Alice Guy-Blaché Early filmmaker, possibly made the first narrative film.
When Gravity Fails is a really fabulous book series.
Phenomenal World is a site I can't parse.
The function in mathematics.
These are less relevant now:
Nadia Boulanger might be the best music teacher ever.
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| A 4-leaf clover I found. |
Associative, Commutative, and Distributive Properties
Murray Bookchin's "Listen, Marxist!"
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.
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| From Richard Byrne. It is an accurate portrayal of my artistic process. |
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| This is a refinery from Ian Hubert |
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| This was as big as I got with my novel Earthkiller. |
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| Bunny tank |
Mary Shelly wrote a post-apocalypse novel called The Last Man.
Kagi is a subscription-based search engine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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| This is you. |
The solution was to delete:
c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Preferences\config-fairlight.dat
Some free stems of music to practise mixing to.
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| 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.
Jean Mignon is a rock artist. To me, sort of Ministry-sounding with ironic lyrics.
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.
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| Harmony Zhu at the piano. |
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.
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| I saw a video with Ian Hubert and he said to render out EXR format, RGB half (DWAA). I listen and obey. |
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.
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| 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.
So I was designing a musical and I got the most hilarious email from the music director, telling me that there would be hotspot amp/speakers [shudder] in the pit and also dictating microphone placement. Here is that exchange:
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| Honestly? One of the better musicians around here. |
We: You specify two microphones for the woodwinds doubling. Where... do you suggest those microphones go exactly? Perhaps we have wildly different ideas about how to mic woodwinds.
They: There are many changes of instruments for the player so the constant repositioning of the mic is not the best idea. Flute mics high close to the players mouth while a clarinet mics close to the players hands. This would be the correct way to mic these instruments, which is why we need 2 separate mics.
We: There is no "correct" way to mic any instrument. Close to the mouth might be fine for flute if this were, for instance, a Jethro Tull concert in 1972. But we might want a somewhat more delicate sound for a small-ensemble musical theater experience. This will help enable the subtle dynamics and phrasing of the material to be realized with more musicality than otherwise achievable with rock-and-roll mic technique. I suggest we do not close-mic the woodwinds.
They: Actually, that’s incorrect. The micing is dictated by where on the instrument the sound is coming from. If we were in an isolation box then you can mic the space, but that is not the case here. Flutes and clarinets produce sound from different parts of the instrument. We will need 2 mics.
This is maybe the funniest thing I've ever heard about how sound is amplified. So yes, from here on out "The micing is dictated by where on the instrument the sound is coming from" is one of those things which should be a cartoon sign on every mixing board.
Anyway, can you tell I got fired from that show? Thank the gods too, I've heard nothing but bad things about how these shows sound and, well, now I know why. "The micing is dictated by where on the instrument the sound is coming from." Huh. I wonder how that works on violin? ;-)
