That’s how you are supposed to play WITH these toys… EHEM… modules when you have a short break between your teaching sessions at work

#eurorack #vcvrack #modularsynths

Reporting from soho. Yep, fedi mates, these are here for those doing the Boards of Canada easter egg hunt

#BoC #BoardsofCanada #WarpRecords

Edit:* Altaic Languages

Never truly connected with Turkish diaspora properly in places I visit, and in the UK where I moved to in 2021. reasons for not connecting are long story… well there are not many people from my region (west of Istanbul, near Greece and Bulgaria) that I encounter abroad in diaspora contexts anyway… but that’s not the main topic:

I was going to say despite not culturally and socially connecting with things there is one very Turkish thing that is deeply imprinted in me: We don’t have any genders in pronouns so it is always confusing for me to do that extra processing to add the relevant article (if applicable for that language) or produce female/male pronouns. We just have ONE third-person singular pronoun that is used for everyone and it corresponds to she/he/it, hers/his/its and that’s it. It is “o” / “O”

It is a gender neutral language, I love it. This always made it hard for me to adjust to gendered languages and their pronouns, with me ending up using the wrong ones at times. If I did that to you please forgive me! I don’t think I did but I may have done…

other than that, Turkish language has syntax structures similar to Mongolian, Japanese, and Korean. So your brain process for English is exact opposite ways, not like having the verb in the second place as in some of the Germanic languages but more like having each sentence item first, listing them in a syntax order with subject first (if applicable as it is sometimes a suffix in verb), time expressions, places, etc, with verb being the last one.

Okay thanks for listening to my TedTALK on linguistics. That’s end of my series in the field. But lol I have an undergrad degree in the field, from many many years ago lol… I know I write mainly about music and tech but you know… can be interesting for fellow tldr.nettime people—there is already interest in music here and I am aware it is broader. Happy to be part of it.

A source: https://melc.washington.edu/equity-diversity-inclusion

And “Ural-Altaic Languages”

Love our library (even if the white book will be a 2nd instructional read). And I look forward to reading the Tuning Systems book especially (Look who wrote the foreword). I am familiar with Northwestern Turkish part of microtonal music, more informally though, unlike my electronic music background, with my parents doing weekly activities as part of a local Turkish Art Music Association, in a choir, with my dad playing several instruments.

Mind you, he was not a professional musician, he was a metallurgical engineer, and my mom is not a professional musician either.

Anyway, my little exposure here is unlocked again after many years, this time to extend the knowledge beyond informal exposure and learn many many others. Aaand especially after getting fed up with the likes of altin gun (a turkish dutch band, not to sh*t on their music at all, my problem is about something else->) sparking this orientalist stereotype and satisfying that expectation with re-appropriation on one side, but then again recognising that there is so much to explore, on the other, with history of synthesis, and meticulous efforts of those like Harry Partch and now Live having introduced these tunings.

Just saw Keiji Haino do his engaging set. He built something that felt like a noise gamelan. Very different from the 1st time I saw him with distorted guitar (2016). I wish they they got him to another set, this time in an IKEA . Kept thinking of the one in Oxford Street, wasn’t too far

Not listed on my own bandcamp: my album “Vection” released as part of Eliane Tapes series dedicated to Eliane Radigue (so sad to type RIP now…)
https://elianetapes.bandcamp.com/album/vection

I avoided sharing it earlier, after very sad news of her passing, due to respect to Radigue.
I thought I would link this here ahead of bandcamp Friday—I want to use bc friday opportunity to share work from others whose music I like and want to support so tomorrow is for that.

I was fortunate to be invited by @nprofile1q... to release an album as part of their Eliane Tape series (music dedicated to and inspired by Eliane Radigue) several years ago and this came out on bandcamp and as CD in 2024. And it was a rewarding development for me as it was a result of a natural organic connection and enthusiasm. If you love Eliane Radigue, then please check out further works in this series as there are 7 others. Many thanks to Sietse who runs this label with his very own dedicated efforts. I have so much respect and I feel lucky for having released work with his label. https://movingfurniturerecords.com/series/eliane-tapes/