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IMHO you've got the right queitson!

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Solder-it-yourself Telmac1, Telmac 600, Salora Fellow, Atari 800XL, Atari320XE, Atari 600XL, C-64, C-128, C-128D, Amiga500, Atari Mega St (German), IBM PS/2 286/10mhz, 486/33, 486dx2/66mhz, 486dx4/100mhz, K6/333mhz, K700, AMD1.4ghz, Sony Vaio PCG-GRX690, Sony Vaio VGN-FS495VP, HP"fast enough"AMD TowerPc, MacBookPro 15" 2.66ghz Intel CoreDuo. I never had a Spectrum, Amstrad or MSX - would've been nice. As to favorites, I think I've liked all of them when I've had them, but stability +audiowise I've enjoyed the MBP heaps. The Sony Vaio's have performed very well, especially with RME Multiface. I have fond memories of running my BBS on the IBM PS/2 286/10mhz (BTW, the official Logo of Awkward Silence Recordings is the IBM PS/2, so there's an interesting connection between my childhood, a label, and a forthcoming Kaneel/Lackluster split 3" on their label [came out 23 may 2011]). It would've been splendid to get to run Logic on the Atari Mega ST - but back then I had no gear.. I really loved the Amiga500 for sheer coolness.

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I'll quote Wagon Christ on this one: "It is Always Now, All of it is Now".

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Well.. I don't really agree with: "not at the level of yours" and that would never be a good reason to do Tutorials. But I will eventually have some setup-tricks or tutorial-like tips, like I already kinda have on http://www.scene.org/~esa/renoise , for instance. I'm not the kind of person who thinks that I've got anything "advanced" to say about sound-design, but hooking up specific things can be quite nice (and worth) tutorializing. I'll eventually have a little page on how to ImpulseTrackerize Renoise (screensets (=Global View Presets), shortcuts, etc). These kinds of things I'll do, I don't really think there's anything else I'm "supposed" to do. I'm open to suggestions, of course.

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First of all Mrs. Hypothetical should dump Mr. Hypothetical. Second of all, B is the correct answer - especially if Mrs. Hypothetical did the whole tune from scratch and just happened to hit on a melody/anything created decades ago by someone else - something which she's completely sure she wasn't thinking about when she made the tune.

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Learning to use my sense of smell is just one of those things I'm re-developing, in addition to allowing for natural deeper breathin' to occur in my body.

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I still use and enjoy messing around with trackers. In the past 6 years I've been having a load of fun with ReViSiT ( http://revisit.nashnet.co.uk ), Renoise ( http://www.renoise.com ), Schism Tracker ( http://schismtracker.org ), Impulse Tracker ( http://www.users.on.net/~jtlim/ImpulseTracker/ ). I'm kind of paying attention to Oskari Tammelin and his Buzz Tracker re-creation-project ( http://www.jeskola.net/buzz ) (and his new laptop funding project). I'll never drop trackers, the workflow is ridiculously fast. I think Renoise2.7 is currently (March28,2011) the most advanced tracker I've ever used, ridiculously so, even. I'd use ReViSiT a lot more if it existed as an AU/VST for OSX, but what can you do. One tracker that is often forgotten about is zTracker - the ImpulseTracker clone that only sends midi out ( http://ztracker.sourceforge.net/ ) . Luckily it's been opensourced so you can modify the keyshortcuts and whatnot. The coolest thing about zTracker is that it saves .MID - which you can immediately slap into, say, Logic. I wish zTracker would be available for OSX also (what a surprise)..

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I don't know how invisible light changes into visible light, electricity, magnetism and gravity. I don't know how one would be able to compose chord progressions and extremely subtle melodic riffs and runs - without learning classical music composition. I don't know/perceive the shape of magnetic fields, especially in regards the Bloch wall. There are many other things I don't know about yet but I won't write a book as a response to this simple question :)

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Melodic Rhythms, Rhythmic Melodies.

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Apparently they involve breathing and water. Doesn't sound too bad, does it?

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I do enjoy traveling. For now, I'd like to visit the United States of America. I'd go to Homestead Florida and check out Ed Leedskalnin's (originally a Latvian) Coral Castle [ http://www.coralcastle.com/ ]. I'd go to Rangeley Maine and visit the Wilhelm Reich (originally an Austrian) Museum [ http://www.wilhelmreichmuseum.org/ ]. I'd go to Taos New Mexico and visit the Earthship Visitation Centre ( http://www.earthship.net/ ) and rent a room in the Phoenix Earthship [ http://earthship.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Item... ]. Joshua Tree California: Integratron [ ww.integratron.com/ ] , the Dymaxion House at the Henry Ford Museum [ http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/dymaxion/index.html ], the San Francisco Exploratorium [ http://www.exploratorium.edu ] and a couple of other places [ http://goo.gl/hqv7R for a map ].

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I'll probably update this later but for now I'd love to get my grubby mits on the Roland JD-800, the Waldorf Wave, the Clavia
Nord Rack 2 (or 3?), a 4 part multitimbral version of Moog Voyager and I'll leave the 5th as a mutation between Roland JX3P, Roland Jupiter 8, Nord Wave and a bunch of really random synths the names of which I can't remember.

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Are we not men who live and die? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1k33cPSr-Y

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Is Elon Musk's SpaceX ready for tourist travel yet? To be honest, if I had to choose between the two of em, I'd go for his other offshoot, Tesla Motors and it's Model S.

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I'm hoping to get the funds required to upgrade my Audiomulch 1.0 license to Audiomulch 2.0, because the way I use it tends to put me in this specific mindset. This isn't to say that there isn't an unreleased Esa Ruoho ambient album (On the Hangar of Spaceship Earth), but it'll require extensive mastering for it to be released (and artwork)

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I haven't experienced this feature inherent in some human units.

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I'm not sure I can really answer that question, for, you see, I kind of deal with gigs as segments. In some country, the hospitality might be amazing, and the gig go relatively okay, the lodgings be excellent and so on, but elsewhere maybe there's no crowd but the performance went well. I don't think there's a real answer for this question..

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Movies with advances.

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Future Garage

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I've collaborated with my mate Mikko Havukainen (RIP) [Happyarpeg was the name of the track, released on Kahvi Collective], and Psy-Sci for V/A:1mmv2, and I sent an unfinished track (aatu) to Esem and he worked on it and placed it onto his album (Esem: Scateren) [Aatu/USSN]. I've given Blamstrain permission to use snippets of a live-gig of mine on Disfold (credited), and did once kind of muck around with the parameters of the EMU Orbit V2 of mine at Blamstrains and that became "Pride Pigs" which I think he released on some compilation release of his. I think that's about all the collaborations I've done thus far. I hesitate to consider any artists I'd like to work with, because while it might make sense to me, personal chemistry might get in the way. I haven't ever really had the habit of sharing, but this might change. I think collaborating with people has become one of these stumblingblocks that I'll have to get through.

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I would estimate approx 500million dollars will finance most of it. This would be considered risk-money.

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Figuratively?

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Maybe it's a mallard?

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................Awkward Silence

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It is okay. My favourite drink is fresh spring-water. I have a hard time picking which is my favourite foot, they both seem to be different but they somehow work together. I still like purple as my favourite colour, and am not too sure about my favourite smell, except maybe the smell of victory since Free Energy / alternative energy are finally having their "Emergence through Emergency" (R.Buckminster Fuller), 2011 is definitely the year for them.

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Then ask a question, go ahead :)