I was interviewed by Sam (@ethicalrevolution@climatejustice.social) about my new album offbeat over on #NHAM.
As I wrote on Mastodon in what turned out to be an interminable chronicle of the making of offbeat :
I’ve never released an album. I write and publish individual songs that progressively outline and become part of albums, sometimes jumping around from one album to the next.
But collaborating on projects on the fedi has taught me something I usually lack : patience. Weeks or months often go by between the moment I finish a song and its release.
Which has probably put me in the necessary headspace to think of a whole album before I’ve actually finished any of the songs.
So the other day, I was playing around with an entirely different UI paradigm for my music site, and got pretty far along, and then I hit a snag.
I searched and scoured the slop-riddled Web and didn’t find answers to my questions.
After a while, that duck.ai link started tugging at my willpower...
In the first post in this series, I explained why I used PHP to generate the playlist of my new hand-crafted music site from a large-ish XML file, instead of doing it locally like I used to (damn you Chrome and Firefox for dropping XSLT support!)
Thing is, depending on the speed of your device and your internet connection, it takes a few short seconds for PHP to do it’s thing on the server, before sending the result in one go to your browser.
And this slight delay has been nagging at me since day one.
So, thanks to @limebar@mastodon.social and @scy@chaos.social who implemented this feature for TIBR and TIBtv, I discovered how to send metadata to the system media player when you play my music on my site (using the Media Session API).
What this means is that you can now see the title, artist and artwork in your system player when you play a song on sknob.fr/music.
It could have ended there, but that’s when things got out of hand...
Hot on the heels of my smash hit Ukulele Bonk video (and my sleeper hit Bercée d’illusions video), I am pleased and proud to present a new, hand-animated video for my 2024 track Driven By Desire about making art in the age of slop machines.
Hot on the heels of my Ukulele Bonk video, which went kind of viral for a few days among my followers on Mastodon, comes a simpler, more subdued video for Bercée d’illusions, a song from my last EP that I’m particularly fond of.
Well that escalated quickly.
I made a video for Ukulele Bonk, my contribution to The Four Seasons of Bonk Wave: A Midsummer Bonk’s Dream 1, in a single cold winter day, and barely a week after the launch of The Indie Beat Television.