Musings on how grotesquely divided the global population is at a time when unity would make such a huge difference to our survival.
Kirke Godfrey: Original Idea, Drums, Percussion, Bass, Guitar, Keys, Arrange, Produce, Mix, Master.
James Gardner – FM wrangling, Guitar ‘Figures’.
Jeremy Mayall – Etherial Pianissimo.
Patrick Higgins – Sax(ish)
Jimmie Reid – Monologue
Dan Brownridge – Vox
Derrick C – Vox
Nathan Young – Vox
Hill Ryder – Vox
First read this by Andrew Nikiforuk:
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/07/04/Get-Ready-Forever-Plague/
Then while ya all fired up and trying to reject it:
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/07/08/Forever-Pandemic-Nikiforuk-Replies-Critics/
Remembering the first time I heard Gil Scott Herron’s ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’ and what an impression that track made on me, and looking back at the last few years, and conversations with fellow musicians it seemed reasonable to voice our discontent. I was noodling around and made a groove to try to relax one afternoon, then asked a few people to add to it expressing their views of…
Listen to the speaker claim to Cut a little deeper Same people still ain’t equal Promises they’ll be a sequel
But what’s a promise from a criminal And the righteous subliminal It’s only political
There’s gotta be a reason that it rhymes with hypocritical
The water rising, women’s rights flicker like lighting
Children in cages, militias are frightening
The lawnmower trims the blood from the grass leaves And spits out the sins for another school funeral
There’s much too much blood to get blessed
How’s a man to hydrate with all these bullets in his chest
An overhead bowling ball hanging from a string That’s the state of things
Who can marry who What should we do It ain’t nobodys business To judge or to choose Classified emails lock her up Classified documents fuggetaboutit Get wise, inflated chicken thighs Bitcoin highs, Nuclear skies, Ukranian cries
Slip another ship of oil through the embargo
An overhead bowling ball hanging from a string That’s the state of things
The revolution will not be televised, it will be livestreamed, tweeted, and viral-ized, caught crooked corporations close door underhanded lies shared and discussed On every social media platform device. a grassroots movement, demanding some improvement from a system formed against us, the disillusioned but now the will of the people will not be denied organized online plugged in and amplified The revolution will not be controlled, By those who seek to keep us from being in the know. toned down freedom of reach This is the state of things, a call to action reduced to hashtags and memes The algorithm schemes to keep some certain things unseen just keep dumbing them down with the next big thing untouchable elite dance their way out of mind with their catchy choreography and throw away lines Times up tik tok, social credit score, ready or not hope you’re up to date with acceptable thought Big tech may try to censor and suppress, But the people will find a way to express the truth.
If you’re talking from prejudice Shut your mouth
If you’re speaking without listening Shut your mouth
If you’re coming from hatred Shut your mouth
If you only got opinions Shut your mouth
If you haven’t done the research Shut your mouth
If you’re shouting over others Shhhh….
If you’re quoting out of context Shut your mouth
If you don’t have the knowledge or experience Shut your mouth
Racism!
Human Trafficing
Endemic Corruption
Alternative Truth
Science Denial
Crypto Ponzi
Toxic Positivity
Fascism
Climate Denial
Billionaires
Opiated Masses
Mindless Social Media
Sock Puppet Journalism
(wallpaper to drink to)
A noodle turned into a track¬
Bass, Gtr, Keys by Kirke Godfrey
Flugelhorn by Patrick Higgins.
Drums by “Levi’
Produced and Mixed by Kirke Godfrey
with some welcome input from Neil Aldridge and David Rolfe
The miniFREAK-V killer feature you ask?
The hardware acts as a perfect control surface for the software version so you get all the realtime hands on control of a hardware synth, but the multiple instances of a plugin.
Normally, you buy a hardware synth and have only 1 ‘Instance’ as its atoms!, but… This one…
Buy a very VERY fun poly synth with an incredible array of oscillator types, and a CRAZY useful arpeggator / sequencer, and get a software version you can use in your DAW, giving you as many ‘COPIES’ as your cpu can handle.
Levene said in 2012: “People thought I was classically trained, which was bollocks. I knew the E chord, and ventured into E minor.
In 2021, the website the Quietus described him as “one of the architects of the post-punk sound, his guitar style occupying a space between angular abrasion and pop opulence”.
Interview: Keith Levene – the founding member of The Clash and PiL talks about his new book
“This statement is issued in response to id Software Studio Director Marty Stratton’s “DOOM Eternal OST Open Letter”, published on Reddit on May 5, 2020.”
New Zealanders are known for their ingenuity and many local musicians have taken novel musical approaches to achieve international success. This creative attitude extends to local inventors and entrepreneurs, who have come up with some innovative gadgets to aid and inspire music makers in their creative process. This list attempts to capture some of the broad range of musical products that are designed, and often built, here in Aotearoa.
More than two years ago, I bought a µFreak, it is easily the most fun synth I’ve had in 30 years… but I had a few thoughts…
So, I had a conversation with the brilliant welcoming people at Arturia.
That ended up with me being quite deeply involved in the development of this absolutely superb instrument.
The Arturia miniFreak, If your a synth geek, I definitely recommend checking it out.
And the lovely Loopop seems to like it !
just more chilled noise
“Thanks. I dig this. It’s spacious and succinct at the same time, It’s got a Bill Laswell vibe a bit.”
Just very VERY poorly edited (NeedleDrop) set of moments from a 2 and a half hour improvisational session with Patrick Higgins, aka… Badrico.
We are both contributing synthetics, and percussion etc… Patrick via a wind controller and keys, (I think), im playing Bass, El guitar, µFreak and percussion and sound effects.
Mix is a mess because its a live performance and we have to manage as we go…
Just Hit Play: and trance out for 23 mins.
Or… if your a sucker for punishment, or need a longer time out…
The 90 min version, Still some bad edits…
THIS,(link) is brilliant use of Scot Rails release of its announcement audio.The samples are all HERE! https://scotrail.datasette.io/scotrail/announcements
Just to prove how great humans CAN be!
Some serious skills from Badrico, Foid, SlowGaffle and … me.
New graphic from @XTOTL & me: let's make wearing a mask as natural as popping on a seatbelt! pic.twitter.com/EydrKToPqy
— Dr Siouxsie Wiles (@SiouxsieW) July 12, 2022
So back in1989 a friend (C Giles) and i did a STEINSKY inspired track, all done on a Tascam 4 track cassette, Ensoniq, SQ80, a DX7 and an Akai S900. We created a beat track, then performed the rest in live to tape then sampled bits of the radio news reports as it was coming in live.
The way the reporter was expressing totally justifiable fear, (understandable) but also some indignation that he was not ‘TOLD’ really spoke volumes about US entitlement!
We finished the track 45 mins after the news report had ended ran off a normal cassette and walked down to the national radio station, 2JJ.
We told the on air DJ what we had done, and he playefd it (unlistend) to Australia 10 mins later. One of the best experiences of my musical production life.
THIS WAS IT:
@synth_history Legendary electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram using a sine wave oscillator, a tape recorder and some self-designed filters, basically a synthesizer of her own creation! #daphneoram #electronic #pioneer #legend #femaleproducer #legendary #history #synthhistory #electronicmusic #synth #synths #1950s #technology #producing #producer #musichistory ♬ Rotolock – Remastered 2021 – Daphne Oram
Some pretty delightful sonics from a Jedi level sonic denizen.
Some Nice work from @ashton @DeadKousin and some plinky plonks from me feels like a teen movie credit sequence.
Craig Foster has been a heroic figure in the battle to have the Australian govt called on its multitude of human rights abuses.
EV motors are basically scaled-up dentist drills. Not a whole lot of positive connotations there.
An unexpected little FONK with bananepoep
I’ve been using a couple of old mixes as test benches for LogicX’s new ATMOS PlugIn. I only have a quadraphonic setup, and obviously, most people are NOT set up in 7.1.4, so I’m rendering these out on Binaural.
First go, so pretty clunky and Not to spec, but quite interesting to play in.
(Headphones required)
Composed and performed by Trevor Richards and Kirke Godfrey.
Lyrics by Trevor Richards.
Production by Kirke Godfrey.
I’ve been using a couple of old mixes as test benches for LogicX’s new ATMOS PlugIn. I only have a quadraphonic setup, and obviously, most people are NOT set up in 7.1.4, so I’m rendering these out on Binaural.
First go, so pretty clunky and Not to spec, but quite interesting to play in.
HEADPHONES Essential.
Composed by Trevor Richards and Kirke Godfrey
Lyrics by Trevor Richards
Sung by Trevor Richards
Played by Trevor Richards and Kirke Godfrey, feedback guitar solo by Tony King.
Produced by Kirke Godfrey
Badly ATMOS mixed by Kirke Godfrey
This mix is a very hasty port from a Stereo mix…
into Binaural output of ATMOS as compared to a 5.1 or 7.1.4 etc.
Original Stereo mix is… https://www.shapednoise.com/site/archives/5857
I bought the Microfreak as a poly aftertouch controller and for its fun Arp/Sequencer. Over time Arturia just kept adding more and more features to this really rather boggling little synth.
Some great work from Ahmed and AndyMac
Back in 1987 I bought one of these.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensoniq_SQ-80
Its internal sequencer, timbral range and the fact it was 8 part multi timbral made it incredibly powerful and amazing value for money for the time.
All these years later I got to be glancingly involved in the design and testing of this recreation.
It sounds GREAT. and gave me a HUGE sense of DejaVue.
Some nice work with the wonderful ‘druid’ and ‘honey disco‘
