so, i've concluded that what i'm doing with this is mildly insane. and a waste of time.
i will have an arrangement decided upon by the end of the day, one way or another.
i'm about half done...
it just kind of became clear that trying to put a total order on this is stupid. i want one. so, i cleared out many that were obviously not serious candidates and am now down to about 30.
this isn't the last thing to do with this track, but it's almost the last thing to do. once it's done, the mix should be up within an hour or two.
and then i'll have to make decisions about what i want to pull into the final remaster, which i don't think is going to be anything - maybe just a few effects. i'm not even sure if it's the same timing. i *think* it is, though. i *think* i synced it all those years ago...
Friday, December 19, 2014
deathtokoalas
the title of john maus' new thesis has been leaked:
"On Projecting Pseudo-Intellectuality Through Performing Bad Retro for Stoned Teenagers."
RedPill Swallowed
Jealous.
deathtokoalas
naw. even in my late 90s synth-pop phase, i never had any aspirations towards this. and while my background is in math, and math is kind of like philosophy, my epistemology has always been empirically driven. i'm just dismissive.
RedPill Swallowed
I'm not even going to pretend that I don't need to google some of those words, lol....I'll just agree. Have a nice day. :)
deathtokoalas
it's not that rough. if you ignore silly people like kant, like you should, and like maus doesn't, mathematics and philosophy share an approach to understanding knowledge, which is based in deducing things from assumptions with logic. this is somewhat - albeit not entirely - contradictory to a scientific worldview, which attempts to understand knowledge through experiment.
it gets confusing when you acknowledge that there are quasi-empirical branches of mathematics (like constructivism). but that can kind of be glossed over for the purposes of getting to my point.
....which is that i don't really have time for speculative branches of philosophy. well, i guess it's fun to read sometimes. and you have to define questions before you can test them. but there's not much room for jealousy, there, as a result of that.
accidentalprotégé
I don't agree with everything that comes out of John Maus' mouth but what makes his music "Bad Retro?" As someone who dislikes socialized medicine I still think Rights For Gays is a banger.
deathtokoalas
i'm a fan of the period he's drawing on, but i just don't hear anything except watered down emulation.
Me Ear
Do ya get out much? Me neither. I'm a fat, damaged idiot tho. And your aspirations to truth are fine if it gets you thru shit. Really. I'm not being sarcastic. Even your aspirations to a superiority over others are harmless here in youtube comment sections. Bluntly tho, you don't know shit. Humanity is a tribe of monkeys that fell out of a tree one unfortunate day. And there's good folks and cunts. That's it. But what do I know? lol. Best wishes.
deathtokoalas
yeah. i'm post-godel. i get that. that doesn't have much to do with what i was saying, though. if anything, it's an argument in favour of empiricism.
Me Ear
Well, thanks for replying. 1 or 2 folks were nasty to you on here. I can be nasty too, very. Godel? Not heard of him, if it's a dude. It's in humans to value truth, yes. But there isn't any. And what you believe? It's not important. I'm exaggerating somewhat, yes.
Religion, philosophy, science, can have a place, yes. But anyway, one guy, or girl, sees a cat with 3 legs, kicks it across the road. Another guy or girl feeds it. All the rest is theory, in my view. And, no, I wouldn't kick the cat, on my worst possible day.
deathtokoalas
godel was an early 20th century mathematician that produced a series of important proofs. he's been described as the most important logician since aristotle. and, in some sense he defined a type of thinking that is necessarily post-aristotlian.
i have to oversimplify dramatically. but, he demonstrated that we have a choice between completeness and consistency. what that means is that there are necessarily true statements that can never be proven true - and that we can in fact prove can never be proven, despite being true.
that has a lot of implications to the axiom-deduction approach to epistemology. it throws kant out the window, to begin with. his whole concept of synthetic a priori knowledge being superior is rendered ridiculous.
again: i don't really see any point where you're disagreeing with me. you're just displaying that you didn't really understand what i typed.
Me Ear
I drink, listen to music and type shit for something to do, which I don't usually remember because I'm mentally disordered, damaged and drunk.
A serious (not sarcastic) question - why post clever stuff on youtube? And, again seriously, where can doing so lead to?
(There's clever folks on youtube, yes, but most of them seem to end up wanting to die fairly soon after they've posted on the toob amongst folk like me, don't they?)
deathtokoalas
see, here's the thing: maybe people reading my ranting might click on my name and check out my channel, and then go to my bandcamp site. the more places i leave links, the higher the possibility.
it's a benevolent type of spam/marketing, in the sense that people get something out of it. and, i don't get deleted or marked as spam, either.
Me Ear
I'll look at your channel then. I used to rant til I got a troll. Who had a channel. lol. I looked at it eventually, worst music ever. lol again. You know what tho? Your enemy is your helper too. I imagine you're smart enough to have heard of the concept. Except young kids are killing themselves coz of trolls now.. There was a case of somebody in this country who trolled somebody on 6000 websites. Those 2 should've got married, they had very similar interests.lol. Peace. xxx
the title of john maus' new thesis has been leaked:
"On Projecting Pseudo-Intellectuality Through Performing Bad Retro for Stoned Teenagers."
RedPill Swallowed
Jealous.
deathtokoalas
naw. even in my late 90s synth-pop phase, i never had any aspirations towards this. and while my background is in math, and math is kind of like philosophy, my epistemology has always been empirically driven. i'm just dismissive.
RedPill Swallowed
I'm not even going to pretend that I don't need to google some of those words, lol....I'll just agree. Have a nice day. :)
deathtokoalas
it's not that rough. if you ignore silly people like kant, like you should, and like maus doesn't, mathematics and philosophy share an approach to understanding knowledge, which is based in deducing things from assumptions with logic. this is somewhat - albeit not entirely - contradictory to a scientific worldview, which attempts to understand knowledge through experiment.
it gets confusing when you acknowledge that there are quasi-empirical branches of mathematics (like constructivism). but that can kind of be glossed over for the purposes of getting to my point.
....which is that i don't really have time for speculative branches of philosophy. well, i guess it's fun to read sometimes. and you have to define questions before you can test them. but there's not much room for jealousy, there, as a result of that.
accidentalprotégé
I don't agree with everything that comes out of John Maus' mouth but what makes his music "Bad Retro?" As someone who dislikes socialized medicine I still think Rights For Gays is a banger.
deathtokoalas
i'm a fan of the period he's drawing on, but i just don't hear anything except watered down emulation.
Me Ear
Do ya get out much? Me neither. I'm a fat, damaged idiot tho. And your aspirations to truth are fine if it gets you thru shit. Really. I'm not being sarcastic. Even your aspirations to a superiority over others are harmless here in youtube comment sections. Bluntly tho, you don't know shit. Humanity is a tribe of monkeys that fell out of a tree one unfortunate day. And there's good folks and cunts. That's it. But what do I know? lol. Best wishes.
deathtokoalas
yeah. i'm post-godel. i get that. that doesn't have much to do with what i was saying, though. if anything, it's an argument in favour of empiricism.
Me Ear
Well, thanks for replying. 1 or 2 folks were nasty to you on here. I can be nasty too, very. Godel? Not heard of him, if it's a dude. It's in humans to value truth, yes. But there isn't any. And what you believe? It's not important. I'm exaggerating somewhat, yes.
Religion, philosophy, science, can have a place, yes. But anyway, one guy, or girl, sees a cat with 3 legs, kicks it across the road. Another guy or girl feeds it. All the rest is theory, in my view. And, no, I wouldn't kick the cat, on my worst possible day.
deathtokoalas
godel was an early 20th century mathematician that produced a series of important proofs. he's been described as the most important logician since aristotle. and, in some sense he defined a type of thinking that is necessarily post-aristotlian.
i have to oversimplify dramatically. but, he demonstrated that we have a choice between completeness and consistency. what that means is that there are necessarily true statements that can never be proven true - and that we can in fact prove can never be proven, despite being true.
that has a lot of implications to the axiom-deduction approach to epistemology. it throws kant out the window, to begin with. his whole concept of synthetic a priori knowledge being superior is rendered ridiculous.
again: i don't really see any point where you're disagreeing with me. you're just displaying that you didn't really understand what i typed.
Me Ear
I drink, listen to music and type shit for something to do, which I don't usually remember because I'm mentally disordered, damaged and drunk.
A serious (not sarcastic) question - why post clever stuff on youtube? And, again seriously, where can doing so lead to?
(There's clever folks on youtube, yes, but most of them seem to end up wanting to die fairly soon after they've posted on the toob amongst folk like me, don't they?)
deathtokoalas
see, here's the thing: maybe people reading my ranting might click on my name and check out my channel, and then go to my bandcamp site. the more places i leave links, the higher the possibility.
it's a benevolent type of spam/marketing, in the sense that people get something out of it. and, i don't get deleted or marked as spam, either.
Me Ear
I'll look at your channel then. I used to rant til I got a troll. Who had a channel. lol. I looked at it eventually, worst music ever. lol again. You know what tho? Your enemy is your helper too. I imagine you're smart enough to have heard of the concept. Except young kids are killing themselves coz of trolls now.. There was a case of somebody in this country who trolled somebody on 6000 websites. Those 2 should've got married, they had very similar interests.lol. Peace. xxx
Thursday, December 18, 2014
i'm making a little progress, but i didn't realize how similar so much of this is...
there's really three parts, with the third doubled and split l/r, but the drum is panned hard to the right so the effect is not commutative. the sound dominating in the headphones is on the left channel, with the right channel adding subtle levels of colour.
the first has some reverb and a little delay, the second is a heavy chorus and the third/fourth are a kind of heavier shadow delay, in that they have almost no dry signal. but the colouring is dramatic.
so, what i'm noticing is that each combination, if held static otherwise, is only minimally different on the right channel. which might seem like it would reduce possibilities - but not all the way down to 27 - but in fact actually requires very carefully listening to isolate the differences.
but i am making progress. splitting the set into three really helped a lot.
there's really three parts, with the third doubled and split l/r, but the drum is panned hard to the right so the effect is not commutative. the sound dominating in the headphones is on the left channel, with the right channel adding subtle levels of colour.
the first has some reverb and a little delay, the second is a heavy chorus and the third/fourth are a kind of heavier shadow delay, in that they have almost no dry signal. but the colouring is dramatic.
so, what i'm noticing is that each combination, if held static otherwise, is only minimally different on the right channel. which might seem like it would reduce possibilities - but not all the way down to 27 - but in fact actually requires very carefully listening to isolate the differences.
but i am making progress. splitting the set into three really helped a lot.
this round robin thing isn't working; i'm not comparing apples and apples. rather, i'm going to have to break it down into sets: some renders are "bright", others are "dark" and still others sound very compressed, almost "tinny". comparing them against each other isn't producing a total order. once i can break it into sets, i can compare apples and apples and then figure out which one i prefer as a base sound.
i can't isolate it as a single factor, either. that's why i couldn't get it right. if i take the model down on one and up on the other it will have a similar effect as if i do the opposite thing....
i can't isolate it as a single factor, either. that's why i couldn't get it right. if i take the model down on one and up on the other it will have a similar effect as if i do the opposite thing....
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
ok, i got the things done i wanted done this morning, meaning i now have a straight week with nothing else on my mind. i just need to get something to eat....
i need to point out that this page is going to change soon. i'm going to be moving the "journal" component off, restricting this to a strict musical timeline that is basically going to be little more than the rss feed from bandcamp...
i think it's probably beneficial. i mean, i'm keeping a journal because *i* want to keep a journal. you may be more interested in just knowing when the music comes up. which is what the rss feed is for. but it's also what a lot of people do with their facebook pages, and what i'm defaulting to.
that being said, i will post the link to the journal when i set it up.
it'll either be at tumblr or blogspot, depending on which gives me more of the options i want to integrate into my appspot site, which is where everything is moving.
there's just a lot of things about facebook i don't like. the spying is kind of a minor inconvenience. i'm more irritated by the lack of control.
it'll be a while, because i'm transferring my main profile first, but it's coming.
actually, i'm feeling a little tired right now from a lot of walking and just want to kind of curl up. i'll be back at this when i wake up.
i need to point out that this page is going to change soon. i'm going to be moving the "journal" component off, restricting this to a strict musical timeline that is basically going to be little more than the rss feed from bandcamp...
i think it's probably beneficial. i mean, i'm keeping a journal because *i* want to keep a journal. you may be more interested in just knowing when the music comes up. which is what the rss feed is for. but it's also what a lot of people do with their facebook pages, and what i'm defaulting to.
that being said, i will post the link to the journal when i set it up.
it'll either be at tumblr or blogspot, depending on which gives me more of the options i want to integrate into my appspot site, which is where everything is moving.
there's just a lot of things about facebook i don't like. the spying is kind of a minor inconvenience. i'm more irritated by the lack of control.
it'll be a while, because i'm transferring my main profile first, but it's coming.
actually, i'm feeling a little tired right now from a lot of walking and just want to kind of curl up. i'll be back at this when i wake up.
it would be nice to just download all your facebook posts, but you can't actually do that....
rather than sit and copy and paste for a week or longer, i'm going to do a little when i wake up and a little when i go to sleep. i started this process yesterday. i figure it'll be about a month before it's done. maybe longer, though. there's a lot...
when i get that done, i'm going to want to move to a service that i can integrate more cleanly into the appspot site. i don't know what that's going to be, i'll have to play with it. tumblr. blogspot. i want something where i can control the presentation better. i'll post that when i figure it out.
so, i'll still be posting here for a while, until i figure that out. but i've set the process in motion.
a few years ago, i was arguing that rss was dead because facebook had rendered it obsolete. and, for a while, that may have been true. but, the changes facebook has made have managed to take it from being on the cusp of dominance to virtual irrelevance.
it's now a paid advertising service. they cut out posts. the end user has very little control over what appears in the feed. that's not a replacement for rss, it's a replacement for television.
if whatever replaces facebook learns the lesson, it may kill rss. but facebook has managed to shoot themselves in the foot with it. and i'm going back to the old.
if what you want is a customizable feed that gives you what you want to get, you can't get it through facebook....
rather, you get what facebook has taken payment to promote.
i'm not the first out. but as more and more people leave, it will drive more and more people out until it's a ghost town.
the future of this platform is ad servers talking to each other over a barren landscape...
in the end, it's a case study as to what not to do.
in the end, this isn't going to be empty, but i want to ensure that anybody can just scroll through and not miss posts. that's going to restrict it, basically, to record release dates and posts to essays/papers. and i *will* keep updating that here...
but it's going to look more like a c.v. than a blog. the blog is moving out...
rather than sit and copy and paste for a week or longer, i'm going to do a little when i wake up and a little when i go to sleep. i started this process yesterday. i figure it'll be about a month before it's done. maybe longer, though. there's a lot...
when i get that done, i'm going to want to move to a service that i can integrate more cleanly into the appspot site. i don't know what that's going to be, i'll have to play with it. tumblr. blogspot. i want something where i can control the presentation better. i'll post that when i figure it out.
so, i'll still be posting here for a while, until i figure that out. but i've set the process in motion.
a few years ago, i was arguing that rss was dead because facebook had rendered it obsolete. and, for a while, that may have been true. but, the changes facebook has made have managed to take it from being on the cusp of dominance to virtual irrelevance.
it's now a paid advertising service. they cut out posts. the end user has very little control over what appears in the feed. that's not a replacement for rss, it's a replacement for television.
if whatever replaces facebook learns the lesson, it may kill rss. but facebook has managed to shoot themselves in the foot with it. and i'm going back to the old.
if what you want is a customizable feed that gives you what you want to get, you can't get it through facebook....
rather, you get what facebook has taken payment to promote.
i'm not the first out. but as more and more people leave, it will drive more and more people out until it's a ghost town.
the future of this platform is ad servers talking to each other over a barren landscape...
in the end, it's a case study as to what not to do.
in the end, this isn't going to be empty, but i want to ensure that anybody can just scroll through and not miss posts. that's going to restrict it, basically, to record release dates and posts to essays/papers. and i *will* keep updating that here...
but it's going to look more like a c.v. than a blog. the blog is moving out...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
so, there are three parameters to modify in the four simultaneously playing guitar tracks.
3^4 = 81 different possibilities.
i've played the thing back far more than 81 times. if i don't do this systematically, i'll never finish it. i need to ensure that i've heard all possibilities and am picking the best one before i mod it further.
so, i'm dumping all 81 possibilities to wave file...
i'll then have to put together a sort of round robin tournament, where i hold parameters constant and check for the differences in one parameter. the "winner" will move on to the next round. eventually, there will be one file left and that's what i'll go with,
hey, i studied math for quite a while. i can't abolish my nature. it just means it'll take another day...
3^4 = 81 different possibilities.
i've played the thing back far more than 81 times. if i don't do this systematically, i'll never finish it. i need to ensure that i've heard all possibilities and am picking the best one before i mod it further.
so, i'm dumping all 81 possibilities to wave file...
i'll then have to put together a sort of round robin tournament, where i hold parameters constant and check for the differences in one parameter. the "winner" will move on to the next round. eventually, there will be one file left and that's what i'll go with,
hey, i studied math for quite a while. i can't abolish my nature. it just means it'll take another day...
ugh.
i've been through this before, but i keep doing it. i know the reality: trying to recreate a patch you thought was "perfect" from scratch is basically chasing a utopian fantasy. it's not real. it can never be real...
...because, what is "perfect"? it's no doubt better than what actually existed. and, so, for all i know i could have dialed right past what i had in the first place and not realized it, all the while afraid to make too many changes because i might lose the imaginary ideal that i'm projecting, the sound that never existed in the first place.
so, i just need to dial it to something close and then be a little less paranoid about modifying it. it's starting to seem like i'm going to want to add a fifth part on the high end...
i've been through this before, but i keep doing it. i know the reality: trying to recreate a patch you thought was "perfect" from scratch is basically chasing a utopian fantasy. it's not real. it can never be real...
...because, what is "perfect"? it's no doubt better than what actually existed. and, so, for all i know i could have dialed right past what i had in the first place and not realized it, all the while afraid to make too many changes because i might lose the imaginary ideal that i'm projecting, the sound that never existed in the first place.
so, i just need to dial it to something close and then be a little less paranoid about modifying it. it's starting to seem like i'm going to want to add a fifth part on the high end...
Monday, December 15, 2014
yeah. i'm mad at myself. i've got this kind of thurston moore meets allan holdsworth guitar part quadrupled, and it was just what i wanted to hear, but i fucked up the modelling by freezing and unfreezing the tracks. now, i can't get it right...
it's four parts running simultaneously, so it's not tweaking one thing. it's tweaking four things that combine to create one thing.
i may have to sleep on it.
it's four parts running simultaneously, so it's not tweaking one thing. it's tweaking four things that combine to create one thing.
i may have to sleep on it.
so, i got my extension pretty easily. i didn't even have to ask for it. suggesting somebody's reading this....
hey, it's alright. it's evidence in my favour, right?
so, i have until april, now. camh is on the 12th of january. that gives me plenty of time to work something out in a less dramatic fashion and pushes possible appeals forward until july. that's actually enough time that i might get the discography done, at which point plans begin to shift.
i'm hoping i can get at least two more years on odsp, which should hopefully give me enough time to (1) complete the discography and (2) get a good chunk of the reading i want to do before i go back to school done. if i can get five years, it should transition me just about perfectly into a master's program somewhere. possibly in kitchener or london. there's reasons i moved to windsor, but the local place of higher education is not one of them. i stayed at carleton for a really long time because i was tied to the city and it was really a better option than ottawa for the things i was studying (and also because i liked the campus). but i think that going to a lower ranked school actually stifled me a little in terms of dealing with less than brilliant profs and slightly tedious curricula. if i'm going back to school, i'm going to go to a good one.
the flip side of that is that i really, really like where i'm staying. i wouldn't move unless i was pretty serious about it. and i'm projecting that forwards, but it's hard to predict where my head is going to be in 5 years.
and, if i can get permanent, i can basically just work out my ideas without the necessity of having to deal with the education system at all. i think there's something to be said for being the eccentric oddball that escapes peer review by publishing papers to appspot.
but, one thing at a time: i got my extension. so i can relax for the holidays and start scheming in january.
hey, it's alright. it's evidence in my favour, right?
so, i have until april, now. camh is on the 12th of january. that gives me plenty of time to work something out in a less dramatic fashion and pushes possible appeals forward until july. that's actually enough time that i might get the discography done, at which point plans begin to shift.
i'm hoping i can get at least two more years on odsp, which should hopefully give me enough time to (1) complete the discography and (2) get a good chunk of the reading i want to do before i go back to school done. if i can get five years, it should transition me just about perfectly into a master's program somewhere. possibly in kitchener or london. there's reasons i moved to windsor, but the local place of higher education is not one of them. i stayed at carleton for a really long time because i was tied to the city and it was really a better option than ottawa for the things i was studying (and also because i liked the campus). but i think that going to a lower ranked school actually stifled me a little in terms of dealing with less than brilliant profs and slightly tedious curricula. if i'm going back to school, i'm going to go to a good one.
the flip side of that is that i really, really like where i'm staying. i wouldn't move unless i was pretty serious about it. and i'm projecting that forwards, but it's hard to predict where my head is going to be in 5 years.
and, if i can get permanent, i can basically just work out my ideas without the necessity of having to deal with the education system at all. i think there's something to be said for being the eccentric oddball that escapes peer review by publishing papers to appspot.
but, one thing at a time: i got my extension. so i can relax for the holidays and start scheming in january.
i've been playing with levels all night. and there's a
nasty memory leak in my drum plugin causing me to stop and start. it's
probably the last time i'm using it.
i've got a phone call to make at 8:30 and i think this should be done by then. and i think the final mix should be done by the time i leave for camh tomorrow, if i have to leave for camh tomorrow.
i was thinking i'd probably move some of the vst stuff over, but it's not going to be much, if it's anything at all.
i've got a phone call to make at 8:30 and i think this should be done by then. and i think the final mix should be done by the time i leave for camh tomorrow, if i have to leave for camh tomorrow.
i was thinking i'd probably move some of the vst stuff over, but it's not going to be much, if it's anything at all.
i'm seriously considering installing a camera on my screen to keep track of what i'm doing, so i can rewind the thing in case i haphazardly change something and forget what i did.
i mean, telling myself doesn't seem to work. and it's not even feasible, when you really think about it.
i bet the cia'd love that, huh?
i mean, telling myself doesn't seem to work. and it's not even feasible, when you really think about it.
i bet the cia'd love that, huh?
Sunday, December 14, 2014
untitled (pretentious mix)
this is the version that i modified from the
cakewalk output, but i ended up rejecting it because i added some guitar
and synth parts that don't really work well with the track. i do a lot
of improvisational noise, and wanted to integrate that aesthetic, but,
instead, it just comes off sounding a little pretentious.
it wasn't long before i realized my error, but i hadn't saved a version i could go back to so i was sort out of luck. what i ended up doing was cutting the middle part out of the track when i used it for the reflections ep, then just dropped it from the symphony altogether.
nor can this be effectively reconstructed from the source, due to it having multiple paste overs after the cakewalk mixdown that are impossible to locate in the file. the result is something like a little reverb/delay on the track. it's consequently a unique, discarded mix that must simply be left as is.
dated to sept 10, 2002. uploaded, unmodified, on dec 14, 2014.
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-pretentious-mix
it wasn't long before i realized my error, but i hadn't saved a version i could go back to so i was sort out of luck. what i ended up doing was cutting the middle part out of the track when i used it for the reflections ep, then just dropped it from the symphony altogether.
nor can this be effectively reconstructed from the source, due to it having multiple paste overs after the cakewalk mixdown that are impossible to locate in the file. the result is something like a little reverb/delay on the track. it's consequently a unique, discarded mix that must simply be left as is.
dated to sept 10, 2002. uploaded, unmodified, on dec 14, 2014.
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-pretentious-mix
so, i'm skipping the rejected mix. it was rejected for good reasons. there were only four extra parts to it, and they're going to end up fixed up n the final mix, so it would just be superfluous.
that means i'm already stating the vst mix after i eat.
it also means i'll have room to put an early version of the first movement of the fifth symphony on the end of this single, which is good because it's really the right place for it.
parts of the rejected mix will reappear on the seven track version of the reflections single release, because i was distributing it the way. i cut the middle out when i did this. i ended up taking the song out of my fifth symphony, so it won't be on the two track 5/6 disc. rather, the final mix will be on j^2.
but, then you're not getting everything on the single, which is the point.
gah.
ok, i need to get this up, after all. i can't modify it because i put it through a mild delay. but at least it was never compressed.
that means i'm already stating the vst mix after i eat.
it also means i'll have room to put an early version of the first movement of the fifth symphony on the end of this single, which is good because it's really the right place for it.
parts of the rejected mix will reappear on the seven track version of the reflections single release, because i was distributing it the way. i cut the middle out when i did this. i ended up taking the song out of my fifth symphony, so it won't be on the two track 5/6 disc. rather, the final mix will be on j^2.
but, then you're not getting everything on the single, which is the point.
gah.
ok, i need to get this up, after all. i can't modify it because i put it through a mild delay. but at least it was never compressed.
Saturday, December 13, 2014
uploading already completed mixes of untitled to inri061 & inri070
1) this track was initially written as a folk punk song, but i jumped to the scorewriter with it almost immediately. the expanded guitar demo was written in a scorewriter and then performed, rather than vice versa. it was initially less about explicitly creating a techno song and more about ordering the parts in a way that could be deconstructed more effectively.
the taiko drum part was initially just to keep time; it wasn't supposed to be a part of the song. but, as i built it up i began to realize how interesting it sounded as a techno tune and sort of ran with it.
written over the summer of 2002. this render is from dec 13, 2014.
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/untitled
2) i programmed this over late july and early august, 2002. render from december 13, 2014.
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/soundblaster-mix-7
3) when i initially recorded the track in cakewalk (as an experiment with the program) on a windows 98 machine, i ran out of ram after eight tracks and had to go back to my normal wave editor collage-build mixing process to finish it. unfortunately, i didn't really like the edits i made and ended up defaulting to this version for many years. however, it was only saved in mp3...
on aug 11, 2010, i converted the track to 32-bit directly from the mp3 (which i verified in dec, 2014 via phase inversion) and uploaded it to bandcamp, as a part of the never really finished and with now unclear future tetris project ( jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/tetris ). while i don't feel that the sound quality of the track is sufficient to act as a base for a final version, the process of compressing, decompressing and then converting to 32-bit produced something special on the bottom end that i feel is worth keeping for it's own sake.
dated to sept 1, 2002.
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-out-of-ram-mix
the taiko drum part was initially just to keep time; it wasn't supposed to be a part of the song. but, as i built it up i began to realize how interesting it sounded as a techno tune and sort of ran with it.
written over the summer of 2002. this render is from dec 13, 2014.
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/untitled
2) i programmed this over late july and early august, 2002. render from december 13, 2014.
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/soundblaster-mix-7
3) when i initially recorded the track in cakewalk (as an experiment with the program) on a windows 98 machine, i ran out of ram after eight tracks and had to go back to my normal wave editor collage-build mixing process to finish it. unfortunately, i didn't really like the edits i made and ended up defaulting to this version for many years. however, it was only saved in mp3...
on aug 11, 2010, i converted the track to 32-bit directly from the mp3 (which i verified in dec, 2014 via phase inversion) and uploaded it to bandcamp, as a part of the never really finished and with now unclear future tetris project ( jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/tetris ). while i don't feel that the sound quality of the track is sufficient to act as a base for a final version, the process of compressing, decompressing and then converting to 32-bit produced something special on the bottom end that i feel is worth keeping for it's own sake.
dated to sept 1, 2002.
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-out-of-ram-mix
just a note that things are converging towards an early 2015 shut down date for my facebook presence, which i've been planning for quite a while. i'm making that call on monday morning; if i have to stand outside for four hours, it's ok because it will be nice out. if things work out, i will have time to migrate out of facebook when i get to the shift in my discography (i'm calling it the shift from period 2 to period 3) that happened at the beginning of 2003. it's a natural point to stop and review what i've done over the last year. i'm currently in september, 2002. as an aside, my movement through will likely speed up from 2003-2005 because i don't have the pile of unfinished tracks over this period that i had from 2001-2002. 2005-2011, however, has even more unfinished stuff that will require even more work. i mean, the 2001-2002 stuff was mostly written out in scores or in my head, it just had to get it finished. i'd guess that only about half of the 2005-2011 stuff is fully written; the rest of it exists in sort of vague descriptions. for example, i have a concept record tying ideas of simultaneous "crash" (oil crash, economic collapse, aliens crash landing...there's a narrative....) together that is penciled in for 2006 but only consists of a 9 minute opening noise collage and the first few minutes of a score...considering that this may be a double, that's almost a full construction required.
i've been putting migrating off this site off because it's a two week long project and i've been prioritizing getting as much as i can done before i come up against this possibility of losing my income source. if it doesn't work out, i don't want a website to be what i have to show for my last few months. but if i'm confident i have more time, it will become a priority to get off this.
facebook just isn't the right way to get this documented. basically, i actually like the timeline. that's what i'm using, here. but even the timeline is stupid - it cuts out posts when you're floating through. what's the point of that? my life history isn't something to be upvoted or downvoted.
so, i'm going to basically convert the timeline out of this hideous server side php thing to a hardcoded html file and put it up at my appspot site. i'm going to want to find a way to get an rss feed out of it, and dump it to the music site. i'm then going to delete all of the content here and stop posting.
in the mean time, i'm still updating. but that will stop soon one way or another.
i'm realizing i'm kind of giving into the google monopoly of the internet.
but, based on what i actually want, they're simply doing everything right...and these other sites just aren't...
i'm leaving the account open because it's still the best way to find concerts. otherwise, i don't really have any use for this anymore.
as far as public commentary is concerned, i'm using google+ to rant. if you're enjoying my ranting, that's where i'm doing it. part of it is that all these privacy concerns on facebook are rather counterproductive for me; i like the idea of twitter's hashtags, but i find the character limits make the site useless. i mean, it's the internet. the internet ought to be public. if you want privacy, i'd argue you should just not post on the internet. but, for me, because i'm constantly trying to draw attention to myself, it doesn't make sense to have things housed in this space. when i post a rant to google, it gets cross-listed to a video on youtube that the whole world can access. and that's what i actually want, not this friend-zone exclusive area.
i've been putting migrating off this site off because it's a two week long project and i've been prioritizing getting as much as i can done before i come up against this possibility of losing my income source. if it doesn't work out, i don't want a website to be what i have to show for my last few months. but if i'm confident i have more time, it will become a priority to get off this.
facebook just isn't the right way to get this documented. basically, i actually like the timeline. that's what i'm using, here. but even the timeline is stupid - it cuts out posts when you're floating through. what's the point of that? my life history isn't something to be upvoted or downvoted.
so, i'm going to basically convert the timeline out of this hideous server side php thing to a hardcoded html file and put it up at my appspot site. i'm going to want to find a way to get an rss feed out of it, and dump it to the music site. i'm then going to delete all of the content here and stop posting.
in the mean time, i'm still updating. but that will stop soon one way or another.
i'm realizing i'm kind of giving into the google monopoly of the internet.
but, based on what i actually want, they're simply doing everything right...and these other sites just aren't...
i'm leaving the account open because it's still the best way to find concerts. otherwise, i don't really have any use for this anymore.
as far as public commentary is concerned, i'm using google+ to rant. if you're enjoying my ranting, that's where i'm doing it. part of it is that all these privacy concerns on facebook are rather counterproductive for me; i like the idea of twitter's hashtags, but i find the character limits make the site useless. i mean, it's the internet. the internet ought to be public. if you want privacy, i'd argue you should just not post on the internet. but, for me, because i'm constantly trying to draw attention to myself, it doesn't make sense to have things housed in this space. when i post a rant to google, it gets cross-listed to a video on youtube that the whole world can access. and that's what i actually want, not this friend-zone exclusive area.
Friday, December 12, 2014
ok, so i've got this broken down into a flow of ideas, even if i can't date it well. i think most of it had to be after august because i remember doing it in the house i moved to in august. anyways...
i've got two incomplete mixes from 2002. neither can be a final mix.
the first one was made in cakewalk. i seem to have then modified the output on it and saved over it, which wouldn't have been an error - it's how i worked. so, i only have that version in mp3. this has been the version i've been uploading to places since 2010, because i wasn't happy with the final one and didn't want to sit down and fix it. i'm going to reconstruct it in cubase - that won't be difficult, as i have all the source files. it's just a question of lining them up and setting the levels. i'll upload a remaster of this because it's the only version anybody's ever heard.
the second mix was supposed to be the completed one and was done in the old cool edit way of pasting files on top of the collage. i didn't have a fast enough computer to keep going in cakewalk. i stayed with this process for years, until i upgraded the old pc in 2007. the problem with this mix is that i put really goofy prog rock guitar and synth parts into it that kind of broke it. i'm going to reconstruct this and upload it, but with the volume on those parts down a little.
before i do these things, i need to check the score. the score as it is is going to come up in soundblaster-rendered midi song form. depending on how much i add, i may do that a second time. a final score version will also go through a vst render process.
when that's all done, i'll need to combine everything together for a final mix.
that sounds like a lot of work but it's really not. christmas at the latest.
i've got two incomplete mixes from 2002. neither can be a final mix.
the first one was made in cakewalk. i seem to have then modified the output on it and saved over it, which wouldn't have been an error - it's how i worked. so, i only have that version in mp3. this has been the version i've been uploading to places since 2010, because i wasn't happy with the final one and didn't want to sit down and fix it. i'm going to reconstruct it in cubase - that won't be difficult, as i have all the source files. it's just a question of lining them up and setting the levels. i'll upload a remaster of this because it's the only version anybody's ever heard.
the second mix was supposed to be the completed one and was done in the old cool edit way of pasting files on top of the collage. i didn't have a fast enough computer to keep going in cakewalk. i stayed with this process for years, until i upgraded the old pc in 2007. the problem with this mix is that i put really goofy prog rock guitar and synth parts into it that kind of broke it. i'm going to reconstruct this and upload it, but with the volume on those parts down a little.
before i do these things, i need to check the score. the score as it is is going to come up in soundblaster-rendered midi song form. depending on how much i add, i may do that a second time. a final score version will also go through a vst render process.
when that's all done, i'll need to combine everything together for a final mix.
that sounds like a lot of work but it's really not. christmas at the latest.
uploading guitar demos to inri061
1) this song was first demoed as a rabit is wolf song, but the changes i made to it were not well received. this is as far as the track got in that context. recorded july 14, 2002.
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/penny-shoeman-initial-demo
2) this is a second guitar demo, expanded to be a little more elaborate in the guitar playing. notating this formed the basis of the electronic version. recorded july 21, 2002.
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-expanded-guitar-demo
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/penny-shoeman-initial-demo
2) this is a second guitar demo, expanded to be a little more elaborate in the guitar playing. notating this formed the basis of the electronic version. recorded july 21, 2002.
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-expanded-guitar-demo
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