A Whale's Lantern @awhaleslantern@mastodon.art

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[WHAT GOES HERE??], E (feels like home note)

WOW! The Game Director for #ArenaNet 's #GuildWars2 just bought my album "Variety Show"!

Mike Zadorojny says: "Thanks for supporting Guild Wars 2 and my dreams! Here's me supporting yours!"

With that purchase, I've hit $250 USD in sales on this album. Huzzah!

Haven't heard it yet? Stream it from Bandcamp here:

http://wohali-music.bandcamp.com/album/variety-show

And if you enjoyed that: I'll have another album out later this year.

Turns out when I sit down and try to write the stoopidest, hookiest pop ever that I can do it in 20 mins and it's only when I try to do something I seriously want to use that I have problems

Soooo... song #10 for my next album is done. I guess I should start thinking about cover art and stuff. 😨

In case it's not evident, the point is that the original chorus is kind of weird/proggy.

If you want to listen to it before I publish the video, it's here: http://demiurgo.org/tmp/newsong.mp3

I gave another music-related talk at work today.

It was about... music arrangement? I have no idea. I took the chorus of a song I'm writing, I wrote a super straightforward version of it, and then I started changing/adding things until I got back to the original, explaining what I was doing at every step. I guess the point was to make people pay more attention to music or something.

I think it wasn't as understandable as my first talk, but I'll publish it somewhere soon.

“Words are partly thoughts, but mostly, they’re music, deep down. Thinking itself is, perhaps, orchestral, the mind conducting the world. Conducting it, constructing it.”

-- The Art of the Wasted Day, by Patricia Hampl, page 6

#smallquotes
#MusicCollab

I will play a show with my band, The Providers, on Saturday at Arcanoa in Berlin! You're very welcome to come if you're in the area. Doors open at 8PM, music starts at 9PM!

You can listen to some of our music (quite old recordings) here: https://soundcloud.com/the-providers

#music

RIP Koko the Gorilla. She was 46. We learned so much about our NON-uniqueness as humans from her. And ourselves in turn.

And given current STEM funding priorities, it's unlikely anyone will attempt an experiment like this again anytime soon.

Goddamn it.

MixRemix Radio is now Icecasting. The current show is a Free Culture mix.

I need 100 votes so I can embed a player on my website without popup ads. So I am asking for a favor.

Please go here.

http://mixremix.cc

Ignore the link to the mastodon instance, that's not up yet.

Scroll down a page to the LIVE BROADCAST!!! graphic with a thumbs up, 5 stars, and the Tune-In button. Click the thumb to give me a vote. Cick Tune-In to listen. 100 votes will let me embed the player without a popup.

I deeply appreciate that my partnership and friendship with @luka that began with A Whale's Lantern collaboration (we wrote and produced Alchemist's Dream) has extended beyond #MusicCollab. A request for a poem led to participation in a beautiful art project that merges music, art and ideas. Thank you, Luka! It's lovely.

🇬🇧 I'm listening to last week's "Écho des Gnous" radio show (thanks to the podcast on https://podcast.grossard.fr/ )
They played "We Danced In A Dream", the song @hairylarry and I created for @awhaleslantern ! Thanks a lot to the @Chtinux team!

🇫🇷 J'écoute en ce moment l'émission de l'Écho des Gnous de la semaine dernière (grâce au podcast).
Ils ont diffusé "We Danced In A Dream", la chanson que @hairylarry et moi-même avons créée pour le projet @awhaleslantern ! Merci beaucoup à l'équipe @Chtinux !

I'm done with a rough draft of the song for #musiccollab!

I'll let it simmer for a couple of days and then I think we're ready to start playing with it, recording, tweaking, etc.

Excited!

“The thing that makes pop music so great is the way it parallel-parks on the bleeding edge of cool: nothing could be better than this beat, this feeling, this chorus. It takes something ephemeral and impossible, and for three to four exhilarating minutes, it makes it accessible and real.”

-- from Meet Me in the Bathroom (Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City), oral history by Lizzy Goodman, quote by Andy Greenwald, page 287

#smallquotes
#MusicCollab

New HairyLarryLand CD by The Swing Band Project, "Chess Man Blues". I wrote the title track.

https://archive.org/details/ChessManBlues

I think I'm all in on this Africa thing...

An entire album of songs made from clips of Toto's Africa.

Bad Idea or Worst Idea?

Okay hivemind, I have one of those #organistproblems that I could use some help with: finding the correct tune for a hymn in a language I do not speak, where I haven't been given much information. For a funeral, which is tomorrow.

More at https://artsyhonker.dreamwidth.org/55578.html

Please have a look, particularly if you speak Luganda or know a lot of Sankey hymns.

So I promised pictures of my gayed up synthesizer

here you go ;)

extra 🏳️‍🌈

I love my hand-made sub-bass.