Bullet LaVolta

[hirez]

I keep thinking of things I should mention, then I forget them again. Annoying. It probably means that they're not that important.

A couple of weeks ago I started (re)reading the Schroedinger's Cat trilogy. Now it's everywhere. Furbish Lousewort is running Unistat and the usual suspects (i.e. the people who I'd expect to be infected with the RAW virus) are mentioning primate behaviour. It's like someone lifted a manhole and I've caught a glimpse of the rods and wires connecting everything together like some vast pinball machine.

I still get a strange tingle over the acquisition of new domain-names. How nineties of me.

'Operation Beatbox' quickly and clearly demonstrates everything that is wrong with synth/whinecore/INDUSTRAIL(tm).

I can't get my head around the automation features in Fruityloops 3.5. I should probably upgrade the 4.x version to $latest and find out if the producer edition is worth the upgrade wedge. (and indeed properly ask myself why I'd need those tools in the first place.)

It feels like September. I deeply and genuinely dislike that month. It's still the month of back to school. There will be adverts for A4 pads, protractors and sensible trousers soon. I will be filled with a nebulous sense of dread and be forced to go do something pointless and life (or liver) threatening to prove to myself I'm still alive and the bastards haven't got me yet.

Heaven is what heaven eats.

Where's my Akufen CD?

Comments

[lee-chaos.livejournal.com]

I should probably upgrade the 4.x version to $latest

Yes. SOooo yes.

Have evaluation copy here. It's stunning. Cubase can fuck off and think about what it's done. Or failed to do.

will mail it to you when i recall yr address.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

The (paid for by jarkman as a present) one I have here is...

[FX: Prodding]

4.1.0 Fruityloops edition. It say I can hupgrade to producer for $59. That's about nine-pound-fifty in proper empire money. The wave-hackery stuff looks seriously worth it.

[FX: Stares into space for a bit]

Ok. Now I know what I was doing wrong last night. Editing automation on wrong bloody pattern. No wonder it ignored it all.

[lee-chaos.livejournal.com]

Spend the coins of the realm in our rebel colony and be rewarded with seriously shit-hot effects (with routing modelled on - gasp! - an actual sound desk!) VSTi-ness, Rewire hackery (these being things that make it play nice with other toys) and a bunch of other stuff that'll make you go ooh.

I think you'd like Ableton Live too. It's suitably hatstand and results vary from PWEI loop-goes-on-loop-goes-off-ness to kid606 utter mongout.

By the by, loved the transcript of the Arkam bunfight.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I think I want to play with noise-gate effects. Among other things.

(And my old band-mate Jon want to collaborate. Lord alone knows how we'll manage Garageband/F-L portability. Samples on C90s, no doubt.)

Ableton. Yes. That one came up on the S-H list as a Good Thing... As did the mic-stand with a joystick built into the base and a set of control strips up the length of it, all of which spit out MIDI. Way, way cool.

Arkam? Thank you. I think that came out better than I had any right to expect.

[nils.livejournal.com]

'Operation Beatbox' quickly and clearly demonstrates everything that is wrong with synth/whinecore/INDUSTRAIL(tm).

I picked that up from the bargain bin at some German festival for one Euro. Never got around to listening to it. Should I bother?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure. Recall that I have a great deal of time for Public Enemy, Run DMC, Tackhead, Timezone and most things old-skool and funkier'n fuck. And that I don't much care for four-square and dull whinecore.

Yon CD is a set of previously rather good tracks rendered clumpy and shouting. People who like their electronic music whiteboyed up will call that a good thing.

I think it's a sack of crap. Thankfully most of the bands concerned have split up.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Good god but I love the Schroedinger's cat trilogy.

I should read more of R.A.W.'s stuff. I've only read Illuminatus, Masks of Illuminati and S.C. trilogy. have you read any others?

There's a lovely part of Julian Cope's autobiography in which he blames R.A.W. for Bill Drummond's madness and his dicking about with the career of the Teardrop explodes.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I started on the Prometheus set (I think) directly after I'd charged through Illuminatus and SC ten years ago. I think I had to stop there because things became too strange, or I was turning into an Extropian.

Now that I've had that many years more experience of wierd shit and some different drugs, I find I'm appreciating it a lot more.

One of the Cosmic Trigger set is downtairs. I'll get to it as soon as is likely.

I think I shall re-read Ken McLeod's 'Fall revolution' books directly after, just to see what happens. If I take to the hills to build robots while muttering about The Singularity, you'll know things went well and I'll have successfully forgotten why I can't do the things I want to.

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

If I take to the hills to build robots while muttering about The Singularity...
Very, very few of us will be in the least bit surprised.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

:p

I'll be disappointed if y'all don't come and visit. Just give your name to the tractor at the gate and it'll go find me.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

I do find it strange, the effect that RAW has on people. I read the Illuminatus trilogy donkeys ago and was left utterly.... well, untouched. I thought it was all just a bit silly really. I'm not sure what that says about me. Hmmmm. Oh well.

[steer.livejournal.com]

"Prometheus Set"? Is this "Prometheus Rising"? Irksomely, amazon seems to stock a bizarre collection -- e.g Cosmic Trigger I and III but not II. (Not that I would be too surprised if he wrote I and III but not II.)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes. Prometheus Rising.

I bagged the entirety of SC from Abebooks for £pittance. Cosmic Trigger, on the other hand, was £bloody-hell-how-much? So currently I only have CTii, but will grit my credit-card and buy the other two should it turn out to be a Good Thing.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I've had the weather fixed today. Hope it helps.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Seems to. That and a Healthy Cycle into work (and walking yesterday) appear to habe lifted my mood.

See, I don't hold with that S.A.D. nonsense - winter's just shite. I should move someplace they don't bother with it.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Yes. The inside of a nicely-insulated shed, for example.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That seems a reasonable idea.