you found it there and you like it? thanks, means quite a lot to me, thanks.

The Telharmonic is this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnqqafJMXBU

what you readin?

im reading a book of hot letters

it goes like this: kathy acker goes to australia for some university stuff

has a fling with a writer/prof

hot correspondence ensues (apparently)

kathy acker dies a year later

semiotext(e) publishes their correspondence 20 years later, MIT gets in on the distribution

i like kathy acker. the mysterious lover turned out to be a dude. i was hoping for a transgender person but no, it's a straight dude. apparently. we'll see.

i'll need to read more to find out.

and yeah, well, it goes like this: i found your music here on syg, and i think i bought some files long ago, and i liked them (we listen to a lot of ambient in this house)

but i hate to manage files, see? all my files are buried in some server that needs, ugh... lookin'. curatin'. sufferin'

i have to get up, start it, it's on a battery backup, the software is iffy, then you need to move the files from one device to another... who needs the headache? it's a job for an accountant or a librarian. i'm neither.

but spottifried makes it easy and headache free and i don't have to store, manage, label, or submit to itunes or whatever it's called these days. spotify is the library of babel or the book of sand as borges had it. except for stuff from labels like, what was it the one with joanna newsom and jim o'rourke etc. i space it out. anyway, that one. i don't want to manage files. i lose them in transit.

the plot thickens! the guy is saying he's queer. kathy acker says she stopped sleeping with straigh men. so, hm, maybe something interesting will happen. so far just name dropping of friends and authors and the "discovery" of the simpsons in 199...5?

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anyway man you should make music for games and films. seriously.

I just found out that Thurston Moore Group will play the same festival in summer that I will be playing.

https://www.pohodafestival.sk/en/new...on-moore-group

I'm kind of happy about this.

why don't i like thurston anymore?

i don't know. it's not post-fiasco.

i was just never into his solo stuff-- the whole was always more than the parts

but hey, playing at a festival is great

have fun

have a great time at fest Slavo. kick out the free form jams baby.

slavo, when are you putting out a new album?

I don't know, man.

I've been stuck in a creative crisis or something, for quite a long time.

I mean, I've got like 5-6 solid ready tracks that I find really good, but always when I listen to them I feel like "OK, maybe the bass should be better, maybe this sound should not be there, maybe this is too much, maybe this sucks". Doubts, doubts, something like never occurred to me before.

I can send you a soundcloud link to some of them if you want to give it a listen.

SO, slavo, i forgot to answer! soundcloud has always been a pain in the ass for me on i0S so i never use it. but yes please! i'll install it or get it to work somewhere somehow.

iOS. hahahhahahahahhahahahhahahaa

android is so much work man. i don't have time for it.

what work? I find it much more work to figure out what to tap/swipe/other stupid fucking method of interacting with a machine.

setting up android and getting it to talk to other devices is bothersome to me is what i mean

cuz that's the alternative to iOS

you're making some sort of luddite argument yes?

like "paper is better," and "no smartphones" etc?

i just wanna listen to slavo's music

which was digitally generated & recorded anyway. and when he releases the album i'll stream it.

no need for horse carts and clippers to carry his orchestra from overseas

luddites are stupid as fuck. they hate "new" technology" but use every bit of the "old" technology. fucking morons.

I just slam about 10 gigs of high bitrate MP3's into my droid and bluetooth the fuck out of my jams to the car stereo, or home player.

I feel apple products are primarily for people with no knowledge of computing or computer systems or the way computers actually function (my wife for example). I grew up learning BASIC in grammar school, buidling motherboards, frankensteining together powerful PC's and servers, etc. to me that stuff intuitive.

I do not find Apple products intuitive at all.

The iPad we have I use purely for streaming shows, or playing a few stupid games on it. I HATE browsing the web on it.

My wife's iphone is like trying to read a book in Portuguese when all you know is Spanish. everything takes me 4X as long to figure out.

Things I can do with my droid phone quick as fuck:
download torrents
convert files
edit PDF documents
install/remove programs
transfer or add more memory space
etc.

and Slavo's music rules.

oh good to know. i thought you were gonna tell me to write to my penpal slavo to mail me a roll of his music for my pianola lol

people who don't know about computers bla bla bla-- that's just trollin' man

i don't wanna get into that here but will gladly take it to the irrelevant thread if you wanna take it there.

i used to program in basic etc i used to build computers etc etc now i don't bother because i have other (better?) things to do and apple lets me do them.

but good to know you like your phone. and nice trollin'

my issue with the soundcloud app has more to do with the fact that it requires registration and shit like that to listen, last i recall. not with stability or anything not running here.

and... on to the irrelevant thread

you know what is irrelevant?

DEATH

not if you have dependents though

that's the tough part

you won't know the difference.

you either blink out of conscious existence and are not affected by their sadness over your death

OR

you are conscious after and can see and understand things your mortal self could not and therefore you will be privy to all the horrors your offspring unleash on the world and the people around them that they would never tell you about. This may seveerly reduce the enjoyment you would get from floating above and watching their lives develop. you'd see them smell their own farts, abuse their spouse, neglect their children, talk shit about you next to your dead body, etc.

rough!!!

ha ha ha ha ha

A+

why can't i rep

If you were playing a different stage at the the same time as TMG, I'd go see you.

You should play a warm up show for my birthday.

Steven! Is it still on that you'd come to Bratislava in ... what was it ... May?

In April 15-28 we will be in Sri Lanka, so I'm out of town, but other than that I hope we'll meet.

^^^ sorry about your thread getting derailed but did you read what i posted you about soundcloud? still would love to hear the new tracks & wondering why the block in getting them released

Talk to me, today. It's one of these rare days that I'm bored at work, and I'd like some company.

hey! i just saw this. might be too late!

anyway i'll go to my evernote in a bit and fish out my notes and post for whenever.

alright dude so this was meant to be a PM and here it goes. i get to make an ass of myself in public! in any case i hope this is useful to you. wanted to write more but not knowing where to send/how to send i stopped. here it goes:

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slavo hey!

i'm sorry it's taken me a while, i was swamped and without a method (i've reinstituted pomodoros, a life-saver), and we had a death in the family and all kinds of things but i'm giving your tracks some dedication now, and i've listened to the first one a few times: EXPO 80

so, first of all, i looooooooove the sound of the synthesizer, sounds like something very 70s, vangelis, or something. that fat analog sound, with a slight bit of reverb, that's just fantastic, fantastic. i love that loop and the way it fills the air.

you said treat them like demos and so i found 2 problems for me:

1) the voice of the (australian? australians?) is hard to tell what's he's saying. and so instead of hearing some and then forgetting, the brain tries to figure out what is going on. i listened to this with alone and with my wife, and she's a native english speaker, so it might be the level or something. personally, i don't prefer his voice, it sort of clashes.

i do love the static over the voice though, which for me comes across as a homage to daydream nation's "providence", except that it's not watt telling thurston about his lost weed (i heard that's what that was about) but instead it's some aussie saying something.

with that in mind i do wonder if the fans of your music would know who that guy is and what he's saying? but the vibe i get from him is not pleasant. don't mean to rag on the guy but not knowing what he's saying and his tone of voice makes me a little "nervous" in a way. don't know if that's the mood you want with it.

the other issue i found is that there is an overlay of something like chimes on the high end of the spectrum. and their sound is beautiful, but the notes tend to bleed into one another and generate a kinds of... skating or slipping sound, like when you rub glass with your finger, you know the sound? i like the idea a lot but not the pitch they generate. not sure why. so if this was more me i'd ask can you maybe a) make the silences between notes longer so that the new sound is not generated, or b) change things so that the generated pitch is different maybe-- more pleasant?

i need to listen to it again but i wanted to send you the notes over the weekend when i have more time. i'm writing this from memory so i'd like to listen live & read my notes & see if it corroborates.

so, please take everything i'm saying with a grain of salt. i might be completely wrong. this is just one subjective appreciation.

i really do love the synthesizer sound though! it fills the house GREAT.

this week i aim to proceed with the next track

where i listened to this:

i have an simple onkyo stereo amp and a couple of vintange pioneer speakers. which could probably use some reconing, lol, but they're clear enough at the volumes. which is: i filled the room a bit. i have a kind of a cathedral ceiling not a modern apartment. like a circus tent. so it takes 40W maybe? not deafening, just, fill up the room (some 10 meters across)

i listened to the tracks intently during work breaks and at the end of the day also. i thought i'd try with headphones as well on a different set.

also, i streamed from soundcloud. i'm really impressed by the quality of their stream. doesn't sound "streamy" at all!

okay! i hope this was somehow useful to you. please let me know what you think of my feedback and if i'm missing something. thanks for sharing the tracks! now on to the next one.

Hi _slavo_ :)

btw Claire, Slavo is a cool guy.

And greenlight is even cooler! Although he snores all the time whenever we're in a hotel room together (which happened 2 times so far).

Btw hi Claire.

Talk to me someone. Today it's raining and my feet are cold.

lol, everyone's relatively near each other but me.

On one of my Discord servers nearly everyone was American and then there's me and another Aussie literally a train ride away. So we met up, it was cool, and my parents flipped their shit XD

My feet are warm because I'm still in bed. Apparently there's going to be thunderstorms all afternoon, so I'll try and get out of my daily weeding duties by not doing it this morning.

do not mind him Claire. I think he is just being funny as he always is. I do not think I was snoring this time around, or was I :eek:? maybe I was just too knackered each night after them gigs, ehrmm.

btw, I think we shared hotel room more then twice. ATP UK + LGW NL + your gig in Prague CZ + SY gig in Krems AT (that is where I had to snore big time according to your reaction in the morning /worst so far from them all :)/, although we were really drunk, so there u go). not mentioning countless gigs we witnessed together. uhmm, yeah but Moshe is still winning talking about hotel room sharing.

by the way Slavo, are you going to Pan American this Sat.?

that's true, man. It was four times, not 2. And of course I'm just pulling your leg. I think I've never heard you snore.

Pan American this Saturday - of course, count me in!

that's one of the disadvantages of being an Aussie. The second one are the spiders. (see, how stereotypical I'm being now?) :cool:

but for instance, Moshe is from Israel which is not really that close to Europe but he still travels around for gigs.

Actually the spiders aren't bad. I mean, they exist, but I don't go poking around in dead trees or sticking my head in attics, so I don't encounter them very much. And I don't live in funnelweb territory.

I live close to a big city, so bands do usually come here, but I've never been to a gig (probably just a function of my age).

I heard it can get bad with the funnelwebs, like they can hide in your shoe and then bite you, etc.
but I'm arachnophobic, so I make a lot of crazy shit in my head involving spiders.

They're a Sydney thing, so they won't impact me unless I go there (which I don't plan to).

I wouldn't say I'm arachnophobic, but I can get a bit anxious around them. If they're small I'll let them go.

one of my friends lives in Perth and a while ago he sent me this picture of his work desk:



I would like die, instantly, just looking at this.

Yeah, that'd be enough to give me anxiety. I'd grab the nearest book and give it a whack.

Perth is weird, it's the most isolated 'big' city in the world.

I've never been to Australia so I can't say, but he kind of confirmed what you said. He said it was very boring and then he left for Tokyo which is, indeed, a much different story.

Hey, same here.