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Sending an utterly reasonable and miniscule by today's standard file, literal couple MB, BT to BT is giving me strong midi sample dump vibes. #iykyk

What was your favourite alternative gym membership, chonkin metal sampler tank unit baaaack in the day. Did you have a trust fund for a roland with a mouse? A clapped out s900 with a bad channel because deal? 45 6E 73 6F 6E 69 71? Worked extra shifts for that E-mu with a fraction the memory in it Orbital could afford?

Favourite unusual real-life sounds used as a rhythmic element in music?

- Cough (6klop): 6klop-electronix.bandcamp.com/
- Running in gravel (Ez3kiel): ez3kiel.bandcamp.com/track/aki
- Table tennis (Flying Lotus and Laura Darlington): flyinglotus.bandcamp.com/track
- Basketball and shoe squeaks (Memory Tapes): youtube.com/watch?v=WacIBze4YT

What's yours? I adore those and want to find more. I also love randomly hearing music in the world when there isn't any.

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Jet Set Radio

Year: 2000
By: Hideki Naganuma, Richard Jacques, Toronto

In the early 2000s, SEGA was in the middle of a creative golden age. Artsy experiments such as Rez would release alongside huge innovative and expensive masterpieces such as Shenmue. At the same time, the studio was dying, plagued by the poor sales of both the Saturn and the Dreamcast and terrible business practices. Jet Set Radio came out in this very peculiar moment in time. An arcade game about graffiti, youth and subculture, it popularized cel-shading (a technical way to make 3D graphics look like cartoons) and influenced the video game for decades to come — ever heard of Splatoon?

A big part of JSR’s attitude came from its crazy soundtrack, Hideki Naganuma’s very first work as lead composer. Taking inspiration from funk and big beat genres, and making use of advanced sampling techniques, he made a soundtrack that sounds like no other. Maybe because sampling was barely ever used in video games before (Sonic CD being a notable exception).

In-house composers Tomonori Sawada (under the alias Toronto) and Richard Jacques also contributed to the original soundtrack under the supervision of Naganuma, and SEGA added a few licensed tracks to the final game — making the titular “radio“ of the game a tasteful, underground blend of hip-hop, rock and electro.

Best picks

Let Mom SleepHumming the Bassline
Everybody Jump Around
Rock It On
Grace and Glory

Full soundtrack

on streaming services

Songlink/OdesliLet Mom Sleep by Hideki NaganumaListen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

Yesterday I spontanously released an album. I worked on "HONEY WHEAT GOLD" for the second half of '24 and don't want to enter a demo cycle for this one. It could be described it as a soundtrack for a strangely wonderful dream and I dedicate it to my wife. Because.❤️‍🔥
And now: Music.

#Music
#LoFiBeats #DaydreamPop #LoFiElectronic
#newmusic #nowplaying #Bandcamp
#Sampling #Synthesis
#KOALA #Bitwig #CherryAudio #Klanghelm

trmcrclrm.bandcamp.com/album/h

A post from August 2024 by @grimalkina, boosted by someone on another instance, about why to report demographics in research even when you're not studying those groups. This seems like a great primer for people who have little background in basic #sampling and #generalization (for some reason I can't link/boost from here, so):

mastodon.social/@grimalkina/11

My 2 cents (already at least partially covered by Dr. Hicks):

1. Your study is never just about your study. Good science is #open and reusable. e.g., maybe your study on tech-enabled healthcare access isn't specifically about LGBTQ+ or Hispanic people, but what are you doing to help a researcher who comes along in 10 years? That information will change what they find and report.

2. Marginalized groups are often minorities, meaning representative probability samples (or --uncomfortable gesture-- convenience samples) for bread-and-butter research frequently have subpopulations too small for reasonable power in correlations, group differences, etc. That's just reality. It's also a big problem for our understanding of #marginalized + #minority groups. Oversampling or targeted studies of those groups are important. It's also important to have a large number of less-targeted studies with relevant information that can be synthesized later (see #1): one study with 1.3% trans participants doesn't tell us much about the trans population, but 20 studies, each of which has 1.3% trans participants, could tell us meaningful things.

3. Representation is important. My belief is that #marginalized+minoritized people need their identities and existence public and constant. In #science, both they and other people consuming the research will benefit from being reminded that they are there, almost always, in our #research.

MastodonCat Hicks (@grimalkina@mastodon.social)Ok, so there is a certain criticism that people seem to make about including demographic characteristics in a research study (e.g., the breakdown of gender, or age or race), which is separate from other more meritorious critiques about HOW we measure those things (imperfectly!). This critique is not only logically flawed, it is a questionable scientific practice that can warp the scientific record, but it seems to be a pervasive misconception in software research so I'm going to break it down

Here's a preview of the header of next week's newsletter, which is the very first issue with the title "The Meow Phenomenon", it's on #sampling by phenomenon.

My #newsletter "Purrspectives in Language" will feature brandnew material never been published in my research before: new #multilingual examples, memes currently viral, a peek into feline-related #research, and recommendations for further (purrther) reading.

Join me in my purr-suit: steadyhq.com/en/purrspectives-
#cats #linguistics #meow

#AYearAgoInJapan

NOV 7 2023: I only took one picture that day, the “ants climbing a tree” (#螞蟻上樹) I made for dinner.

When we went to #Japan, I wanted to be able to say I wrote and recorded an album there, so I took as much music equipment as I could carry.

So I spent the entire day in the apartment working on it, using some samples I had recorded on my phone. Japan is a great place for #sampling: for one thing, everything talks to you! Escalators, parking garages, etc.

By the way, we have this »Sampler Songwriting« #workshop with Asaf Eden aka. #Ryskinder from #Israel happening on September 21 and 22 at Pracht.

Very much looking forward to this!

You'll learn how to find and construct musical samples, use them in creative ways and discover ways how to create new songs from old songs, found sounds, manipulated instruments etc.

Check the link, if you're interested: pracht-ev.net/en/program/sampl