neither sanders nor corbyn are leftists. they're at most center-left moderates. before history came to an end, they would have been in the mainstream of their respective parties.

i think we're just learning that the truth is that history isn't over, after all.

and, that maybe it was kind of....stupid....to think that it was.

rather, the elites have just steered the spectrum to a point of total disconnect - both from reality and from voters. this needs to be corrected.

we saw the same thing in canada, who maybe experienced the first correction. the liberals moved right in the 90s, along with everybody else. history was over! starting around 2004, the electorate started moving from the liberals to the ndp, the nominal left-wing protest party. this ended up electing the conservatives. the ndp got opposition status in 2011, even. it took the liberals ten years to figure out that we still have history to write, and realign themselves to the center-left.

there's a helluva campaign slogan:

"it's time to make history again."

i think that may be more than an ironic turn of phrase, too. i think it might have some serious potential to tap into something, to mobilize something.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/27/larry-bernie-sanders-jeremy-corbyn_n_8860508.html

26-12-2015: suicide is a personal choice & electronic pieces in a primitive style

tracks worked on in this vlog:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/suicide-is-a-personal-choice
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-pieces-in-a-primitive-style

carnigeon

written 1999-2000. reconstructed from electronics source files in dec, 2015.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/carnigeon

rept

these parts were all written and recorded over the first half of 2002. this section was remixed repeatedly in late 2014 and finally isolated and rendered in this form on dec 27, 2015.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/rept

insp

written in the summer of 2001. remembered over july, 2014. completed august-september, 2014. isolated on dec 27, 2015.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/insp

deus ici

initially written in 1996. recreated in mar, 1998. reclaimed july 20, 2015. corrected to control for malfunctioning electronics on dec 27, 2015.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/deus-ici

finalizing suicide is a personal choice

this track is now closed. this is the first time i've uploaded an instrumental version of the track, meaning i'm finally over the hump and moving forwards again.

this is not the file i rendered on july 20. however, i have not modified the cubase file since then, either. i was unable to create a null...

the common theme in being unable to recreate the output seems to be when i'm doubling tracks and rendering before i re-open the save. i'm going to guess that it's essentially a cascade of run-off and floating point errors; stuff ends up phased differently, routed differently, etc. i might be able to recreate the exact output if i stripped the project down completely and tried to recreate my steps, but...

...i can't hear the difference in an a/b, anyways. so i just rerendered.

regarding the phones...

i was testing with this track for quite a while this evening and led to the conclusion that it needs a bit of a boost in the high end, and a bit of a cut in the low end. but, before i actually saved over the project, i swapped back to the old phones to verify....and realized i was compensating for the exaggerated bottom end.

it would have been a mild cut - a db around 100 hz. but, it's enough that my ears picked it up, and i'm consequently swearing off mixing with them.

i don't want to reflect overly badly on the new phones. they otherwise sounded great. but the 440-IIs are just flat as saskatchewan, and the difference really was immediately noticeable. it's more that i'm used to mixing with very flat phones. like i'm a real producer or something.

the reality is that almost everything sounds better with a bit of a boost on the bottom, especially material that's been compressed to mp3. i will find a good use for these phones. but, i can't go from what would be $500+ studio phones today to $150 consumer phones and not notice the difference.

i knew that. i was just hoping i could maybe double with them in a pinch. and, i think i still might be able to. but i need to finish this project with my tinfoiled over archaic babies and hope a new cord fixes what ails them...

initially written in 1996. recreated over 1998 and finalized in dec, 1998. reclaimed july 20, 2015. corrected to control for malfunctioning electronics on dec 27, 2015.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/suicide-is-a-personal-choice


i mean, i gotta be clear...

the record sounds very dynamic through the new phones. it's a bass-heavy disc, and they do a good job of stretching it out without losing the rest of the spectrum. i'd recommend it, even.

but i can't mix with them, because they're not flat.

or, at least, i'd have to spend a long time getting used to them. and i'd rather fix my flat phones.

it's just a question of what the proper application is for a tool. you don't hammer a screw, right. and you don't mix with bassy phones. well, unless you make particularly lame hip-hop.

i think the proper application for this pair is stationary listening to material that has already been mastered, probably while reading or daydreaming. they really seem to be orthopedically designed for reclining. so, you'll get your extra db or two of bass without killing the rest of the signal, and it will mostly sound good.

but if you want totally flat phones, they don't do that.