less than 10 years ago, i was hiking into the tallest mountain of my state. my backpack carried food, a tent, sleeping pad, water and a Pentax K1000 loaded with a black and white film. i was alone at the park. i never climbed it before, so i didn't slept well the previous night. when i arrived at the 1° camp all i could do was to sleep in a rock. i woke with a high wind and i decided to move to the 2° camp to finally place my tent and sleep for good and i did. woke at the middle of the night feeling super cold and it was raining. i didn't shivered but it was an unpleasant night. so close to the peak, when the sun was out (covered by clouds) i left my things there and went towards it with my water bottle. fast forward many hours, my plan to hike the last road to get into the highway to hitchhike and return to my city was out of the plan. it was my birthday and i called dad. i was completely wet and cold

when Covid started dad started working at home. bought an espresso machine for his desk adventures. of course, i followed along. i didn't had the habit. i drunk coffe mostly when i felt it was sane to get a day break from Blender work and watch the Friends sitcom. i brewed almost 750 milliliters and went along an entire night wathching it. i never drunk everything. caffeine hits me hard. beyond these rare days, i lived in sobriety. till the espresso machine. it starts with that creamy shot and then one more, then everyday i was getting 3 or 4 shots of it over the day. at some point i realized that sobriety is the estate i do the most. also i feel less anxious, despite taking an anxiolytic for a year in the past, anxiety isn't a problem for me anymore. the day i quit cold turkey i decided to go along with the depression by composing a song with Csound. it didn't solved much. composing something worth is a hard task for me, even more going through hell. i played with the stereo after some seconds so wear a headphone



of course i returned it. back and forth. this time hopefully for good. i'll never quit, the body cleans caffeine in ~ 24 hours, 3 days detected in the urine. so taking a shot or a cup each 15 or 20 days is just fine. you have to feel what's is like to drink very little of the black beverage in a year, play a rally house, boot Colin Mc Rae on PlayStation 1 and drink a shot. if you think my music is weird. this is what qob is about (if it stops playing you gotta reload the page, i'm not sure what Astro is doing with audio files, i also noticed the 2° example plays the high end different in my desktop, maybe i messed with wrong Csound exports (these are old files))





would use the first 2 examples as a tutorial on how to move into Csound, on a post about ditching the MIDI protocol, which seems to cape so much of everything that escapes the western 12-edo show but who am i


(definitely not the tallest mountain on my state, it isn't on it)