Bhob Rainey

Been a resident of the e6ast most of my life, and that's how we say it.

Live '25 — Saxy Bootlegs Good Title, by Bhob Rainey 3 track album

As the sun sets in the e6ast, the West still glows with Bandcamp Friday light. bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/live-2...

a question of maps, by J.Soliday 3 track album

cranksatori.bandcamp.com/album/a-ques...

crude modern analog hardware paired with a software reinterpretation of classic analog hardware filtering, modulation, and resynthesis. more raspberries than raspberries

much thanks to Martin Freeman and @mphonic.bsky.social for the hardware and software

Live '25 — Saxy Bootlegs Good Title, by Bhob Rainey 3 track album

As promised, Live '25 — Saxy Bootlegs Good Title. bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/live-2...

On Friday I'm going to release Live 25 - Saxy Bootlegs Good Title. It's a little over an hour of solo soprano sax performances from this year, recorded by audience members. Includes footfalls, chair squeaks, passing vehicles, idling vehicles, idling vehicles with sub woofers, and soprano saxophone.

YouTube video by Jonathan Moritz Bhob Rainey - The PROSPECT SERIES 🏡 House Show

From back in the summer, when I played in a crooked house.

Red Hook pinball museum. Jon Irabagon - Solo bass saxophone. Bhob Rainey - Solo soprano saxophone. Pinball 5pm. Music 7:30. $20

See ya in Red Hook on Wednesday night, NYC

Fire Walk With Me is such an incredible and devastating film, I often think it's a shame that it is nearly impossible to grok without familiarity with the TP canon, particularly in the way the film subverts it. At least that canon is also great.

There's a lot of ChatGPT in the ensuing thread. It's like there's no other way to access thought

I mean, it would be so cool to be amazed that you can type some words and get something that reminds you of recorded music in a very short period of time. It's surprising and weird! But then context steps in.

It's also kinda funny that the app inserts "neon lights" and "whispers" into lyrics so often that platforms are flagging songs with those words in them.

This probably reads as dinosaur talk to the converts, but, as I've said elsewhere about all these kinds of things, playing an instrument in a group is, at minimum, fun. Fussing with prompts at a black box that would happily burn Jupiter for a country song is, at maximum, sad.

Plus, playing an instrument in a group is, at minimum, fun. Fussing with prompts at a black box that would happily burn Jupiter for a country song is, at maximum, sad.

Right now, a bunch of people are paying Suno for the privilege of training and beta testing it until it either dies or goes fully "enterprise" pricing.

It's possible that this all fizzles out once people have made 6000 songs that no one wants to listen to. And at some point, the cost to use it this way will be staggering. Probably some piece of this gets folded into a tool that sees general adoption in a more traditional workflow.

Post from Suno Studio FB group complaining about spending 48 hours on one song and not getting the desired results.

An algorithm beat me this morning, because seeing this (from the Suno Studio FB group) got me "engaged", and it's bleak out there. I did like one guy dispensing the advice that, until you've made 6000-7000 ai songs, you don't know what separates quality from novelty.

I've recommended this show so many times, mostly to polite nods. It's probably the last show I truly loved, and, now, years later, I often find myself in laughtears remembering some bit from it.

Bored today? Go into your Bandcamp collection and write some comments in the 'what do you love about this album' boxes. Artists really, really love to hear that stuff.

Reminder that you can and should study Supercollider with me.

No Idea Festival flyer. Saturday, October 25th.

No Idea Festival Flyer. Sunday October 26th.

I'll be in Austin, TX this weekend for my sixth No Idea Festival, performing a solo saxophone piece and a commissioned 4-channel electroacoustic piece with live bass by Juan Garcia.

I am listening to an incoherent Hollywood Christian substacker talking to Tucker Carlson about Nick Land and demons and boy is context collapse real

Democrats race to embrace swearing and angry comebacks – but will it work? Democrats are abandoning their careful messaging in favor of gut-level rhetoric that’s unapologetically more profane as the party faces an authenticity problem

"My manager says I need to spice up my act. Fucking cocksucker!"

Soliciting advice on transducers for light materials, low volume-type stuff. Easy to amplify. The less soldering I have to do, the more skin I'll likely have a month from now. And, do people make these for noise folks, like contact mics, maybe with 1/4" connectors? Need to get going kinda fast 😅

The rapture so far has come for my bathroom fan and perhaps my dryer. Not what I was hoping for.

Stupidology | William Davies The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...

As usual, N+1 goes deeper. Stupidology www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Xynthii users, I've added some significant features.
Oscs:
1. You can now switch between frequency modulation and phase modulation. Alt/option click the fm text box to switch. It is quite a different sound.
2. All oscs can use all three waveforms now.

1/4

I'm glad for this post and glad I took it seriously, because Red Rooms is the shit and I probably would have missed it otherwise. In the midst of so much "creative" horror that is mostly design decorating basic themes (it's fine, I like it), this is some real cinema. Like seeing Taxi Driver in 1976

That one is definitely a meh then huh kinda read. Gravity's Rainbow is more of a holy shit / fuck off kinda read. Mason & Dixon is a this guy's good / I'm tired kinda read. Inherent Vice is a not another sucky one / actually I like it kinda read. Etc.

There was a will, there is now a way.

GitHub - mphonic/xynthii: A wicked modular synth with a matrix patchbay inspired by but not emulating the EMS Synthi A. Runs in Supercollider. The successor to 2006's Xynthi. A wicked modular synth with a matrix patchbay inspired by but not emulating the EMS Synthi A. Runs in Supercollider. The successor to 2006's Xynthi. - GitHub - mphonic/xynthii: A wicked modula...

In case you missed it, you can get xynthii here github.com/mphonic/xynt...

And there are baby steps installation instructions here youtu.be/9RdC2rJTiT4