Thoughts
Tabletop Roleplaying Game Loot Tables
Everybody loves items and loot in their tabletop role playing games. Below I have included a variety of genres. I have decided to start including some pieces on the blog regarding tabletop role playing games (TTRPGs) as they are a huge creative outlet for me. Let me know your thoughts on their inclusion.
Generative Composition Tables
Here are some preview tables that I have written for a larger composition project, that I have hinted at in the past.
Singles review – April 2022
Here are 10 songs I have been recently listening to, that inspired me to write.
Oscillo Scape 20 Reactions
This week I got the chance to see the latest Oscillo Scape show (20) at Alchemix Studios in South Brisbane. I run through a play-by-play and my reactions of the event below.
Graphic Score Drafts and Compilation
Below I have listed a few of my draft graphic scores as I have made them. These are being complied for a writing project about experimental music in forms I have explored.
LISSITZKY AND SUPREMATIST SPACE
El Lissitzky had discovered a new way to look at various spatial systems that were already in place. In his work he also defined new spaces, which he referred to as Imaginary and Irrational. By fusing Suprematist ideas within Russian Constructivist practices of the time, he created his solution to spatial issues that he saw, called Suprematist Space. He explains these through the use of mathematics as a metaphor. An example use of this space is the Proun Room (Lissitzky, 1923). His explanation of his new systems against the previous systems in place was done only to create a legacy for himself and fulfil his ideal of becoming an Avant-Garde artist. His mathematical metaphors helped to logically explain the merit in current and new spatial ideas.
What I have been listening to (March - April) 2022
Over the last month of listening, I review the following works:
Labyrinthitis – Destroyer (2022)
Fool – Mk.gee (2018)
Once Twice Melody – Beach House (2021-2022)
Temple – Thao & Thao & The Get Down Stay Down (2021)
Rhinestones – HTRK (2021)
Antidawn EP – Burial (2022)
Live Takes: Rhythm Stick
Thoughts on my Rhythm Stick piece.
What I have been listening to - January-March 2022
Some highlight albums I have been listening to so far in the year.
Live Takes: Warble Chords
This week’s Live Takes recording was taken from a sample I made last week of some warbling chords. The Korg Minilogue XD played a phrase of arpeggiated rotating notes from my Squarp Pyramid, with a synth patch that focuses on chorus effects, pitch affecting LFOs and highly sustained ADSR envelopes. Being inspired by the minute and a half long sample, I decided I needed to do more with it.
Wong Kar-Wai: Second Cinema Auteur
The internationally acclaimed Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai is seen to be an auteur in Second Cinema as his work includes trademarks to distinguish itself from others’. Similar narrative devices, stylistic choices and discourses link his films.
Through - Graphic Score & Audio-Visual Work
This week I made a graphic composition as a part of my weekly output goal. This week’s Live Takes recording was an audio translation of this score.
If_Then Permutation Generator v4 2021
This is the If_Then Generator. An algorithmic pitch generation tool that allows the user a unique way of generating composition ideas. It uses permutations to generate every possible combination of notes that can come up, as defined by the list of options from user. This allows them to create specific percentages that indicate which note will play next, based on what has come before it. It will generate notes, in an evolving manner as a song progresses.
DMUT – A Live Takes Deconstruction
This week I released the Live Takes video DMUT. I break down the work in today’s blog post.
Plan Jam and the Evolution of Process
Last year I put up a track named Plan Jam that was a fun little electro ditty. I have since done 3 additional reworks of the original. I will be discussing those, in comparison to the original, today. The impact of these works will have future ramifications to my Live Takes series, more on that at the end of the post.
NARRATIVE VS PLATFORM IN TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING
There has been much debate recently as to the roles the audience should play in transmedia narratives. There is the argument that a strong narrative is key to audience engagement, whilst others say that user interactivity (eg between audiences and the fictional world or creators) and emphasis on the platforms as being most important.
Synthesizer Meanings: A Comparison Of Nostalgia And Experimentation
Comparison between Synthesizer use in bands Death Grips and College with relation to aesthetics, advancement and subculture.
No Wave Music - An Annotated Bibliography
This is an annotated bibliography of some relevant sources on the topics of subcultural theory related to the No Wave music genre.
The Many Live Takes of “Levels”
This week I break down the three versions of the track “Levels” I have recorded for my Live Takes series.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA & TRANSMEDIA
The reboot of the television serial Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D. Moore 2004) utilised different platforms to create a transmedia narrative. Although it has been argued that some of these platforms were unsuccessful because of their differing levels of relevancy to the launch platform, some created audience positive interest due to the high concentration on narrative design and the creation of an overall experience for the users.