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I did a new track for Jay Tholen's new video game Hypnospace Outlaw. I was supposed to be pretending to be a 90's alt folk band, which I may or may not have been successful at. I like how the song turned out though. https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/satellite-orchestral
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Oh yeah I also did a couple for the Frog Fractions 2 ARG a bit ago that I don't think I ever shared here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aRywOf5mIM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm5Q0lco4Zw They were supposed to be recordings left over after some sort of apocalypse on Bug Mars. Some of the weird compositional choices are driven by puzzles built into the music.
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Y'all my goofy little ten dollar stop motion video for my song Too Weird For You just won Best Animation at a film festival in LA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDhTbRTZuWg I think it beat out a field consisting of two other videos, but  I still get a trophy.e: Got a friend to go pick up the trophy in question and it looks like it was made to impale a home invader.  I love it. Trig Discipline fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Jun 19, 2019 |
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Jun 18, 2019 12:00
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Hope y'all don't mind if I make it weird up in here. https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/come-closer
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Aug 19, 2019 18:05
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I'm https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/survival-machines-reprise
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Jan 5, 2020 05:31
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Still on my robot opera bullshit https://soundcloud.com/j0sephwb
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Apr 26, 2020 01:24
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Trig Discipline posted:Still on my robot opera bullshit How did I gently caress this up so badly? That is the link to a completely different person's page. This is what I meant to link: https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/wake-my-love
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Apr 27, 2020 10:24
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It's my way of staying under the radar to keep my music untainted by commercial success.
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Apr 27, 2020 15:21
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I've been playing around with using the R interface for Google's speech-to-text API to sample spoken word for my weird samplefuckery projects. I bring you David Attenborough talking about monsters. https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/attenboroughs-monsters
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May 10, 2020 07:51
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I need to know how you did this. Or I'm just gonna steal your work and sample the gently caress out of it, your choice. :P Yeah this is different from text-to-speech; I'm only using things Attenborough actually said and re-compiling them into a new narrative. I used Audition to break Attenborough's "Life Stories" into a bunch of short chunks of dialogue, then used an R package that interfaces with Google's speech-to-text API to get the content of those chunks in text. Then I name the files for each chunk by their content, so I end up with a folder that looks like this:  From there the process of assembling them into a story is like those refrigerator magnet poetry sets. There's some fine tuning that has to be done to make it sound natural, but that's the gist of it. I should probably do a Youtube tutorial someday. The cool bit is that using the speech-to-text approach makes assembling the library incredibly easy, and that used to be the rate-limiting step. When I did Son of Strelka and Hardcore Prophecy, each of those projects started with literally years (at a rate a couple of hours a week) of slowly working through source material and extracting bits I thought might be useful. I just did an amount of Attenborough text equivalent to what I did for Son of Strelka in two hours. In case you don't know what I'm talking about : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Any38uNUelM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGYeTmHHZQM The part that I've just automated is what's going on in the first 1:30 of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTSFDMfEjqQ It's the most work and least fun of the whole process, so I'm super happy to have it out of the way!
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May 12, 2020 00:47
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So Math posted:That is super clever. Thanks! There's something really fun about the process of dumpster diving for samples and trying to get them to tell a story as opposed to just typing one out. There's an interaction with the source material that sort of a cross between a fight and a collaboration, and the story often ends up going in a completely different direction because of some key sample or other. Voice synthesis technology is getting so good that it's almost an obsolete art form at this point, though, so we'll see if there's still a niche for this stuff in a few years.
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May 13, 2020 01:04
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I spent the day learning to animate a cardboard version of myself. It's a rough draft, but it's fun as heck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYcfd814e0
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May 30, 2020 10:00
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Hey thanks! You've got a lovely voice, just FYI. Now I want some strawberries though. 
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May 31, 2020 13:22
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AccountSupervisor posted:Welp, if the forums die I just want to thank everyone here for listening to my music. My entire journey as a recording musician was launched here. Ive played shows with goons. Ive had goons license my music and use it for their podcasts. Very much the same. I have made friends and collaborations through this site that have been responsible for a decent chunk of my solo music career. And I was holding off on this announcement until the content drop is imminent, but just in case: the next update for Hypnospace Outlaw is going to have a lot of new tracks from me in it (as Barnaby/Barnaby's Chair). It's one of the most fun musical things I've done in a minute, and I owe that connection to the forums too. Buy it if you haven't already, replay it if you have once the content update comes out.
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Jun 25, 2020 02:17
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Yeah if you want something full-featured that's cheap, Reaper is the way to go. There are other options that are nicer to work in but they cost a lot more.
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Jul 29, 2020 06:14
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The Hypnospace Outlaw update is coming out next week, and it has five new tracks from me in it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgdVTxbRrb4
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Aug 19, 2020 00:57
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Okay this is a sad one. I wrote this song about four years ago when I was approaching the end of a postdoc fellowship and didn't yet have another job lined up, and was contemplating what to do if I wasn't able to continue my academic career. At the same time I was talking to my family back home about how my brother's health was failing, and the abysmal quality of care he was receiving because he had the misfortune of being poor in America's healthcare system. I wrote this song in maybe thirty minutes and recorded it in the voice memos on my iPad so that I'd remember it. It's not precisely about his situation or mine, but it's not NOT about that either. For some reason the other day this song came back into my head, and I thought about rerecording it. When I went back to the iPad recording from four years ago, though, I found that I really liked it despite how noisy and rough it was - there was something about getting it down when all of those feelings were fresh that I really liked. So in the end I just added a bit of piano and a bit of organ to reinforce what was already there; other than that it's what I recorded on the day I wrote it. https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/how-long-can-you-keep-this-going It's gotten a pretty decent response given how rough it is. I should probably post off-the-cuff lo-fi stuff more often.
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Nov 14, 2020 15:14
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Yeah absolutely. I enjoy the process of arranging music so much that I tend to get very detailed and complex and sometimes forget how effective it can be to just hit record and do something simple and intimate. And thanks!
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Nov 14, 2020 16:51
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Cheese Thief posted:I like your Iron and Wine sound. High praise! They were a huge influence on me way back when; the entire reason I initially learned to fingerpick was because I became obsessed with Our Endless Numbered Days in grad school. I guess it's still pretty obvious when I strip away all the bells and whistles.
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Nov 17, 2020 22:27
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Cheese Thief posted:On the topic of Iron & Wine, I had a burned cd I got in 2004 of an album called "Home Recordings," which were his 4track tapes. That was the only album I liked, but I liked it a whole lot as a fan of the low fidelity and raw sound. Not that I disliked his other releases, but none of them were as good as his home recordings. I can't find it anywhere, not on youtube. I probably have the cd out in the garage somewhere but poo poo, no cd player. If you heard it I'm sure you'd like it. A lot of his old 4 track stuff was released as The Creek Drank the Cradle and The Sea and the Rhythm, have you heard those? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTsbNMRQa1E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRGwJrGldkA
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Nov 23, 2020 18:30
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Cheese Thief posted:Yep, those are classic. His actual bedroom tapes is what I'm after, the demos of those versions. Anyway, it's just funny to have disappeared from the internet. Maybe I had a rare bootleg release back then, or something. Ah, right on then. Also ditto on the banjo - I'm not a great banjist by any means but it's such a great lonely sound in the right context.
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Nov 24, 2020 14:21
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I think I'm finally nearing the end of production on my robot opera Evergreen. Here's the track that started it all. https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/sail-or-anchor-1 BTW if y'all are struggling with a mix you should check out Gullfoss. They've got a fully functional 2 week trial and it just solved so many mix problems for me all at once with this album that I am buying it the second I get the money together.
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Dec 12, 2020 02:35
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Good stuff as usual. Looking forward to the full release. baby puzzle posted:It is giving me Ratboy Genius vibes. (That is a very good thing.) Thanks y'all! Never heard Ratboy Genius, but I'll check it out!
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Dec 12, 2020 11:48
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Hey my weird vocoder opera thing that I've been posting tracks from off and on is out now and I made a thread for it. Please check it out if you can!
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Mar 15, 2021 00:37
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I'm writing stuff for my next album now and doing more lo-fi living room demos. This one is about admiring someone who takes big risks (in this case going along with a potential alien abduction like "heh why not"). It's one of my favorite things I've written in a while. https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/rough-living-room-demo-youll-know This one is either a really depressing song about not wanting to feel anything OR is about literal zombies, I'm not actually sure. I also don't know whether it's half-finished or just short. Probably not destined for the album though. https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/living-room-demo-leave-the-living-to-the-living Trig Discipline fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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Apr 28, 2021 08:01
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I've been making ambient/drone music lately and I don't know why. It's not a genre I actually listen to much. In this one a giant sea monster comes ashore but it just asks you to slow dance. Then it drags you under the waves. https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/leviathan-junior This one is about those moments between hitting the snooze button and the alarm going off a second time. https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/acoustichoral In this one you are a sock in one of those super energy efficient washing machines that stops and starts a lot for no clear reason. https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/whale-dropper
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May 23, 2021 01:55
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OutOfPrint posted:My 2nd full length synth driven punk/new wave album, Technicolor Dreamboat, is out now! God drat, this rules.
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Jul 11, 2021 02:57
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Baptismal hymn for a robot https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/robot-baptism
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Sep 28, 2021 06:46
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I made a long ambient thing that turns into a sort of slowcore vocoder song about how the universe cannot tolerate true nothingness. https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/work-in-progress-nothing-never-lasts-forever
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Dec 3, 2021 00:05
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Last week I was playing around with sampling some sounds from an old data cassette as well as an XDR toneburst. I ended up using those sampler instruments to flesh out a bit of music I'd already been working on, and the end result sounds like a discarded and poorly weathered cassette of some old video game music. https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/spaghetti-code
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Jan 8, 2022 01:07
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I think I accidentally made prog https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/sargasso
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Feb 7, 2022 08:33
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I'm back with a bit of health and wellness advice for you all https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/introduction-to-home-acupuncture
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Mar 24, 2022 02:15
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baby puzzle posted:It gives me “be your own dentist” vibes. You know what, I was thinking exactly that when I was in the process of mixing it!
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I don't know where else to put this so I'm putting it here. Tumblr has launched a "promoted post" feature called Blaze, which is kinda unique in that it is completely UN-targeted (except inasmuch as tumblr itself is a bit of a narrow slice of humanity). On a whim I decided to chuck a couple of bucks at promoting a post about my last album and I have gotten more click-throughs, reblogs, likes, etc. from that than I have from any other advertising I've ever done. People are very positive about the music, but even more they seem very excited about the fact that someone is using Blaze to promote anything artistic; at this point it seems to mostly be used for people to promote their favorite shitposts. Anyway if you're looking for somewhere to plug your stuff it's worth a shot.
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Apr 27, 2022 22:35
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BEEF https://soundcloud.com/danwarren/beef
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Sep 2, 2022 03:56
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Now a hit music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPrs5Go9GUU
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One of the wild things about being on Spotify is that sometimes someone will add you to a list or blog post or podcast and suddenly your # monthly listeners goes up and you have no idea why. On a couple of days in (IIRC) April of last year something happened that drove my monthly listeners from about 5-600 in an average month to 14-1500. The even weirder thing is that it's never gone back down, I still get about that many people every month. I have no idea what happened but I'm very happy about it. Even stranger is the end of the year Spotify Wrapped stuff, where it turns out that I was maybe a half dozen people's most listened-to artist for the entire year. I don't know who these absolute weirdos are but that's about the nicest completely unintended and anonymous compliment I have ever received.
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