it's a sad day in ontario.

if you have a canadian flag, fly it at half-mast, tomorrow.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/notwithstanding-clause-vote-ontario-1.6064952

see, i think the appropriate way to deal with this is twofold:

1) find another store. there's lots of stores.

2) launch a boycott.

i know i won't be shopping there any time soon.

at the end of the day, you can't force somebody to make you a cake and, in the absence of any sort of altercation (like being chased down the street and yelled at by thugs), there's not really any reason to award any sort of damages, but you can try to push the company out of business and have them replaced with a different one that will.

the idea that this person needs to be "educated" is rather dubious - they likely understood exactly what they were saying, and you're not likely to get anywhere by trying to convince them of anything. if it was a big company, you could maybe look at their training documents. but, in context, that entire discourse is really dubious. this person doesn't like drag queens and didn't want to draw a picture of one, and that's all there is to it.

so, organizing a boycott is the proper response, not trying to "educate" them.

https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/windsor-woman-claims-she-was-refused-a-cake-order-featuring-drag-queen-1.5468678

pickup notes in this fashion are fairly common in celtic guitar music.

i can grasp the corruption in sound audio, but how'd it get out of sync? 

what seemed to disappear in the track was the pickup up note that it starts on, which both precedes and finalizes the loop. i'd notate this in 4/4 and make the loop four bars, so you'd end up with the following if you were to notate it:

x |: 1... | 1... | 1... | 1..x :|

...with the pickup note where the xes are. so, it's just an extra quarter note at the front of the pattern...

i don't know how, but something got confused somewhere, as it sounds like the pickup shifted to the one, which just put everything out of order.

like i say - this is very weird...

so, i deleted the track and reuploaded and it sounds better.

weird.

some kind of corruption somewhere, maybe.

yeah, the bandcamp compression seems to be having some difficulties with that rough version of the lost symphony i pulled from tape. there's supposed to be a flanging effect on the right channel, and it's just a gross, muddy, warbled mess on the stream. oddly, it seems like the stream is having difficulty syncing the right and left channels together as well, which i don't quite understand. the file i uploaded is correctly in sync. what process would separate the channels and then put them back together wrong? it's weird.

it sounds fine on the other computer...

but, it's a temp mix anyways, and i'll need to fix it when i clean that up over the next few weeks.

for the slow kids at the back of the room...

if you want to fight against colonialism, you need to be opposed to all forms of religion, including the ones that remain in a colonization stage, and not just the ones that did the colonizing in the past.

if you pick one colonizing force and align with it in it's struggle against the other, you will merely end up colonized by it.

while i would like to see christians and muslims continue fighting each other, as that will prevent them from uniting to undo modernity, we cannot, as leftists, be taking sides in these sorts of conflicts, or picking one pile of nonsense over the other. that's the same mistake that the anarchists made in spain, thinking they could rely on stalin for solidarity - they will slaughter us at the first chance they get.

islam is an excellent ally of capital, which is why they were chosen to be it's foot soldiers by multiple united states presidents in the last century.

but, islam is not an ally to the left, and that point needs to be understood, or we will find ourselves wiped out.

see, it's interesting to note the hypocrisy on the fake left, here.

when you deface a mosque it's a "hate crime". but, when you deface a church it's "dismantling colonialism" - despite the fact that christianity and islam are essentially the same things, and islam is responsible for inventing colonialism, imperialism and capitalism as we understand these things, today.

the confusion these people have in their minds is that they've decided everything's about race. so, when you have religious bigots that are brown, it's ok - religious bigotry is only bad when white people do it.

i'm not going to repeat the line on the right about this, as my view is the logical opposite of theirs - i don't have any more condemnation for an attack on a church than i would on a mosque, and i support a diversity of tactics in combating religion, even if i think this kind of thing is broadly counterproductive in actually turning people against religion. refer to my recent post about the poor tactical choice of killing muslims as a reaction to the re-encroachment of religion into the legal system.

but, my broader concern is this turn towards religionism on the fake left, and this blurry thinking that leads one to (correctly) look the other way when a church is targeted (unless it's a black church, of course) and (incorrectly) cry "hate crimes!" when a mosque is targeted.

that kind of blurry, inconsistent thinking is going to get us all enslaved by islam.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7946812/roman-catholic-church-vancouver-vandalism-colonialism/

so, yes - i'm several days behind schedule...

what i need to do at the moment is file my backup drive and rebuild it in the back-up sources. i need to get it done before sunrise.

and, today's period 3.1 update post is for the bedroom cassette demos (inri077). this is likely complete.

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inri077. 

these are some demos that i recorded on my 4-track in sarah and heather's apartment on dalhousie in ottawa in late 2003.  

initially, the only thing i transferred was a section that became "like divine amoebas", because i was using it, directly. i seem to have lost that tape, but i have found a second tape with an early version of the lost symphony and added it to the ep. it's not currently immediately clear if there are further demos from this period in the other room in a pile of boxes or not.

released november 1, 2003 

so, the pattern recently has been that i sit down for a minute after eating and pass out...

i jumped ahead to period 3.1, but it's going to be probably until early august before i can move into period 3.2. so, let's finish the daily postings...

this is inri070, which is a 2xcd that has the soundblaster mixes from 2001/2002 on one side and completed vst mixes on the other. 

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back in 2001, and bleeding into about 2003, i wrote a number of tracks into a scorewriter with the explicit intent of eventually having them performed by live ensembles. at the beginning of 2014, i decided that this wasn't likely to ever actually happen and went about completing the tracks in finalized forms - which happened over 2014 and 2015. 

my initial plan for this compilation was to produce a record of midi compositions mapped to modern vst instruments as a "chiptune" (not literally) project, and have it double a record of fully realized versions of the tracks. as i went about completing the project, i began to realize that these vst versions were not sufficiently different enough from the finalized versions to justify a separate album and consequently aborted the project. 

however, something that's happened since 2001 is that a more mature market has developed for midi-generated music, largely on the back of the success of the gaming industry. people have nostalgia for the sounds that their childhood gaming consoles made and an interest in listening to original music in the style of the soundtracks to those games. 

i need to be clear that these are not gaming soundtracks - they're a mix of various types of classical and jazz, taking in influences from across the musical spectrum but essentially none from gaming. gaming isn't a thing i've ever really done, and the little bit i've done has tended to act as an excuse for listening to music (i had a mild civ2 obsession in early high school). 

however, i feel that compiling a record of soundblaster mixes is something that could appeal to a specialized, niche audience and am going to put this record together for those people. i also feel it captures the headspace that i was in at the time. i've decided to mirror this soundblaster disc with the vst disc i was initially contemplating, to demonstrate where the technology has arrived at. 

all of these tracks also appear on a set of cross-listed singles, and most of them are sequenced into a record at some point. there's more info on the track pages. 

i've included the raw midi files in the download for further listening and modification. 

these tracks were written from 2001 to 2003 and in some cases rearranged over the course of 2014 and 2015. all disc 1 tracks rendered through a soundblaster live! device that was manufactured c.1999. all disc 2 tracks created in cubase with vst software synthesizer technology. the compilation date is may 14, 2015. disc finalized as lp019 on jan 13, 2018. as always, please use headphones. 

his release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2001, 2002, 2003, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018). 

released april 29, 2003 

j - controller inputs, programming, composition, digital wave editing, effects processing, production 

the various rendered electronic orchestras include acoustic bass, synth bass, electric bass, flute, clarinet, brass, trumpet, trombone, tuba, soprano saxophone, orchestra hit, violin, cello, string section (tremolo), drum machine, electronic drum kit, hand drums, finger snaps, nylon guitar, electric guitar (distorted, clean), steel string acoustic guitar, fret noise, sitar, banjo, pc card clavinet, music box, piano, organ, bells, synthesizers, mellotron and choir.

inri076

so, it's uploaded now and it's staying there.

i think that, of the pieces not yet released, this one is the most emotionally difficult to let into the public listening sphere. it was a long time ago...

if it's not obvious, the track is pretty sardonic. but, this is also, like, just pure sound art - i was feeling fucked up and just wanted to capture it best i could.

do i sound like sean in the recording? well, sean admitted he was trying to sound like me in the first place. the rabit working relationship was always sort of weird, as i was in total control of the whole process from the very start, so sean sounded the way he did because i made him sound that way (and he never figured out how to recreate that, if he actually wanted to). what is true is that there is some lingering feeling from that part of the discography, which had at that point just closed down a few months previous. but, i never released this until today, and it doesn't linger much longer than this.

that noise file i found from 2004 actually uses the same jx-8p sound effect i used in this track, and there's a conceptual idea i wanted to document that's kind of lingering, so i will probably add a noise composition to the start of this that is based on that existing file. that works out quite well.

i'm past due to eat....

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inri076 will be a short single with the early version of eleventh dimension (& all you need...) 

soul swap piece? 

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i'll do a write-up for this a little later. 

for now, i'm just going to point out that my brain sort of broke in the middle of 2003, and this was the result of it. it sort of speaks for itself in some sense. 

i think maybe two people have heard this.... 

the second track got cleaned up and used for the start of the interplanetary isomorphism (the third trivial group symphony), but the first track just got completely discarded - and there's lots of reasons for that that we'll go over later. 

what i've done in 2021, for now, is remaster the track to turn the vocals down. the track is otherwise bitwise identical (excluding some intentional clipping). 

i may write an original piece to precede this to close it. 

written & recorded in 2003. remastered in 2021. inri076. 

as always, please use headphones.

released september 1, 2003 

j - guitars, drum programming, digital wave editing, synthesizers, electric mandolin, vocals

alright, this is on it's way up a few hours later than i wanted it to be but so be it.

i've never released this before...

....and this is, i think, unlike anything i'd ever done previously. i'm lucky to have an archive like this - i don't tend to repeat myself, creatively. so, let it begin - this is period 3.1...

*deep breath*

(like anybody's listening, anyways.)