Notices by mcc (mcc@mastodon.social), page 2

@dosnostalgic Soul Brother
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I know I'm missing at least five things that were deeply important to me at the time.

I remain proud of my one, very simple Flash game. https://data.runhello.com/f/swim6/

@dosnostalgic @jplebreton Something I keep noticing is that *people who make YouTube videos* seem to as a group be a lot more interested in AVGN than people who do not.

I watched, and enjoyed, the Dan Olson AVGN video. It mostly felt like a recap/coda/extension of the Lady Emily video(s) on the same subject, but he thanks Lady Emily at the end so I assume this happened in a cordial way.

I think, if you're in a position to spend hours watching deconstructions of mediocre media & internet culture, you should watch these 3 videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmC5Zte5RnM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIn66K2_Wzg (either order)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3gZOt1Lo4A (after)

Thinking about it that way, I enjoyed having Dan's alternate perspective to Lady Emily's on what is basically the same narrative ("AVGN's channel got less watchable because he decided he'd rather spend time being a father.")

I've now watched like 3-4 hours of Emily/Dan AVGN explainers and I have never watched a complete AVGN video. I watched the Castlevania II video when it first came out and was like "Why are you behaving this way?" and turned it off 40 seconds in. I never watched one again

At the center of Dan's video, he discusses a short film "Wavelength" (1967) which is 40 minutes of an apartment bldg.'s lobby, a film that's only important because as an object it's strangely devoid of meaning and therefore forces you to project your own thoughts onto it in order to make any sense of it at all. I believe Dan's thesis is AVGN is the "Wavelength" of YouTube. There's not much to it, so if you try to deconstruct it you're really just talking about yourself & what you see in film.

@jplebreton When I watched that original Castlevania II video (I think it might be the first one? I didn't know that at the time) I imagined someone like, getting angry at a toaster. He puts bread in a toaster, and toast comes out, and he's like, shocked and surprised. Oh my god, why is my toast all brown and crinkly now?!

Mood

I would like to suggest you watch the first three seconds of this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0S92Fs5gOg

@dosnostalgic We finally got around to following this rec, and that was really fun.

Should we watch Day Watch?

@dosnostalgic people can still make isometric art today but only at this brief moment in the 90s could anyone at all use colors quite this way

For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

And here's the thread for "year three":

What I'm listening to today: "8888 + ParipiDestroyer + POLYS", Freaky Tweaky

This is a fun, satisfying acid jam on three small devices by different small-batch designers in Japan.

The devices are all little handheld things based on trim pots and breadboard buttons, sized like business cards and Altoids tins; one is a gorgeous reproduction of the 808, another a gorgeous reproduction of the 303, and the third an odd Roland J8-like prototype. The Pocket Operator is reborn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDSO_KzSaQ8

What I'm listening to today: "/", Second Woman

You've heard of the "Shepard Tone", right? That's a sound design trick where a sound appears to continuously increase in pitch without ever retreating back down to give itself space. There's a variant of that for drum beats called a "Risset Rhythm".

This song, from a Telafon Tel Aviv/Belong collaboration, uses the Risset trick plus some seriously weird production to make a dreamy, alien, not-quite-danceable dance track:

https://spectrumspools.bandcamp.com/track/-

What I'm listening to today: "greim93", AGF / @poemproducer

AGF does poetry, VJing, noise music and Theory (so if you are looking for eastern European left feminism she is very worth a follow).

This is a immaculately sculpted noise collage wherein hisses and thumps stalk you through a fog of microsounds, constantly threatening to congeal into a beat but then instead doggedly remaining just outside the edge of your perception

https://agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com/track/greim93

What I'm listening to today: "extinct bird gathering", Luna SC

From this musician's "tmod" series of songs performed live on a wall-sized modular synthesizer rack, this is a fresh-feeling electronic composition with gorgeous sound design. Crunchy beats and warm metallic everything else. I'm not going to say this is dance music exactly but it is definitely music to bob your head to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvPOkVla6Tg

What I'm listening to today: "Spit", Kittie

I love metal but I don't think I am a very sophisticated listener of it. I struggle with the squawky vocals and the occasional long samey stretches. Kittie delights me by bringing aggressive variety to their presentation, especially in this one old, unusually compact track that rapidly switches registers from death-metal screams to intelligible English as if tracking manic mood swings. You think dick is the answer but it's not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=184fj8XPbhE

What I'm listening to: "Nightmare", KNOWER

KNOWER is an incredible, funky, YouTube-bait band consisting of "The Bank Account Song Guy", Genevieve Artadi, and literally whoever else is in the building. They have a channel full of sessions live-recorded in a generic suburban house with noise foam taped to the wall and the band all wearing gimmick t-shirts. You should listen to them. As an intro, here's some funk featuring the bass stylings of Daphnycore artist MonoNeon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERCkf0j8pPM

What I'm listening to today: "wierdness", recordingtruck

I love noise! I really do! The Bastl Kastle is a chaotic "modular" system with two of Atmel's tiniest, weakest chips in each unit, & little wires instead of plug cables. All it does is scream. This musician has cross-wired three of these to make a wonderfully amusical sequence of moaning bleeps interrupting each other. It has its own internal machine logic. Your human brain can't make sense of it. Just float in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRjsYsw22gM

What I'm listening to today: "【Moog DFAM Jam】", Sakai Meno

Noisy, scrungly fast industrial beats on some modular equipment. There's a slower, spread-out elbow-room version of this track on the same YouTube channel (id MT13WMugmmA) but I like this compact 2-minute version. It sounds very determined.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyZe3xc267I

What I'm listening to today: "So close", Floppi

This is a soft, seductive DOS tracker track. It appears to use one single sample, so it's basically like a 2 minute electric piano solo, if the electric piano had infinite sustain. Sometimes with tracker tunes I can find a *little* history, but all I find googling is a forum post claiming the track was first released in 1997; and that the author is Finnish, and died in 2022.

Scenestream tags: "Calm keygen" "Sad sinewave"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzOmJ__yI84