composer & creative | LA
Joined November 2022
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Jun 13
There is a beautiful connection point between the David Lynch Twin Peaks spaces & the Backrooms. Lynch is like a true proto/pre backrooms finder in the collective consciousness. Very similar discoveries and feelings. TP S3 is icing on the cake, 3 years before backrooms
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Jun 5
I think 9 times out of 10 it is NOT justified to have another artist identity separate from your main name. I can guarantee that the intricacies and differences that YOU see and feel that you need another identity are NOT felt by the audience, and it just confuses them.
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Jun 5
I've thought a lot about separate artist identities because it seems inevitable I will delve more into it. Outside of using my namesake (Adam Schmieder) for scores and compositions, and using my main (chictapi) as my home I care about, there are other vectors to diverge:
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Jun 5
1. Club-centric music. Is this chictapi? Or a separate identity? I've already begun precedent with proceeding under chictapi but can be revoked.
2. Mature songs with lo-fi structure, different singing style, more accessible and genre conventive. Feels the most un-chictapi so far
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May 29
Run forward and don't look back. Run forward and don't look back. Don't look back
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May 29
EVERYTHING on twitter is written by chat gpt and it's exceptionally obvious. If you think it's not then you have simply been fooled
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May 27
Everyone knows that eating cheese puffs is the best feeling ever. It’s the regret afterwards that really gets ya
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May 25
I think we left the era of postmodernism around 10 years ago and entered the era that I’m calling “Hyper.” In hyper everything is exaggerated, even ironically, and is justified in in-group understanding that shifts more radical. Brainrot is a vestigial form of hyper
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May 22
I just released a new project today. It's a very meaningful project to me. Think SAW II but chictapi version. I hope you enjoy
open.spotify.com/album/0c9TW…
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May 21
I’m in a matcha shop in downtown LA watching animations of workplace machinery accidents on TikTok #Living
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May 14
I hearby coin the genre name of what is typically referred to as "indie sleaze," but was has been transformed by artists like ear, the sound chalk makes, and ideas for conversations, into the term "lowercase"
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Adam Schmieder retweeted
Don't waste your time with terrible AI fruit videos when you can watch Mickey Rooney lead an orchestra of fruits, featuring practical effects by the great George Pal.
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Mar 18
Put out a nice little instrumental IDM track on sc / bandcamp. This is from my new LP "Play" which will be majority IDM and other fun instrumental electronic music soundcloud.com/chictapi/phan…
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