Tuesday, March 05, 2024

The Crushing Indifference

 

New album of more film-ish music. Experimenting (sometimes) with stuff that might go beneath dialog. I duno. Just some experiments.


Oh tab ye merry Bethlehem

 Hablo Morsenafenquack

The Tribunal shall judge ye now.


Trying to build an electric cello. I've made numerous mistakes and I'm going to have to mostly start again. 

A broken prototype of an electric cello.


Before the break but after I cut into the neck too much.



This was before I skunked the neck. 

Umbra studios in Upstate New York.

West Westside, in addition to mixing and mastering, does post-production audio too.






Saturday, February 24, 2024

The Unilluminable Room

 

New album.

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

PhD

 I'm officially a Doctor now. Well, I'm provisionally awarded a PhD until I made corrections in my thesis -- I have the 6-month version of corrections. 



I'm tired and my brain is mush. But it's kinda exciting.

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Image Dump

 

This is my alien whale. I think I drew it in GChat's old drawing system. 

Selene by Albert Aublet





My friend Todd made this ironic meme.


Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Cat Atreides

Taylor Swift from Lavender Dreams.

 The hours for the Hoboken Library Makerspace.

I wish I could find out who this artist is. I mean who the artist is who made this image. I only see scammy websites with it on a T-shirt. 


Groove to Chance Shirley's trip to Iceland.


Clay Shirky's "There's No Such Thing As A Protest Vote."


Fitting a cello bridge.





Sunday, February 11, 2024

Talk to the Zebra

TalkBass luthier forums



Pexels. I've been using it for movies and images. 

The Bellero Shield is an Outer Limits episodes.

Shaping a nut. Includes measurements. 

Adobe Express is amusing for making memes. 



Dig Technochic, a Jersey City maker.


Wednesday, January 31, 2024

What is upwise

 Grimular wigglewump.


Pexels is a decent site for videos and images that are CC.


I have a date for my PhD defense. It's the 19th of February. 



Long Way to a Small Angry Planet fan art

Walrus cup. Yes. I'm very proud of this.


ForScore has stuff that will let you put two iPads with a score up. 




Sunday, January 28, 2024

Penrose Unilluminable Room

The illumination problem is interesting to me. I suspect that by no great coincidence, it kinda looks like most stringed instruments. The reflections within are much more even with that sort of shape (I think.)

This moose is from the US Department of the Interior.

Preston tuners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_tuners



YouLean is an incredibly useful program. It was written in iPlug



972 Magazine is a left-wing Israeli publication. I don't know why it has that title. 


I made a crossword puzzle. It isn't good. 



Tuesday, January 02, 2024

Capitalism Does Not Exist Episode 5

Here I talk about the Communist Manifesto and how it might relate to the modern political economy. 

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Yes.

 ZdzisÅ‚aw BeksiÅ„ski


The story of YouLean. He works in C++ and iPlug. Sigh. I have a lot to learn before I can deal with iPlug. 

Jeffrey Sachs: another Lysenko we aimed at Russia.

Folkmanis puppets.

O'cello. I'm using this as a model for my cello.

Olga Desmond.



Decent Samples is pretty groovy with an interesting liberry. Actually, that link is to the Venus Theory Organic Orchestra instrument. I don't know what David Hilowitz' relationship is with transphobe Christian Henson is though. 


Friday, December 29, 2023

Capitalism Does Not Exist S01E04

This time with a puppet to explain how Capitalism doesn't exist.

Nobody knows what day today is

Waiting for my PhD defense to be scheduled. 


We have scene 4, now for 1-3, 5-6.


Working on the opera Red Flag of the Future.

We have a couple shorts coming up. One which will be improvised and is the brainchild of Rebecca Kush. The other is similarly-themed and writ by Richard Byrne. 

This sign was on the HVAC unit in the cafeteria, but I thought it was a funny sign for a TV studio.


Tried to see a dress rehearsal of Carmen at the Met. But the "open" part of the rehearsal was cancelled. 

iPlug controls. iPlug confuses me. I realize the tutorials are a bit out-of-date but they're also not really for people who are just learning to code. 


Tuning the tailpieces on basses. Two octaves and a perfect fourth. I don't know what it is "supposed" to be on a cello, but perfect fourths seem pretty reasonable. 

Flipzyde's singer is a very cool dude I work with. Their music is extraordinarily "musical" metal. I really dig the breadth of sound and the dynamics they do. 


Kaiber is one of those danged AI companies. 

Paul Drescher is a composer. 

Musiversal is a remote-musicians recording service. 

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Such things



There's a version of Clonehunter that's up on YouTube and has over 380k views. I don't know if it's a legit licensed copy or not. They've edited or blurred out all the nudity. 



Dances in Exile is a web comic.