Last night was a blast.
Reverend Matt’s Monster Science presented the lecture “Raining Cats and Manticores: Late Night Monster Science”— exploring cats in prehistory, cryptozoology, mythology, and fiction.
Sam Landman opened with the inauguration of his new "Rockucation Series", unearthing the secret history of Prince's "Computer Blue" (extended remix, of course).
All in all, one of the more satisfying evenings of entertainment in recent memory.
An in-progress piece of original music that I think is coming along well. Revisions will include more drum fills, plus more dramatic strings toward the end.
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Playing around with some varied synth voices on a new project. The recipe cards that come with the Arturia Microbrute-- those perforated orange sheets behind the keyboard in one of the images (you put them over the console, and they’re marked up to direct knob-twiddling for the creation of certain timbres)-- allow for templates I can tweak for further editing of unique voices. Pretty cool. I’ve also looked up some patches on mbpatches.com, and originally I was noting each URL I cribbed from for recall, but I wound up tweaking them all so much that eventually I didn’t even bother with that. Instead, the photo documentation of knob settings (plus post-it note to remind me of modulation actions) in the other image depicts the high-tech method I’m using in case I ever have to recall any of those. And of course, none of this is just an excuse to mess around with my synth. No siree Bob. Not a chance.
