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The Unfinished

@theunfinished.bsky.social

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Matt Bowdler; purveyor of synth noises; father of two girls; lover of the Nordics, Japan, Korea; 80s child; music making stuff & nonsense

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The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 3h

Well, at least they photoshopped out the strings.

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 6h

Gonna have to get by with the NHK app on my iPhone and screen mirroring.

Not quite the same, of course.

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve actually just been checking and the main reason I wanted to watch Freeview, getting NHK World, doesn’t work in my area anyway. As it’s not available!

Gah.

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The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 6h

Ah, that’s a thought.

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The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 7h

Randomly it’s only accessing BBC3, BBC Alba, BBC News, BBC Parliament and one other BBC channel I can’t remember.

I mean, that can’t be right can it? BBC3 but not BBC4 for starters. Before we get to dozens of other missing channels.

Tivo box for regular telly still then.

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 7h

Finally got round to buying a new smart telly (previous one had… a fall), and it arrived today.

It’s lovely to look at, especially once I’d turned the motion smoothing off.

Still not sure why I’m only getting five Freeview channels so far though. :P

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 8h

I give up with Instagram.

No matter what images I want to add it always changes them between editing and publishing.

At the moment it just seems to randomly be making them all a bit darker.

If I’ve deliberately not selected any filtering, leave it alone you freaks!!!

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The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 10h

Happy birthday!

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The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 10h

I’ve been beta testing it for a few weeks. It’s nice. :)

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 19h

The chap on the right looks like he’s having fun!

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 19h

Most of my hardware has been tidied away this year, as I’ve been very busy doing lots of synth programming for films and TV “in the box”.

View towards my studio desk - Udo Super 6 and Moog Grandmother visible.

View to the rear - Super 6 and Grandmother still visible. Oh, and Casio VL-1!
Boxed up Prophet 5, Korg ARP Odyssey, Roland SH-2, Access Virus TI2 Polar and OB6.

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 1d

I have one of those and it is by no means one of the bigger synths in my studio.

I am NOT good at understanding how much room I really have in here.

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 1d

This is an article about football I’m trying to read on the @the-independent.com website.

What a load of shit.

Image from The Independent website as I try to read a football article in my phone.

There is zero article text visible but, there are three adverts for shit I’m not remotely interested in covering the entire screen!

Whoop-de-fucking-doo.

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The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 1d

You tell me this now! :D

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 1d

I went to Aldi!

Haven’t done that for probably a decade.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 1d

I currently have an iPod playlist of just 1980 to 1983 which is about 7 hours long.

And that’s ONLY taken from the NOW compilations as well. None of my own extra favourites!

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The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 1d

What impossibleness is this??!!!

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 1d

Top 30 from each year, yes?

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 1d

Anita Cheetah.

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 1d

a man in an apron is walking down a street

Alt: The “sugar and water” alien from Men In Black walking down the street trying to look normal.

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The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 1d

It would be quite good to have a function on here that says “Hey! You’ve liked a dozen posts from this person you’re not following recently, maybe you SHOULD follow them!

That’d be useful.

The alternative is my brain working. Which is a non-starter.

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The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 1d

Have come up with an idea for a series of softsynth videos which is probably going to require me to up my video making game.

Well, learn some software better and put together a package of graphics gimmicks anyway!

Should be fun work.

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 2d

I can imagine.

I have a little dream of spending a week by myself in a hotel, to do some proper business planning/admin.

Hotel breakfast, little walk, a few hours of brainstorming, before having a nice meal by myself and a little telly in bed!

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely jubbly! Thanks Ben. :)