Lucas Gonze

Celebrating Bootsy Collins' birthday by listening to him tell the story of getting James Brown high on acid again. youtu.be/z8wxu_Ec3xU?...

Edwardian Christmas card

I'm transcribing a song in Ab minor, an unreadable key with 7 flats. Then💡... me: "there is an audio file in this directory. raise the pitch one semitone." it: "pitch raised exactly one semitone (ratio 2^(1/12)) using ffmpeg's resample+tempo-correction trick, so tempo/duration stayed the same"

Request for feedback... In this drum track I made, is it clear where to tap your foot? I struggle with making beats easy to follow. I want them to be subtle and interesting, but then it can be hard to find the one. playingintongues.com/wp-content/u...

ambient isn't slow. it's patient. it waits for you the way a room waits after everyone leaves: the hum of a fridge, a voltage drifting half a step, a light deciding whether to stay on. play it quietly enough, and it disappears. somehow that's when it starts.

Sincere question, not intended as trolling: have you ever heard non-boring playing by John Mayer? I don't hate him but I don't get why he gets name checked so much.

Hard not to see this as blowback for Trumpism: the Residents could not get across the border into Canada today. Surprisingly, the problem was not being anonymous giant eyeball heads, but lacking an “ATA carnet.” They’d never had this problem getting into Canada before, the tour manager said.

Compare the vocal in this March 1968 home recording: youtu.be/yBbzoSKy9UA To the one in this July 1970 studio version: youtu.be/TYAvTc36c98 #jimihendrix

The Pulsar-23 player TÆT has a gift for this hopelessly niche instrument youtu.be/rsTw8SRHWZQ

are we fucking serious

Why so few post-apocalyptic utopias?

Fight back tooth and nail against the tyranny of fate by getting a middle school crush on Willem Dafoe

I love the way this piece by @ihultquist.bsky.social for the Walking Dead soundtrack starts big and ebbs away. Also: the title "Old Apartment" is found poetry. youtu.be/lq9P-JmRQqM

The Halloween equation: P(doom) is the probability that everything goes terribly wrong.

7 years ago I made a DJ set that's just Ray Parker Jr.'s Ghostbusters song over 100 other different bits of music (some well-known, some less so) and it goes on for nearly 50 minutes and working on it gave me lasting brain damage

"Each improvisation will make its own laws. To create an intelligible improvisation one has got to make one's own laws as one goes along. When one starts an improvisation there are no preconceived laws or rules at all." Rohan de Saram 9 March 1939 - 29 September 2024

charm as a superpower youtu.be/QKzobTCIRDw

A Am Adim Bb Bb7 Bb7#11 The last chord in the first line leads into the first chord in the second line. The last chord in the second line leads into the first chord in the first line.

Voice Crack - Kick That Habit A sound movie by Peter Liechti, with musicians Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl, guest Knut Remond With Thomas Imbach, Carole Forster, Bea Hadorn, Monika Sennhauser, Peter Künzli, Alex Hanimann, Roman Signer, Peter Kamm and Peter Liechti www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcUU...

I got misty

I'm not sure 'Down Hill' was the most intelligent name to give to the house in a thriller but since Wallace probably wrote the book in about three days, I shouldn't think he worried. Whatever, it's a cool cover. The book was published in 1929. #SpookySunday #detection #crime #booksky

Winsor McCay, from the comic strip“Dream of the Rarebit Fiend” New York Herald, 1913.

The high point of Ennio Morricone's soundtrack to "Death Rides a Horse" (1967) is "Mystic and Severe", which is crisp and punchy. The rest is vague and unfocused, but whatever, I bet he cranked the whole thing out in week. youtu.be/RzSKPuaVGmY?...

Spoon Man Mr Tamborine Man Secret Agent Man #mansongs

When you manage a band, during the off-season, you can trade your musicians for musicians in other bands to try to improve the chemistry or to get a better balance of instruments or trade seasoned veterans for up-and-coming youngsters to try to rebuild the band into a future powerhouse.

The dawn that The Dark Ones have so long dreaded has arrived at last this album is ASLAN RISING

"What Have You Done To Its Eyes": Very possibly the all-time best song title from a horror-movie soundtrack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=58mk...

#listening The 2005 post-rock album by 48v called "South" in Bandcamp and "南方 (Dropping With Stone, Flying With Leaf)" in Spotify. 48vmusic.bandcamp.com/album/south "Chengdu, China 2005 Formed by drumer/songwriter A Yong, 48V is a post-rock/instrumental band from China."

I love this painting my mum, Jo, inspired by a cottage I used to rent in Devon. It feels so utterly evocative of the place, and the time - the 1930s - when the place was almost certainly at its cultural peak. If you read this, you'll probably understand why: www.tom-cox.com/the-lion-the...

I keep looking at genart to find meaning beyond the math-data-commerce. It's like panning for gold and getting flakes of pyrite. But today I discovered what I was looking for in this one particular image. I understood. Genart embodies trumpism. It is the art movement of corruption. It is scam-art.

Let's make a recent Macklemore track blow up. See anything promising? www.youtube.com/@Macklemore

it's kinda cool luthiers are still called luthiers even though they don't make lutes any more