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 Impedance	94kΩ
Output Impedance	150Ω
Output Drive	600Ω (min), 2kΩ+ (ideal)

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:

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!"

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. 

From Richard Byrne. It is an accurate portrayal of my artistic process.

Threewise Imagineerings

This is a refinery from Ian Hubert

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

Bunny tank

 

Imagerary 2

 

A whole pile o'images 1

 

Musique ala Tovarisch

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

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.

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

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

Penderwonk

Some free stems of music to practise mixing to.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.