jaxcheese

@jaxcheese

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· 4d

it's bandcamp friday

screenshot of the bandcamp app displaying six albums I just purchased:
- Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works vol. 2
- Fievel Is Glaque - Rong Weicknes
- The Necks - Disquiet
- Mei Semones - Kurage
- Rainer Maria - Past Worn Searching
- tennyson - aka

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· Jul 12

partial photo of a cover of a record album. it says:
2 LP RECORD SET
RADIO and TV's
Most Hilarious
BONERS
UNCENSORED
Pardon My B... [the rest of the title is cut off]

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· Jul 10

it's time again. great program!! chamber music heals me. (parking was easier this year)

photo taken from the balcony at the shalin liu performance center in rockport. four empty chairs are situated in a semicircle on a stage. behind them a very large window shows a view of the ocean and the coast.

photo of a program page. abridged transcription:

BALOURDET QUARTET

TERRA QUARTET

Thursday, July 9, 7:30PM

String Quartet No. 2 in D major (1881)
Aleksandr Borodin

"Tintype" for string quartet (2024)
Osvaldo Golijov

String Quartet in F major (1902-3)
Maurice Ravel

Two Pieces for String Octet, op. 11 (1924-5)
Dmitri Shostakovich

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· Jul 8

employing "nature's file transfer protocol"

I'm walking down the sidewalk holding a hard drive in a cardboard box

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· Jul 3

not bandcamp friday

screenshot of the bandcamp app displaying eight albums I just bought:
- nomeansno - The Day Everything Became Nothing
- Mid-Air Thief - Crumbling
- Ichiko Aoba - SAYONARA PENGUIN
- klark sound - What Is Music
- Chris Weisman - Maya Properties
- LOVEPENGUIN - Dee Destruction Official Soundtrack!
- diamondthorns - Infinity Lancer Demo OST
- Lemonectric - Raz and Barry's Gastronomical Tour

and one album I bought last month:
- TTNG - Animals Acoustic

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· Jul 1

also currently reading...

screenshot of the visual novel 428: shibuya scramble. a person in a cat mascot costume stands outside in a busy plaza holding a basket full of drinks. text over the image reads "It's so hot in this thing."

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· Jul 1

currently reading

my hand is holding a paperback copy of william faulkner - as I lay dying

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· Jun 23

"Quinto Maganini (30 November 1897 – 10 March 1974) was an American composer, flautist, and conductor."

image of the gundam character char aznable when he uses the alias "quattro bajeena"

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· Jun 22

grand gate (one hour battle)

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· Jun 17

maybe clearer version of this post would be "(trying to convert anime fans to modernist music appreciators) you know who else produced a lot of serial experiments?" but come on this is like exactly the plot of one of those depressing manga kids are moral panicking about on tiktok

from wikipedia:

Some of Lulu's admirers blackmail and threaten to sex traffick her, perhaps to Africa (Lied des Mädchenhändlers, quoting Wedekind's lute song; Lied der Lulu reprise). She arranges to have one murdered with Geschwitz's help. The stock market crashes (Verwandlungsmusik). Lulu is reduced to prostitution as perhaps before in her childhood. Seeking money, Schigolch finds only a book of homilies in the coat of Lulu's first client, the Professor (the mirror, in a dual role, of her first husband Dr. Goll), who has discreetly paid Lulu in advance. Her second client, an African Prince (the Painter's double), refuses to pay and beats Alwa to death. Geschwitz contemplates suicide. Lulu is so captivated by (or afraid of) her third client, Jack the Ripper (Schön's double), that she waives payment. He murders Lulu and her "crazy sister" Geschwitz, who dies mourning Lulu ("Lulu! Mein Engel!").

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· Jun 11

searchbar containing the text "has the church of the flying spaghetti monster released a statement on generative ai"

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· Jun 9

really excited to play rhythm heaven groove

discord screenshot:
but like it would be absurd if they got four really good musicians to re record the old beatles records in a nicer studio
no one wants to hear that
well. actually I'm sure some people do
(jaxcheese 12:18 PM)
but like. that movie of romeo and juliet where they have cars and guns. that I can get behind. that's a different thing
they should remake ocarina of time with cars and guns is what I'm saying

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· Jun 5

not bandcamp friday....

screenshot of the bandcamp app showing seven albums I just purchased:
- TTNG - Animals Acoustic
- Maxo - Tweewaster
- STAFFcirc - STAFFcirc vol. 13 - Frog Mechanics
- Kineorama - ウ・エ・マ・シャット
- Jake Kaufman - Mina the Hollower Original Soundtrack
- Zahran Worrell - Resonance in Blue
- Kelly Bray and Jacob Hiser - striations

also pictured are two albums that I purchased at an earlier date:
- Studio Stein - DESKBOP
- 8-bit & The Single Players - GET GOOD

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· Jun 4

no reaction! (one hour battle)

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· Jun 3

blessed creature. he can't even comprehend what he's looking at

photo of my computer monitor at work. the left side of the desktop is taken up by an excel window with a bunch of text and codes in it. on the right side the exposed desktop background shows a polar bear standing on the edge of a shelf of ice, gazing peacefully over the water and towards my spreadsheet

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· Jun 1

playing pulseman

photo of my tv. on it is the stage select screen from pulseman. over a blue checkered background, an electronic detail shows a satellite photo of japan labeled "STAGE 1 - JAPAN". around the dial are the words "STAGE SELECT", pulseman standing, a video feed of a woman, and some japanese text.

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· May 27

she's just like me 🥲 (new yamane/shimomura interview from @shmuplations.bsky.social is a freaking goldmine shmuplations.com/yamaneshimom...)

By the time I was in middle school, I'd listen to pop music but walk around with this slightly insufferable attitude like, "Sure, but my favorites are Ravel and Rachmaninoff. I'm not like the rest of you." (laughs) I listened to a wide spectrum from the Romantic era to early modernism, but I didn't care much for Classical era composers like Mozart or Beethoven. I was just far too deeply in love with the Impressionists. I can appreciate other genres and think they sound cool, but at my core, I'm a classical nerd through and through. Even today, if I think about what to listen to before going to bed, it's always classical music.

Yamane: How do you feel about Chopin? I'm particularly fond of his Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor.

Shimomura: I love Chopin. The final movement of the third sonata is one of my top two favorite piano pieces of all time. The opening is spectacular; it...

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· May 21

screenshot of a discord message
jaxcheese, 12:27 PM
shmup scoring mechanics to me are like if you were playing a musical instrument and then had to start worrying about spelling out a word with the names of the notes you're playing or something
that's not what I'm supposed to care about

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· May 18

pat's going full guilty gear. these are the only two albums by this group

album title: Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV)
released: 2021

album title: Side-Eye III+
released: 2026

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· May 15

just about 1 week from now my pal @big-red.bsky.social is leading a program of COWBOY BEBOP music at the boston vgm jam sessions. I'm playing the drums and helped with a little arranging. (I added a third horn part to n.y rush!) tune in live! www.youtube.com/@VGMJamSessi...

a painting of Radical Edward in silhouette wandering a wasteland beneath a colorful twilit sky. text is overlaid:

The bounty hunters, who are gathering in the spaceship "BEBOP", will play freely without fear of risky things. They must create new dreams and films by breaking traditional styles. The work, which becomes a new genre itself, will be called...
COWBOY BEBOP
...at the Boston VGM Jam Sessions
May 22 at THE LOADING SCREEN
doors 6:30, band 7, jam 8
recommended donation $5

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· May 15

just uploaded a "version 2" of this. really just some little typos and factual errors. so I guess more than anything it's an excuse to post about it again. I think I'm going to print a few physical copies soon. please check out "JAX's DEEP JAMS" if you want to play/learn about some rare vgm tunes!

the top of two pages of the book mentioned in the post, "JAX's DEEP JAMS". both pages are titled "STAGE 2". the left hand page has little photos and information about the composer of the tune, the game it comes from, etc. the right hand page has musical notation.

jaxcheese@jaxcheese· May 12

discog listening update: checked out a bunch of emo/post-hardcore/math rock. I always enjoyed this stuff when I stumbled on it but assumed... - you're supposed to get into it in high school, after that it's too late - this is music people Judge you about, both from inside + outside the scene