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@owen Quarter-tone pianos! Never heard of such a thing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/k41nxa/everything_is_an_instrument_if_you_try_hard_enough/

I love that these posts are called "toots".

@owen @grampyfr Found this series of podcasts on modern music. Listened to the first one about tuning systems and found it quite fascinating. I'm always amazed at how much music I know about and what a miniscule fraction of what is going on that represents. Site's a little awkward, but there's a couple dozen episodes with transcripts and supplemental material. Cheers!

https://rwm.macba.cat/en/buscador/radio/serie/probes-9468?sort=date&order=asc

Some graphic delights from our 2nd AirBnB in KC...

Two questions about water:
1) can you cook it?
2) is it a mineral?

@owen @grampyfr I take exception to the Crunchwrap Supreme. Straight eighths, if you ask me. Which, of course, nobody did.

@owen Here's the quintessential song about just that - which is on Spotify.
https://open.spotify.com/track/1QbQL5m30YNvukitIqAnFG?si=i1JXMgk7QwKYscEX9EGDgA

or this one...

https://open.spotify.com/track/4EfZ2eaFjn1MQbKZD8urIz?si=-kcokbmXSKGkkQ99B2xrjw

@owen That's true. Being pretentious isn't illegal.

@owen I feel your pain. So many playlists I've nearly abandoned because the perfect songs aren't on Spotify. It is the most robust public service I've seen, but they are still missing a bunch of great stuff. Wendy Carlos. The second Buggles album. Ad infinitum.

Found in the house #2

Found in the house #1

On the road.

@owen Also, you should know there were many tracks I either couldn't find on Spotify - like Wendy Carlos' version of Ode to Joy used in Clockwork Orange or the primal Bicycle Built for Two experiments from the mid-60's, and like half the tracks from my old "it's more fun to compute" playlist also qualify, but I didn't want to repeat material.

Enjoy!

Owen and I have been sharing Spotify playlists for the past year or so. My rules for making them are that there has to be some sort of thematic unity and it has to be exactly two hours long (as rounded by Spotify). In honor of the book about the history of the vocoder that I'm nearly done reading, I have compiled a playlist of music that features vocoders. There are certain types of music that tend to favor vocoders (Electro - a type of techno - being the most popular), but I've tried pulling examples from other genres. If anybody else is interested in hearing it, the link is posted right after I get my character count to 666. There.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1hAV2BGaI10465RGcNbeaX?si=-ZSAWh1eRz-ZZ0OQ3uxXPQ