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poiseunderchaos

@poiseunderchaos@sonomu.club

Composer, songwriter, poet, prose writer.

She/her/they. Trans. Biracial. Hyphenated and caffeinated.

Well over 30. Not here to flirt or whatever.

My work tends to be experimental, but accessible. Links to projects are below.

Best way to find out more is to listen to, watch or read what I do.

I block reply guys. Yes, this includes you.

Don't copy my words without my consent, including screen captures. (Boosts are OK.)

Image credits: Pexels.com.

#nobot #nosearch

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s, to Musicproduction
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If you're a serious hobbyist I strongly recommend Landr as a source for great feedback on your tracks. You can hire a professional for a relatively modest (depending on your budget) amount to give very insightful and actionable feedback on your stuff.

I've used a guy called Franz Matthews on there on every track I've released one I've got a good draft together and the changes suggested have always added a really professional touch.

poiseunderchaos,
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@s I don't mean to counter your experiences, but my standing rule is "Don't trust any 'professional feedback' service, because they're usually scams or at least way overpriced", tbh

ajroach42, to random
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Shakti (John Mcglaughlin's band which last released an album in like 75 or something) recorded a new album last year and did a tiny desk?

poiseunderchaos,
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@ajroach42 Did not know this. I remember them from back when.

poiseunderchaos, to random
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LB:

"While Big Tech sites like Spotify claim they’re “democratizing” culture, they instead demand artists engage in double the labor to make a fraction of what they would have made under the old model. That labor amounts to constant self-promotion in the form of cheap trend-following, ever-changing posting strategies, and the nagging feeling that what you are really doing with your time is marketing, not art."

1/2

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"Under the tyranny of algorithmic media distribution, artists, authors — anyone whose work concerns itself with what it means to be human — now have to be entrepreneurs, too."

This is exactly what I keep going on about. smh

poiseunderchaos, to random
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Climbs into time machine, set for 1967

"This is gonna sound square, but you should join a union"

Grateful Dead: you're right, that sounds square

Makes calibrations

Climbs back into time machine, set for 2013

poiseunderchaos, to random
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"How to computer when your ideas are 10x faster than what you currently have," an occasional saga

poiseunderchaos, to random
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Art is life.

Brands, not so much.

poiseunderchaos, to random
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I don't think "10,000 hours to get good at something" is a universal rule, but it's a good rule of thumb.

poiseunderchaos,
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What do I mean by this? It's possible to just take to something, that's all. It doesn't always happen, but it can.

That doesn't mean that you can skip out on the hard parts, though! It's not necessarily an advantage -- if anything, the risk is that you'll get lazy because you're good, faster. So then what?

DoctorDeathray, to random
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I feel like I’m cosplaying success. When does “take it till you make it” fail?

poiseunderchaos,
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@SrRochardBunson @DoctorDeathray @ajroach42 "Nobody knows anything" -- William Goldman

We're all making it up as we go along. That's part of the fun! (And aggravation, but usually followed by fun at some point)

poiseunderchaos,
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@SrRochardBunson @DoctorDeathray @ajroach42 It may not seem like it in the moment, though. But it is

ajroach42, to random
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Is the original soundtrack to the first film to win Best Picture actually lost media?

God, we have no respect for our own culture.

poiseunderchaos,
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@ajroach42 This...sounds like a project. Hmn

poiseunderchaos, to random
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"My novels, Empathy (1992) and The Mere Future (2009), in particular are not middlebrow literary novels, but rather use associative thinking, collage, wordplay, juxtaposition of materials, and other long-recognized methods of art practice to convey ideas so complex that derivative conventional narrative constructions would not do these ideas justice. In other words, some ideas have to be formally replicated, instead of being described. They have to be evoked."

1/2

poiseunderchaos, to random
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Who decided to call it "streaming" and not "culture fracking"

poiseunderchaos, to random
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Blogs.

Blog rolls.

Podcast lists.

poiseunderchaos,
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Independent media servers.

Mesh networks.

Search engines without AI.

Search engines without corporations.

Begin again.

poiseunderchaos, to random
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"The parent company of WebMD made an unbelievably bad video telling workers to come back to the office.

Bob Brisco, CEO of Internet Brands, says, “We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point.”

And somehow that’s not even the worst part."

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2BE_CiO6oA/

poiseunderchaos, to random
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My offer to improvise a play whilst someone wears goggles for less than the cost of a VR headset still remains. Act now!

poiseunderchaos,
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I mean, look at this slightly out of vogue individual. This could be you, in whichever gender variation you prefer. The possibilities are endless, and breathtaking, and

poiseunderchaos,
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Seriously though, while I have some criticisms of the whole gadget culture around hardware synths, that's nothing compared to dropping $3500 on a VR headset. I mean, why. I mean, I know why, but why. Why

poiseunderchaos,
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Maybe you can store them in a Mac Pro. I mean, there's ample room in there. It's like a micro-TARDIS of mostly nothingness. Ennui box 2024

poiseunderchaos, to random
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OK, so that's the critique. Here's the solution, or a solution.

poiseunderchaos,
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The only way to address that is to de-platform them, and if needed, de-platform the ones who keep enabling them as well, on "free speech" grounds or whatever convenient cover happens to be around.

In contrast, autonomy is about the right to leave. There's been struggles around this for years on here, but the ability to take the code (or use someone else's modified code) to have more local access, defederation, even an instance that is just one user -- those are all actual things.

poiseunderchaos,
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~ interlude ~

If you use "horrible" as an excuse to be ableist, I will block your ass 💋 I meant what I said, not what you want me to say.

~ end interlude ~

poiseunderchaos,
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Unlike corporate social media, you can just make a space with friends here, and have that be it.

Now, there's limits to that as well -- doing that doesn't mean that people might not be fucked up towards you for doing that, and there's definitely examples of that on here. In a way, everybody who isn't just a user of .social, waiting for the partnership with whatever post-Meta horrors await, is in that category -- but still, as much as some people want this to be a kinder, gentler silo,

poiseunderchaos,
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it's not designed to be "a twitter alternative" or whatever.

it's designed for federation, quite literally. in other words: autonomy and mutual aid.

I think we're still struggling with autonomy, tbh. White people especially have a hard time with the idea of it -- "Black people have their own community interests that don't center mine? Oh, the horror" -- but that doesn't change how things are designed, either.

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