@reillypascal@hachyderm.io
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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 workersrights
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Happy international workers day! A friend shared this on another platform and I thought it was cute

molly0xfff, to web
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If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the , what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

reillypascal,
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@molly0xfff the main thing I miss is people actually going to a variety of websites. I remember when Wordle just came out (and wasn't owned by NYT) somebody said that if there is going to be a web3, it'll just be people actually going to websites again, like they were with Wordle, and that resonated with me.

reillypascal, to ExperimentalMusic
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Chair scraping (slowed + reverb)

Unfortunately he's not on here, but this guy Petr Válek/the VAPE has some pretty wild noises

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6S477pKrKh/

Two people standing on either side of a wood chair in a large, white, reverberant room with tile floor and stone carvings on the wall. They drag it slowly and theatrically back and forth, making reverberant scraping noises.

stevenray, to modularsynth
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My DUSG (dual universal slope generator) arrived this week, completing my little Serge skiff.

@synths

A photo of a eurorack skiff with four modules, taken from directly above. The modules left to right are GTO, DPLPG, Wave Multipliers and Dual Universal Slope Generator. All by Serge by Random Source except for the DPLPG by Meng Qi.

reillypascal,
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@ology it takes in a control voltage that immediately jumps from value to value and slows down that jump into a smooth slope. You can adjust how fast the rise time and fall time are independently of each other. Another term that gets used for something like this is a "slew limiter."

The module can also generate its own slopes as an envelope, or it can cycle the slopes as an LFO

reillypascal, to listentothis
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"Sounds a bit like early Scanner collaborating with a handful of classical musicians, but everyone is on datura (in a good way)."

Thanks to @etherdiver for a lovely review! You can read the blog post here, and make sure to check out the other musicians as well: https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/04/25/opm-electroacoustic-magic-and-more/

reillypascal, to space
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@skrishna is super cool and I love this newsletter! https://wandering.shop/@skrishna/112332886203206306

It's about the latest news in space and astronomy, and the RSS link is here: https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/BX2SPZ0naG.xml

reillypascal, to privacy
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This guy made a tool that beeps every time a website sends data about you to Google. The beeps blur into a continuous buzz: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/tracker-beeper/

I use Privacy Badger (https://privacybadger.org/, blocks trackers), uBlock Origin (https://ublockorigin.com/, adblocker), Firefox, and the SearXNG search engine (https://searxng.ca/ or find instances at https://searx.space/), but it's annoying I have to.

A video of navigating various popular news sites (Daily Mail, nu.nl, telegraaf.nl) in Chrome. A terminal is visible in the background, running a program that beeps ever time the site reports back to Google.

artlung, to random
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I'm among the suckers who started groups on Slack despite the limits of the free account. Using Discord always reminds me of walking into the room of a friend who never cleans their house. I am thinking maybe I'll try Matrix if I get the time and gumption to make a change. For now I'm content to do nothing. And I do note that some orgs stick with the Slack free plan even though hitting limits disappears messages; and some orgs stick with Discord despite the clutter and uneven participation.

reillypascal,
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@artlung I do really like matrix for the interoperability & encryption — I use it to text my partner and family

rasterweb, to art
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I made a sketch of a traffic cone and also wrote up a blog post about the inspiration...

➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/04/21/traffic-cone-sketch/

A sketch of a traffic cone.
A sketch of a traffic cone.
A sketch of a traffic cone.

reillypascal,
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@rasterweb every time I see a traffic cone I immediately think of VLC

reillypascal, to 3DPrinting
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If I had the money for a 3-D printer I would absolutely do things like this

https://laughingsquid.com/3d-printed-giant-crocs-hat/

MLE_online, (edited ) to random
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The items for my brother's pitch drop experiment birthday present arrived, so now I need to make a stand for the funnel. This brass ring is a good place to start

reillypascal,
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@MLE_online this looks so cool!

skrishna, to space
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In this week’s space news from Ad Astra:

  • NASA addresses space junk issues
  • Gaia found a stellar-mass black hole in our galactic neighborhood
  • We’re sending a quadcopter to Saturn’s moon Titan
    and more!

Newsletter coming at 11 am ET, sign up: adastraspace.com

https://youtu.be/SrAuel-k5jU

reillypascal,
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@skrishna super cool! Would it be possible to get an RSS feed for the newsletter? I really like RSS for getting my news

alia, to random
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She infodumped to me so hard about computer networking that she missed her exit

reillypascal,
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@alia @astrid I have absolutely done that with my partner before 😂

reillypascal, to classicalmusic
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I have a new track out today! https://applytriangle.bandcamp.com/track/if-this-reaches-you

It's a glitchy, experimental trio for flute, clarinet, and MIDI keyboard/Max. There are Morse code and other ham radio samples, electric piano, and bowed cardboard box, and it's surprisingly groovy.

The full album has 11 different composers, and you can find it here: https://applytriangle.bandcamp.com/album/oxalis-triangularis-vol-2

@synths

reillypascal, to composer
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New blog post — I have a track coming out April 12! it's on a new album by the electroacoustic trio Apply Triangle with works by 33 composers, and it was recorded remotely during lockdown.

I talk about collecting amateur radio samples to use in the piece, the album project, and there's even a poem.

@contemporarymusic

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

reillypascal, to ai
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"We must think more deliberately about which technologies are necessary to build a better world and where it actually makes sense to roll out digital tech or AI tools. Those democratic deliberations can’t just be based on the marketing claims of tech companies, but need to account for the real impacts and material footprints of those technologies."

https://disconnect.blog/ai-is-fueling-a-data-center-boom/

reillypascal, to fountainpens
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I got a new fountain pen, and it has the trans flag colors! It's a Hongdian N9 with a "long blade" or architect nib. The nib took me a bit to get used to, but I find it gives particularly nice shading to my inks, and has a wet flow, which I appreciate.

Here I'm using Sailor Studio 024 ink and Cosmo Air Snow paper.

reillypascal, to Musicproduction
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"What made me put my coffee down this morning was 'synthetically generating music', which apparently now falls under 'needs to disclose'.

Them’s fighting words.

Let’s say I fiddle with some knobs on my Eurorack setup (that’s a music synthesizer if you don’t know), and decide to upload it in the background of a video. Am I now making 'altered content?'"

https://vkc.sh/youtubes-bad-ai-disclosure-policy/

skrishna, to space
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Weekly space news is here!

  • How to de-ice a telescope from a million miles away
  • A new star may appear in our sky soon
  • VERITAS, the mission to Venus, is back!
  • A map of 1.3 million quasars

and more!

Newsletter version will go out in the morning.

https://youtu.be/vWf2gpmk95c

reillypascal,
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@skrishna I'm pretty new on the Fediverse, and I'm really happy to see that you're on here! Love your stuff

reillypascal, to ElectronicMusic
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Some glitchy bass growls from a piece I'm working on!

Imported some non-audio data into Audacity > time stretched it with a phase vocoder > chopped it at the transients > used the Max/MSP "MuBu" tools for concatenative synthesis.

#ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic #GlitchMusic #MaxMSP #NoiseMusic #SoundDesign #Synth @synths

A Max/MSP patch using the [mubu.concat~] object. I click a button and the patch generates random sweeps on an X/Y grid

reillypascal, to composer
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I'm getting my music on PeerTube, and here's the next one! It's for 2 pianists, 2 percussionists & "no-input mixer." The outputs of the mixer are connected back to various inputs, and I can unmute various channels to get feedback. The percussionists are playing a homemade speaker instrument, megaphone & more.

@contemporarymusic

https://makertube.net/w/raJPvm2wD7nhn2Vrrve4Vy

reillypascal, to Blog
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I finally have an RSS feed for my blog! I was initially trying to figure out a way to automatically generate it based on my posts, but I found it was actually quite easy to type it out by hand.

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blog/feed.xml

#Blog #RSS #Syndication #ExperimentalMusic #ElectronicMusic #NoiseMusic #SoundDesign #MaxMSP #CPlusPlus #JUCE #WebDev #IndieWeb

alabut, (edited ) to random
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Whew, 19 minutes left in February in the Pacific time zone and I just got my entry over the line for this month's Carnival. Made it.

The topic is "digital relationships" and I reflected on how things have changed since the pandemic started.

https://alabut.com/writing/digitalrelationships

reillypascal,
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@alabut I like it! I came onto the internet just after the late 90s–early 2000s you mentioned, and by the time I started making online friends it was on Facebook, etc. IndieWeb/Mastodon/IRC/current blogs/etc. now give me a strange kind of nostalgia for a past I didn't quite participate in. An odd feeling, but I very much like these platforms.

reillypascal, to Blog
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Here's the latest post from my blog! I discuss making "composite" sounds using FFT spectra for part of a current composition project.

My site is all hand-written, but I found that drafting as Markdown in my Joplin notebook, and then converting to HTML in the terminal makes me much more inspired to write.

#Blog #IndieWeb #SoundDesign #MaxMSP #ElectronicMusic #ComputerMusic #ExperimentalMusic #NoiseMusic #Microtonal #Xenharmonic #Synth @synths

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blogposts/02-27-2024

reillypascal, to ExperimentalMusic
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A chamber orchestra composition I recently put on PeerTube! One of the percussionists is placing a contact mic on a large speaker to make flabby feedback; the pianist is using a contact mic/transducer against the piano strings; and there's lots of microtonal/noise sounds from the rest of the ensemble.

@contemporarymusic

https://makertube.net/w/fz2qPi51xAQAXWjBboT1DL

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