musical endeavours
It has come to my attention that "my worlds don't cross" - many people who know me for some activities have no idea I delve in anothers. In particular, plenty of people don't know I'm a musician.
Of course, it is quite probable that those also don't read this blog (who does?), but in any case, I felt compelled to write this short blog post to talk about two of musical projects - and how can you support me by adding their albums to your collection.
My main focus for more than a decade has been on kokori, a post-cyberpunk industrial duo that you can sample on this youtube playlist that showcases several songs from our full-length album 'rootkit' - an album that you can buy on CD.
A distinct project is Qink, and Qink is not kokori. Instead, it is meant to be "the final inorganic ambient to your darkest needs", the soundtrack to your horror show. You can listen to its album or even purchase its cassette tape edition.
tags: music, kokori, qink, rootkit
Merankorii Live at Club Tidal's Night Stream
Celebrating the shortest?/longest? night (depending on where you are in the world), this year's Club Tidal solsice party is going to be a 24 hours festival, and my solo musical project Merankorii is going to participate by playing Cycle #35 (if you're in Portugal, that will be at 21:20, on December 21).
As some of you know, Yule is when my birthday also is, so this is a special celebration for me...
This online festival is going to be live streamed, so make sure to tune in during this 24h period and celebrate the Solstice by witnessing to people from all over the world livecoding sounds for your pleasure!
tags: Merankorii, live, music, tidalcycles, algorave, concert, en
Are Cassette tapes dead? (again)
Tired of reading people saying that one or another mature technology was dead, ten years ago I decided to act upon one of those claims (saying that cassette tapes were dead) and write a blog post, where, using the data available on Discogs, I made a graph showing the percentage of cassette releases related to all of the releases on that database.
That blog post had more success than I thought would have, with some people, once in a while, wondering how were things progressing (not only regarding the cassette tapes market on current days, but also the growth of discogs' database and its knowledge of past releases). I did update the graph a few times since the initial blog post, but today, to mark the 10th anniversary of the initial post, I decided to actually write a script that automatically generates such a graphic, and generate one of those graphs, once again.
And, guess what!, turns out cassette tapes aren't dead, or even dying.
tags: discogs, stats, cassette, tape, compact cassette, music, data, software, music business, music market, en
Are Cassette tapes dead? (again)
Tired of reading people saying that one or another mature technology was dead, ten years ago I decided to act upon one of those claims (saying that cassette tapes were dead) and write a blog post, where, using the data available on Discogs, I made a graph showing the percentage of cassette releases related to all of the releases on that database.
That blog post had more success than I thought would have, with some people, once in a while, wondering how were things progressing (not only regarding the cassette tapes market on current days, but also the growth of discogs' database and its knowledge of past releases). I did update the graph a few times since the initial blog post, but today, to mark the 10th anniversary of the initial post, I decided to actually write a script that automatically generates such a graphic, and generate one of those graphs, once again.
And, guess what!, turns out cassette tapes aren't dead, or even dying.
tags: discogs, stats, cassette, tape, compact cassette, music, data, software, music business, music market, en
Are Cassette tapes dead? (again)
Tired of reading people saying that one or another mature technology was dead, ten years ago I decided to act upon one of those claims (saying that cassette tapes were dead) and write a blog post, where, using the data available on Discogs, I made a graph showing the percentage of cassette releases related to all of the releases on that database.
That blog post had more success than I thought would have, with some people, once in a while, wondering how were things progressing (not only regarding the cassette tapes market on current days, but also the growth of discogs' database and its knowledge of past releases). I did update the graph a few times since the initial blog post, but today, to mark the 10th anniversary of the initial post, I decided to actually write a script that automatically generates such a graphic, and generate one of those graphs, once again.
And, guess what!, turns out cassette tapes aren't dead, or even dying.
tags: discogs, stats, cassette, tape, compact cassette, music, data, software, music business, music market, en