#audioled

[lemonofthevalley]

imposter syndrome by sidney gish I love u .

[funnylittlelad]

birdsong - steddie ficlet (-1.5k)

That time Steve got hearing aids.

Steve has been pissing people off for weeks and he knows it. He just doesn’t know what to do about it. It gets to the point where Dustin snaps at him for never paying attention to them. Steve starts to consider just leaving the country and starting new somewhere else. Somewhere it doesn't matter if he can hear who’s talking to him because he can't understand them anyways. He always thought Italy could be nice. Instead of running, he just shows up less. Both literally and metaphorically.

He starts bailing on more hangouts, figuring he won't be able to hear everyone so what's the point. When he is there he participates less in the conversation. He only engages when he’s really sure he can hear, which isn't a lot. It's mostly one-on-one or one-on-two. He doesn't think anyone notices, but they do. Eddie most of all feels Steve’s absence even when he’s sitting right next to him. He’s noticed the anxious tension in him when they're in groups. He just isn't sure what to do. So, he sits with a Steve-sized ache in his chest. There’s a day when the ache becomes too much, though, and Eddie breaks.

Steve sits in his living room with everyone strewn about. Eddie is next to him like he usually is unless Robin was already at Steve’s first. The kids lay and sit on the rug around the coffee table. Robin is on the other side of Eddie. Nancy sits with her legs tucked under her in a big armchair. The sound of conversation and life flows around him like a pebble in a stream. His edges have been smoothed so the water can move effortlessly, never catching on his surface. He can feel that there are words in the air around him, but there are too many other things around those words. Too much background noise and laughter. He can’t dig through it all in time to figure out what anyone is saying. So, he just stays silent like he has been. 

“He’s not listening again,” Dustin says frustratedly. 

Eddie frowns and looks at Steve. The movement catches Steve’s attention. He turns to look at Eddie with a small smile. Then he notices that it's more than just Eddie’s eyes on him. His blood runs cold and his throat dries.

“What?” He asks cautiously, eyes flitting to everyone else before landing on Eddie.

“Be honest, can you hear us?” Eddie answers Steve’s question with his own.

“I-”

“Be honest,” Eddie warns.

“No,” Steve sighs, “most of the time I can't really. I mean, I can hear you, but I can't tell what you're saying. It all garbles together like I’m underwater or something.”

“I think it's time to go to the doctor, Stevie,” Eddie says softly.

Steve frowns, but nods. There's a nervous twist in his stomach at the thought. He agrees to make an appointment the following day. Eddie hangs behind after everyone else leaves for a little bit. He does this sometimes and Steve’s never complained. Steve’s never thought about complaining. There's no surprise when Eddie gently grabs his hand either. He does that sometimes too. 

“Do you want me to go with you?” Eddie asks. 

The question nearly makes Steve cry. He wants to cry so bad. He wants to cry because he misses being able to hear his friends. He wants to cry because he’s scared of what's going to happen to what's left of his hearing. He wants to cry because Eddie is standing here offering to go to his doctor’s appointment with him like he’s a child. Mostly, he wants to cry because he’s so fucking happy Eddie offered and he doesn't have to ask. Steve nods.

“Yeah, if you don't mind,” he answers with a slight waver in his voice. 

Eddie smiles all sticky and sweet at him. Steve silently wonders what he did to be worthy of a smile like that. 

“‘Course I don't mind. Just tell me when and where and I’m there,” Eddie promises.

And he was. Eddie drives Steve to the ENT on the morning of his appointment the next week. He sat in the waiting room until Steve was done, but the knowledge he was there was enough. It was the same thing when Steve was sent to the Audiologist two weeks later. Eddie sat in the waiting room patiently while Steve sat in a booth answering all sorts of questions and prompts. It doesn't really sink in until he sees Eddie stand from his chair. The knit of his brow tells Steve his face says it all.

“What’s the verdict?” Eddie asks. 

“They’ll let me know when to come in and be fitted for my hearing aids,” he sighs with a frown.

“That’s good!” Eddie smiles as they walk out of the office. 

“Good? Eds, I’m going to have hearing aids,” Steve scoffs.

“Yeah, which means you’ll, y’know, be able to hear,” Eddie points out. 

“Well, yeah, but-”

“Nope, no buts except yours in my van,” Eddie interrupts him and points to the passenger side as they approach the van.

Steve rolls his eyes with a small smile as he climbs in. 

“I just don’t feel like it's that bad,” he admits quietly as the van choked to a start.

“How bad did they say it was?” 

Steve remains silent for a beat as Eddie pulls out. He sighs and glances out the window at the building as they leave.

“I'm working with sixty percent of my hearing in one ear and seventy in the other,” he tells Eddie.

“Stevie,” Eddie breathes with a shake of his head, “If the doctors say these things will help you then they’re worth a shot. M’tired of you bailing out on things- yeah, I noticed.”

Steve’s face flushes at being caught like that. He exhales slowly and nods. 

“Okay,” he agrees, “I’ll give them a shot.”

A couple weeks later he’s called into the office for his hearing aids. Eddie is so quick to drop what he’s doing to go with him it nearly gives Steve whiplash. The sight of Eddie’s van pulling up gives a strange swooping sensation that he's grown used to around Eddie. The appointment itself takes around an hour. Then Steve is walking out fashioned with two white hearing aids hooked over his ears. His eyes are wide as they bounce to the television and then the clacking behind the desk. Eddie beams at him and stands. Steve looks beautiful so stunned. Hell, Eddie can admit that Steve just looks beautiful. 

“C’mon, Stevie, let’s go give’em a spin,” he says with a wolfish grin.

Steve laughs and nods. They don't get far, though. Once they step foot outside Steve comes to a halt. He makes a noise that's a cross between choking and a sob. Eddie’s hands fly to examine him for injury, but there is none. Steve’s lip wobbles, his face is blotchy and red, and his warm toffee eyes are trained on the tree a few feet away. Eddie’s mouth opens to ask, but then Steve’s eyes are on him like that. His eyes overflow with more emotion than Eddie knew a human could hold. 

“The birds,” Steve croaks. 

“What about’em?” Eddie’s brows furrow.

He glances accusingly at the little chirping finches in the tree. Steve chuckles wetly at the sight.

“I- I can hear them. It’s been so long- I didn't even realize,” Steve shakes his head, “I don’t know the last time I’ve actually heard the birds.”

Steve’s wonder-filled gaze turns back to the birds in question. He laughs again, heartier this time at the notion. He can hear birds. 

“Shit,” Eddie whispers to himself, “I’m so in love with you.”

At least he thought it was to himself. An hour ago it would have been to himself. Steve’s face whips around with huge eyes. His lips part slightly as he watches Eddie stunned. Eddie freezes, absolutely terrified. He’s so sure he just fucked it all up. 

“I can hear you too,” Steve whispers.

Eddie swallows the lump in his throat.

“Nah, pretty sure that was a bird too,” he attempts to joke it off. 

“I really hope not,” Steve frowns.

Eddie blinks hopefully.

“Really? Why?”

“Because I’m in love with you too.”

Safe to say, Steve is very happy he got hearing aids. 

Masterlist - beta read by @steveslilshorts

[gxbtx]

Peter Cat Recording Co. at The Echo Lounge

Dallas, Tx, September 22nd

   This past weekend I was honored to be able to experience the Peter Cat Recording Co in the flesh, with their performance of songs from their newest album, Beta. This album was released a hefty 5 years after their last studio album, Bismillah. After the new-found success during COVID-19, the Dahli based band went on to perform for their new-found fanbase on the Good Luck Beta Tour 24. They are in the process of traveling to perform a total of 77 shows across three continents, selling out a majority of these venues to varied crowds. 

Peter Cat Recording Co. performing at The Echo Lounge in Dallas for a crowd of about 200 people 

I can best describe Peter Cat Recording Co. (PCRC) as an Indian psychedelic jazz band, taking elements of sounds transcontinental to create a movie like experience with their studio albums. Having about a decade of tenure as a band, they come to offer an evolved sense of introspection, utilizing so many different instruments to create soundtracks to the life of struggle and other complex sentiments alike. Such as seen in A Portrait of a Time: 2010-2016, they metaphorically paint pictures of a time period in their lives in which they conceptualize their feelings in regards to aspects of the human experience by making fun of their own turmoil.

PCRC displays typical traits of a band, such as guitars, bass, drums, and keyboards, but then adds flairs of color with less common instruments such as the clarinet, accordion, saxophone, and even a banana shaker! 

The show started on the song “Flowers R Blooming”, starting off the show on the foundational lessons they center their themes around; through lyrics of “For Changing Is Living/And Living is Love”, they share a valuable insight into a perspective of living far more fulfilling and redeeming in this game we call life. This song broke tears out of me, fostering an emotional connection to the band that seems rare for me to encounter. This song gave me an outlet of emotions to express that recognition in who I am is the best thing I can do to spread love to myself and others. 

 In maturing comes sacrifice, and ultimately growth in our ability to cope and humor our sensitivities in our emotions; PCRC audiolizes (I just created a new word!) these lessons such as in the leading single “People Never Change” where they renounce the power of others to impact our moods and confidence. He reverses this happier tune with a melancholy song “Heera” from their previous studio album reflecting a low point in the singer’s life, standing at a crossroads of whether it’s too late to “live a lovely life”. The hollow guitar riff being repeated with the dissonant tones of keyboard make it out to have a ghoulish feeling from this time period. As expanded upon within his band, growing up is demonstrated in coming to terms with your emotions and wearing them on full display, becoming sensible in the process, which is what Lifafa demonstrates when he lets loose and dances along to his pain in the guitar riff.

The combination of lights tastefully adds to the psychedelic feelings filling up the room, keeping the audience invested in the growth of the artistic messages

I appreciate the diversified sounds this band created, as the lead singer Lifafa has described the instrumentation to be specially tailored to the idea of what the song’s goal is.  The creative process of starting with the idea of the song, leads the band to switch around instruments to what feels right. While members progressively came and went towards the inception of the band, the 5 members we see have become comfortable together for 6 years. The versatility reeks of the experience this band has come to acquire, providing quite an alluring experience to the dedicated audience. The Echo Lounge in Dallas venue notably accommodated PCRC elegantly, having a sophisticated theater-like quality that felt appropriate to the presentation of family established in the heartfelt odes.

Guitar player Kartik Pillai went up to play “Foolmuse,” the third leading single for Beta

On my ever-prolonged journey of learning what it takes to be a man and to be the best me I can be, this band shares valuable perspectives that come from a long pipeline of experience and wisdom cross-culturally.  In Beta, their new project released earlier last month, they further their documented maturation in life coming to share feelings associated with love and connection, as well as overcoming anxious thoughts that keep us from seeing the absolute beautiful world we see around us. Although the music can sometimes seem long and heavy, I believe PCRC displays an excellent feat of music in connecting time into thoughtful reflections of their humanity - and in a way that connects us to our own. 

To read my RadioUTD finalized version, go to https://radioutd.com/blog/2024/10/peter-cat-recording-co-at-the-echo-lounge-in-dallas/

[toollistai]

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[bedlam-moon]

currently audiolizing the first ~three seconds of revenge on loop, overlayed by the same three seconds but slightly delayed

[lavozs]

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[tropiyas]

why have i been more comfortable with sucking at guitar than sucking at drawing/animating 🤨

they’re both pretty creative outlets that i could find a fun way learning (playing songs i like, drawing fan art of characters i love) as long as i kept at it

but despite having guitar and also drawing tablet i’m picking up the guitar way more often

[mentalisttraceur]

Hi — I'm looking for a post of yours on visualising graphs with audio (eg for blind people). It might've been on your -long sideblog and is probably from several months ago at least. I thought I had it bookmarked but can't find it; would you happen to have it? Thanks!

Cheers, here's the post, and my tag for it is "audiolization", although I don't think I ever wrote anything else about it.

[fromaliminalspace]

Maybe Eddie ended up combining different genres to fit his taste and his campaigns, an occasional heavy riff sounding so naturally within a fantasy-vibe melody and intertwining with it so seamlessly it feels like that's just how music is always supposed to be. When listening closely, Dustin wonders how he could miss it in the first place, the sheer eddieness of the music, the way it sounds so much like him.

Also, now that Will confirms that Vecna's alive, Nancy gets everyone to contribute to the list of their collective favorite songs, just in case. And Dustin's Vecna song? His theme by Eddie. Nothing else stands even close because how could it, really?

When Wayne (who also got a copy btw) packs up Eddie's D&D stuff, which he plans to give out to Hellfire, he stumbles upon Eddie's hastily scribbled tabs and chords for Lady Applejack's theme. Theme that he tried out some ideas for on the school piano and jotted down right after her triumph, in between the time when the rest left and when he had to pick up Chrissy. Wayne may not have realized what the notes were for but Dustin knows who Lady Applejack is and can't help holding back a tear from the realization that it must be the last piece of music Eddie wrote. Jeff agrees to finish and record it, and together they hand the new version of the tape to her as well.

Steve ends up listening to his copy a lot during his shifts at Family Video, and Robin never asks him to change the tape (even though many of the melodies prove to be a hell of an earworm so she has to listen to them even when she doesn't technically listen to them) and unfailingly wards off Keith's complaints but she does get concerned about the haunted look Steve sometimes tends to have when the tape is playing. Like there's sth deeper to the way Steve processes this loss, sth going well beyond simply knowing that someone who you're familiar with is dead now, sth that is perhaps longing for what could've become of your companionship with that person if just given enough time. Yet never getting to know that, forever limited to nothing more but pointless what-ifs, because time is a luxury reserved for the living, and not even for all of them. Certainly not for someone who gambled his own life on buying more of that time for their sake. Time that didn't save them anyway, didn't save what they all were fighting for.

So when faced with all but too familiar gleam of the eyes staring right at them and as if dispersing the gloom of the night with their unnatural red tint, Steve and Dustin can't even bring themselves to be afraid of these eyes and of the fangs. Not when the only things they hear are that laughter they missed so damn much and Kas the Bloodyhanded's theme still playing on the car's stereo.

Because maybe, for once, they have that time. Maybe it'll be enough to make things right.

got thinking about Will using some background music during his D&D game in the beginning of s3 and just... ended up being totally swept away by the mental vision of Eddie composing the soundtrack of all his campaigns. not even necessarily metal, maybe just sth epic or somber or folky or medieval-ish, idk i mean i even have ideas for which chord progression he would totally use but still, the possibilities are too vast here, but it's an established part of his DMing by the time he meets Dustin and Mike and Lucas (who at first assume that the recordings he plays are merely some recordings he found, like Will's ones).

and then while Eddie and Dustin are hanging out on the roof of the Munsons' Upside Down trailer, waiting for their clue, Eddie decides to pass the time by playing one of his D&D tunes, which Dustin immediately recognizes. Dustin is furious that Eddie never mentioned being the one who composed all the music, only for Eddie to smirk in reply, "none of you ever asked"

a few hours later, Dustin is gripping Eddie's dedicated D&D tape with blood-soaked fingers after returning from the Upside Down with Steve, Robin, and Nancy but without Eddie, and Steve asks him tentatively about it and Dustin tells him. to his surprise, Steve asks in a small voice whether he'd mind making him a copy. too tired and grief-stricken to as much as question why, Dustin just nods. and if Steve can't stop listening to that copy for hours later on, then who's really to know?

whoops, had this fun little thought just now and felt like sharing it with someone, so here you are..? sorry for the turn it took while i was writing it down, it kinda got out of control, but i swear it was meant to be fun

Hey, listen, come here I’ve got something to tell you. Shhh. No closer this is a secret, come on, hey…fuck you.

THIS!!! Excuse ME!!! I started reading and immediately fell in love with what you were saying. Eddie taking inspiration from different artists to get the sound just right. He deliberated for days over which genre to go down.

When Dustin plays the tape he finds out that Eddie has composed pieces for each member of hellfire too, each of their characters getting their very own theme. Dustin cries and cries into his pillow the first time he hears it, eventually the only way Dustin can sleep is if he is playing his theme.

Steve and Dustin will go for drives where they sit in silence and play the tape over and over again. Both in their own heads but better to be grieving together than alone, right? One night, neither of them can sleep so after a quick phone call Steve is picking Dustin up and they are on the road. It’s a wet, dreary night and the drive is aimless. Steve has parked up in the trailer park parking lot when there’s a sudden car rattling thump on the roof. Both of them jolt out of their mindless states. Immediately on edge, they lock their doors out of instinct. A body rolls off the roof and onto the hood, turning and pressing its face into the windshield, fangs and red eyes evident in the moonlight. Then with an all too familiar laugh ‘Henderson. Harrington. You rang?’

[sinapsinews]

Dai Borbone a Chet Baker nella quinta puntata del podcast "AudioLive - Speciale Campania Teatro Festival 2021"

Quinta puntata del podcast “AudioLive – Speciale Campania Teatro Festival 2021” realizzato in collaborazione con il Campania Teatro Festival diretto da Ruggero Cappuccio. In questo nuovo appuntamento filo conduttore la storia. Ai microfoni di Rosanna Astengo il giornalista Marco Perillo, curatore del progetto multidisciplinare “Il sogno reale”, a metà strada tra guida turistica e saggio storico…

[ann-theprophetess]

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[beebascloset]

So if there are people who can't visualize shit in their head does that mean there are also people who can't "hear" inside their head? Like people who can't audiolize a song when it's not playing

[vialents]

Hi how was your day?

an audiol repesentation of today would be a little like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA