ciao, @Sebastian Jautschus! congrats for all the things you are doing: you are a multitasker! I am very, very curious to watch the podcast(s) with @Brian Hennessey when they will be ready: thanks a lot for all the stuff you are doing for this community. and also for your new song "through the branches". I had the chance to listen to it just today and I am particularly intrigued about the sections in which you experiment with that groovy riffs and beats. 🤍

@Martin Eibisch and @Peter Monrad ’s questions are exactly what I’d love to hear the answers to! Also, last week @Sebastian Jautschus and I were talking in the comments about how central melody is for us. I’d be really curious to know what From Somewhere Quiet’s relationship with melody and memorability is — especially considering that some of his most-streamed tracks, like All This Time, August, and Monarch, are (at least to me) super catchy and have an immediate hook right from the very first seconds of the track (and the same goes for others, too). I’ve also been wondering something about his Spotify Clips (Coda, Carry Me Away, Rise): does he see them more as little music videos where he’s basically playing along in playback, or is he actually performing live over the open projects in his DAW?

@Sebastian Jautschus maybe it's just a silly curiosity I have 😅 but I was just wondering if these clips on FSQ Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/watch-feed/artist-videos?si=-EByClixReafnbSouRfnEw&firstItemUri=spotify%3Aexpression%3A1mnLTkn937sq7Q8JSGXjzK) are playback (like in a videoclip for a song, you know) or live recordings he made playing guitar live on his own drones.

I think I can share my experience as a listener (which I imagine is pretty common among people who are also musicians). Personally, I’ve never really been able to listen to music while reading or studying (it just grabs too much of my attention, haha). But I’ve often listened to instrumental playlists while driving, walking, or doing routine stuff around the house. That said, I don’t think I’ve ever listened in a truly passive way. Whenever a track really hits me, I immediately save it to my spotify favorites regardless of whether I recognize the artist or not. Then every now and then I’ll go back through my liked songs and dive deeper into those artists’ profiles. Through that process, I’ve realized how much I appreciate the fact that instrumental music doesn’t immediately “give away” its author — at least not in the same way a voice does in a track with vocals.

@Sebastian Jautschus it sounds like a reading / spoken word: https://open.spotify.com/artist/24GE8PrrmxG6XocV1UQPmP?si=QOdigygYTZiU8sLecJtpuw and the 2 guitarists from Massimo Volume have also an instrumental experimental side-project called A Bad Day: https://youtu.be/KHLyzXTLnQs?si=mJUbEAi0o3EmC4C3

@Sebastian Jautschus I love this sentence you wrote: "it feels like something my parents listened to just when I was born bc I didn't know them, but I feel sooo home." 😊 I am very curious to nerd out about your song and your tutorial when you will edit it!

@Sebastian Jautschus oh, you will discover it soon, my friend 🤍😊 p.s. my "don't think feeel" was actually a conscious quote from... R.M. 😉

@Sebastian Jautschus 😁😁😁