audiodude

@audiodude@sfba.social

Musician. Programmer. Digital Gardener. Volunteer instructor at Noisebridge. Life, the Universe, and Everything. Toots auto-delete after 90 days. I'm audiodude pretty much everywhere, including at gmail.com

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audiodude, to SanFrancisco

(The Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms.)

#SanFrancisco #SF

audiodude, to music

So I have a website for publishing my demos/ideas/half written songs (https://songs.travisbriggs.com). This is not actually a post promoting that website.

Instead, I'm considering the idea that having 100 or so songs just sitting all the time on the shelf makes them go stale. No one ever listens to ANY of them. It's basically an archive.

Maybe instead, I could build some kind of "song of the week" website, where it takes each of those songs, that are already hosted there and already have metadata, and creates some kind of artificial scarcity around them.

Right on the top: "The last time this song was song of the week was June 12, 2021. It will be song of the week again on April 5, 2026".

"Last time, this song was played 0 times and received 0 comments. So far this week it has been played 0 times and received 0 comments".

I could probably just hardcode that last part 😅.

audiodude,

Or maybe I could just stop all the procrastinating and existential handwaving about making music and just make music!

(I remembered that I had a blog post about how I should "NIKE the shit out of it (just do it)", but I didn't remember the contents. Yikes. https://travisbriggs.com/garden/blog/nike-the-shit-out-of-it/)

audiodude,

@etherdiver That's a really nice sentiment, thanks for that.

Unfortunately, it meshes nicely with my attitude of "I've already done the fun part of writing these songs and recording the demos, so why bother making a professional sounding version?" which is preventing me from putting an album out.

😭

audiodude, to random

For the last five years, a random phone number has been sending me iMessage greeting cards (Happy Thanksgiving etc) and referring to me as "Hi Sue and David...". Despite my initial attempts at informing this person that I'm not Sue OR David, it persisted. Eventually I just started saying, "Thanks Gary, merry christmas to you too". It has now escalated to this:

audiodude, to python

Free Python class at @Noisebridge in SF, tentatively scheduled for Monday March 4th from 7PM - 9PM! And pretty much every Monday thereafter!

No Python experience necessary! No programming experience necessary! You don't need to install Python or any special text editor or environment, all coding is web-based!

Bring a laptop, bring a friend! Your questions, comments and curious mind are all welcome.

https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/299433795/

audiodude, to random

Everyone wants to catch up on sleep but no one wants to mustard on sleep

audiodude, to random

My wife called FedEx office about getting a sign printed for work. They said normally they'd do it in five minutes, but they are overloaded with 30 49ers signs and 50 (!) Taylor Swift signs.

Last I checked Taylor Swift wasn't even playing.

audiodude, to random

This is disgusting, and makes me rethink if I want to shop at Trader Joe's:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/trader-joe-s-follows-spacex-in-arguing-nlrb-is-unconstitutional

Binder, to random
@Binder@petrous.vislae.town avatar

I procrastinated doing something simple all weekend & now I did it, I feel as bad as I had thought I would.

What I'm saying is: put stuff off, kids; doing stuff sucks as much as you expect it will.

audiodude,

@Binder Finishing stuff feels good though! Especially when you knew you wanted to put it off but didn't. I went to Costco on Saturday, didn't want to, but now I'm happy because I have the stuff I needed and didn't need to go without it too long.

audiodude, to random

@freebliss Hello! I'm building Rainfall for creating Faircamp sites. I'm now looking at generating eno files, but while this site talks a lot about reading such files (https://eno-lang.org/python/) is there any library for programatically creating them?

Thanks!

audiodude,

@freebliss Thanks for the reply, that makes a lot of sense!

I'd love to pick your brain a bit more about Faircamp as I move further along. Specifically, I'm interested in the algorithms used to select the ID3 metadata to use for the release name, for example if there are conflicts, etc.

Thanks for making Faircamp of course!

audiodude, to alternative

Rainfall v1.1 is released!

The only new feature is a big one: Sign in with Mastodon!

I have heard the overwhelming feedback that "Sign in with Google" was a big barrier to entry for folks. I hope the new login method allows more people to give it a try.

Rainfall is a Bandcamp exodus tool that lets you upload your music and create a static site using the lovely Faircamp (https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/). You can download this site as a ZIP and host it anywhere on the web.

You can read some of the rationale behind why I built this here: https://travisbriggs.com/garden/bandcamp/

The github repo is here: https://github.com/audiodude/rainfall

Thanks for everyone for all of your support and feedback so far!

SrRochardBunson, to Nirvana

What's your top ~5 cover songs, where you prefer the cover?

In no particular order...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4

https://youtu.be/C3Yas54eKP0?si=WxD0YaFHtlorWw2f

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI

& at least 2 from Unplugged
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyUVnCw_kLV0J2OjvADXZL-NrSghlEgDg

audiodude,

@SrRochardBunson

Phish - Roses Are Free (orig Ween)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaNOlvhkuAg

Reel Big Fish - Take On Me (orig a-ha)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHpU0ZfXZ_g

Save Ferris - Come On Eileen (orig Dexys Midnight Runners)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia0GdhtdsR8

Ataris - The Boys Of Summer (orig Don Henley)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt6Lkgs0kiU

audiodude, to random

Last minute trip to the peppermill in Reno for my birthday! About to go play some hold em ♠️♥️♦️♣️

audiodude, to ip

My dream is that one day, the "public domain day" list of works entering the public domain will be completely impossible and infeasible to produce, let alone read.

audiodude, to random

Is there a plugin that lets you use the pitch bend wheel to create a "record scratch" effect on any sound in your DAW?

If not, can we like, make that or whatever?

Daojoan, (edited ) to random
@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar

This. Via @gruber

This is how I want to publish my books. As something to be experienced on the Web, not as a stale epub file. Something beautiful. Something at home in the place I write about.

I don't know how to do that yet.

But I'm working on it.

audiodude,

@Daojoan @gruber I haven't looked at the Almanack website, but I bookmarked this the last time I was thinking about how hyptertext books don't look as good as they should: https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Today let's spread the love!

@ someone in the comments who has made your Mastodon experience better, a little explanation as to why would be awesome too! You are welcome to do more than one.

audiodude,

@RickiTarr I nominate @SrRochardBunson for unwaveringly boosting almost everything I toot! Merry Christmas!

audiodude, to genart

Trying to get back into creative coding. The one thing that I've always wanted to do and never figured out is synchronizing music with something like p5.js or p5.py or something similar. What I'd like to do is drive the sketch with MIDI data, which is also being used to play music.

Anyone know how to do this?

audiodude,

@villares This is not an encouraging response! 😝

What about SCAMP in Python? http://scamp.marcevanstein.com/

Could we grab data from a virtual input using SCAMP and use that to drive our p5.py sketch?

audiodude,

@villares Thanks for the clarification, I haven't used either yet so I'm still figuring it out.

audiodude,

@yonder @villares oh wow, that's a lot simpler than I thought it would be! Gonna try it when I get back from vacation!

audiodude, to music

I've been very excited about potentially making music again, and I've been trying to reflect on the (self-imposed) obstacles that I percieve.

Here's a new node in my garden exploring one of them:

https://travisbriggs.com/garden/genre-thoughts/

audiodude, to music

In case I didn't mention it, my wife got me a EP-133 KO II for Hannukah this year, it was my big present.

Really cool device, though I think I would probably classify it more on the "toy" spectrum than "serious music production device". But it is so fun and easy to use and sparks so much creativity.

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