Thank you! Glad you enjoyed :pray:

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hey, I really appreciate that you took the time to listen. eq’ing/mixing has never been my strong suit, so i need all the critique i can get (i’m usually too timid ask).

and so much more. in fact i feel like a bad example of this. i just use other peoples scripts and make tiny tiny mods to better suit my gear set up, or to accomplish some very particular musical idea that may be interesting to me that day.

norns has been a really incredible learning resource. i’ve gained interest in so many subjects and concepts that were completely foreign to me a couple years ago. things like system building and design, different programming paradigms, git, even following along with the project management technique of @tehn and others on github has been pretty enlightening. but my point is i know that im only beginning to start to prepare to scratch the surface of what can be done with this thing. its incredible really. and i’m forever grateful to all the humans (and machines) that have poured so much time and effort into this project, just so i can spend hours upon hours stoned looking at someone’s code. all jokes aside i love norns and everyone thats been involved in the slightest :black_heart:

(as an aside, the norns concept or idea that has really had my attention lately is one that a “script” can be this amorphous thing that blurs the line between a very expressive instrument and some sort of generative (or not) composition. i saw this mentioned in one of the norns circle threads most recently. pretty tasty)

i would like to take a moment to address this post. while i’ll admit i feel kind guilty link dumping while very rarely engaging with the work of others in this thread, i can assure you its not malicious. i cant speak for anyone else, but i’m going to :wink: i don’t think anyone in this community avoids engagement with this tread on the basis that they know they wont like the music. its probably safer to assume that it the sheer amount of content (eww) posted on a weekly (even daily) basis is just overwhelming to most. like i have so so many artist that i adore and already have a hard time keeping up with the new stuff (let alone all the freakin old stuff) that i completely understand if no one ever listens to mine. but you’ve inspired a little game for me, whenever i find myself bored and can remember, im going to come to this thread and use a random number gen to pick a post. then i will listen to and even possibly interact with said post. i think that will be a nice way to reverse my habit.

sorry for this novel and its terrible punctuation/grammar ( this took me soo long to type lolol im kinda terrible at the internet. and irl communication if im being more honest than i should be :upside_down_face:) but it was the tone of your post (and others of yours in recent threads) that kinda bothered me. you could have simply just done what your were proposing, or at least worded it a bit more politely. tbf i do not understand, nor appreciate this ‘us v them’ mentality you’re posts have been conveying recently. peculiar timing, really.

anyways thanks again for taking the time to listen and share your suggestion. i really will take it into account next time i’m mixing!

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thank you, glad you enjoyed it : )

Very nicely done (playing & recording).

For what it’s worth I tend to interact more with individual release threads… not sure why but I notice a pattern now that you mention it… No disrespect intended, it’s probably the result of overload and scattered focus on my part…

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On second viewing, the visual/music connection grabbed my full attention. Experiencing this in a large screen/space would probably reduce me to quivering jelly.

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Yah. Overload. Impossible (for me) to respond verbally to every piece of music. There’s so much. If I listen, I’ll ‘like’ it.

When it comes to our creative work, making the effort to support each other in some way, which happens a lot at lines in general, is really all I was driving at.

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i saw your most recent post about this but i too wanted to comment. it is overwhelming the amount of music that is dropped on us every day from every direction. this site contains a comprehensive and ever growing pile of electronic music (as well as some good threads linking other genres) but i don’t just listen to electronic music, there are piles growing everywhere for me, years of music that i will never get to. couple that with the ease it takes to press a button, have music come out, and record it. there are hours of music where synthesists did nothing but patch the system and let it play itself, not even purposely composing a missive about their reflection on the state of the world, just digging the sound and putting it out. i do that! i create mostly accidental music with little effort that i like. most of us here do that. i think of it like our own personal mediation machines, or as my friend calls them, adult busy boxes. but music has no inherent value to others, you have to create that value. asking somebody to listen to what i did on my busy box is asking them to reprioritize the thousands of recordings they might possibly choose on any given day and put ME top of the list. no matter how much effort i put into it, that is a big ask! i am extremely honored when someone will do that, especially when i take the time to compose a layered work over time and not just throw a jam up on soundcloud.

not to mention how lucky i feel to own all this crap, considering how many have had everything they’ve ever built taken away from them. the culmination of me making the music and having a single listener is something akin to a minor miracle.

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Well said.
One thing I’m doing now when I visit lines is to open it in 2 windows, one of which is this tread.

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At the end of May just as I was preparing to move to a new home and just as the world was starting to really come down around us I put out my 2nd EP. Unlike my first EP where I kinda just made things that sounded cool and tried out a bunch of different stuff on my new one I tried to find theme and a vibe. It’s a little melancholy and is sort of about learning to let go (I say sort of because there’s no lyrics).

It’s on all the streaming services and if anyone takes time from all the other music out there to give it a listen I would be honored. (As @fourhoarder rightfully points out it’s often a big ask.) My music isn’t overtly political, but I do feel the act of making art is inherently political. So I’m also donating all proceeds from it to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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I love this. I’ve been thinking about exploring using Max for visualizations and this has kinda made up my mind. It’s time to dive in.

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First thing I’ve recorded since building my DIY Norns:

“mariner”, an ambient track using the Deluge internal synth, multisamples, and @Justmat’s Pools on top of everything for extra sauce https://soundcloud.com/takeoutt/mariner

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Here’s a very quick ambient piece I did the other day… more of a sketch - recorded in one take, but I was pleased with the atmosphere of it.

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Thank You!
so glad you liked it. ya, making audio-reactive visuals in Max is simpler than it seems and is crazy fun once you get going. check out Federico Foderaro’s tutorials if you haven’t already, he makes it the most fun and easy to learn:

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I’m pleased and proud to announce that I’m releasing an album. YOUTH ON AGE catalogues my best work (or at least my favourite work) over the last year or so, using Elektron boxes, plus other synths, samplers, drum machines, and effects. I’m really happy with the end results, and I hope you give it a spin.

Thanks for all your support and generosity throughout. It means the world to me.

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funny little track from me:

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Want to share with you my new video where I continue to study Soma Lyra8 FX module paired with Plaits. Additional pad sound is from Make Noise Telharmonic. The solo string part is from Intellijel Plonk. A significant role also plays pitch shifting from Happy Nerding FX Aid.
You can find detailed explanations of this patch on YouTube under this video if you like it.

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I like the mix between the modular synth and its unstable sounds, slightly detuned, with the Deluge. I also rescued my Casio VL-Tone to make some melodies, passing its sound through the modular to add some noise and a tape delay from the Disting.

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No matter how many fancy toys I add to my collection I still keep coming back to the VL-1. It’s so great. Also this is great, love the mix of atmospheric and melodic sounds.

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Ordos Complexity Zone, 199X: An Emulation of 802.11B

Attendee Report -|- Field Trip

From the moment we got off our plane, it was apparent that someone, sometime, had made grand plans for this city.The futuristically sculpted terminal building is decked out with fountains and hanging baskets, chic coffee shops and sub-lit escalators glowing in shades of pink and white. The fidelity of the simulation was impressive, enough that you could drive the simulation 1:1 with the real train, arriving and departing stations at the same time, overpasses passing overhead at the same time as they pass on screen, signals passing at the same time in game as they did out the window.

After years of key research into superblocks, we validate the natural unification of forward-error correction and the producer-consumer problem, which embodies the significant principles of complexity theory [30,30] This conference is an ideal platform for an early results of my work because it is an international forum, consists of researchers, education scientists, technologists and industry representatives who are experts in the mask industry. Also, this forum acts as a strategic think tank to enhance a constructive dialogue and collaboration on themes relevant to mask science and to present the latest research results in all areas of mask industry. It was organized by The Oriental City Tenants’ Association (Octa), London Docklands Development Corporation and National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).I was presenting an oral presentation in the conference for fifteen minutes on Wednesday, 22th May 199X and I was attending the other conference events in 21th and 23th May. As a result, it was received successfully by academic researchers and experts of approximately 600 attendees. These people have no idea what the city looked like before, or what its streets were called.

The venue was a cinema in the centre of the Ordos Complexity Zone. Watching a talk was a pleasurable experience, as you got a comfortable seat and no one would cover the view in front. Visits paid by soulsof living people are often hindered by puttingon a mask, which would cut off the soulsreturn.But we do know them bytheir deeds—acts of property de-struction which run into the mil-lions of dollars in New York Cityalone, and perhaps into the billionsof dollars nationwide. You will receive £1,517-£1,854 in guaranteed rent per month.

Both the city’s cleanliness and transportation impressed me – I’m used to New York City’s standard of cleanliness. A genuine surprise smacked me when A strand of copper wire disappears in a streak of flame forming the sign of Zeus as 5 million volts of electric power are surged along it. I was ill-prepared for long walks down cobblestone pathways: I’ve experienced flat pavement for long enough that I didn’t even think that the city would be plastered in cobblestone. That’s a brilliant idea "avout the low poly city”. Ahead I saw a placid, flat, and faintly luminous stretch. I pushed through the bushes and paused on the shore of a lake, small and stagnant. Dead, stripped trunks of trees protruded from the water. At the end a bird arose with a sudden flapping of wings;. I imagined that i was driving alone in the city, looking for a beautiful city light. I think it is really blatant for your conference that a randomly generated paper has been accepted for presentation, without having at least one reviewer to look at the contents of the paper! Academically, you should be ashamed and I’m wondering what your opinion is for what has happened recently with the peer reviewing process of your conference. THERE IS NO PLACE IN MY HOUSE FOR A MAN WHOCAN BLOW HOT AND COLD FOLK TALES OF BEASTS AND MEN.

The camaraderie exhibited by the members was a great inspiration. A well-organized group fixated upon a common cause brings change, and I saw many people fixated on depersonalization and derealization. the time we got back to our hotel, to its luxuriously oversized beds and in-room bars that featured whisky, peanuts and gas masks, we were still struggling to get to grips with this place, to make sense of the city. Unicode Han Character ‘tomb, grave: prairie; open wilderness’ (U+5739) Souls of persons who haddied at a distance were enticed by spreadinga white cloth, and if a grasshopper or an antcame to the call, it was deemed that the endhad been attained.

Lunch is a time to munch and mull over ideas. In the comfort and calm of Edge Hill’s quiet campus, that is exactly what happened. The culinary spread served amply and was enjoyed by all, with the mango and brie parcels bringing surprising delight to this attendee. The real substance of such a lunch, however, is never the food, but the thought, and around the room, much thought bounced and blossomed despite the late autumn darkness outside.

On returning from the Zone to my New York office I discovered that I had left my Dictaphone™ in automatic recording mode for several hours after my presentation was completed, and had thus inadvertently documented several other presentations as well as my leisurely sojourns around the conference centre, mall and surrounding area. Despite the technical shortcomings of these audio files I feel they capture something of the unique spirit of the event, and hence decided to share this version (slightly abridged for brevity and to remove confidential information) with you and your colleagues, and I can’t be more sorry for the people who have submitted their honest and dedicated work to your conference.

You’re late by 15 seconds?

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