Short hypnotic ambient techno for the winter days. I'm discovering more ways to manipulate tracks in this mix and had a lot of fun playing with FX. Hope you enjoy.
Cover art is from my coded visualization of this mix using Hydra, video will be uploaded soon!
Short hypnotic ambient techno for the winter days. I'm discovering more ways to manipulate tracks in this mix and had a lot of fun playing with FX. Hope you enjoy. Cover art is from my coded visuali
When I first started live coding music almost 20 years ago now, people kept telling me that the process of making music wasn't the important part - it was the music itself.
I disagreed.
Now AI can generate incredible music, people are now shouting at the top of their voice that it's not fair - and that AI music should be banned/etc.
So now it's not just about the music itself? The process does matter?
To me, music has always been about the process of authentic expression from human to human.
Random thoughts about “work life balance”. Isn’t the whole concept of work life balance invented to justify the fact that we are working for causes that we don’t care about? When I say I enjoy the separation of work and life, what I really enjoy is the “life” part, the part where I don’t have to think or care about work because my “life” is more important. The work life balance keeps me in my place, it breeds laziness and content. No amount of balance will make me excited for my job if I think life is more important. When the culture creates this illusion of comfort in work life balance, workers are like the boiling frogs in tepid water. Can I really be comfortable knowing that this could be a tactic to reinforce content?
The land cultivates and nurtures, but we possesses no land ethic to sustain the biota we are a member species of. Our relationship with the earth is not one of respect anymore, it’s now one of exploitation for economic values. When the earth responds with fires, earthquakes, and storms, the popular rhetoric paints the earth as scary and ugly, “punishing” us because of the horrible acts we enacted. However, the earth simply is benevolent. Regardless of how the habitats behave, the earth encompasses and adapts. The so-called natural disasters are only so because these events do not fit our ideals. We desire a safe environment, sometimes even manufacture it to fulfill the ambition for it to be temperate and aesthetic. The selfish desire for the earth to fit our ideals and the dissonance between reality and such greed created an illusion of fear. I want to call for a reframing of this narrative because fear is never the best motivator. We need a reform on how we engage with the environment to have reverence for the land and its constituents and not use them as means to an end.
As I stood on the sand bed and floated amongst the waves in Phu Quoc , part of me surrenders to the ocean, part of me becomes the ocean. The part that burns and freezes and shakes also burns and freezes and shakes me. I am called to double down on my responsibilities, to carry the land ethic through and through.
samaaron