LPs check more boxes in your subconscious. There really is no need to know why (that's just too much left-brain stuff).
Go with the flow, Daddy-O!
Artificial Light & Artificial Music
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Go with the flow, Daddy-O!
bluesky
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Absolutely!!
Are you the guy who couldn't sleep until they found the jelly bean under your mattress?All I know is I can play LPs all night long, like for 5+ hours... but when it comes to CDs, a couple CDs is fine but after that my brain starts getting digitally/audially fried. Heard enough music. No fun no more.
But then I can play an LP and 'back in the groove thing'. What's up with that?
Not knocking digital, I have 1200 CDs like we all have, just saying. Now... CDs on a boombox!! I'm used to it workin in the garage. But on the living room rig - 2 CDs max and the burnout set's in. Maybe try to play a 3rd but no real interest anymoreAnd that's with AlNiCo magnets which I really think makes digital sound less stark, "FROZEN" as Bob Dylan would say.
But I like CDs too now if I play one or two only on the big rig.
Seriously?...who cares, Get a Grip!...on them puppies.
At least this one is obvious...unlike the Truth about MOFI...which knocked Michael Fremer out of the ballpark.
That was Priscilla of the Desert. No, wait, that was a movie.Are you the guy who couldn't sleep until they found the jelly bean under your mattress?
Yeah, it was some nameless Princess. And it was 20 mattresses. I think she had neuropathy in her butt or something.
That was Priscilla of the Desert. No, wait, that was a movie.
Yeah, it was some nameless Princess. And it was 20 mattresses. I think she had neuropathy in her butt or something.
Princess 'Fred'..
When I go into anyplace with fluorescent lighting my eyes blur slightly. Things are just a tad out of focus. Don't know if it's me or my glasses.
You want "artificial" music? Find yourself one of these:
It's a Triadex Muse, one of the first attempts to generate music by way of digital algorithms. Developed by two MIT professors who researched artificial intelligence in its early days, it employs a variety of digital logic circuits controlled by the long slide switches in the upper right, and chained to a DAC of some sort which feeds a simple oscillator, producing a pseudo-random sequence of beeps and boops which can take seconds or days to loop back around to the beginning depending on how said slide switches are set. Released in the early 1970s, it was intended to be used as a compositional aid, hence the name; only a few hundred were sold, and I'm lucky to have a full set, including the 'light show module' which blinks four colored light bulbs in time with the produced tones (does that make it'artificial light'?) and the amplified speaker module. Here is a photo of the set I have:
And here's a video of such a Muse set in action:
It's a Triadex Muse, one of the first attempts to generate music by way of digital algorithms. Developed by two MIT professors who researched artificial intelligence in its early days, it employs a variety of digital logic circuits controlled by the long slide switches in the upper right, and chained to a DAC of some sort which feeds a simple oscillator, producing a pseudo-random sequence of beeps and boops which can take seconds or days to loop back around to the beginning depending on how said slide switches are set. Released in the early 1970s, it was intended to be used as a compositional aid, hence the name; only a few hundred were sold, and I'm lucky to have a full set, including the 'light show module' which blinks four colored light bulbs in time with the produced tones (does that make it'artificial light'?
) and the amplified speaker module. Here is a photo of the set I have:And here's a video of such a Muse set in action:
You want "artificial" music? Find yourself one of these:
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It's a Triadex Muse, one of the first attempts to generate music by way of digital algorithms. Developed by two MIT professors who researched artificial intelligence in its early days, it employs a variety of digital logic circuits controlled by the long slide switches in the upper right, and chained to a DAC of some sort which feeds a simple oscillator, producing a pseudo-random sequence of beeps and boops which can take seconds or days to loop back around to the beginning depending on how said slide switches are set. Released in the early 1970s, it was intended to be used as a compositional aid, hence the name; only a few hundred were sold, and I'm lucky to have a full set, including the 'light show module' which blinks four colored light bulbs in time with the produced tones (does that make it'artificial light'?
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And here's a video of such a Muse set in action:
Very cool in my humble opinion! AI (or super intelligence as decreed today) has come a long way!
Movement is a major part of life. Sitting on a couch with a remote does not help with involvement, especially if you do it alone. With Vinyl, it takes a lot of arm and leg movement before a record can be put on the turntable. I think that movement of the body is an important part of relaxing in life. If playing a record helps with movement, that may be one reason why vinyl is more involving to listen to. And may mean that vinyl playing is good for the body, too.
Yeah, it's an interesting contraption, if more than a bit obtuse in its operation. Unlike a typical synthesizer, there's no way to make it play an actual song (or a pre-written composition of your own) unless you're *REALLY* lucky with the switch settings. Rather, it's supposed to supply a series of quasi-random beeps and boops meant to give you ideas for your own compositions. The light show module added an element of sight to the device, and the amplfiied speaker gave clearer output than the built-in one, but you were still limited to simple square wave sounds (some additional envelopes or other effects could've worked wonders, IMO).
Anyway, the Muse was introduced around the same time as a similar device called the "Psych-Tone", which was published as a project in the February 1971 issue of Popular Electronics magazine, and sold as a kit by a company called SWTPC as seen in their 1972 catalog. Development on the Muse had started earlier, and it was sold as fully assembled, but the price of $300 probably scared many potential buyers away (also, they supposedly limited their advertising to prestigious outlets like Playboy, though I haven't found proof of that as of yet). Even so, it did find its way into the hands of (mostly avant-garde) musicians who appreciated and understood its utility, and Muse music found its way onto certain recordings; the best example I know of is the debut album by the progressive rock supergroup U.K., where it can best be heard in the middle "By the Light of Day" section of the opening "In the Dead of Night" suite, starting around the 5:28 mark of this video:
Very interesting! Different architecture and approach, and much more refined and eloquent, but reminded me a little of Reed Ghazala's and others circuit bent instruments and apparitions. It might be artificial but I rather like experimental, random, and ambient music/noise compositions and the integration of such in more 'traditional' forms of music.