FAWM : yam655 (@yam655)

yam655

@yam655

Songs

Joined

2011

Indiana US
yam655.com

Pronouns: he/they. The gender binary is like Newtonian color theory: two scientifically unsound ideas that just won't go away.

At this point, I am more agender than male, but presenting as male is convenient and I just don't care enough to make a fuss about it.

In 2018, I did FAWM Squared, Fourteen 14-track improvised albums. When I completed my 14th, I celebrated with a 15th. Then to help the community hit a song-count milestone, I did two more albums on the last day.

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Interested in doing a collaboration? Have I earwormed you enough you want to cover one of them? Free free.

Pretty much all of my stuff is released Creative Commons Attribution, which is similar to Public Domain in nearly every aspect except that you need to credit me.

You can make derivatives. You can use traditional copyright on your stuff. You make all the money, etc. You _just_ need to credit me.

I'm also giving explicit permission to feel free to post without waiting for me to approve it. You already have permission.

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After FAWM, how do you want to attribute me?

My bandname is "yam655".
My website is https://yam655.com
My legal (and anonymous) name is: Steven Black

I don't care how you attribute me, as long as you attribute me. When in doubt, "Steven Black (https://yam655.com/)" is always good.

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This year, I've bought a house and am actively moving during February. My style of improvisational acapella allows me to sing while packing, unpacking, and driving, though, so... I'm going to try to beat my previous record while exclusively multitasking with my move!

My previous record is 298 songs or ~14.9 hours, so I want 300 songs or 15 hours.

Transcribing all these songs is problematic at best. Particularly when I don't want to spend any time on it... I do have the legacy Otter.AI subscription, though, so I have more than enough hours available there -- however even though it is acapella, it does sometimes have issues with singing. I apologize.

Songs

Soundboard

@brisk 4w

Very interesting what you say about writing. I'm not sure I could outrun my inner critic like you can, but I would like to try! I'm not a superficial thinker, but I find it hard to develop a sustained idea over 50000 words or whatever - I feel much more suited to the ~100 words of a song.

I like coming up with ideas for stories - I have several that I think could be really interesting if explored properly. In fact, I had one in the shops yesterday that got me quite excited. However, I haven't figured out a "process" for storywriting like I have for songwriting. I suspect you have to keep doing it and failing, like with songwriting.

I went through a phase about ten years ago of writing 300-500 words a day of a novel that caught my imagination, but the annoying thing was that nothing was a fixed point - I just kept imagining stuff, changing stuff, writing new stuff. It was constant kaleidoscopic churn, and in the end I ran out of steam. I want to find a way of getting past that.

Fascinating about the second draft change due to word processors. I can see how that attachment to the first draft could actually be a bit of a millstone.

@brisk 4w

Thanks for listening to Moonless Night, glad you liked it. I think that's my personal high water mark from this FAWM, so maybe no need to listen to any others! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on fungal doom too! I think taking an approach that treats an disease like it has it's own agenda first and foremost (well, it's not sentient so agenda is a terrible word, what I mean is that has it's own internal logic rather), rather than treating it as though it is motivated by what you think is cool for a story, is going to often yield dividends. I've never tried NaNoWriMo (or whatever it is called) but there are a couple of books I'd love to try to bash out. It's funny - I say to myself that it is impossible to do such an ambitious thing as to write a novel that long in a month... and then I write a fat album's worth of songs in Feb... all I need to do is apply a similar level of editorial quality suspension to November and I'd be away...

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