Audiovisual arts installation in East London! Nah, just kidding… early morning hours in the area and this pyramid is always there.
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Elif Yalvac
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mastodon 4.6.8+glitchProducer, noise enthusiast. Modular synths, computers, guitars, etc.
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DJ Stingray did a great job again! Such a lovely chap and brilliant artist to chat with whenever I see him after his sets. Saw him last night and I wanted his set to go on longer and longer! I feel too autistic to go to parties but sometimes it is worth it.
this was my lucky access to Buchla modules on Monday. Complex waveform generator, verbos multi-envelope, and source of uncertainty. quad function generator also particularly fun. Recorded over an hour of fiddling with these toys ehem modules when a student was absent. Happy the conservatoire has these tools but not many students show interest unless prompted.
On another note normally I find it so hard to get on with keyboards as a non-piano player. Guitarist. Different background. There is much to appreciate here. I have dedicated an upcoming episode in my podcast on pioneering electronic music composers to Subotnick and Buchla. even ADSR envelopes can be piano based in most synths but look at this… So much space for experimentation. Open space.
This is very fun. Very good song!
Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mH-4kac_a24&ra=m
Delia Derbyshire ❤️
How do you kindly correct people or do you just leave it as is if they say something so not you about your music? Or you don’t care at all? or does it prompt you to think? Does it depend on who that is? Someone you share a connection with vs acquaintances?
Example 1: Me bumping into a DJ in an event, we say hi and she says some nice things but starts the conversation by saying “oh yeah you are that breakcore producer!”
Me: just smiles and makes a silly joke. (my internal dialogue - I AM NOT A BREAKCORE PRODUCER)
Example 2: Someone telling me about a folk instrument from Turkiye (happens especially in mainland europe), with good intentions and enthusiasm, and kebap etc, when I don’t share a connection with that part of turkey in my mind, growing, and culture.
So many answers in my head but I no longer explain.
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@mcmullin@musicians.today gallery space also sounds good. @Cognessence@social.linux.pizza have you been to hundred years gallery?
I am doing a live set tomorrow night on a boat in Greenwich as part of NAUS #2 - an evening of live electronic improvisation on board "A Slice of Reality". Please come over if you are in the area but rsvp soon as spaces turn out to be limited!
Quoting notes from the host Stephen Shiell with many thanks for inviting me to perform
“Six events organised as part of an artist residency. These are actions to explore the tensions that exist between the public and private. With series being curated around a love for experimental electronics...a chance to celebrate an underground London culture in a place that hasn’t been commercialised or capitalised, even though it lies at the heart of these very environments. The series will also be broadcast on Usma Radio (Italy), Diffuse (Australia) and Radio Tsonami (Chile), plus others to be confirmed.
These are events by artists for artists, not supported by funding bodies or institutions. “
Ps: I am keeping my setup minimal. I will only bring Freakbox (check my intro if you have not met freaky), and my laptop. It will be my first time to use Cardinal in a live setup. Running it as a VST in Live. But I also have Carla as a host for when I build my patches now.
cc: Special thanks to dearest @mosgaard@uddannelse.social for his suggestions, and for online introduction to Cardinal bosses @dreamer@mastodon.world and @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com Hoping to get some video footage.
That’s how you are supposed to play WITH these toys… EHEM… modules when you have a short break between your teaching sessions at work
Ps: I don’t own these
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@sean_ae on another note I can’t wait to do my very own celebration dancing to pen expers and then have some reflection time with lentic catachresis. That and cfern are among my all time faves. Cfern reminds me of some evil looking cheeky but cute robotic guy walking around. Thanks for this album!
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apologies to you @grahamdunning@post.lurk.org and to @c_reider@sonomu.club and @sean_ae@post.lurk.org and whoever I tagged with initial enthusiasm :D I mean I am connected with you and kristoffer in real life but it still is not a good idea. but I think certain things on the platform just develop as you find out more about the place. it is very nice like in real life. I think kristoffer’s real life reference was very helpful.
Figure 0C: Someone who is obsessed with the Retrig command in LSDJ’s noise channel. I am not sure if that’s what the mighty @defensem3ch@mstdn.social meant with “the joys of noise” hehe
#lsdj #littlesounddj #tracker #trackers #chiptun #chiptunes #chipmusic #gameboy #noisemusic
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@Tebbisimo@masto.ai @tsrono@mastodon.social oh no! some of the soundcloud stuff has drukqs adjacent dirty harsh metallic sounds. if it makes up for the lost ones
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@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza
Great collection! Grim Fandango and Monkey Island are timeless. Maybe one day when we both have time (hmm one day, I am sure, at some point)!!
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@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza what else have you got there? I still play my 3DO Gog games although I had to pause that for a year or so now due to work commitments. But I always go back to Heroes of Might and Magic 2, and 3 is ofc amazing - My dad made a whole map for it. I need to translate that into english. Then there are the Might and Magic 6-7-8 series rpg versions. Oh no let’s not restart them now
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@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza exactly!
Thesis link, might work in the morning. Very annoying server error https://polen.itu.edu.tr/items/4d4df2ee-b5bc-431d-b2e1-25925b98d9e3
i did talk to older guys when I did the interviews for thesis hmm but I don’t remember the exact age range. Or you may want to take part in an updated version to be with new interviews @sean_ae@post.lurk.org :D
Maybe some nanoloop to play with again
Super nice thread sad to leave for bed! Argh just when @c_reider@sonomu.club joined in.
@oscillik@mstdn.social @Rushup_Dee@mastodon.social
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@sean_ae @oscillik @Cognessence
Robert - even keen dreams? the kind of creepy weird one.I still have my dosbox setup! keen4, keen6 where the babysitter was almost being eaten, and the very first one with green monsters. and i love the sound of the ice thing :D Oh no I have to stop right there now.
Sean - never tried that groovebox for gameboy. that pink parrot thing looks and sounds cool. haha i like their subscription note
https://pinkparrot.studio/contact
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@sean_ae@post.lurk.org wow ! did you like nanoloop? any tracks with it? I remember you mentioning renoise but didn’t know you had nanoloop.
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza
Still enjoying your chip music album Robert!
https://robertloganmusic.bandcamp.com/album/16-bits-of-heaven looking forward to catching up more when we reschedule the 2nd meetup
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@synte@social.toplap.org This is great! How long? Oh shame that I am organising another gig on the same night in St Giles church around the Barbican. I would like to pop in after that finishes but I don’t know if I will have the energy. Until midnight? Would love to see your and @jamesholden@universeodon.com’s sets
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@c_reider@sonomu.club are those fm synthesis kind of sounds in the two tracks I mentioned happening with tape processing on amadeus if you remember your whole process? Will do the private mention for more stuff.
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@c_reider@sonomu.club Thanks for sharing and reminding this! I love it!
Weird Spitter has my favourite kind of fine-tuning frequency changes. Sun Kinks should be played at the Union Chapel here! Very trippy. I like how it is like “deteriorating" or weirdly glitching at times like our mind. I want to listen to that track especially, on the weekend again! And shame on the labels that rejected it. I want to talk a bit about rejection. Not saying this to create engagement but I am writing a blog post on that. I have a lot of things to say on that. I will send a private message to see if you want to share some points. You write in the album "Along with other losses and setbacks during the last couple of years, it compounded into a very intense feeling of creative demoralization, a feeling that maybe listeners can't connect with what I do.” Is that still the same feeling? My reflection on this is about my attempts to not take this personally (writing this is sounding easier than done). it is an ongoing journey for me. I am so frustrated with many things but there are a lot of rewarding things. I remember framing a whole concept around how rejection from somewhere else resulted in something much more useful working out for me.
🤔 "These sounds were made using some of the following technologies: Mac OS 9, Gnutella network, Vine, cassette tape, Amadeus Pro audio editor.” That’s super interesting and nice. Are you still using this old school stuff or is it more of VCV rack journeys? Just gonna conclude this super long response here by saying that I want to share some of my VCV jams with you in PM: you have inspired me to use Hetrick modules which massively helped with my setup! Added to my favourites along with Mutable Instruments and Befaco modules now.
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@grahamdunning@post.lurk.org @lislegaard@sonomu.club and I may join the club and add this from experience “do not tag others in your introduction post. you won’t know how stupid it is till later” :D I did that
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anything in particular that makes you say that about cognessence? like what is the sort of thing that you reflect on and appreciate and have an “a-ha” moment about later on? I am asking this but I do get your point. just got curious if there are any specific things.
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@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza oh definitely they did and do. My track "L’appel du Vide” has stanley parable inspirations but also some other stuff I can’t fully remember now! it definitely was documenting a difficult time of uncertainty and post-grief recoveries.
I can see Half Life 2 darkness easily also :D Ahh Cognessence has become one of my favourites this year!! not just In Suspension but it feels like the whole album feels like it has dark game inspirations from the beginning but forgive me if this is not accurate. I’m gonna listen to that album again, so good. I like the bitcrushing stuff in In Suspension. Haha just when I was drafting some folio specs for students to explore low bit rate and distortion artefacts. Maybe the referenced listening list may include this!
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@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza same :D no tears! I think it is beyond nostalgia but I won’t advertise and link my thesis lol but I think the idea is the value of these goes beyond that nostalgia link. @sean_ae@post.lurk.org @oscillik@mstdn.social @Rushup_Dee@mastodon.social
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@c_reider@sonomu.club asking this question a lot. can’t really answer and I feel too little trying to answer that for myself but I think you are trying to make the world a better place with the little you can do. and that thing that you invest time and energy helps you feel good and look after yourself, then yeah. otherwise how can you make things better for others? I think I am just blabbering now but it is OK.
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@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza @sean_ae@post.lurk.org @Rushup_Dee@mastodon.social
How about this creature? I love how it's see-through, like an animatronic. I also have a yellow GB Color which dramatically ran out of battery mid set the other Friday playing LSDJ on a boat :D well, alongside two other instruments (phew!)
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@synte@social.toplap.org Lovely! Thanks! Sadly, it doesn’t look like I can catch most of it this time as my programme ends at 21:30 :(
Next time then
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@synte@social.toplap.org thanks! If it is ok would you mind sharing set times with private mention please? I am not too far from Peckham.
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@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza that’s a great idea. makes more sense now. maybe a musical reference might follow? a track from you
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@nedraggett@sfba.social really appreciate that you have been chasing this both here and on bluesky and supporting @capgrasman@masto.ai’s music. I had no way to get in touch despite having released music on the same label. Don’t know if @MovingFurniture@mastodon.social is aware of any further news but he would also appreciate this update.
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@toffo@mastodon.social dunno if they are responsive @tsrono@mastodon.social @boardsofcanada@mastodon.social
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@tsrono@mastodon.social @boardsofcanada@mastodon.social good question 🤔 they post on bluesky also.
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@grahamdunning@post.lurk.org oh this is very useful! . Dunno if I mentioned earlier but my mate @lislegaard@sonomu.club’s experience and blog post was very encouraging for me. plus @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
I now have one more great reference point for this for when I recommend the space to others.
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@Cognessence Would love to chat about what your Armenian friend said next time we meet. Really, there is so much to talk about and time wasn’t enough for everything when we met. Let’s plan another one soon please!
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@gribbles@mastodonapp.uk @alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com said this to Alison but ofc I mean you as well. Sad to have missed it but it sounds exciting!
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