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"Starbucks казённого вида".
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Secret Project
Download: MicroEP.zip,
96/24 FLAC, 64708608 bytes.
1. Entry Tunnel (2:09)
2. Antigravity Mine (0:43)
3. Docking Platform (1:29)
4. Blackspace (1:02)
Sequencer: Reaper.
Instruments: DSK Odisea,
Martin Best's Transcender,
DSK Mini Drumz,
Arturia Moog Mini V.
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Two short pieces for a Descent level.
Ambient effect for a robot.
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Advminehum.flac, 96/24.
You never know with the bees.
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Negativity is something that can be nasty when it's in place of the positive, the visible.
Here an amount of notes about negativity is necessary.
This illustrates the notion:
the negative part of cycle (bottom) is never played, but it is necessary as a rest and withdrawal. Otherwise the full cycle is mangled and suffers from foldover distortion.
The negative may not be very noticeable to many people. As in the example above, the negative does not manifest itself.
Just the same in life - a half-cycle of activity requires a half-cycle of rest. The active creates, the passive receives and becomes.
The trouble comes when the negative half-cycle is skipped. The "negative" can be automatically treated as "hurtful" and "exhausting" because of the social expectations of expressiveness. Basically just that habit of everyone telling everyone how they are, what they're doing, etc. etc. Releasing their being in words. Which automatically breaks restfulness, becoming. Telling what one is processing releases what one is processing, emptying one's being, denying rest, denying modesty (settling down of knowledge acquired).
When the negative half-cycle's missing, restlessness (and the amount of data to be processed) accumulates, locking in what's called stress. Finally the burnout comes, which is just the collapse into constant rest and gradual coming to peace with acquired knowledge.
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- сведение из 60 дорожек, выложенных Аквариумом на Кругах. Никакой обработки, просто сведение в 96 KHz.
Blow.ogg, 96 KHz, quality 9, no bandpassing, 21 703 813 bytes.
Blow.flac, 96 KHz, 24-bit, 113 530 188 bytes.
Инструментальное сведение:
Blow-I.ogg, 96 KHz, quality 9, no bandpassing, 21 470 816 bytes.
Blow-I.flac, 96 KHz, 24-bit, 111 827 528 bytes.
Исходник.
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Clue to text file corruption in transfers between Windows/Unix...
"Resuming ASCII files can cause problems if server uses different line ending format than the client."
Problems like breaking PHP scripts...
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The harshest part of CD audio is above 11025 Hz.
Which is why the other set of speakers here, the Kenwood "woody" bookshelf speakers, are equalised to Diffuse Field - with little output above 12 KHz. CDs do sound warmer and softer through those speakers (though there is less detail than with the Roland speakers).
As the desk setup is, well, the desk setup, speakers emit [harsh] high frequencies "right in the face".
So here's a little fix...
Foobar2000 with George Yohng's VST Wrapper. The VST plugins are Togu Audio Line MFilter and RNDigital Inspector, chained through Acon Effectchainer. All plugins are free software.
MFilter's set to cut at roughly 12 KHz, with a slight resonance. The Kenwood speakers also do some "warmish" EQ in the low frequencies, and have a "kick" bass hump below 100 Hz, but that's a matter of taste. That can be added with any free EQ plugin listed at KVR Audio.
All of the filtering is over 96-KHz-resampled CD audio, resampling done by Secret Rabbit Code.
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The high-resolution collection is building up slowly, though for now there are mostly old records.
High-res editions are sourced from original mix master tapes. Which have details that vinyl record or CD masters miss. CDs often have simplified, coarser mixes with delicate parts boosted. Delicate parts which have to be low-volume, and gentle, but which get blurry and hollow in CD audio.
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Our Soulsick Bards
regular page version
(as it ought to be, with background animation).
Plush bolts of the "Wish
You Were Here" introduction floated from within that haze of VCS pads.
Darkness, soft, velvet darkness is what there is, what's the source for music.
Metallic "noodling" at about 7:40, sparks of steely lightnings.
There's a bit of overload and saturation, probably due to the tape transfer botched up by an
American engineer.
"You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze.
...target for faraway laughter...
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon...
...Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light..."
[cue in machines & birds]
Music for accountants. Slow, viscous.
"Where have you been?
It's all right, we know where you've been."
Account for the errors, for the slow blackness dissolved with electric light.
And the grey days.
And the grey textiles. And dark blue and yellow and black textures.
Yellow shoes. Brown shoes. Black shiny shoes.
Ties.
Trains.
Trams.
Traces, tracts.
Cracks in the texture of music.
The road that spins nowhere.
Spindown of the machine.
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Well gee.
| Your Animal is the Bee |  You are a very social and cooperative person. You thrive in a crowd.
You are charismatic and engaging. You are good at organizing and leading a group.
You are a spontaneous, busy person. You love leading an active life.
You find that communication comes naturally to you. You are are able to express yourself without frustration. |
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A thousand years ago, the Roman Catholic church proclaimed that God (and therefore the world) can be known (and understood) through reason and reason alone. This was one of the causes of the schism between the Roman Catholic & Byzantine Orthodox church. In union with apostle St. John, the Orthodox church had faith in God being understandable through non-rational, non-reasonable means - love, intuition, art, meditation, perception.
The great perversion of the European civilisation is the replacement of perception with judgment, wisdom with reason.
That's about it really. The source of madness and suffering is reason before or without wisdom, instead of reason following wisdom.
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Nothing puts an idiot smile on one's face as effectively as Moog Mini V.
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25th May, 2009 @ 06:07
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A dialogue, ideally, is just two monologues.
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Not the best mix, but here it is.
23rd May, 2009 @ 18:17
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Buddhism is a hint.
23rd May, 2009 @ 03:11
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An old note from another blog.
So Enya's new album is finally out.
And it's mellower and more sentimental than anything she's released previously.
The album's been mastered to fit into the 0-dB margin (which is a necessary measure to preserve warmth in CD audio - there aren't enough coordinates to describe harmonics otherwise, precision loss becomes more noticeable), so it sounds warmer and with some more detail as well. Unfortunately, dynamics had been squashed in places and that also causes a slight "drill" on perception. The problem is, this is caused by necessity - either everything stays within the -24 range or it gets colder and hollower as dynamics become more delicate. So the mastering and/or sound engineer's decision was to "square" some dynamics but retain some of the warmth.
Track 7, "Last Time By Moonlight" gain-clipped on playback. That was nasty, and a first for an Enya album.
( Full entry... )
22nd May, 2009 @ 22:30
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Kazimier Malevich's painting.
Which really isn't a square. And isn't black either.
16th May, 2009 @ 04:35
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PIDGINLANG="language".
There, this also enables a custom locale, with something like POEdit.
13th May, 2009 @ 18:08
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Osho Zen tradition refers to the social ways, the ways of the ancestors, to be rejected and not repeated mindlessly.
In Chinese tradition, the spoil of the ancients has to be worked on.
Both refer to the same - the spoil, the outdated ways, no longer can be, but the spoil requires respect. Otherwise it shall be ignored and will haunt (as it is familiar to many Europeans). Otherwise it will trap a portion of energy just in fixation.
6th May, 2009 @ 14:22
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O, the dead-still seriousness! That spoil of the unholy Roman church!
No doubt you've been in doubt as to what the exact spoil of Vatican is. No doubt there was some bumbling in the past.
First, what is "unholy". Quite simply, that means "un-whole", missing parts. The effect of unholiness, in the words of a poet: "fragments of fragments" (The Who, "Endless Wire").
( All of it... )
5th May, 2009 @ 21:56
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Dmitryi Titov - Music of the Wind/Дмитрий Титов - Музыка ветра
4th May, 2009 @ 03:27
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It was a hard day's blight
It was a ticket to the fright
2nd May, 2009 @ 01:03
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