Boxus
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I just binged through Hannibal over the past week and I loved it. Agree about s1 being more formulaic and s2 really elevating the series to a higher level of quality. I thought the finale was fantastic. Aesthetically it was brilliant. I loved the music - the clock theme that kept coming up was so cool, and I love how it built to the alarms and bells ringing in the climax. This show has had more tasteful music than most stuff I've seen on tv, though I sometimes got tired of the sporadic drumming. Regarding Game of Thrones: the series becomes more and more frustrating for me. As a book fan, I find myself delighted by some scenes and pissed about others. Overall I think the showrunners are deviating too far from the books, and it's revealing how poor their own writing skills are. Disappointing. But it still tells a great story, and occasionally does it justice. Sent from hell using fire
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megamix is my favorite gescom track. never gets old. i love the title track massively too. that beat is so slick, and the ending is one of their longest ambient fadeouts ever, but it works great with those synths and the subtle wash of white noise. really meditative. then tangle comes along and blasts you out of the trance. great album :) Sent from hell using fire
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final fantasy v emulated on phone. and once in a while, f zero Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
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The Walking Dead - AMC TV Series (spoilers everywhere)
Boxus replied to Rubin Farr's topic in General Banter
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it's my fave thing he's done fuck yeah cheers, mine too! saw it in a little indie theater on mushrooms and it was... transformative! definitely a similar uncanny beauty to listening through recent ae albums. Huge thanks for taking so much time for this! It's been fun and insightful. And thanks for the massive inspiration I've gotten from your music - it's played a significant role in my experience of art and life. I really can't say enough positive things but I don't want to be too fanboyed out so I'll leave it at this. I thought of a couple more questions I'd been curious about - What was the deal with Tried by 12? How did so many great experimental producers get on board to remix? Did you have a lot of fun putting yours together? It's an all-time favorite for me, I love the vocal processing so much. Also, just a taste query - have you listened to Freestyle Fellowship much? Inner City Griots is one of my favorite hip hop albums so I was curious if you're fans at all.
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I actually loved Arkham Asylum. I played it a bit when it first came out and thought it was boring and hard (I hate stealth games). Then I picked it back up again last year and really had a great time with it. Not sure what made the difference, but I am glad I tried it out again. After I beat it, I immediately started on Arkham City, and unfortunately, it didn't live up to Asylum. There's just way too much to do in City, so easy to get sidetracked (and lost). I quit on it. Maybe I'll come back to it some time in the next year and love it. Nice, I just got Asylum in the last humble bundle, haven't played it yet. When I have time I'll take a bite. I'm still hooked on dolphin roms atm. Smash Bros melee and brawl both run really well.
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lol!
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This is become a big favorite from the whole Exai camp. It's aggressive like spl9, but it's periodically opening up to reveal so much beautiful atmospheric depth behind all the intensity.
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I remember hearing an alternate version of Buckingham Green in one of the webcasts, so I'm guessing that one's a yes! Have you guys done any coding in ChucK? nah but i saw it years ago and it looked interesting iirc it was made for live coding, is that right? would prob appeal to me if so Yeah you can queue up different bits of code on the fly. I just started checking it out last week, it seems pretty slick. I like how you approach time in it, you set up all the parameters then tell the compiler to pass chunks of time to let sound happen with that config. Kinda trippy, makes you think differently. I was listening to Oversteps today and I was wondering - did you have specific patches for those tracks that would generate them in an ongoing way, so you could leave them open as long as you wanted and have the melodies keep varying? Or were the songs set up to go through a certain number of variations / loops and then end? I just imagine it would be so sweet to pop open a patch and have it play a couple hours of pt2ph8 while you're doing things around the house.
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i've never used jitter for spectrograms, might give it a go sometime. i've not used it for a bit, i don't have java se6 on here so i'm locked out for now i was doing stuff with gl mostly, no video stuff just graphics Cheers! Would love to see you guys bust out some Rutterford-style GL glitchfest one of these days. ps - uviol is the best track ever <3 sorry just had to say it, kthxbye
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I remember hearing an alternate version of Buckingham Green in one of the webcasts, so I'm guessing that one's a yes! Have you guys done any coding in ChucK?
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Could you tell me anything about what you like to do in Jitter? Have you used jit.repos much? Lately I've been trying to do these weird polar coordinate morphs in repos, I like to just set up the math, then get high staring into the webcam playing with settings. Also do you ever draw/manipulate spectral data for visuals? I'm kind of obsessed with spectrograms. Actually the first thing I did when I got the Exai digital release was make a max patch to play the wavs through a spectrogram with some symmetries and stuff. Still one of my favorite ways to listen to the album!
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Whoa thanks so much guys, this is a real treat! Your use of reverb on the last few albums has been mind-blowing. Listening to d-sho qub for example, on good headphones, I feel like I'm in a chamber constantly expanding and contracting - totally mental. It's really inspired me to start messing around with weird arrays of comb filters and all-passes in max/msp, modulating delay times to try and toe the lines in between delay and reverb and harmonizer. So my question - do you do most of your reverb experiments in Max? Are there other hardware/software techniques you like to use these days for lush atmospherics? And how important is the sense of space in your music?
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The Walking Dead - AMC TV Series (spoilers everywhere)
Boxus replied to Rubin Farr's topic in General Banter
in theory i like that, but why isn't anybody helping Rick farm? You would think in any sort of post apocalyptic micro society there would be some form of collective labor and duites,, but nope, there's rick just toiling away in the sun taking care of the pigs and picking turnips and digging trenches, seriously what the fuck? haha, true - it's not thought out well enough to be realistic, but I can still appreciate that side of the show. Unfortunately the last episode featured even less of the daily Zombie Prison Farm antics. So far I like both odd-numbered seasons of the show and dislike both even-numbered seasons. Hopefully 4 will get better and break this pattern, somehow. -
How had I not heard keyosc until now?? Amazing track.
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I've been listening to this in the car. It's great driving music. I still haven't absorbed it all the way, but I get into it more with every listen. Geometry will always be my favorite. I also really love the Phlax EP. Some amazing tracks on there, especially Bluette.
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I still don't get cloudline. I don't know what I think of it. Everything in the track seems to clash in a really weird way. I just... dunno. If I'm in the right mood I love it. I think this one will take longer to open up for me. I guess it's a bit like Eidetic Casein where you get this light, airy, almost silly sort of track in the midst of a dark menacing album, and the juxtaposition is confusing.
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best review yet
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Boardwalk Empire. I hadn't watched season 3 before so I'm plowing through it. Gets better and better. Rosetti is a great villain. He's totally over-the-top and his exploits require some suspension of disbelief, but he sure is fun to watch.
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The Walking Dead - AMC TV Series (spoilers everywhere)
Boxus replied to Rubin Farr's topic in General Banter
lol, that's exactly the impression I've been getting. The show is still entertaining but I don't really care about any of the characters. Or the plot. edit - The one thing I like the most about this season is seeing how they've tried to make a little microsociety in the prison. I like seeing them try to succeed at farming and educating youth in the zombie apocalypse. -
One of my cheap go-to foods, soy chorizo tacos w/ onion, bell pepper, black beans and mushrooms (topped with tomato, avocado and arugula).
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Love this book. I'm reading The Andromeda Strain. Fun/10. Good film too!
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Well fuck, that changes the way I've been hearing the track for the last decade. Oh yeah tac is great btw. Some of the yummiest ae synths I ever done heard.
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This was my experience too - I found a lot of the tracks just grating and annoying at first. Especially Ipacial Section (though I quickly grew to love the second half). I was turned off by how dry the album sounded compared to Draft and Confield. It's grown on me since but I still consider it one of their weaker albums. LCC, Pro Radii, and Sublimit are amazing tracks. I like the Exai / Eleventeen sound palette more in general. They're kind of opposite to each other - Untilted is overly dry and Exai is overly wet.
