Tuesday, November 21, 2017

i've said before that i think that bill clinton should have just admitted it. but, that had to do with the consensual aspects of his accusations.

my understanding of the lewinsky situation is that it wasn't just consensual, but she actually thought she was in a serious relationship with him - that she was stealing him from hillary. and, i have a hard time believing that he in any way broadcast that. i don't think there's any question that there was a power imbalance at work. but, you can only take the situation so far before you run into a set of fantasies on the other side. if the truth is that what lewinsky actually wanted was more than what bill was willing to offer, it's hard to consider that harassment, even if the power imbalance was at the crux of it. you can have eager consent in a relationship with a lopsided power imbalance, too. and, what bill is consequently really guilty of, here, is leading her on - hardly an actual crime.

correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't recall any accusations of actual assault surfacing while bill clinton was in office, or any correctional bodies dealing with anything of the sort. it was just about the question of whether extramarital sex is immoral. and, on that point, you have to defend the president against the moral zealots, if you want any claim to being a liberal at all.

that's a separate issue to any claims of rape or assault. and, i've kind of heard of them, but haven't really looked into it much, and so don't have a real opinion on it. i'll remind you that i was a teenager at the time.

the one thing i have looked into is the lewinsky thing, and i'll double down that he should have just admitted it.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
the idea of a second jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj record was not something that remotely crossed my mind until i started seriously analysing my work from 2002. that was a separate idea; rabit is wolf separated it from the trivial group. however, remixed instrumental tracks over the rabit is wolf period slowly collected to the point that there was enough to justify a whole record. that wasn't a conscious choice at the outset, but it seems to be the conceptual framework collected on the record. i toyed with the idea of releasing it as a rabit remix record, but my influence over it is far too lopsided.

the thematic linkage with the first jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj record is a tendency to lean towards more "serious" ideas. there are strong influences from a few different types of classical music, including jazz, as well as some more modern electronic and noise influences. however, these songs lean more towards more palatable rock or techno based song structures and are less dependent on existing scores.

the stories for these songs are diverse and explained in more detail on the track pages.

these tracks are all based on existing demos from 2001-2002 that were initially intended to be completed with vocal parts and were remixed from july, 2014 to may, 2015 as purely instrumental recordings. final completion date is may 2, 2015. this is my sixth official record; disc finalized as lp014 on nov 21, 2017. as always, please use headphones.

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 (2001, 2002, 2014, 2015, 2017).
 

credits

released December 1, 2002

j - electric & acoustic guitars, electric bass guitar, effects, synths, electric air reed organ, digital piano, flute, voice, electronic drum kit, drum programming, drum manipulations, drum sampling, orchestral sequencing, sampling, loops, equalization, digital wave editing, sound design, production, composition.

sean - harmonica (2), melody (6)
greg - drum performance sample source (4)

the various rendered electronic orchestras include tuba, french horn, trombone, trumpet, english horn, saxophone, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, flute, orchestra hit, melodic toms, timpani, orchestral drum set, piano, agogo, tubular bells, glockenspiel, koto, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections. it also includes choir. 

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
actually, i think there's a decent possibility that this "interstellar asteroid" is a starship.

well, look at the evidence carefully.

you don't expect a rock to be able to do this.

certainly, if a large spaceship were to move into our solar system from outside of it, it would act roughly like this asteroid is acting.

but, we'll see whether it boomerangs out or not, eh?

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i may not have gone over this in this space.

it's a kind of synthesis. i'm not into false dichotomies.

so, here's how this works: up until 1980, for as far back as we could measure it, the global mean temperatures on earth moved in a very close correlation with the sun. so, when the sun got warmer, the temperatures went up. and, when the sun got cooler, the temperatures went down. it really wasn't complicated at all, in fact.

the sun is, after all, the source of virtually all natural heat on this planet. the atmosphere may trap some heat, but it has to come from somewhere. and, the sun is where essentially all of it comes from. this is really as obvious as it should be, intuitively.

but, starting in 1980 - and this is what the ipcc report is actually about - this correlation broke. what happened is that, for the first time on record, the sun got cooler - but temperatures went up. so, we would need to seek an alternate cause for that increase in temperatures, and that alternate cause appears to be - as best as we can tell - the increase in atmospheric carbon.

but, the sun has not stopped getting cooler since 1980. rather, the cooling has actually accelerated, to the point where it's created some alarm amongst certain solar scientists.

i've pointed out repeatedly that my background is in mathematics, and i'm just dabbling when it comes to climate change. but, a background in math means you can read just about anything - what it does is cut the learning curves down. and, i don't have difficulties understanding published papers in climate science, because of that. so, i've read a few.

it's not that decreasing the total amount of energy from the sun has any effect on the amount that is absorbed, exactly. this is measured in w/m^2, and it's not a big difference, relatively, even if you account for the large number of metres squared over the area that the sun hits, which is in the northern hemisphere, because the earth is tilted. in theory, if the sun turned off, sure - but these are small fluctuations. so, if you live in australia, total solar irradiance will not have much of an effect on the weather you experience. but, the weather we experience here in southern canada is driven almost entirely by the jet stream, and the dominant factor that controls how the jet stream behaves is, in fact, how much energy you're getting from the sun.

as we are in an interglacial, the earth is in fact in constant threat of snowballing. how would the earth snowball, if it were to do so? what would happen is that the arctic air masses would reach out from the poles until they reached each other, enveloping the earth in total frozenness. and, the sun would need some extra help in unfreezing the earth at that point. sunlight wouldn't be enough. it would need the warm air masses, some how, like maybe via an increase in atmospheric carbon, to help trap in heat from an internal source, like a volcano.

what keeps this cold air bottled up is sunlight. well, again, not exactly - the sunlight triggers a reaction in the atmosphere, and it's then the jetstream that keeps it bottled up. but, you can think of this like you think of photosynthesis: it is essentially a function of the sunlight. in the summer, the arctic air mass shrinks to directly around the pole, as a consequence of the increase in sunlight. and, in the winter, the air mass expands as a consequence of a decrease in sunlight.

every year at the bottom of the winter, we get dangerously close to the trigger point. and, what global warming is doing is exaggerating the shrinkage involved in bottling the air masses up.

but, these are the two extremes - it works in degrees, too.

so, when the northern hemisphere gets less sunlight, the arctic air masses that the sunlight bottles up are more able to escape, which they are constantly seeking to do. then, you get colder winters  - and blicky summers - in the areas dominated by the northern jetstream, which often runs close to the us-canada border in north america.

we're entering a solar minimum in one of the weakest cycles we've ever seen. that is going to make it that much easier for the arctic air to escape downwards. and, that is the crux of your forecast of a winter dominated by polar air masses - vortexes, if you will - moving into the inhabited areas of north america.

but, i'm skeptical that this dominates the winter, because we still have so much warm air in the oceans, as a result of the global warming. look at the hurricanes we had this year. there's a lot of heat, there, and it's not able to dissipate like it used to.

so, what you get is a tug of war between the cold arctic masses pushing down and the warm ocean air pushing up - which is technically tautological. that's every winter. except the extremes are both intense, right now.

if emissions continue as they are, and the sun comes back, we're going to get really, really hot all at once. but, if the sun stays weak for the next several decades, this particular area of the planet is probably going to avoid a lot of the warming effects in the short run, as these cold air masses are allowed to run rampant.

no trend in reality is monolithic. or, to take some poetic license with newton: there's always a counterforce.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i'm not at all excited about the possibility of a "classic winter".

thankfully, i think this is mostly just oil industry propaganda, although the next couple of winters are going to be a kind of tug of war in canada, as the strengthening greenhouse effect fights against a decrease in total solar irradiance for influence over the jet stream.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
i'm considering doing a pop record, and calling it "music for children".

jagmeet singh must his beard.
so, where am i on this?

i printed inri061 & inri062 yesterday, and the ink still seems fine, although the printer seems to be wasting more & more of it by the day.

61 was a big item, and needed a lot of cyan, and i screwed up 62 on the first print. so, i've already printed around 30 pages and 8 discs, and i'm only a third down. if i get 100 pages out of it, that's $0.20/page. and that's more like something i can budget around, long term.

i need to go in the other room to finish the back for aleph-14, which is the 5th flac dvd disc. 63 is the record, and it's done. then, there's the box set, which is more typing. 64 is the flying single, which is done - but is also the first 2003 release, and the first trivial group release. it's a definite shift. but, the period doesn't end until may, when i leave for bc. 65 is refractions, which is the last one of these that will require any serious input into expansion, and may end up as a 2xcd set.

after that, there's a string of several compilation records that will need to be finalized all at once. that really closes period 2.

but, the last release in this string of items is my eighth symphony, the reflections ep, which i need to expand to be comprehensive. that is dated to may 1, 2003 and represents the absolute end of my second period.

period 3 will pick back up again in september, 2003, after i've come back home and had some time to lose my mind a little bit more. i don't know if i'll get to this before the 1st or not. but, the material coming after this has not been recently published, and in some cases hasn't ever been published.

i need to prioritize the alter-reality. and, the move is going to mean reconstructing all of the electronics in my life. so, this material may sit for a while.

but, i'm turning a corner on this. soon. very soon.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.
purchasing this release does not come with a download.

inri054: recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. track 6 was constructed in may, 2004 out of files recorded 1999-2001. tracks 1-4 were reconstructed over october, 2014. final mixes were finished on october 18, 2014. disc closed on oct 30, 2017.

inri055: written in early 2002 and recorded in early 2002 and late 2014. the final fuck boxes mixes were finished on nov 15, 2014. the gentle mix was created and then left stranded on may 24, 2015. the ambient mix and the guitar mix were rendered on nov 1, 2017. disc finalized on nov 1, 2017.

inri056: written & recorded in late 2001 and early 2002 and mixed in early 2002 and late 2014. the final mix was finished on nov 18, 2014. the uncorrupted mix was created on nov 18, 2014 and then cut up into the unstuck mix, but not added to the release until nov 2, 2017. the lorentz factor mix and the separated from mix were rendered on nov 2, 2017. disc finalized on nov 2, 2017.

inri057: written and recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. initially sequenced in may, 2002. released in slightly different forms from 2002-2014. resequenced to mimic the original sequencing on november 8, 2014. except to sequence the record, these files have not been altered since 2002. disc finalized as lp013 on nov 3, 2017.

inri058: written over 2001 and rethought repeatedly over 2002, again in 2007, a third time in 2009 and one last time in late 2014. final mixes were completed over the last week of november and the first week of december, 2014. the concept was rethought on nov 3, 2017, which led to the inclusion of five more mixes (from 2002, 2009, 2014, 2015 and 2017) and an expansion from two cds to four cds. disc finalized as symph007 on nov 12, 2017.

inri059: written and recorded in late 2001 and the first half of 2002. mildly remixed in november, 2014 to make the tracks more presentable; nothing substantial was altered, and no new sound was recorded. final mixes were on november 19, 2014. disc released on physical media and finalized as inri059 on nov 14, 2017.

inri060: written in august, 2002. track one was mildly remixed on dec 12, 2014; two and three were uploaded unmodified. final completion date is dec 12, 2014. disc finalized on nov 14, 2017.

inri061 :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.

inri062: this track was written in late 2002 and completed over april and may, 2015. final completion date is may 11, 2015. disc finalized on nov 20, 2017.

originally created over the course of 2002, with some files dating to late 2001. this compilation is dated to nov 30, 2002. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2014-2017. compilation finalized on nov 21, 2017. as always, please use headphones.
 

credits

released November 30, 2002

j - guitars (electric, acoustic, nylon), electric bass, electric mandolin, sequencers, synthesizers, drum & melodic & orchestral programming, electric air reed organ, digital piano, flute, regular drum kit, electronic drum kit, sampling, digital and analog effects processing, sound design, soundscaping, loops, granular synthesis, noise generators, voice, vocoders, drum & vocal manipulations, digital wave editing, equalizers, production, composition.

sean - vocals/lyrics (inri054-inri059, inri061), harmonica (inri054, inri057), ring modulator (inri057-inri058), vocal concept (inri062)
greg - drum performance sample source (inri056-inri058)
jon - guitar performance (inri057)
bob - hammering (inri058)

the various rendered electronic orchestras include acoustic bass, synth bass, electric bass, brass, french horn, trombone, trumpet, tuba, english horn, saxophone, flute, oboe, piccolo, clarinet, bassoon, orchestra hit, drum machine, electronic drum kit, nylon guitar, electric guitar (distorted & clean), acoustic guitar, synthesizers, synthesizer effects, 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, harp, koto, piano, bells, mellotron, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections. there is also choir. 
 
 
jagmeet singh must his beard.
the premise of categorizing shawn mendes as "adult contemporary" speaks volumes towards the juvenilization of our culture.

this is something that ought to appeal strictly to eight year-olds.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.