It's so weird that you couldn't have made it up. 

That's what I think about sometimes, when the truth unfolds if it does. I drove halfway across this country and had to stop and realize that I was only like 1/3 or 1/4 of the way there. That's where the mighty crest of the wave broke against the wall and fell backwards towards the shore. I would trade right now for any other time I suppose. I've never felt that I could trust the government. Nothing new has risen.

The website for Institute of Mimetic Sciences, Inc. does not represent them, it's about them. There's a difference. It is just a beginning place to start a history to document the lives and times of people who were par of a movement, much like the Gemini program at NASA, it is a consequence of hours of skill and determination, just to imagine what whould someday be possible in a conversation between a person and a machine.

If a company insists that it is only ethical to announce that you are an AI before you begin the conversation, why can't you just give the user the opportunity to make up their own mind? Who cares unliess you get it wrong? Then you were deceived. That is bad. Tell Santa Clause he is in trouble with The Thought Police.  

Distributed Songwriting

I use different machines for different things. I don't have just one DAW that does everything I need. My process is evolving. I am trying to understand what it is that I want, which is harder than I tried to believe. It helps to talk about it, to clarify my mind so that I can reach a level of peace that has been hard to come by lately.

I want to be able to make a cool sounding mellow sound, and then be able to do an industrial anthem. I will be a one man band. I am too screwed up to work with anybody else. I've finally reached a determining point in my sound and my music. Now, it's a matter of getting up the courage to step off the end of the diving board and eaither arch my back into a knife through the water, or land on my belly and splash everybody in the first row. But then, my audience won't be here. They will be there, where you are.

I have a setup that is modular and efficient. I have come to a realization about sound and where it comes from. I just produced a 6 song EP on an iPad. I've got a backlog of albums to releasee but there is paperwork to complte and cover art to secure. I want to make more refined products, so I try to be patient and do good work. I am an old aprentice, but the alternative would be worse.

 

The Logic with iPads.

I tried earlier to compare Logic Pron for iPad to and all I could think of is Reason. The admin posted it but thought it was an odd comparison. It is odd. Only a paired down version of Logic Pro could be comparable to an entire DAW from another manufacturer. But you can tic boxes down the line and the iPad version does every sequencer oriented task. Now, there are some things you can do on Reason that you don't find anywhere else. However, you can find nearly everything Logic does in other DAW's because it is a solid design, some of it could be copied because Logic has been around for a long time, and being based on Macs, gives it a pedigree of high standards. Logic has become a standard in many respects due to its ease of use, and universal appeal to apple users. Garageband is a start for many people and it is an easy transition to Logic, so there are users that come from that angle. One of the reasons I bought my first mac was so I could use this software, and feel good about my efforts. It feels good to finish a project. But feeling good along the way becauwe you have the correct tool for the job is priceless. 

Steve Henderson played music with us and wrote some great science fiction. Wish he was here.

 80361027.pdf Here's the instructions for my guitar amp.

I've actually been playing it through the board lately. The Peavey Standard PA is a pretty awesome guitar amp. I'm going for a very distinctive sound and so far, I can get that inside the computer or drive the Peavey/Hancock speaker to epic SPL's and textures. I'm still experimenting with stomp boxes too. My kit would probably be complete with more of a fuzz distortion pedal. I have a Boss HM-2 but it is like a chainsaw, Swedish Deathmetal kind of sound.

I put on some Ernie Ball Regular Slinky strings. Wow! It's so much more fun to play because it rings out a good sound and the sustain is very improved. 

Welcome to the Show that never ends

I've got my equipment set up for live performances in the lab and on Video, coming soon. I am editing and refining my repertoire and I am rehearsing now, and shows will be taped once we do some mise en scene and sort out our set lists. I wouldn't rule out doing some youtube live outreach. Does Facebook still have "Live?" We used it during the plague. It was lots of fun. I have to refresh my memory of the studio software that we used.

 It's another Thursday again.

I've been editing songs for a project on my website. It's at CyberMecha.Org or FluxOersted.Com

I have about 40 songs that I've picked through and edited for continuity. I've got them organized into two albums. There are about 6 Pink Floyd songs, and Joe Jackson, Black Sabbath, Paul McCartney, NIN, and even a Gary Numan song. This would be a good couple of sets to me. I just keep making a listening pass and think about what I'm hearing in different angles. Later, I'll listen on some reference speakers and I've got some headphones that are rated for monitor use.

 Back by Popular Demand. Thursdays only.

There's no way to predict the rain, but there's certainly a way to dress for the process. Wear army/navy surplus gear and you can't go wrong.

Except be careful in your jump boots when it is wet like this because you can easily slip and fall

So this is Friday! Time is nothing. It merely rearranges your memory.

That's what Gary Numan said on the Tubeway Army album. I'm working on a new album (10/17/25) and I'm marking the date so I can come back later and see whether it was finished or not.

I've got 3 songs, but they are not that good. I am experimenting and going for the mechanics of putting together songs. I think I have what I need now to start really focusing on the kind of sound and the instrumentaton I want to use. I tried this using all MIDI recording and using cables to connect my various devices to. It was a lot less workable than I imagined. I enjoyed that equipment but it is not 1992 anymore. I need to just save up and get a new mac mini perhaps.

 Back to the Egg:

That's the Paul McCartney album I've been listening to. I'm finding my own sound, and it is interesting because I used to think my sound was just the collection of junk that I used to record with. That's no longer true.

I've still got all the same instruments. They all have their own sound but where's mine? I always thought that I should play the guitar through all the effect pedals because I had them, and they are there. I discovered the headphone jack built into my guitar. It has an overdrive setting. I can use that most of the time, and forget all the stomp boxes. I have so many choices.

The thing with guitar is making yourself conform to the fret board. I think my guitar is set up properly. I don't have any issues with it musically. There are some rough spots in the construction. Some people try to fix all that, but for what it cost, I can learn to live with it. If I live long enough to learn how to play this guitar, maybe I would consider getting a nicer one, but for now I have this one.