Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn’t the point. The point was to get out and feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m going to the movies, I’m going to this show. What streaming has done – it’s very convenient, but it’s taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we’re all just being fed. We’re all farm animals that are just being fed, and we’re being fed content. You can just stay home. “Just stay home. We’ll just feed it to you.” No wonder everyone’s depressed.
Don Hertzfeldt, interview with Slate
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Reverb
Status: Built
The key to making great ambient music appears to be drenching the sound in reverb. Based on this, reverb ranked highly for effects modules that I want to build. The design I settled on is Music Thing Modulars Reverb, although I omitted the analog spring reverb circuit and simply built the digital circuit.
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Hildegard of Bingen, The Enlightened Heart
Holy Spirit,
Hildegard of Bingen, The Enlightened Heart
Giving life to all life,
Moving all creatures,
Root of all things,
Washing them clean,
Wiping out their mistakes,
Healing their wounds,
You are our true life,
Luminous, wonderful,
Awakening the heart from its ancient sleep. -
Peter Zimon
Peter Zimon is making some downright beautiful all in one analog syntheizers by combining basic designs from a number of sources. The level of polish on all his projects is astounding, the first version of his Shmoergh project lived in a Ikea flower pot and didn’t look any worse for it.
Peter ZimonZimo’s personal website
ShmøerghFucking cool electronic instruments
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Remembrance Day in Bankhead
Today I took Dima to see Banff’s ghost town: Bankhead. Through some odd coincidence, we arrived just as a Remembrance Day ceremony was starting at a nearby monument to the residents of Bankhead who lost their lives in war.
It made for a surreal experience, walking through the foundations of old buildings, in the middle of the woods, with a bugle sounding through the trees.
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Beaver Dam Flats
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Things Made Simple
Tyler Klein’s blog Things Made Simple documents Tyler’s work in creating a eurorack module based on Yahama’s YM3812 FM synthesis chip, which was a mainstay of computer soundcards in the 1990’s. Tyler also has a YouTube channel which follows his work.
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Moritz Klein’s YouTube Channel
Moritz Klein’s YouTube channel is a great source for explanations of how analog synthesizer circuits work, along with schematics and breadboard examples of the circuits in action.
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Confederation Park
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Horsethief Canyon
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