the original .png version of this was posted at Computers Club Drawing Society
September 2013
"Bass Transitions (Krypt)"
"Bass Transitions (Krypt)" [mp3 removed]
A portmanteau, as we say, of recent riffage: the synth bass line from "Bass Transitions" with some spooky pad and percussion sounds added, then the quasi-barrelhouse piano ending of "Jazz Funk Reduction" with added bass line, and then a new "alto" synth part to end the piece with a duet. A minute and a half of wanton eclecticism.
Update: Redone and re-uploaded. Decided the little tune at the end was stomping too much on the climax so it's now just a coda.
Update 2: Redone and re-uploaded again. It's now 2 min 39 seconds, the "coda" is gone (see "Carbon Credits"), and a new "alto" part was written for near the end.
please to be giving us your data
One of the post-Google Reader feed-reader companies emailed with an offer for a year free on its "pro" account. My emailed reply:
You may or may not have seen that I listed _________ along with other readers: http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2013/06/26/rss-reader-list/
Thanks for your offer - I will think it over and/or try the "free" version.
I was not a big user of Google Reader and am less concerned than others with sharing info from feeds (that's what my blog is for).
Bloglines was adequate for me until they made you sign in every time you visit the site. Feedly is OK but I don't like having to depend on Google for sign-in.
I'm glad to see _________ offers the option to sign in via email. That may be an incentive for me.
If your spider sense was tingling about social bookmarking as early as del.icio.us you were correct since the sale of that company messed up all your "networks."
These companies want your data and data for people you're sharing with but you are a victim on so many levels. Statistical fodder for a startup's incredible journey, for openers, and this was before that brash young man fled to Hong Kong and revealed the worst case scenario about where all the information was going.
opinion page profiling
The Daily Howler's Bob Somerby notes how the New York Times trivialized the De Blasio mayoral primary win. A postmortem by reporters Jodi Kantor and Kate Taylor "focus[ed] on the possible role played by 'gender and sexuality' -- and on nothing else." And then there was columnist Gail Collins. Somerby quotes from the TV ad narrated by De Blasio's 15 year old son, which she responds to:
I want to tell you a little bit about Bill de Blasio. He’s the only Democrat with the guts to really break from the Bloomberg years. The only one who will raise taxes on the rich to fund early childhood and after-school programs. He's got the boldest plan to build affordable housing and he's the only one who will lend a stop-and-frisk era that unfairly targets people of color...
To Gail Collins, says Somerby, "it wasn't about any of that. The ad worked because the family seemed so happy at the end of the ad!"
Collins dwells on the family's ethnic makeup while managing to ignore the substance of the above quote. Possibly voters were paying more attention to the content than she was.