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special all acid evening on hypnotic state tonight, 8-10 PST

DUDE i was just asleep and i was dreaming i was up in space or near earth orbit or whatever and maybe it was the future who cares and i was filling in for somebody so i was just goofing off so i grabbed the mic and yelled

10-DIMENSIONAL HYPERSPHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and of course someone was listening and they ruled so they grabbed their mic and yelled back

10-DIMENSIONAL HYPERSPHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and i was not to be outdone so i kept yelling it back in weirder and weirder voices so it was just 2 dudes yelling

10-DIMENSIONAL HYPERSPHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

back and forth over and over again

time will tell

happy 303 day!

my favorite record shop shut down 20 years ago today

i was their last customer

time is definitely broken

made a fun beat tonight

and i have to decide which one to write over

going through all the patterns on my 303

i have to delete one

i just realized that the “name your price” feature on bandcamp is an excellent way to give lots of money directly to ukrainians

(edit: almost directly; bandcamp gets a 15% share and pays the artists daily)

step 1: find a fun song on bandcamp by a ukrainian!

step 2: add to cart!

step 3: name your own price!

here are some ukrainians i like:

https://kirik.bandcamp.com/

i thought it would sound interesting, and would probably sound good too

i thought it would be easier for me to play than the keyboard

I HAD NO IDEA IT WOULD SOUND THIS GOOD

LIKE EVERY STAR AND EVERY POINT IN THE COSMOS ALL AT ONCE RADIATING ENDLESS LOVE AND PEACE AND PATIENCE AND KINDNESS AND GOODNESS AND GENTLENESS

let’s not forget self-control WATCH IT WITH THE CAPS LOCK! WOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

sounds like divine love!

there aren’t even very many notes in the scale. the chords just kind of make themselves!

i absolutely melted over this

i’ve found a new way to make music! and i can make beautiful things now!

i feel ecstatic

tonight i did something i’ve been meaning to do for a long time.

this is a little piece of music i made in an arbitrary tuning. none of the notes you hear have anything to do with the frequencies normally found in music, except that i chose one (440 Hz) as the starting point. the intervals in the scale are of my own choosing and follow a piecewise linear pattern (linear within each octave, but the overall trend is exponential, like in regular music).

i had used MATLAB to generate some scales and stuff in this manner, and liked what i heard, but i never made anything with it. these days, i am finally beginning to spend long hours in the studio again. i think my creative power is starting to return. i have ideas ready to come to life, that i’ve been waiting on for months and years!

strangely, as i started making the melody, i found that my mind had instantly adapted to the new tuning. the notes i heard as i played were exactly what i expected, even though they were completely novel, and i could work with them fluently without practice. this is quite different from my perpetual frustrated whacking at the piano keyboard when i want to make a melody on regular instruments.

this is my first step toward tonal freedom!

screw the rack rails in first

screw in some equipment and use it to hold the enclosure level before you screw the back braces together

then tie something to a piece of string, for a plumb line

this one is a homemade 27-space rack, to hold all my rack synths and fx!

you can do it~~~~~

all you need is plywood and rack rails and screws and a drill