Made a little timelapse film using my iPhone and the top deck of a surprisingly empty 207 bus from Shepherd's Bush to Acton. I'm teaching myself Final Cut Pro using my typical "learn by doing” method. As such, I have discovered my default approach to editing video is the same as playing the guitar. USE ALL THE PLUGINS.
I'm rather enamoured of the way the neon comic rendering attempts to handle the bloom from raindrops on the window glass - keep an eye on headlights/traffic lights.
The music was rapidly composed and performed (mainly improvised filter sweeps) for the video, just so I can get a handle on scoring using Ableton Live - something I'd like to do more of.
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Currently listening to "Bellyache" by Yak.
Posted Friday, November 30, 2018.
Looptron is a sort of electronic music type thing that happens sometimes.
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Previously
Radioactive Love (Rig Mk2 Demo)
New(ish) song, first successful(ish) run through on a rainy Tuesday lunchtime. Ableton is doing patch switching in Guitar Rig AND the loop triggers as part of the scene changes so only one pedal is required to drive this. It's the future people.
Planned Obsolescence
FFS. Google have now started putting banners in Inbox (my mail app of choice) to remind everyone that they're killing Inbox next March, something I'd be studiously ignoring since they announced it back in September. I actually wish they hadn’t told me at all because my OCD will be spending the next 6 months evaluating Inbox replacements and rebuilding my "workflow" in them (which mainly consists of repeatedly snoozing mails until I HAVE to deal with them) before I inevitably give up and just revert to using Gmail like they want me to.
Twenty years ago today.
It had been fifteen years seen the hero beat up his father so badly the old man died from his wounds. Fifteen years since we watched a group of terrorists enlist the help of the Care Bears to slaughter thousands of unwitting civil servants and proceed to overthrow the closest thing to a strong and stable government the galaxy had seen in millenia.
Radium Age Blues
I have scaled back my web presence a bit to just here and FSOD. I was becoming somewhat de-focused and this was in turn causing me to purchase nostalgia t-shirts. Got a new tune in the pipeline. Mondo guitar noises. Radium Age Blues. Watching the government collapse is proving lightly distracting though.
Hello, My Name Is Looptron (Rig Mk2 Test)
It turns out that the downside of having a band that exists largely as software is that there is no easy upgrade path.
Rig Mk2 P.o.C.
The beginnings of a new Looptron live rig. One take. Some mistakes.