Andrew Hannum

gonna be honest, I'm having trouble not buying another one, as a backup in case the first ever goes bust. it is simultaneously somehow both the best and cheapest MIDI guitar controller I've ever used... and they don't manufacture it anymore.

YouTube video by Andrew Hannum Improvisation n°2 (Django Reinhardt) - Fender Mustang Pro MIDI (Rock Band controller)

this is the Fender Mustang Pro (a game controller for Rock Band 3) using its MIDI output and a custom firmware I've made for extra features

it's my favorite new music toy in recent years.

playing Improvisation No. 2 by Django Reinhardt

#django #jazz #synthsky #guitar

youtu.be/I7Z3aogxemg

see it's the opposite that I'm confused about. how do you follow so many people?! I have trouble keeping up with the twenty something I follow... what does your feed even look like?

sometime in the next couple weeks I'll try to make a demo video. it's absolutely my favorite music toy purchase in years.

do you remember the Guitar Hero / Rock Band games? this is the "Rock Band Fender Mustang Pro" controller. it's a controller for the game but the team who designed it decided to also make it fully functional MIDI controller. you can even plug in expression and sustain pedals. $80 on amazon right now

I see your red Fender toy, and raise you another red Fender toy but this one also works as a MIDI controller somehow

Watch on YouTube Days of Wine and Roses - a computer-generated chord-melody etude w/ tabs

#jazzguitar #algorithmiccomposition #musiciansky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3h_yQOM_Jg

"We’re social creatures, we sense what we should become to get ahead, and then we become it, all without involving fickle rationality. Can that be right?"

https://dynomight.net/taste-games/

count me in

cosmos ☄️
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see you space cowboy
#trumpet #cowboybebop #theseatbelts #musiciansky

"An explanation without including the explainer is as a tree without the trunk. One is inseparable from the other. No system of knowledge can avoid this limitation."

fifth:science (Exurb1a) #booksky

"Strange to think that each true life was only a few years long—that one passed through several in each bodily span. He said, “God is great. We will never meet again.”"

The Years of Rice and Salt (Kim Stanley Robinson) #booksky

"One of (if not the) most valuable skills in life is being able to choose that you're going to consider an arbitrary thing fun."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39326389

Watch on YouTube Pirates (Caravan Palace) - Solo Transcription (w/ tabs)

pirates 🏴‍☠️ <|°_°|>
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#caravanpalace #electroswing #gypsyjazz #musiciansky #guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p72dhHbt7A

oh wait I see it now it's a razor 😆

seconded -- what is that copper thing??

"“Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it.”

“How?” said Jim. “Love yourself,” said Helmholtz, “and make your instrument sing about it.”"

Welcome to the Monkey House (Kurt Vonnegut, Gregory D. Sumner) #booksky

cooley's reel ☘️
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#irish #irishmusic #tinwhistle #musiciansky

"People who cannot comfortably notice what is going on inside become vulnerable to respond to any sensory shift either by shutting down or by going into a panic—they develop a fear of fear itself."

The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk MD) #booksky

Watch on YouTube Star Scat (Caravan Palace) - Solo Transcription w/ tabs

star scat 🌟 <|°_°|>
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#caravanpalace #gypsyjazz #musiciansky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVjOY7FcGww

"Sober world is abstraction, LSD world is abstraction, DMT world is abstraction. The only thing that differentiates those states is how related they are to sensory inputs from the environment."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/18ixijv/psychedelics_do_not_cause_hallucinations_but/

aha indeed! good ear :)

"The universe assigned the tasks of speaking and kissing to the lips because there is never a need to do both at the same time."

Spaceman of Bohemia (Kalfar, Jaroslav) #booksky

"If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial."

https://paulgraham.com/words.html

finger twister
#ukulele #musiciansky

Can you elaborate? Are you saying that if we were in a simulation then the harmonic series would be more consonant?

eqd night wire 🌃
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#guitarpedals #musiciansky

"“But one day you will find out how good it is to have someone who chooses to come when you call.”"

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (McKillip, Patricia A.) #booksky

"You aren’t famous. Anything you do or create will probably receive little to no attention, so stop optimizing for a non-existent audience and instead focus on what makes you enjoy the activity."

https://ajkprojects.com/stopactinglikeyourefamous

bebop... or cowboy bebop? 👨‍🚀
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#jazzguitar #cowboybebop #theseatbelts #gypsyjazz #musiciansky