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Calm and Steady tracks series no. 451

created on 2024/06/03

Picture CREDIT (none yet, there's no picture so far ; )

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exp143 - 3a - 2

https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-o-l-o-r-s-q-u-a-d-0-1-2

I made this track a couple of years ago. I remember seeing a couple of girls on Sauchiehall street and being really attracted to them. I had the sensation that due to my low self esteem I would be literally incapable of approaching anyone I was that attracted to. It was a strange moment. I went home and made this track. I was spending a lot of time in bed and rushing essays at the time; Sleeping through all my classes.

I'm not in a very good place in my life at the moment. I've recently started working for a gardening company in Edinburgh after coming home from getting cheated on in North Carolina in Febuary. I'm stressed and keep fucking up at work. I'm in a band also, which doesn't give me enough time to work on my own music the way I'd like. Everything in my life feels rushed and fleeting, some mad scramble. I get depressed often and wish I could cry but I never can. 

All I want to do is create great music and share it with the world the way my idols have in the past, that's all i've ever wanted. But sometimes I doubt my ability to follow in their footsteps, even though I know I'm capable. It often feels there's just an endless sea of musicians these days; infinite competition. Everyone is trying to get their head above the surface to breathe in the air of success and recognition, even if only for a moment before someone else pulls them back down and replaces them. 

I don't want to work some pointless job I don't care about for the rest of my life. I'm already drained. I'm not very smart, or confident. My ultimate nightmare is giving up. If I stopped making music I'd be nothing. Sometimes I think it would be better just to make music alone and not share it, but the act of sharing art and making a connection with the wider world is really the point of the act. I want to belong, but I don't want to be something unnatural.

I want to release ID#2 soon. I think I'm going to put a few hundred pounds behind getting it promoted. I don't really know how to do any of that stuff though. I'm tired.

Glasgow G.

clanky drums fuck off

Having learned some lessons, and having made more mistakes, I thought I'd revisit this unofficial cover of this classic Future Sound Of London track, and give it a tweak in the mix.

I think it's an improvement. Hope you enjoy! :)

Papua New Guinea [Re-upload June 2024]

3hep

a fluteytune+grey

Spring1

In memory of John Hinks

Tall, wide-arching trees
Assume a cathedral shape
Until darkness falls
 
I found out today that John passed away. John participated in the Naviar Haiku challenge for over 4 years, almost every week, and shared both his music and poetry with us. He'll be deeply missed.

"John Hinks, aka FlownBlue, was a prolific and talented composer, and a regular participant in the Haiku challenge. Aside from his solo project, John was also involved in multiple projects: ‘Windfall Light‘ (with Jim Tetlow), ‘Abstract Blue‘ (with Kevin Buckland), ‘Light Fragments‘ (with Steve Escott), Szukanie (with Michał Wojciechowski), and Meadowlight (with Emma Reed)."

Haiku by John Hinks: https://soundcloud.com/flownblue

more halF unusuaL

halF archinG [naviarhaiku536]

NAVIARHAIKU536 – TALL, WIDE-ARCHING TREES
April 10, 2024
Tall, wide-arching trees
Assume a cathedral shape
Until darkness falls
by: John Hinks

Sit tibi terra levis.

Un ipotetico viaggio tra stanze, idee e ricordi. La memoria è lo strumento per rispettare e trattenere vite presenti e passate.


Sit tibi terra levis.

A hypothetical journey through rooms, ideas and memories. Memory is the tool to respect and retain present and past lives.

John's Rooms(naviarhaiku536)

RumbaRhumba

mechft3

5201 0072

Drumsandpads

absolute reality

EODS

[A] 909_VISIONS1

A digital release on Superpang Label: https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/groups-articulations-of-the-real

The work derives from a study of the group theory and sonification model of physical objects interacting with each other according to various forces such as attraction, repulsion and gravity. In the context of music composition, the group theory was developed by Iannis Xenakis as a method organizing musical objects into so-called “sound complexes” (Xenakis prominently used the method in Nomos Alpha (1965) for solo cello). “Sound complexes” are highly structured musical objects which - alike Gestalten in perception theory - can be easily recognized from a perceptual point of view.

Fundamental for the emergence of ‘Groups: Articulations of the Real’ was a computer simulation of physical force fields. A force field is a mathematical expression describing the dependence of the energy of a system on the coordinates of its particles. It consists of an analytical form of the interatomic potential energy and a set of parameters entering into this form. The parameters are obtained by fitting to experimental data.

The iterative form of the composition moves from a global perspective of objects gradually attracting each other, oscillating, merging and colliding with its elastic boundaries, towards a close-up view of a rupture. In a way, the work attempts to articulate the real physical processes through computer-generated sound.

SP34|Marcin Pietruszewski - Groups: Articulations of the Real

mastodon: @toffo@mastodon.social

member of exethyl

stop that bloody war in Ukraine
no to Georgian Dream
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g e a r

synths/etc:
Random 4 channel mixer
KORG Monologue (Silver)
KORG Volca FM2
Zoom MRT-3 Drum Machine (2002)
Reverb pedal (shitty one tbh lol)
Distortion pedal (nice one)
Behringer TD-3 (TB-303 clone) with modified VCF.
Tascam DR-05X recorder
Vinyl turntable 
Technics RS-B555

headphones:
Grado SR-60 (1993-1994) (to be repaired)
Grado SR-60x 
Audio-Technica ATH-M50X (main)
FiiO Q1 Amplifier (and DAC) for my Amiga and ThinkPad.

software:
Renoise (main non-amiga tracker)
Midinous
CDP
Spek
VCV Rack
FT ][
ProTracker 2.3/3
OctaMED SS 1.03c + V4 (main amiga trackers)
DigiBooster (not so often)
DefleMask 
MilkyTracker
SunVox
PlayerPRO (not so often lately)
PureData
SuperCollider
Audacity
GarageBand
Schism Tracker
some custom Amiga stuff i made

hardware:
Amiga 1200 (PiStorm32/RPi3 emu68 with rtg, Indivision AGA Mk3 GOTEK, i also have a 68030 accel board which i dont use that often now)
Amiga 500 (Now i use pistorm emu68 with rtg and amigaos 3.9 + 3.1.4 kickstart)
Macbook Pro (2017, 2020)
ThinkPad T480 (i use it for my hardware setups sometimes aswell, but thats my main machine)
ThinkPad T440p (backup)
DAT / DDS streamer with some tapes


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International Vermin Consortium
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The vermin will outlive your grand children's grand children.
Like Mickey Mouse the vermin is eternal.
: )
Antifa is my cousin.  I heard some people were looking for her.  Since I like to be helpful when I can, she was in Alexandria last time I talked to her, three weeks ago.  I think she mentioned going to Zurich in the near future.
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Is it 1984 already?!?!
...

I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
...

This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

...

You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
...

My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
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I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
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Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

mechft3

toffo

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