Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
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Thanks @DaveMagoo. Un-privated it.
Ironic (and bloody typical) as this is a short piece about loss of privacy. I suppose a true meta-artist would leave it privated, but that's too spirally for me.
Deceptively simple and ultimately, very effective. Very nice marriage of music, message and imagery, Mr. Goodyear.
Really good work. Nice mood creation.
Thanks @Flo26 @telecode101 @eustressor I appreciate the encouragement.
A minute seventeen (and some of that on the tail
. I seem to be making things shorter and shorter, but that's how poems come out sometimes, just the exact length they're supposed to be...
I like that a lot. Well done.
Cool! Love the video clips too! Where on earth did you find them?
@AlterEgo_UK
A thousand years ago, maybe a little less, I got a job working nights in a video duplication plant. Wandsworth, London S.E.18. Midnight til 8.
It was my first real meeting with industrial technology. A tin room the length of a football field with metal racks laid out in see-through corridors, like robot supermarket aisles, and each one stacked from the floor up with video machines, just the same as the ones at home.
They had a control room and a master machine and a dozen or so of us would wheel around over-sized supermarket trolleys popping out the cassettes when a run was done and putting in new ones. Controlled panic. Nothing to be done when the movie was copying and then, quick, quick, changeover as fast as possible to avoid dead time.
Winter of 1980 I'd guess, maybe '81. Must have watched The Elephant Man fifteen times one week. Pretty much all of my co-workers were young musicians of one kind or another. Just barely scraping by enough to buy guitar strings and sell each other heroin.
During down times (those of us who weren't high; it was a simple job, perfect for, well, high-functioning) I would play with machines in the mech room. Running pieces together from anything lying around; documentaries, porn, Hollywood hits, cartoons, kids shows.....the job only lasted a few months, but it was good while it did. Left with a habit for collecting clips which I've been doing ever since, along with that other kind of habit as well, but that's a story for another day.
@JohnnyGoodyear
Thanks for the interesting biog! Are you a professional writer and/or blogger too? You could be!
@AlterEgo_UK For my sins, and about ten minutes after I got out of video duplication slavery, I started writing the 'man's column' for Scottish publisher DC Thomson's stable of teenage girl magazines. Sort of Hunter Thompson (not related) gives made-up dating advice. It all went downhill from there and I ended up leaving for New York where a Professional Englishman can usually make a living writing something or other if he's left his self-respect safely on the other side of the Atlantic
@Vorgon Thank you, I appreciate the nod.
I like that - interesting blend of simple structures. Also, nice to click on a YouTube music link and not just stare at a screenshot for a change
Powerful message here, sir. Fabulous title. Dripping with irony. Well done.
That's really nice! Great job!
Good work. I think this is one of the best things you've posted in terms of the words.
I love the part about us totally failing to recognise acceleration into the future.
I find the ending message pretty depressing though. Do think the "best time to live" has already passed? Do you think that's true today? I'm not so sure. Surely it totally depends on individual circumstances.
I realise not all statements in poems are the poet's actual beliefs. Or that you can expect to get "the answers' from asking the poet (TS Elliot famously had a lot of fun with everyone in his explanation of the Wasteland didn't he?). But it's thought provoking so I thought i'd delve a little bit.
This is certainly the most impactful piece you've done, in my opinion.
@Matt_Fletcher_2000 Thank you Matt. Appreciate your thoughts.
A decent, nuanced, answer to aspects of living in the near future would take me a few thousand words to express and even then I would likely raise my hands towards the end and say that's why we write poems....to try and transmit how a feeling is felt.
In essence, I am sure there are many ways the future will be better and perhaps for larger numbers of people. I think on this day I was concerned with the ideas of individuality and true privacy. And on the latter of these especially I think we have largely lost something already and we will have completely lost it -in the modernized world- within another twenty years.
This isn't a political viewpoint (although it can be said to be a political issue), just a personal one and one connected with the thrum of all our connections. Which I love in so many ways, but also can feel hemmed in by.
Anyway, that's enough of that, thanks again