I shouldn't have been cranking that tinnitus knob all those years.
06.03.2026 01:43
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I shouldn't have been cranking that tinnitus knob all those years.
"This goes to 14". Nigel Tufnel, eat your heart out!
Makes sense to me.
Yay!
Mazzy Star: "I'll just play the chords to Dylan's "Knocking on Heaven's Door" and put new words on top. No one will notice.
Just takes a ton of practice. I got frustrated with fretless because my intonation was unreliable, moved to movable frets for microtonal stuff, came back to fretless with dedication and got much better. Now I use both, depending on the need.
we seem to be looking at the surface of a Jupiter-like planet. Curves of various colors cross the canvas from top left to bottom right implying a circle center below and to the left of the canvas. What is perhaps a moon floats above and is composed of various colored concentric circles. A black spot is above and to the right of the moon, and could be its shadow or maybe a smaller moon. Thin hazy clouds of gas streak across all of the forementioned.
Last one from yesterday. I'm not too sure about this one. Not that I'm all that sure about any of them, but this one especially. I might just do something completely different over it.
yellow splotchy background with vague marks scattered over in black, green, red, orange. A light blue and red circle is in the top corner and swirls of red emanate from it in parallel spirals to just past the middle of the canvas.
One more from yesterday... (one more is coming, I haven't photographed yet):
mostly green strokes curve from top left to bottom right, with a smudgy appearance. Two curved black lines cross the curves from top right to almost bottom left. A black set of concentric circles or a spiral (it's indistinct) sits in the bottom left.
A third yesterday painting... different style this time:
layers of multicolored squiggles, darker ones on the right are dark green and blue with bits of bright red... top left is composed of mostly yellows and greens.
Another yesterday painting... this one was really hard to photograph, it just won't come out right:
mostly green squiggles over red squiggly blotch over a yellow background
Made a few paintings yesterday, this one is my favorite of the bunch:
Enjoying this, but I was expecting something noisier... Lydia's not playing guitar. This is good but that would have taken it further.
This one looks more like the one you want (not the same) but it's kind of expensive: www.aliexpress.us/item/3256809...
Not exactly the same, but should do the job and is cheap:
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Just played with my kid, two days ago. They still make it. Used to play with my brothers, as a kid.
I'm seeing more of a northern lights kind of thing than snow. I like it. I get the sense that the purple came first, as abstract, and the trees came and defined the scene. I've been wrestling with similar ideas, if that's the case, and trending toward staying in the abstract.
I didn't know they had gears in the 13th century. Those illustrations are beautiful.
Sluggo is a conceptual artist.
Looks cool but kind of expensive. I do something similar by converting guitar or bass or whatever to MIDI. I'm sure you can find MIDI sounds meant to emulate mellotron samples. The pedal would be a lot more convenient for live.
Is that an Ovaltine cup?
The third is a minor 3rd plus 42 cents. I don't know how close or far that is from JI thirds. It has a bluesy character to it by itself that you can only get in 12 by bending notes or playing the major and minor thirds off each other.
14 edo is one of my favorite tunings (usually as 7 edo with selected additional flavorings). No closer to JI than 12, but it has a great sound with unique character, and 7 edo has precedence in traditional music in at least a few places in West Africa and is very likely IMO a precursor to blues.
Or go fretless. If it means that much to be in tune in JI terms, it's the only viable option. The technical skill it takes to do complex polyphonic music this way is pretty much superhuman, though. Not a problem for monophonic with the occasional double-stop. Look to violin, cello, oud, etc.
If your guitar is intonated properly at the bridge, you should have no problem being in tune across the neck, across strings, if "in tune" = 12 edo.
Just for context, I'm someone who has built numerous microtonal instruments and explored many microtonal tunings.
Meh. Depends on your definition of "in tune". JI is in tune in terms of math/physics, but that ignores neuroscience. Our synaptic pathways develop such that the tuning system one is exposed to up til ~age 11 is encoded as in tune, and everything else as out, so for most ppl, 12 edo = in and JI = out
Haven't heard that name in forever. I have a cassette tape somewhere, recorded from vinyl when I engineered a radio show at WHRW many moons ago. The Z is for Zusaan, if I recall correctly.
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What if someone feels like most, or even all, people are personally relatable? Then you could still have broad taste while keeping with that restriction.
someone to milk your yak... make you a snack
