Monday, July 28, 2025

Sixty Now

Visiting pigs for my 60th birthday.

I'm kinda interested in these shelf EQ's by Neumann. There are numerous versions out there. Link Audio Design makes the W92X which is a 500-series module. As far as I can tell, the circuit is fairly simple and straightforward (although uses a lot of parts because rather than infinitely-variable potentiometers it uses switches.) They're just under 400 Euros assembled.

The Link Audio W92X 500-series module.

New Systems Instruments makes a number of interesting-looking Eurorack modules. Here is a quad M/S encoder/decoder. An oddity with Eurorack is that the input and output voltage standards are different from both prosumer and professional audio. 



Output Swing−10V–+10V peak
Input Range−10V–+10V peak
Input Impedance94kΩ
Output Impedance150Ω
Output Drive600Ω (min), 2kΩ+ (ideal)


Sunday, June 29, 2025

Just what and then such will am an

Alice Guy-Blaché Early filmmaker, possibly made the first narrative film.

When Gravity Fails is a really fabulous book series. 

New Left Review

Phenomenal World is a site I can't parse. 

The function in mathematics. 

These are less relevant now:

The image is a two-panel comic featuring a goose and a human. In the top panel, the goose is depicted in a side profile with its beak open, seemingly speaking. The text next to the goose reads, "Regime change to what?" In the bottom panel, a person is shown running away, wearing a jacket and pants, but their head is not visible. The goose chases after the person, with its wings slightly outstretched. The text above the goose in this panel reads, "REGIME CHANGE TO WHAT!!" Both panels have a simple, cartoonish style, with minimal background details.  Alt-text:  A comic of a goose questioning "Regime change to what?" and chasing a person.  Transcribed Text:  Regime change to what? REGIME CHANGE TO WHAT!!  heycantalk.com

The image is a two-panel comic featuring a goose and a person. In the top panel, a white goose with an orange beak is facing right and speaking. The background is plain, focusing attention on the goose. The text beside the goose reads, "Regime change in Iran to what?" The bottom panel depicts a person on the left, seemingly startled, running away from the goose, which is aggressively chasing them. The goose is in mid-stride with its beak open, capturing a sense of motion and urgency. The background remains simple, emphasizing the interaction between the characters.  Alt-text:  "Two-panel comic of a goose questioning then chasing a person."  Transcribed Text:  "Regime change in Iran to what?  REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN TO WHAT, MOTHERFUCKER?!"


True temperament frets.

Murray Bookchin

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

Nadia Boulanger might be the best music teacher ever.

A 4-leaf clover I found. 


Associative, Commutative, and Distributive Properties

In mathematics

Mutable Instruments manual.

Murray Bookchin's "Listen, Marxist!"





Saturday, May 31, 2025

Sound tone brake

Sound analyzer This is a great pedagogy tool that gives you a nice FFT display of incoming audio using your web browser. 

Online tone generator This is another great tool for, well, generating tonies. 


Chance Shirley reminded me that Handbrake still exists. And it's available for Mac, Windows, and Linux


The image features a small, fluffy rabbit with white and light brown fur sitting on the keys of a piano. The piano keys underneath the rabbit are prominently displayed, showcasing both white and black keys. In the background, there is sheet music placed on the piano stand. The top right corner of the image contains a small inset showing a black and white photo of a person in an astronaut suit. Below this inset, there is another small black and white photograph showing three people in motion. In the lower left corner of the main image, the text "MUSIC FROM DR. DREW" is displayed in bold, red lettering.  Alt-text:  A small rabbit sits on piano keys with background sheet music; insets of an astronaut and people in motion are included.  Transcribed Text:  MUSIC FROM DR. DREW
From Richard Byrne. It is an accurate portrayal of my artistic process.


Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Threewise Imagineerings

This is a refinery from Ian Hubert

This was as big as I got with my novel Earthkiller.



Bunny tank

 

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Musique ala Tovarisch

Mary Shelly wrote a post-apocalypse novel called The Last Man.

A fluffy, light brown and white rabbit is sitting on the keys of a piano. The piano has sheets of music placed on the sheet holder. The rabbit's ears are perked up, and its fur appears soft and unkempt. In the upper right corner, there is a small inset image of a person in a spacesuit with a black and white checkered pattern. Below the rabbit, in the lower right corner, there’s another inset image of two people in suits, appearing as an old black-and-white photograph. The text "MUSIC FROM DR. DREW" is written in bold red letters at the bottom left of the image.  Alt-text:  A rabbit on piano keys with text "MUSIC FROM DR. DREW" and two inset images of a person in a spacesuit and a vintage photo of two people.  Transcribed Text:  MUSIC FROM DR. DREW

A map of places in Dracula

Kagi is a subscription-based search engine. 

From Charging for Sound Design:

  • Freelance sound designers typically charge between $50 and $150 per hr, depending on their level of experience and the complexity of the project.
  • Project rates for audio layout can vary commonly, relying on the kind as well as scope of the project. As an example, an attribute film might set you back between $10,000 and $50,000 for sound style job, while a short film may cost between $1,000 and also $5,000.
  • Some audio developers might charge a flat rate for details services, such as dialogue editing or Foley work. For instance, dialogue modifying might cost in between $100 and also $500 per min of audio, relying on the complexity of the project.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Bliss Q

Luther Blissett, the original Q.

I am still using this image accessibility app. It's made by Arizona State. It works really well for posting to stuff like Bluesky. 



Katharina Popova. Poisoned a lot of toxic husbands for hire in Ukraine. 

General Introduction to Narratology. It's a website. 

NPR says the quality of the audio on your Zoom call makes people take you more seriously.




Various and the Lupine et al

 Music in context. Specifically ragas for different times of day.

Ash is a movie that looks like the plot of every Pandora Machine movie combined. I wanna see it.


What is illegal DEI

Online vocal stem remover. Although I actually just use DaVinci Resolve for this.



This is the computer I tried to put Mint Linux on. Basically, the computer stopped being able to boot. So I had to re-install Windows. 

Microsoft - Surface Pro - 12.3" Touch-Screen - Intel Core M - 4GB Memory - 128GB SSD with Black Type Cover (Latest Model) - Silver

Model:HGG-00001
SKU:6111206




Thursday, March 20, 2025

One DaVinci problem, ASIO and a solution

So I had my first miserable experience with DaVinci Resolve. I flipped the audio driver over to ASIO and restarted and... no dice. DaVinci wouldn't boot anymore. It's a whole thing

This is you.


The solution was to delete:

c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Preferences\config-fairlight.dat

Saturday, March 08, 2025

Penderwonk

Some free stems of music to practise mixing to.

The image depicts a small gray and white bird perched on a thin branch against a soft, out-of-focus background. The bird has a light gray back and a fluffy, white belly. Its head is also gray with a distinct black mask across its eyes. The beak is short and curved, adapted for its feeding habits. The branch is bare and thin, with a few sparse twigs extending out. The background is a muted blend of colors, suggesting a natural setting without specific detail.
This bird is you.


Etymotic Music Pro Elite musicians earplugs what are rechargeable. 

aiaiai Audio They make headphones and such.

Most men died off 7000 years ago.

Thorstein Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class.

Die Puppe "The Meat Puppet" German film.

Michelangeli is, I think, Yuja Wang's favorite pianist.

Intelligibility vs bandwidth.

Jean Mignon is a rock artist. To me, sort of Ministry-sounding with ironic lyrics.




Sunday, February 16, 2025

Canadians over the boarder

Saw this 20-year-old Canadian play with the Albany Symphony at the Troy Music Hall. The hall sounds spectacular. My buddy Marc was playing bass. The Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini was pretty solid. 

Harmony Zhu at the piano.


Saturday, February 15, 2025

Whose you then behold inversely square

The BBC sound effects library.

Mixing Station is amusing. It's for remote control of a variety of digital consoles. Doesn't work for Yamaha. 



Inverse Square Law Calculator.

This font is everywhere and specifically on Apollo spaceships. Gorton.

I saw a video with Ian Hubert and he said to render out EXR format, RGB half (DWAA). I listen and obey.


Thursday, February 13, 2025

Music for sneezing

Mainstage is a Mac app which lets you run VST and VSTi plugins and what-have-you so you can use your computer for instruments and effects suchwise. 

The image features a pika, a small mammal with a rounded body and short limbs. It has dense grey-brown fur with lighter patches on its face and underside. The pika is perched on a rugged, grey rock with visible green lichen patches. Surrounding the rock are green alpine plants and a few yellow flowers, indicative of a mountainous, grassy habitat.
What do you say when this sneezes? Pika-chu.

Idempotence is something I do not understand. 

Delia Derbyshire -- you know, Dr. Who and what-have-you.

If you had to name a single person more influential to music, just music itself everywhere in the world in the 20th Century, I think it would have to be Nadia Boulanger. Certainly to music in Europe and the Americas.