reillypascal

skrishna, 2 months ago to space

Weekly space news is here!

• How to de-ice a telescope from a million miles away
• A new star may appear in our sky soon
• VERITAS, the mission to Venus, is back!
• A map of 1.3 million quasars

and more!

Newsletter version will go out in the morning.

#space #science #scicomm

https://youtu.be/vWf2gpmk95c

reillypascal, 2 months ago to ElectronicMusic

Some glitchy bass growls from a piece I'm working on!

Imported some non-audio data into Audacity > time stretched it with a phase vocoder > chopped it at the transients > used the Max/MSP "MuBu" tools for concatenative synthesis.

#ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic #GlitchMusic #MaxMSP #NoiseMusic #SoundDesign #Synth @synths

A Max/MSP patch using the [mubu.concat~] object. I click a button and the patch generates random sweeps on an X/Y grid

reillypascal, 2 months ago to composer

I'm getting my music on PeerTube, and here's the next one! It's for 2 pianists, 2 percussionists & "no-input mixer." The outputs of the mixer are connected back to various inputs, and I can unmute various channels to get feedback. The percussionists are playing a homemade speaker instrument, megaphone & more.

#Musodon #Composer #ElectronicMusic #NoiseMusic #Experimental #ExperimentalMusic #Noise #ContemporaryClassical #Piano #Percussion @contemporarymusic

https://makertube.net/w/raJPvm2wD7nhn2Vrrve4Vy

reillypascal, 3 months ago to Blog

I finally have an RSS feed for my blog! I was initially trying to figure out a way to automatically generate it based on my posts, but I found it was actually quite easy to type it out by hand.

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blog/feed.xml

#Blog #RSS #Syndication #ExperimentalMusic #ElectronicMusic #NoiseMusic #SoundDesign #MaxMSP #CPlusPlus #JUCE #WebDev #IndieWeb

alabut, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Whew, 19 minutes left in February in the Pacific time zone and I just got my entry over the line for this month's #IndieWeb Carnival. Made it.

The topic is "digital relationships" and I reflected on how things have changed since the pandemic started.

https://alabut.com/writing/digitalrelationships

reillypascal, 3 months ago to Blog

Here's the latest post from my blog! I discuss making "composite" sounds using FFT spectra for part of a current composition project.

My site is all hand-written, but I found that drafting as Markdown in my Joplin notebook, and then converting to HTML in the terminal makes me much more inspired to write.

#Blog #IndieWeb #SoundDesign #MaxMSP #ElectronicMusic #ComputerMusic #ExperimentalMusic #NoiseMusic #Microtonal #Xenharmonic #Synth @synths

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blogposts/02-27-2024

reillypascal, 3 months ago to ExperimentalMusic

A chamber orchestra composition I recently put on PeerTube! One of the percussionists is placing a contact mic on a large speaker to make flabby feedback; the pianist is using a contact mic/transducer against the piano strings; and there's lots of microtonal/noise sounds from the rest of the ensemble.

#Musodon #Orchestra #ExperimentalMusic #NoiseMusic #ContemporaryClassical #ContemporaryMusic #Microtonal #Xenharmonic #NeueMusik #PeerTube @contemporarymusic

https://makertube.net/w/fz2qPi51xAQAXWjBboT1DL

mcc, 3 months ago to random

"HTML", an abbreviation for "hatemail",

reillypascal, 3 months ago to privacy

"But Meta’s version of consent offers users a Hobson’s choice — of paying at least €9.99/month for an ad-free subscription (per each account they have on Facebook and Instagram); or agreeing to its tracking.

No other choices are available, despite the GDPR stipulating that for consent to be a valid legal basis for processing people’s information it must be freely given."

#privacy #DataPrivacy #gdpr #tracking #regulation #TechRegulation #tech #TechNews

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/15/no-consent-or-pay-pls/

reillypascal, 3 months ago to bluesky

The CEO of Bluesky is named Bluesky

#bluesky #wikipedia #SocialMedia

reillypascal, 3 months ago to random

If a post on Twitter is a "tweet" and one on Bluesky is a "skeet," one on Facebook should be a "feet"

reillypascal, 3 months ago to ExperimentalMusic

I'm setting up on PeerTube; here's another one of my compositions for MIDI keyboard, cello & percussion

The MIDI keyboard has DX7 E-PIANO 1 tuned to 19-EDO & glitchy "databending" samples. The cello has a wah pedal & small amp that feeds back with the cello's contact mic.

https://makertube.net/w/7Bux8qi7gh4bu8iJokmQPQ

#musodon #experimentalmusic #noisemusic #contemporaryclassical #contemporarymusic #microtonal #xenharmonic #neuemusik #maxmsp #synth @synths @contemporarymusic

limebar, 3 months ago to music

I've never seen a consistent hashtag here used by Fedi musical artists when posting original material / promoting themselves. Is there one i'm missing?

The #music tag gets used for everything including someone just posting a favorite song from YouTube or whatever.

Other art disciplines have their tags that indicate "original poster" here.

Feels useful for discovery. Should be unique, indicate original music, clever and memorable, work fedi wide

#musicProduction people, what do you think?

reillypascal, 3 months ago to fountainpens

Here's my current collection of fountain pen inks. I've been collecting them for about a year (and some of them were presents from my partner and family). They make me happy.

#fountainpens #fountainpen #ink #fountainpenink #stationery #hobby #collection

reillypascal, 3 months ago to random

Hi everyone! I'm a composer & audio developer. I also like fountain pens, mechanical keyboards, software-defined radio, leftist politics & learning new things.

My music tends toward the glitchy, noisy, microtonal side of things, and I like to use Max/MSP and incorporate audio samples from my software-defined radio hobby. You can find my music at my site, SoundCloud & YouTube:

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/
https://soundcloud.com/reilly-spitzfaden
https://www.youtube.com/@reillyspitzfaden

#Introduction #Introductions #NewHere

reillypascal, 4 months ago to fountainpens

I just got a really pretty new fountain pen! It's a Hongdian N7 "Peacock" with a medium nib and piston filler.

Notebook is Tomoe River 68gsm from Goulet, and the ink is Robert Oster Sydney Lavender.

#fountainpen #fountainpens #bulletjournal #bujo #hongdian #peacock #pen #pens #stationery #writing

reillypascal, 4 months ago to sounddesign

Demo of some sounds from a piece I'm working on

The [fftz.ether~] object is comparing two sounds bin-by-bin and picking the bin that's quieter. One sound is microtonal (20-EDO) synth chords, and the other is a bunch of chopped snips of a noisy, lofi piano loop.

I also have snippets of FM radio static frequency-modulating the resulting sound, which I find sounds convincingly like the sounds are on a radio.

#sounddesign #maxmsp #xenharmonic #noisemusic #electronicmusic #glitch

video/mp4

HauntedOwlbear, 5 months ago to art

Make 2024 the year that we stop ceding cultural ground to fascists.

The fash love attaching themselves to cultural and artistic movements and subcultures with the express intention of claiming everything and everyone within those subcultures as their own.

The corollary of this is that we have to support anti-fascists within subcultures that are subject to this.

No, not everyone interested in medieval history is a "deus vult" chanting neo-monarchist who has wet dreams about a new crusade against a Muslim infidel.

Nor is every Crusader Kings or Divinity player out using the Steam forums as a recruiting platform for the alt-right.

Not every neo-pagan is also a neo-Nazi, nor every satanist, heathen, or Asaturar - hell, the Icelandic Ásatrúarfélagið, which should hold some sway in this, repeatedly speaks out against racism within heathenry, in the face of a long and organised project of entryism by the international far right.

Nor is every black metal fan or musician a racist, homophobe or bigot.

And not everyone with either a scholarly or practical interest in ancient Greek philosophy is a mammoth-hunting sexist, crying "men's rights" at the sight of a woman with a voice.

The same goes for enthusiasts of romantic landscape painting, classical sculpture, European architecture, fantasy fiction, goth, furry culture, and LARP.

Fascists specifically want to lay claim to a certain kind of cachet, coolness, cultural validity, rebellion, or edginess.

This list - which could be far longer - comes from my own experience fighting them out of spaces I enjoy being in or am adjacent to.

But more specifically, fascists want everything. Today it's someone's niche tabletop gaming hobby or music subculture, but the end game is that they wish to be the cultural arbiters of what is acceptable, what is decadent, and what art and culture mean.

Fascist works and movements exist within the fields I've named, but their broader project is to devour culture and shit the remnants back out as a bland narrative of white supremacism, stripped of context, diversity, history and deeper meaning.

Do not go along with this.
Do not go along with them.

Support anti-fascists within fields and subcultures subject to far-right entryism, appropriation or activity.

By agreeing to let fascists lay claim to that weird special interest group over there, by dismissing the people in that subculture who're actively fighting them off as apologists, cat's paws or useful idiots, we accept the fascist narrative that they - and only they - get to own and define culture.

Do not take their fucking word for it when they say something belongs to them.

They think the world belongs to them, and they're wrong about that, too.

#AntiFascism #art #culture