The Usual Monday Nonsense...
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
Since it’s becoming semi-traditional to make a Monday morning post wherein I say nothing of import, I’ll go ahead and continue the semi-tradition and do so now.
1. I’m about to make a build of BigSeq2 on Windows that I’ll use to write presets with. What that means to you: the Windows version of BigSeq2 is done except for presets. Adam is working on the AU port. We’re very close.
2. The wife and I went to see Itzhak Perlman conduct the Oregon Symphony last night. He played the Soil Strad in Bach’s Violin Concerto in A Minor, and I thought I was gonna choke the tone was so good. He then conducted the full symphony through Schubert’s 3rd, which was outstanding, and Brahms 2nd, which inexplicably made me itch. I think Brahms was trying to impress other composers more than the audience, as I find that piece to be technically interesting but musically tedious.
(As an aside, I wonder if Itzhak says “fuuuuuuck” every time he gets a curtain call. That’s gotta be a suck ass walk for him, and I use the word “walk” in a somewhat generous way. Dean Kaman needs to hook that motherfucker up.)
3. We’re DONE moving. This was the longest move ever in the history of long moves. Now, unpacking… shit.
4. I just got an email this morning that asked… well, you kind of have to read it:
I bought discord 2,,,and I was wondering if I could rename a preset called “devil stomp”..It has its number as 666 in the fx..,so…
and last thing….I Have installed your plugins into a folder called “anti-Audio Damage”….dont like the word called damage..so…is it okay?
I’d think that guy was taking the piss, but for the fact that he’s Norwegian, and the Norse are some of the most unfunny people on the planet. I’m pretty sure Garrison Keillor is the only Norwegian ever to get a laugh, which should give you an idea of Norse humor.
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I hadn't realized being passive aggressive would translate so well to email.
Garrison Keillor is neither Norwegian nor particularly funny. And _The Danish Poet_ is Norwegian and hilarious.
How can he not be Norwegian? He's from Northern Minnesota. But I don't think he's particularly funny either. That was kind of my point, I think.
-CR
Psyched for BS2. Faster, faster! Now, now!
Also, I like the idea that Norway now joins Spokane on the slowly darkening cartography of AI dissing.
I think you and your wife should do a graphic of a globe in the lower right hand corner of the site that shows all the bummin' terrains in jet black. Underneath the globe, the words "For whom the bell tolls" should be written. The goal over the next decade would be a fully black globe.
So far, I'm doin' alright here in Washington, DC, but I know it's only a matter of time...
:)
- c
I would be very happy if every symphony in the world engaged in a moratorium on Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, but especially BRAHMS for 1-5 years.
There's a ton of other composers/music that never gets heard at all.
Itzakh Perlman told my dad (a conductor) that he wanted to do the Beethoven Triple Concerto with two other handicapped musicians (whose names escape me) and call it the 'Cripple Concerto.' He got a bang out of the idea of the audience having to wait for 3 guys to hobble slowly onto stage, one at a time.
So I get the impression that he has a pretty good attitude towards his physical challenges. Of course there's some consolation in that even though he's got a serious disability, he's still Izhak fucking Perlman.
RE: Brahms 2nd -- It's kinda OK, but I've always liked the Deutsches Requiem the best among his works.
I couldn't agree with Jinsai more. It's like the classic rock or oldies radio stations that have been playing the same 30 songs over and over, every day for eternity. I like Zeppelin and The Beatles as much as the next guy, but can we seriously take a break every once in a while and play some music from the other eleventy billion other great artists that just get buried in the wake of history?
Garrison Keillor?... not particularly funny?... the guy is teh suck. I can't stand listening to that guy. That low, whiney tone... spouting dull, boring, unfunny nonsense. I can't understand why the guy gets paid for that crappy crap he does. People who have any tolerance for listening to his crap at all... suffice to say they have a totally different idea than I do of what entertainment is... or for that matter, what anything is.
Done moving, huh? I guess now we get to see if that statement about finding something that was lost last move and losing something until next move was really true, and if so, what it applies too.
*knocks on wood*
you're lucky to have the likes of perlman come and conduct your local orchestra. I live in a metro area with over 2.5 million population but THE local orchestra sucks so bad nobody of note ever comes here (I won't name it)
there're some things I really miss about living in chicago
about the moratorium comment... the CSO play everything under the sun, depending on who's conducting
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