stephen! (disambiguation) @makingarecord@friend.camp

Hi! I'm Stephen. I have over a decade of experience in criminal justice, civil legal aid, government service delivery, and the role of data/technology in all of that. I've done litigation, research, tech projects, and organizing. Always trying to get better at all of it.

I also sometimes make music, go on hikes, go birdwatching, and hang out with my cat. I think that's basically it! #introductions #intro

Twice, actually. I would not presume people are interested, but if you are, here is the information:
This episode is about the weirdo B-movie "Trancers": http://withtwobrains.com/lost-in-criterion/2020/12/25/happy-holidays-w-trancers
This episode is about an old western called "The Furies": http://withtwobrains.com/lost-in-criterion/2021/1/15/the-furies

In a lot of ways, it's almost poetic that the summer of the uprising for Black lives has led to a world where even lots of WHITE people in America now have to acknowledge their government doesn't give a fuck about them.

I have thought a lot about what it would mean to forgive the Trump supporters in my life, but that's going to be hard to do thinking about the permanent damage this is all going to do, the world it will leave behind for my nephews.

It's a Run the Jewels kinda day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32hUIGnMpOY

What's your favorite fake Christmas? Mine is Decemberween, but Festivus and Candlenights are competitors.

- Guitar goes through an EHX Pi fuzz into the "left" audio-in.
- Microkorg is doing some arps into the "right" audio-in.
- Both audio-in channels are then panned center, creating just two mono ins. Then I process both with chorus and delay to widen them again!

Lot's going on, sorry if it's not interesting:
- No overdubs, all sequenced or played live.
- Trying to play in some more odd time signatures on Digitone.
- Lots of "trig-less" parameter locks on the ratios between the operators for the pad to make it jitter around.
- Put the tremolo bar on my guitar for the first time in forever.

#looptober number thirty-one: "the end"

Oh and actually if I map portamento to the mod wheel and play it that way, I can probably be expressive with the bend and still parameter lock it from a live performance. Hm. Something to experiment with.

Ok using a parameter-locked portamento would have been much easier than the LFO shoot

In the end getting this all set up was NOT faster than just learning to play it live on the keyboard and do the bends manually. But the point of this exercise was to learn the Digitone, not to learn the lead line from the Yoshi's Island theme, so. Here we are.

To get the pitch bends, I had to do a an LFO modifying the pitch locked on that note, then reset the LFO on the next note so it only runs for half a cycle. BUT that first one isn't followed by a note to cancel the LFO, so you have to use Digitone's "trig-less trig" feature (i.e. a locked parameter setting without a note associated with it).

An exercise in recreating something completely on the Digitone, but so it's not incredibly interesting. The title is weirdly a joke about the television show LOST.

#looptober number thirty: "this is not your island, this is yoshi's island"