a cat sitting on the meter bridge of a Neve recording console, next to a Yamaha NS-10 speaker. the cat’s tail is draped over the front of the console’s center section.
please bring cat studio. thx
i feel this pain
tails exit through grommets so they may be retracted into the panel
whoever gets rid of daylight savings gets to be king of the world forever. i don't even care if they're inherently evil, probably would be anyway. kill it and the world is yours
Considering the comms director for Spotify is a former GW Bush press secretary staffer, I would not doubt the lengths of manufactured consent this company would take esp in the last year of them being on the defense.
It’s good to remember that even when you’re not actually making music, eg not playing an instrument, you can still be making music. Like, thinking about music is making music. And thinking about other stuff is probably also making music. And not thinking about anything definitely making music.
YES thank you
fewer bugs than Logic...
phone photograph inside the control room of a recording studio. a rack for mounting outboard gear is being used as a table for a lamp. inside the rack is a Fairchild 670, a rare vintage tube compressor worth over $100k. the Fairchild is off, indicating it is not being used. on top of the rack is a MacBook, which is on & presumably being used.
“Recording”, 2026
R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.
alternatively, this thing seems really cool & flexible and self-contained / portable:
www.musicthing.co.uk/workshopsyst...
if i were starting out, i'd probably get VCV Rack & demo / mockup a system for a bit, then assemble the physical version based on what ended up being inspiring.
sorry for not replying sooner - i'm not as well versed in Eurorack world ( having veered off into 4U / Buchla / Serge land... ) but it feels like there a TONS of amazing ways to get into a modular system these days....
b&w photo of Éliane Radigue at the NY Cultural Center in 1971 ( or ‘72? ), installing for the premiere of “Chry-ptus”, standing alone in rows of empty auditorium seating
quote from Éliane Radigue: “It's the quality of the listening one brings to sound that makes it perceptible; it's the listening that makes it our own, according to the quality of our attention. If you open your body and your mind to listening with an active attitude, you will draw out very specific things. The condition for listening is obviously different according to the point in time, according to one's state of mind. That's the mirror effect, it's a reflection of one's state of mind in that moment. There exists a means of listening to any sound and making music of it.“
thank you Éliane Radigue. a towering inspiration in learning how to listen & lifetime creative practice.
Art Ensemble of Chicago’s stirring 1969 classic People In Sorrow to be reissued on CD and LP by Play Loud! this May.
artensembleofchicagoplayloud.bandcamp.com/album/people...
what
if i told you
the room mics
are muted during the chorus
but not muted
in the verse
Surprise, I finished a music thing. A small set of gradually moving constructions of loops and performances on guitar and synthesizer.
gbagada gbagada gbogodo gbogodo
there are a bunch of other 'vocal-ish' patches using that sample but they have a lot of other instruments in them
okay, here are your choices:
samply.app/p/GkvLB3a8nT...
in order, with a chord i picked randomly:
07 - FAIR BREATH
17 - MIXED CHOIR
19 - BELLA VOCE
27 - LOW WORLD VOX
67 - DIGITAL CHOIR
87 - DEATH TO THE VOICES
if any seem like the thing i'll run your chords at tempo
i'm on it
what are the chords?
I can fire up the K2000RS if you want.....
98% this is going to end up being preset #22 in a Korg M1 or the S950 or something like that
i believe it is a different Richard Kelly???
also: hey there @gmiddleb.bsky.social
absolutely *essential* book for anyone interested in music and recording. even if you have zero interest in the artists he worked with!
i reread it once a year and it never fails to inspire.
my long-held belief that wealthy people should be put into small metal cans and exploded at the bottom of the ocean doesn’t seem so extreme anymore
