________ ________ ________ 2018-09-24 / \/ \/ / \ / __/ /_ _/ Who dis is? It's Cat back with a cool as / _/ / / heck t-file for y'all. Slowly getting back \_______/_\___/____/\___/____/_ into the habit of posting. Weather is / \/ \/ / \ warming up so my mood is lifting somewhat. / _/ /_ _/ /- / _/ / LOW WIRE continues on with moderate \________/\________/\___/____/ success, I'm three shows in now and I've started fiddling with DJ software and my playlists are getting a bit more interesting. I was really proud of the Japanese Grime show I did the week before last but it didn't archive, this past Saturday was a good one too though. Next week I'm gonna get back to a more simple playlist rather than clumsily trying to do a mix and just a no-fuss genre. The last show really stressed me the hell out, I dunno why I was so worked up about it but god damn I had a whole mess of nightmares the night before. I dreamt I was ready to go then time slipped and I was 15 minutes late, I dreamt I was ready to go and suddenly all my gear was fucking up, I dreamt I was trying to get ready to go and people kept getting in my way or otherwise wasting my time. It was gruelling. What the fuck. I dunno man. Had black-brain all week and I guess it just came to a head. Whatever! It might not be there at the time of posting this file but today or tomorrow I should have the track lists mirrored on baud.baby for ya. In other fun audio news, Solderpunk mentioned on Mastodon and later wrote[1] about how tuning in to shortwave during his first S24O overnight camping ride got gears turning (heh) about a radio/found sound recording in the vein of my K6MWT recordings[2] which in turn got cylinders firing for me again. I've been trying to stay active on aNONradio's OpenMic blocks, usually these happen while I'm at work so I do what I can to stream remotely but it was Sunday that I started properly thinking about retrying the K6MWT stuff, with a few new tools under my belt, and thought it'd be fun to try and stream it live over the OpenMic stream. I did a test and the results were really wild, using the same music generator I used in the old recordings (Drone FX) and the same K6MWT repeater but I also threw a phone call from my Touchfone 12, behind some reverb into the mix. It got me really excited to experiment. I threw a recording of it[3] into files/K6MWT/ but just a heads-up, the audio is pretty quiet. This seems to be my curse, I struggle with the same problem with the mic in LOW WIRE. Maybe if I keep it up it'll eventually become endearing. Just crank the volume up, it'll be fine. You can hear me giggling at how great it sounds. To tie it all together and make recordings or send streams I'm using a program called Audio Hijack, I use it for LOW WIRE too, I had it set up with Chrome, X-Lite and VLC as inputs, with Chrome running Drone FX, X-Lite handling the call and VLC playing the Broadcastify stream of K6MWT. For the stream itself I fiddled _[Advertisement]__________________ with it a bit and that's where things | | fell apart a bit. I purchased the | Getting tired of this phlog? | desktop version of Drone FX and | | swapped Chrome out for it in Audio | Turn to aNONradio.net | Hijack and, I dunno, results were | on Fridays @ 0100 UTC | pretty bad. You can hear it at the | and | start of the recording below, it gets | | like stuck on a sound and just buzzes. | CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE! | I dunno if it's because it's not | | optimised for newer Macs or if maybe ---------------------------------- it just didn't like the load my machine was under, I'm not sure. I'll fiddle with it some more. It wasn't expensive so I'm not hugely fussed but it's disappointing because I'd like to have Chrome freed up as an input. The hams on K6MWT were mostly just jamming the repeater with music, it was less weird and more tedious and silly so I just started throwing things into the mix. I read some Jared Hendrickson, played a clip of him too, and just read some stuff that was on screen through the phone transmitter. I played some DTMF tones, some of a HAARP transmission, a voicemail from who knows where and anything else interesting that I could find lying around. It ended up a bit of a mess overall but it was fun to pull at threads of ideas to see what worked and what didn't. I've already got some ideas of other things I want to try, though for shorter periods and less ad-hoc so maybe I'll try again this Friday. There's a few things I need to get a handle on first, though: I need to figure out why Drone FX hates itself so much and I really want to try messing with Pure Data as an alternative. I also need to sort out an input library of sorts rather than adding and removing things ad-hoc and making a mess, there's a bit in the recording from Sunday where you can hear some music break in because I was looking for something in Chrome and Chrome was feeding the mix. With a fixed set of "instruments" it should make it easier for me to put in a proper effort to get the volume correct. I put a trimmed version of the OpenMic archive[4] into files/K6MWT/ for ya too. Feels good to find a creative outlet again, it's been a while. One last story while I've got ya, since it's also audio related. A few years back now I picked up a bunch of second hand audio tapes from Goodwill to make mixtapes on, it fizzled out because the recorder I bought wasn't so hot and I didn't want to shell out for a higher quality one but I never got rid of anything, I just squashed it all away in the back of the cupboard. Cut to today and I've got a phone pickups but need something to record them on so I dig all that out to see if it'll do the trick, find batteries slam in a tape and hit play to check the batteries work. I expected to hear music or some dry dictation but instead I get the voices of two teenage-ish girls doing a fake radio station, it really made me smile. A friend and I used to do exactly the same back when we were kids, ours was called Ted's Radio, these girls just introduce themselves "Hannah Hannah and Cool Kat" but don't mention any kind of clever show name. At first I thought it was from back in the 80s or early 90s because of the music they play but they refer to them as "oldies" throughout I'm having trouble pinning it down. It might just be a case of raiding the 'rents music collection. One of the girls yells at her dad at one point because the record player stopped working. It's a pretty fun find, I'll hang on to it and maybe blast it out over OpenMic one time. And I'll be sure to check the rest of the tapes before I try using them. [1] gopher://circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/my-first-s24o.txt [2] gopher://baud.baby/1/files/K6MWT/ [3] gopher://baud.baby/9/files/K6MWT/201809231236_recording.mp3 [4] gopher://baud.baby/9/files/K6MWT/201809230300_openmic-edit.mp3 EOF