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2 hours ago, hoggy said:
I kind of agree with Zizek on this - if you look deep inside yourself, you find shit - the story we tell ourselves about ourselves can be a total lie - he cites Mein Kampf as an example. The truth of who we are is in how we interact with others. There's that Buddhist joke:
While four monks are meditating, a prayer flag begins to flap in the breeze. The youngest monk stops and says, "Flag is flapping." An older monk corrects him: "No, wind is flapping." A wiser monk proclaims, "No, mind is flapping." The eldest concludes, "No, mouths are flapping."
Maybe it's possible to reach true enlightenment, but I don't know if you'd be able to judge whether you've reached it for yourself.Yeah.
In 10th grade history class, two of the first things they taught us was to avoid presentism, and that a paradigm cannot be fully comprehended from the inside. There was a lot of bullshit in high school but those two ideas have steered me wrong so far (plenty of other stuff has, but not those).
I guess a good analogy would be
You live your whole life inside one room in a large house, with no doors and one window. You have never been outside of that room, and can only see out of the one window. How can you describe the rest of the house (inside and out)? Maybe you can get a general idea of the shape by seeing the shadow it casts, maybe you can tell what floor you are on, maybe you can even see the color of the trim around your window and infer the color of the rest of it. Maybe you can get insight into the construction and size by knocking on the walls and flor. But can you accurately describe the entire thing in detail?
Conversely, because there is no door, nobody but you can describe the inside of your room, beyon what they can see through the window.
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Looking at those last two posts, maybe I actually AM on the autism spectrum after all...
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53 minutes ago, toaoaoad said:
I guess this is a byproduct of "branding" and hashtagging and the constant pursuit of attention in a noisy world?
I think about this a lot these days. Like, I'm old enough that I wasn't heavily online until I was old enough to drive (and web 2.0 was at least 6 years away), but imagine if, from birth, the majority of your interctions are mediated by algorithms and optimizing your day to day life for discoverability/search engines. Even having that hit in my 20s has completely changed nearly everything about how I have to interact with the world (because even if you go completely offline, everyone else is still online so it's still affecting all of your interactions indirectly) - being born into that must fuck you up so much.
Shit, my family didn't even have a TV set until I was at least 5 or 6 and not having that early childhood imprint of advertising is something I'll always be grateful for.
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1 hour ago, Satans Little Helper said:
he has told himself a story that he's <insert mental something> and now he acts it out (as a self fulfilling prophecy).
This is exactly why I'm so skeptical of anything that's self-diagnosed. I just remember watching stuff like the pro-anorexia Livejournal community blow up in the early 00s...
I also think that people are, for the most part, uniquely UNqualified to look at theimselves objectively (physically, emotionally, psychologically, whatever). I guess maybe if you literally achieve some kind of Buddhist enlightenment you might be able to see yourself objectively for a few seconds.
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I know I'm not autistic because I'm actually pretty socially aware, I just don't give a fuck most of the time.
Now Sensory Processing Sensitivity tests I'm off the charts on, but that's too common to even be considered a disorder. That's just 20%-ish of the population who are congenitally weird and probably more like 80% of musicians.
Seriously, when a friend finally convinced me to ake one of those SPS tests (I'm not a fan of self-diagnosis at all - except for the memes - but I caved after I found out there's actually a decent body of legitimate, REPLICATED, research and it has even been linked to some genetic markers) the only reason I didn't get a full 100% is the stuff about being uncomfortable around violent movies and loud noises. Violent movies and loud noises are awesome, so I had to give a hard "no" to three questions.
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The only one
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Another one from the vaults.
https://lagooncity.bandcamp.com/album/night-cycle
It's free, ya goldbricking rat bastid.
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I didn't know about WATMM until 2009 or 10, but if I knew about it in 2003 starting a burner account and posting a bunch of mp3s while dropping hints I was actually RDJ is exactly the kind of thing I would have done back then.
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So I've always been kind of fascinated with James' Song from Twin Peaks Season 2, ecause it manages to be one of the most dry-funny moments in the whole series and also the point where it completely bottomed out and became unwatchable. But I never noticed that it's also a complete ripoff of Love Hurts by Heart, and that makes it even funnier.
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3 hours ago, ignatius said:
i think spotify does that themselves don't they? a way to kick back money to themselves or whatever. it's mentioned in a few of the "spotify is shit and full of fraud" type articles of recent years.
Yeah but that's kind of different since it's top down. I mean like a dozen artists with no real commercial prospects getting together for a few days to make some boilerplate pop and then botfarming it to the top of the playlists, splitting the payout and repeating every 6 months or so.
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https://archive.org/details/TheManualHowToHaveANumber1TheEasyWay
I've reread it every few years since the early 2000s and it's better every time.
Starting to get the ball rolling on a new album right now, and this one's going to be even more Manual-influenced than usual, I think.
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I wonder if anyone has thought of starting a streamfarming collective, where a group of musicians and artists comes together to collaboratively build a few lucrative, fake Spotify-or-whatever-platform artists and then distributes the royalties according to some kind of profit sharing model so that everyone can live in modest comfort off of their share and spend their time doing music and art that they actually care about.
Anyhow, I reread The Manual (mostly, have a bit to finish up today) for the fourth or fifth tim yesterday evening and other than the stuff about the specific details of production and promotion in 1988, it ahsn't gotten any less relevant. Everything about popular music itself and the general psychology of the music industry is if anything more relevant than it was the last time I read it (I read it every 4 or 5 years). Just swap in the technical details for how things work today (and skip the whole chapter about recording studios, whatever those are).
EDIT: the one (minor) flaw with that article is that the author - like 99.9% of people (or at least Americans) doesn't know what "meritocracy" means, and that all of the things he's describing ARE meritocracy. "Meritocracy" was literalyl coined to satirize the collective delusion that social power and success are earned. It means the opposite of what most people think it means. The intro to the second edition of Rise of the Meritocracy (the novel that coined the term) is a great, long essay/rant about that, it's worth logging in or creating an archive.org account jsut to read that part (but read the whole book if you care about this stuff)
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3 hours ago, Wunderbar said:
I
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brother.
Ah OK, I read the first post as sarcasm.
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1 hour ago, Wunderbar said:
Hey
Rock on
brother.
I'm obviously being hyperbolic, but the Moog fandom is pretty silly. When Bob Moog was still alive it made sense, but since he retired/died it's been just another mid size company with workplace issues that's adding on a big brand-recognition premium as far as I'm concerned. The DFAM seems cool, is too expensive.
I'm glad my theremin says Big Briar on the panel, not Moog.
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6 hours ago, iococoi said:
That second one, the sequencer that works by summing multipleEuclidean rhythm generators, looks really cool.
I don't have a mac but it's definitely giving me ideas about patchign up something similar in the MIDIbox SEQ (three chromatic Euclidean rhythm generators running in different octaves, all feeding the saem arpeggiator track and then quantized to a key and scale).
That MPE-controlled 3d panning one looks like a great idea, too, even though spatial audio is kind of useless unless you're doing soun design for a major studio movie or something.
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12 minutes ago, chronical said:
why are you running it at 40°C though? no wonder it's loud if you're trying to cool it that hard. I'm not too familiar with server hardware but it should be similar to normal computers? 60-65 idle, fine up to 80-85 degrees on both GPU and CPU..
Because I do most of the intensive stuff with hardware so it isn't workign very hard. That's just where it sits (proably more like 45-50 really) with the default cooling settings during the cooler parts of the year. If the room itself is getting up around 32-33C during the summer then the CPU can get up closer to 80 easily.
It runs about as loud as a typical microwave oven. For audio work, that's LOUD. Still quiet enough that I can hear myself rubbing the tips of my fingers together when my hand is held at arms length from my ears (which is a good base line for a quiet room IMO) but loud enough that I can hear it.
I don't use it for anything grapically intenive so it just has a basic, passively cooled GPU and that helps.
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3 hours ago, chronical said:
If your server is consistantly loud maybe the thermal paste is old. because they really only go to 11 when your CPU goes above 80 degrees, they all follow CPU temps.. which shouldn't be too hot doing music things unless you're autechre.. but then what happens when GPU intense software barely works your CPU.. GPU overheats because the fans are just adjusting to the CPU.. yeah the GPU has its own fans but that's where heat builds up.. so maybe you're hearing your GPU fan(s?) going crazy too.. definitely worth adjusting/repasting if it's that annoying. I have it set to very low RPM until the CPU goes above 68°C or so, because usually with Renoise and the lot it stays below that, so with making music I have zero noise issues.. and with games the CPU is usually above the 68°C mark so the GPU begins getting help there.. can't play games at 240hz without a bit of wheeeeeee though
No, I upgraded the motherboard and CPUs in 2020, with high quality thermal paste. It's loud because it has 6 fans and whatever surface I mount it to amplifies the sound. They aren't actually running anywhere near full speed.
What I need to do is make some kind of proper damping sysyem to isolate the rack bracket from the wall it's mounted on, but it's not bad enough to be a huge problem, jsut bad enough I'd hesitate to record acoustic instruments with a room mic or do "real" mastering or anything. It's sitting at around 40C most of the tim, except on really hot days. I watched the peak temperature for a couple months during the hottest part of summer a few years ago, and even on the worst days it was a couple degree below the manufacturer say it shouldn't exceed more than 5% of the time to avoid shortening its usable life.
"loud" for audio is, like, the sound of a refrigerator fan running at the opposite end of the house, with the kithcen door closed. If I was using it for normal server stuff it would be unusually quiet.
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Now that Moog is a subsidiary of a big corporation, how are people going to complain about Behringer knocking off their overpriced, not-actually-made-domestically, assembled by people paid less han an entry level McDonalds employee (where I live; last I saw a help wanted sign on the McDonalds at the rest stop I go by every time I visit relatives entry level third shift was $15/hr) bloop boxes?
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How's the fan noise on that computer?
I use an old server I picked up a decade ago and it's still more than powerful enough for how I work, but the fans are so loud I had to build a wooden rack for it and stick it in the closet at my old place, adn at the new place I ahve it in the unfinished half of my basement with a hole drilled through the wall for the cables - but it's STILL pretty loud (not too loud to mix my own stuff but loud enough I'd hesitate to mix for anyone else)
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Yeah, a friend of mine got a Neutron last year and it sounds great.
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A couple friends and I are finally starting the psychedelic lounge band I've had on the back burner for about 15 years, and been thinking a lot about doing a sort of boozy piano bar version of The Anal Staircase.
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LOL at the D-Beam
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Snagged one of these like new in the box out of the trash, so I guess I'm a drummer again.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/W1084--jumbie-jam-steel-drum-with-tabletop-stand-silver
If I don't post for a while don't worry, I'll just be wastin away in Margaritaville
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Are you on the Autism Spectrum?
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Posted · Edited by TubularCorporation
Not really. Plato's cave is talking about how we perviece the outside world, I'm making ananalogy about out inability to ever see or understand ourselves as others see and understand us.
Plato kind of sucks IMO, but this isn't the thread for that conversation.
I used to talk to a lot of literature and philosophy professors at my last job (we just happened to be exactly the sort of place that they liked), and one of them once said that the only reason anyone who wasn't a historian would study Plato today is that it can be instructive to unpack the ways that he got so many things wrong. Which was a great way to put it, I guess that's how you get to be an ivy league professor.