Music and Me

I can distinctly remember the little tingles of a music box hanging over me when I fell asleep downstairs...
But the first time I listened to other kinds of music came several years after my Mom got me that music box. At the time we had a lot of cassettes as well, but I pulled out the tape and that became a moot point. We did listen a LOT to CDs and the radio on a Sharp microset. :) Later that got replaced with a Philips MCD708 I still use today.
Around the same time, my Mom signed me up for a musical course. I learned to play the piano, which I absolutely enjoyed. At home I practiced on a musical keyboard, which is also still in use for some songs today. However, learning to read musical score didn't go that well and ruined the fun for me. I quickly lost interest in the keyboard for a long time.
Until one day in secondary school. Huh? Yes! I had to make a stop-motion film around a news subject, including music and sound effects. I might have told you that I started to hate reading due to reading assignments. However, here, the opposite happened! Freed from the locked-in musical score, I found my fun in making my own musical tracks! I did so just for fun years after, exactly until today, using GarageBand and the MA-101. I even got an audio interface, the PreSonus AudioBox USB96, which allowed me to connect the MA-101 directly to my iPad. Until then I fiddled with a microphone to record the audio from my keyboard. Since then I doubted about getting a MIDI keyboard or a musical synthesizer... I also do have some acoustic instruments, including but not limited to sambals, rythmic eggs, a little bell, a Tang-Tang I learnt to play at an outdoor cultural event, a pamflute, and a xylophone.

But what about listening to music?

Well, I still enjoy that too! The first physical format i owned my own music on were vinyl records, I got those from my Mom and a friend of hers, plus some from a fleamarket session. Next came cassette tapes: I got a Yamaha KX-260RS tape deck and some tapes at a thrift store around 2021, early in my YouTube career. Next along were CDs, which I only got after the Lenovo M720Q: it came with an optical drive which was only used for the occasional retro game. However, it saw more use once I had the CD music in hands. Then I got a simple portable CD player for use on the go as well. Love some music in a riding train from time to time...
But despite, I also listen to music digitally. I used to have a Spotify account, but because Trump, I now get most my music through Qobuz instead, and hold a Bandcamp account to support my favorite artists and get hold of tracks not on Qobuz. :)