#Synthesist

[the-cricket-chirps]

Paul Gauguin

Singer

1880

[angeltechnic]

vigorously rotating @synthia-txt to the final boss theme of Picayune Dreams (warning: loud music)

(original video also by @synthia-txt)

(also yeah Picayune Dreams is finally out go play it)

[yage-bejing]

Harald Grosskopf - Synthesist

Originally issued 1980. Remasterd in 2014 by Bureau B.

[ymofan04]

Alexander Goldscheider

[pianoopedia]

All music producers and music enthusiasts who want to produce ambient music need to look for a synthesizer with amazing sound effects, decent sound sources, and a lot of reverbs. Finding the perfect synth for ambient music is a challenging feat, and you may have to analyze diverse features before you find the right one.

[synthtv]

Synth Britannia documentary

[ymofan04]

Isao Tomita's interview from Synapse magazine.

Isao tomita

[daekie-gw2]

Meet Synthesist Vreizz the Specter! Probably best known these days for being a musician (I've described them as "the Porter Robinson of Asura" & I think that's still true; they use a holokeyboard a lot of the time) and putting out one album a year every year for some time, Vreizz was actually an Inquest scientist working at the Thaumanova Reactor who had an unfortunate realization of man, maybe all the inhumane experimentation and rampant cruelty and thievery and murder isn't cool, tendered their resignation with plans to go focus solely on their music career...

...and immediately had to run for their fucking life through the Reactor's corridors, because their supervisor decided YOU? MORALITY? WHISTLEBLOWING? NO. DISGUSTING. I'M REFUSING YOUR RESIGNATION. DIE, BITCH and came after them with intent to kill. And it almost worked!! Except, uh, for the tiny detail that this was the exact moment the Reactor went critical and exploded, tearing rifts in spacetime, throwing their half-dead body into the depths of the Mists, where...

...they're not exactly sure what happened. They're pretty sure they're Vreizz, but, you know, there's a non-zero chance they're a Mists-being that's taken on the memory, personality, and skills of the original Vreizz, with the original being long dead. They have blood! Is it theirs? Couldn't tell you. It doesn't really bother them, they're a cheerful trickster-type person, but it does bother some people.

When not performing &/or composing they spend most of their time in the Mists, so they have weirdly comprehensive knowledge of Mists business (fuckin' wizards mucking around in there. quit it, you sons of bitches.) and... maybe not so much knowledge of Tyrian current events. ?????? What do you mean Cantha's open to the outside world. When'd that happen.

These days they've taken to just showing up out of thin air to say mysterious, incomprehensible shit to the Commander and then vanishing as soon as her back is turned. Heehee. :3c

[modernsynthesist]

Join Kajan, TacticalDbag, DarthBob, and I for our biweekly WiP Wednesday hobby stream at 7:30pm EDT / 12:30am GMT. And special thanks to Dachande for helping to design the WIP Wednesday art! by Modern Synthesist

[the-cricket-chirps]

Paul Gauguin

Tahitian Landscape

1892

[synthcrow]

Some music I made for ttrpg combat earlier this year. I don’t usually use orchestral samples this much but I was thinking a bunch about the halo soundtrack at that time. Apparently had some metroid prime ost inspiration too without realizing lol

[weldun]

Quote of the Week from my RPG group.

Player 1: Did you just do a superhero landing?

Player 2: It's okay. I used someone else's knees.

[ymofan04]

[gammarailgun]

so this is a bit random for my blog but ive been dredging up my old magic the gathering hyperfixation because of friendgroups that play EDH and i had some random thoughts

ive always clicked weirdly well with the red/white color pairing but the reasons have shifted over time

and ive had this nagging brainworm that

magic as a whole is doing RW wrong.

allow me to explain

fair warning: this is going to get a bit political, a bit philosophical, and very strongly informed by who i am as a person

so

the core axiom here is that human nature in the absence of external factors is inherently good and altruistic. we know this because we are social creatures, and the fundamental basis of early social structures is coming together for mutual benefit. oppressive systems and harsh upbringings can and do quash this in favor of learned hostility and abusiveness but that core is always there. it’s why redeeming the villain is such a common fictional trope - if it wasn’t possible to change and grow and deconstruct learned harmful behaviors we wouldn’t write about it nearly as much now would we

magic as an ur-setting recognizes this to some extent. we see snippets of the kindness of strangers in Innistrad even amidst the horrors and the distrust and the paranoia, we see the selfless unity against the Eldrazi on zendikar drawing in all five colors of the pie, we see countless other examples throughout the planes

now, what does this axiom mean in the context of the color philosophies of red and white?

simple

red and white are not enemies at all

red is about freedom and impulsivity and emotion

white is about peace and justice and selflessness

both of those are deeply emotional, deeply raw, deeply human ideas!!

and the intersection of those ideas isn’t a controlling power structure, it’s compassion

and compassion is hardly oppositional - it’s cooperative and synthesistic by its very nature, it’s a harmonization of what those two colors are!

now admittedly this is where my perspective as an audhd trans girl comes in. i’m someone that the world’s power structures reject, someone that doesnt fit the status quo, someone who’s constantly shoved into boxes that i don’t fit by people more powerful than me. and i have kind of a thing for the color aesthetic of Boros, so trying to turn something i like aesthetically into something that meshes with and permits and supports who i am is a reasonable bias to assume

but i still feel like there’s a core truth to be considered here

games are a form of art; there’s plenty of evidence i think that the people making Magic realize this. but that drags in the corollary that all art is political. all art says something about the world, about the systems we live in. and what does the Boros say? that combining the philosophies of freedom and selflessness is a contradiction and leads to yet another oppressive power structure. it’s a subtly anti-revolutionary, status-quo perspective that could be done far better

more importantly, it’s eschewing that compassion

boros is a police state and a military structure, one that exists to enforce rules and make demands and enact violence

it’s not an institution of compassion

and frankly no top-down power structure can be, not at a systematic level

so, what would doing red-white right look like in my view?

pretty simple: it would be a bottom-up portrayal of the color pair. one where the defiance of red and the justice of white stand in opposition to an existing power structure, one where the righteous fury of the downtrodden feeds into both colors’ fundamental natures and binds them together

so uh

yeah

thank you for coming to my ted talk

okay so a couple final disclaimers

- the last time i seriously caught up with mtg lore was around Magic Origins, with sporadic involvement stretching out to Guilds Of Ravnica. i’m not terribly familiar with any of the expressions of RW since then, and i’m mostly focused on the lens of Boros specifically because they’re the faction that got me into the color pair. if there have since been counterexamples i will gladly accept infodumps, new blorbos to build TTS EDH decks around are always welcome (winota my beloved) (the cat ears,,, 🥺🥺🥺). this also extends to my understanding of magic’s development and philosophy as a whole, so if it seems like arguing from a Magic-cultural context that’s several years behind the curve uhhh yeah that’s probably why

- i’ll admit i’m not tremendously well-read in terms of firsthand literature in terms of leftist/anarchist theory, queer theory, or Magic’s color philosophies, and so most of my information is secondhand - if i’ve grossly misunderstood something feel free to explain (although if you’re going to be a TERF in the reblogs about it you can kindly go shit yourself)

- i mean no ill will and make no particular demands or anything towards the writers themselves who came up with boros or the ideas they’ve expressed through the faction/color-identity; it takes a certain perspective to notice these things and assuming people will just Get It is unreasonable, and i’m not here to like. Annoyingly Insist that the game i have a tangentialhyperfixation on conform to My Vision Of What It Should Be

and uhhh yeah! trans rights are human rights, free palestine, and wishing all capitalists a very fuck you!

sierra out, roll credits

[phonographica]

Harald Grosskopf – Synthesist (1980)