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reillypascal

@reillypascal@hachyderm.io

Composer and audio programmer in Rochester, NY // I like noise, code, electronics, and nostalgia // lecturer in music tech and film/game scoring at SUNY Geneseo

Matrix: https://hachyderm.io/@reillypascal:matrix.org

#Blog #Composer #ContemporaryClassical #CPlusPlus #ExperimentalMusic #FountainPens #Glitch #IndieWeb #JUCE #Leftist #Maker #MaxMSP #MechanicalKeyboards #Microtonal #Musodon #NoiseMusic #Shitposting #WebDev

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reillypascal, to Blog
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Unsurprising, but good to have explicitly laid out:

"The overall effect of looking at my Substack dashboard is 'wow, Substack is really getting me an audience! If I leave Substack, half of my subscription channel will dry up.' It’s clear that this is the impression other writers, the media, and investors are getting as well, because they praise Substack about it all the time."

https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/is-substack-exaggerating-its-network

#Substack #Newsletter #Blog #Blogging #Writing #Algorithm

reillypascal,
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I already don't like Substack and massively prefer reading things on the writer's own website, and this kind of manipulation to keep people there just confirms my dislike

I appreciate that Molly White (for example) self-hosts her newsletter: https://www.citationneeded.news/

n3wjack, to random
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WTF Logitech?

reillypascal,
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@n3wjack yeah I switched to LinearMouse (sadly Mac-only) as soon as I heard about this nonsense

reillypascal, to Blog
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I did a write up of setting up Webmentions on my site! I had mentioned it earlier, but there was one stumbling block that took me longer to figure out.

Webmentions let me get notified when people share my posts, respond to my comments on other sites, etc., and lets me use my site for a lot of the kinds of interactions I'd otherwise have to do on social media.

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blog/05-21-2024

reillypascal, to SmallWeb
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We usually call a blog on the Gemini protocol a "gemlog," but what if we followed the same pattern as "web log" → "blog" and called them "glogs"?

#Gemini #GeminiProtocol #SmallWeb #SmolWeb #Gemlog #Blog #Shitpost

J12t, to random
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I'm having a real hard time seeing how, if he managed to get his hands on TikTok, he would transform it into the "good internet". Without losing all the users.

Anybody else see what he apparently sees?

https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-ban-frank-mccourt-bytedance-liberty-china-app-1851478825

reillypascal,
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@J12t his most recent idea for a "better Internet" was blockchain nonsense, so I don't see him actually doing anything good with it

https://www.axios.com/2022/09/20/me-we-project-liberty-frank-mccourt

reillypascal, to ai
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"This whole AI cycle was fueled by fantasies, and when people stop falling for them the bubble starts to deflate. In The Guardian, John Naughton recently laid out the five stages of financial bubbles, noting AI is between stages three and four: euphoria and profit-taking."

https://disconnect.blog/ai-hype-is-over-ai-exhaustion-is-setting-in/

#AI #AIHype #AIBubble #Tech #TechNews

skinnylatte, to random
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My hobby (film development and printing) is really only possible because of the density of burned out hardware and software engineers with time and money, and a deeply autistic interest in making things work (just spoke to the people who set up my community darkroom. They bought out gear from labs which closed, and fixed it up.. this doesn’t really exist anywhere else)

I have a color darkoom I can use! (They rebuilt some color processors, it was pretty gnarly)

reillypascal,
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@skinnylatte as an autistic person I really love when people have these kinds of intense interests in things

mxtthxw, to random
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The boss just came back with this for re-amping….

reillypascal,
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@mxtthxw looks like fun! I love megaphones — this piece of music actually uses them as instruments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYiG2DDVS7Y

reillypascal, to MaxMSP
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Some sound combos I'm trying out

A screen recording of Max/MSP with an inset of me placing a tin with a contact mic on the speaker of a small amp to make feedback

reillypascal, to SmallWeb
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I'm at an odd place with my personal website. Before Dec. 2023, it was a "professional portfolio" for my compositions. Now that I'm interested in the IndieWeb community, I want to make something more personal. I don't think I want to make two sites, but I do still need a portfolio for my composition work.

I just read @maggie's post on "digital gardens" and I really like that idea. (1/n)

https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

#IndieWeb #DigitalGarden #SmallWeb #SmolWeb #Blog #Composer #Musodon

reillypascal,
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I definitely want to add more pages, and once I add dropdowns within the menus, that'll be easier to organize. My main thing is that I don't know how to strike a balance of "personal" and "portfolio" in the content I put on my site.

Does anyone else have experience/thoughts on this? (2/2)

#IndieWeb #DigitalGarden #SmallWeb #SmolWeb #Blog #Composer #Musodon

reillypascal,
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@mattly something I didn't mention but that I've been thinking about is how much I like some of the early "net art" or other experiments with hypertext, e.g., Olia Lialina's "my boyfriend came back from the war" (http://www.teleportacia.org/war/).

I don't know what would be a way to make something like that today that was fresh and original, but I'm thinking about it

reillypascal,
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@alabut ooh I love this! When I get around to releasing a record, I might do this. I did some ASCII bubble letters on this instruction .txt file that comes with the performance materials for this recent piece: https://applytriangle.bandcamp.com/track/if-this-reaches-you

reillypascal, to Spotify
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"'It appears Spotify has returned to attacking the very songwriters who make its business possible,' said David Israelite, the NMPA’s president and CEO [...] 'Spotify’s attempt to radically reduce songwriter payments by reclassifying their music service as an audiobook bundle is a cynical, and potentially unlawful, move [...] We will not stand for their perversion of the settlement we agreed upon in 2022.'"

https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-songwriters-less-mechanical-royalties-audiobooks-bundle-1235673829/

#Spotify #Streaming #MusicNews #TechNews

reillypascal,
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My refusal to use Spotify and massive preference for Bandcamp/Mirlo/Jam.coop/Faircamp grows every day

reillypascal,
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@vincentbiret the ones I mentioned focus on selling downloads to listeners. Bandcamp is the one I'm most familiar with, and if you buy something there, it also becomes available for unlimited streaming on their app/website.

I also use SoundCloud for my portfolio stuff that I'm not selling, and Jamendo sounds cool for free streaming/licensing purposes.

reillypascal, to internet
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I've been feeling exactly like this comic, but I got a cheap retro alarm clock and started keeping my phone in the living room at night. It's really nice

#WebcomicName #SocialMedia #Clock #RetroTech

A small white circular alarm clock with a classic 8-segment LCD and a blue backlight. It also gives temperature and date.

reillypascal, to opensource
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Music platform @mirlo is raising funds to keep running! They let listeners buy directly from musicians, with only 7% going to the platform. They're owned by a worker co-op and open-source too

I really appreciate what they're doing, especially with the instability at Bandcamp

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo

reillypascal, to internet
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"Ecologists have reoriented their field as a 'crisis discipline,' a field of study that’s not just about learning things but about saving them. We technologists need to do the same. Rewilding the internet connects and grows what people are doing across regulation, standards-setting and new ways of organizing and building infrastructure, to tell a shared story of where we want to go."

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet

#Internet #Web #Enshittification #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Infrastructure #Tech

reillypascal, to CASIO
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I got a new watch! I realized having a basic digital watch would let me leave my phone in my bag more often, which helps me spend less time checking it. Plus this looks extremely 90s and I love it

#Casio #Watch #Retro #RetroTech #80s #90s

reillypascal, to Blog
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New blog post! I talk about making this "broken radio" sound I posted about a few weeks ago: https://hachyderm.io/@reillypascal/112242684024114281

The sound is pretty involved, so this week I'm talking about just the glitchy looper part. I will make a part 2 soon, to talk about combining the looper with radio noises.

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blog/05-04-2024

axwax, to selfhosted
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It's not quite yet, but is all go!

As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by or not, hosted on , , , or , as long as it is by an (but bonus points for supporting Bandcampers today, as it's the last one for a while).

Simply make a direct comment (with a link & description) to this post and it will appear at https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day automagically!

🔈🎶

reillypascal,
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@axwax I have a recent release! This track is for clarinet, flute, and MIDI keyboard w/ Max/MSP. There are strange woodwind noises and multiphonics, ham radio samples & retro electric piano, among other things, and it sounds glitchy and trippy. It's on a compilation w/ 11 other composers, and that's great to check out as well!

https://applytriangle.bandcamp.com/track/if-this-reaches-you

#FairtradeMusicFriday #BandcampFriday #Bandcamp #NoiseMusic #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic #Musodon #Composer #ContemporaryClassical

reillypascal, to ExperimentalMusic
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@radiofreefedi is looking for donations to cover hosting costs and keep the station running. I really like their mission — I'm listening to the experimental hour on their specialty channel, and I just discovered this cool track from @cmdr_nova: https://eyeshadow2600fm.bandcamp.com/track/degradation

https://blog.radiofreefedi.net/2024-rff-infrastructure-fund

#RadioFreeFedi #ExperimentalMusic #Radio #InternetRadio #CommunityRadio #FediMusic

reillypascal, to workersrights
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Happy international workers day! A friend shared this on another platform and I thought it was cute

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