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Oil painting of a house with bay windows, wobbly and lively and vibrant

Electric green inflected vaguely holographic looking pained Minotaur ink and pastel drawing

A grasshopper, multi hued and with in and pastel textures yellows, reds, blues

An oil pastel drawing of a strange house with prominent pinks and warm browns. Scribbly but solid and striking

Hi, Chloe here, these aren’t newly added but they’re artworks that are still available. Sales have slowed. Just thought I’d mention these as people seemed to like them. Reposts are much appreciated as ever.

www.chloecumming.com

YouTube video by depthbuffer Halcyon Days - live Eurorack + SP404 music

how do i love thee?
let me count the ways
let's live forever in these
halcyon days

#eurorack #sp404mk2 #modular #synth #music #jamming

The compressor is sitting atop the shed's heater, for extra analogue warmth

"Analogue mastering". Run the recording through a combo exciter & stereo widener (Minsk to Stereo Dipole acting as saturated bandpass, adding some additional, moving mid-high harmonics, mixed with the dry signal), through an FNR RNC1773, recorded with a digital limiter shaving that last peak dB.

A home studio setup including two 6U 104HP cases full of Eurorack modules; a three-tier wooden stand housing a half-constructed Erica Synths/MKI DIY edu synth, a Moog Werkstatt-01, and a Korg SQ-1 sequencer; a Keystep Pro, a Behringer Solina, and a Behringer Model D.

Two Tiptop Mantis 6U 104HP cases full of modules. The layout is baffling, with the master clock on the left as is tradition, but external audio input/output also mostly on the left, except for the conspicuous six-channel mixer in the top right, as far away from any output as it can get. There is no rhyme or reason to the positioning of the rest of the modules, with oscillators, filters, effects, envelopes, VCAs, and other utilities sprinkled around seemingly at random. Spoiler: the main driver of this layout was purchase order.

Now there's a sight I haven't seen in far too long - everything's unpatched! Yes, this means I finally recorded the piece.

Yes, my rack layout sucks.

Yes, having it all on such a low table with two of the synths underneath is really bad for my back.

I kind of forgot my actual point there. It's not meant to be about comparing artforms, my poorly-expressed intent is just to remind you to feel proud of yourself.

... relative to the rewards... The idea of ever profiting from it is just an absolute pipe dream, and it's absolutely saturated as a market. Those not doing it for their own enrichment usually quit when they realise that.

As for not feeling like a real artist - you absolutely are, no question!

Music as a "serious hobby" is brutal. I've had people buy my music; one stranger (as in, not a biased friend/family) said they hope one of my albums becomes a cult classic. But the amounts of time and money required...

It's beautiful. If my walls weren't already so full and I hadn't already bought from you so recently, I'd be eyeing this one.

A poster for Alpha Chrome Yayo's DREAM CHASER listening party on Thursday 13th February. It is black with green text and typical rave imagery. The text reads as follows: Alpha Chrome Yayo. Dream Chaser. Eurobeat! Hot jazz! PSX vibes! Free your mind. Release yourself from the pressures of the modern human condition for a night of unbridled exuberance. Listening Party. February 13. Bandcamp."

Hell yeah there's a listening party for my new album on Thursday 💥

Hell YEAH I couldn't resist doing a raved out Y2K-ass poster for it 💥

RSVP and get timezone info below - we're gonna have a blast

💖 alphachromeyayo.bandcamp.com/album/dream-... 💖

Let's see if sleeping on it helps reinforce the practice at all, and if I can claim an evening this week

Well, no recording this weekend. I do have the piece dialled in, for better or for worse (it has its moments but is not going to be a masterpiece), but ran through phone battery attempting to record a clean take, then realised it's 1 AM and I have work today (and wife & baby coming home)

🎵
now this is a story
all about how
my life got flipped
turned upside down
i'd like to take a minute
so just sit right there-e-a

would you like to meet hot singles in your area?
🎵

OK, so imagine this, but like... better mixed and without so many timing errors. Not what I was intending to record but I think I'm on to something worth revisiting later

My favorite thing about Bluesky is that it has recaptured the old social media experience of:

"I made a cool thing!"

"I like your cool thing! I also make a thing."

"Thank you. Your thing is also very nice! Someday I may try to make that thing."

If anyone with a dance mat for PC fancies testing this out, gimme a shout and I'll hook you up! 💖

Just minus the talent, unfortunately

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Consonant. Consonant shapes.

Bigger than Bonnie and Clyde, by Depthbuffer from the album Double Super Double

I used one all over this, and had a sore throat for weeks. Still one of my favourite pieces though.
depthbuffer.bandcamp.com/track/bigger...

A talkbox, for those not in the know, is a magical guitar pedal that consists of an amplified speaker in a box, and hole in the top for a rubber tube, out of which the sound comes. You put that tube in your mouth, form vowel & constant shapes (only the shapes), sibilants, and plosives whilst playing

But know that I'm using this particular synth, and playing it on its built in buttons, because I *technically* have enough patch cables and mix inputs to have it wired up at the same time as the rest of the piece. So it COULD be a one-take live piece, but I'm choosing sanity over choking myself.

OK FINE I'M CHEATING

Recording the two layers of talkbox vocal loop onto my SP404 ahead of the rest of the jam, because juggling a microphone, rubber tubing around my neck, and a "keyboard" made of microswitch buttons is just too much at the same time as everything else.

I recently spent far too much money on a new PS2 connection box for my old metal dance mat, because after pulling it out of storage I realised I only had the mat, not its dongle (it ends in a 15 pin d-sub connector, of no use to man nor beast alone). Don't make me buy the PC one as well

Since it doesn't seem to have posted the alt text: "A middle-aged nerd jamming on his overpriced musical train set, with analogue percussion, weird warbly noise layer, gapped & phased string machine, and too much reverb."

That moment when you're mid jam and come up with something better than what you were planning and you're like DAMNIT BRAIN STOP SABOTAGING ME

Haha YES it works! 😍

My new album is suuuuuper influenced by DDR so screw it, gonna include the files so people can play a track from it in Stepmania (which is free)

This is a rough test, I'll have it properly cooked soon 💖

I'm lurking in the "synthesisers yo" discord (and Benn Jordan's one, Absynth, and a few others) and saw the call for submissions for a winter album... But my own nine month old similarly takes priority over what is, ultimately, a hobby. I do want to contribute to these things sporadically though.

Just buying some nice unsold original arts

ba dum tsss