Media
📺 Dune (2021)
The YouTube algorithm surfaced this delightful channel this evening of someone reviewing home music keyboards from the 80’s and 90’s. Really enjoying it.
🎵 Stationary Loops, by Lee Rosevere
Bought when I needed a few screenshots of Alto but growing to like it. Quite nice ambient chill out music. Got hints of Tangerine Dream and Jene-Michel Jarre.
Enjoyed the discussion about AI and independence on Ruminate #179. I agree with Robb and John: websites created by people will definitely have a leg up amongst all the sites that are little more than AI generated “content”. 🎙️
📺 Nintendo’s Luckiest Accident
So apparently the “watch” in Game & Watch actually references the time piece. Until I watched this video, I actually thought it meant watching the demo that played while in Time mode.
Discovered a new artist through a YouTube channel I watch. They make some pretty good chill-out music. I can recommend Synths Working Overtime and Music For Podcasts 6, particularly “Cloudloop” (track 6) and “Systematic” (track 7). 🎵
So apparently tonight’s earworm is lesser known songs from Men At Work’s “Business As Usual” album, like People Just Love To Play With Words, I Can See It In Your Eyes, and Be Good Johnny. 🎵
Speaking of Anders Jensen, he’s composed a few songs for the 8 Bit Keys YouTube channel. Usually he’ll release them as tracks on his albums, but I couldn’t find the last one he wrote, and I’ve been liking it a lot. So I’m placing a time-stamped link to it here so I can go back to it. 📺
Have been on Bandcamp buying more music from Anders Enger Jensen. Started listening to both Retro Grooves Version 4 and Version 5. Can recommend the first track on version 4. 🎵
I’ve been watching that YouTube video about plagiarism that was mentioned on the latest episode of Shop Talk (some other podcast I listened to recently may have also mentioned it, although I can’t remember which one). I’m only an hour in — it’s more than 3 hours long so it’ll take me a couple of days to watch the whole thing — but it’s been fascinating. It’s quite something to see how blatant some of these cases of plagiarism are. 📺
📺 Dave’s Garage - the Dave Cutler interviews
You know the feeling when you see a YouTube interview of someone talking about their work, and you’re left feeling “gosh, I wish that person also had a YouTube channel.” This is one of those interviews. Fascinating, if short, discussion from the architect of Windows NT.
Edit: This YouTube video might be the full interview. Via Michael Tsai.
🎵 Epic Grandpa, by Izioq
This has been a bit of an earworm recently, after hearing it in this YouTube video (thank-you to those who credit composers in their videos). I think the Mellotron was the hook for me. Reminds me of Phaedra.
🎵 Pippin, the New Broadway Cast Recording, by Stephen Schwartz.
One of the defining memories of my life was in Year 10, playing the viola in the pit orchestra of our high-school production of Pippin. Good times.
One of a handfull of albums I use to play constantly on the record player when I was a kid.
My recent YouTube watching has been about theme-parks, predominantly Disney. I’m not an theme-park enthusiast but I found both Theme Park History and Defunctland really interesting channels to watch. HT to Reconcilable Differences and Really Specific Stories, which mentioned the two channels. 📺
Also rediscovered Fleetwood Mac, after a long pause since hearing it when I was a kid. Seems “Dreams” is the more popular one (I keep hearing it at the gym), but for myself, I just love the instrumentation of “Little Lies”. 🎵
Rediscovered Nigel Westlake’s Antarctica — Suit for guitar and orchestra. First heard it in Year 11 Music, when we had to study the score. Started listening to it again about a month ago. You’d want the version with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Slightly more refined than the original. 🎵
📺 Sophie Koonin – This Website Is under Construction, a Love Letter to the Personal Website
Saw this boosted on social.lol. A really good talk on why having your own place on the web is worth it.