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Benno's avatar

Really nice! I wanted this to go full boards of canada on me!

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Jeffrey Salem's avatar

I'm relatively unversed in Boards of Canada. I'll have to give them some study. Thanks for checking our my work.

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Benno's avatar

They’re one of my all time favs

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Eros's avatar

Excellent recommendation - I love what I'm hearing so far.

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Respira's avatar

Such a great piece of music and poetry man, I'd love to hear more like this

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Jeffrey Salem's avatar

Thank you so much, both for the words of praise, and for the lovely bass and drum sounds I used for this.

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Josh Datko's avatar

Ooooh, the sound collage on this is nice 👌

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Jeffrey Salem's avatar

Thank you! I got really inspired by your performance Sunday, and decided it was time to get some multi-media elements of my own going. I hope to go even crazier with my next piece.

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Josh Datko's avatar

Yeah this is great, it folds on itself nicely. I need to try to experiment with some more vocal effects. There’s lots of nice plugins but thus far I’ve been avoiding them, maybe at my own detriment.

I’m too much of an electronics nerd — I can’t resist the gear-based approach.

But yeah, this is very well done. I’m here for it!

And just thank you again for tuning in live, it was very cool of you.

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Jeffrey Salem's avatar

The pleasure was all mine. Your performance was really something to behold, and watching it unfold live was the icing on the cake.

I'm a hardware guy too. To make this I used a lovely little sampler called the EP-133 K.O. II

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Josh Datko's avatar

Oh yeah the Teenage Engineering guy. Yeah I was looking at that one but I so far like my minifreak so I've kinda been building around that. I have a roland sampler that's been neglected a bit I should dust that guy off.

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Jeffrey Salem's avatar

I have a roland I like a lot, the MC 707. It's my weapon of choice, but it's less portable than the ko ii.

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Josh Datko's avatar

Oh that looks nice. I picked up the Roland P-6 which is super small (it has a battery!) I did use it once or twice but since it’s so small, the UI is a bit obtuse.

So I figured out how to mash the buttons as a sampler but the sequencer/midi connections I have not yet mastered.

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Eros's avatar

The audio in this piece is mind-blowing. Both you and Datko are making me reconsider the boundaries of poetry...

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Jeffrey Salem's avatar

Thank you thank you. My hope is to create not only a poem that is a work of art, but also a substack post that is a piece of art in its own right.

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Creed Studenski's avatar

Super sick and creative, love the poem, thumbnail and audio!

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Jeffrey Salem's avatar

Thank you. I'd been wanting to incorporate my calligraphy and music into my poetry posts, and I'm pleased with the results. Thanks for checking it out.

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