The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time

Has probably been posted before but I really dig his take on Imagine. 

I think anybody who has played around with ring modulation and other tricks would recognize it's not very easy to have something as legible but markedly different come out the other end. Easy or difficult in music is a pointless gatekeeping talking point, much more important whether it speaks to you in some way. Some good music is certainly difficult to make and maybe yeah, it'd suck if everybody just pitch shifted ballroom music. But we're not, and V/VM is obviously making an impact on people.  

  On 3/9/2022 at 12:45 PM, fumi said:

Some 635 comments on that YouTube piece. He must have picked up a whole new audience after that Tik-Tok thing.

Kirby goes mainstream.

635 comments of pure cringe

  On 3/9/2022 at 10:27 PM, chim said:

Has probably been posted before but I really dig his take on Imagine. 

I think anybody who has played around with ring modulation and other tricks would recognize it's not very easy to have something as legible but markedly different come out the other end. Easy or difficult in music is a pointless gatekeeping talking point, much more important whether it speaks to you in some way. Some good music is certainly difficult to make and maybe yeah, it'd suck if everybody just pitch shifted ballroom music. But we're not, and V/VM is obviously making an impact on people.  

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Manipulating a vocal so it’s still a vocal, but unrecognizable is an art form unto itself 

Live in the UK next month.

  On 10/9/2022 at 5:11 PM, Rubin Farr said:

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Whot be this? Is that him, shaven? Don't recognize him...

Elaborate, please!

  On 10/9/2022 at 6:25 PM, t yst r said:

Whot be this? Is that him, shaven? Don't recognize him...

Elaborate, please!

yes, his current FB pic. he’s proud of his long ass desk.

track top is fresh.

  On 10/9/2022 at 8:52 PM, Rubin Farr said:

yes, his current FB pic. he’s proud of his long ass desk.

feel like he needs a desk like this to fit the record players

I've finally written and submitted an article on The Caretaker to the British Journal of Psychiatry. It had a 500 word limit so it's more of an introduction mainly for Psychiatrists just to raise awareness of his work. I'm a Psychiatry doctor still in training and worked for 6 months on end-stage dementia ward.

I find his work incredibly important both conceptually, but also to just enjoy. 

I'll post my article here when I'm able to, not sure if it'll get picked up for publication but I hope it does.

I'd like to write something much more longform at some point once I've finished a couple of exams and have time, and try and link it to actual practice with some of the Old Age Psychiatry Consultants but that will be a major piece of work for another day.

His tracks are now officially on streaming:

"I don't want it there but it is what it is. Endless bad actors and snide uploaders monetised it [my work] constantly for greed and made what they made. Time to draw a line under this chapter now and look forward to days where I no longer have to issue endless takedown requests, speaking only to bots, fighting my corner completely alone."

https://ra.co/news/79953?fbclid=IwAR31CsXKZt4O3orGyoDOkdgzY2EHug_qL9jQ3O_C2B9xym6QZY2BJF6vK9Q

My short article on Leyland's project and Dementia has finally been published by the British Journal of Psychiatry today.

Will be in print edition next month.

Brap!

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/an-empty-bliss-beyond-this-world-the-music-of-the-caretaker-as-a-representation-of-dementia-psychiatry-in-music/7CABE1610A4F5D45CD9B699E3126354A?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=whatsapp&utm_source=im#

  On 5/24/2024 at 7:19 PM, Richie Sombrero said:

My short article on Leyland's project and Dementia has finally been published by the British Journal of Psychiatry today.

Will be in print edition next month.

Brap!

 

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/an-empty-bliss-beyond-this-world-the-music-of-the-caretaker-as-a-representation-of-dementia-psychiatry-in-music/7CABE1610A4F5D45CD9B699E3126354A?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=whatsapp&utm_source=im#

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cool! thanks! will read it

  On 3/9/2022 at 10:27 PM, chim said:

Has probably been posted before but I really dig his take on Imagine. 

I think anybody who has played around with ring modulation and other tricks would recognize it's not very easy to have something as legible but markedly different come out the other end. Easy or difficult in music is a pointless gatekeeping talking point, much more important whether it speaks to you in some way. Some good music is certainly difficult to make and maybe yeah, it'd suck if everybody just pitch shifted ballroom music. But we're not, and V/VM is obviously making an impact on people.  

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Wakey wakey baldy. It's trash. Listen to better music in future, there's a good manbaby.  Trying to justify this clown after the abuse he sent Scanner..he's cancelled, Baldrick. Didn't you get the memo, you hairless bug eyed goon

  On 5/25/2024 at 9:41 PM, Schlitze said:

 Trying to justify this clown after the abuse he sent scanner...

Please elaborate.

  On 5/24/2024 at 7:19 PM, Richie Sombrero said:

My short article on Leyland's project and Dementia has finally been published by the British Journal of Psychiatry today.

Will be in print edition next month.

Brap!

 

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/an-empty-bliss-beyond-this-world-the-music-of-the-caretaker-as-a-representation-of-dementia-psychiatry-in-music/7CABE1610A4F5D45CD9B699E3126354A?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=whatsapp&utm_source=im#

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Nice read. I have a background as a researcher myself, so I find it amusing that even a short "cultural" article like this needs a year of reviewing before publishing. 

I already asked this somewhere in another thread, but I´m puzzled by the sudden change from stage 3 to stage 4. The shift into full blown confusing noise. Is the development of dementia always slow, or is it sometimes more sudden? Like it gets really worse from one day to the next?

  On 5/25/2024 at 10:40 PM, scumtron said:

Nice read. I have a background as a researcher myself, so I find it amusing that even a short "cultural" article like this needs a year of reviewing before publishing. 

I already asked this somewhere in another thread, but I´m puzzled by the sudden change from stage 3 to stage 4. The shift into full blown confusing noise. Is the development of dementia always slow, or is it sometimes more sudden? Like it gets really worse from one day to the next?

Depends on type. Vascular dementia would be the one that would tend to be stepwise as likely related to a new infarction/stroke. Other types tend to be more insidious typically.

  On 5/25/2024 at 9:41 PM, Schlitze said:

Wakey wakey baldy. It's trash. Listen to better music in future, there's a good manbaby.  Trying to justify this clown after the abuse he sent Scanner..he's cancelled, Baldrick. Didn't you get the memo, you hairless bug eyed goon

This some chatmm thing or did you forget your meds? Why should I give a fuck about Scanner or your fake cancel train? V/VM has bantz about lots of people... loser. 

  On 5/29/2024 at 10:05 AM, chim said:

This some chatmm thing or did you forget your meds? Why should I give a fuck about Scanner or your fake cancel train? V/VM has bantz about lots of people... loser. 

This was some twitter drama thing Scanner posted in the early 2020s (and a now deleted blog post - https://web.archive.org/web/20201026184314/https://scannerdot.com/2020/03/playground-behaviour-in-the-cultural-industries/  ) regarding Kirby's antics during the late 90s v/vm days/persona. This was brought up during the wild early UK lockdown days with all sorts of global political nightmares going on, so everyone was going stir crazy over here! James (Caretaker) and Robin (Scanner) are definitely not on bad terms nowadays

We'v been living here on watmm with schlitze for decades and people still get upset from his funny trolling.

Take this schlitz king 

Schlitze is an institution. Plus he has the best avatar on here after mine.

  On 5/29/2024 at 5:16 PM, mcbpete said:

This was some twitter drama thing Scanner posted in the early 2020s (and a now deleted blog post - https://web.archive.org/web/20201026184314/https://scannerdot.com/2020/03/playground-behaviour-in-the-cultural-industries/  ) regarding Kirby's antics during the late 90s v/vm days/persona. This was brought up during the wild early UK lockdown days with all sorts of global political nightmares going on, so everyone was going stir crazy over here! James (Caretaker) and Robin (Scanner) are definitely not on bad terms nowadays

wait wat..this is all water under the bridge now? It was toxic at the time..when I saw chim praising him I couldn't believe what I was reading..vvm cast aside to the naughty step with R Kelly and Prince Andrew as far as I was concerned

  On 6/1/2024 at 12:30 AM, perunamuusi said:

Schlitze is an institution. Plus he has the best avatar on here after mine

 The av was a collaboration between me and the late triachus around the time of Tomorrow's Harvest..I did the colours and background and tri did all the face detail..I recall telling him ”i need those eyes to be much more like Joel Edgerton, more like tiny little peepers"

He damn well delivered