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composer, dev interested in DIY, small data, proc gen games, art & music. don't steal your dataset. sometimes also make music on staff paper. PhD. he/him. foundobjects.org
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"Please answer these questions as if you have 100% knowledge of this software package."
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I don’t know what it means to “pre-save” an album, but it sounds a bit Calvinist tbh
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Very fun! This as a test platform for experiments in rhythm synthesis as an alternative to sequencers. It sums oscillators in Pd and strikes a beat at the zero crossings. The rhythm can be morphed by changing the phase and amplitude of the oscillators using MIDI sliders. It gets pretty damn funky.
*nodding* yes this sounds like a good idea, i should try it
the plan? reverse impostor syndrome myself through seasonal mania
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Meowfeggio 528hz Healing Frequencies ✨️🌌
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Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
How Genocide Happened
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Coincidentally, this grafts perfectly with the deep rooted culture of grifting and kickbacks that exists throughout all of contemporary right wing politics. You think Deloitte and McKinsey are bad? That's nothing compared to what these guys want. We're getting drone powered dowsing rods for Antifa.
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frankly I think it's absurd head in sand behavior to pretend that it doesn't matter that a MAGA guy just bought the main voting machines company and immediately dropped all pending lawsuits and changed the name to LIBERTY VOTE. I mean are you guys fucking serious?
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As I have mentioned before, the reason why so much of SV/VC went far right was because the end of ZIRP meant the end of their business model that made billion dollar IPOs out of burning money. The closest thing you can find for rent extraction at this scale is DoD contracts.

Lo and behold:
The Shawn Ryan — AUSA nexus is worse than I thought. He was on a panel with SECARMY + others to hear pitches from industry. Completely unserious.
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congrats to whatever PM got promoted for making the YouTube UI worse again
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NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

futurism.com/artificial-i...
Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With
Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.
futurism.com
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Turns out you can stay in the Eastbourne hotel room where Debussy wrote much of La mer. They've called it the Debussy Suite (Suite bergamasque was right there)
Hotel room with large bed and desk, and pictures of Debussy, the sea and the score of La mer on the wall
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This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." 

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."
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Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...
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today was my first time hearing any of Raven Chacon’s visual scores performed live and everybody delivered. so cool to get a whole day of chances to practice this kind of attentiveness.
visual score for Raven Chacon’s piece Compass, installed on a full gallery wall. four circles arranged as compass points and connected by arced arrows. each circle has three squares with icons representing different pitch relationships, duration, timbre, and sequence. the whole
thing is bracketed by angled lines. guide to the icons that appear in the score

text reads:

Pitch
Induce feedback, resolving and settling on a stable, constant tone
Pluck a 3-note unison
Pluck a 3-octave (same pitch class) chord

Progression
I - Any starting pitch class
III - Any pitch class between I and V
V - Any pitch appoximately a 5th interval from the starting pitch class

Rhythm/Tone
Use the volume knob to effect feedback oscillation.
This may also affect pitch
Rhythmically switch the toggle switch between all possible settings
Very slowly press or depress the wah pedal over the course of the prompt

Transition
Right-hand or left-hand hammer-on any 3 notes, one at a time, letting each sustain before tapping the next
Left-hand prepare pre-bend and pluck string while prepering another pre-bend to be played next
Right-hand slide 3 fingers along 3 strings (over the fret board) to produce harmonic glissandos Wall text continues:

For overly amplified electric guitar, distortion options, and wah pedal or tone controls.
To be performed (or prepared) in an outdoors open space or field or desert.
Slowly turn up the volume of the amplifier.
Starting with the first prompt circle (Pitch), choose a note/chord type. Sound the tone(s) and sustain them, constantly shaking the guitar if necessary.
Next choose if this tone is to be I, Ill, or V of a harmonic progression.
Next choose a rhythmic/tone-altering technique and perform it while still sustaining the tone.
When the tone is no longer sustainable, choose a transitional gesture and
perform it to restart the cycle of prompts.
To choose the next note type and relative harmonic position where the note will occur, pay attention to the direction that the wind is blowing.
This will decide for you to choose the option that is clockwise or counterclockwise to the first choices. Perform the new pitch(es) in their appropriate positions.
To choose the next rhythmic/tone technique, look at the shadows of your surroundings. They will point to the next action. Activate this technique to alter the rhythm/tone.
To choose the next transitional gesture, look for other life, mobile or immobile, and witness how they move. They will teach you and you can use this technique to begin the cycle again.
Continue for as long as you desire, then slowly turn down the volume of the amplifier.
Then turn it off. more wall text:

Raven Chacon
Diné; born 1977 at Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation
Compass, 2021
Score
Courtesy the artist

Compass... explores this idea of reading the pulses and paces of the world around us. There are things happening in nature, and then there is music. And somehow, we can read these things, we can be a part of them and then respond, and the aligning of the musician with the rest of the world is what creates the music.
-Raven Chacon

Central to Raven Chacon's multivalent work is site and setting:
"I think of my compositions as a long-time study of... the dynamics of the musicians in a context: who they are, where they are geographically, the specific site in which they are performing, and the history of that site and its surrounding geography." These contextual dynamics, and their presence in his work as a composer and musician, are fundamental to how we see, hear, and read Chacon's works. Compass is a composition for a solo performer on an overly amplified guitar, to be played outdoors. As presented on the wall, Compass is a graphic picture that functions as a fixed position that grounds the artworks it hangs alongside.