Ben Greenberg and I will be leading our first daylong workshop at Circular Ruin next month entitled Signal Flow 101, a primer in audio to digital signal in the professional recording studio context. Slots are filling up fast, email max at circularruin dot com to sign up!
Good morning there is some 16 year old kid in Brazil right now making more experimental and forward thinking electronic music than whatever you’re working on right now and there’s nothing to be done have a great day.
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to make a sound like
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when they really should make it sound like
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it’s 2021 and we are 18+ months into covid. why aren’t all music schools requiring an intro to audio recording techniques class for all music students?
her dad: so you’re a musician huh? what type of stuff you been listening to recently?
me: oh y’know just instagram sermons of dominican pentecostal preachers doing their thing
update on discovery mode, which lets artists accept a lower royalty rate for an algorithmic push. joe says in the first month, listeners save songs 50% more often and follow an artist 37% more often when the mode is used
just saw a tech dude tweet that Brian Eno made “creatorless” music and was basically an AI musician 50 years ago cuz he had sequencers. we desperately need to distinguish between generative electronic instruments and AI music or i will become the joker sooner than i expected.
I genuinely believe rateyourmusic has done tremendous damage to the way eager young listeners discover new music. Reducing everything to, and then gamifying, the numerical rating system is just the yelpification of music.
ChatGPT for music finally exists.
Google has revealed MusicLM, its AI for creating music.
Here are the top music created by MusicLM (and you can create yours):
BREAKING: Theodore “Ted" Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” has died in federal prison, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons told the AP on Saturday.
less so that rick rubin lied on 60 minutes saying he doesn’t have any technical musical abilities, more so that it’s irresponsible to tell musicians in the 2020s that “just vibes” is all you need to succeed. what year does he think it is and how much does he think rent costs?
i don’t know who needs to hear this, but your art career doesn’t need to be your Plan A. students tell me they feel like failures when they go to trade school after burning out musically. so much pressure is put on us expected to make a living that we often abandon our true love
RIP to Eduard Artemyev, composer of Stalker, Solaris, The Mirror, and other Tarkovsky films. always blurring the lines between electronic music, abstract sound design, and foley recordings from on set.
now THIS is some gear i will synthfluence for.
NO LONGER WILL SMALLTOWN CLUB ENGINEERS WITH LAX INDOOR SMOKING POLICIES NEED BE OPPRESSED BY HAVING TO GO OUTSIDE TO CHUG A DART IN BETWEEN OPENING ACTS! HOLD ON TO YOUR PONYTAILS, SALVATION IS HERE GENTLEMEN.
It’s called an MFA in sound art. They make you spend a lot of money and then force you to learn this thing called MaxMSP and it’s really confusing and you end up making a bad sounding reverb as a final project for class and you have to write like 2000 words about it.
Hanatarash as proletariat aktion music, made by and for day laborers and odd jobbers, as reaction to economic miracle bubble plastic neon booji Japan in the 80s and 90s.
“it’s called ‘improvised music after 1950: afrological and eurological perspectives’ by george lewis. he’s p much arguing that cage didnt want to acknowledge that nonconservatory trained black jazz musicians were coming up with weirder shit than him. i have the pdf if u wan…”
we could literally be teaching instrumentalists how to build their chops not only as ensemble members, but studio session players, the latter of which would actually pay more
ableton being the first major DAW to create a mobile accompaniment that goes beyond mobile control for desktop and is itself a standalone instrument is the logical direction. you want more people using music tech? remind them they have a studio in their pocket.
Spotify has never earned a cent in profit, they’re hoping their datamine will pay off in a decade. Why are they an industry standard for 2020s audio culture? Musical microtransactions are profitless, original podcasts are profitless. Idk just seems like bad business lol
It is so funny to me that Hans Zimmer described his Dune score as having totally original sounds and "embracing an entirely different time in a galaxy alien to us" but the score itself primarily drones, orientalist bullshit, and 50 different files labeled tribal_drum_1.aif
why aren’t there more music documentary shows in the vein of food travel shows? sociopolitical scene reports from around the world, why isn’t this a genre of television?
“First came dancehall reggae in Jamaica, then a bunch of Jamaican Panamanians started making Spanish dancehall, *then* some dudes in Carolina, PR were like oh shit what if we changed the dembow pattern from *dotted kick, kick, snare* to straight kicks and dotted snares.”
Stop feeling embarrassed for listening to your own music, you should feel fucking stoked about your shit when it’s done blast it own it and evangelize others to it. Why would someone else fuck with it if you don’t fuck with it yourself???
Varg Vikernes is hilarious because he shows us the trvest kvlt way to live that trad life is to live on your dad’s farm that was paid for by working as executive computer scientist for the Saddam Hussein regime in the 1980s.
You’ve been able to control Disklaviers with algorithmic Max patches and Arduinos for like 20 years now, this is the same as crypto ppl marketing the solution to a problem that was solved years ago or that simply isn’t a problem period. George Lewis would like a word.
We’ve seen a gazillion startups using OpenAI APIs to do “co-pilot for X”. What’s next?
Enter *physical* co-pilot! Here’s a compelling demo: you improvise by playing a “low resolution” piano, and the co-pilot compiles it real-time to Hi-Fi music! It unleashes our inner pianist.🧵
What the layoffs at Bandcamp Daily signify is that editorial language is the final leg of defense against the enshittification of music, audio, and the media surrounding it. Without a definitive voice to define a platform, Songtradr digs its own grave.
@IwriteOK
oh man robert please do a BTB episode on Varg and please include about how his father worked for saddam and Varg got bullied by the children of the Iraqi elite in middle school
half of your favorites got to where they are cuz they have a trust fund and time to practice. you’re making legit art AND you have a day job, you would blow any of these rich kids out of the water if you had a fraction of the independent wealth they have. be proud of that!
it’s irresponsible for educators to tell their students they can rely solely on their artistic abilities and performance chops to succeed outside of the classroom
do yourself a favor and make sure nobody minted your bandcamp release as an NFT on hitpiece cuz it seems to be happening to lots of people with no label or distro whatsoever
every movie trailer music cut now is just like *insert 30+ year old vocal melody sung slower and more mysteriously by white lady* + BWOOOOOOOM + sub-bass impact noise + reverb tail
You are all illiterate and art is going to be first on the chopping block of censorship because you are trained to post REEEEEEEEEEE in response to the slightest provocation that you don’t understand
Wow, this is
@rogerwaters
imitating a Nazi, while at a concert in … Berlin. This is just unhinged Jew hatred and Holocaust distortion. The man is vile beyond words.
“The year is 2023. Raves are back. The world still sucks. It is only natural that video game soundtracks inspired by the Jungle and DnB club scenes of the Y2K era are what you should be listening to in these seemingly accelerated times.” -
@lolraid
Starting a convolution reverb company where we break into historic sites and model the acoustics illegally and sell the DSP at a profit. Sisteen Chapel reverb? I gotchu. Hitler’s death bunker reverb? I gotchu. Secret orgy room in White House basement reverb? I gotchu.
@BennettTomlin
Blocked by Ian for asking him to show me a picture of him outside or even just not sitting in a gaming chair. Still waiting for that pic
Half the company was laid off today, not just the Daily but the tech side as well. As one former employee told me just now “Without some of those people, it’s Bandcamp in name only at this point.”
Songtradr truly hit the ground running gutting the place for copper pipes.
we had a year and a half to be pushing a DIY audio tech pedagogy for students to take advantage of while stuck at home, these setups can cost less than $100 to get started and Reaper is fucking free
Apple has a new streaming service/app releasing at the end of this month which is specifically catered towards Classical Music. Here’s the write they have about it. What do you think about it?