FAWM : Beto (@elesimo)

Beto

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2016

Bodega Bay US
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@zecoopMod 5w

Whoa, have I got a lot to catch up with - you got an EARLY win. Way to go!! Yeah, I made the mic past summer as we were clearing out some things. Barbara used to use an old Snoopy telephone in her class for the kids to give the weather report. Didn't need it anymore, so I took the receiver and added the mic cable. really easy. I had a song that needed a phone sound a few years ago and I had to use a ton of effects to get it right - now I am ready for the next one, haha.

@mattgpt 5w

> BTW, we use IP geolocation on the FAWM website to display the globe icon for generic social links! The globe is shown from the perspective of the user!

That's a cool detail! Is it the perspective of the user whose profile it is, or the one who's viewing the site?

I'd like to try getting more details in a song that change on a per-request basis. To go much past what I did last night, it stops being feasible to just sing every possible version. I'm looking for ways to script a singing vocal synth with arbitrary lyrics, which would unlock more possibilities. If I figure that out, I think I could fill the rest of my FAWM with experiments I want to try.

@nancycunning 6w

Thanks for listening to the Only Way to Hang On. I know that phrase the Cup is Already Broken - from some Buddhist book maybe by Jack Kornfield in which it's mentioned as a story about a Buddhist monk - either about the author or about a couple going to see the monk and asking how can you love life knowing there is death, and in my retelling of the retelling, of the telling, the monk lets the cup fall and smash. I say it to myself every time I break something in the kitchen and other times. So maybe it is a real story and I am quoting your monk. How cool that you have a monk friend.

While I'm here, the new site is so fabulous. Thank you. I often think that you would need a Buddhist monk friend to be able to take all the feedback that people offer and just get on with making it what it is right now. I still can't quite believe that this place exists.

@muz 6w

Hi Elesimo. That's a pity as I'd rather point people to this site than set up my own site to curate my songs! Still it does push people to take ownership of their own songs which is probably a good thing. Out of curiousity, do you know whether this policy is because there isn't sufficient storage space for songs over multiple years, fawm wasn't originally designed to run continuously, or are the designers cognizant that social media can be an attention trap?

@sollis 6w

Hey Beto, thanks for your insights into life with a 4-track. It's really valuable to hear such comprehensive thoughts from someone with lived experience. You're quite right about the limitations, and some of them hadn't even crossed my mind. The lack of an undo function for example - Perfectly obvious once you pointed it out, but I hadn't even considered how I would get by without my beloved Ctrl+Z!

Despite all that, analogue gear and analogue recordings will always have a certain charm and sound that digital can't quite emulate (though some plugins are beginning to get close). I'll check out some of Burr's videos. They sound like they'd be a good watch even if I don't venture OTB.

Thanks again.

@headfirstonlyMod 8w

Re: goal number four, the longest FAWM song I'm aware of is @eighteenisnine's "Trappist-1" from 2017, which is 35 minutes and ten seconds long. That's a challenge!

Re: goal number five, "longplayer" is a thousand-year-long musical composition which is being played in Greenwich, UK and has been since midnight on December 31st, 1999. You can listen to its progress on the web; it has its own Internet radio station. https://longplayer.org/about/

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