Aspies and Music

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You could try run absynth within a program like ableton live, or cubase or something...

It works as a plugin really well too..

Don't know how helpful that is

Something else I wanna mention though about being an aspie and the connection with music is the very drive to produce in and of itself. If I'm at work and hear even a pop song with a real moving emotionality to it I sometimes get tears in my eyes, I'll get all kinds of visuals not of the song but abstractly - like the existential end of what the artists were feeling and thinking, espeially if its something a little naive or innocent in the lyrics and you sit back and realize that the artists themselves are probably cokehead rockstars that have seen it all done it all, they're talking about in a way a sort of return to an element of thinking once you've had all knocked out of you - its deep. When I hear a piece that just about brings tears to my eyes though I also get another VERY stong feeling - an emotional need to create my own version of that, create something that's similar, a bit more spiritual and somber, definitely harder and tickier off certain angles - it could even be something like that new Our Lady Peace song that's on the radio these days (well, probably isn't them but someone with a similar style), one or two Green Day or Train songs, you get the picture (what particularly gets to me is when there's the superficial feel of the music thats pop-friendly but you can take it so much deeper and really kick that same energy out over a whole emotional universe of existential pain, ecstacy, ecstacy through pain, you get the drill) - it makes me wanna make some really sick and drum&bass with a vengence. Point is with my beats yeah they'll be hard, they'll be danceable, they'll have plenty of grime, but if it doesn't give you chills or get tears in my eyes then it just won't live up to my expectations and I probably won't be sharing it as a finished work until its at that point where it makes all the deep feelers/thinkers be like "Damn, that was dope" and all the pop-snobs looked stunned, confused, and just choose never to listen to it again because its just too intelligent and too emotionally complex & heavy for em to really like . Warning: I've got a beautiful and almost too intense spiritual side and I've got no fear of using it.

I'm musical as well... I sing and play guitar, bass, drums, a bit of trumpet and piano. All self-taught... Except guitar. I took a few lessons so I could read sheet music as I had never learned it for the guitar.

I play punk rock, rockabilly, country, blues, and some jazz and classical.

I had no idea there were so many aspie musicians!! !

Its wonderful!

I've been mastering a certain electronic project for a while, I guess the genre would be ambient/experimental/break beats/noise/dance hahah (hmmn) I never thought I'd find anyone who felt music the way I did, and I've noticed at least a couple on here!

Music is the only way I really express my soul, I obsessed and hid myself away for the past year or so, and came out with 7 projects, which I've only finished 1 entirely. I'll release them one each every few months or so, but the first one is done and ready to go.

Soon if no one else has one up, I'll have a site going, with a section where we can all upload tracks, maybe get an album or mix out of it If anyones interested in sharing tracks, or anything let me know.

I learned to play piano at age 3, I actually learned to read music before reading words, went to music school my whole life, went to a arts magnet high school, where the opportunity to learn a new instrument was given to me cus they just needed some one to play it for an opera, and so I figured why the hell not, so I learned to play harp. I don't mean to brag but I learned to play harp in a month and a half at performance level...kinda makes sense though if you look at a harp like a nude piano...different technique though. But like nothing in life is perfect...I ended up going to college for engineering, now I'm a consultant, that practices piano 20 hours a week to prepare for music school again... Oh, and did I mention that I found out a month ago that I have Asperger's?... lol