mastodon 4.7.3Mezzosoprano. Geek with guitar. Composer. #SuperCollider tinkerer. Musicologist by training. #Genderqueer femme. #Polytheist. Lives in a small town in southwestern Germany. Neurodivergent af.
Classical roots, curious about many styles of music.
White person aspiring to unlearn racism.
Occasionally featured cats: Hermine and Selena. 😾😻
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Heads up to people who want to learn SuperCollider: Eli Fieldsteel published a new series of lecture recordings. I really learned a lot from the previous iterations of those, highly recommend them!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPYzvS8A_rTY2H2RANVM18-wRoJ5dzzW4
#SuperCollider #creativeCoding #SoundDesign #ElectronicMusic
I'm low-key in the market for a new phone, and I might be able to get one with /e/ instead of vanilla Android. But I wonder about a number of things:
1. with Google's clamping down on independent app development, what are the possible ramifications for non-Google Android OSes?
2. I've heard a bunch of times that banks, health insurances and government-related apps (e.g. electronic IDs) "don't like" non-Google Android.
I'd be curious about your experiences, especially if you're in Germany.
Finally got around to listening to "Strategies against Algorithms" by @stephan@sonomu.club and I love it! A personal, sincere album, at times bleak, wrestling with climate change, AI, and other serious topics of our time. I especially enjoyed the interesting, warm synthesizer sounds.
It comes with a big beautiful booklet with handwritten lyrics.
You cannot buy this album. It is only available in exchange for something you created yourself: https://strategies.schallundstille.de/
Reasons I love my wife: She enjoys listening to me explaining a modal mixture common tone enharmonic double-chromatic mediant modulation, or: the way that Céline Dion's version of "All By Myself" modulates from G major to C flat major. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT2gVblzFvY (Modulation drops at 3:20, but it's worth listening to the buildup)
That feeling when my inbox is overflowing but my brain is like "when was the last time I got to enjoy unbridled hyperfocus on a special interest?" #ADHD #neurospicy
I listened to Theatre of Tragedy today while I cleaned out/reorganized my wardrobe, and then I wanted more of that kind of sound, and I ended up learning about Witchgaze.
I guess I have a new genre that I like.
One of the best analyses of the sad state of the Internet that I recently read is Cory Doctorow's "How to destroy surveillance capitalism": https://craphound.com/category/destroy/
It might be a timely read, too! It has some good explanations on why so many of us are still participating in destructive platforms like Facebook and Twitter, why they are such hellholes and what that has to do with monopolies.
