Madison Rye Progress

@makyo

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Recovering techie with an MFA, working on like a kajillion writing projects at once. Check out the Post-Self cycle, Restless Town, A Wildness of the Heart, ally, and a whole lot of others.

Trans/nb, queer, polyam, median, constantly overwhelmed.

Current hyperfixation: SS14

Skunks&:

⏳ Slow Hours | 🪔 Beholden
🫴 Hold My Name | ✨ Motes
🌾 Rye | ★ What Right Have I
🌱 Dry Grass | ⚖️ True Name
🌺 May Then My Name

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo1/7/2024, 7:29 AM

it's @banky

it's @banky1/6/2024, 5:39 PM

songs that seem very plural to me, a singlet

“different lives” by KNOWER
“reasonsnotto” by Alexander Panos
“become a mountain” by Dan Deacon

something about the way each of these feels like a different take on consciousness as a splitting, recombining, mutable thing, and the value of change and growth more generally. I dunno exactly. there are some plural systems in my orbit that I have a kind of found-family relationship with and I like to find as many ways to try and connect with them on their terms. maybe it’s a bit tacky — like if a straight person said they listened to troye sivan to try and “get” me.

so I guess instead of just deciding what music is plural I wanted to ask plural systems what music resonates with their plurality. hit me with yr faves. I know there’s one account here that’s like a shitton of skunks in a densely packed neuron cluster so I’m tagging the post-self people too

#plural #plurality #post-self

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Madison Rye Progress @makyo1/7/2024, 5:58 AM

I am feeling seen. I am feeling perceived.

🪔 This is a fascinating question, and all the better for there being no 'right' answer to it. One such way of thinking about it is what describes the internal state of a system. Maybe it's somewhat chaotic like someone tuning the dial on a radio, flipping across identities, or maybe there is a pedal tone beneath a changing melody, or maybe the whole system has an anthem.

Me, there are vibes per skunk. Beholden is a fan of noisecore, Slow Hours is prone to dramatic post-rock or gently electronic stuff, Motes is bubbly and glitchy, Rye is earnestly feel-good music, What Right Have I is symphonic Judaica, Hold My Name is jazz-funk neosoul, and Dry Grass is various types of lesbian.

I am definitely going to have to think about this more, though, as now you have me wondering~

it's @banky1/7/2024, 7:11 AM

this tracks with the systems I know — various members of a single system have told me they experience consciousness in a number of ways, and their aesthetic sensibilities sort of emerge from that? thank you v much skunk assemblage

Madison Rye Progress @makyo1/12/2024, 8:16 PM

Rediscovered Under My Skin today, which has that plural sort of vibe~

alexis @akhcade1/7/2024, 8:45 AM

"Let It Happen" by Louis Cole hits that for me, but i can't rationally explain why

all i know is i was listening to that song at around the time i made the discovery, and the song's vibe combined with hearing "everything will be, let it happen" after decades of suppressing it. broke. me, into tears

it's @banky1/7/2024, 9:20 AM

this is very cool thank you for sharing!! Louis Cole has a way of writing songs that hit you at odd moments. For me that’s “Things” and “Night.”

@Durra-Gaaz1/9/2024, 4:48 AM

I'm a big fan of "Tickle Me Pink" By Jonny Flynn for plural feels: specifically because of the chorus line "Pray for the people inside your head, for they won't be there when you're dead" which.... makes us wonder whether we'll be able to stay interlinked as we are now in whatever the unknowable Next is.

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