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Hello,

welcome to this space. I'm glad you are here.

Here's a little bit about me:

My name is [redacted]... 


I've moved recently with my family to Canada. I'm a south-american (brasil). I'm not a native speaker as you might notice.

I'm quite interested in low-tech tools, low-fidelity media and auto-imposed constraints as a creativity impulse.

I'm always amazed by all the astonishing things people can do with the tools that they are given. 
Thinking of good examples in history, like the 4 track cassette recorders from the 90s recording cool stuff in only 4 channels, having to figure out the best way to bounce tracks around to add a new instrument after spending all the available channels. (Off-topic I have a strong interest for k7 4-track records and have recently bought an used one - of course would have to be used as they don't produce anymore - It's a fostex x-28h if you are interested. Are you?)

Or Brazillian funk djs from the 80s inventing new low-tech solutions to circunvent their lack of money resources.
Anyway, there are a couple of examples in history. 
I have a crazy theory about this, but I'm sure no one wants to listen... =)

I like to create art, altought I don't consider myself an artist. Music and poetry are my main media, but I have made some visuals and collages for fun in the past. 
Ah, I'm a programmer btw. For living. Nowadays I'm willing to keep away from the computer when I want to do something outside of work or hobbies, but I have started a couple of unfinished projects in the past in a tentative of unifying these two worlds. Examples being a livecoding music programming language on top of ChucK or a cassette cover design tool. 

I also got recently some interest in generative art, especially with all of those fancy new machine learning models showing up everywhere, DNNs, language models, GANs, etc. But honestly I've got a bit disapointed with the amount of resources that those models consume to be trained. I guess this will improve in the future but my recent interests are moving towards a more human approach to technology anyways (you see, I'm in gopher now)

I've recently discovered gopher and felt in love with the tone here. Hope it is a safe space to write my ramblings. At the very least if this serves as a way to take some minutes off from the craziness of my daily life to write down something out of my mind it will already worth.

Interestingly enough, I used to write an email fanzine back in the begginnings of the 00s (circa 2001). It was a text only fanzine that I would send every 15 days for some crazy folks that would have been subscribed by email. It was the beginning of the internet for most people in my country so everything was nice and new. But I used to send the emails from a lan-house because I didn't have internet access yet. The content? Mostly juvenile ramblings, poetry, short stories, etc. I used to be a punk, btw (or a wannabe most definitely).

I feel like I have a lot to tell about my life, so everytime I remember something new about me. Perhaps this page will be a ongoing effort. Let's see.

[I'm writing from the local library now]

Thanks for reading anyway, hope you come back soon.

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