8th note, bit of long one: It’s been a week since I joined Nostr! And what a week! I’ve posted music every day and the response has been incredible! Thanks for all the follows, likes, reposts, and zaps! Thanks also for the conversations, ideas, and inspiration. Nostr is such a great place to be a musician, and I feel like I’m just getting started! 💜 I wanted to do a proper introduction. So, my name is Matthias McIntire, I’m a composer, improviser, violinist, violist, sometimes pianist, music educator, and more. As both a composer and performer, I have a really eclectic background — in classical music, contemporary weird music, jazz, fiddle, free improv, field recording, electronic and ambient music. I compose music for acoustic instruments and ensembles, with and without electronics, such as orchestra, string quartet, percussion, piano, woodwinds, harp and more. My music is inspired by personal expression, emotion, collaboration, nature, birds and animals, making field recordings, colourful things, stars, the many musical genres I love, feelings of mystery in the world, travel, and technology. With all that… what content would you like to see from me? So far I have shared improvisations, fiddle tunes, and turning your ideas into little pieces/improvs. I plan to continue all of this and, honestly, I could keep doing just that forever! But I’ve had some other sorts of ideas, e.g. incorporate piano, show BTS of my creative process, “compose with me”, showing the weird instruments I’ve collected, demo or how to videos… and…? I also plan to release recordings on Nostr. I’m exploring zaps for digital downloads, @wavlake, @tunestr, and RSS feeds. It will take me a bit to get things up and running — but keep an eye out for that! Lastly, here is an improv after @Andrey Arapov’s suggestion.. to do something inspired by Peter Broderick’s “Violin Solo No. 1”. As always, I super appreciate your reposts, likes, comments, and zaps ⚡️⚡️⚡️! #introductions #violin #nostr

I’m looking for an easy way to connect a lightning payment to a link to download a music file that I can put in my Nostr bio. Anyone have any advice on this?

7th note, PART 2: As promised, here is the SECOND little improv from my game of zapping and commenting a theme for me to improvise to. This one goes out to @Surrealistic Menina for her theme “Music is the silence between notes”. This was such a lovely theme! I sat on a rock in the wind by the ocean. In the silence I could hear the waves lapping on the shore and the wind actually played my violin strings like an AEOLIAN HARP. I’ve literally never heard this before yesterday! It was very soft, so you can’t hear it in the video, but I’m reacting to it at the beginning! It made me so happy and I think that comes through in the improv. Last thing, I absolutely have to shoutout @Trazyn and @PDJ for the 🐳🐋’s that they are … because they both repeated their #fatzaps AGAIN on yesterday’s note! I am seriously blown away by the continued generosity and support. Thank you both 🙏 And thank you to everyone who zaps ⚡️, comments, likes, and reposts! It all keeps the music flowing 😊 #music #nostr #violin