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ektotherm

@ektotherm@musicians.today

experimental electronic musician

inspirations include [drum & bass], [progressive metal], [synthwave] & [idm]

it's important to put genre names in square brackets for some reason

#electronicmusic #linuxaudio #drumandbass #idm #musodon

Linux user | open source pragmatist | wannabe FOSS advocate | "AI" skeptic

longtime producer; new to linux audio

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ektotherm, to random
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Want to start a solo podcast about making art in general and electronic music production specifically.

I want to talk about the mindset / metacognitive aspects of making art because this stuff doesn't get talked about enough. I also want to talk about what it's been like moving my entire music production setup to Linux, as well as thoughts on various DAWs, synths, etc.

My hope is that posting about this will give me a little pressure to get going. Details forthcoming.

jake4480, to random
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I know some people won't be able to avoid it (including myself, they'll probably upgrade my work laptop to it sooner than later), but for my personal stuff, literally everything I've seen about Windows 11 so far suggests logically to ABSOLUTELY AVOID THIS SOFTWARE AT ALL COSTS

ektotherm,
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@jake4480

Yeah earlier I was reading about advertisements in the start menu and about Microsoft being more aggressive about pushing people to upgrade.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-app-recommendations

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/11/24127497/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-prompt-windows-11

ektotherm, to random
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Triple-A game studios be like "We can't fix bugs. We spent the entire budget on making elaborate lootbox animations."

jake4480, to Metal
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As many of you know I'm NOT a fan of black metal normally (unless it's mixed in something like Skeletonwitch) - but I feel like this album that came out in February by Dead Earth is pretty decent black metal (if you're into that kind of thing).

I'm tagging a few who I know enjoy black metal to see if you agree/dig.

https://deadearthsweden.bandcamp.com/album/et-disperdam-illud

@HailsandAles @umrk @Kitty @vanessawynn @wendigo

ektotherm,
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@jake4480

I dunno, is it really [black metal] if you can actually read the band's logo? 😛

jake4480, to writing
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To all my lost ideas I didn’t write down and now only have a slim chance at maybe half remembering someday https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2024/03/17/to-all-my-lost-ideas-i-didnt-write-down-and-now-only-have-a-slim-chance-at-maybe-half-remembering-someday

ektotherm,
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@jake4480 yes, exactly! Someone gets it. This is why I compulsively write things down.

The only downside is that later I have to go through all the random junk I wrote down.

ektotherm,
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@jake4480 yep. It's worth it, though.

ektotherm, to random
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For the record, I definitely liked video essays before they were cool.

jake4480, to random
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Cats are bizarre and hilarious. Cubone is our tuxedo male, he's 8 this year and has this weird love/hate thing with water. He's afraid of it but also obsessed with it. I suspect he worships a water god. He loves little pom-pom balls and bubbles, too. And he's weirdly obsessed with hair?

Lola is our calico female, and she's 5 this year. She is obsessed with wire and rubbing alcohol. @druidess makes jewelry and if you even PICK UP or take a wire out of somewhere, even QUIETLY, she WILL hear it and come over instantly. Even from another room. Same with alcohol. She smells it instantly. She licks art done with alcohol markers. So strange. 😂

ektotherm,
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@jake4480 huh I had a cat who was obsessed with water too. She insisted on having running water. But when she drank she would sometimes jolt back, like she wasn't expecting it to be wet. She did that her whole life.

And yeah I don't think there's any such thing as a normal cat. They're all weird.

jake4480, to science
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2024 is officially the year we found an amphibian that makes milk for its young, in a 'convergent evolution' from mammals.

Weird, man

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1236408925/researchers-have-found-an-amphibian-that-makes-milk-for-its-babies

ektotherm,
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@jake4480 wow that's a strange one! But I guess convergent evolution makes sense when exposed to similar problems.

ektotherm,
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@jake4480 yeah. But I guess biologists are used to their categories being squishy. Bats fly, platypuses lay eggs, etc.

baldur, to random
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“The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend - Josh Collinsworth blog” https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/devaluing-frontend

ektotherm,
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@baldur interesting. I'd never really thought about why HTML & CSS are often considered "not real programming". Kinda similar to people thinking Python is not a "serious" language.

tofugolem, to random
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I imagine this is going to make a lot of happy.

It sounds like the plagiarism-as-a-service software is making itself worse through software incest.

ektotherm,
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@oblomov glad I stumbled on this. I was actually considering using that badge. But I think you're right: It's a bad idea.

ektotherm, to random
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I'm late to the party, but may as well throw my hat in the ring.

https://ektotherm.bandcamp.com/

My album is electronic music (primarily [drum & bass]) that's also inspired by [progressive rock].

While you're there you can also pick up my free single.

ngons, to art
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This rhombic decomposition contains a regular hexagon, a regular dodecagon and a regular icosatetragon.

ektotherm,
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@ngons found all three! What do I win?

etherdiver, to random
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I released 3 albums in 2023! Between the three of them they cover almost the entirety of my ambitions and interests as an artist, from relatively accessible and musical (but still deeply weird and psychedelic) instrumental electronic music to barely coherent explorations of nose, timbre and time.

They're all hosted at Bandcamp, but once I complete my physical move in the next few weeks and get settled, I'll be looking for a new primary home for my music in '24.

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/

ektotherm,
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@etherdiver dang, that's quite the output. Hadn't realized that. Congrats!

What are you considering for where to put your music? A Faircamp site? itch.io? jam.coop? Something else?

ektotherm, to random
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CMYK track reflections 02: Into Sky

https://ektotherm.bandcamp.com/track/into-sky

Now the album proper.

One inspiration for the album was [progressive rock]. I'd say that influence is most strong in this track. Experimental musical form, meandering ideas, dramatic arc.

Although it's 100% synth and electronic drums, I tried to lean into the feeling of guitar riffs.

This was one of the most difficult tracks both to arrange and to mix.

Full album:
https://ektotherm.bandcamp.com/album/cmyk

ektotherm, to random
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I recently finished and published the biggest creative project I've ever worked on: my first full-length album. Thank you to everyone for your kind words and support.

In the coming days I want to post about each track in turn to reflect and share my thoughts.

ektotherm, to ElectronicMusic
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CMYK, my album, is out now!

https://ektotherm.bandcamp.com/album/cmyk

To me it's [drum & bass] meets [progressive rock] with other electronic styles thrown in there too. A lot of playing around with musical form.

ektotherm, to random
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All right, I decided I'm going to fully release my album today rather than doing a preorder thing. People expressed interest, so I figured, why wait?

I'll probably still do a little post about each track in turn afterward for increased visibility and to perhaps "pull back the curtain" a bit.

Anyway, stay tuned!

ektotherm, to random
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Coming soon to a bandcamp near you!

etherdiver, (edited ) to random
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If you're Mastodoning right now, what time of day is it where you're at?

ektotherm,
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@etherdiver If you're not Mastodoning right now then you must abstain from voting.

etherdiver, to random
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I'd like to follow/be mutuals with every and on Mastodon, and I bet I don't even have 10% of y'all in my follow list yet! Let's start to fix that!

Reasons for music fans to follow me:

  1. I am mutuals with a HUGE number of musicians, and I promote the fuck out of them, so you'll be exposed to lots of new music

  2. I write about at least a half dozen of these artists every month, giving you some insight into what they make and why you might like it

  3. All the cool kids do it

ektotherm,
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@etherdiver 10/10 would follow again

lehto, to psybient German
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Dear friends & followers,

my new album 'Northbound' has been released today 🎈

I have been working on it for the last two years and I'm excited to share it now.

It contains music as well as with elements of & and on three of the tracks wonderful vocalist is featured again. Really happy to see it released now and thanks to everyone who supported/bought it already 🙌

https://lehto.bandcamp.com/album/northbound

ektotherm,
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@lehto sounds beautiful! Well done.

MagicLike, to random
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the dog condition "pug" is animal torture

ektotherm,
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@MagicLike yeah it's sad.

jessica, (edited ) to random
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Best most rocking DT album that’s not Scenes From a Memory

ektotherm,
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@jessica self-titled album goes hard

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