A Weasel a Day Makes the Automixer Go Manet

 Audiothing makes a plug-in to emulate that Dolby A trick. 

Ermine? Or er-YOURS?

WTAutomixer is a good little automixer. 

Mainstage for Macs. It's reasonably priced. You can run VSTi's with it, or also you could (say) run your whole mix through VST's or AU's or what-have-you. I'm kinda thinking about putting Smoothe on the vocal submix. 

Cardinal is a virtual modular synth plugin. 

Watching ICE.

Canterboulious

 A reddit post with game audio job posting places to look for jobs. 

Savihost for hosting VSTi plugins.

Machinal. It's a play. 

VST Host is a PC-based VST plugin host. 

Graduation pictures

 All photographs from the Queen of Mars.

Here I'm having breakfast at the university's coffee shop.

This is maybe the first time I went up the stairs, but they skipped over my name so I had to sit back down again while the staff added my name back to the list, making me walk at the very end rather than 3rd.

A closeup of Dr. Andrew Bellware. We don't know if this was the first time or the second time. 

I feel I look like a Picasso in this. I'm not sure why I'm so two-dimensional. 

I was very irked at this point. 

Still, there's one smiling picture of me:

I have my PhD now

Doctor Andrew Bellware with his official diploma from the University of Salford, having been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 

 

Python, Congressman Davy, and Me

Line arrays.

The sound plot for Congressman Davy.

Idempotence.

A modern image of Andrew Bellware.

My personal website, andrewbellware.com.

Image dumpricae.

I finally quit Twitter. 

This is you.

I also had tried the Brave browser. But it seems like a scam, so I went back to Chrome. 

I look very angry here. This is a picture from several years ago. 

I believe this is from the last RCCNY concert. 

A closeup of that recording situation.

This DC train station is very lovely.

I do not know why I think this is as funny as I think it is. But I do. And I am.

Here's an old, badly-exposed picture of me and Willow. I seem much cooler a person than I really am in this picture. 

The future is all red flag.

Todd Johnson in his kitchen circa maybe 1981. Likely shot with my old Yashica camera and outdoor 400 ASA film. I'm guessing this was in his kitchen on Clive Street. But I don't recognize the actual background. It's not my house, it's not Todd's old house, it's not his mom's house. So I dunno.

I designed a reading of the musical Congressman Davy in DC. Here was my original conception of how the stage should be set up. I didn't win this argument that the band should be centered. 

The producers wanted the musicians to be on the floor off to the side.

I wanted the musicians (in red) to be centered here on the floor.

A photograph of the venue.

This is ewe.

Target is locked.

Me on Millenium Crisis.

Dancers and Puppets

 

Bev Yang and a banker puppet.

John Stange and a headless ghost puppet.

Stacy Whittle and a prisoner

Danielle Davy and a guard.

John Jones and nameless and Gaylia Wagner.

John Jones and Nameless.

Raven Wilkes and Woman.

Scouting in DC

Just some places in and around the mall. 

Another shoot happening at the war memorial.

The Panasonic GH5 can still make some nice images. This is with the sort-of stock f2.8 lens too (obviously stopped down to 8 or something. 

 

Proof

I finally got "proof" of my PhD. It's an email addressed to "Doctor Andrew Bellware" from the university ratifying my award. So that's kinda fun and cool. Eventually they'll snail mail a hard copy. I don't know what they hand me at the ceremony, I'll find out.

Experimenting with just dumping Premiere for DaVinci Resolve. By that I mean I've quit my Adobe subscription. So far Resolve seems to work. It also seems a bit faster than Premiere. I dunno. It seems to work. XML exports from Adobe seem to mostly open in it just fine. I don't really understand what a "film dissolve" really is mathematically, but Resolve doesn't have one. So far that's the only thing I really miss.

Kitbash likes the Logitech 3S mouse. They also like the Dell UltraSharp U2723QE monitor.

Victory Over the Sun: Futurist Opera

This is an awesome futurist opera. The composer was Mikhail Matyushin. Márquez Without Words is kinda brill. Kanopy has it and you might be able to watch via your library card. Alien Brunch's "Creatures" is an ambient jam with a Solar 42. Here is the Distribution Playbook. Groove to “Caesar and the Mannequin” - Man Ray. Andrew Simpson is the composer.

Ligeti Cover Band

It's time to groove to Triadisches Ballett von Oskar Schlemmer - Bauhaus. Check out the costumes. The movement. Everything about this. You know it. You love it. You are it.

So I thought it would be funny to start a Ligeti cover band. But, you know, people do actually cover Ligeti. There's a suite called Musica ricercata and it is kinda awesome. 

Here is a cover of one of the pieces, by Grégoire Blanc.

Light in August

 Voxel is a theater in Baltimore owned by the QLab folks.

I'm still doing some animation tests. 

I have presumably done everything I'm supposed to do for the ol' Doctorate from University of Salford. Now I'm just waiting for the board of post-graduate research or some such. That happens in late September so I figure I'll get transcripts and such in October. Graduation is in early December but I haven't seen any dates yet. 

Don't you threaten me with a good time. 

Puppet opera is going slower than I'd like. I think I may just have o'er worked myself and need a vacation. Which is an ironic thing to say for someone who doesn't have a job. 

Seamonster.