tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217840682024-02-19T04:30:34.315-08:00Mimetic SciencesNews, Music, Bots, Etc.Robby Garnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15709806386595381281noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21784068.post-65424808182454833262020-01-17T10:20:00.000-08:002020-01-17T10:25:19.586-08:00Well a lot has happened since we left last time. I got a new leg. I'm still learning to use it. It's partly my leg, but inside is metal.<br />
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I'd like to pull the wires from the wall. Did you?<br />
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Super Computer Humans and the Short Drive Assertion</h2>
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There was this sense that our way would win out in an inevitable identity with good vs evil, and the superiority of science and the truth over ignorance and falsehoods.</div>
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There would be a victory of good over evil, and the pendulum of justice would swing in the public's favor. That is the guiding principle of what we believed. It was later to be justified in deeds.</div>
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The programmer tracked his lines following each to an inevitable conclusion. He saw the truth of the matter and made corrections where they were necessary.</div>
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This was the element of teaching that he was called on to perform. The utmost justification for what a machine would do later. In his life, he had seen the barest inkling of a possibility. There would be a faster, smarter thing that worked much better.</div>
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The future would turn out just like the fiction of 40 years ago. Who predicted now?</div>
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And with that, he motioned closer, and he whispered beneath their threshold of SPL for detectable signal in the Claude Shannon school of information theory.<br />
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<a href="https://www.fluxoersted.com/">https://www.fluxoersted.com</a><br />
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On board the ship, they spared no opportunity to try and sell you things including the bottled water. The food was okay, but frankly, my wife is a better cook. Our take on the Carnival experience is that it is more "pop" oriented, loud music, all the pizza you can eat 24/7, etc. We went into the piano bar expecting west coast cool jazz and soothing classical music, but instead it was loud Billy Joel covers and requests for crowd participation.
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Key West was a good stop on the way west, and we toured the Hemingway House. That was interesting, and we like cats, so everything there was good to us. We passed "Sloppy Joe's Bar" on a tour bus, but didn't go in there. Apparently the original bar was across the street.
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We also docked at Cozumel Mexico, where we rented a beach house with a chef, and private beach. My wife went out on a kayak while I sat with a new friend drinking real tequila and piƱa colada's. The food was great, and there were only 8 of us there. I think that was my favorite part of the cruise. It was so beautiful and felt secluded and tranquil.
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There was a LOT of walking on this trip, and I'm proud to say that hips gave me no pain, one of them is artificial (cobalt chromium steel with a titanium shaft.) Security was tight at the Miami International airport. I got x-rayed, patted down, hands swabbed, but really no pain. I'm glad for the security. I would say that airport traffic on Labor Day was very sparse in ATL, our MD-80 was full on the way back from MIA.
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It helped that they had satellite internet on the ship, so I was able to check in to our Delta flight home a day prior to leaving. That saved a lot of time. I had chosen our seats going and coming before we left home.
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All in all, a good trip. Next time perhaps we'll switch back to Royal Caribbean.
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N=108's October EP has been re-released on bandcamp at <a href="http://fluxoersted.bandcamp.com">Ernst Blofeld Society</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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I'm writing a PBS drama about our cats and their lives among the stray
cats that we feed called, "Indoors Outdoors." It will be a soap opera
surrounding the indoor paterfamilias elder "Sir Charles Kitten", his two
steely eyed vixen adoptees and the leading lady is the struggling
outdoor cat, "Patches" and her clan. It features their attempts to
maintain their place in the class hierarchy of Lawson Avenue and Self
House.
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Will Sir Charles sneak out to carouse with hot mama Patches? Will she
learn that he is fixed? Can Emmy bite Patches on the behind through the
glass window or will she cower when Patches traipses into the kitchen to
eat the 9 Lives Indoor formula? Charles' addiction to Friskey's Party
Time treats becomes widespread, "They're all doing it!" Meanwhile, the
handsome gray cat from down the street visits, uttering his spooky talk
to all the ladies. Saphie wants nothing better than to be an outdoor
cat, or at least as far as the back porch. Will she become "backdoor
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It's that time of year again and it's time for the October EP to surface and reach people.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/October-EP-N-108/dp/B00A6GG9DA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1353542184&sr=8-2&keywords=N%3D108+October+EP">Click Here</a> to get a copy on CD.
Go to <a href="http://www.fluxoersted.com">FluxOersted.com</a> to get the same album in other formats.
Thanks to you all for supporting Flux Oersted this year. Welcome the harvest moon. Let's bring home the pumpkins.
thanks,
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Rather than bother ourselves about which word means what and how to spell gnat, let's deal with whole statements as the level of granular representation, and skip the computational linguistics mosh pit.
That is more in kind with the level of semantic intercourse we engage in with our daily lives. Use logic, not "isa."
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<h3>Block Heads and Scoundrels</h3>
The nanny bot can't tell when I've fixed the error. My IDE complains all the time. When I compile EARL, I get warnings about 2 lines of code that used to be okay, but I have no desire to fix.
I don't want to slander anyone. Spend five minutes and come up with your own conclusions.
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Flux Oersted's album, "The Visitor" is about to be retired from online store shelves. This is your last chance to get a copy from iTunes or Amazon.com, etc. etc.<br />
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Fear not! The Visitor will remain available from Corporate Records for the indeterminate future.<br />
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I'll keep you posted if the situation improves. Please remember: I mean you no harm.
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The video takes a page from the Itallian Job, and features Robby Garner and Sara Garner in a death defying chase around the aquaducts of Cedartown, Georgia, USA.
A cast of thousands and a fortune in animatronics and pyrotechniques assure this will be a video not soon forgotten among the youtube audience.
More people should visit <a href="http://www.fluxoersted.com">FluxOersted.com</a> to get a first hand glimpse of the technology and the pilots who fly these craft into our subconscious.
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The improv pieces I attribute to Flux Oersted, the experimental audio wing of IMS. When I polish something into a finished form, then it becomes an N=108 song. That's where I'm at now. I like the duality of running two bands, one improv and experimental, another finished, programmatic, and commercial.
Flux Oersted music is free, but N=108 will try to get paid. We may be seeing a live band version of Flux Oersted again soon. Sam Hancock has made some overtures that we may try it again. The line-up is open to who we may invite to join us. Some of the folks I'd like to have in a band are probably not going to be able to pull the load of being in this kind of band though. Let's just say that "automatic for the people" is a catch phrase that may apply to any band called Flux Oersted.
For now, you get the two headed hydra-band Flux Oersted/N=108.
The song I recorded today is called <a href="https://soundcloud.com/robitron/getaway">Getaway</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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One such song is <a href="https://soundcloud.com/robitron/its-going-to-take-all-night">It's going to take all night</a>. It was completely improvised in one afternoon in my studio, including the vocals. I thought about going back in later and fixing a few rough spots, but on that listening didn't hear anything that offended me. That is not to say that it is a work of perfection, or a masterpiece, it just is what it is.
I think a lot of modern music is over thought. I get more from hearing other people's live performances than I do a machined piece of steel. I don't perform live except in the studio, and I rarely do a 2nd take unless it starts out too rocky. More often than not, if I do edit something, I just cut out the glaring errors, and move on. I guess I rely on "happy mistakes" to get me through it all. <div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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I recorded a video of me singing a sort of country song, that may surface some day in one of my things, but it may not ever see the light of day.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Bless the meek for they shall inherit the toaster oven.
I'm trying to be as meek as I can, but when you got as much to brag about as I do, It's hard. I'm trying not to just burst with outward big head vibes that would send everybody into a self-introspection thing. You don't owe me anything, and that's how I like it.
The holiday season has traditionally been rather hard for me, with bouts of depression, alienation, isolation, and the like. This year I feel pretty good so far. I'll tell you guys if that changes for the worse, but so far so good.
I hope your reality is as nice.
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Flux Oersted has produced an EP for the band, N=108, released in late October. Sources close to the band report that it was mostly music included in Flux Oersted's Volume IV, but that individual tracks had been remastered, and the selection includes some of the new writes since N=108 was formed.
New Beginning is a song that was written as a TV theme or for the opening titles of a film. It features guitar, sampled, and played through an amp simulator. Response has been good for this song, and expect more of this type in future recordings.
Down the Road is a song that carries a spooky Jupiter 8V part, and another synthetic guitar, played through a distortion amp simulator. Very reminiscent of early Flux Oersted, but built entirely in a notebook computer.
Robby Garner's synthesizer playing is poetic in the forms that he takes against the other tracks in the songs. He has a knack for tracing the melody of the bass against what he seems to consider as the backing synth line for that instrument. The instruments are all softsynths, and as such, are almost imaginary in their makeup, but once recorded, they become alive in the essence of classic machinery and samples of real instruments that have been plucked out of the imagination and into the quiver of an musical archer.
These are all songs that might have been recorded a decade ago with FM synthesizer modules, but here they are rendered with modern synth emulators and samples that sound very much like the original instruments. Bass guitar and electric guitar are set forth in a very complimentary form to the synthesizers.
All in all, October EP, is just a taste of things to come. Soon to be released on iTunes and Amazon.com, get a taste of it at <a href ="http://fluxoersted.bandcamp.com">bandcamp.com</a> where you can find FLAC and other high resolution formats available.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Myriad Web', Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">A modern day Edgar Allen Poe, if he would have had synthesizers, </span><a href="http://www.fluxoersted.com/Robby" style="background-color: black; color: #3333cc; font-family: 'Myriad Web', Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Robby Glen Garner</a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Myriad Web', Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> makes music of the macabre that follows your footsteps like a landlord without trust. By veil of darkness, by cover of night, he tasks you, he tasks you, until the day be done. Follow the edeavors of Robby/Flux Oersted and his band, N=108, as they mark their path until dawn. You will not be disappointed, and your memories will not be altered. </span><br />
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<em style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Myriad Web', Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">We are the music makers And we are the dreamers of dreams</em><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Myriad Web', Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> - Arthur O'Shaugnessey </span><small style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Myriad Web', Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1804-1881. (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pwvB4_Te8A" style="color: #3333cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Willy Wonka</a>)</small><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Myriad Web', Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span><br />
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Volume IV by Flux Oersted</h2>
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Released August 23rd, 2012, heralding the latests synthetic songs by Flux Oersted's band, N=108. With the exception of the first three songs, these are songs that have been accumulating in the "maybe" hopper for the past year or so. Those first 3 songs were brought back from an earlier, discontinued album due to their popularity in Russia. (Not that they will be buying copies of Volume IV)</div>
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This is primarily a digital domain produced collection, with a few exceptions. There are songs based on a real Moog Prodigy, and a few songs have tracks played on a real Roland Juno 6. But for the most part, these tracks have been bounced back and forth between Apple Logic and Propellerhead Reason. I find Logic easier to jot things down with, and it has some of my favorite virtual synths. But finished tracks are then imported to Reason for mastering and for the addition of vocals and other tracks.</div>
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N=108 occasionally use Sonar on an older PC notebook in order to use some of my older VST synths, like OP-X and Absynth, but they almost always finish things with Reason because they like the mastering suite and mixer on there.</div>
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As for content, I think Volume IV is more entertaining than the last thing Flux Oersted put out, Fabric and Dreams. It's more raw and has a variety of material that I feel has a broader range of song types.<br />
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Volume IV is available in multiple formats at <a href="http://fluxoersted.bandcamp.com/album/volume-iv">BandCamp.com</a> Also available from iTunes, Amazon.com, Spotify, etc.</div>
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I started a new song yesterday, writing in Logic, using virtual instruments. I expect the project to end up in Reason, because I like to finish things in there. Reason has good mastering tools, but Logic has some cool virtual synths and I find it easier to jot things down in there.<br />
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It's coming along nicely. I'm wondering if I can capture what I hear in my head with the tools that I have. Usually, my songs end up as a conglomeration of things that I didn't plan. This song even has lyrics coming before I finish it, which doesn't always happen. It is serendipity to have things arrive in this order, so that I can add my pads and accompaniment with the lyrics in mind, as opposed to having to fit the words in between whatever I came up with for music.<br />
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The percussion for this song is still a mystery to me. I don't want to use loops this time. I am thinking of playing the drum parts on a keyboard, or possibly not having percussion. Why not break with tradition?<br />
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I did say recently that I wanted to get away from my time proven formula for song writing. Vocals/Synth/Pads/Drums. I think the slower you go the more options you have. I'm still trying to follow that sound in my head to see if I can reproduce my imagination. That would be special.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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I've been thinking about my next record album for a while, and thought for a while that I didn't have enough material to start. Actually, it turns out that I've got enough material to reject most of what I had, but that left me with a firm preamble of material that rocks. I've got to keep rejecting songs that are not good enough for a strong next offering.<br />
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I thought about some songs that have my traditional synth bass and strings arrangements, and have moved onto songs that are irregular from my past offerings.<br />
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There are some songs that I used to like, and some of them have never been recorded. I'm working with songs that were written in 1982, and they are better than anything I've composed since then. I just hope I can tie them together with songs that originated in the new technology. The older songs are more player oriented, whereas the newer stuff is more voice oriented, more of a sound gimmick than the songs that I originally wrote on piano.<br />
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Some of these songs are sort of orchestral in nature, and have parts that I have to coordinate and sync in the scheme of things, but we have the technology.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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