60 second MUSIC+COMIC on the 2 versions of O What A Waste I did. HARD ROCK and SynthPOP Remix interwoven for 60 seconds. Japanese & English lyrics. Replaced Guitars and Drums with Synth/Techno instruments in the remix, based on the original Reaper Project.
Our original HARD ROCK VERSION and SynthPOP remix done 2 years later:
I like the result. Maybe I should do a single song combing those different sounds.
I also think even shorter tracks do better with the algorithms. Read anything longer than 18 seconds is too long on TikTok. Things like the Openings to TV shows like BONES and NCIS are 30seconds, and the theme music is written, so there is an ending at 30seconds, but the track actually continues. I did try that many years ago, but that was before shorts existed. Maybe have an ending at 18seconds, but continue.
I have thought back about all kinds of things since retiring, and yes, so much common advice I now see as inappropriate. Much is just wrong for me. What schools are focused on, the emphasis of being outgoing, eager to debate, pushing some types of activities over others.
When I was in school in the 70s, having a dark tan "was cool". I just burnt so was always pale, so uncool. But many of those cool kids have Melanoma of some kind now. Melanoma and skin like a crocodile isn't cool.
Then yesterday YouTube showed me a recent Miranda Hart video that goes on about some of the same things she has written a book on. Miranda Hart on being an introvert, medical gaslighting, body image
Miranda Hart thinks part of her problems stemmed from that common wrong advice. Being an introvert and being told you must be outgoing has an impact on your health and well being.
There is a spectrum between Extroverts and Introverts. And much of the advice comes from the Extroverts that is just completely wrong for others. I’m not talking about the Myers-Briggs Personality Type rubbish. That is the worst pseudoscience with the validity of Astrology & Tarot Cards.
The same type of thing came up with much MEDIA angst during COVID shutdowns around the world how that was just so bad for everyone's mental health. What those stories should have been is the shutdowns were bad for the mental health of Office Space Landlords and Extroverts (who relay on the energy of others). The rest of us didn’t have a problem at all.
I didn't have a problem at all. Japan didn't have real shut downs, but I didn't mind staying home at all.
I look back and see a school subject I did, Commerce as just being propaganda. It didn't teach Financial Literacy or the way the financial system actually worked at all. Much of school seems it was just a child minding service..
I am sure I would have had a better, more productive time at School without all the bad advice thrown around.
Other Things
Of to Central Kyoto today to visit the 400 Years of Western Art Exhibit with an ex Roland colleague, then lunch (I expect).
I use so few of the tools in the applications I have. Why CorelDraw v12 is still perfectly fine for me. I think I take pride in just using the simplest tools.
I have used the Reaper DAW to make my music for many years too, and don’t use many of it’s features either. But I have thought more than a few times I wish it had MIX snapshots, so that when I went to do an overdub, it would disables all the effects and tracks not needed to improve latency and give me the track mix I need, then go back to a snapshot with the normal mix setup after finishing. Doing it manually gets tedious.
Found out this week it can do that, but it is in the SWS/S&M EXTENSION plug in. So I have gotten that and while I was at it, I also installed the ReaPack: Package manager as well. I had been using ReEQ from that for ages, but getting the latest version and other useful things couldn’t hurt.
I don’t have to use all the tools in these extensions. But I see SWS/S&M EXTENSION has a GROOVE QUANTIZE and that is something I loved back using the MIDI Sequencer MicroLOGIC.
Only in the last year or so am I now okay with the way my mixes sound on a Smartphone speaker in mono. I have changed my guitar tone and main synth sounds, but I think is is partly to do with the way
masterdesk changes the stereo width and mix. Along with that I have changed the PAN law in Reaper away from the default 0dB, which didn't help with mono compatibility either.
In investigating the disappearance of an 11 year old boy in a remote Kyoto mountain village over the last 3 weeks, the police used the step fathers phone location tracking data and found the boys back pack, a few days later his shoes, and a few days later again, his body, over a few kilometers of the mountain around his remote home & school.
No one saw the boy at school the day he was reported he went missing. The step father's initial story, that he dropped the boy off at school by car rather than him taking the bus like he always did, didn't fool the police. It was only after the body had been found left face up on the ground, and identified that he confessed, it seems.
That is a good use of the tracking data, rather than just targeted advertising, but I am sure it was an un-intentional side effect, and not planned by Apple or Google that way!
On Android this is the Timeline feature, and you can see where you have been in Google maps with the correct settings. I have just seen that I have all that tracking and storing stuff turned off on my own phone.
The Banality In Social Media has no limits. Saw this post and see it has 10K likes and been retweeted 332 times. The top buns are intentionally set a little to one side.
So designed to catching the OCD flipping out about buns not being straight in a marketing photograph?
And not even mentioning anything the Orange Felon did this week that is now dramatically impacting all of us in the rest of the world due to oil issues...
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