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i think the best way to use LLMs is this: don't type into the AI chatbot's input field. instead, write a description of the problem in a text file. work through the specifics of what you want to accomplish, and how you'd go about doing it. once you've got a few hundred words of ideas and planning, you can go back to the empty, unused AI tab and close it. then begin doing the work yourself. consider sending your notes to friends or experts. when you're done, remember to thank them for their help!

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I don't know what this would look like or if it is something I want, but I think @friendsofccmusic needs a scope it can actually deliver on. Most of us are in the fediverse. What if we made the fediverse-ccmusic marriage our thing?

Part of the problem with this is what does that mean for something like @ryno chatroom? Certainly that means a PeerTube first situation though I have never gotten live streaming to work on PeerTube. Perhaps that just means owning an instance.

As always, plz boost

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in reply to Doug Whitfield [Minneapolis]

so, I guess another we could do is host a ccmusic-specific Mastodon server. I think this could possibly have legs. @wjmaggos @Cheesetruck @bsots @tmray thoughts on the thread?

This would mean a full embrace of bandwagon.fm/ & whatever tools are connected to the #fediverse. I haven't paid a lot of attention to those tools because I haven't thought they played a huge role for #FCCM, but they could!

As always, please boost.

#ccmusic #netlabels #netlabel #netnativemusic #music

in reply to Doug Whitfield [Minneapolis]

not sure if running a #bandwagon instance would make sense. again, don't know a lot about the tool.

If though, we had a tool that could easily function with multiple bands, we'd essentially be a #netlabel.

in reply to Tom Ray

@tmray we've had a website for a year and a half... friendsofccmusic.org/
in reply to Doug Whitfield [Minneapolis]

@Cheesetruck @bsots @tmray
maybe the best thing we can do is try to join and help NHAM. they are not focused on #ccmusic specifically but otherwise seem to be doing everything else in the right way.

nham.co.uk/category/z/communit…





Praxis Dynamic: HELL-O 7 ELEVEN WAS AN INSIDE JOB


"Dance music for disturbed people that borders on thought crime and hate speech"

not entirely sure what to make of such a comment, but the person was adamant to make clear that they were very much into what they heard.

hearthis.at/praxisdynamic/hell…
recorded live May 30 & July 11 2023

#Music #PraxisDynamic #Live #Denver #Electronic #Rock #Dance #Industrial #Noise #ArtHarder



Bass Music For The People


Much work has been behind closed doors; non-accessible to the public.
Only a small amount of recordings of new material given out privately to friends.
First quarter of the 23 year now over, something fresh and public from A23P while other work continues more privately (for now).

2 live recordings from 2 different sets over the just past weekend:
1. Live Bass & Drum Sustained '23
hearthis.at/a23p/bassdrum23/

2. HALBORN KILALLISTE
*only for the brave & strong*
mixcloud.com/A23P/halborn-kila…

#A23P #Music #Denver #ElectronicMusic #LiveRemixing #AcidAllstars #LiquidSky #ChurchOfSpace #Dance #Jazz #Rock #Industrial #HipHop #Soul #Metal #Jungle #Techno #Acid #Experimental #BeExcellentToEachOther

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in reply to Alien (A23P)

lot of live slicing, dicing, expanding, smashing, filtering, distorting, signal reordering, restructuring, and otherwise abusing source materials into new forms



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Automattic, the company behind WordPress is now the official author of the ActivityPub plugin. This is pretty big news, since it allows every WordPress website to be a potential fediverse server.

In this piece I take a look at the potential impact on #fediverse culture, zooming in on how tagging your WordPress posts makes them show up when you search for a specific hashtag here on the fediverse.

How do you think this will change the fediverse?

@fediversenews
Read at: fediversereport.com/wordpress-…

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in reply to Connected Places

The big impact is going to be that WP will now have a great built in comments system.
in reply to Connected Places

currenly only 2000+ active installations ... Citing #AcDc "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)" 😭 @fediversenews


The Audacity Of Wasted Hope And Talent......



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#MusicProduction

There are 20+ known
#AudioSynthesis types. The most popular being:

#Subtractive
#FM
#Wavetable

Combined with #Sampling, #modulating, #Layering, & #FX, these audio engines cover the majority of sound generation from the majority of #Synthesizer #Plugins created.

Unless a #synth provides a special character, there is no point in having more than a couple of synths.

#OpenSource has most everything you need.

Don’t collect synths for #patches, learn the tools you have.

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in reply to Alien (A23P)

It is not that difficult to shut down a server. So being decentralized (no servers) is a lot more reliable and resilient in that regards.
in reply to Tio

It still depends on exactly how it's decentralised. Briar is currently very unreliable since both sender and recipient need to be online simultaneously, meaning messages can go undelivered if both parties have limited connections.
in reply to Mark

Sure, but if you have no internet connection then you can't reach a server either :P. And nowadays most people have an internet connection (talking about the "developed" tribes). More to that, you can implement something that allows you to send that message to anyone in the node, encrypted, and then when your friend is online, they will receive it. Making it as reliable as any server, considering the network is decently big, at least a few thousand users.
in reply to Mark

> Briar is currently very unreliable since both sender and recipient need to be online simultaneously

In order to solve this problem you need propagation nodes in the network, that way you can send your message and then go offline, these propagation nodes will store your message and send it to the recipient when they come online. A new project that does this is github.com/markqvist/sideband

@tio @alien23



Voice card specs:

Single oscillator with saw, triangle and pulse output
Multiple VCAs to blend between different input signals, a main VCA for the envelope and a panning VCA for stereo output
An additional external input that can be mixed in, eg. a noise signal
One envelope generator for the VCA. It can modulate filter frequency and resonance, also with an inverted signal
A pole-mixing multimode filter with 8 filter responses:
4P LP
2P LP
4P HP
2P HP
4P BP
2P BP
3P AP + 1P LP
4P N
There are multiple options two switch and blend between different signals and filter responses
PWM, FM and synchronization inputs

tindie.com/products/27330/




Had been aware of Ninjam, which found to work "o.k.", but a bit to involved for getting ones own private session up and running and while the "relative time" adherence to clock it calls for is workable, it's still nothing like free/real time.
ninjam.com/

Found Jamulus to be fairly straight forward and simple enough for what it was, but a bit more difficult to incorporate into a DAW and called for a bit of a more strict adherence to sample and bit rates.
sourceforge.net/projects/llcon…

Just came across Sonobus. Looks VERY promising, though haven't yet fiddled with it yet.
sonobus.net/

"Seems" to really work out both DAW integration and flexible audio rate standards. Anyone had any experience jam/recording with it?

#Music #Sonobus #Jamulus #LongDistance #Jamming #Recording #Music #Production #DAW #Plugins #OpenSource #OSS




Hello.... goodbye (also, could use some migration assistance)


As the Federated Network Association is dissolving
Working on migrating my friendica.feneas.org/profile/alien23 account to:
social.trom.tf/profile/alien23

like wise, less some angel swoop into save the day, seems the first and original Diaspora pod (joindiaspora.com) will also be going down and with it my original Diaspora account.

From what I've noticed, when migrating a Friendica account, photos, saved searches, and saved folders get lost. Does anyone know if there is a way to effectively port over saved folders? (tedious as it is, figure settling on manually migrating the rest)

Also, regarding Diaspora migrations, does anyone know if account migration was ever completed, and if so, what all is included in the migration?

#Friendica #Diaspora #Federation #AccountMigration

in reply to Alien (A23P)

The migration "underwhelmingly" worked for me....
Didn't have to re-do the written profile, contacts ported over, and then just about everything else was lost. Posts, saved comments, saved folders, images.....
"Migration" basically just helped speed up re-adding contacts and filling out the written aspects of the profile page.....so while something certainly worked, the vast majority of the account history was lost.