Comment...

Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 -- [6:58]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 -- [9:11]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 - Cosmos -- [6:53]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 - Hindenburg -- [9:07]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 - The River (v1) -- [5:32]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 - The River (v2) -- [6:50]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 - Private Life -- [7:03]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 -- [7:36]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 9 -- [6:45]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 10 - Dogs Will Rule the World -- [7:20]

live solo improv: super8 phone

andy_cory - 1 -- [12:01]
andy_cory - 2 -- [18:22]
andy_cory - 3 -- [13:52]
andy_cory - 4 -- [5:51]
Not Vampires - 1 - Better Than They Seem -- [7:11]
Not Vampires - 2 -- [13:35]
Not Vampires - 3 - Candy Bandit -- [3:55]
Not Vampires - 4 - (extended intro) / Pervert in a Satellite -- [10:51]
Not Vampires - 5 -- [6:44]
Not Vampires - 6 -- [7:43]
Not Vampires - 7 -- [6:41]
Not Vampires - 8 -- [5:52]

meeting undefined quota

Not Vampires - 1 -- [7:03]
Not Vampires - 2 - (intro) / Insecurity -- [11:34]
Not Vampires - 3 - Candy Bandit -- [4:36]
Not Vampires - 4 -- [5:19]
Not Vampires - 5 -- [14:02]
Not Vampires - 6 -- [9:57]
Not Vampires - 7 -- [3:20]
Not Vampires - 8 -- [11:03]
Not Vampires - 9 -- [4:52]
Not Vampires - 10 -- [3:11]
Not Vampires - 11 -- [4:24]
Not Vampires - 12 - Pervert in a Satellite Revisted -- [3:58]
Not Vampires - 13 -- [5:21]

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [1:44]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [3:35]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 3 -- [16:30]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 4 -- [6:02]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 5 -- [22:26]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 6 -- [1:59]
Not Vampires - 1 -- [16:16]
Not Vampires - 2 -- [10:10]
Not Vampires - 3 -- [5:15]
Not Vampires - 4 -- [5:26]
Not Vampires - 5 -- [6:45]
Not Vampires - 6 -- [6:56]
Not Vampires - 7 -- [9:16]
Not Vampires - 8 -- [6:16]
Not Vampires - 9 -- [5:04]
Not Vampires - 10 -- [5:34]

not unexpected nor pleasing

Not Vampires - 1 -- [4:27]
Not Vampires - 2 -- [13:33]
Not Vampires - 3 -- [5:50]
Not Vampires - 4 -- [7:09]
Not Vampires - 5 -- [2:22]
Not Vampires - 6 -- [3:28]
Not Vampires - 7 -- [4:17]
Not Vampires - 8 -- [4:42]
Not Vampires - 9 -- [6:33]
Not Vampires - 10 -- [6:06]
Not Vampires - 11 -- [9:02]
Not Vampires - 12 -- [9:41]
Not Vampires - 13 -- [2:23]
Not Vampires - 14 -- [5:27]
Not Vampires - 15 -- [5:30]
Not Vampires - 16 -- [5:18]

raining in wait
raining in wait humandrums allyourfears

venting some energy home what

our own optimist
our own optimist v2b

Comment...

live solo improv: super8 terrible

reverse the digits

andy_cory - 1 -- [4:11]
andy_cory - 2 -- [7:32]
andy_cory - 3 -- [1:48]
andy_cory - 4 -- [6:07]
andy_cory - 5 -- [2:27]
andy_cory - 6 -- [4:47]
andy_cory - 7 -- [10:51]
andy_cory - 8 -- [2:13]
andy_cory - 9 -- [11:45]
andy_cory - 10 -- [4:58]
andy_cory - 11 -- [4:03]
andy_cory - 12 -- [7:08]
andy_cory - 13 -- [10:41]
andy_cory - 14 -- [4:01]

(youtube link)

(first person)

Recordings:

kiloton space heater
long enough for anybody

Comment...

Decanted Youth - 1 -- [4:12]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Light Creeps -- [11:02]
Decanted Youth - 3 -- [13:04]
Decanted Youth - 4 -- [9:13]
Decanted Youth - 5 -- [5:20]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Crashed by András -- [9:11]
Decanted Youth - 7 -- [10:55]
Decanted Youth - 8 - On the Floor -- [8:11]
Decanted Youth - 9 -- [15:53]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Plurality of Seven -- [5:43]
Decanted Youth - 11 - (heavy) / Light Creeps (reprise) -- [16:35]

eight six
kidding really

I randomly was doing some historical analysis preparing for the next REAPER release (tomorrow), and I noticed that on this day 10 years ago, the REAPER buildfarm first ran. Here's the test commit:

commit 306defecae4c7607b89b318f7caf72dc9ac99e1f (tag: v3.66pre4testb)
Author: justin <justin@4fc7d1b0-fb43-634d-aa29-800e4c0b6062>
Date:   Thu Jul 22 19:36:48 2010 +0000
    WANT_BUILD: 3.66pre4testb

Happy Birthday, autobuild.php!

Here is my analysis (it's noisy, at times, due to CR/LF conversions, updating various libraries, etc):

v3.67    Aug 29 2010 : 567 files changed, 54099 insertions(+), 2957 deletions(-)
v3.671   Aug 29 2010 : 5 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
v3.672   Aug 30 2010 : 8 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
v3.68    Sep 11 2010 : 37 files changed, 709 insertions(+), 337 deletions(-)
v3.69    Sep 20 2010 : 18 files changed, 265 insertions(+), 142 deletions(-)
v3.7     Sep 27 2010 : 17 files changed, 270 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-)
v3.71    Sep 28 2010 : 6 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
v3.72    Oct 19 2010 : 42 files changed, 1911 insertions(+), 224 deletions(-)
v3.73    Nov 17 2010 : 43 files changed, 4197 insertions(+), 180 deletions(-)
v3.74    Dec 24 2010 : 21 files changed, 277 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-)
v3.75    Jan 26 2011 : 26 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)
v3.76    Apr 25 2011 : 97 files changed, 3491 insertions(+), 1020 deletions(-)
v3.77    Jul 22 2011 : 24 files changed, 543 insertions(+), 251 deletions(-)
v3.78     Aug 2 2011 : 29 files changed, 366 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)
v4.0      Aug 3 2011 : 2451 files changed, 138908 insertions(+), 39475 deletions(-)
v4.01     Aug 4 2011 : 18 files changed, 173 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
v4.02    Aug 22 2011 : 78 files changed, 4755 insertions(+), 880 deletions(-)
v4.10    Sep 30 2011 : 155 files changed, 20949 insertions(+), 3441 deletions(-)
v4.11    Nov 12 2011 : 186 files changed, 32967 insertions(+), 23010 deletions(-)
v4.111   Nov 13 2011 : 8 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
v4.12    Nov 19 2011 : 18 files changed, 1521 insertions(+), 175 deletions(-)
v4.13    Nov 21 2011 : 8 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
v4.14    Dec 18 2011 : 133 files changed, 5835 insertions(+), 4069 deletions(-)
v4.15    Jan 15 2012 : 196 files changed, 37371 insertions(+), 4690 deletions(-)
v4.20    Mar 20 2012 : 388 files changed, 47263 insertions(+), 20544 deletions(-)
v4.21    Mar 24 2012 : 57 files changed, 12296 insertions(+), 392 deletions(-)
v4.22     Apr 5 2012 : 69 files changed, 390 insertions(+), 1381 deletions(-)
v4.25    Jul 12 2012 : 201 files changed, 21357 insertions(+), 6453 deletions(-)
v4.26    Aug 17 2012 : 246 files changed, 18401 insertions(+), 1558 deletions(-)
v4.30    Nov 13 2012 : 183 files changed, 10010 insertions(+), 2961 deletions(-)
v4.31    Nov 23 2012 : 52 files changed, 869 insertions(+), 357 deletions(-)
v4.32    Jan 15 2013 : 128 files changed, 14765 insertions(+), 2422 deletions(-)
v4.33    Apr 17 2013 : 219 files changed, 16665 insertions(+), 1787 deletions(-)
v4.40    Apr 25 2013 : 102 files changed, 6259 insertions(+), 895 deletions(-)
v4.401   Apr 27 2013 : 18 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
v4.402   Apr 27 2013 : 8 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
v4.5     Aug 29 2013 : 368 files changed, 25469 insertions(+), 27670 deletions(-)
v4.51    Aug 30 2013 : 10 files changed, 212 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
v4.52     Sep 5 2013 : 21 files changed, 663 insertions(+), 299 deletions(-)
v4.53     Oct 4 2013 : 93 files changed, 3772 insertions(+), 4109 deletions(-)
v4.54     Oct 7 2013 : 4 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
v4.55    Oct 27 2013 : 95 files changed, 8253 insertions(+), 1605 deletions(-)
v4.56     Nov 8 2013 : 152 files changed, 3625 insertions(+), 1870 deletions(-)
v4.57    Nov 16 2013 : 107 files changed, 3765 insertions(+), 901 deletions(-)
v4.58    Dec 16 2013 : 116 files changed, 12598 insertions(+), 2454 deletions(-)
v4.581   Dec 17 2013 : 21 files changed, 433 insertions(+), 102 deletions(-)
v4.59    Jan 13 2014 : 142 files changed, 13507 insertions(+), 7446 deletions(-)
v4.591   Jan 17 2014 : 8 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 246 deletions(-)
v4.60    Feb 28 2014 : 638 files changed, 230240 insertions(+), 17928 deletions(-)
v4.601    Mar 2 2014 : 5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
v4.602    Mar 2 2014 : 4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
v4.61    Mar 20 2014 : 132 files changed, 4096 insertions(+), 2087 deletions(-)
v4.611   Apr 13 2014 : 64 files changed, 2871 insertions(+), 462 deletions(-)
v4.62    May 12 2014 : 215 files changed, 3858 insertions(+), 2270 deletions(-)
v4.7     Jul 10 2014 : 191 files changed, 8334 insertions(+), 3350 deletions(-)
v4.71    Jul 15 2014 : 35 files changed, 530 insertions(+), 321 deletions(-)
v4.72    Aug 14 2014 : 94 files changed, 3311 insertions(+), 1139 deletions(-)
v4.721   Aug 19 2014 : 12 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
v4.73    Sep 17 2014 : 85 files changed, 4013 insertions(+), 276 deletions(-)
v4.731   Sep 26 2014 : 9 files changed, 1612 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
v4.75     Nov 7 2014 : 93 files changed, 1497 insertions(+), 2181 deletions(-)
v4.76    Dec 15 2014 : 1743 files changed, 2014 insertions(+), 19752 deletions(-)
v5.0     Aug 11 2015 : 4449 files changed, 291272 insertions(+), 39450 deletions(-)
v5.01    Aug 26 2015 : 123 files changed, 17743 insertions(+), 11269 deletions(-)
v5.011   Sep 10 2015 : 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
v5.02    Sep 22 2015 : 139 files changed, 5708 insertions(+), 3344 deletions(-)
v5.03    Sep 24 2015 : 14 files changed, 169 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
v5.04     Oct 1 2015 : 27 files changed, 460 insertions(+), 129 deletions(-)
v5.1     Nov 14 2015 : 159 files changed, 10791 insertions(+), 3460 deletions(-)
v5.11    Dec 25 2015 : 195 files changed, 25500 insertions(+), 5874 deletions(-)
v5.111   Jan 12 2016 : 27 files changed, 242 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)
v5.12    Jan 21 2016 : 179 files changed, 7582 insertions(+), 2736 deletions(-)
v5.15     Feb 9 2016 : 123 files changed, 4247 insertions(+), 2494 deletions(-)
v5.16     Mar 3 2016 : 96 files changed, 5232 insertions(+), 1208 deletions(-)
v5.17    Mar 24 2016 : 111 files changed, 17317 insertions(+), 1262 deletions(-)
v5.18     Apr 4 2016 : 43 files changed, 959 insertions(+), 192 deletions(-)
v5.20    May 17 2016 : 284 files changed, 29563 insertions(+), 4198 deletions(-)
v5.201   May 23 2016 : 8 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
v5.21    Jun 15 2016 : 71 files changed, 2045 insertions(+), 1270 deletions(-)
v5.211   Jun 19 2016 : 11 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)
v5.22    Jul 14 2016 : 88 files changed, 3191 insertions(+), 850 deletions(-)
v5.23    Aug 13 2016 : 93 files changed, 7934 insertions(+), 3799 deletions(-)
v5.24     Sep 4 2016 : 75 files changed, 2246 insertions(+), 854 deletions(-)
v5.25    Sep 19 2016 : 264 files changed, 2827 insertions(+), 1372 deletions(-)
v5.26     Oct 5 2016 : 37 files changed, 855 insertions(+), 366 deletions(-)
v5.27    Oct 19 2016 : 41 files changed, 2850 insertions(+), 544 deletions(-)
v5.28     Nov 6 2016 : 84 files changed, 2655 insertions(+), 1392 deletions(-)
v5.29    Nov 25 2016 : 68 files changed, 4384 insertions(+), 3591 deletions(-)
v5.30    Dec 18 2016 : 231 files changed, 14626 insertions(+), 9300 deletions(-)
v5.31    Dec 24 2016 : 1021 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 285150 deletions(-)
v5.311   Dec 27 2016 : 10 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
v5.32    Jan 15 2017 : 173 files changed, 32914 insertions(+), 13114 deletions(-)
v5.33     Feb 4 2017 : 48 files changed, 2551 insertions(+), 1198 deletions(-)
v5.34    Feb 22 2017 : 67 files changed, 1042 insertions(+), 642 deletions(-)
v5.35    Feb 28 2017 : 20 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
v5.40    Mar 23 2017 : 112 files changed, 5515 insertions(+), 1297 deletions(-)
v5.50    Sep 13 2017 : 368 files changed, 33265 insertions(+), 11592 deletions(-)
v5.51    Sep 28 2017 : 90 files changed, 1593 insertions(+), 622 deletions(-)
v5.52     Oct 3 2017 : 11 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
v5.60    Oct 23 2017 : 197 files changed, 28306 insertions(+), 3367 deletions(-)
v5.61    Oct 27 2017 : 21 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
v5.62     Nov 7 2017 : 53 files changed, 1547 insertions(+), 923 deletions(-)
v5.7     Dec 12 2017 : 268 files changed, 52301 insertions(+), 2872 deletions(-)
v5.70    Dec 12 2017 : 14 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
v5.75    Feb 16 2018 : 344 files changed, 5973 insertions(+), 5858 deletions(-)
v5.76    Feb 19 2018 : 20 files changed, 182 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)
v5.77     Mar 8 2018 : 40 files changed, 1260 insertions(+), 308 deletions(-)
v5.78    Mar 24 2018 : 59 files changed, 3495 insertions(+), 2821 deletions(-)
v5.79    Apr 16 2018 : 144 files changed, 1869 insertions(+), 962 deletions(-)
v5.80    Apr 24 2018 : 32 files changed, 361 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)
v5.90    May 23 2018 : 109 files changed, 4021 insertions(+), 1999 deletions(-)
v5.91     Jun 2 2018 : 46 files changed, 382 insertions(+), 138 deletions(-)
v5.92    Jun 20 2018 : 50 files changed, 2345 insertions(+), 1762 deletions(-)
v5.93    Jul 17 2018 : 92 files changed, 18145 insertions(+), 514 deletions(-)
v5.94     Aug 2 2018 : 130 files changed, 28495 insertions(+), 6527 deletions(-)
v5.941    Aug 4 2018 : 7 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
v5.95    Sep 10 2018 : 139 files changed, 3593 insertions(+), 794 deletions(-)
v5.96     Oct 8 2018 : 73 files changed, 1864 insertions(+), 636 deletions(-)
v5.961   Oct 18 2018 : 29 files changed, 443 insertions(+), 189 deletions(-)
v5.962   Nov 16 2018 : 780 files changed, 199373 insertions(+), 40684 deletions(-)
v5.963   Nov 21 2018 : 6 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
v5.964   Dec 17 2018 : 115 files changed, 3749 insertions(+), 1464 deletions(-)
v5.965   Dec 18 2018 : 15 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
v5.97    Feb 21 2019 : 172 files changed, 24428 insertions(+), 3727 deletions(-)
v5.971   Feb 25 2019 : 13 files changed, 169 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
v5.972    Mar 6 2019 : 75 files changed, 1877 insertions(+), 579 deletions(-)
v5.973   Mar 11 2019 : 26 files changed, 284 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
v5.974    Apr 6 2019 : 83 files changed, 2747 insertions(+), 1552 deletions(-)
v5.975   Apr 29 2019 : 183 files changed, 6242 insertions(+), 3998 deletions(-)
v5.976    May 2 2019 : 21 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-)
v5.977    May 6 2019 : 14 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
v5.978   May 10 2019 : 29 files changed, 331 insertions(+), 312 deletions(-)
v5.979   Jun 17 2019 : 82 files changed, 2838 insertions(+), 1029 deletions(-)
v5.980   Jul 11 2019 : 59 files changed, 1348 insertions(+), 478 deletions(-)
v5.981   Jul 21 2019 : 32 files changed, 347 insertions(+), 128 deletions(-)
v5.982   Aug 17 2019 : 70 files changed, 1855 insertions(+), 609 deletions(-)
v5.983   Aug 29 2019 : 29 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
v5.984   Oct 11 2019 : 39 files changed, 804 insertions(+), 247 deletions(-)
v5.985   Nov 13 2019 : 107 files changed, 1881 insertions(+), 1004 deletions(-)
v5.986   Nov 18 2019 : 41 files changed, 11893 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)
v5.987   Nov 19 2019 : 15 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
v6.0      Dec 3 2019 : 2872 files changed, 32398 insertions(+), 14335 deletions(-)
v6.01     Dec 6 2019 : 91 files changed, 547 insertions(+), 447 deletions(-)
v6.02    Dec 16 2019 : 595 files changed, 1865 insertions(+), 842 deletions(-)
v6.03    Jan 13 2020 : 52 files changed, 854 insertions(+), 585 deletions(-)
v6.04    Feb 20 2020 : 131 files changed, 5384 insertions(+), 1148 deletions(-)
v6.05     Mar 5 2020 : 58 files changed, 2451 insertions(+), 898 deletions(-)
v6.06    Mar 28 2020 : 501 files changed, 1308 insertions(+), 250389 deletions(-)
v6.07    Mar 29 2020 : 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
v6.08     Apr 3 2020 : 63 files changed, 1585 insertions(+), 880 deletions(-)
v6.09    Apr 27 2020 : 135 files changed, 6386 insertions(+), 9265 deletions(-)
v6.10     May 9 2020 : 126 files changed, 5546 insertions(+), 2309 deletions(-)
v6.11    May 23 2020 : 795 files changed, 5893 insertions(+), 22413 deletions(-)
v6.12    Jun 14 2020 : 611 files changed, 7911 insertions(+), 120505 deletions(-)
v6.13    Jul 22 2020 : 297 files changed, 9595 insertions(+), 3189 deletions(-)

Comment...

(youtube link)

Ah, I forgot how much I like using my super8 live setup. Some information on it:

• Thinkpad X60 (old, old, old C2D 1.83GHz, 4GB RAM, recently upgraded to some incredibly cheap 100GB SSD). Recently I did find out that if you have a failed battery in the system, it kills the DPC latency. Having no battery is OK, though! Just don't pull the plug.
  
  
• Zoom R24 (used as an audio interface and controller for levels of 8 channels of super8 output, buttons mapped to choose channels, toggle mic vs guitar DI input)
  
  
• Line6 FBV MK II foot controller (mostly just use 3 buttons - one for record/play, one for toggling input distortion, one for toggling input delay).
  
  
• Debian (Stretch I think?)
  
  
• REAPER (obvs), with track 8 sending to a manual feedback loop that has a delay/compressor/eq/sometimes pitch shifter on it. "Save live output" is used to record the audio.
  
  
• All built-in JSFX/reaplugs/etc, including super8 JSFX, spectral hold, some ReaVerb for cab modeling, etc
  
  
• One (1) SM58. Used for drums, vocals, flute, sax, acoustic guitar, whatever else.
  
  
• R24's hi-Z input is used for guitar/bass
  
  
• Video recording: Contour Roam2 -- old, but not Thinkpad X60 old! I also use this to record the bicycle rides, so usually the brightness is a bit off (and the sensor has been failing in weird ways), so I mangle it heavily with a REAPER video processor to make it watchable.
  
  
• One custom made wood stand (2x4s and stuff) to hold the laptop/interface

I really like the handheld camera treatment in this one, so I'll have to do more of that!

1 Comment

live solo improv: super8

Decanted Youth - 1 -- [3:58]
Decanted Youth - 2 -- [8:35]
Decanted Youth - 3 -- [7:39]
Decanted Youth - 4 -- [15:36]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Insecurity -- [7:43]
Decanted Youth - 6 -- [5:32]
Decanted Youth - 7 - What If We All Just Disappeared -- [12:22]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Sandman (short) -- [3:57]
Decanted Youth - 9 -- [12:35]
Decanted Youth - 10 -- [3:26]
Decanted Youth - 11 -- [7:20]
Decanted Youth - 12 -- [2:36]
Decanted Youth - 13 -- [8:24]
Decanted Youth - 14 - - -- [6:27]
Decanted Youth - 15 -- [8:52]
Decanted Youth - 16 -- [6:06]

since you asked

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [9:23]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [2:51]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 3 -- [24:34]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 4 -- [18:03]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 5 -- [12:14]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 6 -- [5:11]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 7 -- [28:57]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 8 -- [19:18]

throw it back

andy_sarai_cory_park - 1 -- [3:10]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 2 -- [5:54]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 3 -- [7:30]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 4 -- [4:54]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 5 -- [6:20]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 6 -- [4:41]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 7 -- [9:49]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 8 -- [5:14]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 9 -- [8:43]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 10 -- [4:45]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 11 -- [4:05]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 12 -- [4:11]

there is always tomorrow

halfway and yet not
sliding forwards

Recordings:

andy_sarai_cory_park - 1 -- [3:50]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 2 -- [4:01]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 3 -- [5:57]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 4 -- [3:17]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 5 -- [3:04]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 6 -- [3:06]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 7 -- [5:09]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 8 -- [7:50]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 9 -- [4:23]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 10 -- [4:19]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 11 -- [3:28]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 12 -- [5:55]
andy_sarai_cory_park - 13 -- [2:37]

Comment...

that never ending noise

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [23:37]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [30:27]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 3 -- [7:18]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 4 -- [4:14]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 5 -- [19:27]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 6 -- [10:51]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 7 -- [21:24]

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [8:19]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [46:11]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 3 -- [19:30]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 4 -- [35:57]

Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 1 -- [3:45]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 2 -- [3:02]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 3 -- [6:35]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 4 -- [11:50]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 5 -- [2:36]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 6 -- [6:37]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 7 -- [23:10]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 8 -- [13:52]

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [8:45]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [4:47]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 3 -- [25:10]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 4 -- [29:53]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 5 -- [15:28]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 6 -- [25:36]

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [5:45]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [7:28]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 3 -- [21:25]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 4 -- [30:49]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 5 -- [15:19]

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [7:55]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [34:05]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 3 -- [53:07]

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [19:41]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [22:47]

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [28:45]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [62:16]

4 Comments

andy_cory_ninjam - 1 -- [25:26]
andy_cory_ninjam - 2 -- [22:27]
andy_cory_ninjam - 3 -- [11:21]
andy_cory_ninjam - 4 -- [12:51]

Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 1 -- [8:38]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 2 -- [10:32]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 3 -- [12:50]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 4 -- [12:36]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 5 -- [4:25]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 6 -- [12:16]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 7 -- [19:54]

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [19:43]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [10:56]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 3 -- [17:53]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 4 -- [37:38]

super8 - 1 -- [1:05]
super8 - 2 -- [13:20]
super8 - 3 -- [5:39]
super8 - 4 -- [13:26]

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [34:33]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [17:54]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 3 -- [6:14]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 4 -- [13:14]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 5 -- [12:07]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 6 -- [14:09]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 7 -- [24:34]

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [4:28]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 - (Undeposited) / How Bad Could It Be? -- [18:34]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 3 -- [11:41]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 4 - Readings from Dream City -- [23:07]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 5 - Round and Round / Cosmos -- [26:18]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 6 - Hindenburg / Vaguely Reflections -- [16:02]

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [27:21]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [17:42]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 3 -- [13:47]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 4 -- [2:40]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 5 -- [21:12]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 6 - (Unsure) / Reflections -- [25:01]

Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 1 -- [10:47]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 2 - Time to Recognize -- [8:18]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 3 -- [12:27]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 4 -- [24:31]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 5 - Mark (that one) -- [13:50]

Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 1 -- [14:27]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 2 -- [15:01]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 3 -- [34:46]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 4 -- [13:30]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 5 -- [35:42]

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [3:35]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [13:24]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 3 -- [28:37]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 4 -- [23:42]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 5 -- [15:50]

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [21:30]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [10:03]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 3 -- [14:50]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 4 -- [31:25]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 5 -- [21:09]

Recordings:

two or three percent wtf

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(youtube link)

This was a quick thing, using REAPER and the JSFX "sequencer megababy" and "super8", recorded and edited in 18 minutes while videotaping (taping hah). I'm going to do a longer version with more explanation of the tools used, I think. Lots of fun.

Recordings:

blanking on the date

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ninjam with adara
quick and on video

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [21:20]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [24:05]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 3 -- [12:14]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 4 -- [8:50]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 5 -- [16:05]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 6 -- [8:21]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 7 -- [11:34]

This is my first pedalboard. Andy was very very kind to give me The Wave and the Big Muff Pi and Pog, and I always coveted his Sunset. And I also copied his Iridium since it seemed appropriate. Anyway, so much fun. Good for recording and NINJAMming.

I also posted a song (second opinion) below... the drums I recorded when I stopped to check in on my studio, the rest from home. The words were a poem written by my grandfather (in the 90s, I imagine, given some of the references). My family edited and (self)published some of his works on Amazon.

Life keeps going on. Today I was looking at the graphs and timelines of things and got really angry with our state-level leadership (federal is another level of anger and despair). Had Cuomo put PAUSE in to effect a week earlier, think how many lives would've been saved. 15,000 cases before doing anything is way, way too many. California did their stay-at-home order with ~900. Bravo.

There's no use being angry, maybe, and I fully appreciate not having to be responsible for so many other peoples lives. I don't think a lot of politicians think this through -- the responsibility that comes with the power. Cuomo and Bill de Blasio clearly did not. There is no need for me to mention the other person who doesn't take the responsibility seriously. That's another league, and while some people say a malignant narcissist I prefer "bag of shit."

So now, I'm drinking a G+T made with the best grapefruit I can recall having had, making nothing of a perfectly lovely evening at home.

Recordings:

Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 1 - Face the Lies -- [6:58]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 2 -- [7:13]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 3 -- [5:53]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 4 - The Random Few -- [8:43]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 5 - Force Majeure -- [7:59]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 6 - Renormalize -- [15:17]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 7 - Major Reprise -- [4:50]

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second opinion
second thoughts revisited

Decanted Youth with Cory Choy (NINJAM) - 1 -- [28:15]
Decanted Youth with Cory Choy (NINJAM) - 2 -- [41:42]
Decanted Youth with Cory Choy (NINJAM) - 3 -- [19:41]
Decanted Youth with Cory Choy (NINJAM) - 4 -- [4:20]

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cory_ninjam - 1 -- [27:13]
cory_ninjam - 2 -- [13:00]

Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 1 -- [5:56]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 2 -- [8:24]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 3 - (almost) The River -- [6:34]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 4 - (almost) What If We All Just Disappeared? -- [55:33]
Decanted Youth (NINJAM) - 5 - Andy's Done -- [8:07]

Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 1 -- [12:22]
Not Vampires (NINJAM) - 2 -- [28:31]

Well time keeps on ticking, I guess. I've done as NINJAM-related work in the last week as in the previous 10 years, I think. The jam we had last night (see below) was awesome, I especially like the last track in it.

We started renting a cheap ($20/month) server for hosting some private NINJAM servers. My initial thought was you could request a private NINJAM server via a web interface, then it would launch a new ninjam server process and give you the port number. That seemed like a bit of work, so instead I did something that would be less work.

As the first experiment I ran 50 NINJAM server processes on the one box, and had it as a purely etiquette-based system, where you only join an empty server or a server to which you were invited. It had some usership, though it was hard to tell if people really wanted them as private or if it was just a big farm of more servers.

I thought about modes where you connect to a server, and then can temporarily set a password so only your friends can join. Seemed easy enough, though you might connect to a server you think is empty and have someone beat you to it, and people might hog servers.

One thing I noticed is that the mechanism the NINJAM server uses to decide when to sleep was fine for a few processes, but if you ran 50 of them, all those polling between nanosleeps added up.

Then I thought -- what if you had a server where if you connected with a password, that password would define the room-name you go into (the NINJAM server already has a User_Group object which is basically the whole server). This seemed like a great idea, but it turns out it wouldn't work, because the password challenge/response system doesn't allow identification of passwords, nor would it detect if two users used the same password. I thought about using part of the anonymous username as a server ident, but the downside there is that if you set that, then connected to a different server with the same anonymous credentials, you'd leak your private server name.

So what I finally came up with: the NINJAM server can now run in a lobby-mode, and via chat commands you can create/join private rooms. You can also chat in the lobby with other people who are in the lobby. So you could negotiate "hey want to play an ambient session? let's !join ambient." So you have private rooms (secret roomname), semi-private rooms, etc. Feels pretty fun! Not many users yet, though.

Of course this will all get ruined once someone decides to troll/spam/flood/etc. I'm sure at the very start IRC was amazing and simple, and by the time I left it it was a mess with bots and anti-bots and other things that just ruin everything. Oh well let's enjoy it while it lasts.

(anything to distract from what's happening outside)

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Decanted Youth with Cory Choy (NINJAM) - 1 -- [26:21]
Decanted Youth with Cory Choy (NINJAM) - 2 -- [15:07]
Decanted Youth with Cory Choy (NINJAM) - 3 -- [20:03]
Decanted Youth with Cory Choy (NINJAM) - 4 -- [7:59]
Decanted Youth with Cory Choy (NINJAM) - 5 -- [15:40]
Decanted Youth with Cory Choy (NINJAM) - 6 -- [17:12]
uhrg

decanted youth rehearsal and improvisation (ninjam)
ninjam with sarai

ninjam with andy and cory

Ah so it's been almost a week since I've posted here. Time got really really slow for a bit there but now maybe it is speeding up as life as we know it becomes more routine.

Such a bizarre predicament that nearly (?) all of humanity faces. We're all in it together, unless we're in denial. When the weather has been nice (most days since I last wrote), the parks have been crazily busy, which makes running really difficult. So instead:

(lucky me with roof deck access) An hour is an excruciatingly long time. At one point before I tried an hour I contemplated doing 24 hours. Now I think that's insane. It might happen. Yesterday was cold and rainy and amazing, I could run wherever I wanted and nobody was around! Bring back winter!

I'm now on board with everybody wearing masks (not N95 but procedure masks etc) when they are out in public. It makes a lot of sense, given the fact that people are contagious before and/or without symptoms. The advice here has always been "wear a mask only if you're sick" which is no longer applicable! Anyway I've spent a great deal of time making a mask (and now starting a second) from this site's template/instruction, which seems to work well! I don't have a sewing machine so I'm using a couple of tiny travel sewing kits that I've acquired over the years and doing all of the stitches by hand. I'm terrible at it, but getting less so as time goes on.

Musically, I've turned to NINJAM at home again, Andy and I played the other night which was nice. Hope to do more of that!

(obviously it goes without saying, all the people out there who are helping other people: doctors, nurses, delivery people, people working in grocery stores, thank you thank you thank you. I'll try to say this more in person but it's hard with all of the other pressures of life outside of home)

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ninjam with andy

(youtube link)

Apologies for my outfit (unless you're into legs, in which case, you're welcome), I ran to the studio from home. At 11am the Brooklyn Bridge was pretty empty, thankfully, but on the return it was getting more crowded. Plenty of tourists out walking in big groups, not practicing social distancing in any form. Sigh. Can't stop what's coming.

There were also a lot of people out in Brooklyn Bridge Park. I don't think playing volleyball today is a good idea.

Maybe I'm overreacting, but it's really not looking that way. I hope I'm overreacting. A "shelter in place" order seems not-unlikely for NYC at some point in the near future. We've discussed leaving, but have nowhere we'd want to go. Being home is a pretty good place to be, even if there are too many goddamn people around. Even if we had known what was coming months ago, I'm not sure where we'd want to be. I want to be somewhere else but nowhere else. Maybe after this whole crisis is over (will it be a few months? 18 months? ugh), a move is in order.

Recordings:

super8_panic_marathon - 1 -- [0:17]
super8_panic_marathon - 2 -- [50:37]

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I bicycled from Manhattan to Brooklyn to play the piano some, and do a little Super8 session:
(youtube link)

On Wednesday, I had gone to the studio (which is right by Fairway) in the afternoon and stayed until the evening. I went into Fairway, which was pretty normal-ish. After my cancelled band practice and trip home, there had been a presidential address, which was a total failure in pretty much every way I could see, other than getting peoples attention. The next day, I went to the studio, and stopped in Fairway on my way home to get a few more things, and it was a total madhouse. Such a difference in a day.

Anyway since Wednesday we've been practicing Social Distancing, which is both easy and not easy. It's only been 5 days but it's going to be challenging.

A friend and I discussed food strategies via text. What Allison and I are doing now is basically trying to keep a stocked pantry with a list of things that we wouldn't mind having more of, and when we need something, we'll go buy that thing we need and other things from the list of things that we wouldn't mind having more of.

Last Sunday we were scheduled to fly to California, and yesterday I was scheduled to run a 50 miler in Marin County. We cancelled our trip the day before, which made me sad but after an exercise in sunk cost (figuring the difference in cost to proceed with the trip vs cancel, ignoring non-refundable stuff), it made total sense. Yesterday I found out the race was cancelled anyway.

There's my rambling. Someone on twitter said now was a good time to try journalling. My first thought is "my filesystems are all ext4, baby." I lied, I'm on a mac at this moment.

Recordings:

super8_distance - 1 -- [32:10]
super8_distance - 2 -- [5:56]
super8_distance - 3 -- [0:49]

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