Why is there a FireSickle.com
While I was still in middle school, a friend of mine, Eric Starr, made a website for himself on Geocities.com. After seeing this webpage, and at the time having huge dreams to be known on the internet, I decided that I wanted to make my own as well. Up to this point I had very little experience with HTML, just some basic stuff I didn't understand in 7th grade computer class. I went out on the net and began learning how to make simple pages. I quickly was introduced to using TABLEs to format what was displayed on the page. I based my page design off of some simple Angelfire sites and placed my first webpage at Angelfire.
At that point in my life, I had never even thought of being a musician or a programmer. I simply made the first FireSickle page for fun and for show. There was a small web battle about how had a better page between Eric and I, but he quickly quit and I kept my page. I am a bit spotty on the details of time, but I am fairly certain I aquired FireSickle.com in my ninthgrade year. I was just learning how to do CGI scripting and needed a server that supported it. At the time no free services offered support for it, so I had to get a Domain and a web host. Over Tenth grade I began learning to make music, and started using FireSickle.com to host my music, and my friend Steven Hill's music. Since then FireSickle.com has gone through several look changes, several host changes, several conceptual changes, but it has remained a source of accessing music I have created.
For a long time I hoped and dreamed that by having a website more people on the internet would hear my music, and I would hopefully one day become a musician. That dream came and went though. I now understand that a man without dreams is a man without a goal, but you should never confuse your goals with your dreams, and realism has gotten me tangable results where dreams have brought me nothing but disappointment. I am a music artist, not a musician. I use FireSickle.com to host my works so those interested can access them.
While I was still in middle school, a friend of mine, Eric Starr, made a website for himself on Geocities.com. After seeing this webpage, and at the time having huge dreams to be known on the internet, I decided that I wanted to make my own as well. Up to this point I had very little experience with HTML, just some basic stuff I didn't understand in 7th grade computer class. I went out on the net and began learning how to make simple pages. I quickly was introduced to using TABLEs to format what was displayed on the page. I based my page design off of some simple Angelfire sites and placed my first webpage at Angelfire.
At that point in my life, I had never even thought of being a musician or a programmer. I simply made the first FireSickle page for fun and for show. There was a small web battle about how had a better page between Eric and I, but he quickly quit and I kept my page. I am a bit spotty on the details of time, but I am fairly certain I aquired FireSickle.com in my ninthgrade year. I was just learning how to do CGI scripting and needed a server that supported it. At the time no free services offered support for it, so I had to get a Domain and a web host. Over Tenth grade I began learning to make music, and started using FireSickle.com to host my music, and my friend Steven Hill's music. Since then FireSickle.com has gone through several look changes, several host changes, several conceptual changes, but it has remained a source of accessing music I have created.
For a long time I hoped and dreamed that by having a website more people on the internet would hear my music, and I would hopefully one day become a musician. That dream came and went though. I now understand that a man without dreams is a man without a goal, but you should never confuse your goals with your dreams, and realism has gotten me tangable results where dreams have brought me nothing but disappointment. I am a music artist, not a musician. I use FireSickle.com to host my works so those interested can access them.
The man behind FireSickle
During my sophomore year in high school, my good friend Marcus Roth used to bring his computer to my home to get fixed on a regular basis. More often then not it would require a reformat and reinstall. Shortly after reinstalling demos from his sound card disc, Marcus and I noticed some software that was used to make music. Neither of us knew how to use it, but the prospect of making music was so intriguing that I downloaded that demo to my computer within a few hours.
In the past I had not shown any talent or interest in music, so I had no prior instrument lessons or music theory training. Still I spent hours playing around with the program each night. After three months of playing around and making short melodies, I finished my first song, Roaming the Streets at Night.
Having become addicted to the thought of making music, I asked my mom to buy me a keyboard and give me a couple piano lessons so I had something to help obtain music knowledge with. After two lessons I had excelled enough to play many pieces by ear. Lacking the motivation to pursue being a pianist, I continued to make loop-based tracks from the privacy of my own home.
Several years and several experiences later, I sit before a computer punching out a brief history on how I made it where I am. I am a computer programmer living in south central PA. Music is my favorite hobby, matched only by martial arts. I often take for granted my ability to spend hours punching out sheet music to compose these tracks, but sometimes friends or strangers remind me that I have a tinge of talent and reassure me that the hobby is worth it. Life is short, but music is forever.
During my sophomore year in high school, my good friend Marcus Roth used to bring his computer to my home to get fixed on a regular basis. More often then not it would require a reformat and reinstall. Shortly after reinstalling demos from his sound card disc, Marcus and I noticed some software that was used to make music. Neither of us knew how to use it, but the prospect of making music was so intriguing that I downloaded that demo to my computer within a few hours.
In the past I had not shown any talent or interest in music, so I had no prior instrument lessons or music theory training. Still I spent hours playing around with the program each night. After three months of playing around and making short melodies, I finished my first song, Roaming the Streets at Night.
Having become addicted to the thought of making music, I asked my mom to buy me a keyboard and give me a couple piano lessons so I had something to help obtain music knowledge with. After two lessons I had excelled enough to play many pieces by ear. Lacking the motivation to pursue being a pianist, I continued to make loop-based tracks from the privacy of my own home.
Several years and several experiences later, I sit before a computer punching out a brief history on how I made it where I am. I am a computer programmer living in south central PA. Music is my favorite hobby, matched only by martial arts. I often take for granted my ability to spend hours punching out sheet music to compose these tracks, but sometimes friends or strangers remind me that I have a tinge of talent and reassure me that the hobby is worth it. Life is short, but music is forever.