song-titles meme

I wasn't gonna, but then I was lying awake last night because Steve Tibbetts song titles wouldn't let me alone.

1. Are you male or female? "Glass Everywhere"
2. Describe yourself: "Walking"
3. How do some people feel about you? "Travel Alone"
4. How do you feel about yourself? "Form"
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend/interest: "Sunrise"
6. Where would you rather be? "Aerial View"
7. Describe what you want to be: "Your Cat"
8. Describe how you live: "Name Everything"
9. Describe how you love: "Mile 234"
10. Share a few words of wisdom: "Clear Day and No Memories"

And then I did Autechre.
1. Are you male or female? "left blank"
2. Describe yourself: "milk dx"
3. How do some people feel about you? "squeller"
4. How do you feel about yourself? "second bad vilbel"
5. Describe your girlfriend/boyfriend/interest: "eidetic casein"
6. Where would you rather be? "under BOAC"
7. Describe what you want to be: "netlon sentinel"
8. Describe how you live: "fold4,wrap5"
9. Describe how you love: "caliper remote"
10. Share a few words of wisdom: "nil"

seven-year-old web pages come 'round again

Oberheim's Matrix-6r (a digitally-controlled analog polysynth from the mid-80s) is a synth that will always have a place in my heart. It's not "route anything anywhere" like an analog modular, but the audio path includes osc sync and filter FM, there's three-and-a-half envs and two LFOs and a five-point interpolated modulation look-up table(!), and modulation is "route anything anywhere".

Reading a discussion on the music-dsp list of hard-synced and otherwise-synced oscillators prompted me to fill in a gap in a seven-year-old set of web pages (note reference to the Pro Audio Spectrum 16 soundcard). I'd done some analysis of the Matrix-6's output, giving the programmer a quantitative understanding and making for hacks like patching it to do 19-tone equal temperament. I'd also left a plea: "Do you know precisely what the three sync modes are? I don't have an oscilloscope, and would love to know what's going on here."

I still don't have a decent piece of oscilloscope software, but I futzed around with a sound editor for, yikes, a couple of hours, and managed to answer that old question. (almost)

When I go back from music-dsp to my inbox, I have mail about another seven-year-old web page. I had tried, and mostly failed, to write down the lyrics to Love Spirals Downwards's Ardour. This fellow reports he's spent a dozen hours listening to track 4 with headphones and EQ, and gives me his fragmentary transcript.

Ha.

I will update my pages. Perhaps tomorrow.

(And nowadays maybe I should go over all of them and make them use HTML tables. We're not running Mosaic on a pmax_ul43a anymore.)