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you, you the people of the forums, shall gather in this thread on the appointed times (solstices and equinoxes). while gathered you shall discuss and settle upon a theme for that quarter's synthesizer pageant. any other criteria, hardware/software limitations, structure requirements, ect., are also to be discussed and settled upon during this time. after a two week discussion period, the theme and other criteria are to be agreed upon. submissions should be made no less than two weeks prior to the following solstice or equinox. sample 2022/23 calendar: december 21st: meeting of the synth mega-nerd druids commences january 4th: the winter theme is decided march 7th: close date for winter submissions march 21st: : meeting of the synth mega-nerd druids commences april 4th: the spring them is decided june 7th: close date for spring submissions june 21st: meeting of the synth mega-nerd druids commences july 5: the summer theme is decided september 9th: close date for summer submissions september 23rd: meeting of the synth mega-nerd druids commences october 7th: the fall theme is decided december 7th: close date for fall submissions faq: q: I play guitar, can I still enter? a: under most forseable community approved stipulations, yes q: I spend 80% of my disposable income on eurorack and the remainder on weed. I make audio terrorism beeps and screeches that could, stretching the bound of charity, be called ambient music can I... a: 
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Beep boop bleep blorp
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Might get me to actually finish a thing, possibly several, I'm intrigued
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Dec 12, 2022 18:41
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Looking forward to this.
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Dec 13, 2022 02:31
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I was talking to Cabbages and Kings about this before, I have a few really cool (YMMV) curios I'd like to offer as prizes. For starters I have a huge collection of mask microphones and I wanted to offer one up to this here crew. You little shits can plug this into your little vocoder poo poo or whatevers. It's the central scrutinizer mic.  Has a large diaphragm mic element on the inside. And 1/8" or XLR connector, as you can see. You're supposed to whisper into it and have it connected to a laptop with a bespoke version of Dragon on it. But I bet somebody can come up with a clever use for it here. Here's my old work setup. It's a more contemporary mic and I've swaddled it in fleece to dampen the sound.  Anyway, I thought I could add a couple really choice pieces of junk and offer them as prizes, this maybe being one of them. petit choux fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Dec 13, 2022 |
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Dec 13, 2022 03:29
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Is there any way to attach it to your face? I'm sure you could rig something up but I'm honestly kinda perplexed by the whole thing. Intrigued as well though.
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InternetOfTwinks posted:Is there any way to attach it to your face? I'm sure you could rig something up but I'm honestly kinda perplexed by the whole thing. Intrigued as well though. Well if you want a mic you can permanently attach to your face you could try a pilot's mic that's built into the mask. But no, not off the shelf. You can always rig something. It isn't really the central scrutinizer mic, apparently that was a mic inside a hat. I just think it would be a good one for that purpose. Joe's Garage was a rock opera that had a central (heheh) role played by a person whispering into the mic, he was the "central scrutinizer" and I always felt like a singer or a voice that only whispers may be a bit of a shtick, but it may be good, depends. If you want a mic for whispering into, this is probably a good one.
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in like nixon
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I move that Voice of Labor be in charge. Who's with me? ED: several hours later I see I stand unopposed. I nominate voice of labor. ED2: I want to apologize, I am really baked. I don't care if I give away prizes, I don't care who is in charge, I am imposing myself on you, I am just for some odd reason attaching the idea of giving away old stuff to this thread for some reason. It needn't be a contest or anything like that, it was all something I imagined probably out of some childish impulse. petit choux fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Dec 13, 2022 |
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Dec 13, 2022 16:40
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petit choux posted:I want to apologize, I am really baked. i mean yeah getting really baked implies profuse apologies 
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So wait are we doing Italo Disco or not because I am down to Italo
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Dec 13, 2022 20:19
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Winner gets to start their own knockoff author and punisher
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Dec 13, 2022 20:19
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A LOVELY LAD posted:Winner gets to start their own knockoff author and punisher Welp, I'm in.
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Well look, I didn't mean to step on anybody's toes, especially voice of labor, I was a Teamster once myself. But if I don't hear from anybody, Imma behave like this is once again a contest and offer up a prize or two. And if you don't want the mic, I'll offer a couple of alternatives like an old Wendy Carlos album or something else that cost me very little and would be easy enough to ship but that might have at least novelty value to an electronic musician if nobody else. No big deal, just want to encourage people a little bit maybe. I ain't gonna even make it to Hollywood at this rate but I can at least encourage other people. Frankly the best and most immediate use for a mic like that would be with a vocoder, like my Mininova or something. Here's a couple more mask mic pics, just for amusement. A Korea-era military model, I think used by field radio operators and rewired by YT:  And here is another old one, with a good view of the mic element.  ED: And of course this isn't so different from a harmonica mic and I bet you could use it as one of those to good effect (in case you'd like to complement your beeps and boops with a little tip of the fedora in the direction of Mr. Bob Dylan.) The mic element is similar. petit choux fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Dec 13, 2022 |
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Dec 13, 2022 22:40
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lol hey remember the time the forums got shut down because someone mailed out a chromium pig with marital aids stuck all over it and dhs thought it was a bomb?
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The Voice of Labor posted:lol hey remember the time the forums got shut down because someone mailed out a chromium pig with marital aids stuck all over it and dhs thought it was a bomb? Putting the central scrutinizer in a rock opera was downright Brechtian. You, too, can now have this signal honor in your albums.
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Dec 14, 2022 01:38
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Here's a Wendy Carlos album I was gonna add. 
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Dec 14, 2022 02:06
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https://soundcloud.com/beer-chiller/hold-the-fort
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nobler than oedipus clairvoyant and toothless foreplay with no friends premature until the end
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https://soundcloud.com/beer-chiller/audiot
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*looks over the wet, cold parking lot* *sees beer chiller huddled by the door* *opens the doors a day early*
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It's ok, I still got some batteries left for the volca. Thanks though!
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I am very interested, but I'm far from my machinery, and have meager, rural Internet. I'll be following along and will jump in as soon as I'm able. Bless youse
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Do I have to endure some ritual to join this druidic order of synthesists? Does it involve live sacrifice?
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duck.exe posted:Do I have to endure some ritual to join this druidic order of synthesists? Does it involve live sacrifice? A live sacrifice of all of your savings for the stupidest poo poo you've ever seen that has knobs on it.
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And you may receive some RCA cables out of the deal if I can ever get my poo poo together. The offer of the mask mic still stands, and I am still making progress toward getting my soldering station assembled. Soldering station: Assemble:  Music-related activities for the day: 1) Find some other cassettes to disassemble and make loops out of because this King James Version bible is too good to overwrite, and besides sacrilegious so   2) Record these fricking mockingbirds that have made a nest in my chimney and show you all what talent really means (Stand by) ED: I've gone through the recordings of the mockingbirds and I'll have to try again tomorrow or something. I think I spooked them when I placed the recorder. petit choux fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Dec 22, 2022 |
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https://soundcloud.com/tangible_ani...=social_sharing
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duck.exe posted:Do I have to endure some ritual to join this druidic order of synthesists? Does it involve live sacrifice? nah, but this does bring up a good point. we should have a uniform of some sort. no one can see you when you're posting so it doesn't matter what it is but there should be a uniform
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The Voice of Labor posted:nah, but this does bring up a good point. we should have a uniform of some sort. no one can see you when you're posting so it doesn't matter what it is but there should be a uniform Just a piece of flair if you will
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E: nm I can’t read
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The Voice of Labor posted:nah, but this does bring up a good point. we should have a uniform of some sort. no one can see you when you're posting so it doesn't matter what it is but there should be a uniform Sweatpants and slippers.
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The Voice of Labor posted:nah, but this does bring up a good point. we should have a uniform of some sort. no one can see you when you're posting so it doesn't matter what it is but there should be a uniform fedora with a patch cable looped around the hatband, and nothing else.
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Thong and a safari hat. Tie optional.
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you're all just posting the things you normally wear. that's not a uniform, that's the opposite of one. also themes. secular observances include valentines day, mlk's b-day, black history month, calendar and lunar new years and groundhog day. christian observances are that lent ash wednesday mardi gras thing and st. patricks day. that's a lot of stuff to choose from if you are in america and you crave tradition. love, sex, food, class warfare, and having fun and good times are also reliable general themes
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The Voice of Labor posted:you're all just posting the things you normally wear. that's not a uniform, that's the opposite of one. How about a contest or something where we all work from the same sample source and take it from there. A couple movies I might suggest, Phase IV or Silent Running. Whatever, I dunno. Also, I really am looking for some good solid Trance-ish songs at about 140bpm to work out to, so you could call it Petit Choux's New Workout. Also, I'd like to request sometime down the road we do porn soundtracks. We could even do this for Valentine's Day. Not porn, mind you. I always loved some of the real sensuous guitar jams I heard on some dirty movies back in the 80-90s. Or alternately this would give me an excuse to make booty or dirty south beats. But I mean real psychedelic, sensuous stuff all around is what I'm nostalgic for, and it might be really fun to do it with synths. The kind of music one of my old hippie buddies once said was good music for balling, especially if you had a good stereo.
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Both of those ideas sound pretty good to me
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InternetOfTwinks posted:Both of those ideas sound pretty good to me Or you know, it goes without saying to me that I want to do a Trumo themed one. Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFeL2n_nFc8
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y'all can and will do what you want but I would advise against making things into a contest for a number of reasons. it reinforces the bourgeois mindset of lauding the status quo. whatever is the most inoffensive pop track in 4/4 time will sweep, always. because it's what people are used to. it's catchy because you don't have to think about it or listen to it too closely. it reinforces the bourgeois mindset of gatekeeping and division of labor. the act of putting tracks up for a vote is saying that there are a set of communal standards, art is fitting into those standards and artists are people who are best able to fit into those standards. the material correspondence is that if you've been doing this awhile and you have dumped some money into gear, your tracks are probably going to reflect that. you know tricks for polish and you have the gear needed to pull off those tricks. beginners, broke motherfuckers and outsiders (those who don't know or don't care about conventions) are going to fair worse in a public vote and those are exactly the people who should be most encouraged to make music.
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 For those lurking and worrying that whatever you might make won't be up to whatever standard, don't worry. It's not going to be less listenable than whatever I cobble together. Who cares amyhow? Have fun, make some sounds, maybe learn something along the way.
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