I'm currently charting █ ͇͇͇͇͇͇̿̿̿̿ ͇͇͇̿̿ ̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿┌ ▄█▀▄ ͇͇͇͇͇̿̿̿█ ͇͇͇̿̿ ̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿̿▐▄┌ off this album

rip qebrus man this dude's death hit me harder than david bowie's

qebrus ;o; i found out basically at the same time as i found the songs

wonderful sound design, good luck charting <3

cool chart ngl

update us, if thats ok!! you could make the thread more suitable for ot by sharing trivia about qebrus too! that way it doesnt like,, disappear on you lol

ppl camt argue your thread is for mapping/charting subforums if this thread is primarily a tribute to the musician, which just happens to have a lil supplemental chart~

of cpurse, who said this thread wasnt already that? hehe :3c

bc i mean that zalgo text was always so xtra but it made the titles and songs so mysterious-looking

Achromalia wrote:

update us, if thats ok!! you could make the thread more suitable for ot by sharing trivia about qebrus too! that way it doesnt like,, disappear on you lol

ppl camt argue your thread is for mapping/charting subforums if this thread is primarily a tribute to the musician, which just happens to have a lil supplemental chart~

of cpurse, who said this thread wasnt already that? hehe :3c

bc i mean that zalgo text was always so xtra but it made the titles and songs so mysterious-looking

lol I also have a finished chart for this track that I've considered repurposing for o!m, I'd need to play around with it to see if it'd be a viable chart since the main gimmick I used when charting the song for etterna/sm would be lost in translation. qebrus really was ahead of the curve imo. it's so depressing that he passed away as young as he did, guaranteed he was just going to get better and better. absolutely relentless sound design. there's a video of him smiling from ear to ear hearing aphex twin play one of his tracks at a live show that makes me really happy to think about.

one thing I really like across genres is weird song naming conventions. music with vocals are kinda "forced" to use song names that pull from the lyrics, some don't but most do, especially in pop music. but when that's not the case, what do you do? what's the purpose of your song's name? what does it say about the song? what does it say about you? does it need to mean anything? does it need to say anything?

as a musician/artist, i notice that any time i'm finding inspirations like him, they leave a particular kind of admiring-envy. in this case, his extent of prowess in sound design looks brutal for people that aren't familiarized or comfortable or disciplined for it, and i'm probably among them since i only really can muster the energy to fixate more on melodically emotive/cathartic anchors. witnessing the joy creators find in their crafts really soothes that distant impression of unreachability, and it feels really "human" in a sea of culture that's both boiling over large swaths of ecosystems while forming frigid island chains, if that makes sense.

i think i might've either seen that video, but if i haven't then i've absolutely heard about it. it's been so long now, but when i visit it, i'm sure it'll be heartwarming.

i've not had entirely as consistently meaningful a range of thoughts/questions about common and weird name conventions, but i do find them interesting as well. wonderful music selections by the way ("hate devours its host" as a whole, especially), and i think i would have loved to discover these after qebrus, though my taste developed elsewhere by 2018 or so. i never quite let go of these kinds of idm and ambient instrumental songs, loosely speaking.

have you heard of a channel named "drillobite"?
that happened to be where i first found a home to be sheltered and fed with strange-for-the-time music, which i sometimes loved dearly. i don't know if these would suit your profile, but that's sort of where i look at this from.

i've had a particular relationship with title aesthetics and name aesthetics and number aesthetics, of course, but could never quite apply them or find them in the forms i seemed to want, so i ultimately stopped being all that deliberate about what i found meaning in, and would usually just settle for whatever sounded sweet as long as it didn't really bother me.