Michael U

I’m en route to this supreme nerdiness and am so looking forward to it. One of the two on site tutors, Kate Carr, has released music from my duo Tonkyn Pearson (formerly Montano) on her excellent Flaming Pines. Really nice to meet her on top of all the rest of it. https://www.campfr.com/onsite/sonicgeographies

@exlibrarykris@cloudisland.nz no time Toulouse! etc etc

Accidentally stumbled upon the site of the cover photo from Autechre’s Amber yesterday. Sightseeing in Cappadocia and there those hills were, *opposite* the thing we had stopped to look at (Uchişar castle). A weird feeling. #IDM Sightseeing

No genre fiction on this flight, please

Mad music-related lego sets. The Neve mixing desk is particularly detailed. https://numode.net/

I'm having fun with this free plugin Polarity-RES, thanks @polarity@social.bitwig.community! Here I've got the pitch of all of the resonators wobbling in sync, but also the individual gains of each node modulating at different speeds (Curves modulators for those using #Bitwig). The visual is like yo-yos! Fun! https://polarity.productions/polarity-res/

I decided to buy this audio plugin Aava today which is the fanciest kind of convolution "reverb", where you can throw in 4 different sounds (impulse responses) and blend your input signal through all of them. Plus you can change the size / pitch of the impulse responses in real time without the whole thing falling silent, which is something I've not seen any other convolution tool handle. I was pretty much sold by that audio demo "Turn your drums into a bassline" on the page below, but having a 30-day trial is great too. https://viiri-audio.com/ #Musodon #MusicProduction #LinuxAudio

If you know J Dilla's album Donuts, the amount he *didn't* mess with the samples he took from this track for 'workinonit' is kind of eye opening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sraKulMHZw

@TwoClownsEating@beige.party @distinctdipole@tech.lgbt side note: I like that the story involves queueing so we know it’s in the UK

Week 31 of #WeeklyBeats This week's is really different to what I usually do, process-wise, because it is a single-take live jam on a synth that doesn't have a keyboard or play fixed pitches, really, Lorre Mill's Double Knot 3. https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/in-different-registers #Musodon #ElectronicMusic

A good little write up on New Zealand techno from this century, including touching on how Mu happily went there even if people don’t think of Fat Freddy’s Drop that way. https://selectedworks.substack.com/p/exploring-the-sounds-of-2020s-techno #techno #NZ #NZMusic #ElectronicMusic

Week 30 of #WeeklyBeats I feel like ‘Our Beloved Piss + Gary’ deserves an explanation, I can only offer this photo I took in a Melbourne bar about a year ago. For those using #Bitwig this started with exploring the new beta Sampler feature that munges an entire sample on to one detected pitch. I’m applying that to a grubby old recording of bass guitar and was excited by how it went wrong. 😅 https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/cosy-attitude #Musodon #ElectronicMusic

@emptyvessel_nz@social.bitwig.community the art of the understatement!

I learnt today that techno-ish producer The Field has a day job as the cook for a series of kindergartens. I kind of love it.

Week 29 of #WeeklyBeats My main aims for doing something unlike usual this week were a chopped and screwed hip-hop beat. Slushy. I wrote my own groove, about 95bpm, then bounced and resampled that, pitching it down -5 semitones which from memory is about the drop in speed and pitch from a 45 record being played at 33 1/3. https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/cosy-attitude #Musodon #ElectronicMusic #Bitwig

@c_reider@sonomu.club @gahlord@post.lurk.org ha thank you for your alt text services!

This bod's previous alias Starcircleanatomy hurts my brain. Even once I saw it was just 3 complete words minus spaces I still keep rebracketing it or whatever the term is.

@c_reider@sonomu.club this is really cool. I found @amedee_de_murcia@sonomu.club is out here too!

@GrahamFluster@mastodon.social @emsquared@social.coop “mild claws” 🤭

The gap between original and cover is even more extreme than with this and Soft Cell’s version, imo https://youtu.be/9obvlVPJBEg

Make pop songs less definitive Mostly What I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun Hardly Ever Gonna Give You Up Many People Were Kung Fu Fighting Few Things Are Gonna Stop Us Now ...

Week 28 of #WeeklyBeats “Y” is auditory slug gurgling, experimenting with a lot of spectral stuff and taking inspiration from Topdown Dialectic / False Aralia. https://weeklybeats.com/jetjaguar/music/y #Musodon #ElectronicMusic #Bitwig

@mementomaori@kind.social slick! Yeah weirdly I can’t think where I saw him play but I had a good time

@gahlord@post.lurk.org ha! I get why putting capitals into hashtags is so desirable for readability! The worst version of the domain name problem is anything with “therapist”…

@PhilWill@aus.social thanks! It was fun to just chuck it down and then walk away, but I agree it would be nice to use this as a basis as something a bit more worked through

@c_reider@sonomu.club … also quite a gap 😅

@isaacfreeman@cloudisland.nz I found out recently a friend helps teach a high school class that is mostly epistemology, just not called that. I think it’s something like “Knowledge” and it covers some information sciences / research stuff. But mostly it’s digging into what we can know, what it means to know something, etc.

@c_reider@sonomu.club omg this is a solid take, I hadn't thought about it

@c_reider@sonomu.club hell yes! A friend once told me he liked it when I shared stuff but he felt like he couldn't say anything articulate about why he liked stuff. I urged him to not worry about that and just do the sharing bit, I think lots of folks don't care about the description / reaction...

@c_reider@sonomu.club ah yeah I don’t find the website super reliable! Glad you enjoyed, I had fun making it

TIL an older English name for “penguin” was “arsefoot”. Also that penguin is Welsh.

@stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz yeah seriously. I partly wrote this to say "out loud" it's only been two days. I know it gets easier, but all so vivid right now.

Ooh Take 5/8 is quite fun too https://youtu.be/g67Ee_NzY6o

I heard about the above music from online social connection with one of the performers. I used to be kinda self-conscious about the extent to which I felt #ambient is a genre of music mostly listened to by people who are also making it, etc. So often if someone gets in touch with me online it turns they are also a music maker. But nowadays I'm not sure why I thought that was somehow negative. I like community.

K*Saba and HoneBeGood - Bird of Paradise A couple of the lesser known affiliates of the whole Young Gifted & Broke crew (most famously Homebrew, @Peace, etc.). Wellington producer / Auckland MC. Not that much hip-hop wanders off into looping acoustic instruments and such. K*Saba has done a bunch of theatre work and it shows (in a good way). #JukeboxFridayNight #Birds #NZMusic https://ksaba.bandcamp.com/track/bird-of-paradise

@defaultmediatransmitter@social.bitwig.community ha I love Partial Eclipse 😆

We said goodbye to a cat of 15 years two days ago and this is my first day working at home... really missing how _around_ he was, keep expecting him in every room and around every corner. We used to say he was running puppy software, he loved following people about and being near them. We have another cat, but he's a much more trad, aloof guy.

The trailer for 2003 flop Tiptoes really looks like a parody. Matthew McConaughey and Kate Beckinsale … with Gary Oldman playing someone with dwarfism by kneeling all the time - and even if the movie were somehow good, the flavour of the trailer is just horrifyingly like “things were great until this *terrible revelation* that her bf’s family all have dwarfism!” https://youtu.be/O3qGGk5ymQ4 I would love a documentary on the making of. The director massively denounced what became of it, swearing that it was a serious project that got derailed by the studio.

@TwoClownsEating@beige.party Ha, now singing to myself "Underground, overground, Mongoling free"

Huh, a friend told me today that DJ Krush's 2001 album 'Zen' is not named after the Buddhist tradition. It's an obscure homophone meaning "gradually" or "bit by bit", more commonly said "susumu" in Japanese. Krush seems to be into word play / fucking with people, heh. If you can read Japanese or Chinese you'd presumably this up straight away from the album cover. I find logograms super interesting in this respect, how they disambiguate homophones. For once I decided to edit Wikipedia, we'll see if it sticks.

I will say the chaos of having an address @nonwrestler.com has caused me no end of confusion and second-takes from retail staff etc over the years. Sometimes fun, sometimes tedious.

@c_reider@sonomu.club as is Watson’s, as is Scott’s… only one I don’t know is because she is much more about the field recording than the music, I’m sure I’ll learn plenty from her

Gulls - Edith's Waltz One for fans of Talk Talk and such, a solo artist from Dunedin who's received zero attention AFAIK... choosing this for the artist's name, rather than the theme of the music, but hey. https://gullsorgulls.bandcamp.com/track/ediths-waltz #JukeboxFridayNight #Birds #NZMusic

Anthonie Tonnon - Bird Brains https://anthonietonnon.bandcamp.com/track/bird-brains #JukeboxFridayNight #Birds