Hold on to your butts. Your in for a ride.
I'm not entirely sure about this meme in terms of the overt sexism. Looked it up a little and there's some talk about it, but hopefully it's not past the line of problematic. I have a hard time telling.
Not exactly programmatic, but I saw another streamer hook up their chat to super collider so folks could do a collaborative jam session. It was chaos, but a lot of fun.
(and for anyone not familiar with supercollider: https://supercollider.github.io/ - it's open source software that's "A platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists and researchers working with sound.")
Might have been me how mentioned working on their own filetype, because, well, I am. It's not a music thing. It's a replacement for markdown/mdx. It's still a work in progress, but I'm using it. I also don't really expect other folks to use it, but I'm putting it out there anyway.
I'm cleaning up the docs. I'll post them when I get them polished a little
I love this little thing. It lets you mute out or solo the individual stem tracks that make up a song to make a simplified mix.
The link is for a specific song. (The site nav takes too long to get to the individual songs.) The home page is here for more info: https://splitter.fm/lawrencetheband/the-heartburn-song
I built another version of it that lets you fade tracks and record your fades. It's offline while I'm migrating my site. I'll post it here when I get it back online
I had a sneaking suspicion how the upvotes would spread across these two songs. It's not going to stop me from posting whatever the fuck, but it's funny.
I keeeeep wanting to get into making music, but it never makes it up the priority list high enough. I used to be a sax player, but I never did music theory or chords. I know it wouldn't be super hard to get into that based off my experience, but I don't have the energy to put into the learning curve right now.
The idea of the public data set is awesome. I'd also love to see bands. release stubs of their music for remixing (I'll like to something like that when I find it)
There's a bari sax in there too which is bonus points
this is one of those songs that I'm either really in the mood for or really not. There is no in-between
I originally worked on the website at the TOUR. I was the tech lead who coordinated work with our external teams. I also did a bunch of prototype stuff which is what I really enjoyed. Last few years there I was on the team who built a data analytics dept. That was fun during the build, but once it was up and running I wasn't doing new stuff anymore and it turns out I need that in my life.
I feel ya on the 2hrs sleep then 18 of making stuff as well as the crash afterwords. I didn't get diagnosed until a few years back. I'd never had a full out manic episode until then. I went pretty far out though. Ran around my house naked for a week recording a podcast about how it was on me to become president and the modern day Shakespeare to save the world. Ended up in the psych ward for a few days, got the diagnosis and got on meds. I had a two year major depression after that and then a while recovering. Happy to report I've been stable since then.
And, I'm digging you too 🕺 . Always love meeting folks who do things like start communities. That's very cool
I've never looked at the torrent protocol. (That's going a bit deeper than I've ever done before.) If it doesn't support compression that could be done on the client side right? Or is there something else that goes on there?
And when you get damned in the popular opinion, It's just another damn of the damns you're not giving
The most important thing about a band isn't its music, but its name, right? right? 😆
I haven't gotten over the part of my history that pressures me to apologize for putting out my work in spaces I don't own. I'm doing a lot of it here. It feels like I'm taking up a lot of space because, you know, I am. I think it's helpful right now. Adding content grist to the mill that produces community because I like the vibe here and want to see this place grow.
I'm pretty sure if it gets old, y'all will tell me to shut the fuck up. Just want to say there will be no hard feeling.
Anyway, here's a self-portrait I took in college during the days of film 😁
I'm making my own Markdown/MDX replacement. Just added an "about" attribute to my blockquotes today. Pretty happy with the way things are shaping up.
I'm not sure how to make it happen. It would be hard to monetize and goes against siloed content, but wow would the world be a better place if we controlled out data
Hey there - I'm Alan and this is my intro
. First, I'm on Mastodon and we should totally follow each other there https://hachyderm.io/deck/@TheIdOfAlan
. This is gonna be long because, like Pascal said, I don't have time to write something shorter
. Please take everything I say with the picture of a person who's pretty energetic and genuinely excited about whatever it is they are saying. (I'm very rarely severe in my tone)
. Bullet points are my friend. It takes me a very long time to edit full on prose If I didn't do bullet points I'd rarely get anything out. So, let's run with that here
. The ability to randomize these points would be awesome. Ordering things make them feel like the order matters and it doesn't really here. Maybe skim around and read them randomly to simulate the experience?
. Photography used to be my thing, but I haven't taken a shot in a long time. Still love the idea of it and will probably get back to it at some point
. One day I'm going to get back to my Million Portrait Project (http://millionportraitproject.com/ - sorry for the "http without an s" link, but that site is old. Fixing that is on the list)
. Music is huge to me. Headphones are on most of the time. (I can totally recommend open-back ones if you haven't tried them before, I got a very enjoyable pair of phillips for like $100)
. Doing projects and new stuff gives me the happy brain juice
. "Tuneify" is my current project. It's an attempt to make a better robot DJ. A notoriously hard problem. I don't expect to do anything surprising with it. I just want to see what happens if I implement the ideas in my head and learn more about how all that stuff works
. Learning is my jam, btw
. Tuneify will be here: https://www.alanwsmith.com/tuneify/ - but it's far from even being a workable prototype. (It just loads your top songs into an IndexedDB when you log in. Unless I've broken it between the time I posted this and the time you see it which is likely given the dev process)
. Instead of listing about a bunch of projects I should just link to my links page https://links.alanwsmith.com which has a several of them
. Though, if you like The Shining, I'm really proud of: https://jacktorrance.blog
. On yeah, my main site is: https://www.alanwsmith.com - there's like 1,800 completely unorganized posts on there. Still working on how I want to deal with that
. Part of dealing with it is that I wrote my own file format: https://www.alanwsmith.com/neopolitan/ and a static site generator to go with it. I'm tired of jumping frameworks, so my goal is to use this for the next 20 years
. Feels like I should mention I have bipolar 1, but I don't really think about that very often. (I'm super lucky that my meds let me be functional)
. For 22 years, I worked at the PGA TOUR. I got burned out in general and after recovering from two years of major bipolar depression. Currently no gig. Still trying to figure out how I'm going to fit into the world
Saw the post on Mastodon that linked over here and decided to give it a shot. I just wrote up this piece which feels like maybe it would fit.