Been checked out of marvel for a long long time, but new spiderman was pretty decent
as of yet i haven't found a way of being creative that doesn't travel between being totally flippant and maximally serious about it, or the reverse, at least once somewhere in the process
my take on imagine dragons that pleases no one is the first album is okay actually taken in a vacuum, but is retroactively made bad by how the rest of their discography recontextualizes it. Like the antagonists in tenet fighting a war from the future backwards into the past kind of situation
rimidar@rimidar.au · 19h agoStrangely enough, that band is Imagine Dragons
reading a phd thesis tackling related subject matter, and we might actually be able to pull this off in time gang bsky.app/profile/irgo...
irgo@irgo-sum.bsky.social · 3d agoMy arrogant self has set myself up to require an academic mentor versed in music tech history and like, critical theory and history of religion. I should not be doing this to myself until I'm at PhD level this is dumb
idk what it says about me but i wanna visit someplace like this out of like, anthropological curiosity. And to bask in the horror film vibes of it all
Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 2d agoLove drone footage of new builds in exurban Texas, gives me a very particular kind of dread to look at that is hard to replicate with other photos.
My arrogant self has set myself up to require an academic mentor versed in music tech history and like, critical theory and history of religion. I should not be doing this to myself until I'm at PhD level this is dumb
feels like a bad joke sometimes that getting good at something makes it less interesting, or forces you to find a new angle to make it challenging and interesting again
four tets public playlist is one of the few genuinely cool things about spotify
consider this: you can mythologize or demythologize whichever aspect of the music-technological process, and different modes of social relations will consequently arise. Recognizing and acting on this is imperative to ensure interesting futures for music as technology continues its march
irgo@irgo-sum.bsky.social · 4d agofeels like a lot of musicians and audio engineers feel a need for something opaque or non-deterministic to be present in the recording/mixing process, or the *magic* won't appear in the final product
Kierkegaardian mixing engineer: we must teleologically suspend basic principles of audio engineering, and act as if there is special sauce in the analog summing
irgo@irgo-sum.bsky.social · 4d agothis ancient article on analog summing is remarkably refreshing in its forthrightness
this ancient article on analog summing is remarkably refreshing in its forthrightness
I agree it's a great album, but we might be using the word differently. I mean Great in the same way The Great War was great. The kind of thing that goes down in history from the sheer size of its shadow
Haydon@haydonmp.bsky.social · 5d agoRelatedly and what may actually count is that Reputation is a great album and more people need to recognize it for what it is.
New Type of Guy who flirts exclusively through Princess Bride quotes
The songwriter scene in under the silver lake, but instead of being a jaded american he's pleasantly swedish
compressing drums properly will show you the path to a good mix, and make you witness a core part of the human condition in the process
maybe one day when i'm less immediately occupied with *what does it even mean to be an artmaking person during the sea-changes our technological and political environments are going through?* i'll feel the pull back to learning about funky metaphysics stuff, but as it is it's on the backburner
underrated details in pop music from last year: the drums in Addison Raes Money Is Everything. Addison Rae saying *Kick Drum Chew Gum* in New York
Polite disagree here. Money in music has been moving away from streaming/records towards live music events for a while now. What age brackets do we think can afford increasingly expensive tickets?
rattatatouille@rattatatouille.bsky.social · 6d agoLike if you make it big on the "Adult Contemporary" charts but nowhere else, it's good if you want to be considered a serious artists, but not if you're trying to sell tons of records.
pipe organs tuned to 12 tet is just, i get it, it makes sense for a lot of modern use cases, but you're leaving a lot of sauce on the table. Let me buzz in the tuning system of ages past please
man megalopolis happened and was just completely forgotten about. Washed off the public consciousness like dew in a monsoon
lukewarm bit still worth doing: referring to your friends as *cowboy* when greeting them
All the odyssey talk made me think about Aguirre, the Wrath of God again. That film feels like pure magic in places
is it possible to be an art-snob about art-snobbishness? As in, snobbery is fine and allowed, but if you're gonna do it you better do it properly and get things right, or i will deem it poor snobsmanship
Snowden St.@snowden.st · 3mo agofor the amount that art snobs actually effect the world (very minimal), it’s wild how they live rent-free in some people’s heads, for decades after any exposure to them!
Feels like my sense of humor and/or ability to be glib about serious stuff has taken some damage the last few years by [gestures broadly]
once you've started figuring out the technical questions, the hardest parts of production are all about making value judgements
was looking to refresh my ideas for vocal mixing signal chains/techniques, and looking at youtube tutorials for inspo. Find this guy putting eq first cutting pockets in every frequency area except for a high shelf boost, compresses, then boosts areas he just cut with a different eq?????
the eternal ambiguity of wondering if i'm being weird, or if the other person is being weird
