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I had the wonderful pleasure of playing the bassline from The Last Amethyst Deceiver on my uncle's beautiful mandocello-Irish bouzouki fusion a few days ago (but transposed down by a fifth). It sounded even better than on the studio version of that song, so good that I immediately fell in love with the instrument. For only four courses of strings, it has an incredible range.
Seriously, though, that bassline is one of the best things ever.
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I don't imagine there are many writers on a music forum. Anyway, I just finished my first fiction novel.
You can pre-order it here if you're interested.
Apologies for the shameless plug.
I write a lot of poetry though. I don't see why anyone wouldn't think that music and writing go well together. They're the same thing but on different mediums. All art comes from the same fundamental source, and that is the soul.
The Shining. I really don't like King's prose, it's very bland.
Can't be as dry as Verner von Heidenstam's. For a speculative fiction writer, he had an extremely objective and utilitarian way of describing things.
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Unfortunately it isn't a very in-depth collection of tales. It just gives an overview of certain characters or concepts from legends and theologies from around the world (with an odd bias toward Indian theology).
I also saw another book yesterday of a Medieval Welsh legend, but I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to fit it in my luggage (and it was also rather expensive), so I had to reluctantly pass on it.
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I went to a bookstore in Liverpool today and got a book of myths from around the world and one about Indian music. These I can actually read, so they've been keeping me entertained.
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for basic mixing and audio editing / putting together a track structure MAx/msp alone would be a nightmare.
Yeah, structuring a track in Max tends to not work because the slight inaccuracies in the float processing with inevitably cause counters to get out of sync. It's best to just record different tracks from MSP and then arrange and mix them in Ableton. M4L seems strange and complicated to me, though, so I've never fucked with it.
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I've tried MaxMSP a number of times, and which I think it's neat, most of what I hear from myself (and others) is stuff that can easily be made in a DAW. The only reasons I'd ever really go indepth with MAX is if I find a limitation in what I'm trying to do in my DAW. It's also important that I be able to get it done reasonably quick/efficient, so if it's somehow faster in MAX, then that would be a good reason to go to it for me I guess.
That's surprising to read. I started using Max because I use it to do things that aren't possible with the limitations that DAWs have. While they're convenient for straightforward, conventional composition, they make experimentation very difficult because they simply aren't designed for it.
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I went to an antiquariat in Heidelberg yesterday and purchased an old book about Buddhist art in China. The only problem is that my German is pretty awful so I can barely make any sense out of it.
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Pearls Before Swine
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Only two brief mentions of Coil ITT? Really? Unacceptable. WATMM, I am disappointed.
I would consider Tortoise the rock equivalent of IDM.
lol you really need to hear Radian.
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He hasn't been euthanized yet, but he will be before I get a chance to see him again (as I am going to Germany today). For some reason he has stopped eating regularly and has been reduced to less than half his weight. I have no idea what could be wrong, and the veterinarian couldn't find anything. Even when he eats, he does not digest the food and usually throws up all of it. He has been very miserable for a while and is now unable to drink properly. I can't be at peace in Germany knowing my best friend is suffering, and since it is apparent that he is not going to recover at this point, there is no other option.
I am happy that his misery is at an end, but sad that he had to go through it all for my selfish desire to keep him with me. The irony is that I am finally returning to my childhood home but the friend I've had the entire time since then is now leaving forever.
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I had to say goodbye to my cat for the last time tonight. He's been by best friend for as long as I can remember, so I can't imagine what it's going to be like without him. It certainly will not be the same.
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It would be tedious beyond belief...like watching someone fill in a tax return....I saw an interview with Objekt where he says he doesn't agree with the whole spontaneity is better than painstaking effort and craft...I'm definitely in his camp on this one....
Depends on the type of music you're making. I personally don't see any reason to do music if you aren't having fun, and I don't see how you could possibly not be having fun if you're doing something completely new with audio signals and manipulating them in ways you haven't thought of before. Whenever I've tried making tunes that I wasn't genuinely enjoying, it's always come out sounding like shit (and I've spent months of hard work putting hours a day into a single tune, and it's one of the worst things I've ever produced).
That said, I don't think anyone would enjoy watching me make music. It seems like it would be pretty dull to watch regardless of how much I enjoy it myself.
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Obli kek at above 'hop
Is that English?
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ha! if only
its the other way around
But it says that you joined in 2007. Did you change your name or something?
You can look at name history in a user's profile.
I did not know that.
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ha! if only
its the other way around
But it says that you joined in 2007. Did you change your name or something?
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they're the dopest
Is recks on named after you?
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bad translator gave me
"The direction of the hospital. I see that the door at the bottom. Skin, mucous membranes, Leo. God is a dog. "
Damn, this album is going to be deep.
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What's also incredible about this genre is the corny stuff is very far removed from groundbreaking and objectively important and excellent releases in ambient, experimental, and ethnic music in terms of sincerity and context but musically is often only different in subtle ways and instrumentation.
Kat Epple really needs to be noted here as a great example of the latter.
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In all seriousness, as the time passes by, I feel it's stupid to look for a cool name being a SINGLE artist. I cannot imagine a writer, filmmaker, painter, whatever, using a stupid moniker. You can tweak a little your name if you don't like it or if its very common, but more than that, I feel that it is immature, insecure and anachronistic. Why put the brand over ourselves?
I don't like the idea of someone listening to music that I produced and thinking of an individual. It takes part of the essence of the art away when it's connected to something concrete. I treasure the mystery of finding an obscure piece of art with an unknown origin, and I want to allow others to have that experience.
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lovin the photos caze
Where was this taken?
New York Botanical Gardens
Lovely. It makes me want to go there myself. I might decide to go to New York next month, and if I do I'm definitely going to visit this place just because of this photo. I really can't believe that there could be a garden so beautiful in such a filthy and overpopulated city.
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Yeah, I was going to post Deep Forest. Just heard it recently coming from a hippie store. Fffuck.
heard this in a taxi on the way to Sonar in Barcelona at the weekend... as if 90's euro-new age is still played on the radio over there or the guy just had a CD ready to stick on for tourists hah
proper suited the vibe tho.
da sample is actually a pretty beautiful traditional lullaby from that solomon islands (thx wiki)...
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Beautiful. The UNESCO Collection is great. Their recordings of Swiss yodeling are very nice.
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I have one picture that I really like that I took as a child in Homer, Alaska. I used it as the cover for the album that's on my Bandcamp page, and also for the background in my typographic logo.
I'm going to Germany and Wales next month, so I'm sure to be back with some great pictures of those beautiful areas. I'm planning on going around the Mosel a bit, which is never anything less than gorgeous.
lovin the photos caze
Where was this taken?
not much of a photographer, only ever take pics of nature and shit, here's some from a recent trek out to Skellig Michael off the coast of Kerry.
Beautiful. I wish I could go there.
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Oh, and I made a bootleg cassette of SAW II. It's very satisfying opening up a tape that I put together myself, especially after how much trouble I went through figuring out how to print the J-card on both sides.
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I figured out how to play I Remember the Berlin Boys on piano recently, and I've been getting pretty good at it.
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It turns out that it's actually much, much simpler than I was making it for myself.
I also started studying Nahuatl and it's much more interesting than that other language I've wanted to learn. Not an achievement yet, but I'm hoping it'll become one.
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Things We Never Had would definitely have to be on that comp. It sounds a lot like Autechre (who were also influenced by Coil).