Poise Under Chaos @poiseunderchaos@sonomu.club

It's Bandcamp Friday, so here's a reminder that I have a new EP out:

https://poiseunderchaos.bandcamp.com/album/nautilus

Q: why do you care so much about the economics and politics of music production?

A: because it's gamed to disadvantage anybody but cishet white dudes with money

reminder that "US out of North America" is a very good leftist/progressive/social justice slogan, and should be used more often, if not daily

Good morning, Anti-America

It feels a bit like I'm upsetting the apple cart, or whatever. Same goes for being public(ish) about being neurodivergent.

Being out as trans is like...people just try to...well, not talk about it. Cis people especially. Which is sort of hilarious, especially since a lot of my work as a performer has been like "Hi, here I am, being ~ very out as trans ~", since, oh, 2001 or so.

Don't forget y'all can email me anytime.

*crickets*

xD

It's like getting published is a way of being part of the community. Which is fine, but, I mean...email me? Buy an album, including the ones that literally have a manuscript with them as an add-on? Go to my website? It's there for the taking, people.

But I tend to upend things in general, so why should this be an exception? (Spoilers: it's not an exception)

Sometimes, I get this sense that other poets, literary-focused "page poets" especially, think I'm doing things all wrong. Especially since I don't really care about getting work published.

Not just because I'm mostly known as a performing poet, but because in the US, unlike publishing a novel or a work of non-fiction, it's a) not necessarily the best way to build an audience for your work, b) it pays for crap, if not amounting to a form of negative income, in a lot of cases.

In any case -- as with a lot of Nahre's videos, it's highly informative and well worth the time to take in and process, especially if you're in any discipline in the arts.

/end

Sometimes, people who aren't in the arts, especially professionally, have all sorts of ideas about what it means to make a living doing this, which can frequently be, well, fanciful at best.

It's a hustle mixed with business mixed with wearing a lot of hats, not like "Oh yeah, you just go from stage to stage and have people support you, right?"

That would be called "being famous", which is a whole other thing, except when it's not.

2/3

7 Unforgettable Lessons I Learned at the “World's Best Music School”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GwwZBYdZpE

This video could also be titled "How to survive arts academia and start to build a career on your own terms".

Having two degrees in the arts and humanities, there's a lot to relate to in this video.

BTW, "career" here is a fancy way of saying "freelance", which is more often true than not for a lot of us who have gone this route.

1/2

Still in flux:

- If FL Studio is a good or better option

- *Maybe* better compartmentalization of stages in the creative process within a more robust DAW like Logic -- *but* that also runs the risk of things becoming too static, and fucking up the process in its own right. (I went through this with Maschine, but pushed my way through it).

- Reason??? (Reason 12 is sort of broken, sort of not, and Reason 11 is lumpy and quirky (but familiar) in its own right)

It's taken a while to get to the point here the complexity of using a DAW such as Logic is more exhausting than inspiring, but between that and lowering my standards a bit when it comes to having a polished sound -- which isn't needed in the beginning stages of recording anyway, if it's necessary at all -- I'm ready for something different here, for sure.

Not gonna lie, the limits of Gadget are what has held me back from producing in it -- but like I've been saying for a while now, most DAWs are way to complicated and fiddly for my needs, when it comes to sketching out ideas and starting tracks from them.

Also, this could just be my own preferences talking here, but Gadget on a Mac sounds like it has more headroom. I've felt that for a while now, but I haven't done a lot of testing as to why (or if) that's the case.

This is a really solid tutorial on producing basics in Gadget, not just for D&B, but all electronic music genres imo

KORG Gadget dnb Production Tricks │ Part 1 Drums - haQ attaQ 179

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvTL1OzZSk8&list=PLvNQD1EpaiNOm-6y7v9ALRNjNFs4qs3aA

good morning, one and all. never buy an NFT of anything

"whoever made this has captured the spirit of DS9 to a degree that is uncanny"

https://nitter.vxempire.xyz/turnip_tops/status/1464773484526063626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw#m

Also -- at present, and for the past while, I've been working on other things, but I'm confident that it all will cycle back around. That approach doesn't necessarily work for everybody, but it does for me.

More Nahre Sol, being amazing

How to Practice Without Getting Bored or Frustrated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNM0JOAJ0aI

I studied classical, both violin and piano, and...whew, the emphasis on mechanical and/or athletic practice to the exclusion of everything else.

Sometimes, that's useful, but not all the frigging time, lol.

I'm a good improviser, but I still feel that "...is it ok that I'm making things up here?" vibe at times, especially if I'm on a difficult passage.

Some other similar apps:

https://www.koalasampler.com/

http://www.elliottgarage.com/app/segments

More Korg Gadget:

Sample into Korg Gadget Abu Dhabi using iOS screen recorder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8171f5JPguY

Gadget Abu Dhabi iOS sequence loop demo iOS video

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

(There's also other sample chopping apps on iOS, if you don't have Gadget)