Cryptowen

I write all my individual loops at 120bpm because that's a really easy tempo to calculate durations & polyrhythms at. Then when I'm actually recording a track I'll just adjust the speed meter in Buzz until it's matching the mood I'm in. The cool thing about that is that 120 becomes "standard" tuning & every other tempo is detuned consistent to that (ie all of the 90bpm tracks have been pitched down 33.333%, all the 180bpm trax have been pitched up 150%...those numbers might not be right but intuitively I know what I'm talking about). And because I generally aim to make my livejams standard durations (ie 12 equal-length parts, or 16, or 24 etc), when it comes time to make an album i can just start snapping them together like legos, layering them on top of each other & creating interesting unintended harmonic texture

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Ted Koinzynskis are a special form of cryptocurrency that use cpu power to develop elaborate computer viruses designed to destabilize all other forms of cryptocurrency & stop them from destroying the environment

real question: could they find a way to create a currency out of the act of planting trees or something like that? do altcoins neccessarily need to come into existence by way of massive cpu energy expenditure?

i too am an advocate for the Dune expanded universe scenario

cybercum is like that one issue of swamp thing where swamp thing wants to find a good substitute for the sex he is physically incapable of having with his new wife, so he grows a magical psychedelic fruit out of his own back & when she eats it she goes on a lengthy hallucinagenic journey through a realm of pure organic pleasure. cybercum is like that but it mostly just contains a code to download the newest U2 album to one's orifice of choice

@drillkickerevery time you post a photo my brain spends a second or two interpreting it as a photo of myself at age, like, 23 or something. I dunno how much that's actual resemblance & how much it's just similar hair+selfie technique at that era. perhaps there is an idm phenotype

perhaps the real solution is to more vigorously resume the late-00s indie scene's failed attempt to make all of life feel like the art to a boards of canada album

I'm amenable to the idea that Capitalism represents a distinct mutation in human social relations which has set off a chain reaction of explosive (and yes, often harmful) side effects. I'd probably side with Ellul or Lewis Mumford & place this process further back than the emergence of Capitalism as a named thing, back either to the emergence of a particular linear/historical/progressivist worldview, or to the emergence of technological development itself. My understanding (perhaps flawed) is that for the vast majority of the time that biologically-modern humans have been around, we basically still lived like animals: some tool-usage & a few ritualistic innovations, but nothing terribly far removed from what has been observed with certain other species. And change came about extremely slowly, still more on the level of biological evolution rather than intellectual. So, in my current understanding, something happened in the relatively recent past that disrupted a more cyclic relation to existence & replaced it with this rapid/linear process of technological & cultural development. And yes, I do think with the advent of that process there would have emerged all sorts of new forms of oppressive social structure, negative forms of human interaction, internal neurosis, depression, anxiety, existential ennui etc (all this along with the great artistic achievements, anything you might like about complex society etc). But I don't think that what it replaced was some kind of idyllic form of existence which would have been more communal & more in tune with the rhythm of the earth (imo maybe it was "better" in some ways but they still would have known pain, suffering, violence. And in any case they ended up turning into us so it's a bit of a moot point). And it's my suspicion that whatever model of social organization eventually comes to replace capitalism will alleviate some forms of social antagonism, inherit others (perhaps in mutated form), and invent entirely new ones which we in our current position can't even begin to conceptualize. Nothing in my life so far has given me the impression that human beings (individually or in groups) are pure good, or pure evil, or pure anything else - and (perhaps more importantly) there's limits to how far you can actually re-educate someone or radically alter their current worldview

eternal contrarian that i am, i feel like i've gotten more on board with the most recent mtl lockdown as the general public seems to be increasingly at odds with it. people mad at government officials for erring on the side of caution (yes, even perhaps excessive caution which will result in all sorts of negative side effects for small business & mental health) have no idea what it feels like to be the ones tasked with making that call - knowing that, in the (perhaps very slim) chance that you don't take precautions & things go horribly wrong, you'll be held directly responsible for all those deaths. As it is, they're going to be held responsible for every depression suicide, every business going under, every marriage falling apart, etc I guess it isn't even a matter of me thinking lockdowns are a good idea, i just appreciate that the government is people too & this is a shitty position to be thrown into

every year on april 14th watmm should activate a special feature where one of those singing text-to-speech programs sings every post posted to the tune of Ass-N-Titties by DJ Assault

i mean knowing fast food kitchens i wouldn't be surprised if they took the masks off entirely when no customers are around

i mean i'm pretty anti-capitalist but i also feel like the human will to dickishness runs much deeper than capitalism

aphex twin advocating for protective measures against coronavirus feels like it would be off-brand

tbh this late-career return to rock music is coming off much more sincere than i would have initially expected. i'm into it

maybe aliens have been abducting all those cows to take them to planet moo

i've got no complaints

Yeah similar experience at around the same age. Maybe it's because people don't usually talk about the "sometimes you feel kinda tired & withdrawn after" part. To the young mind it feels as if God himself were smiting you for daring to glaze the sacral ham

i didn't know that foreskin could be pulled back until i was in my 20s

Yeah it's complicated. imo there actually are a lot of good arguments for being against the lockdown (or at least against aspects of it), but I've mostly been hearing the really dumb ones as justification for today's protest. I feel like I'd be more empathetic to the "I'm at my wit's end because of all this" crowd if this issue wasn't affecting literally everyone on the planet (pretty much). it's like saying you're at your wit's end because you're going to die eventually. So is everybody (pretty much), get used to it or come up with a better angle

yeah imo a big problem is that the longer this goes on the more people will be emotionally reacting rather than rationally considering what's going on, and when that happens a reactionary position begins to seem more appealing (as the name suggests). initially it's just the people who would have been against the government in any case (ie conspiracy theorists). over time nerves become frayed, the human error (and perhaps in some cases genuine incompetence) of governing officials stands out more & more. the idea of aggressive pushback becomes more normalized as more people dare to voice the possibility. it all just feels extremely childish to me. this is being dressed up as some kind of power to the people thing, standing up for liberty or whatever. but really it's just the exact same mindless emotional reactivity which had people (probably the same people) panicking & buying a year's worth of toilet paper a year ago. it's less about actually doing something politically & more about the individual trying to demonstrate to their peers that they're the kind of person who stands up to Totalitarianism, or that standing up for your right to eat at Golden Corral is on par with your great grandpa storming the beach at Normandy

apparently there's going to be a big protest here today against the most recent lockdown measures (gyms shut back down, curfew moved from 9:30 to 8PM, mandatory to wear a mask in parks), with the stated intention being to intentionally flaunt the curfew. i'm kinda curious to see how rowdy it gets - it's definitely far more than just crazy QAnon types who are against the government at this point (last I looked on the Montreal Reddit page there were, like, people openly threatening violence against the premier). I passed by a couple parks yesterday & they were more packed than I've ever seen them; like music festival packed. Felt like there had to be something more to it than just people out enjoying the weirdly early summer weather

harvested some pretty lush pads from an episode of theodore tugboat this morning

i had this happen a lot when i first moved to montreal. going to shows at the official start time & no one would be there, sometimes not even the people running it. it got to be so that when i was organizing shows myself i would put the official start time as a couple hours earlier than i actually wanted to get going, just so people wouldn't be rolling in at 1AM for an acoustic singer-songwriter set

the cool thing about zizek's writing is that it all reads like someone else writing a zizek-style shitpost