I'm 22 years old and my birthday is the seventh day of the year which is so cool to me !! My favorite band is Mew and nobody ever knows who they are but I don't mind. I like music a lot and I'm graduating with a degree in it this week !!! but also I just love learning things in general so linguistics grad school calls to me (I sort of speak Spanish but I want to know more languages !!!!). I just completed a thesis in sociology even though I only ever took SOC 101 and it's also a creative project because why not. I've been making stop-motion animations since I was nine years old which is because I was obsessed with this really niche YouTube community that I still hold very dearly (and that's partially what my thesis is about !!). I'm on like three mental health medications because I am unstoppable and no mental illness can keep me from having fun n living life. I collect cameras because I think photography is cool but I really want a camcorder still. I've been typing without capital letters online for eight years but something compels me to hit the shift key on PI. I could be decent at guitar but I have forgetting to practice disease (but maybe I can get better about that if I really try!!!). I rearrange my room every few months because I think it is fun. I treat rateyourmusic like a journaling site instead of a music rating site. And I enjoy rambling every once in a while !!!
May 5, 2025
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this is a pic of me from yesterday at my cousin’s wedding. i’m 26, born in the DC area but raised in Dallas. my mom was venezuelan and my dad is a dead ringer for Steve Martin. I have four siblings and a step sibling. I lived in NYC for 5ish years and currently living in Nashville for coming up on 2 years.
I was very musical and creative as a kid (theater kids wya?) and I was (and still am) obsessed with electronic music. i make music solo under the name Royall and as a duo under the name Trash Bangs. both projects are essentially on hiatus. I went to school for music technology but graduated into peak pandemic and didn’t land the podcast production/audio journalism roles I was applying for (closest I got was final round interview at NPR). I managed my friends’ band and decided to pursue artist management instead and moved to nashville for my MBA. currently working in the music industry paying country musicians’ water bills. giving my two weeks notice tomorrow. starting divinity school in the fall. i’m on a weird path in life and not sure where it’s taking me but aint that just the way.
still figuring out who I am/what I want to do. got some mixed feelings about how Texas shaped me but it still has a special place in my heart. I did a total identity 180 after leaving (grew up conservative, fundamentalist evangelical christian. voted republican as an 18 year old. currently a dues paying socialist party member and attend a fully queer affirming/queer leadership progressive congregation. like one step away from unitarian). i’ve been chronically online and lurking forums since middle school. ive been dropping most social media en masse for a while and it’s been lovely. this place is special tho.
my interests are cycling, electronic music, reading (I founded PI.BKCLB about a year ago and it’s been so lovely), being a pseudo intellectual yapper on the internet, hanging out with my cat, going to concerts, and being in nature as much as possible as a city boy. i’ll probably move to the woods and live an ascetic life at some point.
May 4, 2025
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started in middle school wanting to be skrillex and made some heinous dubstep, got way too heady about music theory and wanted to be machinedrum for a bit to flex that I knew other time signatures than just 4/4, then i went to college to study music and realized music theory is actually dumb and 4/4 is sick and I wanted to be kaytranada and make the simplest lil house tunes to dance to, then a friend from college and I shared our love for 80s new wave music and John Hughes movies and we made some fun synthpop to play at an 80s prom night as our senior capstone project, then that friend and I graduated in the pandemic together and made depressed synthpop that we were way too heady about because we needed to prove that our music degrees were valuable and that we didn’t waste our time in undergrad and that we weren’t failures as artists, then I moved away because having a music degree in NYC in the pandemic got you no jobs and shelved music for a while because I felt like a failure, got into early digital production from the 80s and got sick of working with plug ins and switched to synths and drum machines instead, figured out what post-music degree life looked like for me and moved again for grad school to get an MBA so I could actually get jobs on the business side of music, then I covered a Todd Rundgren song with a friend that I met at grad school to represent establishing a healthier relationship to my music now that it wasn’t tied to my self worth/career and just generally being on a better path in life. now I just make weird synthy stuff for fun and only release music when I care enough about a song to finish it
TLDR I listened to skrillex once and now i’m studying finance because I’ll never live out my fantasy of actually being him
May 4, 2024
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Throughout my whole life, I had awful music teachers. I had a piano teacher that made me sit on my hands because he was frustrated with the way I played scales and a music teacher in primary/middle school that gave me so many anxiety attacks that my doctor finally gave me a note so I didn’t have to go anymore.
I was told so many times throughout my life that I had no music talent, discouraged from going further than scales but all of those people (teachers!!!!) were wrong. They just couldnt fathom that I had a different musical brain than them.
When I was 23, I ended up having to move back home from LA after my job rescinded their promise to sponsor me for a visa. I was depressed and heartbroken and lonely. I went to school for writing but didn’t want to write anymore so I ended up opening GarageBand on my iPad.
I was inspired by all the things I could do on it. I suddenly felt like I was entering a new world. After making a couple beats, I started moving everything over to the laptop version of GarageBand. I bought big headphones, a cheap usb mic and a keyboard off of a guy from Craigslist and continued to tinker. One of my favorite things to do at the time was to download karaoke midi tracks of popular songs I loved, import them into GarageBand and change the instrument until I felt like I was making something new. I would then use my shitty mic to wail on top of it.
I used GarageBand for years after that to make tons of songs that I just uploaded to SoundCloud without thinking about it much. Eventually I got a controller/sampler and access to Ableton and thats when the fun really started.
My love for music making snowballed after that, I amassed more gear and skill and eventually made an album after a couple years. I was obsessed with making it and while I feel really whatever about it now, I don’t feel whatever about the experience.
Music has allowed me space to express parts of me that there are no words for. The best thing I can impart is to take advantage of this. There are some things that you can only explain with a kick drum or a sine wave or a really hard bassline.
Music is still a huge part of me! I made another album after that first and now I’m working on my next project. I recently reincarnated myself (everyone in the ~industry~ advised against this but I’m a different person now) and I’m excited to see what’s in store for me. I don’t expect to make money or become famous but music feeds my soul in a way nothing else can.
Have fun!!
May 4, 2024
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finally using my portable CD player again to listen to my favorite album that isn't on any streaming services anymore!! it's so fun to have physical copies of media I like, and it was great to not use my phone for once (though the CD would pause every time I accidentally bumped into the player while I was walking to class; it was kind of charming but also pretty annoying).
Apr 15, 2025
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my roommate and I were making a list earlier of movies we wanted to watch, which made me think of how many books and video games and albums I have on my lists that I just haven’t gotten around to. (let alone my hobbies like learning guitar or studying languages or doing creative stuff!!!) which also made me realize.. if I put off things that I WANT to do, what have I been doing with my time then??? Scrolling social media??? I’ve lost so much time endlessly scrolling my phone, and I think it’s time I get around to all of those pieces of art and hobbies and experiences I’ve been putting off. And, on that note… I should go to sleep so I can enjoy tomorrow instead of feeling tired and unmotivated. Goodnight PI, I hope you all listen to some good music tomorrow. Xoxo Isaac
Apr 12, 2025
After watching the new Eddy Burback video I have been inspired to delete every evil application from my phone so I can actually live my life. I have had Instagram for almost nine years now, so it felt very powerful to delete it <3
Apr 1, 2025