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“The Hubris of The DAW”

So another release on Bandcamp just went live this afternoon. Messing about with Wotja as a generative source for MIDI sequences, playing with a stochastic sequencer (I’d forgotten how much fun THAT was), a bit of live performance on the Seaboard and a lot of long delays with a touch of Valhalla reverb.

I continue to find Arturia’s Pigments and Roli’s Equator 2 to be good tools to work with, especially when using Plogue Bidule. They all play nicely together.

So here’s a link and I hope you enjoy:

https://audiozoloft.bandcamp.com/album/the-hubris-of-the-daw

… you might recognize the artwork :).

“The concept of privacy is completely different when you enter the United States.”

And so the Canadians are warning, not just Canadians, but Americans returning to the US. Here’s a link to a CBC article interviewing several immigration lawyers and consultants about travel between the US and Canada —

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadians-travel-to-united-states-advice-1.7498326

In the meantime, a bit of sky.

Rabbit, rabbit

Wherein, a day we dare not trust what we read…

April has come. And with it, perhaps a little warming, altho’ here it is snow broadcast for tomorrow. 

I once read that sheepherders hate April, for that is when the lambs are usually born and the weather is usually so unpredictable that there is a great risk of them being born “in the wild”, not found, and freezing to death. A terrible month of extremes, especially for sheep.

And then, of course, the pranks of April Fool’s Day — I learned of a new one: wrapping the toilet with clear plastic wrap, then leaving the seat down. Surprise!

With this, we enter the second quarter of the regime’s madness. Tomorrow promises to be interesting, although perhaps no more so than the previous two and half months have been. In like a lion and out like a lamb?

All I know for sure is be sure to check the toilet first.

 

On Reading Orbital Operations by Warren Ellis

Writer Warren Ellis publishes a weekly newsletter called “Orbital Operations” and I do recommend it, if you have any interest in writing, reading, comics, the wider world at large. It offers a small window into the creative mind of a writer who has been involved in a number of multi-facted projects, ranging from traditional story-telling and comics (“NORMAL”, “Transmetropolitan”), televisions (“Castelvania”) and radio drama podcasts (“The Department of Midnight).

Here’sa referral link to get the newsletter, every Sunday:

https://orbitaloperations.beehiiv.com/subscribe?ref=FhPBjOzXlm 

… and here’s a recent image to amuse in the meantime!

Université de Montréal publishes travel guidelines for students, staff heading to the U.S.

Quoting part of the story so my friends can read it on Facebook — due to the spat the Zuck has with the Canadian government, it isn’t possible to directly link to “real” news stories. Which is pretty interesting as to what their algo defines as a “news story”.

“Université de Montréal has issued a series of guidelines to students and staff who will be travelling to the United States for academic purposes.

Rector Daniel Jutras says the guidelines were issued on Thursday in response to numerous questions from students and staff about U.S. travel concerns amid a number of reports of detentions and denial of entry into that country in recent weeks.

Jutras says while there’s no specific incident involving the university community, it felt the need to respond to concerns raised.

The university advises students and staff to tell the institution when they are travelling and discuss potential risks before leaving to the U.S.”

Link to the full article here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/udem-guidelines-travel-to-u-s-1.7497089?cmp=rss