keefmarshall

keefmarshall, 2 months ago to random

Bandcamp Fridays announced for the rest of the year - and it's not as many as before, so worth noting these down:

"The next Bandcamp Friday is April 5, 2024, followed by our 40th Bandcamp Friday on May 3. After that, Bandcamp Fridays will continue on September 6, October 4, and December 6."

Next one is tomorrow!

[These are the days when more of your money goes direct to the artists - Bandcamp waive their fees]

#BandcampFriday

keefmarshall, 16 days ago to random

#FediVision fans! It's probably worth noting that the songs won't stay up on the site for long after the contest is over.

So make a note now of any artists you particularly like, so you can find their stuff later!

The links you need are all up on https://fedivision.party

keefmarshall, 6 months ago to random

Did you know the Fediverse has it's own meta-genre of music - #BonkWave ? Today is an excellent day to check it out, as the latest compilation has just been released, over two discs:

https://bonkknobrecords.bandcamp.com/album/not-what-i-call-bonk-wave-volume-002-disc-a
https://bonkknobrecords.bandcamp.com/album/not-what-i-call-bonk-wave-volume-002-disc-b

• there are 29 tracks of brand new, original electronic music from (mostly) fediverse musicians.

[Disclaimer: I have some music on there. You can skip that, listen to the good stuff!]

keefmarshall, 23 days ago to random

Quick note to anyone who is looking to vote in #FediVision this year.. it's a similar but slightly different process to last year. Change summary:

1. You can vote for up to three entries (whoo!)

2. The fedi account of the voting bot has changed

Voting isn't open yet! It runs from Sunday 19 May 2024 13:00 UTC until Sunday 26 May 2024, 19:00 UTC.

See https://fedivision.party/vote/ for all the details!

#FediVision2024

keefmarshall, 9 months ago to random

#Caturday yoga

keefmarshall, 13 days ago to random

Thanks again everyone for voting #NOTH in #FediVision - you have no idea how happy it has made me!

And yes, I will likely be unsufferable for a bit. sorry in advance :)

The track is up for download/streaming on all my usual places - please pop '0' in the pay box, if you have cash then put it towards either:

• the #radioFreeFedi infrstructure fund
  https://blog.radiofreefedi.net/2024-rff-infrastructure-fund

or:

• the #Mirlo kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo

.. I'm going to donate it anyway, and it'll save on fees...

keefmarshall, 13 days ago to random

Wow, first two sales on #Mirlo!! And large sums too!! Thanks folks! Very much appreciated!!

For anyone else considering a purchase: you can put 0 in the box - I'm going to donate the proceeds to Mirlo and Radio Free Fedi so it will save on processing fees if you donate directly to them instead of paying me.

Mirlo's Kickstarter is so close to the line but they won't get any of the money unless it gets over that line in the next five days:

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

keefmarshall, 5 months ago to random

#Faircamp webring update: the site now has a fresh new URL at https://faircamp.webr.ing/ - and a bonus extra feature of a site directory page at https://faircamp.webr.ing/directory.html (whoo!).

Now, everyone's links are still pointing at the old URL, which is fine, that will continue to work forever, but if you get a chance (maybe when next adding new content) it would be nice to change to the new one, it doesn't have my name in it!

The instructions have been updated accordingly.

#FairCampWebRing #webring

keefmarshall, 4 months ago to random

For all the artists interested in self-hosting their music through tools like #Faircamp, and how discovery might work in such a world, we have a Matrix chat channel here: https://matrix.to/#/#beyond-faircamp:tchncs.de

I've just posted a new update listing all the latest things that have happened in the last two weeks alone - far too long to post here on Mastodon!

Find out about:

• a new simpler way to install Faircamp on Windows
• a way to use Faircamp without installing it at all!
• webring update news
• and more!

keefmarshall, 23 days ago to random

I am pleased to announce that Key 13 will be representing The Island Of Nothing in the upcoming #FediVision competition!

There will be ANIMALS *

And MOOGS †

And also, for no particularly good reason, some MANDOLINS! ‡

Vote #NOTH from this Sunday!

---

• no animals were harmed during the making of this track

† pronounced "Mogue"

‡ not the type you use to slice things with, though, the other kind...

#FediVision2024 #key13

keefmarshall, 10 days ago to Musicproduction

Humble Bundle seems to have a bundle with some Cherry Audio virtual synths at the moment, including Quadra which you'll hear on a few Key 13 tracks, notably Primavera and Lateral Flow.

Also includes Mercury-4 which is a Roland Jupiter-4 emulation, and Dreamsynth.

The deal includes a whole bunch of sample packs too.

Not affiliated in any way but I use a lot of Cherry Audio stuff and this is a cheap price...!

https://www.humblebundle.com/software/music-creators-studio-essentials-software

#musicProduction

keefmarshall, 11 months ago to random

Bandcamp analytics are brutal..

"Yay, so many people played my track! 😍

"Oh, they all skipped it before the 10% mark" sob 😭

keefmarshall, 6 months ago to random

I think it's very important to state that no music critics were harmed in the creation of this track.

It may, or may not, be #BonkWave.

https://bonkknobrecords.bandcamp.com/track/ibm-intelligent-bonk-music

keefmarshall, 13 days ago to random

#Fedivision musicians - if you have a track from Fedivision (any year) that's on SoundCloud, let me know and I'll add it to this playlist here: https://soundcloud.com/user-96081182/sets/fedivision

.. I've just rediscovered @herr_irrtum 's wonderful track "The Cat" from last year and added that, along with a couple of others I found but it's looking quite sparse at the moment!

keefmarshall, 12 days ago to random

I'm so sorry.. I can't resist. Still can't believe this.

You only have yourselves to blame.

#Fedivision #Fedivision2024 #radioFreeFedi

keefmarshall, 14 days ago to random

"Misaligned Aardvarks" released!

Key 13's entry to the Fedivision Song Contest 2024 is now available to stream and download.

The B-side is a newly remixed version of "Primavera" - Key 13's cheesy butchering of a Vivaldi classic.

Exclusively on #mirlo is a new Anniversary Remaster of "Solarpunk Grazers", last year's contest entry.

https://mirlo.space/key13/release/misaligned-aardvarks

https://music.key13.uk/misaligned-aardvarks/

https://key13.bandcamp.com/album/misaligned-aardvarks

Free, but please donate - see next post.

#fedivision #fedivision2024 #key13 #aardvarks

keefmarshall, 22 days ago to random

Belated warning to anyone who has no interest in #FediVision - you should probably mute me for the next 7-8 days or so.

You have probably already figured that out though.

(But hey, why wouldn't anyone be excited about #FediVision2024 !!)

keefmarshall, 4 months ago to random

Quick note to say I've just posted another news digest to the Beyond Faircamp Matrix room.

Too much to repeat here (I only have 500 characters), but you can find out about an important bug fix in the latest Faircamp release, a template for adding new pages to your Faircamp website, a community calendar for live streaming events, and more!

https://matrix.to/#/#beyond-faircamp:tchncs.de

#Faircamp

flockofnazguls, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to synths

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limebar, 9 days ago to ElectronicMusic

https://codeberg.org/yonder/python-musical-midi

Using image2midi and only the Massive VST synth and this input image. Pleasant image -> aggressive music.

#image2midi thanks to @yonder

#limebar #myMusic #electronicMusic

keefmarshall, 16 days ago to random

OK, the #FediVision vote has genuinely been stressing me out all week - I realise this is ridiculous, but there we are.

So I'm just going to vote for three off my shortlist. Not quite at random, but otherwise I will go insane.

I'm not going to say who, either.

But next year.. I dunno. I think we need a different way? I just don't know what. More votes? 10% of the total entries? Something, anything to make it easier.

#FediVision2024

keefmarshall, 7 days ago to random

I've just discovered there is an artist called "No Key 13".

Should I take this personally? 🤣