live solo improv: super8 head

too late to regret

Not Vampires - 1 -- [2:58]
Not Vampires - 2 -- [7:51]
Not Vampires - 3 -- [5:21]
Not Vampires - 4 -- [6:48]
Not Vampires - 5 -- [5:58]
Not Vampires - 6 -- [6:54]
Not Vampires - 7 -- [7:20]
Not Vampires - 8 -- [8:33]
Not Vampires - 9 -- [4:09]
Not Vampires - 10 -- [7:55]
Not Vampires - 11 -- [8:43]
Not Vampires - 12 -- [3:12]
Not Vampires - 13 -- [13:57]

Decanted Youth - 1 -- [9:16]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Mother Night / Light Creeps (Instrumental) -- [11:32]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Sandman (Extended) -- [7:01]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Storms (Alt Feel) / The Squeeze -- [12:58]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Emerge / Technicalities / Light Creeps -- [15:54]
Decanted Youth - 6 -- [19:45]
Decanted Youth - 7 -- [13:45]
Decanted Youth - 8 -- [15:18]
Decanted Youth - 9 -- [6:01]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Guided by a Pamphlet / Private Hell -- [9:53]
Decanted Youth - 11 -- [6:05]

Decanted Youth - 1 -- [8:01]
Decanted Youth - 2 -- [16:46]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Untitled / Major Major Major (Slow) / Light Creeps -- [16:46]
Decanted Youth - 4 - What If We All Just Disappeared / Disconnect -- [31:06]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Spring -- [4:41]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Reflections in Bb -- [11:54]

HAPPY NEW YEAR, READERS!

My super8 live looping setup got put away for the Red Hook Open Studios shows in November, and I forgot about it. Then I went out of town for a bit (finding some trails to run and warmer weather). Today, I set it back up. Oh, how I missed you, super8 and instruments.

(youtube link)

Recordings:

live solo improv: super8

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Decanted Youth - 1 -- [16:20]
Decanted Youth - 2 -- [18:09]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Light Creeps -- [22:13]
Decanted Youth - 4 - A Very Decanted Youth Medley -- [18:52]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Round and Round -- [5:43]

Decanted Youth - 1 - Light Creeps -- [11:38]
Decanted Youth - 2 -- [9:27]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Just the Same -- [12:17]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Spring -- [5:43]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Kerosene -- [4:13]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Reflections / Castle -- [18:17]
Decanted Youth - 7 -- [11:14]
Decanted Youth - 8 -- [3:44]
Decanted Youth - 9 -- [9:15]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Storms -- [6:21]
Decanted Youth - 11 - Sandman / The Squeeze -- [14:14]
Decanted Youth - 12 - Legacy (Extended Chaotic Intro) -- [24:17]

may i please lie here
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 - Pagliacci -- [5:44]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 - Extractions, Distractions and Attractions -- [24:58]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 - Strange Circus (Caribbean Limbo) -- [6:53]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 - Slam Dunk -- [7:15]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 - Vanishing Landscapes -- [5:48]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 - Barren Lands -- [11:56]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 - Roots Run Deep -- [24:34]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 - The Final March -- [13:43]

andre_cory - 1 -- [6:58]
andre_cory - 2 - Ringing 'em Down -- [2:54]
andre_cory - 3 - Charlie / High on the Mountain Top -- [7:33]
andre_cory - 4 - EAT IT, RAT! -- [6:48]
andre_cory - 5 -- [6:25]
andre_cory - 6 - Spaceship Grace -- [7:05]
andre_cory - 7 - Rampant/Rampaging Brain -- [8:08]
andre_cory - 8 - A Vox on Your Family -- [11:33]
andre_cory - 9 - Falling and Calling It a Dance / A Good Day in the Sun -- [11:49]

Decanted Youth - 1 - The Squeeze (Extended Intro) -- [13:44]
Decanted Youth - 2 -- [7:55]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Hang Me Out to Dry (Cover) -- [6:52]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Sparkle Sticks (Candy Bandit) -- [2:22]
Decanted Youth - 5 - The Story of Candy Bandit / What If We All Just Disappeared -- [24:41]
Decanted Youth - 6 -- [10:56]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Lies Inside / Break Away / Crushing Me (Cover) -- [25:18]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Supposed To Be -- [9:25]
Decanted Youth - 9 - (Short) -- [0:46]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Light Creeps -- [4:00]
Decanted Youth - 11 - Legacy / Lines That Go To and Fro -- [18:40]
Decanted Youth - 12 - In C / Freakout -- [3:06]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Lone Parasite -- [2:12]

Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 - Underneath -- [5:54]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 - The Hole in the Matrix -- [7:27]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 - Won't You Follow Me Home -- [7:16]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 - How Many More Times (Snippet) / Heavy Swing in G -- [10:38]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 - The Drying Garden -- [8:59]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 - Spirits and Ancestors -- [14:34]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 - Where the Danger Lies -- [9:11]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 - Plunge -- [10:14]

Decanted Youth - 1 - This Way or That / Hopeless Helpless -- [17:54]
Decanted Youth - 2 -- [14:20]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Humor in Tragedy -- [3:53]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Legacy -- [13:21]
Decanted Youth - 5 - The Absence of You -- [10:18]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Major Major Major -- [4:29]
Decanted Youth - 7 - ? / Swept Up by You / Spring -- [24:33]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Where Do You Go -- [15:16]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Give or Take -- [2:55]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Sink or Swim (Instrumental) / ? -- [10:32]

Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 - Cracking the Code -- [9:22]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 - The Hindenburg -- [9:00]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 - Seven Prismatic Colors -- [9:28]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 - The Watering Place -- [14:08]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 - Roots Run Deep -- [6:30]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 - We Must Go Faster -- [7:34]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 - The Final Tick Tock -- [4:42]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 - Engraved Lines -- [11:01]

Decanted Youth - 1 - To Err / To Kill a Goat -- [10:12]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Take the Fifth -- [2:55]
Decanted Youth - 3 - The Squeeze -- [12:43]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Spring -- [5:27]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Product of the New Age / The Effects of Fog / Insecurity -- [22:38]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Lose It Easy -- [4:50]
Decanted Youth - 7 - (Extended Intro) Reflections -- [11:56]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Any Which Way -- [8:13]
Decanted Youth - 9 - (crazy ramblings) -- [4:21]
Decanted Youth - 10 - (crazy ramblings, continued) / (Intro to Lines That Go To and Fro...) -- [8:23]
Decanted Youth - 11 - Lines That Go To and Fro End Up Connecting (take 2) -- [4:17]
Decanted Youth - 12 - Closing Instrumental / Take the Fifth (reprise) -- [13:53]

Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 - Searching for Air -- [10:01]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 - We Need to Write a Hit -- [13:10]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 - Iron Man (snippet) / Voyage Into the Land of the Mystics -- [11:45]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 - Out the Window Down the Road -- [6:54]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 - Rolling Down the Hill -- [7:58]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 - Spiders Everywhere -- [15:52]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 - Candy Bandit / Second Sight (Phantom) -- [19:52]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 - Shut the Door -- [10:06]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 9 - The River -- [8:58]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 10 - Leap Into the Void -- [8:51]

Decanted Youth - 1 - Lines That Go To and Fro End Up Connecting -- [17:26]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Part of Your Brain Is Being Used -- [12:02]
Decanted Youth - 3 - CoS (Don't Look at Me, Help Us Please) -- [6:47]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Major Major Major -- [5:19]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Station Architecture / Castle -- [10:59]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Cattle Guard / Break Away -- [17:07]
Decanted Youth - 7 - The Moon Grows Bright in the Dark Sky -- [14:56]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Winter -- [22:25]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Insecurity Not Now (Downstairs) Mashup -- [9:25]
Decanted Youth - 10 - Sandman -- [8:25]

I've been recording 1-3 hour (occasionally longer) sessions of music and posting them to the internet as bigass .mp3 files for about 15 years now. As the quality of the music has steadily icnreased, I've also been looking at ways of making it more accessible (very few people can commit to listening to 2 hours of a single mp3). So after the last session, I thought it would be nice to mix it into individual tracks, naming them as I edit the session.

What I determined was that individual tracks were great! I thought about it some more and decided I could have both, generating the bigass mp3 files and indexing them (much as brainal.org does, but more intelligently. And then I realized I could parse the .RPP (REAPER project file) projects from the last 12 years or so, and generate a list of songs (from places where it was clear everything was edited) for each session. It doesn't work totally reliably, as there are plenty of places where two or three songs flow into eachother. But that's OK.

Anyway, so you might have noticed on this page the full jam links have been replaced with individual song/supersong links. We've been going through naming them as appropriate.

The other nice thing about this is that we can pull these feeds into our band websites...

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This is from last Friday night:

(youtube link)

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(youtube link)

Recordings:

lined up blind

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Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 - Standing Orders -- [22:41]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 - Interlude -- [6:29]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 - Pet Sheep of Steve -- [7:48]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 - Heard Enough for Now -- [10:45]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 - The River -- [8:58]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 - Give or Take -- [8:58]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 - Moebius Tail -- [7:08]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 - No Big Benefactor -- [14:30]

comparative feelings

OK so this has been a lot of fun. Two things -- one: I'm really happy with how this song came out a few weeks ago. It's about 2/3 improvised but a theme we've played a few times: (youtube link)


Second, we had a very enjoyable session Friday night:
(youtube link)



Recordings:

i drank what

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Decanted Youth - 1 - Numbers Are Perfect -- [6:08]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Kompromat/What If We All Just Disappeared -- [15:12]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Stupid Fly Cannibal Plants / New Wave -- [14:38]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Legacy -- [12:29]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Loose Foot / Caught Off Guard -- [11:17]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Ich bin ein fälschlicherweise kleingeschriebenes Hauptwort -- [10:27]
Decanted Youth - 7 - It's Fine -- [8:07]

Decanted Youth - 1 - The Long Question -- [27:59]
Decanted Youth - 2 - The Short Answer (Sandman) -- [1:15]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 - Unchanged Since Conception -- [10:15]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 - The River, Maybe -- [10:27]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 - Plastic Oceans -- [12:55]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 - Grow in to Place -- [6:34]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 - Deals and Wheels -- [13:43]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 - Hear Me Roar! -- [13:32]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 - Told You Not To -- [21:36]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 - The Portal -- [17:17]

ON alfalfa

Decanted Youth - 1 - Supposed to Be -- [14:47]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Friendly Pathogen / Sink 'n Drink -- [14:30]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Kerosene (Sigh) / White Gas -- [5:51]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Not in New York, at Least -- [22:54]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Premonition of Regret -- [20:43]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Sink and/or Swim -- [12:52]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Sink and/or Swim (Reprise) / Your Friends Are the Best -- [17:26]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Guitar Center Guy -- [16:06]

snow cozy

This was another 3 hour session (in hindsight, a little long!). We got good reviews from people who stopped in -- in particular, "good snacks!" seemed to be a common theme!

(youtube link)

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This was an enormous amount of fun, with André Martinez, Andy Omel, Sarai Moore, Cory Choy (and me):

(youtube link)

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Decanted Youth - 1 - What Will Once Become the Squeeze Became the Squeeze (improvised until it wasn't) -- [10:15]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Sandman -- [5:44]
Decanted Youth - 3 - God's Own CCTV (Improvised) -- [7:14]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Kerosene (Alternate Version) -- [4:46]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Storms (Live at Red Hook Open Studios) -- [5:27]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Legacy (Trees, Loosely) -- [8:39]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Cory Went on a Road Trip with His Grandma -- [9:54]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Insecurity Becomes If There Was Ever a Time I Needed You -- [9:28]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Spring -- [5:06]
Decanted Youth - 10 - What If We All Just Disappeared (Live at Red Hook Open Studios) -- [13:35]
Decanted Youth - 11 - The Squeeze (Actual) -- [3:43]
Decanted Youth - 12 - (Muffin) Interlude (Improvised) / Relief -- [9:24]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Interlude Continued (Improvised) / Relief (Part II) -- [10:37]
Decanted Youth - 14 - Light Creeps -- [9:21]
Decanted Youth - 15 - Major Major Major (Live at Red Hook Open Studios) -- [3:21]
Decanted Youth - 16 - Legacy (Reprise Improvise) -- [9:33]
Decanted Youth - 17 - The House of the Rising Sun (Live at Red Hook Open Studios) -- [9:52]
Decanted Youth - 18 - Reflections -- [8:26]

Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 - Open Box -- [17:49]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 - Beginnings of a Flood / The Means Without Purpose -- [15:39]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 - No Audience Could Survive -- [11:20]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 - Cherry Cherry Bad -- [10:04]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 - Hint of a Legacy / Miles and Miles -- [10:24]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 - Rumble Underground / Peachy -- [23:28]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 - The Song -- [12:36]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 - Look Out! -- [8:01]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 9 - Reflections -- [9:23]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 10 - The River -- [6:58]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 11 - Feelings -- [7:00]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 12 - Any Other Way -- [10:46]

Decanted Youth - 1 - There's a Room Between Us -- [8:00]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Sandman / Transition / Light Creeps -- [14:44]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Don't Panic / Future Starts Slow (cover) -- [24:35]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Kerosene (extra angry) -- [4:30]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Unknown / Release -- [16:48]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Pervert (cover) / Travel in Pair -- [12:46]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Long Way / Legacy -- [25:46]

Decanted Youth - 1 - Hopeless/Helpless -- [10:48]
Decanted Youth - 2 - Jolene, We Test Our Mics -- [8:42]
Decanted Youth - 3 - What If We All Just Disappeared -- [19:57]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Sandman / The Squeeze -- [18:28]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Release -- [11:11]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Round and Round -- [12:48]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Take Cover -- [19:51]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Only Questions / Insecurity / Reflections -- [20:07]

freeform jam with andre

I've been working on REAPER's video rendering/processing pipeline, allowing video processors to access and share memory with JSFX and ReaScripts, and exposing some new APIs for things like FFTs. It's pretty low-level, the JSFX/video processors are responsible for a lot of stupid work like synchronizing with eachother... but: the key thing is that we (REAPER users) can now effectively build things like AVS into the rendering pipeline, combining video and rendered audio and rendering that to video. I find this really awesome and exciting in the way AVS was, and in a way that has been missing for a long time. And now we can render AVS-like stuff directly to YouTube videos.

To explain: why is this like AVS? AVS had two key things that made it really cool:

• You could build complex things by putting simple things together
• You could also write complex things in code (making those "simple things" a little less simple).
• (I'm bad at counting) (ok REAPER doesn't really address this -- AVS was cool because awesome people made tons of awesome presets for it. but REAPER's made for creators, so I guess we don't have to fulfill this one, so two things.)

REAPER does this too -- you can use video material directly, or one of many video processor presets to do basic things. Then you can also do the second thing by coding video processors (or hacking existing ones) to do new things. As an explanation, the effect in the video below is a combination of an existing preset (the spectrum analyzer), and a little bit of code (15 lines or so) which transforms that into polar coordinates (I could save that second bit of code as a preset for re-use later, including on a video file, etc).

The future is awesome. Now if only the present could catch up.

(youtube link)

Addendum: I'm irrationally pleased by this bit of video processor code I spent far too long on, for converting HSV (360/1/1) to RGB:

function h6s2i(h) global() ((h -= floor(h*1/6)*6)<3 ? <1 ? 1-h : 0 : h<4 ? h-3 : 1);
function set_hsv(h,s,v) global() (
  h*=1/60; s *= v;
  gfx_set(v-h6s2i(h+2)*s,v-h6s2i(h)*s,v-h6s2i(h-2)*s);
);

Also here's another video from testing that I meant to post earlier:
(youtube link)

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Decanted Youth - 1 - Those Without Regret Have Indeed Lived -- [12:30]
Decanted Youth - 2 - The Squeeze -- [4:57]
Decanted Youth - 3 - Spring -- [5:00]
Decanted Youth - 4 - Sandman (Slow) -- [4:01]
Decanted Youth - 5 - Uncertainties / Buried In The Sand -- [13:57]
Decanted Youth - 6 - Light Creeps -- [7:59]
Decanted Youth - 7 - Insecurity / Not Now (I Needed You) / Downstairs (Extended) -- [17:51]
Decanted Youth - 8 - Involuntary Invisibility Cloak (Cello) / DST -- [10:57]
Decanted Youth - 9 - Twist Ending -- [3:25]
Decanted Youth - 10 - I Am an Incorrectly Uncapitalized German Noun -- [4:34]
Decanted Youth - 11 - Buzzer (Instrumental) / Light Creeps In / Extended -- [15:36]
Decanted Youth - 12 - All Notes at Once -- [5:24]
Decanted Youth - 13 - Don't Panic (Double Drum Freakout) -- [12:01]

(youtube link)

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gather round
stupid all of the tracks

(youtube link)

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(youtube link)

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(youtube link)

Recordings:

Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 - Start Together, Finish Together -- [18:13]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 - Cosmos -- [20:45]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 - Shared Memory IV (extended) -- [20:27]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 - Effects of Fog -- [14:19]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 - Die from Us -- [7:53]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 - Chaos (Legacy) -- [12:55]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 - Trees/Mold -- [6:25]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 - The River -- [7:57]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 9 - Always Kill Nazis When You Can -- [6:22]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 10 - Cooling Sequence -- [11:23]

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(youtube link)

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(youtube link)

Recordings:

Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 1 - The Hindenburg (Extended) -- [16:04]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 2 - The Internal Dialogue of a Cartographer -- [12:59]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 3 - Swimming in Circles -- [9:15]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 4 - Illogical Anomaly -- [7:11]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 5 - Monstrous Endgame -- [8:32]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 6 - Rhythm Beyond the Stars -- [7:42]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 7 - Antique Trick -- [11:37]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 8 - Upset at the Wether -- [3:54]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 9 - Private Life -- [9:00]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 10 - Sweet Talk -- [8:42]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 11 - Standing in Hell Again -- [7:32]
Yes, Exactly, Yes! - 12 - Critters, Be Gone! -- [9:22]

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Commentary about editing, I guess? I like the end.

(youtube link)

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