tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51489722024-03-23T15:31:55.152-03:00Composing"The sovereignty you have over your work will inspire far more people than the actual content ever will." - <a href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000898.html">Gaping Void</a>Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.comBlogger3328125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-42738474089735264422021-10-08T00:25:00.001-03:002021-10-08T00:36:19.892-03:00Someone needs to make these happen.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBJVPpsWYAInaTr?format=jpg&name=large" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="800" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBJVPpsWYAInaTr?format=jpg&name=large"/></a></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBJauGgWEAwfPtM?format=jpg&name=large" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="800" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBJauGgWEAwfPtM?format=jpg&name=large"/></a></div>Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-80445423061106575502021-08-30T10:06:00.003-03:002021-08-30T10:08:54.391-03:00god knew i would be too powerful if i had an attention span<p> <img alt="god knew i would be too powerful if i had an attention span" class="css-9pa8cd" draggable="true" height="373" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9-lWWUWUAQnZUn?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="400" /></p>Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-76676596932700337052021-04-19T21:26:00.001-03:002021-04-19T21:26:52.704-03:00Flamingosis - Cosmic Feeling (Official Video)<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/qtVt57F3bno" frameborder="0"></iframe>Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-83990378956720736402021-03-15T02:16:00.005-03:002021-03-15T02:16:41.026-03:00Phum Viphurit - Hello, Anxiety [Official Video]<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b7ffmtnuSGM/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/b7ffmtnuSGM" frameborder="0"></iframe>Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-61541199663404305892021-03-01T23:15:00.004-03:002021-03-01T23:15:47.054-03:00Your first USABLE Purr Data (Pure Data) synth<iframe width="480" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/AqMaBm7hjYs?list=PLuBDEereAQUwXI9cZADGVgzdhXKR_uJm1" frameborder="0"></iframe>Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-72271958978151056642021-02-17T13:18:00.005-03:002021-02-17T13:18:52.152-03:00<p>Having spent much of the last decade addicted to it, I have officially left Quora.</p><p> </p><p>Full story here : <a href="http://exquora.thoughtstorms.info/">http://exquora.thoughtstorms.info/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Expect to see me use the time to get back into <a href="http://thoughtstorms.info/view/HelloWorld">ThoughtStorms</a> and more blogging / writing in my own spaces. <br /></p><p><br /></p>Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-8549643933680461682021-02-16T01:22:00.002-03:002021-03-15T02:17:05.269-03:00KATICA ILLÉNYI - Once Upon a Time in the West - Theremin<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/lY7sXKGZl2w" frameborder="0"></iframe>Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-80488355997650405182021-01-05T20:02:00.003-03:002021-01-05T20:02:56.673-03:00Servers are returning<p>Eventually I went to <a href="https://www.opalstack.com/">OpalStack</a> to replace WebFaction.</p><p>OpalStack is made by ex-WebFaction employees and is an almost identical clone. It was just easier. </p><p>I considered getting a VPN but it was more expensive than I could justify.</p><p>So things are starting to get back up. </p><p>Though there are still issues with ThoughtStorms wiki and a couple of others.</p><p>And I'm just going to deprecate some sites where those projects are pretty dead. <br /></p>Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-80607052935837033832020-12-11T02:47:00.002-03:002020-12-11T02:47:54.483-03:00Servers Down<p> Bloody hell!<br /><br />My hosting company, WebFaction, got bought by GoDaddy a couple of years ago.<br /><br />Didn't seem to make a difference but they've been folding it in through a stack of intermediate companies which don't have a good reputation.</p><p>And suddenly they pulled the plug on me.</p><p>(OK, it seems they gave me about two weeks warning in an email I didn't see, earlier)</p><p>So ...</p><p>WTF????!?!!?!? <br /></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.bphope.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/bipolar-anger-management-strategies-840061704.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="790" src="https://www.bphope.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/bipolar-anger-management-strategies-840061704.gif" /></a></p><p>Anyway, <br /></p><p>Seems like all my sites are not just "down". But gone! Probably permanently.</p><p>'strewth!<br /></p><p>So it's going to take me a bit to sort this.<br /><br />In the meantime.</p><p>If you are looking for :</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>my netlabel</b>, see the BandCamp site : <a href="https://dionysian-industrial.bandcamp.com/">https://dionysian-industrial.bandcamp.com/</a></li><li><b>other stuff</b>, it will either be up soon. Or deprecated. <br /></li></ul><p>Fortunately I have <i>most (though probably not all)</i> things backed up.<br /><br />And I get my domain names through a different provider, so when I get new hosting, I should be able to point the domains at it fairly quickly. Though there'll be the usual couple of days delay for that to take effect</p><p>Normal service WILL BE RESUMED.<br /></p>Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-16179462755080385822020-04-18T00:26:00.001-03:002020-04-18T00:26:42.150-03:00Server Migration<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Next week, my servers are migrating.<br />
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So if ThoughtStorms or the Synaesmedia site or anything else by me is down, don't panic. They should be up again shortly.</div>
Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-45364963190298541342020-03-03T01:40:00.001-03:002020-03-03T01:40:45.348-03:00Fifteen People<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://fifteenpeople.com/">Fifteen People</a> is a blog about listening to and writing about every <a href="http://imomus.com/">Momus</a> album. <br />
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Naturally, fanboi that I am, I'm diving in to give my own opinions and responses in the comments.</div>
Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-14707119963750708232020-02-17T20:14:00.001-03:002020-02-17T20:14:18.041-03:00RIP Andy Weatherall<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Bloody hell!<br />
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Andy Weatherall has died. At only 56.<br />
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FFS!<br />
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/17/andrew-weatherall-british-producer-behind-screamadelica-dies-aged-56">https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/17/andrew-weatherall-british-producer-behind-screamadelica-dies-aged-56</a>
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He was one of the greatest of the 90s.<br />
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I used to go MAD for this in the club in the 90s.<br />
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Dub, gypsy, cosmic ... all in one amazing track. Thought it was one of the most transcendent awesome things I ever heard at the time. So good.
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The whole <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_Dancehall">Haunted Dancehall</a> album was so good.<br />
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I sometimes say it was the original dubstep album. Not because it exactly sounds like dubstep, but has the same feel as something like Burial.<br />
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The beginning ... just pissing around with a flanger. But it sounded so <i>radical </i>
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Allegedly the In the Nursery version of Haunted Dancehall is on the playlist for Radio 1 to play when the Queen dies.
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Though it's more suitable now :
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Finally, another great album.
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<a href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8224-stay-down/">Stay Down</a>. Big soundtrack for me when I got that.
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And I suppose I should include this, because it is awesome. (And produced / mixed by Weatherall)
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Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-59148602500914905002020-02-02T02:35:00.001-03:002020-02-02T02:35:39.681-03:00The time is now<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-31458650432749905842020-02-01T01:49:00.001-03:002020-02-01T01:51:44.602-03:00Gbloink! 2020<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I gave a workshop in December on writing music sketches for Android devices in Processing.<br />
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And in preparing it, I discovered that there's a new audio library that's standard in Processing 3.0, called <a href="https://processing.org/reference/libraries/sound/index.html">Sound</a>. That works on both desktop and Android apps.<br />
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So in
the last couple of days I decided to try an experiment.<br />
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I got a
Processing draft of Gbloink! I'd done a few years ago, that didn't play
its own sounds, just sent OSC messages to a PureData patch - which
worked but was a faff to set up - and swapped out the OSC messages for playing
simple notes using this new Sound library.<br />
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And, it works.<br />
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Obviously, it's not a sophisticated sound at the moment. And not even as rich and varied as old Windows MIDI from the original Gbloink! which is now 22(!!!) years old.<br />
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Nevertheless, it's a promising start. It feels like finally it might be possible to produce a reasonable new version of the program that can run more or less out of the box, and be fun and pleasant to listen to.<br />
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I'll be working more on this over the next few months. And on some other "Sound Toys" I've made, that have only ever existed as slightly klunky experimental versions for live use, but weren't packaged for general consumption.<br />
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I have a feeling that this year, that will change. And I'll finally have something fun for you all :-)<br />
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If you want to try the new Gbloink!, it's currently available for Windows and Linux from this page : <a href="http://gbloink.com/play.html">http://gbloink.com/play.html </a><br />
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When I find someone with a Mac who can make the Mac download, I'll make that too. And, obviously, I'll be working on getting it onto Android. That's the real holy grail of this. </div>
Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-59027056354531381262020-01-31T21:04:00.000-03:002020-01-31T21:05:00.345-03:00What if?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-46376346515106486062019-12-13T19:03:00.000-03:002019-12-13T19:03:09.955-03:00Election 2019 : The failure of politics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I haven't really been writing politically here.<br />
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I've been writing more on Quora, where at least there's some kind of audience.<br />
<br />
But this started as an answer today, and wandered so far away from the original question, that I realize it needs a different home.<br />
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So here it is, my take on the disastrous UK elections of December 2019.<br />
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Originally launched as an answer to the question : <b>How damaging is the general election defeat to Jeremy Corbyn?</b><br /><br /><br />
Corbyn himself is gone. <br />
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Toast.<br />
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That’s the rules of the game. No leader survives this. I don’t suppose he thinks any differently.<br />
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The fight is about what the defeat “really means” and what it implies for Labour.<br />
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And how much of his legacy is going to be preserved vs. jettisoned. <br />
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How damaging is this defeat to, for want of a better word, “Corbynism” within Labour?<br />
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The defeat doesn’t change the underlying fact that the Labour “coalition” is fragmenting into increasingly distinct factions with fewer interests and even less “consciousness” in common. In fact, this defeat simply re-emphasizes that.<br />
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I’d hoped - and I admit that in retrospect this was wishful thinking - that Labour’s policies like the neutral stance on Brexit, and the bold promises to redistribute wealth to the poorest people and regions, might have held that coalition together sufficiently to at least force a draw with the Tories in this election.<br />
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But I was wrong. <br />
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The collapse of the “red wall” is pretty strong evidence that the Labour coalition HAS collapsed. <br />
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People rejected Labour <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/13/theyre-getting-their-just-desserts-how-traditional-voters-ditched-labour">for all kinds of reasons</a>. And undoubtedly perception of Corbyn personally and his history were part of that. But it’s clear that a whole tranche of people in those crucial Northern seats abandoned Labour because they wanted to see Brexit “done”. They gave their votes either to the Brexit Party or Tories. Relatively fewer switched Lib Dem or Green, which is what you might have expected if it was largely an anti-Corbyn vote by people otherwise sticking to their political compass. No, this was a pro-Brexit vote. <br />
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The original Brexit referendum had allowed those people to see Boris as on the same “team” as them; which obviously made them feel warmer towards him than they had felt to someone like Theresa May. And then Labour’s perceived bait-and-switch (campaigning as committed to Brexit in 2017, to advocating a second referendum in 2019) discredited Corbyn with those Leavers. And once that had happened, other negatives they read about Corbyn in the Tory press resonated with them too.<br />
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<i>Hold on … even as I write this, I realize that I’ve wandered off the point …</i><br />
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There are many narratives about why Corbyn failed. But the real issue is not which one is “right”. <br />
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<i>The real issue is that each speaks to a different fragment of the disintegrating coalition. </i><br />
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The story I gave above makes sense to me. And people in my faction. But there’s a story that makes sense to those people who said from the start that Corbyn is a disaster.<br />
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There are people who didn’t like Corbyn because he was too Brexity. And people who didn’t like Corbyn because he was too Remainy. There were people who didn’t like Corbyn because he was a throwback to old Labour of the 1970s. And people who had enthusiastically voted for that old Labour in the 70s but didn’t like him because he was a middle-class London metropolitan who was “out of touch” with working people. <br />
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Whichever of those problems you had with Labour, they are really a reflection of which fragment of the disintegrating Labour coalition you are part of.<br />
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And those different factions aren’t coming back together just because Labour replaces Corbyn with a different leader. They increasingly dislike <i>each other</i>.<br />
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The Leave working class and the Remainer middle class in London don’t just disagree. They are antagonistic. They think the others are “the problem”. They will reject a politician who they associated with the other side.<br />
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This is the culture war which has been bubbling away within Brexit.<br />
<br />
I supported Corbyn.<br />
<br />
Enthusiastically.<br />
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Because I thought that at least he was <i>trying</i> to address that problem. He was aware of the factions coming apart. And his policies and stances were explicit attempts to hold the Labour coalition together. (Whereas his critics rarely seemed to acknowledge the issue at all and were happy just to push for their particular faction’s politics.)<br />
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Nevertheless, Corbyn failed; he couldn’t manage to be all things to all these different groups. And the rules of the game are that he now has to go.<br />
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That’s fair. <br />
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But I don’t see how any other Labour politician can pull those parts back together either. <br />
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The debate is already kicking off about whether another politician from London fits the bill. Or whether it needs to be someone from the North. Because … identity, I suppose. The pro-Corbyn faction will insist that the momentum of the Corbyn swing to the left is kept up. Because what’s the point of Labour winning power if it doesn’t do anything useful with it? And the right-wing of Labour will insist that Labour pulls back to the right, because <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/13/jeremy-corbyn-labour-manifesto-antisemitism-brexit">what’s the point of a “magnificent manifesto” if you never get near implementing it? </a> <br />
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Is there a right "solution" to that problem? Can all these factions be brought back under a single umbrella? <br />
<br />
Aditya Chakrabortty had a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/12/labour-leave-voters-politics-general-election-brexit">good column yesterday</a> in which he points out that from the perspective of Pontypool <i>“The Westminster lot were all “liars” and London was a leech, always hungry for more … This is what decades of distrust produces. Not magical thinking or unstinting belief in posh-boy fairytales, but a deep and sullen resentment. A nihilism that neither party nor any other democratic institution can even get their hands around, let alone find a response to.”</i><br />
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People are sick to death of politicians. They don’t believe their vote can do any practical good. So they might as well vote for “symbolic” things like sovereignty or “Britishness” which at least look like something that “belongs to them” and they can participate in. Whereas the jobs are never coming back and the new hospitals will never get built, despite all the promises in the manifestos, so why vote on those issues?<br />
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That’s what really did for Labour in these elections. Apathy and despair. Some of the collapsed “red wall” seats, turn-out was down at 52%.<br />
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Corbyn is not just damaged, he’s destroyed by this failure. But he failed because of a much deeper damage. The destruction of faith in politics.<br />
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This is what is deeply depressing today. Say what you like about Corbyn’s Labour project. However much you thought Corbyn came across badly. Or had dodgy connections. Or that Labour’s plans were unrealistic. This was a real political project, noting real problems, and offering real solutions to them.<br />
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Boris Johnson produces a good upbeat impression of politics. But even the people who voted for Johnson don’t actually believe it or trust him. They voted for the <i>spectacle</i> of of a bumptious toff offering fake solutions (an “oven-ready deal”) to a fake problem (the EU).<br />
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And as vox-pop after vox-pop shows. The people who voted for him against Corbyn <i>don’t even believe that he’s telling them the truth or will actually do anything for them.</i><br />
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They voted for the spectacle itself.<br />
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Obviously, I find that bewildering. And maybe you do too. <br />
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But you should realize that if your focus is on Jeremy Corbyn, and what this election means for him. Or what it means for his faction within Labour, you’re missing the bigger picture. <br />
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This is our real problem. The destruction of the belief that a political party <i>can</i> do anything at all.<br />
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Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-79403425410068788682019-10-02T18:23:00.000-03:002019-10-02T18:23:35.988-03:00My Music<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>Inspired by a Quora answer I gave today. Do I listen to my own music?</i><br />
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I’m currently in a phase of listening heavily to my own music. Particularly my work-in-progress.</div>
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And really enjoying it.</div>
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In
fact, I’m probably not sufficiently objective or critical of it. I find
the slapdash sketchiness of it charming rather than problematic. ;-) </div>
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It
does what I want from music, it has the kind of tunes I like, against
the kind of instrumentation I like, and rhythms I like, and
experimentation I like. Without anything that I <i>don’t</i> like. Or which I find unnecessary.</div>
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Now, at the same time, I wish it was <i>better</i>.
I wish it was more skilful. I wish it was less repetitive. (It is, I
have to admit, very repetitive, made on looping DAW software). I really
wish I was better at music. I wish it was more sophisticated. More
elegant. More trendy and more admired. And certainly I wish it was
better mixed and mastered to sound better on other people’s sound
systems.</div>
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But I no longer wish it was <i>different</i>.
I don’t wish it was somehow closer to genre norms, or more like artist
X. It’s exactly like artist ME, in the kind of messy between-genre that I
make. And that’s exactly what I want to make and want to listen to.</div>
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I
struggle to be objective. I see flaws. But I don’t know how to improve
on them. Every time I go to change something I feel that I’m losing
something as well as gaining. And that’s hard to handle. I know that
hurts the objective quality. I’m sure everyone else will hate the music
because the flaws glaring at them.</div>
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That’s
the (possibly not very) strange paradox. I simultaneously don’t trust
the music is good enough for anyone else to like. But it’s the only
thing that I <i>could </i>like this much.</div>
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Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-32717464603559531012019-09-13T21:07:00.000-03:002019-09-13T21:07:15.618-03:00New EP : Fernanda Design Tree, on BandCamp, SoundCloud etc.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm back to doing a lot of music at the moment.<br />
<br />
Particularly cleaning up old sketches and half-finished tracks and polishing them into something that rest of the world might actually want to listen to.<br />
<br />
This week I launched my new EP on BandCamp.<br />
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<br />
<iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4067178724/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 470px; width: 350px;"><a href="http://mentufacturer.bandcamp.com/album/fernanda-design-tree">Fernanda Design Tree by Mentufacturer</a></iframe>
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Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-72902354963773258462019-06-21T18:47:00.003-03:002019-06-21T18:47:27.634-03:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<blockquote><i>"If even modestly successful, Libra would hand over much of the control of monetary policy from central banks to these private companies,”</i> said Hughes, a co-chair of the Economic Security Project, an anti-poverty campaign group. <i>“If global regulators don’t act now, it could very soon be too late."</i></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/21/facebook-co-founder-warns-against-libra-cryptocurrency">Facebook co-founder: Libra currency could give firms excess power </a>
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Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-68137697753303600682019-06-19T07:19:00.000-03:002019-06-19T07:19:02.341-03:00Blogger<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<p>
Meanwhile ... WTF Google?
</p>
<p>
You just don't care at all, do you?
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<p>
How come Blogger in 2019 still doesn't have Markdown input as an option?
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<p>
It's lack of attention to details like that which means you lost Google+. You still have Blogger as a social play. It could still be great. But you won't put any energy into making it better.
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Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-52057292869104445412019-06-19T07:16:00.000-03:002019-06-19T07:19:58.473-03:00Facebook Libra<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's over.
</p>
<p>
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/18/facebook-libra/">Facebook finally conquered the world.</a>
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And not in the way we usually say companies "conquered the world".
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I mean they already own our social network (ie. all our friends and relationships) and have become the only way that people can talk to each other. Now they will become money and be the only way people can pay each other.
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<p>
I don't have a FB account. That means I am continually excluded by default from a range of things that people send information about. I miss events because they are posted on Facebook and Instagram and nobody remembers to use an alternative channel which I might see.
</p>
<p>
Tomorrow I might not even be able to be paid without being signed up to have Facebook as my <a href="http://thoughtstorms.info/view/IdentityProviders">Identity Provider</a>.
</p>
<p>
With Uber signed up, I might not even be able to find work without Facebook's permission.
</p>
<p>
<b>Here's a hint to the nation states of the world. If you want to still be in business in 20 or 30 years, ban Facebook Libra NOW!</b>
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</div>Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-84030564301468768472019-04-16T20:52:00.000-03:002019-04-16T20:54:19.348-03:00Jimmy Dore excellent on Julian Assange<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Jimmy Dore in fine ranting, and dot-connecting mode here :
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tbWiPe--U3E" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-51287547499313712522019-01-14T11:47:00.000-02:002019-01-14T11:47:12.448-02:00Music 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Some music related stuff I've been doing recently. <br />
<br />
Here's a quick recap :<br />
<br />
I wrote a <a href="https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/72526/page/20">"Global Ear" column</a> for <a href="https://www.thewire.co.uk/">The Wire</a> magazine on the Brasilia underground / noise / experimental scene. And made a <a href="https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/global-ear-brasilia">playlist you can listen to</a> now. <br />
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You want to know about the future genres of music? Check this recent Quora answer I wrote about <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-new-music-genres-will-arise-in-the-next-ten-years/answer/Phil-Jones">CineBeat</a>. <br />
<br />
Want to make Trap in Sonic Pi? Watch <a href="https://youtu.be/RfLAauDOvU0">my video tutorial.</a></div>
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Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-67762179730974955232018-09-04T16:39:00.001-03:002018-09-04T16:39:19.622-03:00Month of Patterning extended ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've made some progress on the Month of Patterning in August. But not everything is ready or up ... so ... the month of Patterning is being extended into September. Two for the price of one :-)</div>
Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-67683922642044058252018-08-11T23:21:00.000-03:002018-08-11T23:21:12.583-03:00Meet the Turtorial<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Uploaded a "<a href="http://alchemyislands.com/bs/assets/patterning/tutorial_site/index.html#!/tutorial.turtorial">Turtorial</a>" to the Patterning tutorial.
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<p>
It shows you how to use the built-in "turtle" and "l-system" functionality of Patterning to create more organic forms.
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