u0421793

@u0421793@functional.cafe

I’m an artist/designer
Don’t talk to me about technical shit I’m not interested

I’m working on a special project of my own, wish me luck, currently making a dummy in order to get some investment & backing soon – spoiler: basically returning to the kind of work I made a living 80s/90s

I tried programming once in the 80s (FORTH, green screen 80 chars), it didn’t actually work, got the sack for wasting time instead of my real job (industrial photography then)

This year I released an album in Dobly Atmos surround spatial: u0421793 / No Laments for Pale Sunsets
Apple Music, in Atmos spatial (with lyrics):
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/no-laments-for-pale-sunsets/1684857695
Also on other places eg Spotify YouTube etc as a binaural stereo mixdown – I’m not doing any promotion, it’d be impolite, I’m British, it’s not intended to make me rich and famous

My other clutter: video gear (ATEM mini, mini pro, Roland V-02HD mkII); old cameras (35mm, 120); folding bike; watercolours

Cars kill people slowly and sometimes quickly

(This is a new account, but I was originally on here back in about 2017ish, so quite an early fediverse adopter)

“I’m opting in to tootfinder” - supposed to make this account searchable?

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futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

"so ahh- ha ha-- yeah. I know I have a bit of a bad reputation among you insect-folk but um... I kinda need a little help with pollination now? So. If some of you bees, or flies... or even ants could just stop by, help out..."

👉🏿 👈🏿 🥺

u0421793,

@futurebird is this a post about Threads?

u0421793, to random

Is there any way to step through a Keynote presentation using MIDI without spending any money to do it? Basically I want to run a Keynote with lyrics and have it synced to the rest of the sequence

u0421793,

@harryprayiv @rasterweb how?

u0421793,

@harryprayiv @rasterweb no, that’s too much complication taking midi out of the iPad or iPhone and then trying to get the now-external signal to step the iPad or iPhone through somehow

johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz avatar

In the "old quantum theory", Bohr and Sommerfeld treated electrons as orbiting the nucleus along specific classical orbits whose action is an integer times Planck's constant. It was introduced in 1913. It ran into serious trouble in 1923, and it was later replaced by Schrödinger's "wave mechanics" and Heisenberg's "matrix mechanics", which turned out to be two ways of looking at the same new theory.

The old quantum theory was definitely wrong. But Manfred Bucher convincingly argues that it was abandoned for the wrong reason. The problems that killed it were caused not by its unavoidable deficiencies, but by a mental barrier - Sommerfeld's unwillingness to accept orbits where the electron goes straight through the atomic nucleus!

It's obvious that if you seek an orbit where the angular momentum is zero, it must go straight through the nucleus. But look at this picture on Wikipedia: the orbit called ℓ = 0, which should have zero angular momentum, is a narrow ellipse that does not have zero angular momentum!

YES, it seems crazy to have the electron go straight through the nucleus. That's why Sommerfeld said these orbits were "unphysical" and dropped them.

But if you allow them, the predictions of the old quantum mechanics are improved. The problems that killed it - the failure of Bohr, Born, Pauli and Heisenberg to calculate the right ground state energy for helium, Pauli's failure to find a stable ground state for the ionized hydrogen molecule H₂⁺, and finally Pauli's failure to calculate how a hydrogen atom reacts to combined electric and magnetic fields - largely go away!

(1/2)

u0421793,

@johncarlosbaez maybe we should have a new theory (yes a new standard) which might be termed ‘transfer theory’ or ‘imprint theory’ in which an element of charge moving along toward another element of charge doesn’t (always) hit it, it ‘transfers’ all the energy characteristics to another one and in turn inherits the energy characteristics of the other – they sort of print the characteristics of one against the other, and then go on their way (with all the energy characteristics of the imprinted one, so speed, direction, polarity, etc)

jameswoodcock, to retrogaming
@jameswoodcock@mastodon.social avatar

Ever heard the Final Fantasy VII (7) soundtrack in MIDI XG as the game music was heard on the PC?

I recorded it in full some time ago, so you could hear this very unique version compared to the PlayStation original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNaDsdL4aIs

u0421793,

@jameswoodcock my old Yamaha QY700 has XG (it’s up in the attic)

u0421793, (edited ) to random

What’s the biggest scam

DJDarren, to random
@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org avatar

I've had this MacBook for a couple of weeks now, and I still get a moment of waiting for the fans to kick in when I start a processor heavy task.

Except they don't. Because there aren't any...

u0421793,

@DJDarren is it the 8 ram or 16?

nick_tune, to coffee
@nick_tune@hachyderm.io avatar

I now use the adapter plate for moka which allows me to turn the heat off just before the coffee starts to flow.

The adapter plate provides a constant temperature, so the coffee trickles out for about 2 minutes, without any sputtering.

The end result is less bitter coffee and a higher yield, too.

I’ve also started using aeropress paper filters with the moka. They eliminate all of the grit.

Top of moka with aeropress filter next to pack of aeropress micro filters

u0421793,

@simontoth @nick_tune I’ve got the John Lewis grinder, which replaced my old now-broken Hario mini, and I now prefer the John Lewis grinder (plus it’s far cheaper)

https://www.johnlewis.com/la-cafetiere-hand-coffee-grinder-black-clear/p6271274

TheBreadmonkey, to random
@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar

Did you know, PJ Harvey has over 1.5 million Spotify listeners a MONTH, and makes less than £60k a year from Spotify. That's bonkers.

u0421793,

@DJDarren @james @TheBreadmonkey also it depends on leverage to the audience – the trouble with streaming services ‘these days’ is that the audiences are almost one audience per subscriber, whereas with radio, the audience is ‘all the people that listen to that station’, which is a big group

I know the streaming services try to emulate that with playlists and perhaps that is the equiv of a radio station but it also isn’t, in that there’s no commonality, no buzz from the djs getting excited about an upcoming song, no way to get everybody to appreciate a new song all at the same time

With radio you can get in the charts, and it’s a fairly competitive ‘get in, go up, go down, that’s it for that song’ thing (aided by plugging, promotion etc), but with streaming it’s a confused long-tail which works almost like the lottery

My previous two albums were chart-registered for eligibility (with Kantar, PPL, etc) but in the end I decided to delete them (thus increasing their rarity, although nobody noticed)

My latest album back in March I took a different approach and tried to intentionally not promote it, not advertise it, not even talk about it much, so that I’m putting zero effort into promo – it’s not even chart registered this time round (although it’s Atmos so I’m not sure how that would count)

I really think there’s a thing about having an anti-commercial approach whereby an artist produces output that absolutely nobody ever discovers, for me it focuses the effort on whether I made the songs the way I want them, not whether I competed in some sort of expensive willy-measuring waste of energy

Given time there’ll be a large sedimentary layer of songs from many many artists and bands that got released but aren’t promoted and are in effect invisible — intentionally — and I think they’re the true art

u0421793,

@james @DJDarren @TheBreadmonkey it’s out there somewhere, it’d bloody better be, uploading Atmos cost me about £25 per track and it’s a ten track album!

u0421793,

@james @DJDarren @TheBreadmonkey fuck

Oh well

u0421793,

@james @DJDarren @TheBreadmonkey actually that’s a point – a few years ago with the prev albums I actually made more pence though YouTube than any of the other streaming services (in fact more than all of them put together)

I presume that’s the case now, I haven’t looked (and probably won’t)

u0421793,

@james @DJDarren @TheBreadmonkey what I really want is for YouTube to run the lyrics past in the same sort of way that it does on Apple Music, that way I wouldn’t have to bother making a video for each track – the lyrics were indeed uploaded, but only Apple Music makes use of them and YouTube would be perfect for displaying a timed-text lyric video because it is after all a video venue

u0421793,

@james @DJDarren @TheBreadmonkey I don’t think YouTube actually has a proper mechanism for doing useful things with lyrics at this stage – they could, they could use similar captioning encapsulations to television etc, but like most things google, YouTube seems to be trimming features rather than growing them (eg can’t post a url with a start point any more)

The whole arena of lyric videos is intriguing to me and has been for the past decade or so

Making a video for a song is a big commercial undertaking for most non-professional artists, although shooting a live performance on a phone is all it really takes, people want to edit and stuff

Yet I’ve noticed there’s definitely an appetite for lyric videos, and I personally think that’s a field ready for a lot of future expansion and invention – a fully synthetic video that has timed text, but looks good, and doesn’t have any actual moving video in the normal sense, but is full of synchronisable multimedia (if it knows the tempo of the song, or perhaps even the structure, key sig, style, etc) then it becomes feasible to have a video that (although comprised of simple elements) looks different each time it is played, and different to different people (because parameters etc)

If I could put together a Keynote presentation and have it midi-synced, I’d be able to make nifty cheap videos piece of piss, and so would everyone else

u0421793,

@james @DJDarren @TheBreadmonkey I should point out that I’m seeing a separate market to the ‘make a living from music’ market of music makers

It’s the natural thing to do when starting out that one would think that one day one will become famous and rich and all that stuff, but that’s just a lottery (or if you’ve got enough finance to bully your way in, then give pluggers whatever they ask for, that’s also a valid strategy if the music is actually good)

So there’s the artist without necessarily a day job and all the time in the world to practice, get good, perform live etc, but in most cases they won’t be good enough, won’t get gigs, won’t be motivated every day or even every month because it all seems to be against you

Then there’s the day job person who might have been through the previous but now has a mortgage and too many guitars, mostly covered in dust – a lot of my synth colleagues are in this category and they start things in DAWs but never ever finish them, they sometimes livestream a ‘jam session’ on synths but that’s just unstructured experimentation and you’re unlikely to walk away whistling the hook half an hour afterwards

The area I increasingly see is valid is the one where you just throw out any notion of making any money out of it – not even tips or sales, just completely divorce the music making act from the money getting act

If you know it’s not going to sell, if you know it’s not going to compete, I think there’s a chance there of conjuring something truly new and innovative and of tomorrow

Any time an artist has even at the back of their mind the idea that they’ll have to compete and have to be ‘as good as’ one of the lottery winner artists, any time an artist wants to get tips or money from their tiny sales, they’re inevitably going to bend their work toward making it ‘like’ music that’s already out there

And that’s one of the unseen disasters of streaming – it’s such a big audience that anyone anywhere in the world wants the same stuff as they’re used to, so all bands all artists everywhere in the world all become homogenous

matt, to AppleWatch
@matt@oslo.town avatar

I’m going to bed and my is at 19% battery 🪫 I feel like I’m doing it a disservice. Is that enough juice to see it through the night?!

u0421793,

@matt no

u0421793,

@matt if it somehow does you’ll still have to wait an age the next morning to charge it all the way up anyway

u0421793, to random

I’ve just realised I
haven’t done an introduction
I’ve got a massive pen is
that okay?

u0421793,

Oh wait, that’s not what I meant

I’ve just realised I
haven’t done an introduction
I’ve got a massive pencil is
that okay

u0421793,

No wait, that’s not what I meant

I’ve just realised I
haven’t done an introduction
I’ve got a massive ruler is
that okay

u0421793,

No wait, that’s not what I meant

I’ve just realised I
haven’t done an introduction
I’ve got a massive box of watercolour paints is
that okay

alex, to random
@alex@godforsaken.website avatar

welsh lightning mages currently trying to physically sever wales from the rUK

u0421793,

@alex Bebbanburg’s doing

hannah, to disabled
@hannah@social.alt-text.org avatar

Hello, I'm here to seek out a community of other people and accomplices.

I'm working to build a non-profit tool to make alt text easier, and I want to connect with folks who can help guide that project toward a useful start.

I've built a proof of concept, but getting it further will take building community. I'm , and networking does not come easy to me. Boosting this is an immense help.

More information at https://alt-text.org

u0421793,

@hannah it’d be wonderful if alt-text could be translated with ease from other languages into one’s own language

For me, I’d find that useful for foreign-language cartoons which might have the speech bubble text in each frame in a language I don’t understand, I’d be able to understand and enjoy the cartoon

blogmywiki, to random

Big fan of Wow & Flutter's early work. (Folk duo from Princes Risborough.)

u0421793,

@blogmywiki I remember listening to the session they did for John Peel

Teal, to random

It's too dignified on Mastodon. Where are my trash goblins at?

u0421793,

@stavvers @Teal men have dicks because of bad kerning

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