It’s going to work similarly to the lines community streams. Participants will load OBS and stream to their personal twitch accounts. The green room will be on discord, to coordinate/cue performers. Performers will start streaming 5 min before their slots, and I’ll use a host twitch account to re-stream everyone’s feeds. If you have OBS and twitch running, you’re 98% ready. I’ll make up a graphic overlay artists can load in OBS.

The stream has been on temporary hold, but it should move forward in July.

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oh ok great– I’m anxiously awaiting the completion of my serge panel and a bit more time with it before the stream would be welcome

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I’m more than happy with the plan as you put it forward. Thanks for all the work and good thought

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Just got the final details and green light from Layne…and the link is live!

Thanks for your willingness to contribute & help putting this together. We’ll do even more promo during upcoming weeks but feel free to share widely.

Sales today will be split between two charities.

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Awesome stuff–it looks great–and the cover is beautiful. Donation made and thanks for your expert wrangling!

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Yeah, I’m loving how this came out. Picked up my copy. Thanks, @glia for pulling this together!

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Awesome. Great to be a part of this- thanks again @glia!

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Thanks so much for putting this together @glia and for the invite. I’m excited to hear all the other new pieces!

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Honoured to support this. I’m going to happily share this with everyone!
Wishing you all a lovely weekend!

Robin
Monsieur Scanner :blush:

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thank you all so much!

hopefully you like the track order i settled on :smiley:

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I’m curious about other people’s tracks if anyone wants to share their process. I guess I’ll kick that off with a few words about mine.

I started off the track with 2 sequences I had recorded from working on the (original crow) version of my m18s sequencer for crow. I added some more delays and then thought I was finished…but after some time, I came back and realize it wasn’t.

For the next pass, I had just recently discovered n kramer’s record endless https://nkramer.bandcamp.com/album/endless and talked with him to find out how he made the really cool metallic cloud in the background of the first track. He mentioned he thought it was an fm patch with softube modular, so I thought I’d have a go at trying to create an fm cloud using just friends in synth mode controlled by crow. here’s the script that I came up with for that:

The next set of layers came from playing the modular by setting up different variable changes for simple crow scripts with midi notes (played with my laptop’s computer keyboard) from ableton into the ^^macros m4l device. I got the notes and timing I wanted for these, and then kept playing those and performing the knob-twiddling with that midi until they felt right (it took quite a few tries…lots of delicate manual filter movement for one of those layers).

I mixed everything in ableton and bounced everything to my cassette deck for vibes.

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Wish I could say my process was as interesting to read as yours (these are great notes, thanks for sharing).

I guess my track was a mix of accidents and heavy editing. It was built from two separate phrases I recorded, liked, but never fully developed. The first part, with the piano, was run through Arbhar and contains the aforementioned ‘accidents’ in that I inadvertently triggered the onboard mic several times, adding quite a bit of background noise. I got kinda a ‘playing in traffic’ vibe from this error and liked it.

In the second part of the track, the initial layer was something previously recorded, also run through Arbhar with 1 v/o from Orca’s Heart (Ansible) - if I recall, I was “playing” the modulation matrix. Sometime around the end of the fourth minute, I reduced the length parameter to put Arbhar into wavetable mode.

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Pretty simple process for me: Field recording (Usi, Sony M10) down the lane behind my house next to a tree we named Jerry. Piano is the 9000ft piano from Pianobook that I ported over to a multisampled instrument in Sampler (Ableton Live) played on Push.

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For my song, I got inspired by birdsong and wanted to find a bird that was native to DC. I settled on a Chimney Swift and so the idea was to write a piece following a Chimney Swift from the nest inside a chimney, to outside as it gathered food for the family and returned home. I used a drone from Just Friends thru Sisters as an anchor, and iPhone field recordings for the ‘journey’ and the guitar is the bird. I recorded in Ableton but didn’t do much inside Abelton—just a bit of reverb at the beginning and end of the piece to simulate the chimney.

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First off–have been enjoying all your tracks–holds together better than I would have expected for a comp.

Second, I’m an artist and the technical director for a (now streaming) sound art event called Sound Scene (@soundscenefest) sponsored by the DC Listening Lounge and the Hirshhorn Museum next weekend and would love to include the comp as interstitial music between programming blocks. I’ll only use your music if you explicitly grant permission in this thread or by DM. I was originally planning on only using my own tracks, but I the comp is in very much the same spirit and theme as the event. I don’t know if I can promote the comp on any of the graphics for the show–but I’ll ask. It’s a little tricky because there are sponsors and the museum involved, so it may need to fly under the radar.

For my track (resonant space - monocacy), I created melodic and bass sequences in the Five12 Vector sequencer–which went out to a Frap Tools Falistri function generator as my oscs, The melodic line went to a Jove filter, and then both went into a Magneto delay. I also had some field recordings that also went into the Magneto–a rainstorm outside my window, and a recording of me walking along the C&O canal. A recording of some Tingsha bells went into the Tapographic delay, and then into Valhalla room in the Z-DSP. The recordings were all looping in the ER-301. Mixdown on the WMD Performance mixer, and recorded on the MixPre 6. The track was then put through a tape wash using a Marantz PMD-430 deck. The PMD-430 hadn’t been used in awhile, so it added a fair bit of warble–haha.

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excellent news!
you have my permission

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same here, feel free to use mine if you’d like

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Same here as well - feel free to use mine if it fits!

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Permission granted! That sounds cool.

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You have my permission.

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