Ocarina music rehearsal stream in a few minutes!
Matt the Tall
First ocarina musician to embrace Value 4 Value DeMu (decentralized music) Technologist and Renaissance man Matt_the_Tall.89 on Signal Height: 5'22" Links: https://mattthetall.site/link-tree Donate $/other currency: https://ko-fi.com/mattthetall
Ocarina music rehearsal stream starting soon!
Took a little more ironing out minor issues to get the stream up than I wanted, but I'm now live. Come tune into some live ocarina music!
There's nothing that gets you pondering mortality quite like the death of someone who's had a positive impact on your life.
8/3/2026, 2 engagements
There's an old saying that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. LLMs without a doubt have flaws, but I never thought I'd be able to make a computer effectively execute an essay.
May try streaming practice sessions soon, especially with my faire performances coming up in under two weeks already. Makes for good practice setting up the camera for filming, too.
Had way too much fun with fellow Demon Slayer cosplayers today
7/6/2025, 1 engagement
A couple nice photos I managed to get after the falconry show during a Renaissance faire day trip a couple weekends ago. Great looking Harris hawk
Got a few songs in the works, and soon to upload a cover of Over the Misty Mountains I worked on as part of an ocarina septet, Knights of the Round Flute. Will be putting both the audio and video into the valueverse, and hopefully will be able to use the response to get the holdouts in the group to set up LN addresses of their own so the split goes to all seven of us.
While being rained on both during my last show of the faire and camp teardown after, I had an audience who stayed despite the rain, and while I was playing Wayfaring Stranger in my set, two women were dancing to the song in the rain while one was singing along. From what I could hear of it, she had a beautiful voice, operatic even. I hope I can track down a picture from that show, because I'm rather curious how I looked playing wearing my full-circle wool cloak.
Donation box I've been using when performing got a makeover courtesy of a vendor at faire taking his laser cutter to it and me putting some teak oil on after.
5/1/2025, 4 engagements
It's crazy to think the local renaissance faire is already coming up this weekend. Yours truly will be performing twice each day of the faire at 12:30 and 4:30 pm, on the Forest Stage.
4/21/2025, 1 engagement
DNS Registrar: We're working on transferring your domain, but you can choose to set up your DNS settings for when the transfer completes.
Me: Awesome, here's my web and email DNS settings to do that.
transfer happens
Registrar: Doesn't use the settings and redirects to a generic landing page.
At least my renewals are half the price, but come on.
What should I consider for replacing the shared wallet on Alby?
I'm so exhausted from over 8 months of a futile search for a new software engineer role my wife, unprompted said to take a break from it.
I'm barely managing to even keep up regular ocarina practice, much seeing if my latest recordings are good enough for editing two tracks I want to publish.
I need something simple that's not going to accelerate the financial bleed with no day job.
11/22/2024, 4 engagements
Since I had a request recently to see what the ocarina collection looks like, this is the most recent photo of them. The total is 27 if we're only counting the ceramic ones pictured. In retrospect, missed a ceramic one my sis-in-law got me as a gift while in Japan and also neglected photographing the 3 plastic models I have. Only 2 away from that magic number 33 with the a grand total of 31. 🙂
11/20/2024, 3 engagements
Heard the mention of working on bringing Monero to Podcasting 2.0 on the board room meeting. Monero's a system I've been meaning to dive into and learn about, so count me in.
10/31/2024, 3 engagements
Had a ton of fun playing two ocarina stage shows each day of the faire this weekend, and looking forward to doing the same this upcoming weekend. Glad I was able to play without pain despite slicing my thumb open Thursday.
10/29/2024, 1 engagement
I wrote a post recounting a story which covers something you probably weren't aware of with how Unicode displays text along with how that text is processed: directional formatting. If you know what Unicode is and what a stack is in computing, I suspect you'll find it interesting.
10/4/2024, 1 engagement
Posted a piece that's a little bit retrospective and a lot of thanks to those who made the Satellite Skirmish: Autumn Rust happen, along with those who boosted during the set.
9/25/2024, 4 engagements
I am still amazed at the overwhelming outpouring of support from the Skirmish yesterday. A lot of thank yous are in order.
Without a doubt, I want to perform in future Skirmishes and other DeMu events in the future. I'm also pleased to announce that if you're in the San Diego area (or close enough to go to the Escondido Renaissance Faire), I will be performing an ocarina show at the event, the last weekend of October and the first weekend of November!
9/23/2024, 5 engagements
What a rush it was performing for such a large audience of people online. Saying I was wired on adrenaline after would be an understatement.
Thank you everyone who was involved and those who boosted during the show!
9/23/2024, 5 engagements
The Satellite Skirmish: Autumn Rust starts in less than 3hrs! I'll be performing live during the show here:
9/22/2024, 5 engagements
On the 22nd, I'll be performing live in a decentralized battle of the bands, the Satellite Skirmish: Autumn Rust! The event kicks off at 4pm Central/2pm Pacific, and I should be performing at about 5:35 Central/3:35 Pacific.
If you want to get a message read live/support me, get yourself set up with a new podcast app that supports sending boosts, and I am happy to help you get set up.
You can watch the show at:
9/16/2024, 6 engagements
In 10 days I'll be performing in the second V4V decentralized battle of the bands, the Satellite Skirmish: Autumn Rust. If you can make it live, put September 22 in your calendar and I'll post a link to where the show is happening when I have one.
In the meantime, if you can make it live and want to participate in the show, I'm happy to walk you through what you need to be able to send boosts when I'm performing.
#ocarina #OcarinaMusic #music
9/12/2024, 5 engagements
New profile pic from when I was playing for a spell at Anime Expo. Need to work on more anime music for next year.
#music #Ocarina #OcarinaMusic #AnimeExpo #AnimeExpo2024
8/10/2024, 5 engagements