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Post by funbun on Mar 10, 2020 20:44:22 GMT
I finally got a chance to get on the river, but the conditions were too dangerous. I used a little of my latest patch: "The Barge."
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Post by NightMachines on Mar 10, 2020 21:42:35 GMT
Sweet! That synth does indeed work really well with your visual and narrative style! I only had the synth audio on my right ear (listening with headphones), but that’s just a minor technical detail. Keep the videos coming! I really enjoy watching them. Very relaxing and contemplative  |
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Post by funbun on Mar 10, 2020 23:14:45 GMT
Yeah, I gotta sort out the technicalities of that. Lugia recommended that I get a ducker like a used Semetrix 522 or something.
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Post by slowscape on Mar 10, 2020 23:15:14 GMT
I only had the synth audio on my right ear (listening with headphones) Thank you for mentioning this! My headphone wire has been finicky lately and I was twisting it all around thinking it was my head phones 
But I echo what NightMachines said, the synth works great with your style, always looking forward to more! |
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Post by slowscape on Mar 10, 2020 23:17:00 GMT
Yeah, I gotta sort out the technicalities of that. Lugia recommended that I get a ducker like a used Semetrix 522 or something. All you need to do is throw it in audacity and export it as mono. Or you can get a mono to stereo adapter cable for a few bucks (that's what I use) |
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Post by funbun on Mar 11, 2020 0:45:41 GMT
Ahh! Thx, Slow! That did it! More money for modules!
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Post by Lugia on Mar 11, 2020 1:54:40 GMT
Yeah, my idea for a ducker has more to do with keeping the backing music under control when the voiceover is in. Using a ducking comp/limiter on the AE and sidechaining it off of the voice mic(s) would do just that. And fyi, Symetrix stuff is super-unsung and sounds/performs like stuff that should cost considerably more. In fact, some of their earlier gear depends on Valley People VCAs, which I know from much hometown experience to sound absolutely fantastic...super noise figures, zero distortion, very smoooooooooth dynamic control. Nice stuff.
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Post by slowscape on Mar 11, 2020 2:07:43 GMT
Never thought of ducking a backing track with a voice, but that could also (more) easily be done in his existing video editing software 😋
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Post by rodney on Mar 11, 2020 22:32:27 GMT
This is so great! I like the challenge of fitting with the sound of the outboard motor. I can imagine moments when you have to crank the throttle up a semitone to get across an eddy current and the synth drone drops a tone in contrary motion to build drama. I can't help imagining that, from now, whenever you take the boat out, you will be thinking about the motor as another instrument. I still fantasize about a water-resistant synth that you can take with you so it becomes a live gig - like Miss Prickly's cooking segment ...
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Post by rodney on Mar 11, 2020 23:46:21 GMT
Damon, I'm so glad I found your fishing channel. It makes me desperately homesick for Tasmania though as I had a real huck finn childhood salt-water river fishing off a pier out of a boat or kayak - even a windsurfer - getting cut feet on oysters all the time (okay, that last part doesn't make me so nostalgic). I love your curation of the music. It reminds me of the feel in Robert Ashley's works:
(When I left Tasmania as a 19-year-old, my American composer friend quoted me that line, " ... the big town doesn't send its riffraff out." it still resonates ) |
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Post by rockysmalls on Mar 12, 2020 10:30:44 GMT
Damon, I'm so glad I found your fishing channel. It makes me desperately homesick for Tasmania though as I had a real huck finn childhood salt-water river fishing off a pier out of a boat or kayak - even a windsurfer - getting cut feet on oysters all the time (okay, that last part doesn't make me so nostalgic). I love your curation of the music. It reminds me of the feel in Robert Ashley's works:
(When I left Tasmania as a 19-year-old, my American composer friend quoted me that line, " ... the big town doesn't send its riffraff out." it still resonates ) ah! Bob Ashley.. as John Cage said “ what about the bible? , and the koran? they don’t matter. we have PERFECT LIVES! “ the libretto of which has pretty much been my bible since 1983 when they first showed the video version on the brand new Channel4 here in uk.. another quote from it “ television is neither true nor false... it is industry “ very pertinent for these times too. i feel a tremendous sense of privilege as I was introduced to Mr Ashley and Mimi in Huddersfield at the Contemporary Music Festival and sat and chatted for an hour with them in the cafe there.. it was only a year or so before he died!! amazing how little he is celebrated compared to how much Laurie Anderson is ( and we couldn’t have her without him ) when he died there was a gathering of about 20 people in a rehearsal room space here in manchester to show some PL episodes and perform some impromptu pieces by him.. that was it, for a ‘so called’ cultural centre like ours it seemed ludicrous.. any road.. all a bit off topic but thanks for posting and reminding us of the late Mr A, Rodney.. it should happen every thursday at nautical twilight ;-) ”time to go friendly shoe friendly sole” |
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Post by rodney on Mar 12, 2020 20:28:39 GMT
ah! Bob Ashley.. as John Cage said “ what about the bible? , and the koran? they don’t matter. we have PERFECT LIVES! “ the libretto of which has pretty much been my bible since 1983 when they first showed the video version on the brand new Channel4 here in uk.. another quote from it “ television is neither true nor false... it is industry “ very pertinent for these times too. i feel a tremendous sense of privilege as I was introduced to Mr Ashley and Mimi in Huddersfield at the Contemporary Music Festival and sat and chatted for an hour with them in the cafe there.. it was only a year or so before he died!! amazing how little he is celebrated compared to how much Laurie Anderson is ( and we couldn’t have her without him ) when he died there was a gathering of about 20 people in a rehearsal room space here in manchester to show some PL episodes and perform some impromptu pieces by him.. that was it, for a ‘so called’ cultural centre like ours it seemed ludicrous.. any road.. all a bit off topic but thanks for posting and reminding us of the late Mr A, Rodney.. it should happen every thursday at nautical twilight ;-) ”time to go friendly shoe friendly sole” Atalanta is a very beautiful opera ("Willard, if you don't turn that TV ON when you're watchin' it I'm gonna throw it out!")
Robert Ashley is also how I got to know the music of Blue Gene Tyranny and also David van Tieghem.
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Post by rodney on Mar 12, 2020 20:43:09 GMT
I guess the point I was making is that this mixture of quite cinematic video and funbun 's choice of music really brings out the reflective aspect of going fishing. Add to that, the way he invites the viewer/listener into his world. It's pretty special.
The parallel with Robert Ashley is that, for me, it shows a side of the USA and its people that doesn't really make it into movies or TV that make it to us in other countries.
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Post by Lugia on Mar 13, 2020 0:01:07 GMT
Yeah, Robert Ashley's stuff is criminally neglected, especially in the USA. Very annoying, because his work spans so much...live electronic performance starting in the early 1960s with the ONCE group, industrial/noise ("The Wolfman", 1964), drone (lots of things, although I'm partial to "Yellow Man with Heart with Wings"), strange, alienating "operas" like the super-creepy "eL/Aficionado", loads of electronic experimentation with the likes of Gordon Mumma and "Blue" Gene Tyranny, and of course the "Private Lives" corpus, which distills down all that and then some. He was also critical in getting a lot of others' music to the world, such as Peter Gordon, Eliane Radigue, Maggi Payne, et al. A truly excellent American composer, clearly validated by the fact that no one in the USA knows his work. Sadly typical here.
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Post by ben on Mar 13, 2020 9:38:57 GMT
I finally got a chance to get on the river, but the conditions were too dangerous. I used a little of my latest patch: "The Barge." Bravo! Also nice color grading. Looking forward to watch/listen more. |
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Post by funbun on Mar 13, 2020 14:37:31 GMT
Yeah, color grading is one of my favorite parts. I use vintage Canon FD lenses from the 1970s. I usually use a low contrast look much of the time. As the temperature warms, I'll warm the image. This is a neutral look. During the hot season I'm do more of a low contrast vintage or bleached bypass look.
I was happy to hear that the AE Modular has a sonic quality reminiscent of the older synths, so it all fits rather well.
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