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The Return of the Newsletter [Week 37]
8 years ago
Welcome to the thirty-seventh edition of the Fortnightly Furry Musicians Newsletter!
So, this newsletter is going to be a little different. An experiment, if you like. I’ve become upset with the quality of these newsletters as of late, with how short the articles have been and a lack of good things to have written in them, and I can understand if that’s been something that’s been getting to you as well. Therefore I figured it might be an idea to have a stockpile of community-written articles to put into the newsletter for occasions when I’m ill, under heavy workload or otherwise completely void of worthwhile ramblings. This WON’T mean that I will stop writing these, it’s just an insurance policy so that you still get something of substance every week.
In this newsletter therefore, it was decided that we’d test the idea and see if it actually works. My victim test subject for this experiment was 
cheasydino and this is his article. If you would like to have an article which could go here, do feel free to drop me a note. Unlike in this case, there’s unlikely to be a deadline for it as it’s just a stack of things I can use as and when nessessary.
Opinions expressed by the article writer are not necessarily the views of the newsletter writer. But you already knew that because you don’t have a brain the size of a pea or work for a global newspaper.
“Sound! Lights! Sensation! Emotion!
These are the elements that cause us to become enthralled by this thing called music. And no matter what culture, tastes, form, or species you are-somehow it is a means of expression for you.
Music has become such an integral part of furry culture as much as the dancing fad that grew into popularity from it. Nowadays there is rarely a fur-con you’d go to that doesn’t have some form of dance or rave to “end with a bang”. Music is a culture in itself that describes the vibrant and enthusiastic community that furries are and have become.
I Started my journey in the soundwaves discovering that you can do things with your hands (amongst other things) to manipulate these cool things called “instruments”, I was instantly hooked in my early days learning piano. There was a time where music was something that had to be put on paper. That is not to say, of course, that that is a bad thing, but rather an observation of just how music production has evolved over centuries, decades, even in just a couple of years! The variety of ways to make music nowadays has grown about as exponential as computer technology itself does every day. One doesn’t even really need an extensive history of music education, theory, or experience with a musical instrument-just sheer drive, a decent ear, and some creative flow. It’s even gotten to the point where you can just extract a progression from a song, a riff, or passage and plop it right into a plugin and it’ll do all the editing and dirty work for you! All at the click of a button! It’s essentially cheating at this point, especially in the eyes of those who come from a traditional upbringing in music production.
But in the end, what matters is the creative mind behind the piece itself. Because no matter how a song, arrangement, or orchestral masterpiece comes to fruition, it’s the end result that matters. No one will know what the innerworkings of your masterpiece is or are unless you choose to disclose that information. I see this evolution of music production as an opportunity for those who didn’t learn the things like I did with my hands. In a way, it’s also an opportunity for those to be able to take part in something that was once so complicated and intimidating. These barriers that once stood before are now tumbling to present a clear window of chance for someone to become a producer, and create something they thought they couldn’t before. Whether they plotted those lines on a graph, memorized and programmed a controller like the old days to create an intrinsic 16-bit saw groove, or just shoved a mic to a guitar. It all comes to the same outcome. And to those all around us, it’s the passion and expression that you put into the piece, and how you convey that through the music to others that provides for the impact. It is what makes music, music. Because again, music is a culture, not only in the furry community, but throughout society. It is what differs us from the monotony of a simple-mind life. Despite what our shapes, our perspectives, our origins may be, it all comes from that same special place. It is a part of our dynamic, our personality.
It is a part of what makes us “human”.”
- cheasydino
And with that in mind,
If I could turn back Ads…
…I wouldn’t because we still haven’t got that many.
--- New Releases ---
===Albums===
HighreachOffical has released an album called "Fractals" under the name Exostreak which is now available for purchase on Bandcamp.
Available Here
=== Upcoming Events ===
25th-27th August 2017 - 
asianeko is director of events at FA United and they’d like me to inform you that they are still accepting events to be featured in the show, as well as inform you of three furry musicians that will be attending as guests of honour, those being 
FoxAmoore, 
PepperCoyote, and 
hali (aka Matthew Ebel). The actual details of where they’ll be, what days they’ll be there and what they’re doing have yet to be disclosed to me, but when it is, I’ll add it in and update it. More info on submitting panels and events is here and more info on the con in general is here
If you'd like something featured in the newsletter, drop either me ( 
PascalFarful ) or the FA musicians page a note with details or drop a shout on the FA Musicians page! I would add that sending me notes increases your chance of me not losing your message.
cheasydino
HighreachOffical
asianeko
FoxAmoore
PepperCoyote
hali
PascalFarful---
There we go!
PascalFarful
~pascalfarful
No problemo!
Thanks Pascal! <3 I hope we're able to see some more musicians this year. I love meeting you guys <3