This is GREAT! And I am so loving your dad's harmonica, and that you got him included in the music process. Thank you for adding (and improving!) :)
Awwwww heck! Glad I could be an inspiration :) keep it up!
Guthrie and Seeger are huge heroes of mine, and absolute dyed-in-the-wool pinko commies. It's really a testament to their persistance and skill as songwriters that they became as popular as they did despite the "Red Scare" and being blacklisted. Always loved bringing in songs by them to do at my last school's "All School Sing" - went over very well at the little anarchist school in the woods. If anyone's interested, here's a playlist of leftie jams I put together a year so ago, some good covers of Seeger/Guthrie songs throughout.
Ah, your teacher has excellent taste ;) It's an insanely open-ended synth, love love love it. I hear Syntorial is really great, hope you enjoy!
I've been trying to listen to a new album every day, mostly been able to stick to it. Here's the best ones I've listened to so far: NNAMDI - BRAT - really cool fusion between math pop and indie hip-hop. sunn - Life Metal - really sonically rich drone metal. Holly Herndon - PROTO - avant garde electro-pop. Really cool production. The Microphones - It Was Hot, we Stayed in the Water - Somehow I'd never given this a listen, despite loving their other albums. Great lo-fi freak folk. Billy Woods/Kenny Segal - Hiding Places - excellent rap album. Really inventive and personal lyrics, killer production. Also just stumbled upon this, which is awesome: --- Anyone have suggestions for albums to add to my list? I'd love some ideas, feel like I'm getting into a rut.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oxeXmkBifXtDHsaYLkZ1krTkhJkt7YZe/view?usp=sharing Bumped the tempo up to 100, added a couple instruments and did some light re-arranging too. Nice groove! Lyrics: I see the water a-rising round you Another flood I suppose I know I'll sink like a stone, I'm bound to It ain't the water that drowns you, It's the weight of your clothes -- I feel a breeze slipping through my fingers Fly like a murder of crows You're long gone, but your spirits lingers There ain't no words when I listen, Just the wind and it blows. That's just the way that it goes.... Let go... ------------- I was very tempted to layer in the "It goes" from this track into the build at the end:
Well oh well oh well, conveniently I have myself a long weekend... What's the tempo?
Happy to help ;) Damn, that is quite a haul! Sounds like you've got a hell of a weekend lined up. One thing that might be of interest if you're ever looking remotely jam with people is a free Reaper plugin called "Reaninjam": Basically, you can play in pseudo-realtime (in sync, but a few bars behind) with either friends (in a private server) or total strangers. I have a private server set up, if you're ever looking to play sometime! I've been missing collaborating with people, and while this is not quite the same, it does scratch the itch. Edit: this plugin called Jamtaba seems to let you connect to NINJAM users in any DAW!
I, for my part, am devouring all "Vital" content I can get my hands on, trying to understand this wicked new beast.
Very cool stuff, can't wait to hear once you get the Poly D!
Regretably, ANOTHER very exciting synth thing has come up: Matt Tytel, the guy who made Helm (my VST synth of choice) just announced a new free wavetable synth called Vital and the early release version I got of it has fully consumed my mind. Really cool stuff, working on putting out a playlist for it to release when the synth is released to the public on the 24th. Also, it seems there's not an Android version of this app, which is a bummer - the ckncept seems pretty simple though, I might try and mock up my own version in Pure Data when I get a chance
New Mort Garson! Also been loving this album by Marnie Stern
Super cool, pledged! Seems like a nice thing to work on while drinking my first coffee of the day.
Holy moley, gonna dive into this over the weekend - looks sweeeet!
Gotta say, it's really surreal working at a childcare center where we can't even talk directly about Halloween for fear that certain families might not celebrate it, but have no problem talking to kids (like, 3-year-old kids) about a day that celebrates "the people protecting our freedom" totally uncritically.
Thought I recognized that lanky feller ;) Glad you're enjoying it! I'm happy that I've been able to upload pretty consistently, so far I've done a new video every day since Sunday. Expect an in depth tour of the Modulator sections imminently... Edit: holy shit I have some feelings about modulators, video ended up being a full hour long lol I could probably have talked for another hour as well...
I've got a Microbrute over here, which remains one of my absolute favorite bits of gear - I think the mini brute just has some nice added bells and whistles. I totally relate to it "feeling alive" - there's sort of a playfulness built into it, it's fun to just turn some knobs and see what comes out. Do you ever dive into the "Mod Matrix" on it? Took me a little while to understand it when I first got started, but that's where things really come alive. Also, here's a web app someone made to scroll through "presets" for the microbrute, I wonder if there's a comparable one for the Mini Brute? I like this as a jumping off-point for experimentation.
Ah, nice! Well, I'm planning on doing a general sound design stream this weekend - I think I'll focus on using the Microbrute this time instead of Helm, and I'll send you an archive of the stream to check out after it's done!
Awesome! Got a particular one picked out?
Oooooo Jimmy Eat World, that just threw me right back to high school. Looking forward to checking these out, thanks!
What have you been making, if you don't mind my asking?
Thank you Steve, hugs and love gladly accepted.
I've looked into them a bit - it seems like a pretty good way to go, but I haven't seen any listings recently. I expect there will be a second wave of them after winter break.
Is there a substantial reason to prefer Soundcloud over Clyp for basic audio hosting? I genuinely don't have much strong insight or opinion on the matter, I only really used Clyp for this because I'm running out of storage space on my personal soundcloud
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c5XqVhNTFSM-mFYEvpDsOfFHJuzUnCSJ/view?usp=sharing Here you go! Thank you, TNG - thanks for giving the motivation to record something! Glad you still have that shirt lying around, was just thinking about that actually.