yes, i would trust al franken before i trusted leann tweedon.

and, you should give your head a shake if you would say otherwise, and don't think barack obama was born in kenya.

if you do think barack obama was born in kenya, i can't fault you for it, though.

'cause that's something else she's gone on the news and said is true. and, no, i don't think she believes it actually is.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

republishing inri061

this is the second of two lengthy singles to come out of tracks that were begun in 2002 and not completed to my liking. the mixes in this single chart this song's rather elaborate development over fifteen years, with the first disc consisting of historical versions and the next two discs consisting of finished mixes.

it became clear through the course of july, 2002 that rabit is wolf wasn't really going anywhere and i was better off cutting my losses. we jammed a few times, but it wasn't really serious.

this track was initially written as a folk punk song, but i jumped to the scorewriter with it almost immediately. the expanded guitar demo was written in a scorewriter and then performed, rather than vice versa. it was initially less about explicitly creating a techno song and more about ordering the parts in a way that could be deconstructed more effectively. i wanted a more flexible approach to production that would allow me to take tracks in and out based on sean's input.

i may have gone over this in this space before, but my mixing process up to that point was considerably unconventional. i would record tracks in one by one using a wave editor and then paste them on top of each other. i worked this way because i just didn't have more advanced tools. while there are benefits to this approach (it's additive synthesis, which blurs the mix for soundscaping), it meant that each additional track was destructive. i could not remove tracks once they were added. this meant sean was unable to provide much input into demos i sent to him.

i also picked up a copy of cakewalk to help with this, but i quickly learned that my system couldn't really handle it. at around eight tracks, it just became unresponsive. with less than eight tracks, it didn't matter if the mix was destructive because it was easily reconstructed. so, i went back to the wave editor approach until 2007, when i upgraded to a modern pc.

the taiko drum part was initially just to keep time; it wasn't supposed to be a part of the song. but, as i built it up i began to realize how interesting it sounded as a techno tune and sort of ran with it. once i'd notated it, i had to convert the drums into a soundscape because the midi render just wasn't good enough. this was done using a mix of software drum machines, midi snippets and isolated jimmy chamberlain samples. i then performed the score i had notated, with the exception of a few synths which were sequenced back. unfortunately, the midi file for the synth build up at the beginning of the track has been lost.

the mix never came out well, partly due to ram issues with cakewalk and partly because i got a little pretentious with some of the parts. i was also extremely distracted over this period. despite this all being done to make sean's input more easily integrated into the material, he had no interest in the direction i took it and basically put his nose up at it again. i attempted a few different things over late 2002 and early 2003 to try and salvage it for my own purposes, but in the end i shelved it as unworkable.

when i first set up the bandcamp site around 2010, i realized i had a collection of tracks that fit a sort of techno-guitar description and compiled them together under the name "tetris". i uploaded an incomplete mix for that project, but it was never really done and i never really felt good about it.

it wasn't until late 2014 that i came back to the track, to authoritatively finish my discography. first, a mix was reconstructed from source to include all of the existing sound files. next, three separate sequencer mixes were sculpted out of the score - a jazz fusion mix, an overture mix and an ambient mix. pieces of these sequencer mixes were then isolated and mixed into the reconstructed original mix. finally, a series of extra lead guitar parts were recorded and mixed separately into a final mix and the orchestral mix, creating the end result and an accompanying guitar concerto. the recording process for this was very lengthy, which was ironically partly due to consistent distractions.

this release was revisited in november, 2017 as a part of the process of finalizing period 2 and was expanded from two to three discs through the addition of multiple supplementary mixes.

i've included the midi file of the original composition, if you'd like to mess with it on your own.

written over the summer of 2002 and initially recorded in the early fall of 2002. additional recording, production and mixing occurred from dec, 2014 to apr, 2015. initial final completion occurred on april 27, 2015. however, eight more supplementary remixes were added to the release over nov 17-nov 19, 2017 to expand it into a three disc set. disc finalized on nov 19, 2017. as always, please use headphones.

the album version of the track (track 7) also appears on my sixth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj-2

this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2002, 2014, 2015, 2017). 

credits

released September 15, 2002

j - guitars, effects, bass, synthesizers, drum sampling, drum programming, sequencing, sound design, soundscaping, digital wave editing

the various rendered electronic orchestras include electric bass, synth bass, distorted electric guitar, clean electric guitar, acoustic guitar, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, harp, koto, french horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba, english horn, flute, oboe, piccolo, clarinet, bassoon, synthesizers, piano, glockenspiel, vibraphone, hammered percussion, music box, tubular bells, bells, agogo, wood blocks, marimba, melodic toms, timpani, taiko drum, backwards cymbals, synth drums, orchestral drum set and choir. 

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

i'm going to repeat this statement.

if there's one politician in america right now that the elite of the elite, the real bastards, could take out, it would not be bernie sanders, it would be al franken.

to the real power elite, he is the most dangerous politician in america, right now.

and, that is why my spidey senses immediately started tingling.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

i don't know anything about hollywood. so, i don't know who is being targetted here and who is legitimately guilty of something.

i'd never heard of harvey weinstein before. but, these accusations seem pretty substantial, and pretty cross-referenced.

i know who kevin spacey is from his work in the 90s, but i've never seen house of cards before. i've heard of it by title only. i've never taken the time to look into what it's about. and, i don't have friends, or a job, so i don't even have the benefit of overhearing people talk about it. i don't know what the topic of the show is, or what kind of character spacey plays. might powerful people want to get rid of this? i just simply don't know about this. i know that this is a disappointing way to lose kevin spacey. and, i assumed he was probably gay, but didn't really know.

i recognize george takei from his twitter activism and, of course, from his years on star trek. george takei is certainly somebody that certain people would want to get rid of.

and, i recognize franken through both of his careers, and realize he would truly be public enemy #1 to the existing political establishment. he is somebody that certain people would manufacture a situation around, without question.

i doubt that this is the end of this. but, i need to request that people be sober in their analyses. this is a golden opportunity to take people down. and, we all have a responsibility to weigh the evidence in front of us carefully, and not jump to conclusions.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

i wouldn't want a subservient man that grovels for sex, i'd want one that stands up for due process of law, respects the presumption of innocence and makes careful fact-based decisions by weighing the evidence before him.

i'm sorry if your standards are lower.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

or, maybe the reason that i speak as plainly as i do about these things is that i have absolutely no interest in developing any kind of sexual relationship with any kind of women.

you can't pussy whip the trannies, ladies. they don't want it at all.

sorry.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

good news and bad news.

the bad news is that i just lost my screen on my backup laptop. it's been flickering for a few days. so it's not unexpected. and i can see the screen if i look closely enough, so it seems to just be the light that's out. this is essentially the same thing that happened to my main laptop, so i'm suspecting that it's a power issue in the unit. i may learn, once i've moved, that a lot of the problems i've been having down here are from bad wiring.

when i rebuild my access point, it's going to be on a desktop. but, i'm going to need to have a laptop of some sort. i was hoping it would be this one...i'll have to see what it costs to fix it...

for right now, there's not much to do besides send the signal out to a monitor.

the good news is that i'm finished with inri061 and will be spending the rest of the night doing the write-up for it, with the intent to ship in the afternoon.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

no, you've got this backwards.

if it was somebody else, it might not have been funny. if it was charlie sheen, for example, it wouldn't have been funny. but, because it's al franken, and we know al franken's viewpoints, the transgressive humour can operate. i mean, in order for it to be absurd, it has to actually be absurd, and that's largely dependant on the person making the joke.

this kind of thing can operate in just about any context, so long as it's absurd. so, ted cruz could make a joke about socialism that bernie sanders couldn't make; and noam chomsky could make a joke about market theory that ted cruz couldn't make. a joke about a priest or a nun may not be funny if the person is not a priest or nun. &etc. the context of absurdity is really very strongly tied to the speaker or actor. and, a part of the joke is that you'd never expect al franken to actually do that, because you know his politics on the subject - it's a core part of the reason why it's so absurd.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.