my band (2-piece called coltrane motion) just played a sold-out show w/ mucca pazza (look them up right this second) at the empty bottle (chicago) last night. blown out hip-hop beats under farfisa, ms-10, and guitar noise. fun stuff.
Ask HN: Musicians?
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#32I play the guitar. But I wouldn't call myself a musician just yet.
Love music though.
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#33I play the guitar (electric, acoustic) and the electric bass. Before working as a programmer I taught fretted strings professionally.
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#34I play the Veena on and off.
I find it's a good release valve from spending too much time in front of the screen.
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#35http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1phz4-G1tc I wrote the music and played the guitar and bass.
Good piece dude..
I like your music...
Keep it up!
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#36I play harmonica. Not at very good level but good enough to be able to jam with my friends guitar.
if you are able to jam with your friends.. that's enough.. music is about enjoying.. jamming..
:)
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#37My pet theory is that playing a musical instrument is less common a hobby among programmers now than it was a generation ago, because now programming tends to be associated with "Computer Science" as its own discipline, rather than a subdiscipline of math.
Near the end of this interview [http://tex.loria.fr/historique/interviews/knuth-clb1993.html], Don Knuth says that one way CS graduate students have changed since the 70s is that they are less interested in music:
"What changes have you seen in the students coming into the computer science program over the years?"
"Knuth: There is a very profound change that I can't account for. In the 70s, the majority of our students were very interested in music. The first thing we'd ask them when they came in was 'What instrument do you play?' We had lots of chamber groups and so on. Now almost none of the students are interested in music. I don't know if it's because a different kind of people are enrolling in computer science, or because it's true of all today's students, or what. If you ask computer science students now what their hobby is, the chances are most of them will say 'Bicycling'. I recently had one who played a harmonica, but there were almost no musicians in the group."
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#38Played bass guitar for 8 years, and also have done a ton of audio recording and engineering - recording bands live and in the studio, wore a bunch of different hats on film and video projects, and did audio for some high-profile art installations.
It's not my day job, but music is my main serious hobby outside of work, and particularly with the music recording I've recorded literally in the 100's of bands over the last decade or so.
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#39drumset since middle school, orchestral percussion since about then too, and mallet percussion (and drumline stuff) since high school. wait, that sounds a bit misleading, since i don't do the orchestral, mallet, or drumline stuff anymore. i also played piano since like 6. stopped when i hit high school.
oh yeah, also made this whilst in hs with a friend.
http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR00828/
so i guess i dabbled in electronic music for a bit too :)
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#40I hadn't played a musical instrument in 10 years, but last month I picked up a keyboard and began teaching myself piano. I really enjoy it.