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dgar

@dgar@aus.social

Real Name: Jon O’Hare
Stage Name: Dgar - pronounced “Jar”

#𝙵𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠 liberally
#𝙱𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚝 often
#𝙻𝚘𝚟𝚎 the Fediverse

Thank you for dropping by, I’m so glad you could make it.

May be seen posting: stolen jokes, weird thoughts, original music.
I’ll usually try to make you laugh.
I may also send you in another direction.
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We’re in the final hours of voting in !

Have you voted for your favourite three entries yet?

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@PetraPhoenix
Just follow #Fedivision2025 now so the notifications start coming in when it starts! 😁
#fedivision

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@madjo
✌️😁🤘

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@Langhamian
Take care. 🫶

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@ihayes
Thanks for checking it out! Consider following the hashtag for an early heads-up next year!
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@Kahte It is definitely a difficult thing to choose. 🫶🤗

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@RosePuckey
You can, at your own discretion, cast one, two, or three votes, but there are seventy-two entries, so you might as well use all three!!
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@tshirtman
Finale is at 1pm UTC and voting will close at 7pm UTC. You still have time!! 😁
Tune in to https://party.radiofreefedi.net for the finale!
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@RosePuckey
Thank you. ☺️

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nb, I really have to sit down and figure out how I feel about synthetic vocalists…

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@andijah @stephan
Playing guitar, piano, drums, etc is also an art form. I play and sing everything I can, but drums are a mystery to me. If I’m unable to get help from another artist with drums, I usually resort to the “Drummer” feature in Logic. Considering in this case that no-one is playing a real drum, no real person is physically playing the instrument, I find it difficult to dismiss the efforts of an artist for doing basically the same thing simply because it’s vocals. I understand that the latest version of Logic has added similar algorithmic generated Bass and Keyboard players.

My first listen of the generated vocals had me fooled and impressed. When I found out it was generated, I immediately went to YouTube to learn about the software used - Dreamtonics Synthesizer V Pro. The samples on YouTube are pretty good, but I can definitely appreciate how much work would’ve been involved in getting them to sound as good as they do on “Federation”. It’s a bit more than just feeding in the lyrics and clicking “sing”.

That said, while I’m not tempted to use generated vocals myself, I’m keenly aware that this tech is only getting better, and I feel that trying to stop it, or stop people from using it, would be a pointless waste of time and effort. Machine learning has been added to almost everything in the past few years since they had AI beat the world’s best Go players and Warcraft players, and an AI generated image won a photography contest. Over the next few years you’ll find it in your synthesiser keyboards, mixing desks, and I’m betting, every single DAW will have AI features.

In a world where you can generate an entire song, music video, and album cover artwork, from a single text prompt, I can definitely appreciate the actual craftsmanship that has gone into the vocal synthesis on Federation.

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Those who boost my posts are happier, more intelligent and better looking than those who don't according to a study I made up.

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@Kahte 🤗

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@Susan60 😁

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@globcoco
Well, obviously! 😎

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@Langile 🤭

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@nosaj 😂

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Next up, horse puns?

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@TheManyVoices 😂
Oh, I bet ewe would love that.

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Panorama shot!

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@madjo 😂

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@alterelefant 🤭

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is now 20% cooler.

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@hydrian 😏

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@adipoeserPursch 😂

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@dgar Bisous du dimanche mon Dgar 😘😘😘😘

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@Kahte 😘😘😘😘

dgar, to ethelcain
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It’s Monday!! It’s also the three year anniversary of the release of the Mastodon-famous song “It’s Always Monday On The Moon”

Written for future moon workers spending long hours doing dangerous work in a lethal environment, my song is about how quickly the enthusiasm for a job like this may disappear quickly due to the isolation and monotonous routine.

https://song.link/i/1570437239

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