The topic of first concerts we saw came up today and I was floored to realize that today is the thirtieth anniversary of my seeing Pink Floyd in concert at the Big O (Olympic stadium) in Montreal.
What a band to see live. And really set expectations way too high for other concerts.
As a young fella just getting into #jazz in the late eighties my first impressions of David Sanborn were that he was corny and overly smooth, in an unhip bag I didn't dig with guys like Metheny and the Breckers. Then he blew my fucking mind with the Night Music show and I've respected him ever since. There was almost no really cool weird music on TV in 1988-90 except that show, and man, Night #Music was legit!!! Nick Cave, Bongwater, Pere Ubu, Miles Davis...
44100 Hz or 48000 Hz for #musicproduction?
Personally I usually go with 48000 Hz because it somehow feels more "natural" to me than 44100 Hz (as half of 96000 Hz or a quarter of 192000 Hz). Made my life easier a few times when I wanted to #compose#music for #movies too. #daw#linuxaudio
1st dragonboat races, happening on May 26. I have to be on location all day, as when I'm not paddling in race, will be doing drum/beat calling for races I don't paddle in. I'm also doing several other volunteer duties on our first race day so would love to create a big #music playlist for the whole day!
Please drop some high energy songs to this open for #musicRecommendations for active water sports thread!
Here's a digest of this week's #OPM writeups! 5 tracks from indie Fediverse #music artists to expand your musical horizons. Unusual ambient, wild ADHDcore, and more this week!
If you want the full, undigested versions (i.e. where I have more to say about each one than will fit in a single post) of these writeups, they are here:
Folks with #selfhosted#music libraries, I've heard some folks say that they have 10TB of audio files in their libraries. Approximately how many individual tracks is that? I'm assuming that it's a lot of lossless files, but I'm curious what the average file size is and the number of files that comprise such a library.
It's #Fedivision Friday, and to help the participating musicians along I've dedicated this week's #OPM write-ups to covering some of the entries. I couldn't do all 72 (!) but I did do all 16 of my mutuals' entries! Read them here:
And revel in the wild variety of music of the Fediverse. From doomy cyberpunk techno to giallo-inspired twee psychedelia, this is a deep class, with lots of intriguing music to discover. Dive in, and enjoy!
The 4th Annual Fedivision Song Contest has concluded. What an incredible event, and indeed, an amazing achievement by the organisers of the event. 🎉
Shoutout to the face of Fedivision 2024, the winner of Fedivision 2023, @futzle for the incredible effort they’ve put into putting this together and keeping it running! 👏
Congratulations to every single person who entered their music! It’s been so much fun listening to your tracks. All of them!! 🫶
Shout out to Radio Free Fedi (@radiofreefedi) for hosting the pop-up channel for the event! They’ve done an amazing job! 👍
Congratulations to our winner, @keefmarshall for their incredible piece “Misaligned Aardvarks”! 🏆
Congrats to our runner up @negativeplayers for their amazing song “The New Rage”! ✌️
Big love to everyone who voted “All Zombies Go To Heaven” into 3rd place. Out of 72 entries, you humble me. Thank you. ☺️
I’m honoured to share the top ten with all the excellent artists who got a shoutout from the Fedivision Vote Bot. The entire selection is an amazing collection of impressive works!! 🥂
I want to thank my Wife, and Mom & Dad, and…
*#Dgar is forcibly escorted from the podium while continuously trying to thank everyone they can think of…
i've always found pop covers of metal songs fascinating as they clearly draw out the original creator's intended melody and reveal the pop underpinnings of metal (standard verse-chorus song structures, for example), and The Cardigan's cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath comes close to being one of my favorite renovations.