Scripting day!
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One of the most interesting parts of the tetrad is the quadrant regarding obsolescence because this is where you can find luxury as well. An easy example of this is how books are now obsolete as popular entertainment which makes them into valid luxury items for Miu Miu’s book club. The other most delicious part of of the tetrad (in our opinion) is the quandrant describing what the media object reverses into when pushed to its limit – which is also the trickiest part.
Here is an excellent tetrad from our workshop participant Paris Parker-Loan.
An Egregore (also spelled egregor; from French égrégore, from Ancient Greek ἐγρήγορος, egrēgoros ‘wakeful’) is a concept in Western esotericism of a non-physical entity or thoughtform that arises from the collective thoughts and emotions of a distinct group of individuals.
See also:
- The Tetrad Of The Compass: Obsolesces Stars
- https://orbitaloperations.beehiiv.com/p/waiting-land?utm_source=orbitaloperations.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=waiting-to-land
chroma by fields we found. It’s a misty summer morning of a thing, which makes a nice change right now.
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It is a touch nippy. Looks like it’ll be a week before I can break ground in the garden. Got sucked into reading the news.
LISTENING: NEW MUSIC SHOW – New Year New Sounds
Comments closedFrom Memorial by Olhava. A little bit of fire to start the year.
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I asked for the Snowsky Echo Mini DAP (digital audio player) for Xmas. I got the Snowsky Retro Nano DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) instead, because it turns out those two devices look exactly the fucking same in pictures.
A DAC improves and amplifies digital music and allows it to be pumped through wired headphones. You can Bluetooth it to a networked device or USB it for a hard connection to a computer or anything with a USB-C hole.
My office speakers are actually an ancient Altec Lansing inMotion portable set that is no longer made. They connect to the computer through the computer’s headphone jack. I Bluetoothed the Retro Nano to my phone and plugged the speakers into the Retro Nano’s headphone jack. Suddenly all the podcasts trapped on my phone sound better.
There’s an app that goes with it called FiiOMusic, which can set equalisers – I’m on iPhone, so the app can only reach what’s in iTunes. I experimented with “Breath Of Odin” by Julian Cope, and on the “classical” setting it picks out all kinds of sound detail that is otherwise barely there just playing the mp3.
I was a little frustrated that I didn’t get the mp3 player – the sound is great on the cheap player I picked up last year but the UI is awkward – but I am finding uses for the DAC and I suspect I will uncover more. The thing comes with a lanyard, so you can hang it around your neck, plug earbuds or 4.4mm IEMs into it, Bluetooth it to your phone and then walk away from your phone and just listen. Which has an appeal to me these days.
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Everything froze. Had to thaw the chickens’ water trough. Mancub came outside, got to the frozen grass, said “fuck this” and turned and quickly went back inside.
TODAY:
- US launches ‘large-scale strike’ on Venezuela and captures President Maduro
- How will the mass protests that are convulsing Iran unfold?
- Reddit overtakes TikTok in UK thanks to search algorithms and gen Z
OPERATIONS: by and large, a notebook day. I had the kernel of an idea for something last month, and today I want to see if I can work it up into something that makes sense. My eyes are a bit fried from spending hours in three versions of the same basic story document yesterday, trying to see if they can all be combined into the basis of something useful for a particularly peculiar project offer that was made to me in November.
STATUS: Inbox 90, need to whittle that later. Had a weird dream last night about starting a daily newsletter. Who dreams about doing a new newsletter? The 2020s have poisoned my brain.
READING: PIRATE ENLIGHTENMENT, David Graeber. (UK) (US+)
LISTENING:
Errant Space Podcast 129: December Drones with wormlogo
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Comments closedI got gifted these two records by Such Sweet Records just before Xmas.
SUCH SWEET THUNDER is very much a chill-out record, improvised electroacoustic ambient. There’s quite a range in the three pieces on here, a collection of soundscapes that transition cleverly. I’m reminded of a few other people – there’s a flash of guitar work that made me think of Windy and Carl – but it’s very much its own thing.
FRUTIGER AERO is a shorter piece – I have to say, I’m usually allergic to saxophone, that most abused of instruments, the skronk criminal and soundtrack to every shit thriller from the eighties and nineties. But here it is pleasingly textural and carefully applied. I’m very pleased with both of these and very grateful to Such Sweet.
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