thanks for reading this giant wall of text, I might as well have sent you an essay!
We could be friends or something too if you'd like. ( 'w')