A Whale's Lantern @awhaleslantern@mastodon.art
#MusicCollab, bringing independent musicians together to collaborate in random pairs.
Run by @masu
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So here's me and @masu and another friend of ours singing some choral #music:
https://m.soundcloud.com/3-cactus-flowers
We'll be singing as part of the Singing In The City choir concert Tuesday 20:00 at Zionskirche, Berlin. (Not these songs, some different ones.) #mastomusic
Antigone/Child album IS OUT!
+ music video + source code.
More than an hour of symphonic minimalist drone music, a glitched music video, and GPL'd #SuperCollider source you can play with and build upon.
everything is here in a #Patreon post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/19779446
boosts much appreciated
#ArtWithOpenSource #OpenSourceMusic #LinuxAudio #music #drone #glitch #ambient
Held a violin (don't know the size) for children in hands. Tried pizzicato and bow, it came out better than expected. Liked, would try again, maybe in proper size, so I could fit my fingers comfortably.
jeez context is gold
played an absolute train wreck of a set last night
band plays several sets per day (also various parades, protests, jam sessions, ...)
exhaustion + alcohol ≠ inspiration
tuba and i (drums) also were marginally hysterical at sheer absurdity of spectacle
(mostly drunk) audience did not seem to mind however
😖🍻🎶🔥
#sbandataRoma
another #song I'm playing around with atm "the way you are":
you're still so small
and you're bound to fall
don't let nobody say
that you are wrong
the way you are
the way you are
you'll go so far
you'll go so far
the best of you
is still to come
the battle is though
and not easily won
the way you are
the way you are
you'll go so far
you'll go so far
Beautiful picture I painted today!
Maybe I can use this ridiculous thing in #MusicCollab, now that the chips are gone? @charlag
Hey y'all!
I have a general #PeerTube instance for creators & vloggers & recorders of random fun stuff at https://share.tube
If you're an active & supportive creator on this instance or another please feel free to DM me for an invite with your desired login, email & I'll try to accommodate. At the moment, i'll stop with the first 20 people to respond with my current budget to help y'all decentralize further. Please note the moderation policies I boost/host by for content.
here's a thing about #songwriting: it's all about #emotions. good melodies trigger emotions, and the more they trigger the better they are. it's absolutely not about complexity, but rather simplicity, because usually "complex" music does not affect feeling much.
Nick Sousanis' Unflattening (which, if you have not read, you should .. it's a stunning graphic novel exploration) inspires a piece of music by composer Philip Sheppard.
https://philipsheppard.bandcamp.com/track/unflattening
Sheppard writes: "... the drawn image is as important as, if not more so than, the written word. There’s a parallel with music. For me, the music starts flowing when words fail me, and I think Nick draws in the way that I’d like to be able to compose." - https://philipsheppard.com/project/fall-from-earth/
I just wrote a blog post about my talk Listening to Music:
http://hcoder.org/2018/06/25/listening-to-music/
I think some things might be easier to follow in writing and with the ability to play/pause and repeat the music snippets at will.
Give it a try if you were a bit confused by the talk. For reference, the talk is uploaded here:
Help:
F#m, A, C#m, B,
F#m, A, C#m, B,
A, D, B, C#,
[WHAT GOES HERE??], E (feels like home note)
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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
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
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.
