so, the frontend is finished. everything is slower than i want it to be,
but i could still conceivably get done inri021 by the end of the
weekend. finishing inri015 actually gets me through the bulk of the work
of inri021...
i had to fast forward a little to jan,
2016 to get the actual release data in, which means these releases will
come packaged with three versions and three subsequent
front-ends. they're about 125 pages, each. so, these are major release
updates for the first two official records.
i need to dot some is before i upload this, including doing a good testing, but it's coming. soon.
i had to sleep. it wasn't a choice.
it's almost done. soon.
Friday, February 7, 2020
so, this liner note release is actually going to have
two discarded versions of the record attached to it, from 2013 and also
from 1998. i had to take them down to 192 khz to get the package under
300 mb. remember: these are deleted masters, so this is material i've
deleted from my discography. it's here for historical reasons, and it's
buried in the download on purpose, but i feel it's necessary to include
it - in one file format, in relatively low quality. if you want these
deleted items in high quality flac, you'll have to get the aleph discs.
even accessing these 192 khz mp3 files requires purchasing and
downloading the item, and unzipping an html package. the files are
there, but it's meant to be streamed via the html frontend.
that
means i have two player controls in this package. i'm done the first
one. the second should be minor tweaks on the first, and then it's just
typesetting the rest of it. so, it should be done relatively soon.
as the purpose of this is for the files to interact with the front-end,
the way i'm going to do this is to drop a folder of mp3s inside of the
existing html folder.
so, you'll get a file called
inri015.html.7z.txt in the download. you'll need to rename it to remove
the txt. when you extract it, it will create a folder called
inri015.html, inside of which will be an html frontend, a lot of
pictures and a new folder called "2013" which will contain 320 kbps mp3s
of the discarded 2013 masters, for integration with the apparent html
frontend.
got it?
i'll need to do something
similar for inri021 and, in the long run, for the other recordings that
have discarded mixes like this, including inri000 and inri001.
let me actually do it, now.
i'm most of the way through the frontend for inri015 and we're going to
keep going because it's a friday and, with any luck, i can be done with
this by sunrise on monday.
these html5 frontends will
eventually end up in the aleph discs, where they will crossreference to
all of the outtakes. right now, the liner notes are only interacting
with the files in the download, and presenting external links to files
that aren't. inri015 and inri021 present somewhat of a challenge for
this model, because the files uploaded in 2013, where these updates
exist in chronological time, have actually been replaced. so, the
frontend should actually be interacting with files that aren't there.
and, i'm wondering if i need to bring the files back in.
for
inri000 & inri001, the files are 2013 remasters of tracks from 1996
and 1997. for inri002, it's a new 2013 reconstruction of shorts of that
remastered material. inri003 & inri029 are new eps of unaltered
material from early 1997. inri016, inri027 & inri028 are revisionist
singles dated to 2013 of material from 1998-1999. inri022 & inri023
are 2013 compilations of material from 1998-1999.
so, i can convincingly date everything to 2013.
inri015
& inri021 were created in 1998/1999 and withdrawn in 2004, then
remastered and rereleased in 2013, but that remaster was itself
withdrawn in 2015 in favour of instrumental reconstructions, which were
finalized over 2016. for inri000 & inri001 i have to leave the 90s
stuff for the aleph discs, but the 2013 remasters still stand.
everything else is actually coming to you straight from the 90s, except
inri015 & inri021 which have these lost remasters dated to the
chronological space that i'm releasing the first remaster in.
so,
if you download the liner notes today in 2020, you'll get the front-end
connecting to the instrumental 2016 release, dated to the 2013 notes.
this is kind of disingenuous on my behalf. i really ought to have this
frontend connected to the 2013 releases..
i've been toying with
the idea of releasing the 2013 remasters as a bonus download for awhile,
and i'm going to need to chew on that this morning. it would be the
correct way to do this. i'm just not sure what the best way to do it that
makes the most sense is.
the frontend for the current version of inri015
is dated to jan, 2016 and the frontend for the current version of
inri021 is dated to the fall of the same year, with a final release in
december. so, that will need to wait until i get there.
what i
want to avoid is uploading the tracks as "bonus tracks" in the bandcamp
ui. i want them to come in silently over the backend. and, i'm actually
ok with uploading them in fairly low quality. so, the best way to do
this might be to upload all of the tracks as mp4 files and stream them
over the video container in the html5 frontend.
i'll have an answer in a few hours.
it's coming together; it might be done for noon.
Thursday, February 6, 2020
hi.
when i first signed up for
onedrive, i was very explicitly looking for a way to convert .doc files
(that is, office 2003 files, specifically) to .pdf files in a way that
maintained formatting, including hyperlinks. so, a pdf printer would not
be good enough, i need full conversion.
your
competitors (google, adobe) kept breaking the formatting, so i tried
here on a lark, hoping that office would be best at converting office.
and, it did actually work - i was able to effortlessly convert up to
1600 page word 2003 documents with flawless formatting. i was impressed.
unfortunately,
something changed over the last two weeks that has broken the
conversion, and it appears to be specifically that the server is now
forcing an extra conversion step to .docx. when you converted directly
from .doc to .pdf, your results were flawless. but, the introduction of
the extra conversion step has left your results about the same as your
competitors, indicating that the issue in conversion is probably xml
related.
i don't want to use the .docx format, or the
underlying xml architecture. i want to be able to convert directly from
.doc to .pdf.
there is a workaround in uploading as
.doc and then viewing the version history, which allows for a direct
conversion, but this seems unnecessarily awkward.
i
believe that the reason i was able to directly convert initially is that
the server was opening the files in protected mode. for some reason, it
is no longer opening them in protected mode, and is now defaulting to
the conversion step to docx "so i can edit the files". but, i don't want
to edit the files, i want to convert them directly to pdf, in a way
that bypasses the conversion to docx step.
it would be
very useful if i could tell the server to always open all office files
in protected mode, by default. i do not believe that this is currently
possible. if it is possible, i would appreciate some guidance. if it is
not, please accept my feature request.
so, this is what i think happened.
i think
that when i uploaded the files to the server last week, they were
initially interpreted as coming from an unsafe source and sort of
quarantined as read-only, and opened in 'protected mode'. this allowed
me to convert the files to pdf without having to deal with the
conversion in between to docx.
now, the server
is no longer interpreting the files as dangerous, and automatically
converting them to docx for editing, which is actually the default
behaviour.
but, the conversion to docx is
breaking the formatting and needs to be avoided altogether. so, i
actually want it to default to the quarantine.
there is a work around, which involves opening up the file's "version history". this converts it directly from doc to pdf.
i'm
actually going to send them an email requesting default protected mode
as a feature. and, it might exist in the paid version. but, like, i'm
not paying for it...
i think it was opening it in something called "protected
view". that's actually what i want. but i can't figure out how to make
it default.
*sigh*
it seems to have been previously logging me in
as a "guest user", which is actually what i want it to do. now, it's
recognizing me and trying to convert the file for me.
at least it works, though. i just have to stop the conversion.
ok. moving on to the html5 frontend. maybe they'll even unbreak it for me.
so, opening up a new account didn't undo the forced conversions to docx to "edit" the file.
i
don't want to use the service to edit documents, ever. i strictly want
to use it to convert .doc files to .pdf. so, it's not necessary to
convert the file to edit it because i don't actually want to edit it. in
fact, converting it seems to run the risk of breaking the formatting,
and that's why i've come here for the conversion in the first place,
because this system is better at converting .doc files to .pdf (so long
as it doesn't try to convert them to .docx files first).
it
would be very useful if i could tell the server to open everything
read-only, and never convert to docx. if microsoft changed something for
my supposed benefit, it backfired and i would appreciate it if they
would change it back.
i don't seem to be able to turn off the automatic conversion, but i can
get around it by opening up the version history instead of launching the
file directly. that did actually fix it.
it's
typical microsoft, though. i point out that their service actually
works, when google's and adobe's both don't, and they promptly break it
by trying to force a proprietary format that i don't want on to me.
fuck.
i'm actually going to delete the account and start again and hope it undoes the unwanted forced conversions.
so, it was the conversion from doc to docx at the server (something that
didn't happen on my first dozen conversions.) that introduced the
typset error.
and, i seem to be able to avoid it by going out of my way to avoid the conversion to docx at the server...
the original file seems to be fine.
this
docx format has been nothing but disasters for microsoft, and i really
wish they'd just get their head around the reality that there is going
to be a subset of users that just refuses to migrate to it, ever.
but, let's see if it's fixed. if it is, i can move on to the html5.
ok, the machine is back up.
i'm going to try to work through this.
i'm going to have to reupload tonight because the file appears to be out
of alignment. that's fine. let's hope it gets done pretty quick, and
the testing process is smooth.
i'm going to take another nap...the nap this morning was kind of short....
there
has been a rank smell in here over the last few days and i don't know
the source of it. i have smelled this smell before, but i'm not sure
exactly what it is. it might be straight up pollution from outside. if
so, it's kind of curious that it set back in immediately after i
cancelled the hearing.
if i'm able to tie it to something upstairs...
for
now, i can't do anything about a smell that i can't entirely identify
the source of. i don't think it's from below me, though, i think it's
from above me.
*shrug*.
let's try to get back up again for around 17:00-18:00.
it took eighteen years and multiple attempts at a construction, but this
record is finally permanently completed as an instrumental electronic
work and i am finally proud to refer to it as my first record.
while
most of these songs have defined concepts underlying them, i have
ejected these concepts from the final recording and left them in a
series of singles. i would prefer that this album be understood solely
as the instrumental recording of electronic music that i am presenting
it as.
written and demoed in multiple stages from 1994-1998.
initially constructed in this form in june, 1998. a failed rescue was
attempted in 2013. reconstructed and resequenced jan 6-10, 2016 from
parts that were rebuilt over 2013-2016. re-released on jan 10, 2016.
audio permanently closed on aug 10, 2016. finalized as lp001 on oct 10,
2016. first liner note release added on feb 6, 2020. this is my first
official record; as always, please use headphones.
this release
also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually
include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of
production (1996-1998, 2013-2020). as of feb 6, 2020, the release
includes a 125 page booklet in doc, pdf & html, with an html5 audio
& video frontend, that includes journal entries from the remastering
process over sept-dec, 2013, as well as the video for inertia, from
dec, 2013 .
credits
released June 20, 1998
j -
guitars, effects, bass, synthesizers, drum programming, orchestral &
other sequencing, sampling, vocal relics, cool edit synthesis, windows
95 sound recorder, found sounds, strategies, soundraider, hammerhead,
sound design, metronome, digital wave editing, production
the
rendered electronic orchestra includes piano, organ, electric guitar,
orchestra hit, pizzicato strings, synth pads, violin, viola, cello,
contrabass, electric bass, sitar, tubular bells, tinkle bells,
synthesizer effects and flute.
i'm just trying to figure out if i should date the
inri015 liner note release to today or not, and i'm going to, even if
the html5 update doesn't get up until tomorrow morning.
i've got the pc off altogether, but i'm hoping i don't have to reimage tonight, and, if i don't, it might be fairly quick.
so, i'm going to get that all in order. and i may have to test overnight.
i didn't get as much done as i wanted to last night, partly because i
passed out around midnight, but i have to stop now to shut down. i hope
to be back at it close to 19:00.
i at least finalized the actual notes. so, there is a 125 page booklet in doc and pdf uploaded to the bandcamp site.
i will need to finish the html5 frontend for it tonight and get it up by tomorrow.
so, the content is done. i'm just missing the third format.
so, that minor change appears to have done exactly what i wanted it to do - it now loads flawlessly in both browsers.
now i have to fix it...
to be clear, what i have to do is remove the codecs=CODEC section everywhere it exists.
the desktop uses about twice as much electricity as
either the laptop or the chromebook (the 90s laptop is in between, when
it's on), so i was expecting a spike, but it's been offset by the lesser
fan use, and the fact that i avoided laundry this month. if i hadn't
had the desktop on all month, i would have come in under the $45 limit
and paid down the balance. as it is, it's going to be about $2.00 over.
i
have no intention of paying this bill. i'm going to pay it off via
electrical saving. i just need to get the laptop fixed, first, so i'm
not running the desktop all of the time...and in fact running two computers all of the time....
i
don't see any specific usage that i can attribute to the 90s laptop,
but we're going to keep it off for a while, anyways. at least until i
can figure out what's going on with the windows 7 box.
the
desktop will only be on like this for a few more days. i was hoping to
get all of this done. life's always more complicated than i want it to
be. but, i should start the troubleshooting process on friday or
saturday...
the soundcard
installed cleanly, so that's at least easy. and, i guess i'll need to
install a recent version of chrome in the virtual machine to do the
testing i need to do.
but, i'm
concluding that i probably need to remove the line "codecs=flac". and,
if i'm going to do that, i should remove the other codec specifications,
too. just let me be sure that it actually works...
there are flac codecs in the system, but the version
of the chrome browser that is installed on the 90s laptop is too old to
be able to launch flac over html5, and it's picked for a reason - if i
start using newer versions of the browser, the system won't run.
i'm
a little concerned about that machine, though. i've been noticing for a
while that every time i take it out of hibernation, it shuts off. this
is actually primarily frustrating because it means i lose my place in
the youtube video i'm watching and have to start over again. i don't
have any interest in what's happening on that machine in general, but it
was really overheating, and i'm concerned about the electrical, and it
kind of defeats the point if i have to start the video over again every
time i turn it on. so, it's now going to sit unplugged from the
internet. there's no wireless in the device. and, let me check my
electrical...
the
controls work for all five types on firefox in windows, and for the
last four types on chrome in the chrome os. i don't see any logical
reason why flac breaks when mp3 doesn't, other than that chrome doesn't
like being told to use that codec. so, i think that's more of a
chrome-specific thing.
i want it to work, though....
i'm not even going to test on...they call ie "edge" now, right? whatever.
the
fourth major browser is safari, and i don't have an apple device, so i
don't do any testing with anything to do with apple - no apple lossless,
no safari, none of it, because i just don't have access to it. sorry...
so, i can test with firefox and with chrome, on windows and on the chrome os, giving me four possible testing scenarios.
i'm
going to then argue it's irrational to run firefox on the chrome os and
rule out that possibility. so, the last thing i can try is the chrome
browser in windows, and i do use chrome on the 90s laptop,
because it's too old to launch a version of firefox that is new enough
to run html5, which you now need for youtube. they forced me into it,
basically.
i just did a search
to make sure i'm not missing anything, and firefox' share has sure
declined recently, although it's actually safari's share that seems to
have gone strangely up. chrome has been at 65% for a while, now - i'm
not surprised by that. but, how did safari get to 25%? i thought iphones
were losing badly to android? double-checked - yup. are apple pcs up,
then? no, they're down. ??. so, how can safari have a 25% market share
if the iphone is at 15% and apple pcs are at 10%?
the
last version of safari for windows was in 2013, and you would bizarrely
need to run it via wine to use it on linux, according to a cursory
google search.
but, you can install safari on
android devices. so, i guess that a lot of people have switched from
iphone to android, but don't want to let go of safari just yet? even so,
the numbers are still weird.
it may be closer to the
truth that firefox' decline is tied more to the general decline of the
desktop/laptop and it's increasing replacement with phones. it may be
less that people are moving away from firefox, and more that people are
moving away from computers altogether.
i'm going to
continue to resist this, and when i do finally move past firefox, it's
going to be to some kind of fork. i could end up migrating to linux, and
using a linux fork of firefox. i don't know what's still kicking, it's
been a long time.
i've just had issues with chrome
being particularly invasive, in terms of spyware. i had it installed for
a while, years ago, but i kept finding it dialing home, and every time i
turned it off, it would install itself back into the startup menu. it
was acting like a virus, basically, and i don't have a lot of patience
for aggressive corporate spyware like that. so, i ripped it right out of
my machine, and i've avoided it ever since. i don't intend to go back
to it....
but, i should check to see how this thing behaves on the 90s laptop, first. if...does it even have flac codecs at all?
if
it was funny over aac or ogg, i wouldn't mind so much, but i expect
people to download in flac, so i want this to work on the chromebook. in
the world of windows and linux, flac is the default lossless audio
codec.
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
we're reimaging. that's fine. it will be quick, there's nothing to play with this time, i didn't really alter anything.
on second thought....no.
this is what i had:
type='audio/flac; codec="flac"'
i thought i had dropped the ' after the flac, and changing it to:
type='audio/flac'; codec="flac"'
did
actually get it to work in the chrome browser, but now i'm concerned
that it's going to be broken in firefox, because it should actually be
wrong, and i don't have a soundcard...
these finicky browsers, huh? fuck...
i'm
convinced that my hard drive is fine, so i'm going to turn the hd audio
chip on in the bios and take my chances. i may have to reimage.
whatever. i need sound. when i come up in the laptop next week, i'll
need to add hardware components back in one at a time - including my new
wired usb keyboard.
but, it's hard to understand how it could be a driver issue if it boots fine and is fine for a day or two. that doesn't add up.
i'm
also going to copy over all five options for inri003 and test them
thoroughly in the chrome os to see if i can figure out a pattern.
i think i want:
type="audio/flac"
...i.e.
i should drop the codec specification. that seems to be what's
confusing things. but i need to make sure it actually works.
so, let's try to get the audio up on the desktop, here we go....
to be clear, it's just the html5 frontends that need the update. the
pdfs & docs are fine, so the stuff at noise trade can stay, and the
music journals are ok, too.
it's just the zip files in each of the liner note packages...
and, then i'll have to redownload everything again and replace it on the external.
this is a pain in the ass. absolutely. but, it's just time consuming, it's not hard.
*sigh*.
i had only
previously tested in firefox, and everything worked perfectly. so, i was
a little surprised to realize that flac wasn't playing back on the
chromebook.
it turns out i dropped a ' in the controls, and i did it consistently - hundreds of times.
so, i have to go back and fix everything.
that should take the rest of the night.
to be clear: it's very minor. but i have to do it.
it will give me some time to listen, and there's maybe more going on this month than i thought, after all.
Monday, January 27, 2020
i'm clearly not going to get this finished by the end of the night. i haven't started.
rather, i'm going to gorge myself, shower and then focus very strictly on finishing everything up over the next couple of days.
ok.
are we done here for the night?
i think we are.
i need to eat...and then i need to organize all of this loose data, before i get on to inri015.
that's all of the uploading for tonight.
i will need to reconstruct the music blog when i get to the general cleanup, but the general & dtk blogs are updated.
the facebook pages are updated for the night.
so, what's left to do is download the packages from bandcamp and cross-reference them to make sure they're correct.
the
pdf conversion via microsoft's cloud seems to be flawless, even over
1500 page documents. google's conversion is terrible. so is adobe's.
everybody should take note of that. but, i'm anal...i will bitwise
compare in notepad++ and carefully sort through line by line to make
sure it's lined up...
my desktop
is still running. it doesn't have a soundcard, though. i stripped
everything out when i was fighting with the interference patterns.
i
will need to prioritize the court stuff when i wake up tomorrow, but
i'm hoping i can accomplish the following posting schedule:
1)
inri015 by the end of the day on the 27th (today). i'm looking at about
125 pages, but a lot of it is overlap with inri000-inri002.
2) inri021 by the end of the day on the 28th. it's also 125 pages, but it's the same overlap.
3) inri022 by the end of the day on the 29th.
4) inri023 by the end of the day on the 30th.
and,
i will then need to do a february look ahead before i can get to
finishing january, 2014. in fact, i could maybe start on that this week.
the factum from the oiprd will be here by the 31st.
i *am* going to want to try to load the laptop some time this week.
the liner notes for inri029 have been augmented by 4 pages, and the video for inertia has been added.
this has now been updated as well, but the update is a single line in
each of the documents, to stamp the release as 'jam001', and will not be
noted further.
i've released a dozen different things with the title "inricycled",
making it more of a concept than a release. it's not just the material
i'm recycling, now, it's the idea of recycling material.
i hope
this is the final iteration. the difference, here, is that i'm trying to
isolate segments of songs that people interested in my more recent
compositions would find interesting. these fragments aren't entirely
void of lyrics, but they're very minimal. they're also quite short.
i've retitled most of the tracks to get a feel of what the music sounds like and/or what i was thinking as i was writing it.
this is the best possible absolute starting point for my musical material.
written
and recorded over 1996 and 1997. digitally remastered, sequenced and
mildly modified in the fall of 2013. released dec 11, 2013. finalized as
lp000 on july 3, 2016. first liner note release added on jan 26, 2020. i
consider this my unofficial zeroth record. as always, please use
headphones.
this release also includes a printable jewel case
insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of
journal entries from all phases of production (1997, 2013-2020). as of
jan 26, 2020, the release includes a 106 page booklet in doc, pdf &
html, with an html5 audio & video frontend, that includes journal
entries from the remastering process over sept-dec, 2013, as well as the
video for inertia, from dec, 2013 .
credits
released July 1, 1997
j - guitars, effects, bass, drums, vocals, keyboards, tapes, found sounds, metronomes, digital wave editing, production.
so, we're doing this one at a time, which means the posts will be
stretched out a little. it seems like it's the long way if it's you, but
it's really not if it's me.
inri001 has been updated
to include the video for inertia, which also added a half a page to the
liner notes at the very end. the doc & pdf files just had
hyperlinks added, but the html file embedded it. this is consistent with
the other media files.
the pdfs - there's 8 - are all downloaded and they look proper, but i'll have to rigorously run through them before i move on.
let's get the seven existing packages updated, first.
so, there was a shutdown on thursday morning, and i spent the day thursday finishing up the archiving from the desktop, and then uploaded everything thursday night and into friday morning. i reimaged the machine, got some fruit and passed out and slept until friday afternoon when i intended to start fresh and get a good session in, to finish everything up for sunday night....
there actually wasn't any reason to turn the modem on, as i didn't intend to connect from that laptop, and i had plenty of work to do offline. i was hoping to get everything updated, and turn the modem on when i was done. i had some concerns that they may have been using the chromebook as a relay, and i don't know how linux networking works, really, at all, so i felt there was little i could do to react to it. so, i shut it down partly to save electricity and partly to keep the fuckers out while i was working.
unfortunately, friday was really a waste. i simply couldn't focus, and i don't actually think it was pot, or at least not until later in the night. it actually felt like i was on mushrooms, and i don't have any good explanation for that at all. but, if you've ever tried reading on mushrooms....you can't.....it's impossible.....
i took a shower and made some coffee around 4:00, but i passed out not longer after. it was just a bust....
i was up in the afternoon, and i actually got a lot more done, before the machine went down again around 22:00. i have updates for inri000, inri001, inri003, inri016 & inri027-inri029, and i'm also going to be doing a first liner note release for inri002 by the end of the night. i was most of the way done inri002 when the machine went out...
this is a situation that caused me some serious pause. all evidence suggested that i was being shut down remotely by a server that was trying to deploy something, but the situation seemed to belie that - not only had i not connected this machine to the internet at all, but no machine in the apartment had been connected, and the modem was actually turned off.
if i was being shutdown remotely, it would have to be via a wireless connection that i didn't understand. there was only one networking device in the entire apartment - my wireless keyboard, a bluetooth device with a range of a hundred metres, at most.
in fact, i noticed on saturday night that my wireless keyboard was connecting as a composite device, indicating that it was accepting signals from more than just the keyboard.
i also noticed on friday night that i was able to activate windows without connecting to the internet - an obvious absurdity. but, it would indicate a backdoor connection.
further, my wireless keyboard is manufactured by microsoft.
you can see what i'm putting together with this.
i have three ps/2 keyboards, and a half dozen connectors the other way, but no way to connect a keyboard to a laptop via usb without using wireless, just right now. i'd have to get out to the factory direct, and i did resolve to do so, but i wanted to get this done first. next week...
i then accidentally booted into the laptop's hard drive using the desktop's motherboard, and i knew at that point that i had to test it - i could use the ps/2 keyboard on the desktop, and if there's something else going on in the laptop, i have no expectation that they've gotten to the desktop. not yet...
if the pc crashes the same way in the end, i'm going to have to try to swap out the hard drives. i've been resisting this because it isn't rational, but short of the operating system expiring, the hard drive would be the only remaining shared component. if the same thing happens, it has to be the drive....
but, if the pc stays up for the next week, i'm going to need to buy a usb keyboard, i guess. we can't have wireless keyboards in canada, i guess - the cops will use them to hack into your computer and shut you down. the true north strong and free, huh. so long as you don't think for yourself, i guess...
you are free to shut up and be a good slave.
you are free to do what you're told....
tellingly, i've been unable to activate, indicating there's no backdoor. and, i've been getting weird error messages informing me that i'm disconnected from the remote server.
in the long run, i'm clearly going to need to wipe this down. but, it's not going to help if they just capture the machine again.
it's one thing to have these paranoid observations. it's another to have them confirm themselves. it's still another for the confirmations to build up.
it really, honestly seems like somebody is slaving my windows box to a domain server via the bluetooth in my wireless keyboard - a shortwave radio with a very short range connection, so short range that that person would basically need to be directly upstairs.....
i crashed from about 5:00-11:00, and finished up inri002 this afternoon. here she comes....
i'm on the chromebook....
what happened?
well,
to start with, i just noticed that my local archiving is working again,
which is a good thing. i think it might be suggestive of a pullback in
surveillance, actually. you'd think it's a matter of time before they
pull their heads out of their asses...
i'm concerned about missing email, though. what else didn't get through over the last year or so?
i've actually had an eventful weekend. and, there's stuff on it's way up to bandcamp soon.
re:
court stuff - i got a factum from the windsor police that i haven't
read yet, and i'll need to call the divisional court in the morning,
because they left a message. this is actually all going according to
plans.
but, let's start with a narrative of the
weekend, because i think i'm coming to some very unsettling and very
startling conclusions.
unfortunately, noise trade did not work out as a hosting solution, and i never got a clear answer as to why. but, i decided in the end that the site was full of ads and unworkable, anyways.
i think it passed the preliminary tests, so i'm going to upload the files and i'll come back if i find any problems.
the conversion seems to be working.
i'll have to go over it to see how well.
so, now that i have what looks like a stable conversion method, i can get to actually finishing the parsing for the end of 2013.
it's not entirely clear that this will work, but let's hope it does.
expect
combined files for the last semester of 2013 to come up fairly shortly,
once i'm sure they're all neatly formatted, locally.
well...
that seems to work.
i
want to be clear: i tried uploading doc files to google drive and then
downloading them as pdfs and the formatting often broke on them. the
same thing happened at several of the free conversion sites, including
at the adobe site. so, i mean, i tried this, and it didn't work.
the smallpdf.com
site was particularly accurate for whatever reason, it worked when none
of the other sites did, but it has those file size restrictions. and, i
mean, i don't know where i'm sending my files to and from, here.
will
the microsoft converters be on par with the smallpdf ones? well, i can
hope so, but we'll have to find out. and, there will be files coming to
test with soon enough, too.
if
this doesn't work out, i can always try openoffice. but, i think i'm
happy with this as an answer, so long as it's actually effective.
i
don't know why i didn't think of this earlier. well, i guess that
microsoft didn't come up in the google search, funny that....
google: fix your word--->pdf conversion. it doesn't work.
wait.
microsoft has a cloud, too.
can i use it to convert files? that would be easy.
and, why don't i use google docs?
it doesn't format right.
and, my experience has been that it's slow and tends to crash because it's autosaving far too often.
it's
fine for smaller documents that don't have a lot of detail, but i need
to be able to create documents that are hundreds of pages long and i
need to be able to format them in very specific ways.
plus, there's data sanctity issues regarding access by law enforcement.
it's
not an application that is properly delegated to a cloud-computing
platform; this is something that should primarily be created and stored
locally. it's just not the right tool for this job...
abiword is no longer being offered for windows from the developer (and
you shouldn't download things from sketchy sites like softronic, pretty
much ever), which is what i need it for, and it appears to rely on a pdf
printer, anyways.
it was a nice, small file, though.
no doubt a minimal install process; maybe even a standalone. these are
the kinds of programs i insist on, nowadays. i don't need a word
processor building a tower in my registry....
maybe i can find another clone. it's worth a shot before i resort to downloading oo.
if i'm going to download a large package and install it in a virtual
machine just to get the functionality to convert from .doc to .pdf, i
should be going with openoffice.
again: the way i've
been doing this for years is to print it, and it worked just fine,
except that the links lose their functionality (it's just like you're
printing it to a piece of paper, but virtually, and you can't click the
links on your paper, not until we get specific types of
three-dimensional printing, so you can't click the links in the
virtually printed pdf), and that is absolutely fundamental to what i'm
doing - the end product needs to be interactive.
maybe i can get a very minimal version of openoffice..
this should be easier than this.
in
fact, i remember seeing react os style freeware word 2003 clones, and
you'd think they'd do it, so maybe i should look that up first. abi
something..?
i don't want to upgrade the office software, either. the program does
this natively after 2010, but i went through great lengths to strip
office 2003 down to a 20 mb package. i really, really, really don't want
any of this recent office software on my system. at all.
one way out would be to install 2010 in the virtual machine, and just open it up to convert, but that's kind of crazy.
why is this so unnecessarily difficult? why can't i find a plugin for word 2003?
yeah, it has built in print functionality, but i can already do that pretty easily.
can i find a printer driver that prints links?
installing latex would also be overkill. to an extent, i'd be happy to just upload the file in word and let you deal with it, but noise trade won't even take files in that format, and the pdf format is non-proprietary.
i just like word. i'm using word 2003, and it's a just very clean, uncluttered processor - minimal. kind of not very microsoft, but maybe the best word processor ever created, nonetheless.
there's nothing stopping me from continuing what i'm doing, besides file sizes and the awkwardness of it. like i say, this shouldn't be so hard.....really...
i don't want to download a cracked version of adobe studio. that seems
like overkill. even if it's 15 years old, and it would be...
i'm
actually a foxit user and have been for as long as i can remember. mid
00s, probably. i had an older machine and had to make an effort to fight
the bloatware, and that was one of the steps i took, moving from adobe
to foxit. you kids don't even know what bloatware is...
the newer freeware versions of foxit actually claim to be able to do this natively.
let's give it a try in the virtual machine, first...
i am awake, for the first time in, like, a week. hooray!
the smoke's better just right this second. somebody find me a hollowed out log to bash my head against.
there
was some autocapitalization from facebook (fuckers.) that i had to fix,
and that's been replaced, so i'm ready to get back to it, now.
and, i'm hoping that i don't move from in front of these two machines until i get 2013 finished, once and for all.
the
plan is to do all of the office work on the windows machine and then
upload it to noise trade and bandcamp via the chromebook. this is
temporary, because i don't want to deal with broken windows boxes right
now. something else i'm remembering about this chromebook is that i have
to log in to turn the ad block on, which means typing out a 100
character pass phrase....
first, i need an
answer to the pdf problem. surely it's not that hard. surely the right
software is out there. i must go forth and look...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
so, i do think that that's most of what i wanted done tonight, although i can't post to the music blog from here.
i've
got the four blogs for december at noise trade, i've got the journal at
bandcamp and i've got the links shared to three of the blogs, and also
to facebook. that's everything except posting to the music blog.
so,
i'm going to take a short nap, and then focus on finishing the
remaining eight uploads to noise trade, many of which are quite lengthy.
the longest one is 1600 pages and will have a suggested donation of
$16.
i need to get a better answer on the pdf conversion, though.
for
years, i used a pdf printer, but that is not good enough for this
because i need to keep the links in place. so, i've been using this
site, smallpdf.com. but, these files are no longer small.
this
is no longer a one off, this is now a normal thing for me, so, surely, i
can find a freeware pdf printer that maintains links and doesn't fuck
up the formatting.
after i nap....
the sixth entry in the music journal series, which is
the month of december, 2013 and is 113 pages long. i am not going to
summarize the story, but it is available on the web over here:musicofjessicamurray.blogspot.com/2013/12/.
this
is a compilation of written correspondences that occurred around me
over december, 2013. it includes facebook posts, google+ posts, youtube
comments discussions and emails with acquaintances and family members,
in an attempt to document the first reconstruction phase of rebuilding
my discography, including remastering and (re)publishing inri002,
inri015, inri021, inri022 and inri023. the contents of this download are
the dummy track, a word doc file and a pdf file, both written in a more
readable, chronological ordering. i've also added the respective files
for my other three blogs, for general interest, as well as 18 separate
txt documents (17 html files + 1 further pdf document) that are
referenced in the journal.
the events documented in
this journal occurred in december, 2013 and were compiled into a
narrative in several stages over the years 2014-2020. journal completed,
released and finalized in doc and pdf format on jan 22, 2020.
doc201312.
credits
released January 1, 2014
j - editing, participant
panglos - participant
joris van dijk - participant
nor easter - participant
futur incertain uncertainfutur (aka parhasard57) - participant
robert decreon - participant
trevor johnston - participant
tomhulcelover - participant
tom alma - participant
babalooey100 - participant
aussie dave - participant
matthew joseph harrington - participant
bryan piekarski - participant
happyhooliedaze - partcipiant
paul boisvert - participant
marios laskaris - partcipiant
lukmruk - participant
miaumiaucatmagician - participant
mattlaureys - participant
alfredo rodriguez - participant
randomusername987 - participant
sam steinhauer - participant
gonzocurt - participant
michael hamilton berry - participant
mom - participant
the initial landlord - participant
public works, city of windsor - participant
ollie - participant
there will be four noise trade posts to start for december, 2013.
this will be followed by four more that will run over first the third semester of 2013 (that is, sept--->dec) and then the entire second half of the year (july 16th-->dec 31st). these are large files, and it will take me some time to figure out how to upload them.
i will need to update the bandcamp site after that. this will have the december music journal first, and then updates to inri000, inri001, inri003, inri016, inri027, inri028 & inri029 (if any. i need to check.), followed by liner notes for inri002, inri015, inri021, inri022 & inri023, and subsequent rereleases of these records. so, there is plenty to post over the next few days, if i can stop whatever piece of shit that is causing me this grief from being such a piece of shit.
and, then i'll need to clean the last few days up at the politics blog. ugh.
the first four should be up very soon.
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
so, my laptop is running, and i'm doing the final stages required to
finish these uploads, which is going over everything one last time to
make sure it's all aligned properly, but i'm going to be refraining from
connecting it to the internet until after i've uploaded everything,
just because i want to get this done before i have to deal with any kind
of bullshit.
so, expect that all to come up before
sunrise. i know i've been committal on this recently and nothing has
come up, but expect it this time, for sure.
these will be the last things to complete for 2013.
ok.
so, i'm going to want to get the documents updated at noise trade & bandcamp, now. we'll clean this mess up after i'm done.
i'm thinking about it though, and how do i get out of this mess, more generally?
in
the mid to late 00s, i only connected to the internet over winlited xp
images that had been reverse engineered to rip most of the networking
functionality out of them. then my life changed drastically in mid-2011.
i've been connecting with laptops for several years now, under the
assumption that what's on the machine doesn't matter much, and i can
always reinstall on short notice. but, with all of the screens burning
out (under shady conditions.), i've had to reanalyze this - it hasn't
been easy to reinstall, and i'm wasting large amounts of time on
troubleshooting.
how do i get out of this?
i've
tried installing to the laptop drive on the pc and then plugging it
into the laptop, but it doesn't seem to want to pick up the chipset
drivers. rather, i need to copy over the files from the existing
install, which is messy and corrupted from the drivers from both
systems.
it's been a while since i tried to
boot from the dvd, but my memory is that the drive was damaged and, to
the extent that it worked at all, it was very slow. i don't remember the
right key combination to get it to boot from disc, but i could probably
figure that out.
even if i could get that to work, it would mean spending days setting the system back up, and who knows for how long.
what
i'm wondering is if it's time to build a custom windows 7 image, if i
even can. i don't think that anything like winlite ever came out for
windows 7. but, if it did, i could get all of the patches in to it, then
rip the core of it out, then copy over an actual fresh install whenever
i get attacked.
i'm also toying with the idea
of either installing xp in a virtual machine in linux or just putting
xp on there, straight up. if my primary interest right now is security,
though, then there are problems with both approaches.
i
want to struggle through the rest of the rebuild for jan/2014, first,
and i may find myself spending large amounts of time offline as i do it.
but, i'm going to have to sit and figure this out, once that's done.
this isn't sustainable...
Sunday, January 19, 2020
this is not intended to be a new site, it's just intended to be a
placeholder to ensure that people searching for me can actually find me.
fwiw, if you search on youtube, my site comes up first, and there's some various videos at my blog site explaining the process i went through to dismantle the site:
that said, i'm going to set up a placeholder just so people aren't confused and don't think the other site is me. i mean, it should be obvious that it isn't me. those are things i wouldn't like. that's not a picture of me. i don't kiss people, gross. etc. but not everybody that is looking for me is going to have read everything i've written...
again: i don't know what the purpose of this is.
but, i feel i have little choice.
i ate too much....
too much is 40 blueberries, 10 strawberries, 2 kiwis, 2 bananas, 2 scoops of ice cream, 2 glasses of soy milk, most of a litre of apple juice, and most of a plate of breakfast that consisted of 4 eggs on 2 slices of toasted pumpernickel, 8 slices of marble cheese and four slices of genoa salami, that i buy in bulk like a christmas ham.
i hadn't had a meal since friday morning, and this one was actually by accident - i wasn't supposed to eat again until tuesday night. now, it's put off until thursday night...
i'll have some fruit, daily, in between.
i can report that the machine's back up, but it'll be a while before i'm back online.
i went to upload some pdfs to noise trade and realized that i forgot to take screen shots on the windows 7 box. i don't know how to do that on the chromebook, or if i even can. that's fine, i'll do it in a bit and upload from here when it's done.
for right now, i want to keep the other machine up so i'm going to avoid connecting with it for a bit. yeah. well, this is what they get - they've got me logged into a guest account on a chromebook. try tracing or corrupting that.
first, i want to understand what this form 68 is all about; it's time to do that, now. i can do that from here. then, i'll make sure i get the noise trade stuff uploaded, and might upload the bandcamp stuff, too. then i can get to the deferral, which i'm going to want to email to the human rights tribunal by the end of the day tomorrow...
i can always email that from here, btw.
and, i now have email forwarding, as well.
so, i'd rather send from my dtk account. but, knocking out my windows 7 laptop won't stop me from being able to send email. that's how i'm posting to this blog, actually...
on second thought, that was one reboot too many.
i'm
guessing that they got some kind of script in there, and that it took a
few tries to undo it. so, we're jumping right to the reinstall...
i accidentally broke some eggs, so i need to eat them, and that's fine.
i'll be back on top of things in a few hours.
so, what am i doing?
first, i'm going to eat.
i need to run over a bunch of files on the machine. i can do that before i reimage it. then, i can upload these files on the chromebook. that's fine. i just don't have access to word on this machine...
then, i need to figure out what's going on with the court stuff, which i can do while i'm reimaging.
it's been a slow process of removing windows update components, and one thing that is positive about the last attack is that they weren't able to update the catroot. nor do they appear to have been able to install any drivers. but, i can't have some shady group that i'm only vaguely sure of the existence of gathering data on my computer - i don't consent to that, and would argue that if anybody is caught doing that then they should go to jail for it.
it takes me about two hours to reimage.
we can do it twice a day, if you want, until you fuck off.
i get the feeling that i'd be baffled by the stupidity of what i'm actually dealing with, if i was actually aware of it.
but, what do you want me to tell you?
either somebody's trying to cover up some kind of absurd lie, or that kid needs a serious psychiatrist.
liars always lose, in the end.
while i am unable to vote in the united states, i was a bernie sanders
supporters over 2016 and eventually very weakly endorsed clinton as an
imperceptibly lesser evil - although, had i been able to vote, i would
have almost certainly voted for jill stein.
and, i am the person that posted as deathtokoalas on youtube over 2013-2017 or so.
i was born in ottawa, ontario on january 13th, 1981.
that makes me 39 years old plus a few days.
i have never been to new york, i don't use twitter and i don't play video games.
my pages are on the side of the blog.
it's out of principle, at this point.
even if they're not harming anything on my machine, i did not consent to being spied upon, and will not allow the report to send if i can stop it.
so, what's going on?
i spent all day yesterday updating the files offline, because i know what happens when i go back online. the files are all updated, and i should have something up at noise trade soonish.
and, sure enough, it didn't take long for the machine to crash once i went online to splice the files...
but, i turned off a few specific things, and it seems to be preventing the bluescreen. now, it comes up with some kind of listener over udp, instead, that appears to be trying to send some kind of report back to head office.
it doesn't matter.
so, i will need to reformat that machine before i go back online. it's perhaps an improvement, but it's not safe to connect with it, for right now.
i'm also noticing that, when i went to go search for my blogspot site, the teenager's pages are at the top of the feed. see, this is kind of getting the point across - somebody wants the world to think that deathtokoalas is from new york, instead of from canada, despite the fact that the poster was obviously canadian, because they pointed it out every other day. anybody that actually read my posts knows i'm from canada. it's just absurd to suggest i'm from new york.
i don't know what the end goal is here, but there is no endpoint but failure, and i should have my blogs from december up within a few hours.
and, yes - i'll have to reformat the other machine before i go back online. and, did you lose your report? awww.
Saturday, January 18, 2020
ok.
so, i snuck the updates in first. i need to cross-reference before i can
publish, but, tentatively, and as stated, this is a much smaller
document. it's a shame about the cyberstalking, because i could have
been done by the end of the year.
i will need to publish liner notes for inricycled, inri, inriched,
inrimixed and inrijected. inrimake & inridiculous are coming, soon,
as well as the first deny everything releases.
if i can stay up, it will be done in a few hours.
Friday, January 10, 2020
i got slowed down a little this week with technical problems but should be back on track in a day or two.
...but i want to make a point clear. it should already be clear...
...but
if i don't go to your shows, or review your records, or otherwise
acknowledge your existence, chances are pretty high that the reason is
that i think you suck. and, there's a lot of bad music in detroit,
controlled by a lot of filters with very bad taste.
so, i mean, if i'm not "supporting your scene", it's not some kind of accident. it's because i don't like it. and, i don't care how cool you think you are, either.
broadly
speaking, art should not and cannot be thought of as a transactional
process. this idea of "supporting the scene" is exactly why there's so
much garbage out there - people get shows because they did somebody a
favour, and are consequently expected to buy into a system before they
can get something out of it. it's pay to play. and, it's bullshit, and i
won't have anything to do with it.
i understand that i
need to meet people and network, that i can't just create the greatest
thing ever and expect it to magically sell, that i have to find some way
to market it. i understand that i live in a capitalist reality, whether
i like it or not.
but, i'm not remotely interested in
any sort of "scene" that rewards loyalty over talent. that scene is
going to suck, and it won't take long before it's full of dumbass macho
bros sitting around by themselves wondering why nobody shows up.
i
need you to evaluate my art on it's merit and i want to be a part of a
scene that values my talent, not one that rewards me for seniority and
for showing up.
there's reasons i'm at the age i'm at
and have kept an arms-length distance from every scene i've ever been
near. after a while, i basically hate virtually everybody, and the
feeling is often fairly mutual.
but, i need it to be about the value of the art, or i don't want to show up at all.
Sunday, January 5, 2020
as mentioned a few times already, the process i've been carrying through with for the last couple of years is coming to an end, as a consequence of extending the alter-reality back a previous ten years.
this process has been slowed down, this year, it is true. but, i've tried to state, repeatedly, that i am carrying through with a process. the liner notes i've been producing are not any less important than the music, they are a part of a holistic whole, in terms of completing a historical document.
my artistic focus has always been historical. i've never been interested in creating music that is specifically current, or aligned with prevailing fashion ideas. i want my music to be enjoyed by future generations, and i am fully cognizant of the reality that most of my audience has not been born yet.
well, maybe some of them have been born now. it's 2020. time to start implementing some hindsight, right?
i'm most of the way through december, 2013. i want to finish january, 2014 before i move on.
but, i will be moving to period three, soon.
as my focus is historical, making new music for the purposes of fitting into a fashion scene does not make sense, in the context of my artistic vision. the reality is that i have several records that i need to complete before i can consider moving forwards, and the more i'm slowed down, the longer it will take.
so, i say i'm not interested in new music.
at this rate, i won't be done my old stuff until i'm 50. and, i might not live much longer...
this was
my grade 12 final project in electronic music design. the assignment was
something along the lines of creating a piece of music with a social
message.
the message is part dystopian, but focuses more on the idea of
identifying certain threats that would become a problem in the upcoming
century. remember that this was the middle of 1999. how close was i?
1) intro
2) war
3) noise pollution, or pollution in general
4) conformity (or the collapse of individualism)*
5) chemical warfare
6) global warming
7) outro
* i was thinking in terms of personality/uniqueness, rather than
something political. and i think the extreme conformity underlying gen y
social attitudes have played this out frighteningly well, actually.
it's a reaction to the radical mindset of anti-conformity that dominated
gen x, but it's still a very real thing that will have very real
ramifications in the upcoming decades. if you thought the 50s were creepy, wait until you see what these kids grow up into!
i should have included something about inequality. i also removed a
vegan track, partly due to time restraints. besides that, i think i got
all of the broad ideas right.
the piece is made to be played in an indefinitely repeated loop.
most of the tracks are slightly remixed/resequenced versions of tracks
from inri or inriched. track 5 is brand new, and recorded on the
school's synthesizer (part of the project requirements).
recorded over 1997-1999. constructed in this form in june, 1999.
published on november 30, 2013. re-released (with new hidden track) and
finalized as symph003 on sept 13, 2017. first liner note release added
on dec 26, 2019. this is my third symphony; as always, please use
headphones.
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also
eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all
phases of production (1999, 2013-2019). as of dec 26, 2019, the release
includes a 15 page booklet in doc, pdf & html, with an html5 audio
frontend, that includes journal entries from the remastering process
over nov, 2013.
credits
released June 20, 1999
j - synthesizers, sequencers, effects, guitar, bass,
piano, drum programming, noise generators, metronome, a broken tape
deck, sampling, loops, cool edit synthesis, windows 95 sound recorder,
sound design, digital wave editing, production
i can't
date this exactly. i know it was the first half of the second semester
of grade 12, which was spring of 1999. further, i'm taking it forward to
about midway because the first part of the course was about
voice-leading and i spent it orchestrating the beatles' something. i
don't have any files.
i was lucky: i went to a high school with a big music department. not an
arts school, mind you. just a school that had enough funding to run a
wide array of course options that are outside the basic core topics.
there were three main assignments in the course, and while i don't
remember the exact assignment questions, i do have two pieces to show
for it.
this, here, is a conceptual piece about pop music. all of the sounds are
created from pop cans. yes, puns are fun. the samples run from pouring
water out of pop cans into the sink, to crushing and smashing pop cans,
to opening them, to exploding them, etc.
i used the tab of a pop can as a pick as i played the ambient guitar
parts. it's all thrown together, processed, warped and perfected in a
wave editor.
constructed over a few days in april, 1999. ripped back to wav format from cd-r in late 2013. released as a one track
single on nov 21, 2013. release finalized on sept 12, 2017. first liner
note release added on dec 26, 2019. as always, please use headphones.
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also
eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all
phases of production (1999, 2013-2019). as of dec 26, 2019, the release
includes a 5 page booklet in doc, pdf & html, with an html5 audio
frontend, that includes journal entries from the remastering process
over nov, 2013.
credits
released April 15, 1999
j - guitars, effects, samples, loops, digital wave editing
somebody
asked me to do this for them for a school project in the second half of
grade 12, which was early 1999. we're both italian. silly joke, no
offense intended.
i never saw the final version, but the guy described it to me. it was an
anti drinking and driving ad (think madd) for a marketing class. they
sequenced it up with shots of one of them stumbling towards a car,
getting in and driving off. very clownish, apparently.
i didn't spend a lot of time on this, so i didn't charge them for it or
anything. i think i was more hoping that it would float around a little,
but if it did i'm not aware of it.
streamed to disk in one take on the afternoon of march 9, 1999. ripped
back to wav format from cd-r in late 2013. released as a one track
single on nov 21, 2013. release finalized on sept 12, 2017. first liner
note released added on dec 25, 2019. as always, please use headphones.
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal
entries from all phases of production (1999, 2013-2019). as of dec 25,
2019, the release includes a 4 page booklet in doc, pdf & html, with
an html5 audio frontend, that includes journal entries from the
remastering process over nov, 2013.
credits
released March 9, 1999
j - hammerhead (909 emulator), digital wave editing
this is something i did between inri demos. i needed a break from structured writing. just wanted to make some noise...
i suppose this is the biggest sample collage of them all, but it's best
not to take it too seriously. the idea here eventually morphed into a
project called "fuel true anarchy in the americas" (inri068), a play on
the ftaa trade agreement, which itself got toned down in scope.
there's everything from science docs to hitler in here. it's meant to be
a passive trip through real and imaginary time that is experienced with
the aid of psychedelic drugs, rather than any kind of political
statement. it's quite consciously absurd, often juxtaposing ironic
statements with their contradictions.
the core of the ambience was produced by a program called sound raider. i
then took the sound it created and shaped it by adding in vocal
samples, looping certain parts, running things through effects,
sequencing the noise into a more melodic shape, etc. it's consequently a
sort of a collaboration between myself and the machine, rather than the
work of the machine itself.
no sane person could really listen to this passively. you basically *need* drugs to get anything out of this at all.
...and i think i'm probably the only person that ever experienced it properly. hey, it's never too late...
created in the summer of 1998. released as a standalone ep on nov 16,
2013. audio permanently closed on oct 12, 2016. release finalized on oct
27, 2016. first liner not release added on dec 25, 2019. as always,
please use headphones.
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also
eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all
phases of production (1998, 2013, 2016). as of dec 25, 2019, the release
includes a 5 page booklet in doc, pdf & html, with an html5 audio
frontend, that includes journal entries from the remastering process
over nov, 2013.
credits
released July 1, 1998
j - sound raider, sampling, cool edit synthesis/sequencing, digital effects processing, digital wave editing, flute
gauntk9 - anti-social quip
i spent
the summer and fall of 1997 programming drum tracks into an ry30,
notating them into a tablature program and sequencing them using
noteworthy composer. i did not know how i was going to record these
tracks. i think i was expecting to use the computer, but that was
probably naive; instead, i was gifted a 4-track recording machine. i
then spent the next year and a half rearranging and rerecording the
songs i programmed over that period. as these tracks were recorded into
my pc, they are time stamped...so i have a much clearer understanding of
when they were finished.
the jump to incorporating computers into the recording process is
something i always wanted to do, it's just that it wasn't really
previously feasible. first, there was a learning curve. i was a smart
kid, though; the learning curve was just a time concern. the larger
problem was simply access to a pc. i did have a pc at my disposal, but
it did not have a modem and it was only equipped to run windows 3.1,
which basically meant i could run civ 2 and wolfenstein and little else.
the windows 95 computer had dial up but it was in a central location
for family use.
when we moved across the city, my dad bought a new computer and i happily inherited his old one. this gave me internet access, which allowed me to download some freeware. it also gave me the time i needed to learn how to do certain things.
i'm separating out a handful of my first electronic sound experiments
and collecting them together into an ep. what these blasts of noise have
in common is that they were constructed on a windows 95 computer out of
samples or generated sound and with very primitive software while i was
waiting to get some kind of recording equipment. most of it was pasted
together meticulously using the windows 95 sound recorder; the rest of
it was constructed in cool edit, which i used as a sort of a
synthesizer.
for the most part, these weren't really ever meant to be songs. i ended
up using them as connectors, introductions, background. "continuity".
yet, i find the idea of throwing them together here to be interesting
from an autobiographical perspective.
created in mid 1997. sequenced and converted to stereo in november,
2013. released on nov 9, 2013. corrected in september, 2014. finalized
on july 5, 2016. first liner note released added on dec 23, 2019. as
always, please use headphones.
this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also
eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all
phases of production (1997, 2013, 2016). as of dec 23, 2019, the release
includes an 8 page booklet in doc, pdf & html, with an html5 audio
frontend, that includes journal entries from the remastering process
over nov, 2013.
credits
released December 1, 1997
j - cool edit (wave synthesis, digital wave
editing), windows 95 sound recorder (sampling, digital wave editing),
yamaha ry30 drum machine (programming)
my second
demo, recorded over the second half of the tenth grade, is a
considerably more polished recording. by this time, i had learned a lot
about how to record things and had improved my drumming and keyboard
playing. while the vocals remain highly erratic, ranging from
precociously insightful to devastatingly stupid, the music here is
actually not far from a professional recording.
recorded in spring 1997, remastered in fall 2013. finalized on july 3,
2016. first liner note release added on dec 23, 2019. as always, please
use headphones.
i consider this an archival release with little direct listening value.
i've pointed out repeatedly that i was 16. however, various segments
have been isolated and pulled out for a higher listenability value over
here:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inricycled-a
this release also includes a printable j-card insert and will also
eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all
phases of production (1997, 2013-2019). as of dec 23, 2019, the release
includes a 35 page booklet in doc, pdf & html, with an html5 audio
frontend, that includes journal entries from the remastering process
over nov, 2013.
credits
released June 1, 1997
j - guitars, effects, bass, drums, keyboards, tapes, vocals, found sounds, metronomes, production
i'm running into some chronological contradictions.
one
of the last things i did before i stopped for legal stuff was add the
inri000 liner notes to the october music journal download. i've now
added some posts from nov, 2013 to that liner note package, which also
has notes from sept, 2013 and will eventually have notes from various
periods between 1996-2026. so, what do i do now?
i was
initially considering leaving half finished versions strewn across the
downloads, but that doesn't make sense and will end up messy - that's a
bad idea. the other approach would be to update everything as it comes
up, so that this liner note package would appear everywhere it
intersects with, but that strikes me as overkill and difficult to
maintain.
rather. i think i've demonstrated to myself
that these are different ideas. the music journal is just that; the
liner notes are a subset of the broader journal, and need to exist in
their proper context.
therefore,
1) i am going to remove the inri000 liner notes from the october, 2013 music journal download, and i will not be uploading the liner notes to further journal entries.
2)
i will need to update the liner notes for each relevant release at the
end of each subsequent month, which could be messy, but is necessary.
so,
i'll need to update the language for october first, and then for
november, and then reupload the new notes for inri000, before i get to
inri001.
Sunday, December 22, 2019
i finally have the template for the html5 frontend done, and have uploaded it to the bandcamp site. this is not a formal rerelease, but an addition to the previous rerelease. the formal rereleases moving forward will include the html5 frontends by default.
there is an instructions file, but you basically just unzip and load the index into your browser.
this is overdue, but there should be some more releases up over the next few days.
when i woke up on sunday night around 22:00-ish, i immediately realized that there was something wrong, but i'd been reacting negatively to the salami at that point for a while and had decided to switch brands when i ran out - i realized i was a little hungover, maybe partly from the pot, but i actually thought it was mostly food poisoning. so, yes, i was sweaty and clammy from the time i woke up on sunday night, but i didn't think much of it at first and assumed i'd be fine by tuesday.
sunday night was spent burning electronic copies of the court material and generally getting everything in order. i was planning on printing on monday morning at the library, with the hopes of taking advantage of the cheaper rates there, and i was in the end able to print my 300 pages for $0.07/each, cutting printing costs down rather dramatically. it was when i was walking into the library in a dirty sweat that i first started to realize i was actually sick.
it was actually relatively warm on monday night, though, so it was a pleasant walk back and forth from the library, which i'd never been in before. i just haven't really had any reason to go to this campus. but, now that i know that the printing costs are so much less...
i forced myself to sleep for a few hours in the evening when i got back, so that i'd be ready to go in the morning. it didn't really "take", but i nonetheless ended up at the bus stop for a little before 8:00 with my mass of papers, a laptop and some more appropriate winter clothing. i napped for a bit from guelph to mississaugua, but was otherwise alert for the whole way, and i'm starting to get a better concept of the distance, and the landmarks that occur in between, along with their ordering. i'm used to coming into toronto from the other direction, remember, having grown up in ottawa. the bus was a little bit late, but it wasn't bad; i was there around 1:30, which gave me plenty of time to get to the courthouse to file.
were there some problems? well, i seem to have missed s. 4 of the rules of civil procedure, altogether. s. 4 has rules for presentation - things like book binding, regulations on font size, etc. i just didn't even see it, or see it mentioned anywhere by anybody. so, they wouldn't initially take it - i had to argue with them to accept it via a deficiency, and if the court decides to reject it on the basis that the font is too small, given that i gave them a digital copy, i'm willing to appeal that to the next court up, on principle. i saved hundreds of pieces of paper by filing it the way that i did. i'll defend that decision to whatever court i need to; bring it on.
besides these trivialities regarding the presentation of the documents, it was otherwise fine, and they did otherwise accept the perfection of the case. i will now need to wait for the oiprd to file their own documents in the same court, and send me the links. they've given me a time frame of before the 20th. i'm expecting them to miss this, but i won't start getting pissy until after christmas...
and, then it was something like 15:30 and i had some time to blow before the bus came to take me home at 1:00 in the morning. i was hungry, and it was bmt day at subway, so i had to stop to eat. i then went directly across the street to get some pot, and came out with two grams of 10% thc for under $20.
the bottom line is that i don't smoke a lot of drugs. so, if i found the brand that i bought last month, which was closer to 20% concentration, to be a little heavy, then the next step is to try something a little lighter. i found that the 10% was more along the lines of what i wanted, even if it was itself a tad light. so, we're getting closer. you don't have these discussions with friends or acquaintances, you just use adjectives like "good" and "potent", so quantifying it is going to take some experimenting, and that's alright. like, i didn't walk into the beer store at 18 and know what i could and couldn't handle, it took me some time to figure it out. likewise, i could be at this for a few tries before i get it right.
but, the 10% was about right for the night, even if it faded on me a little too fast when i got home. so, next time, i might try something closer to 15%. i'll have this down to a regular order, eventually.
i got out of the store and basically walked into the first bar to roll, when i inquired about the price of beer on the way out. $5 for a tall can? well, that's not too bad, and it seemed like there was cheap food there, too. i've never spent much time in toronto, and it will take me some time to get to know it. i had a few hours to blow, as it was, so i sat and had a few tall cans, before moving on to the show.
the initial thought process behind going down on this night was that the tickets were cheapest and i'd get to see the joy formidable. but, the joy formidable turned out to be a pricey show. i know they're coming in from wales and everything, but they just priced themselves out of my range. you were looking at $40 after services fees; i'll rarely pay more than $20, and decided against it on this night.
instead, i hit a local experimental jazz show at a kind of community centre on burnswick nearly all the way to bloor. i actually hope i don't end up spending too much time in toronto, but this is maybe the kind of thing i'd be more likely to sneak into, on a random night. these were local musicians, playing their own work in an old bar, for what seemed like a mostly local if largely bourgeois crowd. it was pay what you can, and the beer was reasonably priced. let's hope i can get to more spots like this...
the main act called itself tyrannick love this week but was mostly improv and played two sets. it was anchored by the juxtaposition of a busier sax player with a more ambient, experimental guitarist that had a lot of floor pedals and wasn't afraid to use them. maybe it's because i was in toronto, but it had a distinct dmst feel at points that was pretty real; overall, though, the major aesthetic was a swirling, effects driven ambience that sidelined both the sax and drum players for long periods, as the bassist went motorik over some feedback and loops. it was an enjoyable cave for the space i was in, absolutely.
i can't find a video of this exact lineup, but the guitarist & sax
player appear to have a lot of material online under a lot of different
names, one of them being patrick reilly's wire circus, which is not entirely dissimilar to what i saw:
the third set was purposefully experimental to the point of being kind of a spectacle, and i consequently found myself more trying to figure out the physics behind what he was doing than actually listening to it. he seems to have essentially created a number of homemade speakers and more or less broken them in real time, although he surprised me in some of his answers when i questioned him - claiming, for example, that his chattering magnets were being driven by instructions on an sd card, like a chiptune piece, rather than being driven by the radio, which i thought was obvious. i actually initially thought he was setting up a theremin.
it was a sound installation, a demonstration, an experiment, rather than the presentation of any kind of actual composition. i'd consequently rather direct you directly to his page, which is here: https://www.youtube.com/user/CMigone/videos
but, here is a video of something to separate the section:
there was a fourth set by what i believe to have been a local interpretive dance artist named "alicia grant", but details are scant, and the name appears to be in use by several (diverse) artists in the general area. i was actually rolling a joint through much of her set. so, she spent some time writhing on the ground, and repeating distressed statements into the microphone. listen: i grasp that specific subsets of arts students get off on the expression and rawness of something like this, but i largely found it sort of pointless. my tendency is to interpret something like this from a pretty far intellectual distance, and kind of shudder at the situation, but otherwise kind of emotionally avoid it. i just don't see the point in it, other than to point at the spectacle, and i'm actually too polite to even do that.
so, there's no link.
in all, i was there around 19:00 and gone around 00:00, with the necessity to catch the bus at 1:00, and that worked out just fine, in the end. if i get the opportunity to see something specific in toronto that i can't catch here the next time i go down, i'm sure i'll jump at the opportunity to see it. if not, i think i'd be just as happy or happier to check out the local scene, actually. so, that's the broader takeaway - i should be happy to catch a local jazz or psych show, and actually spend some time being in toronto rather than get obsessed with finding something from out of town; the local talent there is worth checking out, too.
i fell asleep almost as soon as i got on the bus and slept pretty much all the way back to windsor, but also first noticed myself seriously wheezing on the ride back in and thinking i was reacting to the exhaust - and maybe i was, or maybe it was as much about the dry air from the heaters on the bus as it was anything else. i was hacking though, and it's more or less still going.
the walk back home was cold in a really legitimate sense, too, requiring a serious bundle up. it's frustrating when you happen to have no choice but to go out in the one or two cold days of the year, but that's how it's unfortunately worked itself out, so far, hopefully, i should be able to avoid the cold for most of the rest of the year by just staying inside. we'll see....
i got some nachos on the way back, was done eating them by around 7:00, and in the end slept most of the day.
