MOADS revived (not really)

Lately my daughter had to do a workshop at school about media (ab)use, media types and content creation. I then mentioned a bit proud that a really long time ago i also had a blog, which received a certain popularity in a niche topic... this blog. That's probably one of the reasons for me to reconsider blogging by - sort of - closing the MOADS chapter and opening another blog which will be a more mixed bag of content. 

With many interests and not necessarily more time than before i found that i tend to dig in and reflect on many different subjects. Not with the same depth and detail as MOADS though... Also, a good friend of mine encouraged me to write down thoughts and about music, tech, society and various other stuff in a blog, that was the second reason for me to reconsider blogging. The third reason is rather obvious, innit? After almost a year of pandemic and, except maybe for the initial shock, an emerging lethargical habitus originating from home office work, resulting in little physical activity and cancelled leisure activities, the urge arised to re-explore once-known fields. 

The last decade i switched from a student lifestyle to a steady job in transportation industry, a flat in the suburbs and family life!. I still don't (probably never will) own a car and a tv set though. However, from a "free-thinking", or however you want to call it, perspective it hasn't been that bad. On the musical side i played (and still play) in various bands ranging from funk over rural blues, electronica-flavoured punk to, most notably,  the inclusive project Tabula Musica . The latter covers a lot of personal interests on the technological and social side too. Here's a snippet of my latest project: Aergera, Swiss-german Shoegaze.

 On the tech side - there's almost certainly gonna be a lot of tech stuff in the blog - i've been pursuing many smaller project in the past, such as building headpieces for the cyberpunk group Revolting Puppets, various small software projects (see https://github.com/StoneRose35) and a foot drum/amplifier set used to perform as a one-man-band with ever-changing names. Besides doing little projects in the fields of electronics/mechatronics and software i've been working in IT industry in various roles, slowly but constantly moving away from die-hard tech to the management side for almost a decade now. This also left some traces and shareable notions. 

The mixed bag of blog content is probably rounded off with content on cycling and general outdoor activities. 

 

Ok, now it time to say goodbye to MOADS and to welcome the new blog Sounds, Tech and Bikes