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Y'all are great. Have a fantastic day. :owl-wink:
ATTENTION HEXBEAR: THIS WILL SERVE AS TODAYS WEEKLY CHECK IN THREAD! (unless people want me to make my usual, certainly happy to)
Tour starts Sunday, our vinyl should be in the mail today or tomorrow, and I've been loving the way I look now that my sleeve is full! Hope everyone is well! I love you !
my sleeve is full
whoaaa bad ass!!
good luck on your tour! wow it seems like things are really working out! I'm using lots of exclamation marks but I can't help it! :lets-fucking-go:
Thanks so much! Haven't toured in a decade so I'm a little ball of worry, but its a good worry. Definitely excited! And the sleeve isn't FULL full, but the top half is 100% done and we just got the outline all done on the bottom half. So, soon!
Same goes to you, or anyone reading - if you're US Midwest/East Coast, more than happy to send you our dates on Element!
Tour starts Sunday, our vinyl should be in the mail today or tomorrow
Ayyy!
Ayyy!
33 square 10" lathe cuts of new material, gonna DIY the jackets/sleeves for it on Friday! Been a while since I've had a project to do that kinda stuff for, really looking forwards to it!
Thanks! I've been chatting with a few mods on Element, happy to send you the dates (on Element) if you're in the US Midwest or east coast!
I got out the cutting board about an hour and a half ago and made a biiiig heaping salad with lettuce and cucumber and onions and pickled banana peppers and dried red pepper flakes and black pepper and lots of spicy cajun seasoning and house dressing, and I ate the whole darn thing by myself. currently tucked cozy in bed feeling warm and happy. :meow-melt:
The vibes cycle: good vibes accumulate in delicious veggies from having fun basking in the sun, then I eat the veggies and absorb the good vibes, then I lay in bed and mentally broadcast them into the universe! it's basic science! :party-parrot-science:
Same here :comfy: Probably better than in my bed.
I was initially using a thermarest pad inside my sleeping bag but a couple seasons ago I got a cheapish underquilt from amazon (I think the brand is "one tigris") and now i use that and a down blanket and it's even comfier. Probably used it all the way down to around 40ish F, maybe a bit under, and still been snug as a bug. Just wanted to mention that because it's been so insanely comfortable and was a much cheaper option than one of the bigger name underquilts you find on a lot of sites.
Gold and orange are both good, I've actually never tried purple. Sounds interesting :thonk:
Haha fair enough! I've only had the original once
Curious, compared to coffee, do Monsters give you the jitters?
For sure - for me, caffeine really gets my heart rate going in an uncomfortable way. Love a good cup of coffee, but always have to prep for an uncomfortable few hours after.
You know, I might give that a shot and see how it goes. I don't drink coffee enough to really have any on hand, but next time I'll make a note of it!
didn't get much sleep and I am CONSIDERING doing something similar
That cat is just ridiculously beautiful.
Have a great day Dirt_Owl :cat-com:
put some new strings on my dumpster guitar a few days ago, they're finally nicely stretched and starting to hold the tuning pretty well
looks like the heat wave is tapering a bit and there's good rain potential in the forecast
so hoping to get some nice chill outdoor time in a hammock in the near future
Lets nerd out on guitar gear! What are you playing? Both gear wise, and stylistically.
it's just a beat-up classical nylon string (Gilb) that I found in a dumpster, I'm mostly just trying to get some skills by jamming out (CAGED style) to some funky tunes like afrobeat and cumbia (basically anything with a poly rhythm vibe)
I also have some funky midi controllers (hexagon keyboard thing that uses a harmonic table layout and a newer Striso board that is MPE capable) that I like to mess with to get better understanding of theory and such
I'm mostly just a jazz/theory hobbiest, so I just try to get a handle on how things 'work' and then experiment based on what I can grasp of the concepts
Hell yeah, thats awesome! What DAW and VSTs do you use with the MIDI controller? If any?
since I jumped to linux, I setup Carla with Surge (it has some decent MPE instruments to use with the Striso)
mostly just for midi jamming, haven't had the time/focus to actually record/produce much in the last few years - but I also really want to get into live-looping
I was always hoping to use a PC to get a cool live-looping setup going, but after all the fiddling I tried to get it working I've kinda resigned to just getting a basic loop pedal to start playing with (hopefully in the near future)
if you have any looping knowledge, any recs are appreciated
Aside from the usual "try Ableton," looping is a new thing for me as well. Drummer is a huge fan of loops and loopers. I have experience with a few looping pedals, but I'm personally kinda still getting the hang of it myself. I can definitely say that if money isn't a factor, I once had an EHX 228800 that I absolutely loved. I used that mostly as a sample trigger though, I'd load up the SD card with soundscapes I'd create and stuff, and play over those. Nowawadays I'm using both a Boss Loop Station and a DL4 (the old one, not the new one) in the same way.
Woah the striso board looks very fun, haven't seen one before. MPE controllers are really cool
It's a fun lil device. It has a built in instrument so you don't need a PC or anything to play stuff. It also has opensource firmware so other instruments might be available eventually.
Just looked and there's a new firmware on the github: https://github.com/striso/striso-control-firmware/releases/tag/v2.2.0
So the update took me like 2 minutes, and now I'm messing around with 31 TET mode!
Hell yeah that's awesome, very neat that you can firmware update new sounds and it isn't just a plain controller. I've long been interested in getting a weird MPE controller like a roli seaboard or the extremely hilarious eigenharp.
Also damn you're on that microtonal shit, that rules. This album by Brendan Byrnes and this album by Syzygys are my go to examples of rad microtonal music if I ever need to show anyone. That Brendan Byrnes album uses a different tuning for each of its nine songs and Syzygys specialized in making weird Japanese pop music with Harry Partch's 43-tone scale. Syzygys seems to have been somewhat nuked from youtube but Fauna Grotesque is the nastiest (nasty in the good way) example of microtonal shit in general that I've ever heard. Maybe you'd like it or at least find it interesting! I'm ultra open to any 31-tet music or any other recommendations you might have.
Syzygys
This is cool stuff! I stumbled into xenharmonics/microtonal stuff via tuning theory exploration, which ultimately led me to some of these weird niche midi controllers (isomorphic). I've always really enjoyed genre/style crossing music, so when I started exploring things like Gamelan and Turkish tunings and such, I just had to try to understand it.
The other entry point for me was Wendy Carlos 'Beauty in the Beast' which seems to be hard to find these days. I also checked out Sevish for some interesting selections. I recall there was a really cool website on the release of Micropangea!
I haven't really looked into this stuff in few years, but it seems there's a good bit of cool stuff being made now.
Thanks to your comment I came across the revamped xenharmonic wiki page: https://en.xen.wiki/ I found this really fun browser instrument thing there: https://fritzo.org/keys/#style=piano
There's even a xen rhythms wiki too for all kinds of odd time sigs and such.
I'm, really going down the rabbit hole now lol
The synths on this page really are wild: https://www.dynamictonality.com/synths.htm I briefly experimented with 'The Viking' a long time ago.
three Dynamic Tonality synthesizers, each of which uses a different technique of sound synthesis. They all use the same set of Dynamic Tonality controls and support a wide range of microtonal tunings that can be smoothly morphed between. Furthermore, their timbres can be matched to the underlying tuning.
Awesome! New strings sound so good. I've been tweaking my action and neck relief over the last couple weeks and I think I've finally got it all perfectly dialed for the first time in long while.
I'm going camping with my friends on Friday for five days. Very much looking forward to not having to show up to work and just chilling
I finally finished reading that "zionists stay mad" big black book from South Africa. Also the fact I'm being paid €7.30 an hour to read Blackshirts & Reds at work and we have a coffee vending machine programmed to provide us with as much free coffee as we please.
Hell yeah! Read BS&R back over the winter. Taking a copy of Against Empire on the road with me - wanna be reading buddies for it?
(Yes, I also will have a copy of Anders Malm with me too for the c/literature group!)
Yes and how can we be reading buddies for Parenti - I just started and am on page 40/160ish. When done, I plan on starting Manufacturing Consent and them a bit of Engels. Then volume 3 of The Governance of China.
This is a good question. I didn't put a ton of thought into the idea to be honest.
that “zionists stay mad” big black book from South Africa
heard references to this before but never the title. what is it?
Title is "Why Israel? Anatomy of the Zionist Apartheid - a South African Perspective". You can also look up Firoz Osman (one of the authors).
OH -and as a treat, I went ahead and bought Fursan al-Aqsa
Bottling 6 gallons of a fire mead on Friday, and then skedaaling to the mountains to camp this weekend.
This is the Fire Mead recipe I used (I subbed dried habaneros for the ancho chilies):
https://www.instructables.com/Fire-Mead/
