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December 16, 2018
Music

Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 -- [10:01]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 -- [13:10]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 -- [11:45]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 -- [6:54]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 -- [7:58]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 -- [15:52]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 -- [19:52]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 -- [10:06]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 9 -- [8:58]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 10 -- [8:51]

December 14, 2018
Music

Decanted Youth - 1 - Lines That Go to and fro End up Connecting -- [17:26]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Part of Your Brain Is Being Used -- [12:02]
Decanted Youth - 3 - CoS (Don't Look at Me, Help Us Please) -- [6:47]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Major Major Major -- [5:19]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Station Architecture / Castles -- [10:59]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Cattle Guard / Break Away -- [17:07]
Decanted Youth - 7 - The Moon Grows Bright in the Dark Sky -- [14:56]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Winter -- [22:25]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Insecurity Not Now (Downstairs) Mashup -- [9:25]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Sandman -- [8:25]

December 12, 2018
(Hobbyist) Music Delivery

I've been recording 1-3 hour (occasionally longer) sessions of music and posting them to the internet as bigass .mp3 files for about 15 years now. As the quality of the music has steadily icnreased, I've also been looking at ways of making it more accessible (very few people can commit to listening to 2 hours of a single mp3). So after the last session, I thought it would be nice to mix it into individual tracks, naming them as I edit the session.

What I determined was that individual tracks were great! I thought about it some more and decided I could have both, generating the bigass mp3 files and indexing them (much as brainal.org does, but more intelligently. And then I realized I could parse the .RPP (REAPER project file) projects from the last 12 years or so, and generate a list of songs (from places where it was clear everything was edited) for each session. It doesn't work totally reliably, as there are plenty of places where two or three songs flow into eachother. But that's OK.

Anyway, so you might have noticed on this page the full jam links have been replaced with individual song/supersong links. We've been going through naming them as appropriate.

The other nice thing about this is that we can pull these feeds into our band websites...

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December 12, 2018
Yes, Exactly, Yes! Live in the Studio

This is from last Friday night:

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December 11, 2018
Mythical Travel

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December 11, 2018
Music

lined up blind

December 7, 2018
Music

Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 - Standing Orders -- [22:41]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 - Interlude -- [6:29]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 - Pet Sheep of Steve -- [7:48]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 - Heard Enough for Now -- [10:45]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 - The River -- [8:58]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 - Give or Take -- [8:58]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 - Moebius Tail -- [7:08]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 - No Big Benefactor -- [14:30]

December 6, 2018
Music

comparative feelings

December 3, 2018
Yes Exactly Yes

OK so this has been a lot of fun. Two things -- one: I'm really happy with how this song came out a few weeks ago. It's about 2/3 improvised but a theme we've played a few times: (youtube link)

Second, we had a very enjoyable session Friday night:
(youtube link)

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December 3, 2018
Music

i drank what

December 1, 2018
Music

Decanted Youth - 1 - Numbers Are Perfect -- [6:08]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Kompromat/What If We All Just Disappeared -- [15:12]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Stupid Fly Cannibal Plants / New Wave -- [14:38]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Legacy -- [12:29]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Loose Foot / Caught Off Guard -- [11:17]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Ich bin ein fälschlicherweise kleingeschriebenes Hauptwort -- [10:27]
Decanted Youth - 7 - It's Fine -- [8:07]

November 30, 2018
Music

Decanted Youth - 1 - The Long Question -- [27:59]
Decanted Youth - 2 - The Short Answer (Sandman) -- [1:15]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 - Unchanged Since Conception -- [10:15]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 - The River, Maybe -- [10:27]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 -- [12:55]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 - Grow in to Place -- [6:34]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 - Deals and Wheels -- [13:43]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 -- [13:32]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 -- [21:36]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 -- [17:17]

November 20, 2018
Music

ON alfalfa

November 18, 2018
Music

Decanted Youth - 1 - Supposed to Be -- [14:47]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Friendly Pathogen / Sink 'n Drink -- [14:30]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Kerosene (Sigh) / White Gas -- [5:51]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Not in New York, at Least -- [22:54]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Premonition of Regret -- [20:43]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Sink and/or Swim -- [12:52]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Sink and/or Swim (Reprise) / Your Friends Are the Best -- [17:26]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Guitar Center Guy -- [16:06]

November 15, 2018
Music

snow cozy

November 13, 2018
Decanted Youth - Live at Red Hook Open Studios Nov 11

This was another 3 hour session (in hindsight, a little long!). We got good reviews from people who stopped in -- in particular, "good snacks!" seemed to be a common theme!

(youtube link)

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November 12, 2018
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - Live at Red Hook Open Studios Nov 10

This was an enormous amount of fun, with André Martinez, Andy Omel, Sarai Moore, Cory Choy (and me):

(youtube link)

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November 11, 2018
Music

Decanted Youth - 1 - What Will Once Become the Squeeze Became the Squeeze (improvised until it wasn't) -- [10:15]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Sandman -- [5:44]
Decanted Youth - 3 - God's Own CCTV (Improvised) -- [7:14]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Kerosene (Alternate Version) -- [4:46]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Storms (Live at Red Hook Open Studios) -- [5:27]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Legacy (Trees, Loosely) -- [8:39]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Cory Went on a Road Trip with His Grandma -- [9:54]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Insecurity Becomes If There Was Ever a Time I Needed You -- [9:28]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Spring -- [5:06]
Decanted Youth - 10 - What If We All Just Disappeared (Live at Red Hook Open Studios) -- [13:35]
Decanted Youth - 11 - The Squeeze (Actual) -- [3:43]
Decanted Youth - 12 - (Muffin) Interlude (Improvised) / Relief -- [9:24]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Interlude Continued (Improvised) / Relief (Part II) -- [10:37]
Decanted Youth - 14 - Light Creeps In -- [9:21]
Decanted Youth - 15 - Major Major Major (Live at Red Hook Open Studios) -- [3:21]
Decanted Youth - 16 - Legacy (Reprise Improvise) -- [9:33]
Decanted Youth - 17 - The House of the Rising Sun (Live at Red Hook Open Studios) -- [9:52]
Decanted Youth - 18 - Reflections -- [8:26]

November 10, 2018
Music

Decanted Youth - 1 - There's a Room Between Us -- [8:00]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Sandman / Transition / Light Creeps In -- [14:44]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Don't Panic / Future Starts Slow (cover) -- [24:35]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Kerosene (extra angry) -- [4:30]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Unknown / Release -- [16:48]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Pervert (Consume cover) / Travel in Pair -- [12:46]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Long Way / Legacy -- [25:46]

November 3, 2018
Music

Decanted Youth - 1 - Hopeless/Helpless -- [10:48]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Jolene, We Test Our Mics -- [8:42]
Decanted Youth - 3 - What If We All Just Disappeared -- [19:57]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Sandman / The Squeeze -- [18:28]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Release -- [11:11]
Decanted Youth - 6 - All Is Not Lost (reprise) -- [12:48]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Take Cover -- [19:51]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Only Questions / Insecurity / Reflections -- [20:07]

October 30, 2018
Music

freeform jam with andre

October 29, 2018
REAPER: AVS's Spiritutal Successor - or - Decanted Youth - Light Creeps In (WIP)

I've been working on REAPER's video rendering/processing pipeline, allowing video processors to access and share memory with JSFX and ReaScripts, and exposing some new APIs for things like FFTs. It's pretty low-level, the JSFX/video processors are responsible for a lot of stupid work like synchronizing with eachother... but: the key thing is that we (REAPER users) can now effectively build things like AVS into the rendering pipeline, combining video and rendered audio and rendering that to video. I find this really awesome and exciting in the way AVS was, and in a way that has been missing for a long time. And now we can render AVS-like stuff directly to YouTube videos.

To explain: why is this like AVS? AVS had two key things that made it really cool:

You could build complex things by putting simple things together
You could also write complex things in code (making those "simple things" a little less simple).
(I'm bad at counting) (ok REAPER doesn't really address this -- AVS was cool because awesome people made tons of awesome presets for it. but REAPER's made for creators, so I guess we don't have to fulfill this one, so two things.)

REAPER does this too -- you can use video material directly, or one of many video processor presets to do basic things. Then you can also do the second thing by coding video processors (or hacking existing ones) to do new things. As an explanation, the effect in the video below is a combination of an existing preset (the spectrum analyzer), and a little bit of code (15 lines or so) which transforms that into polar coordinates (I could save that second bit of code as a preset for re-use later, including on a video file, etc).

The future is awesome. Now if only the present could catch up.

(youtube link)

Addendum: I'm irrationally pleased by this bit of video processor code I spent far too long on, for converting HSV (360/1/1) to RGB:

function h6s2i(h) global() ((h -= floor(h*1/6)*6)<3 ? <1 ? 1-h : 0 : h<4 ? h-3 : 1);
function set_hsv(h,s,v) global() (
  h*=1/60; s *= v;
  gfx_set(v-h6s2i(h+2)*s,v-h6s2i(h)*s,v-h6s2i(h-2)*s);
);

Also here's another video from testing that I meant to post earlier:
(youtube link)

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October 28, 2018
Music