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And now with added Grid! It's been an interesting few weeks making more ambient and textural music. Not sure how/if it'll fit into my usual style but it's fun nonetheless.

#nornsshield #grid #volcafm

The folder has been created, time to finally record my first EP.

I'm listening to the new Flying Lotus EP and it sounds chiptuney AF! Put it on while you read the following essay. I particularly love track 4, In the Forest (Day) https://flyinglotus.bandcamp.com/album/big-mama

In the liner notes FlyLo writes that he wanted the EP to feel "Like a fuckin' computer gone awry. Like a machine that had just lost its mind." It got me thinking about how we return to the 80s/90s computer sounds and visuals when we need to convey that something is "computery" or digital. At the time those aesthetics were governed by technical limitations, now they're creative choices.

On instagram a lot of the viral art and graphics I see mimics or is pixel/ASCII art and some artists, myself included, proudly proclaim that their art was made using old hardware or software. I'm definitely seeing more of this because it's _my_ instgram algorithm tuned to my interests so I would not try and claim this more generally.

With that said what is guiding this creative choice? Of course we can just like 80s/90s aesthetics, but I also think their reinforces the separation of humans and computers. Like, humans inhabit meatspace and computers inhabit cyberspace. I think it says "This _thing_ I created was made using computers and I'm not trying to fool you into thinking otherwise."

I like that, and I prefer computers to be computers.

Did a better recording.

For the zero people asking, the devices are a Norns shield, M8 tracker and a korg delay and reverb thingy.

#nornsshield #m8tracker #korg

@wjt@mastodon.me.uk Just read your blog post on exporting multichannel audio from Strudel.

I'm on Linux as well and have faced the same problem. If my samples are only mono and I'm not doing any panning or jux effects I have "solved" the issue of aligning the recording in a DAW by panning the audio to the left and creating a metronome sound (I use a noise sample) panned to the right. Then in the DAW it's easier to align to the metronome.

Stumbled across this scam site for music instruments and synths https://www.ukmusicgear.com/

What gave it away immediately is that pretty much every item there is around 70% discount. Ain't no one selling a CDJ for £300 instead of £2000!

I'm having fun with these! #ambient #m8 #nornsshield

Legit just had a Reform candidate knock on my door. I told them in no uncertain terms that I not in the slightest bit interested in what he had to say.

Fourth rejection this week!

`jux rev $ sound "airhorn(3,8)"`

ukg, but make it crow

#why

Some music I purchased this bandcamp Friday

@jine@sonomu.club https://nervousdata.bandcamp.com/album/friction-coefficient-of-the-floor-surface-is-not-exactly-known
@geikha@social.toplap.org https://koolswitchworks.bandcamp.com/album/cierre-juke
@tsrono@mastodon.social https://tsrono.bandcamp.com/album/vrtiglavica
Echo Juliet https://echojuliet.bandcamp.com/album/lift-your-face-to-the-sun

Happy to share the video I made for Echo Juliet's new song Lift Your Face To The Sun. It's from their new EP which is out now and makes a great bandcamp Friday purchase ;-) https://echojuliet.bandcamp.com/album/lift-your-face-to-the-sun

You can watch the full video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1FX_rW_ISo or watch a less compressed clip below. Enjoy 🥂

Myself and many other live coders were recently contacted about a casting call looking for a "Code DJ" to help promote Claude AI in an ad. The fee is a whopping $15,000! I thanked them for approaching me for consideration but ultimately declined, stating my dislike of AI. I imagined how I'd feel watching youtube and then suddenly seeing myself on an ad for Claude and it gave me the ick.

With that said I'm not gonna judge the person who does it. They're obviously gonna find a "Code DJ" for this and I hope it's someone already engaged with live coding as it's a life-changing amount of money, especially for those of us who make our living through art and music and don't have second jobs that we can rely on for our baseline income. To put it in perspective my earnings last year were less than the fee they're offering, so I really had to think hard about it before I declined. I think I'll be ok overall but, maaaan, $15k sure does sound sweet right about now... btw you should hire me for your artwork and music things.

Hello everyone (derogatory)

Here's a new music video created by me for @yaxu@post.lurk.org's track "Crashed" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFr4rky6hq0

#livecoding #algorave #tidalcycles #puredata #gem

Here's a new track recorded live on 21st June at my performance at the Science and Industry Museum #livecoding #tidalcycles #puredata #gem

https://youtu.be/GY_I3kzY0Lc