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asciilifeform: nubbins`: unless i misunderstand, the linked device is something like a theremin (in the continuously-variable input sense, rather than mechanism per se) ?
BingoBoingo: "perfect pitch" is almost always trained.
BingoBoingo: tch is being able to surrender to hearing the wrong thing when they perform themselves and simply mapping correspindence to the right hting.
BingoBoingo: My hypothesis is that whistling and humming acquire the correct pitch by way of bang-bang correction. The delay between each “bang” your brain produces and the resulting sound is imperceptibly small, because the vocal apparatus is located so near, and the necessary muscle motions are so minute. Thus, the correct pitch seems to come out as if by magic. And yet no magic is involved. << Normally magic of musicians with perfect pi
asciilifeform: (i mostly gave up on the subject years ago)
asciilifeform: i generally don't discuss music with musical folks because 100% of the time it turns out that they are trying to accomplish something very different with their time
nubbins`: are these notes we're talking about or tones?
nubbins`: why am i trying to sell you an analogue synthesizer?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> piano keyboard is meaningless to me. despite plenty of time spent attempted. << This I experience as well.
moldysnizz: I've accepted my new identiy as the snizz
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: you and my piano teacher (also russian and similar demeanor) would have interesting dirnking convos
nubbins`: asciilifeform, then you'll love the monotribe's ribbon keyboard :D
BingoBoingo: moldysnizz: You gotta recover that keypair
asciilifeform: piano keyboard is meaningless to me. despite plenty of time spent attempted.
nubbins`: they actually released the schematics for the monotribe as well
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asciilifeform: problem is not the tone, but the input.
nubbins`: lotta fun out of the box, but also lots of neat mods hidden inside.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: as a fellow who can program, and at one point owned a 'commodore 64', i've played with just about every basic kind of synth tone
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asciilifeform: nubbins`, BingoBoingo: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=11 << old article of mine on the subject
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BingoBoingo: hanbot: Thanks.
BingoBoingo: Tuba/Euphoniums are the only solo sort of wind instrument I can play where actual sound produced overpowers bone conduction bias that would otherwise render me tone deaf
asciilifeform: perhaps it actually -is- a mirage, like the 'head programs' of folks who can't program.
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hanbot: <BingoBoingo> Damnatio Memoria sort of thing, but if someone want to dump some history I'll pull a thing together. << see the marchenko/alisie theft accusation back-and-forth here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=129722.msg1387064#msg1387064
asciilifeform: because that has nothing whatsoever to do with getting the head music out.
asciilifeform: was never, however, interested in 'learning to play instrument' in the usual sense of being human player piano
asciilifeform: did try to learn this particular thing, but never got remotely off the ground.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Prolly that too. I am lacking in that department as well. Tuba is forgiving in that regard.
decimation: asciilifeform: we are all blank slates, subject to the state's desire for learning
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nubbins`: and channeling them through various components of your choosing...
asciilifeform: actual musicians tell me that the head music is a mirage.
nubbins`: but if you like the idea of directly manipulating sound waves
nubbins`: that, there's not much helping
asciilifeform: nubbins`: can never get the physical sound to correspond to what was in head.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: at various points i've tried all kinds of 'cheats', incl. 'ear trainers' etc
nubbins`: as long as you can twist a rotary encoder, you can set notes
asciilifeform is one of those people who can easily compose in his head, incl. polyphony, but can't output
nubbins`: i might have to get him a monotron
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: After the war I might have to get you a tuba, instrument of kings
nubbins`: you actually don't need any to have fun :D
BingoBoingo: Hello toddf
BingoBoingo: !up toddf
nubbins`: like this, but with a nicer suitcase
nubbins`: alf, you seem like the kind of guy who would, in another life, have a massive modular synthesizer in your basement, patch cables and eurorack modules all over the place
nubbins`: ^ other members of the volca family have many more easter eggs hidden
asciilifeform: 'Axe-time, sword-time, shields are sundered, Wind-time, wolf-time, ere the world falls; Nor ever shall men - each other spare.'
thestringpuller: people are filling up the war chests
thestringpuller: MPOE at all time lows
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nubbins`: popped open my volca sample yesterday, was pleased to find MIDI out points clearly marked
thestringpuller: gotcha. thanks!
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Sometimes fresh qntra pieces don't have it right away, this one has it now though.
thestringpuller: not a big deal just have to scroll to see other pieces on qntra front page
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: random: is there a reason the piece doesn't do "Continued reading"?
assbot: "Bingo bongo" just wrote a stunningly beautiful pice euthanizing the new Greek Minister for Economics. It's a joy to read.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell Irdial thanks https://twitter.com/Beautyon_/status/560254739544539136
assbot: "Bingo bongo" just wrote a stunningly beautiful pice euthanizing the new Greek Minister for Economics. It's a joy to read.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell Beautyton thanks https://twitter.com/Beautyon_/status/560254739544539136
decimation: http://www.maebrussell.com/Prouty/Harry%20Truman%27s%20CIA%20article.html << President Truman was even dumber than you thought
mircea_popescu: and with that, i'll be off.
decimation: "And the consumers of intelligence say out loud “Why should I trust you on this issue when you were wrong on that one?” Weak performance in one DI area immediately calls into question all work in the CIA."
BingoBoingo: Damnatio Memoria sort of thing, but if someone want to dump some history I'll pull a thing together.
BingoBoingo: When they told me in early 2013 to not bother submitting to them I kind of exiled them on my own.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Do you have a good file on the Bitcoin Magazine drama. I'm at a loss for history on that one.
mircea_popescu saves bb qntra article for tomorrow morning
decimation: "Newcomers to the IC may not realize that the CIA presence in the Oval Office during the George W. Bush administration was the exception, not the rule."
mircea_popescu: lol "i advise people to learn html, becausre that's a language and it worked for me. wut ?"
BingoBoingo: The thing that sold me on WC as a fraud is that and actual master carver would focus on edges instead of relief making the BfL dildo feathered and much more painful.
nubbins`: did someone put LSD in the water?
nubbins`: heh now people are asking TECSHARE for screenshots of his PMs
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nubbins`: and this one... http://imgur.com/88qiKWs
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nubbins`: and this one
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer ... ( http://bit.ly/15H8ov4 )
nubbins`: strangely, he passed this one by: http://imgur.com/5v5jUqI
nubbins`: about halfway down the page there are some pretty funny pictures of me
BingoBoingo: Wait, Techshare is a waterboy?
nubbins`: scroll down to where people start making connections between TECSHARE and WoodCollector via domain whois
nubbins`: this is one of the only ones still unlocked
BingoBoingo: Still the wood condomer
punkman: the one thing he wrote on valve blog is about tf2 hats http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/author/yanis/
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punkman: ;;google tf2 hat economy
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mod6: one of these times, I gotta get mutt back going again
mod6 works on that
asciilifeform: and am i the only one who actually checks sigs ☟︎
asciilifeform: can we put an end to the mutilations.
mod6: if you could be so kind... just change the text to that and see if it verifies.
mod6: and then the turdalator changed it
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asciilifeform: so turdatron never really worked.
mod6: i bet that the damn translation of my email address did it
nubbins`: i disconnect often enough that authing isn't really a priority
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