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October Requiem

Put it on and do something else and you are in your own movie with an amazing soundtrack. Is it a track? Or an EP? An ambient gem, for slightly dystopic yoga sessions, half an hour of beautiful cinematic soundscapes evoke…well you’ll just have to see. Good for dreaming, sleeping, meditating. Furniture music, you do not have to pay it much attention, but you can if you like and that rewards too. Listen to the whole epic free or buy if you will at Bandcamp: [October Requiem]. LMK your experience of it in the comments.

Here is a minute of it so you can get the idea:

Exploring Bias-X: Magic & Warts of AI Sound Engineering

Hogwarts AND Hog Warts

Quick review of both the magic and the warts of Positive Grid’s Bias-X. We chase a single sound a couple of different times using the new AI feature, along the way finding out where Bias X still has far to go. The sound we are chasing is a classic Vox Chime. For more on that, and how the Vox chime differs from the Fender jangle, see this livestream: https://youtu.be/5k74DFYpzJo?si=I_OEhMy8pTtYcdvY.

The Magic: AI really is fun to dial in sounds with as long as you are good at a little prompt engineering; It sounds great.

The Warts: CPU hog, need to be connected to the internet, so MS, Google, FB, and everyone all want to call home and glitch out your audio, unreported latency

maison rouge a la façon du jimi

pale shadow of the right rev. jimi’s “red house”
version 2, better than yesterday’s

Version 3, da best one. There is also a vocal version, 99 Percent Blues, dedicated to Occupy Honolulu. This is the instrumental side.

red house
there's a red house over yonder, that's where my baby stays

There’s a red house over yonder,
That’s where my baby stays.
There’s a red house over yonder,
That’s where my baby stays.
I ain’t been home to see my baby
In 99 and one half days.

Anavan

Anavan at the Smell, LA, 2/16/2009Caught Anavan (myspace) at the Smell Saturday night, where they played from the floor rather than the stage and got almost all of the 100 or so people “up real close til it’s uncomfortable” (actually what they said was a bit ruder) and then proceeded to set the whole thing off into a forty minute mosh pit/dance floor set to their beat-heavy, guitarless, raunch-synth driven pop-tinged mayhem. I couldn’t really see what was going on except when Aaron Buckley gave up his drums to stand on a table or something and hold forth above the crowd, inciting further motion on the floor, but everyone was moving. Great live show, and I wonder how they fare when the crowd is bigger and less familiar with their music. You could tell they loved playing at the Smell and the Smell requited it on Valentines Day.

The other act we caught was tleilaxu music machine, a one-person rant caromed over the top of superhyperindustrialdrummachinesynth pummeling. Outfitted in a lovely black sundress with striped kneesocks, arm hoisery, and workboots, the dreaded and bearded guy running the machine drove a bunch of people from the room when he started but then drew just as many back in…after a minute or two of acclimation to the sound, it began to take root in some part of the lizard brain and actually became compelling, and he put everything into the performance, moshing away with the crowd and rolling on the floor as he alternated between setting and playing synth patches and growling and roaring through the microphone.

Also playing, but I failed to catch them, were Extreme Animals, faav, and the two-drums-and-glockenspiel puppy dog. Next time. And hey, what’s with this trend of unreadable (unless you highlight everything), seizure-inducing strobomatic clashing color myspace pages? Ouch.
As always, check out rreplay and all the other great music on Way.Net.