Thanks again, very grateful for your thoughts and appreciate your bravery in posting incomplete works. Hero.

I can say with some certainty that Bach has been the most rewarding artist of study for me as a Stick player. It delivers solid, structured harmonic study for both hands. I always include that caveat that I prefer to NOT play it in the style of the period and devoid of any sort of ornamentation (there's no less than 8 ways to interpret a trill or appoggiatura). I'm in it for the Math. This works for the harpsichord, but not so much for the Chapman Stick. So there's my asterisk on playing and performing Bach on the Stick.

*Not performed in the style of the era

I posted the full version on I think week 9 of SOTW. Kinda sucks, but it's good enough. Having videos of performances to benchmark off, my own videos that is, has been a great way to level up performance. I also need to work on posture. Always. Posture is an upcoming topic on a FHF.

I again appreciate your acknowledgement and appreciation of learning Bach on the Stick as I have devoted a good deal of my structured practice time to it. I'm looking forward to your feedback and inspired to get cracking on the 8th again.

Okay, back to the front - cheers!

No way, what you did didn't suck and you have gone out of your way to help the entire community over and over again, it's awesome. Really helpful and fun to watch. Seeing you play that was really influential for me.

Me, I mean well but I spend the majority of my time on a message board with my foot in my mouth. Less posting in my future I think. I leave myself wide open to be a punching bag hehe all good. I am actually really nice, haha my sense of humour comes across poorly I think.

I agree 100% about the rewards of learning Bach, I love it. Watching how others learn it is awesome too, It's really interesting how if you play a Bach thing and then come back to it later you discover new things. Awesome.

Ok. I am going to leave this thread alone now - maybe my radioactivity will wear off.

Great job, Gene! The Bach is really coming along. I always look forward to the Free Hands Friday, and your fine contributions.

Thanks Stevo, hope you caught the reference

I missed the shoutout at first Gene, because the son came in when I first was watching and I had to explain to him about Free Hands Friday and the awesome NASA guy that rocks the Bach. So I watched the beginning again and fell out. Thanks for pointing it out, and for the shout-out!

Now up to speed, I most definitely caught the reference, Gene! The pentagonal numbers start as 5-sided shapes and spread out recursively and logarithmically, so this:



...then becomes this when plotted out further, over and over, like a Spirograph:



And then we go and map onto a 3D sphere:


(The images aren't mine, but the video at the bottom is...)

And then if we take the pentagonal series and imagine an entire universe built on that number series taken into infinite recursive shapes, and then fly through it like Superman with a camera on your forehead, and play Chapman Stick Railboard and NS/Stick over it, like that PaiganZero guy does, you'd get something like this:

(4K) Torsten's Gimble--"Rakkard"--3D Fractal Animation Music Video
4K video: Torsten's Gimble
Music: "Rakkard" (Chapman Stick Railboard)


By the way, Gene, go ahead and go full Pagan and pronounce paigan0 as "Pagan Zero," or simply "Pagan" but spelt real funny, like they used to. Rhymes with Ray Gun. It was my long-departed cat's name, and became my production company's name. The cat was named after an old girlfriend, Paige, rhymes with Sage, but Paigan was a better name for a cat (and apparently a production company and a Stickist username).

I'd use "Steve," but there's 47 of us Stickist Steves ("Thick as Thieves") out there. SINK is gonna be my rap name, but it's also what the Army calls me (and my 5 brothers who all think that they are SINK dudes, too), and that ain't cool to rock out with.

Cheers, Gene! Down in Recursive, Fractal Rock
--Steve's cat, Paigan

Yeah, that pretty much won the zerOn3t for the day. All that purple was delicious to look at.