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November 4

Composer - Z Q Sysmoebius

Who is or was the composer Z Q Sysmoebius? Google is not returning any useful hits. Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 09:04, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if it is a Fictitious entry? There is no mention in Grove's (We have a subscription, so the search there-in is definitive.) --TrogWoolley (talk) 13:33, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It certainly looks like some kind of hoax to me (sorry if I'm doing Mr Sysmoebius an injustice). There's the rather implausible name, with no meaningful Google hits, and a list of 397 compositions, all of which (well, all those I've checked) have a composition date of 2020 (which of course means they would be unlikely to be mentioned in Grove). There seem to be no scores, just MIDI or MP3 files, which seem to consist mostly of generic new-agey synth sounds. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 13:51, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't mean it is a hoax. Someone had to make those synth songs, and if they were original compositions of a person, they could be of a person who is using the pseudonym Z Q Sysmoebius. They may not be terribly notable, they may be just the person who created the files in question, uploaded them to that one website, and then has no other web presence under that name, but that is still not a hoax, just a real composer with an extremely limited public footprint. --Jayron 32 16:28, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have wondered about Z. Q. Sysmoebius, too. Many of the pieces are described as being in a particular key or mode, such as E-flat Lydian mode, A Mixolydian, A-sharp Locrian mode, A-sharp minor, and so on - but, when I sampled a few of the MIDI or MP3 files, I found that many of them were not even remotely in the key or mode claimed.

Another composer I wonder about is Stephen W. Beatty, who has a very improbable (roughly) 2,500 opuses, which grow almost by the day. The last thousand opuses alone have appeared only within a very few years.

Scores and sound files are provided - but one wonders how anyone can produce so many compositions so quickly. The music itself seems pretty obscure in style, almost like random notes and patterns, or such within a particular mode or scale. As to rhythms, they are complex, but one cannot see any patterns that would distinguish them from totally random rhythms. It's really difficult to judge how much musical merit is in the music, but it looks completely unapproachable at least at first sight. And if this composer is madly writing music almost all his waking hours (as would seem required, such is his productivity), one wonders how much thought goes into ensuring a high quality of work, as against mere quantity. I have tried listening to a few of them, and reading the scores, but cannot make anything musical at all out of them.M.J.E. (talk) 08:12, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

question re news stream channel

can somebody here please find me someplace on the vastness that is the internet where somebody wrote down that Yahoo Finance now provides a 24-hour livestreaming news channel??!!! I know it's just a news video stream, but come on!! nobody on earth has written an article on this? lol! just kidding. seriously, any help would be vastly appreciated! i need it to update this entry, live streaming world news. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 21:35, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

any ideas? jayron32? anyone? if not, i will self-revert. I simply want to add the Yahoo Finance live video news stream to the entry mentioned above; but I could not find any published source for that data.

it seems like it should be a little easier to find than that. i appreciate any help. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 15:37, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This? --Jayron 32 15:51, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

wow. outstanding, jayron32!! yes, that will do nicely. I'm amazed. how did you do that? appreciate it. thanks!

--Sm8900 (talk) 16:56, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Some day you will learn the ways of google-fu too! I googled variations on "yahoo finance news channel" and "yahoo finance live stream" until I hit on something. --Jayron 32 16:59, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

lol! that sounds good to me!! thanks! --Sm8900 (talk) 23:29, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]