Vincent

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Composer & Producer (and music academic) on Wurundjeri Country
. Striving to be a dabbler in things: philosophy/critique, permaculture, video, doing what I can to get out of the capitalist hellscape. Trying to learn French, and my phone keyboard is set to AZERTY, so there may be many more typos than one would normally expect. #excuses
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Website 1 (music)https://www.vgiles.net
Website 2 (production)https://www.faultycat.com.au
Website 3 (writing)https://www.fcpvg.work
VincentJul 30, 2023
I finished an excellent duology yesterday. A Psalm for the Wild-Built, and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy. Really excellent narratively, for presenting an optimistic view of a future humanity - a humanity that survives its current trajectory. It looks at use V exchange value and all kinds of things. Really good stuff by Becky Chambers.
VincentJul 27, 2023
Keith WilsonJul 25, 2023
I have a new paper out in #Ergo on the #AuditoryField, which examines the spatial boundaries of #auditoryExperience, hearing silences, and how we experience space in audition as compared to vision. #philosophy #perception #hearing #TheSenses https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.2909
VincentJul 27, 2023
It's also really annoying that Apple's various large-screen operating systems offer a kind of shitty tiling mode. I want something that looks and acts as nicely as Hyprland appears to, but is able to be toggled. macOS in particular seems perfect for this within the already existing side-by-side thing (that kinda sucks).
VincentJul 27, 2023
I've been dabbling in Linux since probably ~2000 or so. It never really stuck with me due to requirements for other things and a general lack of discipline/commitment to do much more than CLI stuff; the various shells always underwhelmed me aesthetically (what a daft thing to be underwhelmed by, really). These days it's a wildly different, and I just spent a couple of hours installing Debian 12 on an old Toshiba laptop my partner had. Honestly probably ten years old. Runs really well with GNOME 43. Ran into roadblocks getting Jack to work with an external audio interface, but meh, that's for another time. I've been wanting to figure out a way to do at least most of what I do musically on basically any old system, so that eventually, I can simply give up all the proprietary and expensive software I use regularly (or if the software is available on Linux, that's great). Feels like a step in a good direction. Hooray. First post in however long etc.
VincentDec 3, 2022

Has anybody in this corner of the internet had any success with the following?
macOS Ventura on M1.
- Format SD card partition to ext4.

I just can't figure it out. I don't remember it being this difficult on Intel hardware, but tried it and couldn't get it to work on that either. I realise the OS doesn't support ext* filesystems at all, so I tried to get the new dev version of Virtual Box to install both Arch and Debian, and neither work (presumably the emulation of x86 on ARM doesn't work or something), so I tried UTM which seems to do things natively - great. Got a pre-made Arch image, but the SD card is not exposed in UTM (apparently I'm not the only one trying to do this).

Now that I'm typing it out, I guess the next sensible step is to just use VirtualBox on my Intel-based mac for the purpose of using fdisk that doesn't suck (another gripe: why on earth is fdisk so different on macOS?)

Anyhoo, that resolves that I suppose. But if anybody has any suggestions, I am all eyes.

VincentNov 20, 2022
Greta ThunbergNov 20, 2022
Without any binding commitments to rapidly and immediately reduce greenhouse gases, the world stands no chance to deliver on the 1,5°C limit, and by doing so minimising risks of uprooting the life supporting systems we all depend on and endangering countless human lives.
#COP27
VincentNov 20, 2022
Alex McLeanNov 20, 2022

Live coding: a user's manual is out this week, published open access by MIT Press. I have my copy already, after many years it's real!

I just put up a placeholder website, and will upload the pdf, epub and mobi ebook files there on Tuesday, maybe making a web version. It'd be interesting if people started contributing edits, adding extra chapters etc..

https://livecodingbook.toplap.org/

Live Coding: A User's Manual

Live Coding: A User's Manual, published by MIT Press

Live Coding: A User's Manual
VincentNov 19, 2022
More progress on destroying a line from Purcell. While I'm not especially happy with how the rhythm is being worked, it is still pretty great raw material that is generative but constrained.
VincentNov 18, 2022
Finally got somewhere in a) deriving possible chord structures from the given pitch and interval class sets, and then b)messing around with some kind of silly generative rhythmic structures. I love that Lilypond can engrave a tuplet across a bar line AND line-break without breaking a sweat. #music #openmusic #lilypond
VincentNov 9, 2022
My partner made this and I love it. It now hangs on my office wall