(This page is under early construction – it will eventually hold all tweets made in 2020.)
Jan 1, 2020
My new years resolution is to be the same arsehole I was all through the 2010s.
Jan 5, 2020
Hello OSX people. Is there a osx sound file editor that can run a batch process to add a header on audio files to indicate base note. That is load something.wav add the header and re-save? Wave lab on my PC does this. Thanks.
Jan 6, 2020
There is water falling out of the sky in Sydney. What is this?
Jan 8, 2020
The bush fires were caused by pig farts – says Twitter, your reliable source of information.
When you superimpose this map of Australia upside down over a map of the USA you get Satan’s public hairs on fire – Twitter, your reliable source of information.
Really excited by new KORG instrument https://t.co/5TdDxEmwvc
Jan 9, 2020
Just about to belt this ship with a champagne bottle. Just a few more long days…
Jan 14, 2020
Allegedly a way to run AU, VST, AAX plugins across DAWs on PC or Mac. Pay Patreon or compile it yourself. Testing it now. https://t.co/HJeGE4iGwM
Jan 18, 2020
Time to clean out the spam filter on my YouTube account! And … guaaaargh! bleargh hairball uuuurrrgh … JESUS what makes people think I need to read this
Jan 18, 2020
Two new shitty instrument reviews!
ARP Odyssey https://t.co/az79UKtgKL
AIR Loom 2 https://t.co/YslgFq73LI
Jan 20, 2020 Teaching Job
🎶put on the cowl, put on the horns 🎶 jump over the bonfire doo dee doo 🎶 and whoo I’m a lecturer again, baby.
and now FOOD AROUND THE CORNER
https://t.co/VFRmtsJ1Au
Jan 21, 2020 Teaching Job
I spoke too soon, it was wear cowl, horns, jump fire SUBMIT MY SOUL TO EQUIFAX then maybe food around the corner.
Jan 22, 2020
When I was a kid a scientific calculator was Hewlett-Packard and cost a truckload of cash. Now it’s ALDI and $7.99. Kids these days.
Jan 23, 2020
It’s like a cartoon showing three stages of a Valium spree.
When it’s extra smoky one thing you can do is hide in a mall. I saw a lot of important things today and I am happy to share some of them. Like this original Jeff Koons snow globe
I think these school shoes for girls are very retro industrial don’t you think?
Jan 25, 2020
I wish I had more morose and depressing shit to wallow in today but I suffer from being generally hopeful. Sorry to disappoint the chorus.
Jan 31, 2020
(signal to those in the know – nup I ain’t dead yet)
Feb 4, 2020
It’s February 4th 2020 and Nilamox is finally fucking GO. Here’s to the 2020s! Onwards!
Feb 6, 2020
It’s completely inappropriate that I re-post this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkQuIO_fa10
Feb 7, 2020
I’ve been trying to follow a ‘right wing’ account for a while now, so I can see outside the lefty smug bubble. But I can’t do it, the stupid is worse than our own and they are so full of hate. I still think you have to try to break out of the silo.
Feb 8, 2020
No more vinyl for a while folks https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/fires/2020/02/06/banning-building-fire-blocks-highway-243-south-interstate-10/4678543002/
Hello I’m Ableton Live. I can’t play back a standard mp4 video on 64bit Windows. Use me for soundtrack design. I’m Ableton Live.
Feb 10, 2020 Teaching Job
Unless I’m mislead there is no facility in Ableton live to lock a clip to H:M:S for film scoring. So that settles a long standing debate and Poo Tools drags its tired old ass into another year of teaching. I’ll look at rewire now.
Feb 13, 2020
Hospital play
Feb 14, 2020
An ear worm mixing Neal Hefti’s Batman Theme and Jolene by Dolly Parton. Just horrible. https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/batmanlyrics.html
Feb 16, 2020
Back into theme park design mode – the 1964 GE “Progressland” with the Carousel of Progress and world’s biggest projection of a fusion reactor in the roof.
Meanwhile, world weather station under the arctic.
Feb 17, 2020
Concept Art for EPCOT circa 1980. I’d like some of what he’s having thank you. Anyway still trying find out how they stole the buckyball from Expo 67. They did.
Feb 21, 2020
The worst thing about being on Robot Thyroid pills is that I’ll never get to time travel to eras without Robot Thyroid pills.
Feb 21, 2020
I’m sorry for all the UK people whining about having to get a visa to perform in the EU, but y’know Australians have had to get visas my entire fucking career – visas for the UK, for Europe, for the USA, Canada… the EU is the easiest place anywhere in the world to play.
Feb 23, 2020
I watched that internet cat documentary on Netflix and the takeaway is photographing your cat for up to $15,000 royalties per Instagram post is a better career path than film making or music and fuck I’m old and so are you.
Feb 24, 2020
I apologize for making you read The Australian newspaper but this is A Hopeful Thing about energy production.
Feb 25, 2020
Too much Netflix while unwell. ‘Marriage Story’ is two Oscar bait Thespian caricatures punching each others face for 2 hours while they whine about who deserved more privilege. All the depth of toddlers fighting over a toy with added emotional violence. Garbage.
Feb 26, 2020
https://t.co/4iuL5JoUP9
https://www.vice.com/en/article/musicians-algorithmically-generate-every-possible-melody-release-them-to-public-domain/
Feb 28, 2020 Coronavirus
Another long frantic and panicked article in the local press about 🦠 finally ending in a one line that no human transmission of 🦠 has actually occurred in Australia. You can die from the flu if you’re susceptible. Calm down and get a flu shot.
https://t.co/CeGpIObX7L
thanks Douglas Khan for link
Mar 1, 2020
In which I find clues in an impossibly rare book, learn landscape gardening and sing “We Don’t Teach Sound Here Anymore” like Rose Royce. https://t.co/7cnEYjNinm
Mar 2, 2020 Coronavirus
PSA Hey people while you’re panic buying beans because the newspapers are screaming about monster virus don’t forget to stockpile my vinyl, 20 copies should do it.
Mar 3, 2020 Coronavirus
Just went down to the supermarket with my sawn off, ready to fight over those beans but everything was normal except hand sanitizer was no longer on special. PRICE GOUGING the apocalypse is here! I got all the beans. https://t.co/ulKPIRF8TC
Mar 4, 2020
Experiments with upscaling video with machine learning. https://t.co/TGQk2XxVfv
Mar 5, 2020 Coronavirus
ABC News site has nine Monster Virus articles in a row and yet wonders why the toilet paper is missing in the staff toilet. Can’t imagine what the Murdoch loo would be like
Oh and the drop on the stock exchange was top story while the inevitable surge today is buried down the bottom because EVERYBODY PANIC
Mar 6, 2020 Coronavirus
No https://t.co/25pOQwcknI
I’ve got to say my internet has been really dodgy since the Virus Monster but I tried wrapping toilet paper around the cables and it’s running even faster than usual #virus
Mar 7, 2020
Because “boots better” is what we all aspire for in our creative life. https://t.co/7hdRJrJL8l
Mar 8, 2020
First warning that a very small number of Aversion 2 rat boxes are going to be made available soon. We are releasing some that we kept for exchange and backup. https://t.co/sikTja9BHY
Mar 10, 2020
They’re going to inject me with a fuckload of radioactive iodine and lock me in a isolation room. But then the hospital will be overrun by Coranazombies. I will bust out of the room and hug the zombies and they will be microwaved. So what will you be doing on -your- weekend?
The stock market crashed here yesterday. It was headline news. It has since rebounded. You can read that near the bottom of the news headings. I’m not saying that everything will be fine but bloody hell everyone is being a bit goth.
Mar 12, 2020
Hah. Some panic ensues when you cancel your adobe account. https://t.co/uGAG28Ncgu
Mar 14, 2020
Apparently I joined 7 years ago today. The shame. https://t.co/rSPLsmA00u
Easter show is cancelled. Chop some wood. Eat something on a stick. Pat an animal. And: https://t.co/JBle8RW98o
Mr Trump has announced that FEMA is getting involved in the outbreak. Aren’t they the ones that were supposed to running the death camps? Sorry my US politics is a bit scratchy.
Mar 16, 2020 Coronavirus Teaching Job
So far this morning I’ve been advised to teach online, no I’m teaching in class as usual, no I’m teaching online and I think I’ll make a cup of tea and wait for a few more management decisions to froth and bubble.
There’s not a lot of things I can eat right now due to upcoming radiotherapy and it’s all been stripped from the supermarkets by all the true blue dinky di little Aussie battlers in the home of the fair go. Think I’ll start making death metal.
Mar 17, 2020 Teaching Job
Yesterday: no idea of MS Teams. This Morning: WTF is all this MS Teams spam? Midday: This is your BOSS on MS Teams. Mid Arvo: 1st HELLO WORLD on MS Teams. Just Then: Colleague OMG MS Team best thing evah me in luv. Tonight: nightmare of being chased down corridors by MS Teams.
Mar 18, 2020
Reaper (the DAW) has a temporary free license on their website until July.
Mar 20, 2020 Teaching Job
A good friend who works in a hospital here in Sydney tells me not to believe tweets that start “A good friend of mine who works in a hospital here in Sydney”.
A bit knackered but have my teaching mostly online, got free PTools licenses for the kids, getting ready to go into isolation to become The Hulk – wonder how anyone could be bored at home. So little time available in life to be creative.
Hah I just saw the University bus go by. Empty going to an empty place. That’s goth that is.
Mar 21, 2020
ATTENTION. Negotiation of hair length is hereby cancelled. By advice of hair experts we are discontinuing hair related meetings. Consider the use of virtual wigs technology for essential work. https://t.co/WpHtu8m9Pp
Mar 23, 2020
Right I’m in radiation isolation and I’m singing death metal. Send in the zombies. Let’s do 28 Days later LIVE
Mar 25, 2020 Coronavirus
Thank you Pay Pal for your slimy marketing message dressed up as concern. Now take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. #paypal
Sorry obituary fans, I’m going to be around for the foreseeable future. PS enjoy this bit of mediceroticism. https://t.co/I3RhOCMXLe
My Facebook-ready conspiracy theory: Chickens are trying to eliminate humans so that they can evolve back into dinosaurs and rule for another 200 million years. We are just a blip in chickensaur history.
This is not the worst one on Facebook by any means. https://t.co/zQNt6HqdhE
Mar 26, 2020 Teaching Job
I am officially losing my fucking shit trying keep up with MS Teams, Outlook, Moodle, Sharepoint and comms comms comms comms marching up and down again.
Mar 28, 2020 Coronavirus
The wife’s been pointing out that while it’s not a Great Depression or a Great War it may be a schism that will send culture off in a different direction. I’m not so sure we’ll escape the cold hand of the 20th century that easy.
Oh yeah if all the lights go out in the city tonight don’t panic and start the looting. It’s Earth Hour.
Cleaning out my room AKA Throwing Out stuff that is Probably Priceless that Someone will Desperately Need one day at a High Price, but probably won’t until I Throw It Out Day.
Mar 29, 2020 Coronavirus
Huh. That’s cute. What used to say “WiFi Calling” up top of my phone now reads “#StayHome
”. Somebody is a clever engineer.
Mar 30, 2020
Bradbury wanted me to post this so I did. https://t.co/c3pMs5OhwC
Mar 31, 2020 Coronavirus
The more people are stuck at home the fewer people seem to be tweeting – at least in my little in my little bubble. Is there some new wonder zone that I’m missing out on? (If it’s instagram never mind don’t bother)
Apr 1, 2020 Teaching Job
Got this weeks online class up while dealing with a flurry of incoming panic. Getting up to speed on multiple DAWs to support including new Pro Tools 2020. And course design for coming sessions. Wish I had the time to be bored
Apr 2, 2020
It looks like you’re inventing a new audio sample format! Would you like a punch in the (a) face (b) guts (c) gonads? https://t.co/BfPjRbz6Gq
Apr 3, 2020 Coronavirus
Time to do your hair at home! Bald? Use this Pitbull noggin buffer! https://t.co/7Kyt3wY0id
Or what about this ‘Sassoon Beard Buddy’? https://t.co/16DbM6yIb0
Apr 4, 2020 Coronavirus
You can get it delivered! https://t.co/oQ2LryCvRY
Apr 6, 2020 Coronavirus
It’s fucking Easter and we are having Showbags virus or no fucking virus. No looking inside yet. https://t.co/2bvMjO7Vm3
Apr 8, 2020
https://t.co/Q41xwx85XY
I’d like to clarify that FREE software is not the same as 90 DAYS TRIAL software as much as companies would like us to fall into their paid subscriptions. It’s a nice gesture but that ‘FREE’ thing is becoming a trade war
Apr 9, 2020
So glad that https://t.co/O9n9UXHbgt
is preserving “an experimental collection of music that is not yet available for public release.”
You know, like https://t.co/ZwQGInRjQE
Apr 10, 2020 Coronavirus
Easter is now officially open. https://t.co/2b1DlB9Vbi
Have you noticed the connection between 5G, virus and being a total fucking moron? Makes you think.
MIDI Quest (and some Sound Diver)
https://t.co/caCUtGlGOD
Apr 12, 2020
🎼One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small🎼 https://t.co/b2dP7JEjye
Happy Foetus!! https://t.co/IkpYDLjwqO
Apr 13, 2020
Two more Nilamox releases for 2020. Fair warning – a small number of the ButchCrutch characters are going to be available and they glow in the dark 🙂 https://t.co/TUA93AY1ZE
https://t.co/9VQbg3pV1g
Apr 14, 2020 Teaching Job
Answering a student question about how to work the unholy alliance of AVID video and OSX Catastrophe – AVID suggested this. Looks useful. https://t.co/FxwkQwhHLr
Apr 17, 2020
Seriously why the fuck COBOL all of a sudden
We just had chicken and waffles with maple syrup and I am glad we tried this for the first time but probably the last thank you You Tube for the recommendation
Following up on the Wolfram Physics Project saga, the best analogy from ‘proper physicists’ goes like this: if you discovered simple code that exactly produced leopard spots, it still doesn’t tell you why a leopard has spots, and a polar bear doesn’t.
https://t.co/fNz04PL6ro
Apr 20, 2020 Teaching Job
Could somebody please turn the NBN off and on again so I can get some remote work done thanks.
Apr 22, 2020 Coronavirus
One thing about Monster Virus is people don’t laugh so much at surround sound and vision – a holodeck seems a nice idea again. Cleaned up the VR goggles and started work on 360º. Too slow at 3’40” a 4K frame but now trying machine learning to extrapolate 2K frames
Apr 24, 2020
I need to do a refresh of what I laughingly call my online presence. Fuck off Facebook, get something like a blog – but 21st century with file sharing. I’m seeing all this new corporate stuff like Sharepoint/Teams etc but is there stuff like that for individuals?
Apr 26, 2020
Ellard | more bloody ellard https://t.co/XzFWdhwJNJ
via @t0m3llArd
Apr 27, 2020 Coronavirus
We’re running COVIDsafe on phones now so you are less likely to suffocate to death you can thank me later #covidsafe
Apr 28, 2020
Psychic shit right there https://t.co/wH0A8d6bUi
This is the news quality you get when your major news service shuts down. https://t.co/OAlEoBZGs3
It’s Tiki Time. Florida USA is bleeping out.
https://t.co/I6u8L4ubmo
Apr 29, 2020
Testing! https://t.co/AcC4iSjadk
Apr 30, 2020
The things you find when you decant old blogs. Hits and memories! https://t.co/hqcc6gKYBv
May 2, 2020
https://t.co/Xa5SDUOxlY
May 3, 2020 Coronavirus
She’s all for ramping up production, but I’m getting ready to shut the gate before the inevitable Monster Virus supply issues. Toilet paper soon becomes modelling plastic. https://t.co/yFgsrfX2kS
May 5, 2020 Coronavirus
All the twats that won’t run the Covid app have to explain what their strategy would be. Lockdown cannot be forever. The money for public hospitals doesn’t magically go on and on you have to have some economic repair to fund them.
Pro tip for soundtrack designers. Every time a bird is on screen add a bird call. Even dead birds.
May 7, 2020
They shot the wrong Beatle.
Bradbury has compelled me to make mention of Millie Small. https://t.co/tVZIFzHubu
Went looking to see if https://t.co/nGixPmG0ks
was still up (it looks like it’s broken but of course it would). But jodi passed me to https://t.co/rhnCMjMXvI
and thank god these places still exist out there outside the Opinion Parks.
May 8, 2020
I’ve reformed https://t.co/niWPHeos6a
front page to an old fashioned but more legible layout. All sevcom data is now moved over but not yet visible. sevcom and tomellard will go off air in the next few days. Blog is backed up and will be restored eventually. PLEASE STAND BY https://t.co/JOdvPDVnW8
May 13, 2020
First iteration of https://t.co/XmcLgdgEAo
has been launched by typing cyber monkeys – errors and addendums follow for the next few years. But hey, the egg from which chicken. Found a problem let me know? https://t.co/AllpLCggqQ
Seems like Roland has come up with yet another way to dish up the same tools I paid for years ago. I can even buy them all over again. It’s not very clear what any of this does for the existing users
May 14, 2020
Snails, Sloths and the Roland Cloud Manager
https://t.co/PFNp0j3GDY
May 16, 2020
Goodbye to my old GENIE pinball, off to be repaired before one day finding its way to Luna Park in Sydney. https://t.co/29tutKLyuh
Bye! https://t.co/2FFsQKcMEi
May 18, 2020
Today I went to post off nilamox Tikis to people in the UK. Found out that currently the only way is international priority post and it would be hundreds of dollars. I’m sorry there will be a delay I will contact everyone individually.
May 19, 2020
Looks like FLS is going into the DMX and VJ blinky realm. Which is cool but will probably end being a game engine. All software ends being a game engine unless caged. https://t.co/MYuXOOMUCb
https://t.co/H7r2pNUXYW
May 20, 2020
I guess I should have known. https://t.co/jmcTFm2HBZ
The BBS is dead https://t.co/XoUPanYpm3
May 21, 2020
They insist this is a machine which accepts audio files, automatically manufactures discs and mails them out. I suspect it’s made out of trained rats. But the whole idea is odd. Really? Why?
https://t.co/UxGfz1mANu
May 22, 2020
Today ‘at work’ I noticed that the word congratulations in Outlook emits confetti when you mouse over it. Given it was an email takling about potential layoffs it was One Of Those Moments
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May 23, 2020
Sydney’s Vivid festival would have started today. Which 80s dinosaur band would you have scheduled this year? Band members must be at least 69 years old.
The first Man Cave post on the new site – Unashamedly Digital https://t.co/WD7AQNhpR3
May 24, 2020
I guess I hadn’t realised until now how fucking terrible the Bandcamp experience is on iPhones, and how difficult it is to explain how to get to the music you just bought. At least the app should start with the music you just bought, not a great list of everything
May 29, 2020 Teaching Job
I’m guiding students to reasonably simple randomness in DAWs. I’m good with Follow Actions in Live, does Logic X have a similar thing in the new version?
Jun 3, 2020
https://t.co/yQdLycFb3z
Jun 5, 2020
Got a guy here – mac air has some kind of filter over sound out adding treble and reverb to everything. Where to find and kill this thing?
Jun 15, 2020
oh no i did an opinion
“The Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in the United States of America (USA) is being heavily impacted by increased volumes through their facilities and civil unrest in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic response.” So basically don’t try mail merch right now 🙁
Jun 17, 2020
https://t.co/wfVAB1Ko9s
Furst https://t.co/OMzhWlwgW9
Jun 22, 2020
And again I am fighting YouTube to get my stuff taken down. “Looks like you are company – submit all this shit”. So easy to pinch music, so hard to defend yourself.
Jun 23, 2020
Ha ha. Fuck no. You just locked in 2019.3 for long term projects. Everything back in beta for The Fruit? 😐 https://t.co/ZGmBuNhwJ0
Jun 25, 2020
Best blog (despite name) for looking busy while working at home. https://t.co/e5ChmbJJ4Z
Jun 26, 2020
Somebody dropped their time machine https://t.co/2e3iBcDBsP
Jun 28, 2020 Teaching Job
It’s only taken most of the afternoon to solve this ambisonic process for a sound class. A special thanks to the people who live on help sites just so they can tell you you’re holding it wrong. https://t.co/BaJhxSHhJq
Jun 29, 2020
I’ve finally placed all of Music Server 360º on YouTube, keeping my promise. I’ve had my first complaint that it isn’t ‘breakcore’. https://t.co/Xpwyq57C3O
Jun 30, 2020
So the 3rd season of Dark is upon us and in this round they have doubled the number of German family trees you will have to memorise. That’s right – two of every aunt, cousin second removed etc in TEN time zones. There will be an exam.
Jul 2, 2020 Teaching Job
Countdown to the Adobe apocalypse, where free student licenses expire world wide next week. The Pro Tools blackout is happening right now. In cyber space you will hear screams
Jul 3, 2020
https://t.co/Q820U0Zehe
took bloody long enough jesus
Good to know what 2020 will be like according to quantum hypnosis https://t.co/Pm1o625Iax
Jul 4, 2020
Updated the layout, added links to Music Server, Esoteric Library (not ready) and Luna project (not ready). Almost looks like a real site https://t.co/niWPHeos6a
Jul 8, 2020 Coronavirus
If you are sick of reading about Monster Virus, how about Dark Matter instead. https://t.co/28tD2eyhPc
Jul 13, 2020
https://t.co/chiUBnKv9S
ID1282542377895211008
Jul 15, 2020 Teaching Job
Goodbye Art & Design, nee COFA, nee City Art Institute et al. Kunst Kamp dead of the monster virus 2020. You were a funny old thing.
Jul 17, 2020 Teaching Job
There’s the burning hell fires of damnation. And there is AVID. I’ve just paid for a subscription, got the confirmation email and of course nothing works, no staff contact, just ‘Take My Question To The Community’.
There are plenty of other options out there.
While I’m in a mood I’m going to build a time machine and murder the baby that wanted a distinction between ‘art’ and ‘arts’ leading to a million tedious academic chooksquabbles
Jul 20, 2020
A photographer spent 40 years documenting America’s unique roadside attractions in more than 11,000 photos. Here are the coolest ones. (via @BIAUS
) https://t.co/L1mRchQKwN
Jul 21, 2020
https://t.co/T2hqW4EGFE
Jul 23, 2020
Practical Electronica (excerpt) https://t.co/N6tY78y1Zo
via @YouTube
While on the subject of unsung heroes. https://t.co/zlYOIHHr6G
And a long term project suggestion for @dj2mn
and all those Raspberry Pies. https://t.co/R4BHY6qBn1
Jul 28, 2020
Nothing. You missed absolutely nothing. https://t.co/loikUsbZyt
Jul 29, 2020
If you are really bored – The Hopkinsville Goblins
https://t.co/yI5XpSJzit
Jul 30, 2020
Time to check on Grandpa.
https://t.co/PXsNhPFDVg
This workstation is on eBay in case you want to up your studio style https://t.co/LoizDVhOpx
(to be continued)