stupid first world achievements and successes

Yeah... I feel kind of guilty having some of my best times in a while while in isolation.  But I also have a couple friends living on the same property that I see regularly, so it's not really that isolated.    

Airwindows started following me on soundcloud...

I live demo’d me controlling a synthesiser using only my heartbeat and brainwaves tonight using a Raspberry Pi at an online Pi Jam.  Heartbeat controlling gate of notes and brain sensor controlling pitch (going up as I got more relaxed).  Getting both equipment and me to work over live video was a significant risk 

  On 4/7/2020 at 2:53 AM, thebotmakes said:

I live demo’d me controlling a synthesiser using only my heartbeat and brainwaves tonight using a Raspberry Pi at an online Pi Jam.  Heartbeat controlling gate of notes and brain sensor controlling pitch (going up as I got more relaxed).  Getting both equipment and me to work over live video was a significant risk 

That sounds really interesting... do you have vids or anything by chance? I'm not v savvy with tech at this point in my life so I've never heard of anything like that before.

  On 4/7/2020 at 3:12 AM, Hugh Mughnus said:

That sounds really interesting... do you have vids or anything by chance? I'm not v savvy with tech at this point in my life so I've never heard of anything like that before.

They’ve recorded the session so hopefully I’ll be able to post a link soon (or just stop being lazy and do a vid myself of course )

Sat & worked in the sun most of the afternoon from the garden, which was nice.

Monday curry leftovers for lunch, damn that munch just gets better the longer it marinades, then found a stash of Magnum ice things in the back of the freezer stashed by you know who you are wench.

Hoping a mate who works for the NHS gets the drive-thru COVID test being set up in town pronto. That would be a big relief for his brood & family. If we ever want a decompression lol to process shifts & work horror, he’ll anonymously regale tales of bodily fluids run amok among the diseased and the dying. Makes you appreciate what you do have during our brief tenure here.

i'm satisfied w/a track i just spent a few days mixing because the rumble in the low end was fucking things up. was recorded as a jam so was 2 stereo tracks w/all the bits and pieces. it was a bit of a battle but i won. 

Finally mustered up the courage to chop the keyboard off my minilogue, something I’ve been wanting to do for 2 years. The plastic casing on the bottom is everything but straight but the aluminium top came out ok, it’s a bit rough but some polishing would probably help and I don’t really mind anyway. Cut a temporary front for it out of some crappy pressed wood but it’s not really working so taped it shut, will replace it with a piece of aluminium in the future. Was quite relieved it was still working after reassembly : ) 

mildly drunk post and deleted!

(sorry)

Spent the better part of the day migrating my hobby stuff off an Azure VPS and onto a cheaper one, a process enormously complicated by the fact that I had decided to Dockerize all my little applications.

Now that the day is almost over I can proudly announce that this first world problem has become a first world success and I will never be able to tweak my little applications right on the server they're running on ever again.

Naps are underrated. Nothing like a good half hour- one hour nap. 

Had a half hour nap just yesterday.

sent an ep off to get mastered. hopefully it'll come out this month. wasn't going to release anything for a while but seems like a good window 

Noice!

  On 4/15/2020 at 8:37 PM, whosebrian said:

 

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moving truck or storage unit?

  On 4/15/2020 at 8:40 PM, ignatius said:

moving truck or storage unit?

Moving truck, layer 2/3 of stuff. I'm nearly finished unloading

  On 4/15/2020 at 8:44 PM, whosebrian said:

Moving truck, layer 2/3 of stuff. I'm nearly finished unloading

ouch my back. whenever i've moved the first day was always beer and pizza ritual once unloaded. 

Most of the shops in Finland are still open, some are closed and some have limited hours. Anyway, I went to buy new sneakers and the shopping experience was quite nice because there were very few customers and the sales people left me alone to browse instead of trying to push some products. A+ experience.

Ate lunch in my back yard, under the sun, having a beer. Best thing I've done all week.

modular patch w/a bunch of old samples and some derp sounds turned out alright. 

Sounding tight, mang.

Been thinking about live coding and after looking into some options decided it would be a fun project to see how far I could get with whipping up something of my own in a programming language that, unlike Haskell (TidalCycles), I already know and that, unlike Max/MSP, does not make me throw up.

So tonight after about an hour or two I built something in Racket that can send note data via MIDI.

This was the hard, getting wonky tooling to work part. From now on things will start to get interesting, I expect.

Got food from Amazon.

By food I mean pot noodles & Diet Coke.

After a month and a half, I'm finally getting my routine back in order and feeling a lot healthier. My anxiety about all this shit is starting to be manageable, too.

I also won a Delorean in GTA V recently and the game is a ton more fun.