Hello. This page reproduces tweets I made in the year 2013. Where there were multiple tweets in one day all the words are joined together, with asterisks marking a change of topic. It tries to remove all the wrapping around each tweet to let the words flow more quickly, if a bit scatterbrained. Many but not all links are dead. I will continue to clean up this mess and make notes as time permits.
Mar 15, 2013
Adelaide Festival Week Two http://t.co/YDayYIebS8
Mar 19, 2013
It’s Hitler Week at work. Tomorrow’s lecture is Triumph of The Will. Half the students: “Why’s that guy yelling?”
Mar 20, 2013
I got one weekend off and the next gig gets announced. http://t.co/Nq8rOCo1lq
I’ve also got a ‘painting’ in NOISE an exhibition of new music 6 April – 23 June 2013. http://t.co/3jWG09YyPK
Mar 22, 2013
@dj2mn I mean it sounds like corduroy trousers. Whiff whiff whiff whiff whiff whiff.
Mar 23, 2013
Horse ebooks is the poet of the current generation.
Mar 26, 2013
*There is no innocence that some researcher won’t pervert to get funding.
*ISEA approaches, mass outbreak of incoherent arts peak babbling. I long for people with indescribable creative urges. Instead, more essays. I’ve engaged my artistic practice in a symbiotic performance with this beer, researching the x-culture analogue flux of fermented hops.
*Other important twentieth century British Innovation – Chemical castration.
Mar 27, 2013
Aus National Archive wants to ‘collect’ sevcom.com How do you do that? Apparently includes linked pages on BandCamp!? Do I take the dead horse off the front page? Or is that perfect timing? Don’t see how web pages can be stored in an archive.
Mar 29, 2013
*Added 2013 pics to sevcom photo library and it collapsed. Going offline for a rebuild, back soon as I retype 1,500 captions.
*A thorough linguistic analysis of ‘International Artist English’ otherwise known as ‘talking utter shit’. http://t.co/LDArm1j5Hl
Mar 30, 2013
No, the work of a real estate agent is to change the value of things. Art is not about ‘value’. Since when has Yoko Ono been a financial planner?
Apr 1, 2013
*Today I can finally confirm rumours that, after much discussion I am joining the Wiggles. I have just handed in notice at my work.
*Severed Heads reform in 2014 to present the “Get The Knack” as a opera. “My Sharona” sung by Lou Reed. #postpunk
*Disney Orlando announce “Kraftwerk: It’s A Small Small Computerworld”
*UBUWEB adds a sound piece by Pablo Picasso. “It’s just an accidental recorded belch – but it’s Picasso’s belch!”. Also new Sartre’s hiccups
*UBUWEB regrets an error. What was described as Sartre’s hiccups is in fact a work by Xenakis, which in turn is Foucault’s borborygmus
Apr 3, 2013
28% of voters believe a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to rule the world.
Apr 4, 2013
A big serious article about Open Source vs GPL, the Randian agenda of O’Reilly, Gov 2.0. and other monsters. http://t.co/LfWofYHDuA
Apr 7, 2013
Tried placing my videos back on YouTube again. Hit with a copyright claim in the first 5 minutes. Too tired, won’t fight any more.
Apr 9, 2013
Pro Tools 11 can finally bounce down a mix faster than real time. End of the world to soon follow.
Apr 12, 2013
ABC is still using that photo where I am eating an imaginary hamburger. They should have given me a real hamburger. Put that in the rider.
Apr 16, 2013
Seeing as physical film is in such decline, can I use the word ‘film’ now instead of ‘audiovisual media’? It would save much typing. As in ‘I really enjoyed watching that audiovisual media the other night’.
Apr 16, 2013
It’s a bad sign that the software I want for my current artwork is ‘price on application’. That’s going to be more than 100 bucks maybe.
Apr 17, 2013
Found out that software ‘price on application’ means over 6000 Euro and 900 Euro for each public use. At least I don’t pay the VAT.
Apr 18, 2013
I have become death. The destroyer of media production courses.
Apr 20, 2013
Down With This Sort of Thing http://t.co/e0RLX0JNif
Apr 21, 2013
Football grand final crowd marching by my window – 100s of men chanting HERE WE GO OOYA OOYA BOOGA OOOOOOOOOOO!! Best gig this week
Apr 24, 2013
Just ordered a ZOOM portable 24trk recorder – gonna have some multi-track live fader twitching looping fun.
Apr 25, 2013
*WOO DAMN I got another fine arts gig! Can I do a quick survey … what’s your favourite planet? I’m leaning toward Uranus. Fnar.
*Finished the Theosophical touch screen controller for the Clavilux. The GREED control was particularly vexing. That’s my so called day off.
Apr 26, 2013
*Congratulations Reddit. You killed someone. http://t.co/bbB0WFKNj2 Now back to kiddy porn.
*Not even allowed to touch the Ellard piano.
Apr 27, 2013
For fuck’s sake don’t use the term ‘unAustralian’ for not liking a rock group. #divinyls
Apr 28, 2013
*In 2004 I recorded a private album very few people have heard. It’s almost 10 years since – let it go free.
*CLIPPY: “It looks like you’re debating on ABC’s Drum website. Would you like a lobotomy?”
[ ] Yes, please. [*] Already have one!
*Walking through a 166,000 page book transcribed over 1000 years. Maybe we need an audio book?
Apr 30, 2013
Yet another algorithmic abstract video render took 2 days & ended up = hippy sick meets MLP. Takes a century to get 1 minute of quality. Maybe abstract video is fated to look like a bong shop UV poster. Maybe I should hang myself. Maybe … get some sleep …
May 1, 2013
*Much as I take the piss out of modular synthesisers I should mention a festival coming up in Sydney this month. http://t.co/Lkad7s5eVG
*Buying a modular? The Mattson Mini Modular is the official Sevcom rig. Each unit sold I get a jellybean. http://t.co/YyYdb2ppx8
See Stephen (No Relation) Jones twiddle Billy Gorgan’s knobs. https://t.co/FV3k8faGE8 Our phone operators are waiting for your order.
May 2, 2013
My 24 track ZOOM recorder arrived. THERE GONNA BE PHUNKIN BIG LOOPS GOING DOWN (soon as I get all my office work done maybe next year…)
Like a typewriter. For noise. Yes.
May 3, 2013
*How do you make a spinning cyber doughnut in Processing? Serious question.
*Would like to compare various authoring systems in regard to their ability to produce New Media circa 1992.
*Friday night whack-a-mole on YouTube. Of course it’s hopeless, but I like them to know just how much I hate them.
May 4, 2013
1st recording session on the ZOOM R24 tonight and it sounds as inept and horrible as my first tape recordings. Success! 16 again! Sadly the AB repeat on this has a big gap so no ‘tape looping’ that way. But there’s a sampling feature to try next. Or just record loops.
May 7, 2013
Uni is all about teaching, not research papers http://t.co/6F4nlT188A
via @smh
Seems we can still buy Adobe via an Edu deal. Otherwise if Adobe’s cloud server fuxxed on 300+ machines in assignment week… The Horror.
May 8, 2013
Ray Harryhausen is stopped animated. Permanently. http://t.co/LYq7IoQ6qT
May 10, 2013
*Dragged Backwards Through A Hedge http://t.co/2akQeQlYhl
#ISEA This will end in tears.
*Just seen our ‘Greedilux’ mechanical video synth work for 1st time. Responding to my touch screen s/w makes light forms. Woop! #ISEA2013
*The Greedilux makes a slight humming noise as the rotors operate. I’ve requested loud mechanical grinding. We will add more nails. #ISEA2013
May 11, 2013
*Today’s example of Butt-ugly Pointless Big Screen Interactivity Involving a Kinect. http://t.co/YuoTBy9yXk
*The commissioner class, knowledge class, latte sippers, progressives, plastic bag refuseniks, the bunyip aristocracy http://t.co/iJs1hu2DlD
*If being an Arts Academic with a progressive agenda makes you a ‘Doctor’s Wife’, then fuck it. I’m Mrs. Kildare.
May 12, 2013
Funny how hard the French intelligentsia were on Authors when so mad keen on Auteurs. (Sunday academic scribbling goin’ on.)
May 13, 2013
*Confirmed: I’m animating “Saturn”, in a video wall and live orchestra touring Holst’s “Planets” in August. Of course I get the old grump. Over 1000 people worked on Fantasia. Hell, that’s only about 140 more people than working on my bit. Not frightened! Just packing death.
*A small cardboard box at work with 50 computers inside? My first look at a Raspberry Pi. Plays back 1080p and hmmmm ideas…
May 14, 2013
*5 Myths of “Big Data” http://t.co/FmuFjCd3e7
via @smh
*Infinite storage is available in the rabbit hole of Batshit Insane Colour Theories. Theosophy alone could hold all nuclear waste products.
*Reading Besant’s ‘Thought Forms’ and have created 5 Tuplas before dinner. Cool, time for a beer.
*Oh man they were supposed to be TULPAS not tuplas. They’re drinking all the beer.
May 17, 2013
*”The severe ESP attack which knocked me to the floor while urinating in Mosman Hall.” http://t.co/Gk6ZBpgMTL
*”All previously-unknown creatures and gods, from any religion, have beards to represent the (space)ship’s gases.” http://t.co/cxeOitJul7
*Friday night video art fun: Doing horrible (math) things to Lawrence of Arabia.
May 18, 2013
Inside the Greedilux’s brain – Messy artist = messy patching. Theosophical colour mixing system! #ISEA2013
May 19, 2013
*20 years after junkies stole my dad’s old SLR; a clearance sale today and my first DSLR. Tremble Ye Gods of Photography…
*Practising: “It’s supposed to be blurry.” “Those are the colours I see in my head” “I’m bringing out your inner appearance” “I’m an artist” Actually, after learning on a 35mm film camera I reckon this is going to like shooting mimes in a barrel.
*Watch anonymous people editing Wikipedia in real time. See knowledge melting before your very eyes. http://t.co/Mm2BmsqJkj
May 20, 2013
*You put your left leg in, put your left leg out, In, out, shake it all about. Do the Hokey Cokey what it’s all about. #BadObliqueStrategies
*Bloody hell I have 3 artists talks coming in the one week. How many sentences using ‘digital nexus’ can 1 man utter without the giggles?
*Feels like the old band is finally buried under more concrete than Chernobyl. Feels like … long trousers finally.
May 22, 2013
Behold the Clavilux in use, nearly complete. Some more carpentry then off to Campbelltown Arts Centre for #ISEA2013
I just love a large wooden box filled with motors and mirrors, with a single HDMI socket at the front. Timeless.
May 23, 2013
UNSW Library threw out all their collection of “Computer Music” cover CDs going back over a decade. They’re sitting next to me. I particularly wanted July 2003, with the CM-505 Drum machine. If you have used it you’ll know why.
May 25, 2013
*An interesting conversation about snake oil, capital and education that covers much ground. http://t.co/4X1vNT5GHA
*How I Learned Of Millennial Mellow http://t.co/1CEHwzenrL
May 26, 2013
@wellfutile Excuse me can you please remove this art from the art festival it’s blocking the fireworks. Sorry I meant projections.
@wellfutile These really are lovely fireworks but I don’t know why those four men are standing in the way of them. My kids can’t see.
May 27, 2013
This showed up in my work email. Suddenly life seems pretty good. http://t.co/FaCOf1LDcW
May 27, 2013
*Speaking of dead fish, the ABC definitely pulls the plug on “HH” this week. It moves to my own server. “Catching Light” show opens June 1.
*Hey, The Guardian has been launched in Australia today. Countdown to Fairfax Fuxxed. http://t.co/fzd8PXHYQ7
May 29, 2013
At Campbelltown Art Centre, show is in construction, Clavilux is running, Stephen & Pia have built a pyramid videosynth more work coming. Seriously, nothing is more groovy than a pyramid shaped multi user modular video synthesiser
Jun 1, 2013
*The pathetic end of Australia’s largest animation studio. http://t.co/L9drz06NsJ No new Mad Max 3D film.
“Rackmount sever system; Dell chassis S/no.GyY6ML1S configured with 10 x Dell” $39.00
“Tower Workstation Computer: HP Z600 Workstation; Intel Xeon X5670 processor” $99.00
*Hey now this one is excellent. http://t.co/kK6hkodQES
Way above the vapid glut of gallery oscilloscopes. It’s got guts.
Jun 1, 2013
*The Clavilux running at Campbelltown AC, apparently we’re getting stuck notes. I’ll install a s/w patch on Monday. http://t.co/UJxsqKbh1Z
*A robot for throwing hot chips to seagulls, by Wade and Michael. Campbelltown Art Centre #ISEA2013
https://t.co/BVzOybjOX9
Jun 3, 2013
*Old Sevs video, new video synthesiser by Stephen and Pia. Campbelltown Arts Centre
*Pieces of paper on a gallery wall and my videos miraculously become art. Transubstantiation! Cambelltown. #ISEA2013
Jun 4, 2013
*”Knowledge is to information as art is to kitsch.” Leon Wieseltier kicks Data’s arse. http://t.co/IEDFeotTfT
*How to ruin anything. Put the word ‘industry’ behind it.
Jun 5, 2013
*File under impulse buy. It wasn’t that much. http://t.co/eM2PRPhfuo
*Throw a brick at my head. http://t.co/NKzecBAoBB
Jun 6, 2013
*Tips for uni CVs: listing your 100 group exhibitions over 10 pages and not what you actually practice is not a good plan.
*Tips for uni CVs: I don’t care how long you lived in Berlin.
*Tips for uni CVs: mention teaching at some point because that’s what you are applying to do.
*CVs: Seriously people. Passionate about teaching? Create, think and write? Say it. I’m reading lists of galleries. No biscuit for you.
*Just saw a rehearsal of Ryoji Ikeda’s datamatics 2. Now that is some funky shit. Like Daft Punk could only dream of. #ISEA2013
I gave him a punch on the arm, not sure if he quite got that.
Jun 7, 2013
“It cannot be used to intentionally target any US citizen, any other US person, or anyone located within the United States”
I.e. only wogs. I love it when some US big knob says, ‘it doesn’t hurt US people, so we cool with that’. As in, fuck wogs. Speaking as a wog. You’re a wog too bro, Special Relationship or no.
Jun 8, 2013
I just met with a man with twelve Revox A77s. I tried explaining Eno. He didn’t get it. He likes Revox better than all his others.
“Look at this” he says, revealing more tape recorders stacked under the top layer.
He flies them in from all around the globe. He has them repaired, and then sells them to make money to buy more tape recorders.
He takes my cash, and instructs me how I must care for my tape recorder. If I ever sell it, it comes back to him. He is Saint Tape.
I tell him I sometimes make music only with tape recorders. He is enthralled and produces two reels with REVOX on them. “For you”.
Jun 9, 2013
Don’t forget to allow half an hour for it to warm up before recording. http://t.co/ZaxRZbpq5R
Jun 11, 2013
Calling your new OS “Maverick” makes you sound like Sarah Palin Komputin’ y’all jess sayin’
Jun 12, 2013
*DO NOT DIG OR DRILL HERE BEFORE AD 12,000. This place is not a place of honor. Nothing valued is here. http://t.co/PyJAMbeCRc
*This marking system has been designed to last 10,000 years. If the marker is difficult to read, add new markers. http://t.co/UHMDnGkEqj
*”Expert judgement on markers to deter inadvertent human intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant” http://t.co/iRuUQqYB94
*[H3H] http://t.co/NmhT9tUIIn
*Since when was Pitchfork “what’s happening now, tailored for you.” I need a new tailor.
Jun 14, 2013
At Penrith gallery to speak about visual music this arvo and visit the ghost of Ralph Balson. A water tower http://t.co/s5m1wbSUeu
Jun 15, 2013
2 gallery openings last night & I vaguely remember something about champagne. Lots of champagne. Sitting very very still.
This is a nice room. Wonder how I got here.
Jun 16, 2013
The Waldorf Nave is very nice, it shows how interface design matters. Still like the PPG synths but engineer =/= designer.
I just made some radiophonic music for Mr. Frenchbloke. So should you. http://t.co/39tMfdtydC
Jun 18, 2013
Finally getting to the data from COFA’s new mocap suit. Of course it generates a deformed skeleton flapping horrifically over random terrain which is kind of cool but not exactly the slow moving old man I’m aiming for. Looks like a whole lot of editing coming up. Sigh.
Spine = waist
Spine1 = abdomen
Spine2 = chest
Spine3 = neck
Head = head
hey looks like we should get something working by 2014
No, wait, Spine3 does not equal neck STOP waaauugrh it’s tearing itself apart…
Jun 19, 2013
*Just watched all my video students’ work for 2013 and non-interactive single screen narrative films yet again kick cross media arse.
*Oh god I’ve just been sent a video of what happened the other night when I was ‘tired and emotional’. https://t.co/965Zk66vDj
Jun 21, 2013
Only a few days left to join Adobe CC at an academic discount, but looks like nothing very exciting. Beer instead?
Jun 22, 2013
If I ever decide to work with motion capture and particles systems again you have permission to shoot me.
Jun 25, 2013
*I’m going to start a music label called ‘Empty Trash’. It’s mostly for my own music but others are welcome to send some in.
*Hello to everybody who didn’t get the ‘Empty Trash’ joke. How’s the weather?
*I wonder which poor bugger got the job of illustrating this ‘visual music’? https://t.co/d92EnwmeQ4
*Man formed from 500 alarm clocks enacts magic passes. Particle system is running. Project ‘Saturn’ begins.
Jun 26, 2013
*Look I’m a journalist: blah blah blah blah blah blah Kevin Rudd blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. I wonder how you say blah blah blah in Mandarin. I could teach journalism.
*Now playing: “Comedy Tonight” from “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum”.
*Creepy mountain rainbow monster thingy wants to bite you. http://t.co/RNdZtr2LAC
Jun 27, 2013
Image from a test of ‘Saturn’ – mocap, particle objects. All hard work so far – art comes later. http://t.co/NYf6LkA8N2
Jun 28, 2013
Filling in a breakfast application, subsection coffee, clause community benefit with supportive evidence.
Jun 29, 2013
*Why does it hum? Why? http://t.co/mlqW27ML2l
*Hum fixed with a rectified/filtered power supply. Now there’s hiss. Capacitors. It’s always capacitors.
*An Irish lass leapt out of a pub, swept around me and asked ‘had I shared a bed with a red head?’ About 20 years now actually. But thanks. It was a wee bit early in the morning for the details she was offering. Besides, I was on the way to Jaycar. You can’t beat Jaycar.
Saturn Walk Test 2. https://t.co/29tB4GtPS6
Jun 30, 2013
*Five reasons why I’m not an “artist”. http://t.co/XZauKY7dgh
*Memories are story shaped. As are understandings. To remember, or make sense of, a thing is to have a story about it. http://t.co/y0HQBGk9fW
*Is there some means by which I never have to be sent another tweet by that prick Kim DotCom again?
*Kim Dotcom: “Here’s me enjoying all the wealth from what you shared with me! Pity I can’t share any of that wealth with you!”
Jul 2, 2013
Seeing as the president is listening to you, you might like to listen to some presidents. http://t.co/951S3gIEI4
Jul 2, 2013
To listen to Kennedy or Nelson Mandela, you must put your Dictabelt machine on a hotplate to warm it up. http://t.co/RN6yaZK6Ap
Some Dictabelt fans listen too closely to Kennedy. http://t.co/SMpsvZPeu9
The Dictabelt is a sour historian.
When I am president I will secretly record to hot pink minidiscs using ATRAC3. No one will ever hear them again. http://t.co/LFh95gHznc
Jul 3, 2013
COFA has agreed to put the Clavilux on display at Paddington campus, so all you lazy inner city bums can get to see it.
Jul 4, 2013
Disney announces ‘Where’s my Snowden?’ for iPhone. 99c
Jul 5, 2013
Yanks having a holiday. Everybody else gets a little less oppressive intrusive shit.
Jul 5, 2013
*Which one of you Arduino freaks stuck that board in the Ecuador embassy?
*Pro Tools wins Pro Tools Expert Editors Choice Award! They also considered: Pro Tools. (This is actually real.) http://t.co/2YLaecojgl
*7 hours left of GOG sale. I’m buying my ill spent childhood, you have your own excuse. http://t.co/wYJ9s9pVL6
Jul 7, 2013
*I just saw a 4K TV. I would like a mansion that would hold the damn thing. Useless overkill for $18,000. Obviously frame rate is where all gains are to be found. And colour depth.
*About 4 minutes of animation done for Saturn, 6 to go. Holst does a gear change @ 6.35 that’s not helping. BAD NAUGHTY composer.
*Whack that composer w a rolled up newspaper. I am thinking about Maya paint effects. Suicide would be easier.
Jul 8, 2013
*These days I compose music with a bar magnet, a delete key and a shredder. Let me do a remix for you, I am good at succinct.
PD-8700 Hard Drive Degausser & Physical Hard Drive Destroyer.
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*I once saw a security firm ‘shred’ SONY’s unsold TVs to make way for next years model. To hell with the c20 Futurists, this is c21st music.
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*Cinema 4D, After Effects, a Z buffer that just won’t work and stabbing myself to death with a spork. Perfect match.
Jul 9, 2013
Yet another artist deranged by Theosophy and perhaps the first one, way before Kandinsky – Hilma af Klint http://t.co/TSrROhBHTh
Any study involving abstract art, even video synthesis, just keeps winding back to Theosophy. Is it a basis, or an infestation?
Jul 10, 2013
*Why does magnetic tape always seem to come from Queensland? Has it something to do with Magnetic Island? What about UFOs? Just asking. Fresh spools of tape seem horribly expensive until you remember they used to be horribly expensive + you were poorer. Magnostalgia. Mind you, don’t think I’ll be going for the box of ten reels at $738 plus freight. I never owned 10 reels of hi band tape in my life.
*MOOC students are not transferring to unis. As in zero out of thousands. Myth busted. http://t.co/XKVoqbOukp
Jul 12, 2013
Weird how gutted I am that my PhD supervisor is leaving. Feels like I’m being divorced by someone I talk to twice a year. But who will I transfer my deep seated fearful father fixation on to now?!! (Stuff it, I’m going on the piss).
Jul 13, 2013
Dean Martin should be studied in the social sciences. http://t.co/JCTAOqg0vm
Jul 13, 2013
6 minutes of ‘Saturn’ now very roughly animated. Getting closer to the scary Maya paint effects section. http://t.co/VGPz5W0MJY
Jul 14, 2013
‘Preserving a memory doesn’t lie in protein synthesis … memory is best preserved in the form of a story.’ http://t.co/rlNp1cA0Ya
Again & again the importance of narrative & story telling needs to be pounded into thick skulls.
Jul 15, 2013
5 computers grinding away at tomorrow’s deadline, making an airport noise. Animation growing, life shrinking, orchestra impatient.
Last production for 2013, I’m totally knackered. Adelaide festival was only 4 months ago… feels like it was 1913…
Didn’t get around to Saturn eating babies but I’m just rendering a bit where a giant tree bursts out of his navel. That’ll do.
Jul 17, 2013
*Of course when I tried to deliver a broadband video via ‘the cloud’ it failed at the finish line. Any one who talks about ‘the cloud’ as having a purpose in real world media production is an ignorant drooling tool. Or a tech journalist same thing.
*Interviews with exhibitors at ‘Catching Light’ w/ the video synth, Clavilux, guitar game, feminist TNT dripper. http://t.co/sD98DmGLZa
Jul 18, 2013
*Latest academic bollocks: “Listening is never natural. It requires and generates literacy.” Need a monk to slap this guy. Be (slap) in (slap) the (slap) fucking (slap) moment. Can you see this guy, pen in hand unable to shut up his idiot intellect?
At a party, selecting from his predetermined “variations on listening procedures.” I WILL MAKE SENSE OF EVERYTHING he writes on a pad. Have they never been transfixed by a seizure of joy on hearing a sound, and reached out to listen like touching its skin? God help them.
*Hell, the next panning shot is going to take 35 hours to render. Bloody plants and their bloody shadows. Concrete the virtual world.
Jul 18, 2013
*Maybe if I stare at the screen while it renders it will go faster.
*As I try render this thing I discover a giant render farm has moved in across the street. As in, my balcony looks in their rack space.
So now I’m squished between EMI Records and Fin Design. I’m the cottage in cottage industry.
Clown car, wedged tightly between two 18 wheelers, carried down the highway as the driver furiously honks his comedy horn.
Jul 19, 2013
@dj2mn If you have seen the opening of ‘Mondo Cane’, that’s me taking Structure Free to the pound, on film. BTW yes it has Rewire. Report!
Mainstage is only a Rewire master. Because having full Rewire support would make it generally useful, and Apple doesn’t allow.
Jul 21, 2013
*’Saturn’ now 90% finished and I 90% less want to kill myself. 1 major sequence to render & a bunch of VFX.
*MOTHER OF GOD I HAVE FINISHED THIS RENDERING over 14,000 frames in three weeks. Give me that Gin bottle now and get out of the way.
*Is that a slight glitch on frame 3000? Fie upon it, it is of small consequence in the scheme of things. Hand me the Tonic.
Jul 22, 2013
Mainstage instruments obviously modelled on toads, the controls look like warts and boils. Sounds like toads too. Less an interface than an amphibian petting zoo. There’s one here that I’m sure is really called the Kermit 3000.
Jul 23, 2013
*After some fussing the Clavilux is now operational at COFA, to your right off the main courtyard. It turns itself on b/w 9 and 5. It is silent, and musical. There is a window for small children to look inside.
*’The Planets’ is on August 3rd & 4th 7pm at The Concourse. http://t.co/vd2XbpEnbD
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I’d love to say who else worked on this thing but no one has ever told me. I do know they’d have to be insane
Jul 24, 2013
*Article: “The Misuse of the Kookaburra call in every Exotic Movie ever made”, by Dr. Ian Tarzan.
*and counting… http://t.co/QQzSbilvuw
*I think I know what this is. If I am right it’s excellent. People already going bonkers over the clues. http://t.co/C0zTPt7Gzy
Jul 26, 2013
@dj2mn
OK I’ve got Toadstage and Pro Tools figured out, will do Live next a.s.a.p. All done with ‘Assignments & Mappings’
Something is definitely going to happen. http://t.co/UCGUXVy47E
Jul 27, 2013
*Much as I would like to come visit the Wigtown festival, I think the taxi fare might be excessive.
*Me: “Hello Pro Tools! Ready for some musical adventures?”
Pro Tools: “Get Fucked” {crash}
Pro Tools is USA and ZOOM interface is Japan and my studio is Pearl Harbour. Zoom works nice with German software of course.
Jul 28, 2013
*”Well now Pro Tools aren’t you looking spiffy since I reinstalled you! Ready for some music now?”
Pro Tools: “Get Fucked” {crash}
*Oh I give up. I’ll just run it at work. Life is simply too short for DAE ERROR -3298402398423948230948239423
Jul 30, 2013
Some of the music that taught me music. A 2 hour retro-respect-ive of tunes that were my music school. http://t.co/ADI4GAlmg5
Cubase. Of all the things that had work with the ZOOM recorder. Feels like I need a rack full of Emulators, feels like CYBER MUSIC.
Nothing wrong with Cubase. Hell you want good VST and ASIO, go with the makers. I’m just having early 1990’s flashbacks. FLOPPIES.
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Jul 31, 2013
I’d just like to take this small opportunity to tell the United States government to go fuck themselves. Cheers. This should not be seen as an endorsement of anyone else, particularly any of the ‘dear leaders’.
Aug 1, 2013
*I am interviewed in UN magazine. I am always adorable & utterly fascinating and the rest of the mag is too. http://t.co/jhUzyCFxJq
*Cool. Bandcamp has a new album player that places a cute young female singer/song writer up next to your album. Mega sales. For some reason when I try it with mine it puts some fat old bastard there. Can’t get it working like the demo.
*I have to fix my CVI. Know 0 about capacitors but I’ll learn, everyone too busy to help. It’s the power supply. http://t.co/dt4SlHha0I When you turn it on it catches fire. The CMI does that too. But it still operates and makes bad video synthesis at 235 by 287 pixels. Aha, CVI fanciers blog. Right then. Wiggling pink rectangles are coming back in business. http://t.co/eqPd5svhLq
*A reminder that the orchestra is pumping out All the Holst That Fits this Saturday night at the Concourse Chatswood. http://t.co/TXuelX08Li
*I have achieved ultimate mainstream. It’s making me cry with joy: my shit with an orchestra in Chatswood. The prank that never ends.
Aug 2, 2013
*Springtime for Snowden. Winter for Alexei Navalny. ‘Dear Leader’ has caught a large fish. The left wing claps like idiots.
*ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Survived first week teaching.
You earned BEER POINTS. http://t.co/wYYf1hQLzB
*NYT relieved that art trained people that make ‘sounds we care most about’ are mucking out the ‘honk tweet’ school. http://t.co/besOtKgApw
Aug 2, 2013
*Gentrifying experimental music to be pleasant multi-speaker arrays of pretty classical music for nice people to buy. No assumptions being marketed there. No sir.
*MoMA is ’embracing’ process music in 2013, of the sort that Gavin Bryars performed in 1969? An ‘apogee’?! OK nurse I’ll take my pills now.
Aug 3, 2013
*Conceptual Artist builds modular synthesiser from kit. “The modules represent our communal yearnings”. Sells to MoMA for $1 billion
*Second version includes a statue of Buddha wearing headphones.
*No one may twiddle a knob which must stay set as ‘envisaged’.
Aug 4, 2013
*Fun day over at Cockatoo Island for Underbelly. The place itself is hard for artists to tame. Beat it with sticks… http://t.co/fklb3dBBsb A veteran of too many virtual worlds I can’t help but compare it to a real world Myst Island. Air raid shelter http://t.co/UfTn8NZ73F
A game of a different sort. http://t.co/CcL7vwZ9Iy
*Planets concert was anthropological. Flautists in dinner suits. Turning pages. Unfortunate flaws like this speaker. Let’s just say that like always I poured all my hopes & dreams into too small a bucket. Others didn’t bother. I win/lose.
*A six year College degree in drum machines. Professor Ray Badness is your doctor beat. http://t.co/ifhXoPhq55
Aug 5, 2013
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and furthermore blah
Aug 6, 2013
Thank you Bandcamp listeners. You’ve raised the money for the sequel to HH. I’ve bought the game engine, see you in a year.
I particularly appreciate the people that paid sums that spelled out coded messages. There will be Easter eggs. You will never find them.
Aug 7, 2013
Already a new Doctor Who villain has been announced. http://t.co/jVrQvGYWQP
#DrWho
The music Industry. http://t.co/wAQeUzrg72
Aug 8, 2013
A man would like to reissue my records on vinyl. Would anyone buy this vinyl? Must it be reproduced exactly as it was in 1950 something?
Aug 9, 2013
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Survived second week teaching.
You earned: GIN & TONIC http://t.co/GH9KOsxPB0
Aug 10, 2013
5151 1008 1962 I repeat 5151 1008 1962 0000
*I’ve tried to like, really have. Boards of Canada latest LP channels shitty factory scifi music from 90s. Succeeds in most banal way. BOC an important foil to music in the late 90s, now lack purpose, have churned out the same tonality over years. Maybe younger bands needed.
I mean listen to this http://t.co/k0oqHI41f2
At very least these guys aren’t sobbing over their lost childhood 24-7.
Aug 11, 2013
*Game engine costs are blowing up. Basics cost €99. Sound another €199. HTML5? +€49. Remove our logo? Another €299. And € in $ is expensive.
Th€ d€mo won’t l€t m€ s€€ th€ cod€ it g€n€rat€s. So if th€r€’s a function missing I’m shit out of €uros.
I better start selling a bucket load of overpriced vinyl to pay for this bloody game.
*Uh oh just realised that election TV debate has started, better the get the hell off Twitter before the L/R wings get flapping. (whoosh)
*Why do people have to say ‘single channel video’? It’s a video. On a screen. Stop being so pompous.
Aug 12, 2013
Keynote + OSX = disaster. Above a certain size saving the ‘instant revert’ overwhelms the entire OS. Small edit needs 10m thrashing. Removing the ‘save’ menu and having constant backing up of a 4Gb project is not ‘it just works’. It’s the art of the insane.
Aug 13, 2013
*Our local cinema where we show student films is going DCP. So I’ve now got a complex and expensive process to get small works screened…
*Bet at least 1 standard DV recording will need to be blown up to 12bit 2K. Also won’t be able to view the files I’m making.
*Some students are now packing Blackmagic Cinema Cameras. I’ll have to beg a loan so I can test the output. Tech class struggle :-0
Aug 14, 2013
*Seriously, every commenter on the ABC’s “The Drum” is a Grade A fuckwit. In what way does this partisan pissing contest elevate discussion? If I had one thing to blame for losing interest in politics, it’s that I might ever be aligned with that cupboard full of tools.
*Disappointed that the ABC ‘Vote Compass’ puts me to the left of Mahatma Gandhi. Suspect it’s based on postcode & job description. Very few Inner City Art College Lecturers voted for Hitler. That was the Architecture Faculty.
*People say that Art College Lecturers aren’t important. What if I had given Hitler a pass? What if some guy I passed was the next Hitler?
Aug 15, 2013
*Played Guardian’s spin the PM. Dammit, I am still measuring up as part tree hugger. http://t.co/jj8AXl23ur
via @guardian
*Raised by Bolshies and doctor’s wives. Doomed to be an old fart leftie. May as well start growing a beard and boiler suit.
Aug 16, 2013
*So about the only policy announcement left to Labour on immigration is that “all tinted folk will be shot on sight & their swag burnt.” I wouldn’t put it past them to announce just that. Along with a jolly old book burning. Anything for the Average Australian. Anything.
I’m not leaning left, the rest of the island is teetering over the eastern coast, causing the whole outhouse to tip over & good riddance.
ALP announces refugees will be used as biofuel. LNP counters that they will be buried in mass graves. ALP promises to piss on the graves. LNP pledge that incoming prime minister will personally punch each refugee in the face as long as they are held down by troops.
Journalists attempting to applaud each announcement but keep missing their hands. Hooting & dribbling with excitement.
Seeing I just got mail from a 3rd party about it, I guess it’s public I have signed a record contract. A RECORD you know black, 2 sides…
*Sorry Mr. @lagowski we went with another bunch. Sharing our hiss & crackle with @martynware
& co.
Aug 18, 2013
*I’m researching a presentation on visual music and as always appreciating how partisan and pig ignorant art history can be. Everything significant was done by a self promoter in a major city in the northern hemisphere. Nothing else ever has ever happened. There is no sufficient amount of derision and laughter, satire and contempt that can be thrown at the art establishment.
*Aargh, Found my “Video Subvertigo” demo VHS. I thought I’d lost another bit of Australian art history no one bothered to document or keep. Video Subvertigo was an Australian VJ agitprop group. You will not find them listed in any official history of video art because…
*Neighbor pours water in my junction box, explosion, I’m having a romantic candle lit evening. I attract luck.
*Electrician looks in box, recoils in horror. Calls for urgent back up. Several decades of illegal wiring on fire. Will devour Surry Hills.
*The war stained face of the electrician. He stared into the abyss, waged the ultimate battle of wiring Good vs Evil. Civilisation restored.
Aug 19, 2013
*JBHIFI selling HD vid cameras for pittance. Bought 1 thinking about slingshot / watermelon / tie to cat. But it has ‘baby mode’… read instructions for ‘baby mode’ several times and it’s some kind of Cronenberg bio-horror mummy thing. All hail the new flesh. I think this is the HD version of inserting VHS tape into guts and Debbie Harry on the TV. Investigating.
Aug 20, 2013
Playing with ‘Baby Mode’ on this camera. My pineal gland has lengthened and I can hear colours. Must get some more for 1st year classes.
Aug 21, 2013
*I’m saving time by voting for this guy. He’s going to win anyway. http://t.co/TfDrpr3kuh
*Perhaps the new ASIO “Ben Chifley Building” should be subtitled “The Searchlight On The Hill”.
*GoPro 3 NOT a crashy piece of shit, just that when they said use Class 10 cards they didn’t MEAN Class 10. “This camera goes up to 11”.
*Thanks for wasting months of my time trying to get this crashy piece of shit working. And it doesn’t have Baby Mode.
Aug 22, 2013
Just got a letter: EMI has sold off the rights to my old music to BMG Chrysalis. You see, the labels are into music sharing as well. Actually I think EMI is part of BMG / Warners / RCA / SONY / Polygram / other people. I think they’re all one company and swap logos. All owned by Apple / Google / Microsoft / NSA / FBI / NWO / Elder Gods Holding Corporation / Fat Cats / News Ltd / Satan …
Aug 23, 2013
*LNP going to buy old smuggling boats? So they can build new ones? Has to be some devious plan here, I mean, no one is THAT FUCKING STUPID.
*I am desperately trying to be non partisan here but a blue clown car just ran over my foot.
Aug 24, 2013
*O why won’t the plebeians take instruction from our politically astute tweeting? They need to be shamed into our privileged viewpoint. We must guide ‘the people’ to a correct thinking, lest they be guided by our foes. (Seriously, left wing = right wing, stop it).
*Nostalgia antidote: cleaning tape-heads with cotton buds. A constant chore that the enthusiasts forget to mention.
Aug 25, 2013
I might lose my job over this; but ALL robots are actually art college lecturers dressed up. I’m sorry everybody, it was just a ruse. I mean it’s obvious when you think about all those people with PhDs. Where do they all go? Many work at Ford Motors, some are on Mars.
Aug 26, 2013
@vuzhmusicn That is very cool, but best of all I now know that there’s a Windows software that does image to sound like Metasynth.
BABY MODE ACTIVATED https://t.co/kvvWhionJ7
PROCESSING STAND BY https://t.co/ZVvxl9cF3w
Aug 27, 2013
Goodbye Clavilux, switched off for the last time today. Might be a version appearing at Electrofringe later this year. Might be a bonfire. I need to cannibalise the Clavilux brain for other projects. Talking to Paul G about a video version – the purpose behind BABY MODE testing.
Aug 29, 2013
David Hockney has discovered media art, bless him, but he carries it off so enthusiastically and cleverly. Projection mapping next.
Aug 30, 2013
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Survived Five Weeks of Teaching.
VALIUM BONUS POINTS
*Garry Bradbury and Ian Andrews alert. Please put all dogs on leash. http://t.co/dIkF5DHu4r
Aug 30, 2013
All that needs be said about the Australian election is in Aesop.
http://t.co/l6Mrt5Z4XV
Aug 31, 2013
*Designing a sequel to the game “HH” – not using 3D, but a maze of sound and spherical photographs. http://t.co/8Wbm1j2nk8
*A Greens Senator just told me that Pirate Party will look after my digital rights. That wasn’t the smartest thing to tell a musician.
Babby’s first panorama. This takes a lot more work than it seems, mostly in RAW processing. 44 images used. http://t.co/PhoDMEOF9B
Sep 1, 2013
This BS has been a good reminder to put Pirate Party up the end just after Wikileaks and in front of One Nation. Muscles for brains.
Sep 2, 2013
Because this can never seen too often: http://t.co/9pE0Yv3EkA
Sep 5, 2013
*he tries to evolve a musical cubistic style of film completely divorced from the naturalistic style which he considers lunatic & scandalous. Viking Eggeling in 1922. Major hero.
There is no bottom to this pit. Half of Eggeling’s notes on ‘film’ are cribbed in German from Henri Bergson, in French. I’m drowning…
Sep 6, 2013
*What I learned from DJ Spooky’s lecture today: show lots of pictures of yourself standing in front of things and name drop. This is me. Here’s me. I was here. Look at me. This person knows me. I liked this idea so I conformed it to what I do. My book. Me.
*I’m voting Communist (reformed Trotskyite, not Stalinist). Because fuck yeah (& preferences). Labor in Senate. Now back to getting drunk.
Sep 6, 2013
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Survived SIX WEEKS Teaching!
BONUS Oxycontin + Champagne
Sep 7, 2013
Wildcard swings. Many places the “others” are getting the votes. General mayhem, mostly away from GRN/ALP, but not to LNP. A protest. Many Australians taking refuge, some inside Palmer’s considerable bulk. Not a coherent vote for the LNP despite Murdoch’s warm ball cupping.
Palmer is the real winner tonight. All those DVDs in mailboxes, SEE! VIDEO WORKS!
http://t.co/CgD7azbBIW
ALP was part Green. But LNP is now part Yellow. Making some stickers: PALMER FOR PM. Let’s run this shit into the ground. CLIVE PALMER FOR PM! He can buy as many sexy daughters as needed! You want 100? 200? Next election split the right wing vote!
Sep 8, 2013
NSW Senate: “Count 42: Pauline HANSON (One Nation) excluded”
Cool, today is over. Night.
Sorry 1 more: “Count 28: Julian ASSANGE (Wikileaks Party) excluded ” > votes distributed to Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party. Moron!
Some Sunday painting with complex algebra. I kind of like the look, but it’s hard to animate nicely. http://t.co/plJVHVz2zj
Sep 9, 2013
16 days left.
In case you haven’t been told there is a sonogram hidden in the YouTube videos. We have solved this puzzle. We know.
Sep 11, 2013
Letter came from SONY. I am owned by BMG & Chrysalis only outside of Australia, where SONY & ATV now hold my leash. I feel loved.
Sep 13, 2013
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
<< 7 Weeks Teaching >>
Bonus: 200x Wizz Fizz http://t.co/4SDf53jN5e
Dolby has been turned off.
Sep 14, 2013
Processing. raw. video. is. very. slow. for. what. you. get. as. results. I. can. live. with. h. 264. and. make. more. films. I. reckon.
Sep 17, 2013
*Roland Jupiter 4. Not Working. Parts Only. $1200.00. Obviously there is something special about this analogue utter silence. “Listen to the sustain! Well you would hear it if I was playing it!”. Needs to be an electro-pop remake of Spinal Tap. So much overpriced vintbaggage recalling some kid in the music shop trying out the synth line from Van Halen’s ‘Jump’. Bite me.
The history of dance music is hock shops. My first synth was $250. If an angry teen can’t afford it then it sucks & = dad music.
Sep 18, 2013
*On Saturday, Stephen R Jones & myself start project ‘Big Iron’, reopening the sealed road case. http://t.co/XS12Nik3LY
*And this time we’re not letting people ‘borrow’ the schematics. Not that they could copy this – hand made parts. http://t.co/xJzKjSbO3v
Whenever you feel sad, go and look at this page. Then you will feel happy again.
http://t.co/GnikkbExrM
Sep 19, 2013
My struggle to tame multi-coloured digital bird shits. http://t.co/F7uH6oo632
Sep 20, 2013
*You don’t have one of these. You are jealous. You may only look on with envy.
*Vintage Analogue Monster Synth on eBay!
*Worst old Brian Eno picture ever.
Sep 21, 2013
*Why do people buy vintage keyboards that are not a KAWAI 100F? They have no class. Why is there no 100F VST?
*This is a cultured and distinguished gentleman – we could all learn something. http://t.co/BNLbxBXBMe
OPERATION ‘BIG IRON’ BEGINS.
Let’s crack open that road case & see…
Cool, and where’s the other bits…
Bonus Cox Box colouriser and an MX12
Looks like we got ourselves the start of an experimental video laboratory! Well, that and a whole load of cabling.
Sep 23, 2013
‘Cascade of diarrhoea’: UK critic savages Australian art exhibition http://t.co/Oaa6Xfzv2o
Sep 24, 2013
HW purists scoff, but I’m enjoying odd rack extensions in Reason. http://t.co/t1hnGJxI7x
& http://t.co/XMXDnep0AD & http://t.co/qVG2I7adtO
Sep 25, 2013
*WHAT THE HELL? The Pronunciation Countdown was Horse_ebooks in disguise? No. What? http://t.co/nyVjKSUv7a
HORSE EBOOKS IS RUNNING AN ARG and the Internet just
*eBay delivers an NTSC Digital-8 camera & finally Halloween 2002 in Santa Cruz is back on air. YANK WIFE HAPPY.
Sep 26, 2013
*So many sobbing manchildren for whom Horse_eBooks was their only true friend. Turns out to be a successful artist. They wail, broken. A traumatic world where things don’t stay exactly the same forever and ever. On cassette.
*http://t.co/La5XdASysD tells lies. BBC didn’t send the first transatlantic TV – Logie Baird did in the 1930’s.
Sep 27, 2013
*Hello MX-30. You’ve been sitting on a shelf too long. Time to get you out and working!
Now the view from my cubicle is much more interesting I think.
This unit seems in pretty nice shape. Only one broken switch so far. Looking good.
NOW I AM VERY HAPPY.
Advanced baby mode engaged. Next to figure out recording.
Sep 28, 2013
My “Big Iron” project outlined – a proposal to build an experimental video workshop & museum at COFA for teaching
Sep 30, 2013
They’re selling fondue sets in the supermarket, a new Woody Allen film and everyone is talking cassettes & TV. Hey lawn, get off my kids. 1973 wasn’t all that exciting people. People? Hello? Beige was never the answer. Shag carpet? Hello? Any one alive?
Oct 2, 2013
I hope this guy beats the shit out of YouTube robot copyright. Had enough of having my own work blocked. YouTube is the world’s largest pirate software distributor. This robocopyright bullshit is less than zero.
Oct 3, 2013
*Next door film co. saved effort by dumping their printed emails in my recycling. Anyone wants private pitch data from KONTENTED just ask! They suck for printing their emails out on paper in the first place, but to dump their data in a neighbour’s bin = komplete kretins
*Holy shit @rasurc … you mean … It’s the real actual Kai Krause THE ELDER GODS ARE RISING.
Mad German Scientist lives in hidden castle for 20 years and now unleashes the Mother of All Psychedelic Bird Shit Generator
I am so downloading this. The death of MetaCreations in 1999 was the end of a crazy fun ride, & I’m looking forward to glowing orb controls!
Oct 4, 2013
*Adobe’s creative cloud has been hacked and customer info taken. Change your password NOW.
Got my VSTs playing in Reason 7 with about 20 min of fiddling. Obsessive compulsiveness now dealt with, can actually do some music.
*Hello iPhone owners. Meet your girlfriend at last. http://t.co/6fj0uAbKuT
Oct 5, 2013
Musical scores designed as paintings, drawings, layout. The other side of visual music. http://t.co/94RarCRYdr
via @guardian
*Yay, cheque from Nettwerk for 55c! Truly all musicians are lazy & overpaid and are helped by their music being uploaded on blogs
*Forest of mirrors in Hyde Park for art&about. Mirrors very good for avoiding detection by children. On the way to One Direction. But which direction? Ask the hero in the background.
Oct 7, 2013
I recommend the unfortunately named VirtualANS, which does Metasynth stuff, or vice versa by the looks of it.
Immediately after the release of any iPad music software comes a whoosh and Jordan Rudess sweeps in, blurb ready for launch.
A video linked from VirtualANS site on visible sound is great fun and worth a look. http://t.co/Mk7R8kerkQ
Oct 8, 2013
*Boston Dynamics’ new nightmare fuel: http://t.co/HS6mgUTwcp
*Kunst Kamp Robotiks to top this by adding a smiling head that just wants a kiss.
Oct 9, 2013
Designing an HDTV studio is like a jigsaw puzzle but it’s on fire & you get random electric shocks & you’re on skates which are really cats
And the cats hate you.
Just got to the bit where one component forces the whole studio to switch to standard definition unless another $3,000 gets bunged in.
Why didn’t I just stick to tape recorders? Those were the days when a lad could just bung a 1/4 inch mumble mumble gets all maudlin & senile
Oct 11, 2013
One more student video starting with an alarm rousing a fully clothed person out of bed and I’m taking up extreme bungee jumping.
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9 Weeks Teaching Completed
Bonus: 1000 Mile Stare x2
Any hope for a library of video synthesiser plug ins that could equal 5,500 VSTs? http://t.co/K1VHBYv3aP
Oct 12, 2013
Got ArtMatic running on an ASUS Hackintosh and feeling like Queen of The Dweebs. But seriously, have a fractal render farm at last.
It’s not that I wouldn’t buy some more Macs, but c’mon 7 computers is enough. Rather hack PC’s than add to the toxic landfill.
Oct 13, 2013
Good coverage of the ANS synthesiser real & virtual @ C.D.M. and yes THEOSOPHY there as always. Damn. http://t.co/GSdxM30ULu
History of 20th century art = theosophy + CIA funding.
It’s Salon, but this essay on ‘creatives’ is pretty much dead on target. http://t.co/mWqgEANMsO
@wellfutile
Beat you by 1 tweet. 😀
Oct 14, 2013
.@dj2mn And as usual the comments descend into “Art should be free! Artists should never be paid! It’s my born right to download” etc.
.@dj2mn Not ever do those bastards reveal how they get paid, and why they should be paid while telling others they shouldn’t.
Live map of disasters happening worldwide! Make your computer a Sci Fi disaster movie screen! http://t.co/U0FvFYVByz
Car crash in Mali!
Oct 15, 2013
How have I not noticed in 2 years that my laptop has a TV tuner in it? #howaboutreadingthemanual
And it shows up in Isadora?
Oct 16, 2013
That moment when you realise the web site you’ve respectfully asked to republish has lifted it all from another. Sad clown horn. Original sources for early video synthesis history are even less now. That’s easier, although a little sadder.
Oct 17, 2013
Epic battle underway b/w car loads of electricians & my 120yr old house, directed by Michael Bay. So far the house is winning. Each new discovery of loose cables brings colourful British language and ‘adult themes’. Particularly horrible uses of 240v brings an eerie silence and standing in circles – smoking of cigs and slow shaking of heads.
There’s a bit of a fire going on.
Oct 18, 2013
Ah. So in my new job role I can 7.5.9, but I have to get Student Admin to 7.5.9A before they are 86’d. Middle management. Why me?
Ten Weeks Teaching Complete +
BONUS: Middle Management Hit Points +100
Research Shield Boost
Ennui Gold Coins
Just finished reading a paper that red is just a dispute between green and blue, and you know what? It’s right. Red is a lie.
Somebody is actually going to buy this. Somebody who hates music. http://t.co/Mexx5EwSlx
This thing looks just the same and is ten grand cheaper. http://t.co/HalfZCCNps
Oct 19, 2013
Microsoft LifeCams work on OSX straight out of the box, despite no mention anywhere. Handy if you’re cross platform & miserly like me. OTOH, Windows 8.1 mixed results, I have 2 installs OK, but 1 wants a BIOS upgrade & DELL has none. Trying a clean install next.
Liminal Synth; a write up on the decadently complex Studio Artist image synthesiser. http://t.co/nDXy6GHXwk
Oct 22, 2013
VOLT HOUSE 3
In which a new army of electricians hurl themselves headfirst into the maelstrom that is my power supply box. The camera pulls back revealing a forest of men struggling helplessly, high in the air wrapped in webs of live cables. A deep laugh sounds. CUT TO: a 1920’s style montage of bank notes fluttering about the screen. My bank balance whirls downwards in a blur of motion.
Oct 22, 2013
Lectured my 2nd year on “visual music” today. They looked just as perturbed by the hardcore 90’s rave visuals as the 20’s avant garde. I explained how the gunnery squat was cleansed into ‘Art Space’, hence political control. They Facebooked. The art school kindling is wet.
.@SynthetikSoft
was good enough to comment on my tourist guide to Studio Artist. Hoping for Kai next! http://t.co/nDXy6GHXwk
Oct 23, 2013
What is this mavericks bullshit? Where is the picture of the sea lion? I want the sea lion. http://t.co/gLGmt3AINQ “No more cats?!” Plenty of cats left! Hell I got cats – look at this one. You tell me why this cat is no good Mr Cook http://t.co/SZA9nhRRun
Hail Cannons http://t.co/COOsBxi98a
Oct 24, 2013
I bought a thing!
Oct 25, 2013
I bought another thing! That is two things! No more things.
Oct 25, 2013
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— TEACHING PHASE COMPLETE —
— COMMENCE ASSESSMENT —
An ocean of peppered vodka on fire.
Alright! First bid on the Fairlight. Only $13,000 needed to beat that sucker. Go on – you know you want it. http://t.co/Mexx5EwSlx
Or if you are short on the readies, then why not this adorable coffee table? Also makes boing sounds. http://t.co/OTLs4fp8q8
Oct 26, 2013
I’m sure a documentary on the crushing poverty that exists in the world would be sexier when shot in 4K. The flies would be much clearer.
Using RAW capture would make the footage of untreated sewage much easier to treat in post.
If it’s true the federal government just tightened rules for disaster assistance DURING the bushfires, then they’re utter scum.
Oct 27, 2013
Soon as I add MIDI hardware back into my studio, a nightmare of drivers, cables, ports, & other 90’s flashbacks. God bless VSTs.
And an earth whine. Haven’t had one of those in 20 years. Is this authentic enough?
Oct 29, 2013
Under Construction: a new level of hell especially for the authors of AVID MBox drivers. I will cheer lead the demons.
New driver crashes Cubase. Old driver crashes Reason. Propellerhead sent me a ‘AVID can’t code their own arse’ patch that fixes it.
Oct 31, 2013
HELLO MELBOURNE ARE YOU READY TO ROCK? Too bad, you’re getting me instead. DECEMBER 6th for @un_Magazine
Launch.
After six years, it’s probably time to review the Blofeld Synthesiser. No point rushing these Things. http://t.co/95VaGoubrZ
Nov 1, 2013
Bid for a RADIAS, received a stage prop from a Skinny Puppy gig. How does a 19″ module need a stand that fills my office? Only KORG would come up with a custom designed stand and keyboard for one particular rack module. That’s why we love them.
Nov 2, 2013
Garry Bradbury demands that I tweet this against my will. I accept no responsibility. Not my fault.
Nov 4, 2013
Thing 02: Korg RADIAS, the psychedelic grand daughter of the MS20, high on Formant Motions and tweeks
Nov 5, 2013
“You Kids Quiet Down There I’m Tryin’ To Get Some Kip” #worstvocoderphrase
Nov 6, 2013
“Tiny Ball On End Of String” etc. etc. #worstvocoderphrase
“When Father Papered The Parlour” #worstvocoderphrase
*The Great Uploading of Student Films is under way. We’re at 3 hours and 20 minutes. Five PM today the gate shuts!
Pro tip: if your short film requires magic to advance the plot, you’re going to get a very magical assessment.
Pro tip: if your actors need to spend screen time explaining what’s happening, I’ll spend time explaining what’s not going to happen.
Pro tip: if the wind sound is louder than the dialogue, I’ll treat it as your protagonist.
Pro tip: apparently tripods work pretty good for holding the camera steady.
Pro tip: focus isn’t the only thing you’re pulling.
Nov 8, 2013
Somebody sure loved this AKAI sampler. Physically and repeatedly by the internal cleaning I’m having to do. It’s been tagged by a college as recently as 2007. 21 years of inestimable horror in the hands of ‘art’ ‘students’. Now if only I could buy one more MIDI cable, we’ll see if it works. Oh yeah, and some QUICK DISCS, how could I forget them?
“I hear you’re collecting kitsch synthesisers – I might have something REALLY BAD for you”.
Best. News. Ever.
Nov 9, 2013
Started the AKAI & gave it a signal, & after 27 years it’s still trucking. That is if you drive your truck through a shop front & loop it.
Nov 10, 2013
Thing 03: The Roland SH32. As COMPUPHONIC as all get.
$100 for a TX81Z turned into $150 over the last 10 seconds. Got my arse kicked by robot bidders 🙁
No biggie, only an impulse.
Nov 11, 2013
GIRL keyboard for GIRLS. Makes only GIRL sounds.
Nov 13, 2013
You’re just jealous.
Rumour.
Bradbury.
Vinyl On Demand.
Nov 14, 2013
If the D2 groovebox was a font it would be Comic Sans.
Nov 16, 2013
Analogue TV to switch off in Sydney December 3rd.
Spending more time cleaning heads than looping tape.
Nov 19, 2013
Money from Dead Eyes Opened comes in, gets spent on bad synthesisers. Alchemy; Shit turns into Gold.
I have found a Roland thing that will go SWEET with my Roland Pumpkinbox. For DJs only! Can you guess what it is?
Loaded the Blofeld up with waves from bees, mosquitos, aircon, andy williams, anvils, shortwave, opera and misc. I think I’m about ready.
Nov 20, 2013
Too expensive, too far away. We will wait longer in our funnel web. Actually it’s not toooo expensive but $100 in postage reminds one of the Tyranny Of Distance.
*Ellard’s rule: for every student film soundtrack slamming against 0dB peak there are an equal and opposite that are faint bit ditherings.
Nov 21, 2013
*Why should dementia patients get a robot seal? I want a robot seal. Will see if our robot lab has any.
*COFA robot lab has no seals available but if I come back next year they might have a rubber chicken. I feel agitated.
PARANORMAL EASTBOURNE
Ghost of a cat once seen in window of Ye Olde Smugglers Inne. Never again!
PARANORMAL EASTBOURNE
The Black Hag sipping from your pint at the Horse’s Arse.
PARANORMAL EASTBOURNE
Drumming and Sobbing sounds coming from the Gents at The Tally Ho on Fridays.
PARANORMAL EASTBOURNE
Throbbing Gristle group photo on Beachy Head pinned to middle aged man’s wall.
PARANORMAL EASTBOURNE
Another cheque arrives for Dead Eyes Opened. Spooky!
PARANORMAL EASTBOURNE
Mysterious marks appear in gents jocks, spitting image of Our Saviour.
PARANORMAL EASTBOURNE
Hot tea becomes disturbingly cold when urn left in a certain room on Gallows Lane.
PARANORMAL EASTBOURNE
Series of mysterious public tweets a self-deprecating in-joke that only two people would ever fathom!
Nov 22, 2013
If only Morrissey could play Doctor Who, the Guardian would explode in an orgasm of geriatrotechinics.
Nov 23, 2013
OH YES YES YES YESYEYSYSYEYYYYyes YES YES! YES! YES!
FLEACORE IS COMPLETE!!1!
Research document. http://t.co/qGtp1SOGMp
Nov 24, 2013
What is Fleacore?
Nov 26, 2013
Hello there, nice to meet you.
The world better block its ears.
Nov 27, 2013
*Google just asked if I want to get certified to teach uploading to YouTube. 2 day course with exam. Thoughts come to me, none pretty. If I did this, I would become ‘YouTube Certified’. *Pinnacle of my tertiary education credentials along with ‘can use scissors unaided’.
*Some long ass letter from a US publisher about Skinny Puppy money and IRS forms and not worth the potential 50c to even read it through. Actually, new rule: anything involving Skinny Puppy, even making me mention them is $100/Hr payable in advance.
*The Lord spoke unto me saying you shall have a multitude of 9 volt adapters in a large tub, and knowest not what they should power. & the Lord sayeth unto me; a large bag of USB cables shall sit on this tub, of all shape and form, ask not why they are kept eternally. & the Lord sayeth unto me; thou might need that Firewire 400 hub sometime you never know. Better hang onto it.
Nov 28, 2013
*The guy selling the Kawai 100F is next door to the pub next to the pub to which I live next door. Surprised I haven’t heard it from here. I guess the sound I thought was a mid air collision with debris raining down on a kindergarten was actually the 100F in the distance.
*Off to the local cinema to pre-test the COFA end of year short ‘film’ screenings. More complicated than you think.
Nov 29, 2013
Dear Week. You have been really horrible to me, and I’m leaving you for Next Week which says it’s going to treat me with more respect.
Nov 30, 2013
Orlando Disneyworld has announced all new cast members must have PhD’s, wear academic robes when operating rides. Details to follow.
Sorry last post was incorrect – academic dress is only required in Fantasyland.
Dec 1, 2013
*Ebony and ivory: a field of ruined symphonies – ABC Mid West WA – Australian Broadcasting Corporation http://t.co/DiNtKBD0ud
*Blocking all online comments is weirdly like giving up grog. You feel anxious, like you threw a sheet over your assassin. But it’s best done
*ABC Drum site now like a David Lynch film with all the underworld bits edited out.
*Years without a Kawai 100F: 1983 – 2013. Henceforth the ‘Drab Shitty Era’. You’re all getting free samples BTW. http://t.co/XEYeucT7Gz
!!AUSTRALIAN ROCK 2013!!
(another picture of Nick Cave looking all grumpy). For fuck sake somebody creep up behind Nick Cave and tickle him. Actually if I ever bump into Saint Nick again I’m going to talk in that really high pitched voice people use for talking to cats.
Dec 2, 2013
COFA Annual Screening delivered without cinema burning down from exploding Dolby processor. A win for brickwall limiting. People who whine about sitting through films should try standing up through them in the bio box (= projection booth in yank.) (‘Bio Box’ comes from Biograph = film name in Australia which BTW made the first feature film & multimedia presentation. So, we win.)
Dec 3, 2013
This will look absolutely smashing next to my Faberge egg collection. Wrapped in mink. http://t.co/HxqfXegS71
Feeling morbid today, remembered they turned off analogue TV this morning. Being vintage & analogue myself, I’ll get turned off soon enough.
Of course a $16m violin shows how the real instrument hoarders rumble. http://t.co/yUQXoeKAq1
Dec 4, 2013
Rehearsing for Friday Melbourne gig. Haven’t done some of these video cutups since Perth in 2007 and I must have been in speed or something. Weird seeing analogue TV mash ups of John Howard and Kevin Rudd again. Not in a good way.
Dec 5, 2013
Is it a full moon today? Maybe not in Sydney, perhaps all the people around me are responding to the dual moons of Planet Zog. The Zog tides got to be at peak, everyone’s at nutcase factor six. Still asking? C’mon people.
unMagazine Launch, 6 – 9pm Friday 6th December 2013 At “Magic Johnston”,
27-29 Johnston St. Collingwood
Dec 8, 2013
Toxoplasma gondii reproduces via cats infecting humans, improving their nerd skills & lowering social skills. http://t.co/4sdtKz5QlV
Future of mankind is cat owning, computer gaming dorks infested with parasite cysts.
I was trying to work out why so many people take photos of cats on keyboards and consoles. It’s basically a real world ‘The Puppet Masters.
*5 minutes of the Kawai Synthi100F doing what it does best. http://t.co/1T1xAemJk1
*So what the @$#^&@$ is sound art? A small vote in favour. http://t.co/HicRtD80iR
*Cool. Found a Sydney dealer that carries powered iPad MIDI stands. Now all that 5 buck music s/w becomes actually usable.
*Can someone tell me if the content & quality of Salon’s writing represents the USA’s progressive left? If so, you’re doomed.
*It would read pretty cool if you were 1st year in some social science course. For everyone else it’s a reason to vote Hitler.
*Salon: “Ha ha! GOP men are big fat bum bums! I gave up meat this weekend! That pop film did not have enough Inuit!”
Dec 10, 2013
*More time wasted politely listening to talk of Miley Cyrus. Something anxiously suffocating about prole bait, as if it accelerates ageing.
*Big dump of Blackmagic cameras now sorted and I’m puzzling over RAW video & LUTs and how the hell we’re going to teach with these things. RAW video sounds great but without a Look Up Table appears same colours as dog droppings. Better build a macro or students will freak out. Going to need to add a few weeks on colour grading skills. Now how am I going to hide that as ‘cross media research methodologies’
*2 requests this week for music for soundtracks. Sure – but only if the 8mm film is also 30 years old. Otherwise PISS OFF I AIN’T DEAD YET.
Dec 11, 2013
Lets twist again like we did 30 summers ago. http://t.co/0qM3WttMXw
Replacing THIS ALBUM IS RECOMMENDED FOR HEADPHONE LISTENING with THIS ALBUM RODE A F-ING DINOSAUR unless you reply a better suggestion.
Well damn. The STA cover is metric & the CSH cover is inches. An inch is three grains of barley placed end to end, lengthwise. Need barley. So this bit is 7/8th of 3 grains of barley or 2.675 grains. or the larger part of a king’s left nostril… hell I’ll use metric.
So here’s the near-final layout. Note my professional leading/kerning unlike original. 5 years in layout moi. http://t.co/JQGIzHSBR1
Knocked this off today as well. A bit more to do with the titles depending on which way we decide. http://t.co/ezX2kiNdlq
Having laid out 256 page catalogues, doing album covers is a complete doddle. Plus I use the correct damn titles.
Dec 12, 2013
Hey. Somebody out there might not be happy. I know, I’ll push this button and MAKE THEM HAPPY.
http://t.co/Qp2d3jD7nY
Dec 13, 2013
Cleaning, found my dot matrix printed RemoteAccess manual. Twister2 BBS about 20 years ago, the phone ringing all night @ 28,800 BAUD V.34
.@scotartt Old School Billing for Usenet access. http://t.co/f5aflThtF2
Video editing in 1994. $2400 to capture, $4000 to play it back. $1300 for the 1 Gb thumb drive. http://t.co/opn2x7pWJD
Burning a CD in 1994. $280 for the burn, $80 for the media. http://t.co/GiFs6s9qwl
Dec 13, 2013
http://t.co/MmFMECG7Jt
is giving away the Fallout game series for about the next 7 hours.
Dec 15, 2013
We are seriously in a era which will be remembered for “my robot is bigger than your robot”. It’ll be as quaint as mainframe computers.
I begin to understand how ‘uncreative writing’ reflects our culture, but it stills seems a reactionary dead end.
All that’s required is to change the scale of a ‘word’. The rest is politics.
Just one more thing… http://t.co/mkT9eYprDP
Dec 16, 2013
$33.00 and you are stylin’ hard http://t.co/o80gv1UjKj
Dec 17, 2013
sevcom.com
is dead.
Long live nilamox.com
Dec 18, 2013
Blackmagic Pocket Camera has broken down in first serious test shoot. This is not a warm fuzzy for teaching.
The DX200 arrives and we have reached Maximum Yamaha Millennial Knob Twiddling Action!
Living next to a bakery sounds cute, until the smell means chocolate steak, chocolate beer, chocolate curry, chocolate clothing …
It being Christmas they seem to have a veritable sea of chocolate vomit boiling away in there.
Dec 19, 2013 The year every habitable space in Sydney becomes a coffee shop.
Hey. Missed Colin Wilson dying. Too many people carking it at once. Farewell you wonderful pretentious git. http://t.co/RiWltQEa7g
Aleister Crowley, poltergeists and outsider artists. Colin Wilson books helped cook the goose I am today. Sad about it.
Dec 20, 2013
UNSW invents NADS, drug that makes you 21 again. Market it as goNADS obviously. To be put in staff food bins?
A world full of trim, young, athletic 80 year olds with severe dementia coming right up!
Tasmanian couple can no longer stand the yapping of their 45 pet chihuahuas and Jesus, Tasmania you’re a weird place. http://t.co/ifewsEJxHD
Dec 21, 2013
That sad feeling when an indie electronic track you really liked is a preset sequence on a box you just bought. Probing the AN200 with sysX data for a panel & discovering a classic synthesiser. So much hidden crazy + extreme range noise.
New Final Cut X finally allows video files anywhere, two years too late. UNSW now Adobe based. Bad case of Applegance.
Dec 22, 2013
Fuck David Byrne. I must have 1000 tubas. Somebody play Stockhausen’s Helicopter Quartet to this tidy little man.
Who told this accountant that he should write about music? His accountant.
Ric Birch – “I want 84 pianos all playing Rhapsody In Blue exactly in time and fuck David Byrne.”
Dec 23, 2013
@astralsocialite
In Salon argues music must conform to expected norms, ignores many ridiculous but wonderful experimental works. Reactionary
Dec 24, 2013
Meh. I failed at Comedian versus Philosopher. http://t.co/xxpapxmcTG
Best thing about Xmas – the inner city empties out as everyone goes back to their ancestral suburbs. It’s gone quiet like a country town. It’s actually near silent, makes your ears hurt. It’ll last a few days before the financial planners et al return to infest the real estate.
Dec 27, 2013
There are more proprietary sample formats in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. If I go with SFZ everyone will be equally inconvenienced. But then I can hold that smug ‘I used an open format’ expression. There is a word in German for that exact facial expression: Backpfeifengesicht.
Dec 28, 2013
Software vendor insists it must mail me a CD. Vendor has a comedy chicken on their website. Vendor is nuts. They can also mail me a Chicken Zip Drive. I thought those things were banned by the United Nations twenty years ago.
Dec 29, 2013
Packing a FLAC in an OGG for SFZ – or “why do open formats use such stupid names?” Looks like it don’t work anyway.
Dec 31, 2013
OCD wins again. I have Zebra oscillators working as Blofeld wavetables plus the G&T’s are cheaper here than on George St. Nerdy New Year!