@reillypascal@hachyderm.io
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reillypascal

@reillypascal@hachyderm.io

Composer and audio programmer in Rochester, NY // I like noise, code, electronics, and nostalgia // lecturer in music tech and film/game scoring at SUNY Geneseo

Matrix: https://hachyderm.io/@reillypascal:matrix.org

#Blog #Composer #ContemporaryClassical #CPlusPlus #ExperimentalMusic #FountainPens #Glitch #IndieWeb #JUCE #Leftist #Maker #MaxMSP #MechanicalKeyboards #Microtonal #Musodon #NoiseMusic #Shitposting #WebDev

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reillypascal, to ai
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"This whole AI cycle was fueled by fantasies, and when people stop falling for them the bubble starts to deflate. In The Guardian, John Naughton recently laid out the five stages of financial bubbles, noting AI is between stages three and four: euphoria and profit-taking."

https://disconnect.blog/ai-hype-is-over-ai-exhaustion-is-setting-in/

skinnylatte, to random
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My hobby (film development and printing) is really only possible because of the density of burned out hardware and software engineers with time and money, and a deeply autistic interest in making things work (just spoke to the people who set up my community darkroom. They bought out gear from labs which closed, and fixed it up.. this doesn’t really exist anywhere else)

I have a color darkoom I can use! (They rebuilt some color processors, it was pretty gnarly)

reillypascal,
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@skinnylatte as an autistic person I really love when people have these kinds of intense interests in things

mxtthxw, to random
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The boss just came back with this for re-amping….

reillypascal,
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@mxtthxw looks like fun! I love megaphones — this piece of music actually uses them as instruments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYiG2DDVS7Y

reillypascal, to MaxMSP
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Some sound combos I'm trying out

A screen recording of Max/MSP with an inset of me placing a tin with a contact mic on the speaker of a small amp to make feedback

reillypascal, to SmallWeb
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I'm at an odd place with my personal website. Before Dec. 2023, it was a "professional portfolio" for my compositions. Now that I'm interested in the IndieWeb community, I want to make something more personal. I don't think I want to make two sites, but I do still need a portfolio for my composition work.

I just read @maggie's post on "digital gardens" and I really like that idea. (1/n)

https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

#IndieWeb #DigitalGarden #SmallWeb #SmolWeb #Blog #Composer #Musodon

reillypascal,
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I definitely want to add more pages, and once I add dropdowns within the menus, that'll be easier to organize. My main thing is that I don't know how to strike a balance of "personal" and "portfolio" in the content I put on my site.

Does anyone else have experience/thoughts on this? (2/2)

reillypascal,
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@mattly something I didn't mention but that I've been thinking about is how much I like some of the early "net art" or other experiments with hypertext, e.g., Olia Lialina's "my boyfriend came back from the war" (http://www.teleportacia.org/war/).

I don't know what would be a way to make something like that today that was fresh and original, but I'm thinking about it

reillypascal,
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@alabut ooh I love this! When I get around to releasing a record, I might do this. I did some ASCII bubble letters on this instruction .txt file that comes with the performance materials for this recent piece: https://applytriangle.bandcamp.com/track/if-this-reaches-you

reillypascal, to Spotify
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"'It appears Spotify has returned to attacking the very songwriters who make its business possible,' said David Israelite, the NMPA’s president and CEO [...] 'Spotify’s attempt to radically reduce songwriter payments by reclassifying their music service as an audiobook bundle is a cynical, and potentially unlawful, move [...] We will not stand for their perversion of the settlement we agreed upon in 2022.'"

https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/spotify-songwriters-less-mechanical-royalties-audiobooks-bundle-1235673829/

reillypascal,
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My refusal to use Spotify and massive preference for Bandcamp/Mirlo/Jam.coop/Faircamp grows every day

reillypascal,
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@vincentbiret the ones I mentioned focus on selling downloads to listeners. Bandcamp is the one I'm most familiar with, and if you buy something there, it also becomes available for unlimited streaming on their app/website.

I also use SoundCloud for my portfolio stuff that I'm not selling, and Jamendo sounds cool for free streaming/licensing purposes.

reillypascal, to internet
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I've been feeling exactly like this comic, but I got a cheap retro alarm clock and started keeping my phone in the living room at night. It's really nice

A small white circular alarm clock with a classic 8-segment LCD and a blue backlight. It also gives temperature and date.

reillypascal, to opensource
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Music platform @mirlo is raising funds to keep running! They let listeners buy directly from musicians, with only 7% going to the platform. They're owned by a worker co-op and open-source too

I really appreciate what they're doing, especially with the instability at Bandcamp

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

#Musodon #Mirlo #Bandcamp #Kickstarter #Fundraiser #OpenSource #Coop #WorkerOwned #WorkerCoop

reillypascal, to internet
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"Ecologists have reoriented their field as a 'crisis discipline,' a field of study that’s not just about learning things but about saving them. We technologists need to do the same. Rewilding the internet connects and grows what people are doing across regulation, standards-setting and new ways of organizing and building infrastructure, to tell a shared story of where we want to go."

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet

reillypascal, to CASIO
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I got a new watch! I realized having a basic digital watch would let me leave my phone in my bag more often, which helps me spend less time checking it. Plus this looks extremely 90s and I love it

reillypascal, to Blog
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New blog post! I talk about making this "broken radio" sound I posted about a few weeks ago: https://hachyderm.io/@reillypascal/112242684024114281

The sound is pretty involved, so this week I'm talking about just the glitchy looper part. I will make a part 2 soon, to talk about combining the looper with radio noises.

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blog/05-04-2024

axwax, to selfhosted
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It's not quite yet, but is all go!

As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by or not, hosted on , , , or , as long as it is by an (but bonus points for supporting Bandcampers today, as it's the last one for a while).

Simply make a direct comment (with a link & description) to this post and it will appear at https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day automagically!

🔈🎶

reillypascal,
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@axwax I have a recent release! This track is for clarinet, flute, and MIDI keyboard w/ Max/MSP. There are strange woodwind noises and multiphonics, ham radio samples & retro electric piano, among other things, and it sounds glitchy and trippy. It's on a compilation w/ 11 other composers, and that's great to check out as well!

https://applytriangle.bandcamp.com/track/if-this-reaches-you

reillypascal, to ExperimentalMusic
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@radiofreefedi is looking for donations to cover hosting costs and keep the station running. I really like their mission — I'm listening to the experimental hour on their specialty channel, and I just discovered this cool track from @cmdr_nova: https://eyeshadow2600fm.bandcamp.com/track/degradation

https://blog.radiofreefedi.net/2024-rff-infrastructure-fund

reillypascal, to workersrights
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Happy international workers day! A friend shared this on another platform and I thought it was cute

molly0xfff, to web
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If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the , what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

reillypascal,
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@molly0xfff the main thing I miss is people actually going to a variety of websites. I remember when Wordle just came out (and wasn't owned by NYT) somebody said that if there is going to be a web3, it'll just be people actually going to websites again, like they were with Wordle, and that resonated with me.

reillypascal, to ExperimentalMusic
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Chair scraping (slowed + reverb)

Unfortunately he's not on here, but this guy Petr Válek/the VAPE has some pretty wild noises

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6S477pKrKh/

Two people standing on either side of a wood chair in a large, white, reverberant room with tile floor and stone carvings on the wall. They drag it slowly and theatrically back and forth, making reverberant scraping noises.

stevenray, to modularsynth
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My DUSG (dual universal slope generator) arrived this week, completing my little Serge skiff.

#modular #serge #eurorack #musicStudio @synths

A photo of a eurorack skiff with four modules, taken from directly above. The modules left to right are GTO, DPLPG, Wave Multipliers and Dual Universal Slope Generator. All by Serge by Random Source except for the DPLPG by Meng Qi.

reillypascal,
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@ology it takes in a control voltage that immediately jumps from value to value and slows down that jump into a smooth slope. You can adjust how fast the rise time and fall time are independently of each other. Another term that gets used for something like this is a "slew limiter."

The module can also generate its own slopes as an envelope, or it can cycle the slopes as an LFO

reillypascal, to listentothis
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"Sounds a bit like early Scanner collaborating with a handful of classical musicians, but everyone is on datura (in a good way)."

Thanks to @etherdiver for a lovely review! You can read the blog post here, and make sure to check out the other musicians as well: https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/04/25/opm-electroacoustic-magic-and-more/

reillypascal, to space
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@skrishna is super cool and I love this newsletter! https://wandering.shop/@skrishna/112332886203206306

It's about the latest news in space and astronomy, and the RSS link is here: https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/BX2SPZ0naG.xml

MLE_online, (edited ) to random
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The items for my brother's pitch drop experiment birthday present arrived, so now I need to make a stand for the funnel. This brass ring is a good place to start

reillypascal,
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@MLE_online this looks so cool!

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