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pulusound

its a veeery long tunnel though

join me in the tunnel tomorrow at 22:00 (UTC+2) https://cal.gravitons.org/event/pulusound-3rd-w3dn35day-online-gig

Pulusound - 3rd W3dn35day online gig

March's 3rd W3dn35day online gig is from the amazing Pulusound. Pulusound makes cyber-music in an increasingly incoherent assortment of genres using livecoding, retrocomputers, electronics and more. depending on the day it might be trancey, ambient, noisy, drum n bassy, chiptuney, and/or something else. it might even be (or not be) bonkwave. Check them out at: https://pulusound.fi [https://pulusound.fi], https://pulu.bandcamp.com [https://pulu.bandcamp.com]

#fediwave

currently figuring out connections

yeah im working on music (reconfiguring my Moonlander keyboard layout so it is usable on both macOS and Linux)

and then i find out my sc3-plugins is broken

oh man this is not looking good

ok so the problem is supercollider 3.15.0-dev, not sc3-plugins per se. i guess i will try building 3.14

right. 3.14 doesnt build with Qt 6.10

if all else fails i will just livestream my struggle to get supercollider working

sufficiently advanced nix crimes are indistinguishable from magic and i now have a working supercollider 3.14.1. next, audio and controller routing

i was hoping to use Steinberg UR22 as my audio interface because it has mic preamps but it seems i dont have a way to turn on phantom power from Linux 😂

dont tell me i need to reverse engineer this shit

of all the things to put exclusively behind a software control

NEVER MIND there is a tiny switch on the back

i like how this interface inexplicably gets an extra space in its name. might have wasted a lot of time on that if i didnt happen to notice it immediately

pulusound Mar 18

theres no reason why a controller has to manage its own pages

pulusound Mar 18

this is a lot nicer than using the MFT side buttons

pulusound Mar 18

thank you everyone who came to listen, and special thanks to @thisoccasionalsociety and @meljoann for organizing 💜

i am going to get some much needed rest, will read all your lovely comments later 😅

good morning. there were a few questions in the chat which i will try to answer here :)

what is my software of choice?

this set had SuperCollider and TidalCycles (both operated via Emacs) on Linux, and the classic version of Music Mouse on Mac OS 7. the MIDI from Music Mouse played a SuperCollider synth via my DIY RS422 to USB MIDI interface which i think has clock voltage issues, causing MIDI corruption. i hastily threw together some defensive code to prevent stuck notes and such, but i hope i can come up with a real fix 😅 the uncertainty made it kinda interesting to play though

was it recorded?

not unless some incorrigible pirate (affectionate) did their own recording. please share if so! in the scramble to get things working on my new laptop, i didnt remember to configure auto-recording in OBS which i usually have enabled

was i trolling when i said almost everything went wrong?

thank you, but no 😂 just a few of the problems i had during preparation:

- SuperCollider 3.15.0-dev wont play some sc3-plugins UGens. rediscover the reasons why i was using the dev version in the first place (3.13 broken MIDI, 3.14 incompatible with Qt 6.10) and hack together a SC 3.14 + Qt 6.9 build
- my Moonlander keyboard layout written for macOS has problems with Linux. define separate Linux layers and add hotkeys to toggle
...

thisoccasionalsociety Mar 18

@ahihi @meljoann

You were absolutely amazing! If that was your fallback position, I cannot wait for the opportunity to see what else you can do.

Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)Mar 18

@ahihi @thisoccasionalsociety @meljoann very cool concert — hope you feel rested! Thank you for the performance, and to the organizers for putting it on!

Huey Mar 18

@ahihi oh no, missed it! Can I listen later?

@y6nH https://anticapitalist.party/@ahihi/116255009507937512

pulusound (@[email protected])

was it recorded? not unless some incorrigible pirate (affectionate) did their own recording. please share if so! in the scramble to get things working on my new laptop, i didnt remember to configure auto-recording in OBS which i usually have enabled

ACP

Ozzelot

Mar 17

@ahihi
sneaky, like a phantom

@ozzelot 👻

@ahihi
How's your operatic singing?

@ozzelot it'sn't

@ahihi bit late for Pi day isn't it?

Alison Wilder Mar 17

@ahihi I love the drama of a livestream.

You'll pull through!

@alisynthesis but at what cost

Alison Wilder Mar 17

@ahihi when I did mine last month the cost was literally all of my spare time for weeks and extreme mental and creative exhaustion

BUT I'm glad I did it. Hope you will be too! But either way, in 24 hrs it will be over

Aleksandr Koltsoff Mar 17

@ahihi You look very well connected!

Arne Brasseur Mar 17

@ahihi whatever those "clean desk aesthetic" influencer posts are, this is the exact opposite of that

@plexus im the chaos influencer

sknob Mar 17

@ahihi the calendar says 21:00 UTC 😬 (edit UTC+1, oops)

@sknob says "Wednesday, Mar 18, 08:00 PM GMT-09:00 PM" for me

Also : https://ravenation.club/@thisoccasionalsociety/116244410483741647

sknob Mar 17

@ahihi says 21:00 local time for me. Did you change to daylight savings or something ?

thisoccasionalsociety (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image "Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow, you're only a day away" * (unless you are reading this on a day other than Tuesday 17.03.2026) Anyway, you are cordially invited to come and enjoy the music and hang in the chat at stream.gravitons.org @[email protected] @[email protected] #electronicMusic #experimentalMusic *little orphan Annie not included. It is indeed a hard knock life.

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@sknob France is UTC+1 right? so that makes sense