Bhob Rainey
Music about which one could justifiably say, "That's not music." Saxophone (tortured). Cornputer (despised). I read a lot and walk around cities.
https://bhobrainey.com
https://bhobrainey.bandcamp.com
- NYC. Nmperign @ Lava Club, March 7th. Small room, limited space. You gotta RSVP in advance. Check www.instagram.com/___lava__clu... for how or DM me if you're nice.
- As the sun sets in the e6ast, the West still glows with Bandcamp Friday light. bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/live-2...
- Been a resident of the e6ast most of my life, and that's how we say it.
- Reposted by Bhob Raineycranksatori.bandcamp.com/album/a-ques... crude modern analog hardware paired with a software reinterpretation of classic analog hardware filtering, modulation, and resynthesis. more raspberries than raspberries much thanks to Martin Freeman and @mphonic.bsky.social for the hardware and software
- As promised, Live '25 — Saxy Bootlegs Good Title. bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/live-2...
- On Friday I'm going to release Live 25 - Saxy Bootlegs Good Title. It's a little over an hour of solo soprano sax performances from this year, recorded by audience members. Includes footfalls, chair squeaks, passing vehicles, idling vehicles, idling vehicles with sub woofers, and soprano saxophone.
- From back in the summer, when I played in a crooked house.
- See ya in Red Hook on Wednesday night, NYC
- An algorithm beat me this morning, because seeing this (from the Suno Studio FB group) got me "engaged", and it's bleak out there. I did like one guy dispensing the advice that, until you've made 6000-7000 ai songs, you don't know what separates quality from novelty.
- It's possible that this all fizzles out once people have made 6000 songs that no one wants to listen to. And at some point, the cost to use it this way will be staggering. Probably some piece of this gets folded into a tool that sees general adoption in a more traditional workflow.
- This probably reads as dinosaur talk to the converts, but, as I've said elsewhere about all these kinds of things, playing an instrument in a group is, at minimum, fun. Fussing with prompts at a black box that would happily burn Jupiter for a country song is, at maximum, sad.
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View full threadI mean, it would be so cool to be amazed that you can type some words and get something that reminds you of recorded music in a very short period of time. It's surprising and weird! But then context steps in.
- I've recommended this show so many times, mostly to polite nods. It's probably the last show I truly loved, and, now, years later, I often find myself in laughtears remembering some bit from it.
- wrote about PATRIOT, a double great show, over at @rollingstone.com for its anniversary, with thoughts from Steven Conrad, Terry O’Quinn, and Kurtwood Smith: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
- Reposted by Bhob RaineyBored today? Go into your Bandcamp collection and write some comments in the 'what do you love about this album' boxes. Artists really, really love to hear that stuff.
- Reminder that you can and should study Supercollider with me.
- I'll be in Austin, TX this weekend for my sixth No Idea Festival, performing a solo saxophone piece and a commissioned 4-channel electroacoustic piece with live bass by Juan Garcia.
- Reposted by Bhob RaineyI am listening to an incoherent Hollywood Christian substacker talking to Tucker Carlson about Nick Land and demons and boy is context collapse real
- "My manager says I need to spice up my act. Fucking cocksucker!"
- Soliciting advice on transducers for light materials, low volume-type stuff. Easy to amplify. The less soldering I have to do, the more skin I'll likely have a month from now. And, do people make these for noise folks, like contact mics, maybe with 1/4" connectors? Need to get going kinda fast 😅
- The rapture so far has come for my bathroom fan and perhaps my dryer. Not what I was hoping for.
- As usual, N+1 goes deeper. Stupidology www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
- I'm glad for this post and glad I took it seriously, because Red Rooms is the shit and I probably would have missed it otherwise. In the midst of so much "creative" horror that is mostly design decorating basic themes (it's fine, I like it), this is some real cinema. Like seeing Taxi Driver in 1976
- Xynthii users, I've added some significant features. Oscs: 1. You can now switch between frequency modulation and phase modulation. Alt/option click the fm text box to switch. It is quite a different sound. 2. All oscs can use all three waveforms now. 1/4
- Latch module added. No new knobs in the gui, just i/o. One signal (LAT mod) is used to S/H another (LAT car). Does wild things when fed back into the fm/pm of one or both of those signals (see squeesh pre). Also available in the mod pod. Neither of these updates affects existing presets. 2/4
- E1 k in the mod pod is now bipolar (this was a bug - it was always supposed to be bipolar). If you have any presets that use this (again, just in the mod pod), then you may want to tweak the levels a little bit. 3/4
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View full threadIn case you missed it, you can get xynthii here github.com/mphonic/xynt... And there are baby steps installation instructions here youtu.be/9RdC2rJTiT4
- Reposted by Bhob RaineyIf you like long walks listening to squelchy and squealing, occasionally grating, squiggly wiggly, somes steady state, always active textured electronics you might like From Null Lands Led, Starrily by @mphonic.bsky.social bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/from-n...
- Brad Inglesby can throw in as many references to scrapple as he wants, run every script through ChatGPT to maximize occurrences of the long "o", I don't care. But the way that British actor Emilia Jones says, "Are you serious right now?" has earned her a friend for life.
- This is super cool. @cranksatori.bsky.social has released the first xynthii album (to my knowledge), using a pipsqueak with spectral-tracking to control and blend with xynthii. A different approach from many of the things I've done with it, as well as much of what I've heard from other people.
- You can get xynthii here, and you can also, you know, donate :) github.com/mphonic/xynt...
- Reposted by Bhob RaineyKevin Drumm showed me Xynthi about 10 years ago. I was able to get it running on a very old MacBook but this is very cool if it can now run on a modern OS
- this might be one of my favorite synthesizers i've ever used xynthi was a supercollider patch inspired by the ems synthi that was used by computer legends like kevin drumm and peter rehberg unfortunately the software became outdated till now !! here's me messing with it: youtu.be/an4f3IChdVM
- Reposted by Bhob Raineythis might be one of my favorite synthesizers i've ever used xynthi was a supercollider patch inspired by the ems synthi that was used by computer legends like kevin drumm and peter rehberg unfortunately the software became outdated till now !! here's me messing with it: youtu.be/an4f3IChdVM
- Reposted by Bhob RaineyXynthii by @mphonic.bsky.social is back in updated form. In 2019 I bought a 2002 Powerbook to run the original from 2006. Time warp. Now I don't have to anymore. Runs in Supercollider this time around.
- Xynthii is ready. If you’ve been around for a while, you may have used 2006's Xynthi, inspired by but not emulating the EMS Synthi A. A lot of people used it, from Pita to Kevin Drumm to, well, me. It had a pretty long life, but OS upgrades eventually killed it.
- Because I have been giving Supercollider lessons over the past few months (take some with me!), I've had time to think about ways in which I would like to rebuild it that would allow for a more flexible base that could be used to build all sorts of other things. So, I made that base and made xynthii
- You can get it here. Everything has been rebuilt from the ground up, upgraded where necessary, with a lot of UX improvements. It's free, but please consider a donation (links in the README) github.com/mphonic/xynt...
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View full threadSome notes by Marc Hasselbalch on the original Xynthi mockfuneral.github.io/2020/12/11/x...
