#music #musique #fediverse in #english
So I usually chronicle my musical adventures on this blog, but between the three-month-long heatwave and the adventures themselves, it just dawned on me that I had totally neglected to keep up. So I’ll hopefully be catching up over the next few days, starting with this post.
Since I’m often asked this question, I’m going to be lazy and publish answers I posted on the bonkwave forum a while back:
I don’t remember where I read, ages ago, about how when faced with a choice, if you make a carefully thought out and well-reasoned rational decision, then logically, any other rational person confronted with the same choice will follow the same logic and come to the same decision.
Which in a weird way creates a moral, societal obligation to follow the logic and make the rational choice.
The problem of course, is that most people aren’t rational. Or to be more precise, reason isn’t the only or even the main driver when making choices (or forging an opinion, etc.).
#music #musique #album in #english
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.
#blogpost #music #coding in #english
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.
#blogpost #music #coding in #english
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...
#music #musique #video in #english
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.