tripngroove

Thanks for your interest - it's been a lifelong pursuit. There was an old upright piano in the house while I was growing up that I always gravitated to. Had about 10 years of piano lessons as an adolescent; had a love/hate relationship with the structure of taking lessons but it was invaluable. Ended up playing tuba all through high school in various school bands, which got me in to playing electric bass in the school jazz band. Around this time someone gifted me an old electric guitar and I fell in love with that distorted feedback you get when you crank the volume and stand in front of the amp. Started a really bad high school rock band. This led to several more rock/emo bands over the years. Concurrently, a buddy in school gave me a pirated copy of Propellerhead Rebirth, which emulated several of Roland's old drum machines and groovebox-style synthesizers. Found this super interesting. Spent a lot of time in college making bad techno with Fruity Loops. Kind of gave it all a rest while I did startup life for a while... then I had the good fortune to be working out of a building near a recording studio and we sort of got to go hang out in there every so often. At some point, a band was set up in there and I laid eyes on an old Roland Juno-60. I was so intrigued I immediately bought one on craigslist and that has sent me down this enormous rabbit-hole of hardware synthesizers... which, to my eyes, is this wonderful center of the venn-diagram that intersects design and music and technology. Putting together a solo album has always been on my bucket list and this last year of isolation was the perfect opportunity... and here we are!

Of all the services I've had to interact with to get this album out digitally, Bandcamp was easily the most streamlined and easy to use. Definitely recommend them to anyone as a first-stop in getting music distributed.

Thanks!

This description is hilarious - I may have to blurb it for promotional material (if you don't mind)!

Thanks. I really struggled with mixing the guitar and so many layers of synth. At this point it is what it is but I am definitely iterating on my process for the next album.

Hey thanks!

I would love if you could say a little more here - what exactly do you mean by making the guitars less detached in the highs?

Currently iterating my creative process for the next album and one of my main areas of focus is creating a better strategy for constructing my mix. This album has many layers of synth parts and I found it nearly impossible to preserve all the detail I wanted.

I have been so pleasantly surprised at what a great adaptation the TV series has been so far.

Thank you! :D

I think you've touched on one big source of this problem, which is that many of these icons have been trademarked and saddled with all manner of usage restrictions and licenses.

As an entrepreneur or designer, am I going to waste who knows how much time interpreting the usage guidelines from Share This, or devote valuable space on my site to giving the Open Share people an attribution?

No. I'm going to spend 5 minutes designing something that won't cause future legal threats or trouble at acquisition time.

We need something with an MIT-like license on it.

I recently had this exact problem.

THE FIX: Log in to your Apple support profile, go to the devices section, then unregister all the iOS devices associated with your account.

Good! A person operating a moving vehicle should have 100% of their attention focused on the road. I have yet to see an argument to the contrary that doesn't attempt to rationalize unsafe behavior.

Any device that actively creates distractions occluding a person's field of vision should be prohibited while driving.

> the 0.01% of the time where they are "activated", they do their job just fine.

Several homes I've lived in had smoke detectors that would false positive on a somewhat regular basis from (what I deduct were) sudden changes in humidity. This tends to happen in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, the only fix at times was to unplug the smoke detector and go back to bed. A "silence for 15 min" option, sensitivity adjustment, or any kind of interactive control would be amazing.

Also, who wouldn't want to get an alert if their house is burning down?

If Nest released this tomorrow I would replace every smoke detector in my house with one.