My friend (kind of) has assburgers and thinks music is for normal minds and not for him. I convinced him to listen to a playlist and some albums that I will put together to change his mind.
What should I include?
Recommend some music for a 19 year old guy with aspergers, almost no friends, who is really into programming and thinks he's better than other people and feels very isolated.
I'm thinking Radiohead, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Mac DeMarco that he could easily appreciate without having listened to music at all, almost.
lol, the funny thing is that real music is literally made specifically for aspies
Julian Rivera
But why?
Yeah, but he doesn't believe that. He thinks it's for lesser minds or some shit.
Ian Green
do you have any examples?
Nathaniel Allen
Try some mostly instrumental and less dancey music. Minimalism, post-rock, dub techno, ambient, drone... bounce some of those off him. See if anything sticks and lead him down the path that piques his interest best.
Jeremiah Parker
Could you recommend some artist or album? I don't listen to those genres much.
Connor Bennett
Steve Reich, Labradford, Demdike Stare, Biosphere (specifically the Substrata album), and early Emeralds, respectively
Anthony Gonzalez
Thank you, I'll check those out.
Ian Gutierrez
The residents
Camden Collins
What the hell you just described me. I'm being enlisted as a soldier soon, wish me luck :').
the coil discography (like, all the dozens of albums, not just the famous ones) and suicidal depressive black metal
thats about as autistic as it gets.
Ethan Evans
Give him some repetitive normie music (preferrably DnB) and tell him, that it's full of nuances that hide behind the veil of the repetitiveness.
One of my friends, prob an aspie, is for some reason fascinated with the soundcloud edm scene and can name a producer just by the tone of the synth. Still can't understand, why he goes crazy for it, it's not like he's a club person, he listens to it by himself.
Alternatively, go into the fringe nerd genres, and wow him with how much notes Tosin can churn out in 3 seconds, or how weird the new Petrucci's progression is
David Thomas
is it really that hard to believe someone that someone doesn't like music?
Jaxon Long
Alva Noto
Jordan Clark
Yes?
Lincoln Fisher
sometimes silence is the best type of music
Samuel Stewart
Show him this youtube.com/watch?v=7hxnCXuTo4w If he's a genuine aspie, he'll like it. Autechre would probably work too. Anything super technical should probably do the trick.
Connor Martinez
yes because liking music is an evolutionary trait that's literally hardcoded into our DNA
William Harris
>Still can't understand, why he goes crazy for it, it's not like he's a club person, he listens to it by himself. :( this is me but only because there is no scene in my country for the dance music i like
Evan Peterson
Start a club night then. Sounds like an opportunity to me.