Jan 4, 2018
* Went for eye test, ended up talking VR with the optometrist. The trick is to render significant landscape at 5K (which YouTube now wants) and the rest can be up-scaled from 2K. He also explained how Magic Leap works. To be honest I’m thinking that 180º video is probably all that most entertainments require. That fills your view but still has a frame edge and therefore cinematic language still applies. I think. (tests tests tests)
* WHERE’S THE PARTY?
Jan 5, 2018
I probably should have started the last tweet at page 1
Jan 6, 2018
Programmers that write their own documentation – I will hunt you down. You will pay for this.
Get me some science funding now
Jan 8, 2018
Today: 4 channel multitrack in sync, through 4 positional sound sources each responding to multiple floating point controls, heard through a 360º listener. A good day, hopeful for the idea.
Jan 10, 2018
Teleport test: webGL, 4 stems in 360º audio, loudness tracking, sync events/lighting & a spinning green cube for @dj2mn
Not shown here: music/events track master BPM. MIDI channels.
* Breaking news: Julian Assange appointed new chairman of Breitbart News Network.
Jan 11, 2018
Beelzebub
Jan 12, 2018
Trying to debug a script across screens while wearing VR goggles and I really should add a ball gag to celebrate the nastiness of this moment
Jan 13, 2018
Breaking News: Mickey to seek Republican nomination in 2020
I finally updated Severed Heads up to 2017, but still lots more to do
Jan 19, 2018
Fuck FitBit for making the fucking watch need music over fucking WiFI and failing when there’s a fucking cable right fucking there that would fucking work STRAIGHT AWAY. Fucking techbro bullshit.
Jan 22, 2018
This here is pure 21st century music industry, except perhaps it needs VR and a blockchain or three
Jan 24, 2018
Because people keep asking:
There’s a vinyl record of Severed Heads performing on CBC in 1986. I don’t sell it, nor give a shit about -32- years ago
It belongs to CBC because I signed a form saying they could use the recording
I also have an open reel recording of my mum wiggling me in 1962 in case anyone wants to license that for a white vinyl gatefold. I mean, man that was way before the summer of love mumble mumble mumble
In the meantime I will work on progressive music and art, and take risks on new ideas and forms, because that shows real respect for the energy that fuelled the past.
I really can’t keep up, can we please have just one unbelievable thing to be really really upset about and protest per day?
Jan 25, 2018
Just read something that suggests early man communicated the way people talk to small dogs, kittens and babies. The ursprache was “Who’s a Good Boy Then? You Are!”
Implied – language refined from music.
Jan 27, 2018
Showbag!
Somebody called Annihilating Angel uploaded the entire City Slab Horror on YouTube. I asked him to take it down. The Angel is going to get annihilated.
Feb 2, 2018
*A federal inquiry into the Australian game design industry takes two years to announce no support will be given. Looking forward to the photo-op with some politician ‘delighted’ with a successful title, despite contributing fuck nothing. It would be nice to live where the AAA art happens. But always the life long suspicion that I could never art AAA. #comfortable_colonial_backwater
*Antique Robot Orchestra at Luna Park Sydney 1990’s. (thanks @tdavie73)
Feb 5, 2018
My AHS Roanoke review: at least my lectures about documentary fiction don’t go for 12 fucking hours. Also, less tedious repeated disembowelment.
Feb 6, 2018
Facebook is a really good simulation of what it will be like when I’m confined to an old folks home. Saving up for a pistol.
Feb 7, 2018
Which one of you was this >>> “Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution”
Want to say I just heard ‘We Like To Party’ attached to a dog video, and it is still the only great achievement of the 1990’s.
Feb 8, 2018
Congratulations Fairfax for living up to every slur made about the mainstream press.
Feb 9, 2018
Book of the Dead – Unity Interactive Demo – Realtime Teaser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDsRfbfnC_A
Feb 10, 2018
A write up in the Wire for a band that used to send us cassettes. Their musical genre was defined by the amount of tapes crammed into a post bag, eventually by the number I could cram into a waste bin. “We sent you 5 albums, send us 5. Here’s another 20”
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/swissair-primitive-post-punk-by-finnish-teenagers
*THANK GOD WE HAVE A PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL TO TELL US THIS https://t.co/Xyq8Djfqu1
Feb 11, 2018
Tee hee my ‘neural network’ spewed out utter garbage. What do you mean ‘garbage in garbage out’ I never heard of that?
Feb 14, 2018
For my own studies and my soundtrack teaching coming up this session at UNSW https://www.asoundeffect.com/unity-book-of-the-dead-sound/
* Most of today was arse, but I did manage to splice my two games into one, placing the “Snowglobe” island on top of the “HH” dungeons. You can intend it, but when realised the cross breeding of assets is weird as fuck.
Feb 15, 2018
Fucking Unity fucking audioclips fucking start on load fail when copied to new project fucking reimport every fucking audio file again fucking not fixed in 2017.3 arse
Feb 17, 2018
*No tours this year, have just said no to UK, there’s too much on. Sorry.
*It gets harder every day to police Van Morrison’s attempts rip my music for catholic videos
Feb 20, 2018
I’m really enjoying installing OSX 10.13.3 over and over and over again, almost as good as being pegged by a walrus.
Feb 21, 2018
* Man speaks truth. BTW did you know our Resource Centre is now called the “4D Maker Space”? Makes you think.
* Alongside the sign in the guitar section “No Smoke On The Water”, now “No Theme From Blade Runner” in the keyboards.
* What about the theme from Stranger Things on authentic Casiotone?
Feb 28, 2018
As a staff writer for The Atlantic it’s important that I fill as much space as I can with personal circumlocution such as my childhood, places I’ve lived, failed relationships, pets etc. before I start to finally, grudgingly, address the topic you hoped to read about which is …
Mar 2, 2018
Happy Mardi Gras from Serco!
We’re proudly flying the rainbow at all our facilities this weekend!
Mar 3, 2018
Watching ‘1922’ on Netflix and the main music cue was exactly the same as one of my tracks with a different note at the end. Spooky! Some thought and I can see the coincidence. We both were impressed by a particular sound a decade or so apart 🙂
Mar 4, 2018
It’s showbag time. Time for showbags!
Mar 10, 2018
* The ‘founder’ of the #MeToo meme presents a nuanced and balanced understanding that reaffirms its value, after it has descended into celebrity vanity and publicity. I valued being re-briefed in the original thought. https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/metoo-founder-has-mixed-feelings-about-how-it-unfolded-20180309-p4z3l6.html
* Time magazine demonstrates how to manufacture a clickbait bullshit headline from nothing at all. Abracadabra!
https://time.com/5193315/tullys-coffee-stormy-daniels/?xid=homepage
Mar 11, 2018
Same shit you wear to any wedding, Jesus F Christ
Mar 12, 2018
GoPro. The ultimate why-did-I-buy-this?
Mar 13, 2018
* Oh boy oh boy! Something called Skunk Radio is offering me an audition! Wow! That must be a very exclusive offer!
* On his departure, the scientist attached to what was my Art College has reflected on his role in STEMing up the place. It shows wisdom.
Mar 15, 2018
Already missing the smell of over-excited child puke at Toys R Us.
Mar 17, 2018
Going to a rehab for remixing the same track for 3 years running. By rehab I mean delete the stems. By delete I mean put them in an archive and pretend don’t know where I put it. Stop remixing the fucking track. Release the fucking album its 2018.
Mar 19, 2018
* Congratulations to Mr. Putin for winning another election, bringing fresh blood to … well just about everywhere actually.
* So the next step is how to get the postage costs down, as they’re currently counting the airmail for a 65g box as ‘below a kilogram’.
Australia post says Aversion can be counted as a letter 😀
The Mickey Mouse of Fine Arts
Mar 20, 2018
Who could have known Facebook uses you as a data blood bag?
50,000,000 Elvis fans CAN be wrong! Never let the naysayers say you can’t be your dreams.
Mar 21, 2018
So are they going to change those stupid stock images of big golden “bitcoins” to include engraved child porn?
Mar 26, 2018
Bertie fucking Beetles in the house.
Sydney Easter Show – scones, a freak show, 2 ghost trains, 1 horror house, spinning coaster, Pirate’s Revenge, Bertie Beetle showbag, dogs, wood chopping and no one suspected the go pro. A good day.
Mar 27, 2018
* Ah but you see, software can never match the sound of a real Moog except when it’s a real Moog software.
* Having read all the newspapers I think the only available action is to hang Australian cricketers from lamp posts around every capital city – men, women and children – every one of them. Halt this cancer with zest. No more money spent on sporting facilities. Give it to artists and musicians. Have you ever seen a musician rub sticky paper on a ball in hope of backward bounces? No, these people are shameless bludgers and perverts.
Mar 30, 2018
Happy wire Easter Bunny from @tdavie73 and @t0m3llArd
Don’t eat too many wire eggs.
Apr 1, 2018
*The Aversion 2 rat box is on sale and selling fast. Rats rats rats rats rats rats and furthermore, rats.
*’Black Panther’ review : noble savages armed with magic fairy dust. ‘Logan’ it ain’t.
Apr 2, 2018
*Half the rat boxes are sold
Apr 3, 2018
2/3rds of Aversion boxes are gone. We’re usually easy going about these projects but it was such an arse to get the parts for this, no more will be made.
Apr 4, 2018
Future Park currently showing at Powerhouse Museum Sydney.
Apr 5, 2018
* I know people might be upset with their governments, but just count to ten and ask – am I reposting something that reads like a Russian internet shop made it? We need to develop herd immunity from that.
* If you don’t want a miserable day of sending out apology emails – on Bandcamp publish the download 1st AND ONLY THEN the merchandise that refers to it or no free downloads get offered to buyers.
Apr 6, 2018
SIZE etc GIG Saturday 7th, 19:00–23:30 82A Henderson Rd, Alexandria
* My entire new album up on You Tube. Took a few days. Sigh.
Apr 7, 2018
It’s taken a lot of planning and building but we have the case, cards (with coating), wire rat and a USB card in package that’s less than 2cm and sits under 50g. That saves you a bunch of postage.
Apr 9, 2018
‘Aversion’ Box is currently offline as we catch up with orders. There will be more copies available a.s.a.p.
Apr 10, 2018
Want.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/au/products/davinciresolve/
Apr 11, 2018
* Well there’s one musician in the band at least https://t.co/bg0LybkDSD
* Officeworks discontinued the Aversion 2 cases. I’ve spent the last 5 hours on public transport buying remaining cases in shops from Chatswood to Five Dock. Tired, cranky, but goddamn I cornered the market. Tip: don’t base your design around obscure and unobtainium Japanese office products and wire found in phone boxes. These stupid things have taken a lot of care and time to assemble, but they’re ready and going out the door.
Apr 12, 2018
I’m sorry Ms Abdel-Magied was refused entry to the USA, but you know, that might just happen when you arrive for a paying gig on a tourist visa. She wasn’t deported and it had nothing to do with her views.
Apr 14, 2018
At the time that somebody writes a glitch audio filter for @unity3d it’s in danger of taking over from MaxMSP as data art/performance tool of choice. If I were still running a media arts degree I’d notice that.
Actually if I’d been able to run a world class media arts degree, they’d all be given Unity training in 1st year >> real time 3D animation, 360 sound design, cinematography, data art, systems thinking all there and… sigh. Universities. Whatever. Walk away.
Apr 15, 2018
Yes I totally agree we should do nothing in Syria, because T and May look like an old married couple. Twitter, you’re so fucking astute to the ways of the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUz93v_s18A
Apr 16, 2018
Back from when Manly Men used Manly Men calculators. (just checking it still works)
Oh fuck it, I’ll post Agro. Trigger warnings etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myzO9du_pjk
Apr 21, 2018
I care about the quality and presentation of my music – but 99% of listeners don’t give a shit. So it’s now legitimately appearing on You Tube where you can mangle it on your portable picnic player.
“English Buyer
Top Flat, Plonk House
Twiddles Way, Spanking-On-Pond
Barkingside B1N C0D
UK”
“American Buyer
5000B Rice-a-Roni Parkway Apt 5810A/32
San Bingo CA 90666-666″
Apr 22, 2018
Tip: when you license music to labels, check the section on uploads. You may find that they’ve uploaded your stuff, and another copy of you already exists which disputes your existence. In my case I already exist on iTunes and have to provide my passport to win the battle.
Apr 23, 2018
Uh Oh, passport is not enough to prove that I’m me. The other Tom is laughing down his snooty nose. Snooty. Good news – I exist. Bad news – if you use the words ‘B side’ in a title, it will be rejected. Because downloads don’t have B sides. Somebody might want the B side of their download and … oh never mind.
Apr 24, 2018
Here’s a different meaningless staged photo for you all to analyse.
Apr 26, 2018
I think @dj2mn and I need to meditate on that Tangerine Dream gig as some kind of Ghost of Christmas Future. Item – no 20m long solos, no basic wanky graphics… churches? Maybe churches are the heroin of bloated electronic music? 1m long reverb?
Apr 28, 2018
NetFlix, return the Bloop. You will be sorry.
Apr 29, 2018
Again there is a problem whether I exist. I did previously, but maybe that was before some worldwide calamity known only to streaming music aggregators. It’s strange to have to say “I’m the guy in the Wikipedia article”. Like, you should trust these anonymous people that write this information. I wonder if I could get a home loan with a Wiki reference. Probably.
We have 18 Aversion boxes left.
We have 44 Donut CD/Records left.
We are NOT making any more.
Somebody is going to whine at me that they missed out. I want to avoid that noise.
Apr 30, 2018 {cowardice blog entry}
May 1, 2018
Our first confirmation that a rat made it overseas.
We’re grateful for this feedback. The bent wire and USB might have looked like a bomb when X rayed :-/
May 4, 2018
Yeah but when somebody has some minor success they must be punished for their hubris already. https://x.com/mat___schulz/status/992111266662625280
I do allow my stuff on YouTube. Do me a favour, look first, then tell me what I should do.
* I enjoy Errol Morris and I enjoyed this even though it took me a few reads. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/ashtray/
May 5, 2018
* One reason your government can’t support the local arts industry – they have to bribe the Hollywood industry. Here in Australia, the bribe went up $140 million. That’s funds not invested in growing future ideas or production.
https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/movies/hollywood-the-big-winner-in-140-million-film-funding-boost-20180504-p4zdcm.html
* In the meantime Netflix’s venture into German production “Dark” is really good. It’s a bit complex in that “Primer” time travel way. If it’s a riff on Stranger Things, then it’s mean, cold, angry one.
* Recent update of Arturia Collection & playing again with the Synclavier. It’s capable of some robust Robot Farts. Given that some have spent a large part of their life on this instrument, a reminder to spend more time on less toys.
May 6, 2018
(About the small success of The Illustrated Family Doctor) You could bring up a number of reasons but mostly the main character played by Samuel Johnson was required to carry too much screen time, and was coldly unappealing. He drifted ineffectually. The movie only got going late in the plot when Snapper arrives.
May 7, 2018
* Being a socialist cinema, we often take the viewpoint of the Average Person, who feels swept along by powerful forces they can’t change. They find some small thing that brings happiness. This is true, but not all that entertaining.
Sometimes small pointless crime.
* “Stop with the endless proclamations, denigrations, exemplifications and modifications and allow the fine dust of any recent educational reforms to settle.” And the same in the bloody universities.
May 8, 2018
* Nothing is more cunning, more twisted or dastardly than a student uploading their assignment. Wrong folder, incomplete name, cute nicknames concealing the original Mandarin, multiple copies, Untitled Document …
* I really do think it’s time to delete my Guardian bookmark. It’s really not healthy.
May 9, 2018
* Every fucking word of this.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/are-you-in-a-bs-job-in-academe-youre-hardly-alone/
* All rats are gone. That’s it finished, thanks for playing. GAME OVER.
* Expect at least 10 working days from the date of an email confirming shipment. It’s coming from Australia.
May 10, 2018
* So now I can finally do the VR version of Petrol that’s been on hold for 3 years. Maybe as something you can drive your own car around (thinks)
* More usefully here is a page which describes the research and mechanism involved in creating the effect. https://joanielemercier.com/no-logram/
https://x.com/evankirstel/status/994377557503021057
May 11, 2018
Sales at Unity “Hey we’re having a half off sale, you might want to bump up our shopping cart server”. Engineering “Naah, it’ll be OK”. (Cart collapses in a smouldering heap)
May 14, 2018
As with TD – I feel bad about the amount of music I have made, but goddamn. This transcends the whole notion of ‘looking forward the the next release”. https://x.com/SiMaths/status/995725691768463361
May 16, 2018
“Hey, let’s improve Rock Paper Scissors … it’s tired and in need of a reboot” #the_problem_with_just_about_everything
Woman chooses to live inside dog. Dog renovation includes 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms.
May 18, 2018
* Going to produce a line of really tinny shit speakers called YANNY for the young at heart
* Saw Annihilation last night. We both thought it would be improved by adding a bunch of muscular wise-cracking masked super heroes and a Hans Zimmer soundtrack, no make that TWO LAYERS Hans Zimmer
May 19, 2018
For increased efficiency, why not just attach morgues directly to US high schools?
May 21, 2018
Hi, we want you to try our software on Windows! Wonder why the image we’re using seems to discourage people?
- Today I had somebody ask how to find an album I have on Bandcamp, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Napster, frikken YOUTUBE and I wonder should I nail CDs to trees?
*UberMusic – we come around to your home and start your music streaming service for you.
*Finding your cigarettes and keys is extra.
May 22, 2018
Classical music as a weapon against ‘undesirables.’ (AKA geriatric gangsta rap)https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/bach-at-the-burger-king/
May 23, 2018
Spoke with a lovely lady today, who recounted her teaching methodology from the early 1970’s. It was, of course all the elements of ‘design thinking’, without the affected jibber jabber – nothing new under the Shared Naturally Situated Solar Entity except Academic PiffleSprech
May 25, 2018
I had this book when I was I child and that probably explains everything.
(o)(o) https://x.com/50WattsDotCom/status/999748373912702977
May 26, 2018
Dearest regards to the hero that got up there and blacked that tooth.
*It’s Saturday Night and time to play Spot The Bot! (applause) I have 902 followers RIGHT NOW & some of these people ARE NOT REAL. Maybe NONE of them are real. Maybe it’s you. You there, person that has never communicated with me. Don’t pretend. Let’s see if we can find out…
*Aaaargh I’ve run into a minefield of Entrepreneur Innovators with New Book Available To Change The Wau Yoo Huw help xxxx u35erw et cbg help 1110101010 zzz 🤡
May 28, 2018
Looks like I have to learn Lua.
Should I cry? Or die? Or sigh at the sky? Tell me why.
looooooo aaaaaaaah
May 29, 2018
Whee! I’m riding on the slippery dip!
May 30, 2018
@dj2mn so glad you’re thrilled about the strike on the day scheduled for my fucking in class assessments. Anyone calls me a scab today I’ll fucking lose my shit at them.
May 31, 2018
*Keeping an eye on the design process behind Universal Horror Nights. I’m booked to be in Los Angeles to experience how immersive environments get done by the big kids. Time to move up from albums to buildings
May 31, 2018
My new porn name.
Jun 2, 2018
Watched a good doc on Funko. Impressed how you can fill 1.5hr with weeping testimonials about buying and selling celebrity plastic bobble heads. $-GIVE ME MY CHILDHOOD IN A COLLECTABLE-$
Jun 3, 2018
The builders arrive tomorrow. I had to throw things out.
THROW THINGS OUT.
Jun 4, 2018
Builder looks at tall heavy rack filled with cables, synthesisers and endless hours.
“That’ll have to move”. It’s all not all bad, this chucking out. Gives me a chance to dump all my rare 80’s collectable vinyl and analogue gear.
Apart from that, found all kinds of old magazines. Fave is the NIntendo Mag of ’94 with pics of my game that.. came out in 2013.
We’ve achieved that 80’s Berlin squat look that’s so cool with the kids these days. Perfect atmosphere for churning out some Industrial schlager.
Jun 6, 2018
Having just read an interview with an electronic band who are ‘veterans’ of the early 2000s, I’d like to apologise for any time a writer used a term such as ‘pioneer’ for me. It’s offensive to all the people who came before. But thank god it seems they’ve stopped calling every DJ a ‘genius’. That was a grim period in rawk-n-raul literature.
Jun 7, 2018
Latest news from ‘stralia
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-06/beloved-terrier-eaten-by-a-crocodile-it-had-taunted-for-a-decade/9840026
Sigh. After a bit of back and forth, it turns out that Severed Heads will not be the soundtrack of a CHANEL handbag marketing campaign. It’s not so much the money, as the missed comedic potential.
Jun 11, 2018
Hi there.
Please complete this sentence: “I’d really like to ride a roller coaster …” e.g. “inside a volcano”. “on the moon”. “inside a dog”. “on a giant bouncing castle”. “inside the Bible”. There are no wrong answers.
Thank you citizen for assisting scientific research.
Jun 12, 2018
This indeed. I wonder if one exists somewhere, but so far I haven’t found it. For full value it should be described as ‘educational’. https://t.co/94RKEGsPsT
Do you mean like at Las Vegas where they have both the pyramids and the Eiffel tower? A VIVA LAS VEGAS rollercoaster? https://t.co/G7DgptmzOY
I like the cathedrals, but the teletubbies license might be costly. Surely stained glass offers all kinds of religious oddness? Thumbs up also to waxworks in the pews. https://t.co/hGoMZLQlS5
There are some coasters in China that are really good at that, you can find some great videos. I am needing to go hard weird on this one to try break away from ‘simulation’, a curse that dooms all virtual experiences to be below the ‘real’ thing. https://t.co/IjyJCRk4Ux
One can only aspire to the Mandelcoaster… but we have to try or live a shamed life https://t.co/uxMqyH5sfb
Jun 13, 2018
Checklist for students:
Be sure to submit your work via an email titled ‘hey sorry forgot your name’. Check it is called Untitled.doc and you’ve use a file format other than asked. There is a marking rubric you should ignore, instead include vague anecdotal misspellings. Thanks. If you’re supplying a media file such as your ProTools Session file, it’s fine to attach the folder contents to an email as a hundred small bits – this is how email is supposed to work.
Jun 14, 2018
In case you have never had people peel your roof off like opening a tin can, this is what it looks like, from the POV of a sardine.
Jun 16, 2018
I’ll say this one more time (About the Brave New Waves LP)
It’s a legitimate release about which I give no shits. it’s the reason we had to delay new albums for six fucking months. It captures our progressive spirit THIRTY years ago which still exists and will not be silenced
Listening to music from thirty years ago: it’s 1968 and you’re still raving about 1938? Thrilled by the 40’s in 1970 something? It’s 1980 something and boy that ‘ol 50’s sound is hep? WTF.
(frothing and gurgling noises) anyway…
Thrilled to finally have a picture of Alan Philp, “the UFO Man”.
Photo by Sally in 2006.
Jun 18, 2018
THE OWL DID IT
Jun 19, 2018
Current object of study: the design for Fantastic Voyage 1966. Restricted palette. A painterly contrast of colour, two main hues with highlights.
Jun 20, 2018
No, that should be ‘why’ not ‘how’. Maybe more study in the humanities would prevent the error of assuming it needs such a rubric.
“Gee why is critical thinking, reading comprehension and considered debate dying? BTW only STEM courses are worth funding because coding is poetry”.
Write me the code for hopeful yearning in C#
Jun 24, 2018
Renovations going great, just getting the floating ice particles sorted and we’re snug as a bug.
Jun 25, 2018
Shop talk: I am removing some albums from display on Bandcamp to make way for a clearer arrangement of recent and popular titles. They are made private not deleted, and so available on request.
Jun 26, 2018
Which one of you bozos is this?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-26/asgardia-space-nation-leader-declared-igor-ashurbeyli/9909686
Jun 29, 2018
When I do a scan for “Severed Heads” on Bandcamp I can’t help noticing that the exact number of heads is very important to people. Some prefer four, seven or more. Others are content with one at a time. There’s some folk guy using the same name, good luck folk guy.
Jun 30, 2018
I’m really impressed how the US government just keeps pulling out a handgun, pointing it at it’s own fuckwit head and ‘defending itself’ with a bullet. I guess that’s how evolution works.
Jul 3, 2018
The end comes soon. All about Barbara.
Jul 4, 2018
*Somebody out there really really wants to break into one of my online accounts. ‘I’ have wanted to reset my passwords all this week. I’m guessing a YouTube “curator”, and given some recent chest thumping, a particular one.
*Just sharing some stats – since I started fighting back, a few of my videos have gone from a few hundred plays to 10,000+. That’s not big for YouTube, but it just shows YOU should fight for YOUR music. They don’t help you, no matter what their excuses.
*The new System-8 operating system is the cat’s pyjamas. Happy.
Jul 5, 2018
7am huddled at the local cafe while the men in bunny suits cavort through the toxic asbestos hell swamp that was once my bathroom.
Jul 6, 2018
Cheer up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhBSIGfbX2Q
Jul 7, 2018
oBike has gone bankrupt. Like many ‘innovators’, they had never included their basic costs subsidised by government – in this case cleaning up their shit. They sold data for profit. Fuck them.
Jul 8, 2018
Isn’t Ditko the guy that published all that Ayn Randian comic guff? Yeah, well.
Jul 9, 2018
Got access to the original 1935 construction and artwork documents for the River Caves/Ghost Train at Luna Park Sydney. White gloves for 83 year old paper. Absolutely gorgeous, could only snap with iPhone
Jul 10, 2018
I think I found plans for Luna Park Melbourne. There’s a miscellaneous box with mixed stuff from Glenelg, St. Kilda and Sydney. Some it is from the 1920’s. I’ll have to book it and see.
Not so much recreate these things but begin to understand their place in making people happy, so as to become better at making people happy.
Jul 12, 2018
I completely deny the absurd rumors connecting my home renovations and having obtained plans for Luna Park’s ghost train. It is purely coincidental, and besides I don’t have enough dancing skeletons.
Jul 15, 2018
Huh. No shit.
Jul 16, 2018
I build a scale model of the Luna Park Sydney river caves & place the ‘King Pole’ which supports the Big Dipper. Then I check the 1935 illustrations supposedly showing the internal fixtures. The pole is in the wrong place. Which means…
Jul 19, 2018
Marketing Tips: Sell my next world tour by advertising the ‘situational depression’ following my shitty failure of an album that couldn’t even be given away.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/music/situational-depression-katy-perry-reveals-mental-health-struggle-following-flop-album-20180719-p4zsc6.html
While you’re momentarily depressed I am here to cheer you up, seeing that they’re going to build a mini Disneyland on the top of David Jones in Sydney, and I for one am excited to have Donald Duck as a neighbour. https://t.co/QfU4HtZBYq
Hello! I did a radio!
Hear me speak charming anecdotes and play music from all four Barbara Island albums here on Hope Street Radio, Melbourne, 25th July. https://www.hopestradio.community/#wednesday-july-25th
Jul 23, 2018
Hello Again my 900 followers who are apparently corpses, twisting in the wind, mute and fly-blown, their silence testament to some ancient apocalypse. Hope your day is going well.
Mutually Assured Mutes.
Jul 24, 2018
No one really wants more albums. They want to the time to listen to the ones they already have stacked up on ever increasing storage, arranged by genre and date with a thumbnail of the cover. https://t.co/K5eZfjbzqF
Review: Throwing DAT Machine in Dumpster.
Pleasant resonant thump and grinding, but not a patch on the classic Throwing UMatics in Dumpster, which remains the exemplar of Fuck This Old Shit. Heard good things about Amigas in Dumpster out soon.
A generally upbeat review of VR/AR and machine learning at Unity – perhaps a sign that VR is coming out the other end of the Hype cycle. Admittedly I just need the good vibe at the moment, stuck here in development hell. https://t.co/lqAFewBS3W
I see with remarkable clarity this meme being re-posted until the end of the universe. https://t.co/upD6MWKGAz
Jul 25, 2018
ADORABLE: current elec engineering students confronted with my old kit – especially two huge HAND MADE?!! Amiga circuit boards that captured lo res video. I think the PortaStudio may have been too cryptic.
Jul 27, 2018
Crucial news for all you insignificant renters out there in non-beautiful land.
Jul 31, 2018
It’s PC MADNESS that Roseanne Barr won’t get to direct the next Guardians of the Galaxy flick.
It will of course sound much better, being hardware. https://t.co/yfYBale8IJ
Aug 1, 2018
*No, I am not going to learn how to work with voxels. Fuck voxels. No. I will figure out how to do it without learning any new thing. No more learning curve, I am an old man and etc. etc.
*Activist Leaks 11,000 Private Messages from WikiLeaks’ Twitter Chats https://thehackernews.com/2018/07/wikileaks-twitter-chats.html via @TheHackersNews
*Some ideas for your next album. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/jan/24/uknews.sciencenews
Aug 2, 2018
Because I had no idea what the fuck this Q thing, I found an overview. And yep, it’s retarded.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/01/we-are-q-a-deranged-conspiracy-cult-leaps-from-the-internet-to-the-crowd-at-trumps-maga-tour/?variant=f27f5ed60de5b498
Aug 7, 2018
*I am here to tell you, from sad experience, that those collectable things you keep in their original packaging because someday they’ll be worth thousands are worth less than the postage. Sorry.
*”This VST also comes with over 3Gb of sounds of my screaming children, my groans and burps, pants in the washing machine, mic stuck out back window, and the time I actually used my modular system for about an hour”.
Aug 8, 2018
Despite every shitty thing that an online ticket sales site can do from dumping me, forgetting my settings, refusing to complete paypal, not working on particular browser… we are fucking booked.
Aug 9, 2018
Last time I looked there was a lack of serious ambisonic tools, now there’s a jungle of the damn things. Which is nice but spending days sorting through links and hype. Reaper is still the only DAW that handles higher order encoding for less than thousands of dollars
Aug 11, 2018
On one hand the misery of the people here employed in the ‘data farming’ industry. On the other the endless drumming that all must learn ‘coding’. In the middle a generation that has no skill in logical informed debate or a cultural knowledge that enables it.
Aug 12, 2018
Hope there’s somebody in Scotland that regularly uses the term ‘John Galt’ for their anus.
Aug 13, 2018
@dj2mn https://www.cockos.com/oscii-bot/
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Aug 16, 2018
*Hah! Time to set my watch. The big hand is on this fucking meme, and the small hand is on Firefox updates.
*Don’t. Just don’t pollute the planet with your 30m shit-noise. https://t.co/ur1MYF1EDZ
HADES CANYON
we’re doing it
Aug 18, 2018
*I have a bunch of new equipment coming into my studio, and so a bunch of older equipment must go. I will be selling in Australia. Get ready for some good shit at reasonable prices.
*”Oh by the way, the After Effects script you just bought stopped working 10 years ago, hope you noticed the version list on the sub tab of the fifth tab on page 2″.
*Retread 2018 work in progress – or how to repair a video made 30 years ago on U-Matic. Compare old and new.
Aug 20, 2018
* Watching an old 90’s TV show on UFOs. The mysterious objects everyone are badly recording are drones. I mean in 2018, you’d instantly recognise them and not care. Like GPS, once military, now on your phone. Next up, ghosts and vampires.
* Most of the kit for the new Heads live shows piled into the Rat Factory today. The test projector is ridiculously cute. Pull it out of your pocket, open the lid and point it at the wall. It can play hours of video from internal memory.
Aug 22, 2018
An update for them that need free editing stuff.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/au/products/davinciresolve/
Spent two days frigging around with the DXV format needed for Resolume live video performance and here is my invoice for self inflicted head injuries. QuickTime. As if it was still the 00’s. Pshaw.
Arkaos. Pardon while I go fetch my rotating cyber-donut.
Aug 23, 2018
As October’s the first time I’m going to be chased by clowns with chainsaws, I’m happy they’re going to have an old school maze with Frankenstein’s monster and Dracula and all that crew. I guess I’m a Scare Clifford. They got Slash to do the music. That’ll be curious.
Aug 24, 2018
Really enjoying this horror series about the Australian Government.
If your entire contribution to political discourse is “hur hur Dutton looks like a potato”, you’re the problem. Brain dead partisan population feeds brain dead partisan politics. You’re no better than your opponents just more smug about it. For fuck sake THINK.
Greater Reward music clip running real time in Unity.
Aug 27, 2018
“The Meg” has a scene where the stupidly giant shark eats up a multitude of Chinese swimmers encased in colourful plastic flotation rings, filmed so it looks like a bowl of Fruit Loops. For that alone, 👍🏼
*There is, as any decent writer would ensure, a scene where the shark jumps the shark. Also everything technical is labelled like in the 60’s Batman series, except in Mandarin. 👍🏼
But my recent pick is “A Ghost Story” which has taken a while to see. Trailer basically gives it all away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_3NMtxeyfk
*I’m pretty sure I could break Netflix with a series about a serial killer that flits about the world cooking up amazing meals based on the exotic local culture.
Failing that, something vaguely Blade Runny.
Think I might cancel the subscription.
An MRI showing the process where a Clifford prefers music they first heard back in the 1980’s. This region of the brain not only parses the features of music, but recalls key memories in early life experience. This is not a joke, I have a presentation tomorrow with a neurologist.
Aug 29, 2018
Presentation went well, followed by demonstrations.
I know you shouldn’t expect much, but this cheap 7″ HDMI monitor I’m testing for live shows has redefined disappointment. I mean, I want to award it the Most Depressing Purchase Award and we haven’t even got to year’s end.
Aug 30, 2018
THE NEW DANGER: IS OUR NATION AT RISK OF BEING OVERRUN BY PROFESSORS?
Also on page 3, some tits.
Rummaging through the video archives today, found two reels from my wandering around Sydney with a Port-a-pak in 1984. Yes, it’s the Kato footage, but it’s also Sydney 34 years ago, and there will be curious things.
Generative devils in “Legion” remake.
First shoot for 4WD clip.
Sep 1, 2018
Reassuring that this ‘threat’ to human artists has the quality of a Chinese T-Shirt with random English spewed on it. It is a meaningless pastiche devoid of any emotional worth.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-01/artificial-intelligence-chris-rodley-on-changing-role-of-artist/10188746
While I’m wearing my black Hype Cycle boots, I should also point you at this, which is not cruel given that Magic Leap’s hype has probably fucked up AR’s reputation for a few years yet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/29/magic-leaps-billion-augmented-reality-gear-meets-actual-reality-stumbles/?noredirect=on
Sep 2, 2018
Thanks all the people telling me how I should think about politics, gender, sex, food, drink, dress, work, play, patterns of speech etc. I am sure to follow your guidance carefully, don’t mind if I mute you so as not to waste any more of your valuable opinion time.
Sep 3, 2018
If you use Adobe s/w on Windows avoid most recent nVidia display driver it will perform an unnatural act on your workstation.
Sep 4, 2018
“Hereditary” gets four-people-floating-on-the-ceiling from me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6wWKNij_1M
Although I can’t wait to see “SharKansas Women’s Prison Massacre”.
No one who came up with that could do wrong.
Sep 5, 2018
Don’t use any make up. Thank you, buy my book.
Episode 6 of “guess which old video I am making again”.
I am entirely made of make up.
Sep 7, 2018
The anonymous op-ed was a stupid act that justifies T’s claim that there’s ‘a deep state’ that he needs to overcome. It illustrates his rhetoric about the press, the ‘elites’, and gives his base incentive. Keep this hubris for after the battle, not before.
Sep 11, 2018
Propeller 2019 video.
Sep 12, 2018
So much identity politics to mute, so little time.
Sep 16, 2018
Doctors satisfied with NSW Premier’s knee-jerk reaction: “We’re pleased to advise that news of a festival overdose swiftly produced the expected ban on music”- pronouncing her fit for the coming election. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-16/defqon-two-dead-after-music-festival-overdoses/10252848
It’s been a tough climb, but the Retread Retread is almost done.
Sep 17, 2018
OK so it’s time to redo Dead Eyes Opened again. Study material:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxVMLVe62U
Study material:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAbq_qkzFR0
The current investigation into aged care is long due. It’s being done for politics but fuck it, let’s tear down some management. I’ve heard directly that worker will be sacked for saying they’re understaffed. It’s all true. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-17/food-in-aged-care/10212880
Child care and Aged care – the staff are worked hard and paid fuck all. The only people society gives a shit about are young adults and their tedious consumption and struggle for social dominance.
Sep 18, 2018
If you have any role in the IT industry I blame you for helping invent this shit. Coming soon to your town.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278
Sep 19, 2018
Thanks again for calling my attention to “This Tweet Is Unavailable”. Fuck I can’t believe that they thought they could get away with that, surely the cops would find the rotating knife machine – even in the deep end of the pool.
My god there it is again! “This Tweet Is Unavailable” is the most deadly threat to democracy I can think of. Good thing you spotted “This Tweet Is Unavailable”
The day I finish the Retread retread, the original untreated camera recordings surface. So, again…
Sep 21, 2018
This is how I will run my video production company, and I too can be ‘a tech darling’.
Popular names for girls 2018
Sep 22, 2018
Really, objectively, noses are a really shit idea.
Sep 23, 2018
Three weeks to go https://t.co/MNkesCx0uG
Sep 24, 2018
Sep 24, 2018
ENHANCE
I have met many intractable scheming and arcane devices in my time but by Ye Gods And Demons the Fitbit tracker is by far the worst of them all.
Sep 25, 2018
It’s a bit worrying using the real @PayPal site, when you see the sort of creative spelling you’d expect from a scam site.
Sep 27, 2018
- Vat of black jelly beans and GI lime cordial
- Pit of Jalapeno crisp Cheetos and ants
- Wading pool of freshly sourced lizard gizzards
- Huge box of Swisspers and lab rats
- Tub of candy teeth and pineapples
Sep 27, 2018
Thanks to Ms. Hess I’m going to stop saying ‘experience’. Need a better word 🙁
https://t.co/zzaH5WcVpS
Sep 28, 2018
“What’s Happening?” asks Twitter.
Oct 1, 2018
*Watched the recent doco on Quincy Jones. A vast talent and apparently a sweetheart although you see the edges with his ‘there are only 12 notes’ which neglects the spectral domain. I’m not sure every one of his 300 albums can be a masterpiece. Except that https://www.vulture.com/article/quincy-jones-in-conversation.html
*I’d rather celebrate Percy Grainger. “Existing conventional music (whether “classical” or popular) is tied down by set scales, a tyrannical … rhythmic pulse that holds the whole tonal fabric in a vice-like grasp and a set of harmonic procedures … that are merely habits…”
*Hello we’re Skunk Radio something or other and we’re going to repeatedly pester you to some audition or something, which if successful will probably involve us making money out of your scant income.
Oct 5, 2018
- Decide on the worst piece of music you’ve made.
- Remove it from the universe.
- Go to 1.
Must not have three way with walrus, as walrus is not a royal.
Another reminder that humans aren’t really that significant. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-05/chart-of-the-day-plants-rule-carbon-weight-of-life-on-earth/10069684
Oct 6, 2018
*It seems alien to hear somebody speak thoughtfully and with evidence about a matter where all else is hooting and shit hurling. https://t.co/upFnDVjg8g
*As a prominent Australian Video Artiste I hereby nominate myself to create tasteful and culturally sensitive horse racing results to project on the opera house, please send cash in large notes.
Oct 7, 2018
*If a painting were a piece of music, what would it sound like? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-06/listening-to-paintings-world-first-project-opens-in-sydney/10329102
*No need for a manual! We’ll just post a few YouTube videos for the users to scrub, hoping to catch the bit where a particular feature gets explained.
Oct 8, 2018
“Most parents feel some version of this horror… we realize that these rectangles of light and compulsion are not going away, and we are all dosing ourselves with their pleasures and conveniences without knowing the consequences.”
https://t.co/jEvB8mcp9u
Oct 9, 2018
Explanation for Wogs: Alan Jones is an arsehole with a radio show and gambling industry income that harassed our so-called state government into advertising a horse race on the opera house. It’s small news but hey we’re Australia and less nuts than you.
Oct 11, 2018
“Compared with the rest of the (nationally representative) polling sample, progressive activists are much more likely to be rich, highly educated—and white… the most racially homogeneous group in the country.”
https://t.co/KaioNJ8qxo
Oct 12, 2018
THIS IS HUGE
Seven thoughtful academic responses to the “Sokal Squared” from both sides of the debate. This in itself is a useful outcome.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-the-grievance-studies-hoax-means/
Oct 14, 2018
That’s not the worst thing I did by far. There’s stuff I won’t name because it may prolong its memory.
Oct 16, 2018
There is nothing that can’t be made worse by modular https://x.com/Synthtopia/status/1051873252463669249
Oct 20, 2018
Things that have squirted me so far. Animatronic dinosaur. Masked nazi cutting a woman’s throat. Horror clown with baby in pram. 3D animated giant gorilla. Mutant Simpson Baby. Other unseen things. #squirting
Oct 26, 2018
Nothing has squirted me recently, but I was tongue kissed by a giant anthropomorphic duck in a sailor suit.
Oct 27, 2018
In the grand tradition of vain online attention seeking I want to assure everyone that I didn’t get sent a pipe bomb and safe even though I’m in the same country.
Oct 30, 2018
Why collect keyboards when you could collect Dire Wolf skulls?
Oct 31, 2018
Stay classy LAX
Nov 5, 2018
Severed Heads have started to get inquiries about live shows in Europe. If you have any interest in hosting, or know someone who does please make yourself known now because scheduling is a complex damn business.
Nov 8, 2018
Sometimes you have to laugh at Twitter – such a busy flurry of words swirling about, followed by fuck all effect. Over at FB, everybody having grand hysterics, but at least a few people actually get out of their chair.
Nov 11, 2018
What the fuck is it with the tweets you have just read showing up again in the Notifications. Why would you do that?
Nov 12, 2018
Nov 13, 2018
I fucking love being an unpaid beta tester of Adobe’s latest half finished shitcrashes, no really, debugging their latest display card incompatibilities is in my blood. It’s my chosen art form.
Nov 15, 2018
I managed to rid myself of repeated tweets in Notifications by deleting every “interest” in my Account, under the tab Your Data. Seems the stupid thing wants to repeat things that it decides you are keen about.
Nov 17, 2018
I really appreciate people asking that we perform in this or that city. But it requires a promoter ready to host the show, and your requests are better directed at someone that can do this. We can’t do it from Australia, sorry.
Quite possibly the wavetable function in Kontakt 6 is not totally twee ass-clown, but seeing as the documentation is definitely twee ass-clown I can’t really say for sure.
ID1063571258875363329
Nov 19, 2018
Your world news round up for Monday
*Seeing as Twitter is a global service with over 300 million active daily users this is probably the place to ask if anyone has seen Gladys Belt’s cat, it’s gone missing on Strop St. for two days.
*Cubase 10 now has native 3rd order ambisonics. The manual is not that helpful, it’s a bit tricky, but I’ll do a step by step write up. It works, and I will sphere a few old favourites.
Nov 20, 2018
“I only like the good fascist noise bands with swastikas on their albums, not the bad fascist bands with swastikas on their albums” (peddles furiously).
I seriously thought “I’m being ironic” had died in the arse years ago but obviously not.
We’ve received major sponsorship that makes a European tour feasible. Thank you to those promoters that have made contact, I will keep you in the loop. If you are a UK or EUR promoter that would like to book the band around late May please contact me.
Nov 21, 2018
So wavetables on Kontakt 6 sound arse because it can’t actually make them itself. You import them from Serum. Why bother when you could just use Serum and not upgrade Kontakt? There being no other compelling reason to do so.
“We’re excited about upcoming developments!” says the corporate blog from 2017. I guess I’ve blown my money. Again.
Nov 25, 2018
‘She couldn’t speak any English’: Are Australian universities using international students as ‘cash cows’?
Is the sky blue?
That joyous day when the computer you use for music production goes splat, and restoring that jungle of dongles, serials, passwords, authorizations et al. that you know is just going to conflict all over again
Nov 26, 2018
Saw my first 4DX film last night. Be warned if you watching an air battle in a rainy cloudy sky, you are going to get hurled about and hosed. It’s pretty fun the first few times, but it’s not great for long movies.
Nov 27, 2018
*News today that Microsoft is again more valuable than Apple. Also a sighting of coloured translucent mice in a local Radio Shack.
*Still repairing my fucking music computer.
*Apparently there’s going to be announcement on Thursday. That’s cool because right now no one has told me a damn thing. and we maybe should practice or something.
*Yet another book chewing on electronic music, dragging out the dog-tired old Futurist noise makers, begging worn outs from the 70’s why the future never arrived – the question itself is faulty, nothing chained to C20th art can ever move on.
Nov 29, 2018
Announce the announcement!
https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/orbital-severed-heads-guests-af2019
Dec 4, 2018
This is pure strain Guardian, 100% Guardian, Guardian of the Fucking Month Guardian, dinner party Guardian right there.
So if you are running the very latest Windows 10, a thing called Game Bar been added which is royally fucking up every creative application you are trying to use, and needs to be turned off with extreme prejudice.
Dec 6, 2018
THE NINETIES
Dec 8, 2018
Currently working on a three projector show for the Adelaide Fringe. One large central screen and each player gets their own image. 3x the video production but the side screens have to be less dense, so not too bad. Yet.
Dec 10, 2018
Man Cave Review: Roland Clown
Dec 11, 2018
Since I last looked, the rules for musicians coming to the UK have got more convoluted and labyrinthine, but ended up in the exact same result, so good job I guess.
Dec 12, 2018
Hoped Netflix “The American Meme” was going to learn me something about Internet Famous People. It doesn’t. There’s nothing there to care for, just human balloons inflating and ready to pop.
Actually the best TV I’ve seen for ages is “Channel Zero – No End House”. (A bit late, but hey I’m in Australia.) A deep crushing DREAD going on, and something actually uncanny for once.
Dec 13, 2018
Spent some hours moving my music hard drive to a faster machine just in case this Roland stuff would run better, and now it won’t start at all, so mission accomplished I guess.
Dec 14, 2018
ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2018
This tasty bit of Krautrock hurtled out of the 1970s in a blitzkrieg of cool.
Dec 15, 2018
If this was a young musician no one would give a damn. It’s what young musicians do, ‘sound like’ an existing one. https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/poetry-twitter-erupts-over-plagiarist-ailey-otoole.html
Harold and Cindy live video is 9 years old, so it’s having a little refurbishment. Some things that mysteriously dis/appear, some lights, a new mask.
Dec 17, 2018
When your fingers accidentally slip and type “Feminist c-t I hope you die of cancer” but entirely accidentally and typing the phone number and hitting send was a complete whoopsy.
This is obviously a terrible time of year to try book live shows.
MERRY XMAS FROM SEVCOM
Dec 19, 2018
It would be hard to make a film about giant motorised post-apocalyptic cities that eat each other BORING, but by god they managed to do it with Mortal Engines. Can I offer a few suggestions for film makers?
Dec 21, 2018
My favourite bit of hail from last night. We’re calling it ‘buster’.
Dec 22, 2018
Sevcom 2018 Annual Report, and New Year Resolutions. | Ellard https://t.co/yUIUt4QOhm
Dec 23, 2018
“Mojave” translates as ‘converts your boot disk to a beta file system which takes more than a minute to boot, and runs slower than before’. #insanely_great
Making the Heart Of The Party video into a live pinball machine. That way I can trigger off real games by sections of the music. Of course the mesh starts off all fucked up.
Dec 24, 2018
Glitter bomb package video was a fake and western civilization will collapse from this unbearable blow. I’m going to start by torching cars.
Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo https://t.co/QN2zJ3B4CC
via @YouTube
Dec 27, 2018
A Facebook page will do the trick https://t.co/8wqqDETWck
Dec 29, 2018
Fucking kill me if I ever give a warning about an issue with an OSX install ever again.
Decided to finally kill a very old sacred cow and turn it into fresh HD beefsteak. https://t.co/h6U7stuHOB
