REASON’s to be Cheerful

REASON TURNS 25!

Propellorheads reason was, and still is an astoundingly powerful and intuitive environment for music creation.

After burning out from working professionally in creating music for moving image,(after several years) the only tool I could face was Version 1 of a new program by Propeller Heads called REASON.

It replicated a load of the hardware tools I had been using before I retired, allowing the unique routing and manipulation the hardware had provided, but with the incredible convenience of software. It  was also extraordinary stable at a time where most music software was … significantly less so…

If you’re wondering about getting into music software… CHECK IT OUT!

Little Box of Folded Fun

The very xlnt Tim Prebble was kind enough to lend me his  MakeNoise 0-coast. For a tiny little box, its remarkably deep and flexible (in a very MakeNoise way)

For those that don’t know Tim, he is a sound designer and recordist and makes pretty definitive sound libraries for film sound design under the handle Hiss and Roar

Before I returned it I sampled the living be cheeses out of it, both multi-sampled, and a load of long freeform noise generating.

I’ve since thrown a selection of exerts of these into my µFreak and are in some ways able to recreate some of the mayhem of the original.

WARNING– MAYHEM:

Save 20k lives, get death threats.

Jacinda Ardern

“It still baffles me that a leader that did her best, with undeniably good intentions, saved a minimum of 20,000 Kiwi lives, had her team shepherd the economy right through to November 2023 in a way where National inherited “better finances than expected”, all with one of the lowest debt to GDP levels in the OECD, as well as securing and keeping higher credit ratings in her tenure, and did her best to preserve water infrastructure in public hands, taking the political hits and death threats to herself and her family as graciously as anyone could, could have this level of reaction.”


Opinion

Mountain Tui

Should be Obligatory Reading EVERYWHERE

Omar El Akkad’s confrontation of the West’s hypocrisy over the continuing genocide in GAZA. 

This is a book with an undercurrent of anger through it, but it’s not a book that shouts.

Instead, it’s a quietly convincing indictment of the West’s institutions and of its moral failings, and a thorough laying out of an argument about breaking away from the ideas and ideals we’ve held ourselves to.

Although, of course, it criticises right-wing institutions, one of the book’s biggest targets for critique is the Western liberal.

LINK to Interview  HERE

 https://sarahshaffi.com/

 

Incomprehensible

Unless you have been paying attention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism_in_North_America

 

Donald Trump and Fascism

Some scholars have argued that the political style of Donald Trump resembles the political style of fascist leaders. Such assessments were first made during Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign,[37][38] continuing over the course of the Trump presidency as he appeared to court far-right extremists,[39][40][41][42]including his attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election after losing to Joe Biden,[43] and culminating in the 2021 United States Capitol attack.[44] As these events have unfolded, some commentators who had initially resisted applying the label to Trump came out in favor of it, including conservative legal scholar Steven G. Calabresi and conservative commentator Michael Gerson.[45][46] After the attack on the Capitol, Robert O. Paxton, a historian of fascism, went so far as to state that Trump is a fascist, despite his earlier objection to using the term in this way.[47] In “Trump and the Legacy of a Menacing Past”, Henry Girouxwrote: “The inability to learn from the past takes on a new meaning as a growing number of authoritarian regimes emerge across the globe. This essay argues that central to understanding the rise of a fascist politics in the United States is the necessity to address the power of language and the intersection of the social media and the public spectacle as central elements in the rise of a formative culture that produces the ideologies and agents necessary for an American-style fascism.”[48]Other historians of fascism, such as Richard J. Evans,[49] Roger Griffin, and Stanley Payne, continue to disagree that fascism is an appropriate term to describe Trump’s politics.[44] Jason Stanley argued in 2018 that Trump uses “fascist techniques to excite his base and erode liberal democratic institutions”.[50]

 

FUCK RACISM

Born and raised in a VERY racist homeland.

Sadly watched as… people I grew up with * succumbed to the viral toxicity.

Now sickening to see even the idea of racism, being inverted by the right wing…that acknowledgment of those things is now a thought crime in Aust .

Interesting / hilarious to see some of these people deciding to self identify as being racist ‘outed‘ by this comment despite not being named)

The definition of self incrimination!  Narcissists will Narcissist! 

Not so… 

5 years ago Tim Exile created a completely amazing global music creation application called Endlesss.

Inception incredible
Execution ingenious
Experience involving
Swerves utterly inexplicable
Insolvency fucking inevitable

Gutting to watch such a stunningly brilliant idea…

Squandered.

And… its… Done

So, seems this UDIO thing is quite “interesting”.

Glad I got to mostly have the FUCK AROUND century,

before the FIND OUT one kicked in.