#neutrino chorus

[shiweimigi]

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[mzk0323]

2,Man (neutrinos and semi-neutrinos)

Title: “Infinite Hands” (Verse 1)Side by side, we stand, hands reaching out,Right to left, above and below, find their route.An infinity before us, our arms stretched wide,With your back to me, in zero, we confide.Our dimensions intertwine, a tapestry spun,Four limbs, ten fingers under a shared sun. (Chorus)Infinite connections, in hands we trust,Circling your spine, in emptiness, a cosmic…

[beatnickdee]

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My new sample pack Prisma vol. 11 is out now! ~Link in bio~

The latest volume is inspired by moody 70's Library records, early 80's Synth-Prog, Cinematic Soul, Psych-Rock and sinister Horror OST's.

Bass on slides 3 and 8 by @logravity Guitar on slide 4 by @smuggledaudio_music_library Art by @portal_ism

Gear Used: Farfisa Compact Combo Organ, Sequential Prophet 6, Crumar Roadrunner 2, Behringer Poly D, Fender Strat, 5 string Warwick Streamer, Roland Re-201 Space Echo, Roland DC-50 Chorus, Sansui RA-500 Spring Reverb and various live percussion instruments including Flexatone and Cabasa.

Pedals: 70's Small Stone Phaser, 70's Morely Wah-Wah Fuzz, UA Dream 65 amp, Keeley Neutrino, Electro-Harmonix Pog, Obscura Altered Delay.

Each sample is labeled with BPM and Key. Master clearance guaranteed. Full license available to read on the site.

[21st-century-digital-boy]

Hello World

Here and now is fundamentally the intersection of the many quantum fields. We are literally a set of waves not all that different than the sound of a beautiful chorus. Or a phlegmmy cough. But I'll choose to imagine we are a chorus come to life. A chorus that can listen to itself.

We are all surfers, riding the very literal waves of the universe. As far as we can tell, rock, dust, and neutrinos can't do that. This is a special ride and we are so lucky if we can feel grateful for it.

[shipwreck-letters]

Rainier + Bard!MC

'Bard' is a term I'm using loosely. Basically a singing MC, they may or may not use an instrument based on your preference!

These are general headcanons for Rainier, and my first official set! I hope you enjoy them!

Reblogs/Comments appreciated 💌

+ @neutrino-dragons for your favorite dragon man <3

-• Rainier -• 

-It just happens on a boring, uneventful day. Work is long and dragging on, no matter how excited Rainier seems that morning. Time carries on, and there's still tons of things left to do.

-Without much thought behind it, your hands steadying wood and screws, you begin to hum a tune that's stuck in your mind. A folk song, a chorus, a melody. 

-"🎶🎶🎶" Your voice fills the empty room and carries an echo, and the sounds of the house (And it's present resident) come to a pause. 

-When you finally notice, Rainier is watching, his body completely still, as if any sound or movement would scare the moment away. 

-When you finally pause for breath, clearing your throat and chuckling, he finally blinks, smiling and giving an applause. 

-"That was wonderful, MC. How many songs do you know? Do you know the Ballad of Almithara? Oh wait, you probably don't. It's a really good song!" He continues on. "I think I miss that the most."

-"Could you teach me?" You ask. "I'm a fast learner."

-Rainier grins, and it's not long before you learn of a song from an entirely different world! 

-Going forward, Rainier loves to hear the songs you sing up close. He doesn't have to sneak out, he doesn't have to hide. 

-All of his favorite things combine into one; Stories, experiences, flowing through limericks and ballads. And you, of course. 

-His favorite songs are the ones that you sing. 

-And what fun would it be if you didn't have a duet? Songs become choirs whenever Rainier's around, adding his voice to yours. All of the laughs and smiles, tail-wagging and dancing. 

-Along with watching different anime/shows, times for listening to new music is a must! Show him all of your favorite bands and artists- No matter how strange, there's always something Rainier finds fascinating about them! 

-(I think he would really like folk songs, maybe even shanties. The Longest Johns guys, group singing about sailing and living on the seas is peak experience and my hyperfixation) 

-The halls of the House quickly become filled with singing and pleasant memories, and Rainier can't be happier for it.

~End~

[centeris2]

13. Heidrun (Knights of Unistria) (SSO winter prompt)

The Knights discuss Heidrun, a strategic fuel station. Also on AO3 and wattpad I call this "I refuse to do the easy or obvious choice for a prompt".

“I just got confirmation, Heidrun was taken by General Nemain,” Pearl reported as she entered the room the Knights had gathered in. There was a chorus of negative reactions before Tithonus, the human helping them, spoke up.

“You mean the goat?”

“It’s not some domestic livestock! It’s a station!” Eclipse snapped and got elbowed in the ribs and glared at by Dawn.

“Like a space station?” he asked, still confused.

“Heidrun is a fuel station, and a critical ally for us to lose. Heidrun’s fuel could power all of General Nemain’s armies,” Pearl explained.

“Just one station? How much fuel does it have?” he asked in amazement.

“It’s not how much, it’s what the fuel is!” Dawn perked up, happy to teach him.

“Why bother? He’s not gonna understand,” Eclipse grumbled, crossing her arms. Her comment was ignored.

“Heidrun produces one of the most efficient fuels in the universe! It’s able to concentrate the neutrinos from a neutron star into a source that most ships can use! Even the Crystal Unicorns can use it in the pinch for an extra boost!” Dawn wasn’t dissuaded by his confused expression, but Pearl did cut her off.

“It can also be used as a factory, if the General gets the resources and crews to it. Either her Harpies are going to be super fueled, or she’s about to have even more ships,” Pearl groaned and rubbed her face, not liking the position they were in.

“Or she’ll use it to make superweapons,” Eclipse pointed out, “like making her own Crystal Unicorns, or neutron bombs, or a Prism-”

“Yes, Eclipse, she could do those things too! Which is why we need to move quickly!” Pearl insisted before grumbling. “We need to free Heidrun, which means we need to be able to get to Heidrun, which means we have to be able to get off this planet, which means we need our Crystal Unicorns fully functional again. But.”

“But?” Dawn prompted when Pearl stopped talking and sat down instead, head in her hands.

“I should hear from our allies again tomorrow. We can’t do this without coordinating with them, but none of them are in a position to strike against General Nemain yet,” Pearl told them, hating feeling helpless. All they could do was be ready to go as soon as they got the word to move. But the longer General Nemain had Heidrun the greater the risk that the Harpies would be the least of their worries.

[factorlong]

Hyperspace baltimore

Marc Kamionkowski talked about dark matter that is neutral, but couples to electromagnetism through a dipole moment.Nima Arkani-Hamed talked about “ghost” fields as dark energy.Jacob Bekenstein talked about modified gravity as a replacement for dark matter.Eva Silverstein talked about inflation from nontrivial kinetic terms for string-theory moduli, including potentially observable signals (!) of non-Gaussianity in the cosmic microwave background.Ann Nelson and Neil Weiner both gave talks on interactions in the dark sector (undeterred by my skepticism).Alex Szalay gave an interesting talk on the huge data sets appearing in modern astrophysics - we’re moving from terabytes to petabytes, leading to files that would take years just to search using ordinary methods.Shamit Kachru talked about compactifying extra dimensions in string theory and the string-theory “landscape” of possible vacua.Angela Olinto gave a nice review of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and neutrino experiments.Gia Dvali talked about modified gravity in cosmology (as I blogged about recently).The participants were all theorists working on particle physics, string theory, and cosmology - overlapping fields with a lot of activity and connections these days. It went pretty well, so we’ll see what kind of reaction the paper gets. In the end it was for naught, as I complained about having to make the electronic version and received a chorus of requests to just go ahead and give the blackboard talk, which I did. My talk was scheduled at the very end, so I didn’t get any work done, but split my time between socializing and making an electronic version of the talk (which I had given previously, but only on the blackboard at seminars). It was a small, fun conference the idea was to keep it simple and informal, so that people could spend time talking to each other and perhaps even get some work done. The club's slogan, "Ad Luna in Flamma Gloria" is roughly Latin for, "To the Moon in a blaze of glory".Back from sunny, cicada-ridden Baltimore and the conference mentioned previously.On the ride itself, references to club-owner Colonel Impey when passing by his mining machine.Įven following the re-theming of the attraction away from its original incarnation, references to the Gun Club remain in the building and queue. The Victorian interior of the queue is themed around a lounge owned by the gun-club with their designs for the Columbiad being visible. The club's name is even found on the side of the Columbiad cannon and above the stairs leading to the Loading Station. The queue and exterior of the original Space Mountain in the Discoveryland area of Disneyland Paris was themed around the Baltimore Gun Club. In the novel they build the Columbiad in Tampa Town, Florida with Barbicane being partly motivated to oversee the construction of the spacecraft due to a bet with his rival Captain Nicholl of Philadelphia, a plate-armour manufacturer.Īppearances Space Mountain (Disneyland Paris) The Baltimore Gun Club originates from Jules Verne's 1865 novel De la Terre à la Lune as the creators of his speculative space-craft. Of note there was the Electro-de-Velocitor which allowed for the bullet-like spacecrafts of Space Mountain to return to Earth and Bluemoon Mining Machine which was used by Impey for asteroid mining. They would also obtain two notable devices which assisted in their space operations. To note was the cannon which they had built in the structure which became known as, " Space Mountain" where they held public-access space travel excursions at the 1899 Worlds Fair. The Columbiad Cannon worked by firing space-craft with humans inside out of Earth's atmosphere. At some point following the American Civil War, the club's president Colonel Impey Barbicane oversaw the construction of The Columbiad Cannon, a cannon intended to achieve space travel in the 19th century. The Baltimore Gun Club was an American society based out of Baltimore, Maryland which was dedicated to firearm design.

[faiphofassing]

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 なので今回はそんなDTMerにおすすめしたい フリー音源・エフェクトプラグイン・DAW をご紹介したいと思います。. この「Kontakt Player」は先程の「Komplete Start」にも収録されていますが、他のフリー音源を使う時にも必要になることがありますので、Kontakt Startはいらないという方でもこちらは確実にゲットしておきましょう。. ダウンロードまで少し難しいので こちらのページ を参照してみてください。. MuseScore という無料ソフトで楽譜を作り、それをNEUTRINOに読み込ませなくてはいけないのですが、MuseScoreもNEUTRINOも操作が結構独特なんですよね。. Home DTM 作曲 作詞 楽器講座 音楽レビュー 機材レビュー バンド活動ノウハウ 雑記 お問い合わせ. HOME DTM 【】DTMフリー音源・プラグイン・DAW40選！おすすめの無料ソフトまとめ. DTMを始める時って、PCやDAW、オーディオIF等お金がかかるものばかり。 できるだけ費用を抑えてDTMを始めたいという方も多いんじゃないでしょうか？ なので今回はそんなDTMerにおすすめしたい フリー音源・エフェクトプラグイン・DAW をご紹介したいと思います。 この記事の構成は以下の通りなので、すでに欲しいソフトのジャンルが決まっている方は、下からジャンプしてみてください。 DAWソフト.

おすすめフリーDAWソフト 1. Cakewalk by BandLab（Windows専用） 1. GarageBand（Mac専用） 2. おすすめのフリー音源プラグイン 2. マルチ音源のフリーソフト 2. Komplete Start 2. Kontakt 6 Player 2. Spitfire Audio LABS 2. SampleTank Custom Shop 2. UVI Workstation 2. シンセサイザーのフリー音源 2. Synth1 2. DEXED 2. u-he Zebralette 2. Model E 2. ピアノ・エレピのフリー音源 2. Soft Piano 2. ELECTRIC PIANO 2. PIANO ONE 2. Awesome Piano 2. Sweetcase E. ギター・ベースのフリー音源 2. Kriminal LP SG Custom 2. HumbuckerFREE 2.

ドラムのフリー音源 2. Addictive Drums 2 体験版 2. MT Power Drum Kit 2 2. Shino Drums 2. オーケストラ系のフリー音源 2. Versilian Studios Chamber Orchestra 2 Community Edition 2. ボーカロイドのフリーソフト 2. UTAU 2. NEUTRINO 3. おすすめのフリーエフェクトプラグイン 3.

エフェクト系総合バンドル 3. Blue Cat AUDIO Freeware Plug-ins Pack II 3. コンプレッサーのフリープラグイン 3. AudioDamage Rough Rider2 3. Xfer Records OTT 3. BeatSkillz MAX1 3. イコライザーのフリープラグイン 3. Sonimus SonEQ 3. Tokyo Dawn Records TDR Nova 3.

IK Multimedia T-Racks Classic Equalizer 3. アンプシミュレーターのフリープラグイン 3. AmpliTube Custom Shop 3. ピッチ補正のフリープラグイン 3. KeroVee 3. ステレオイメージャーのフリープラグイン 3. Ozone Imager 3. レコードシミュレーターのフリープラグイン 3. iZotope Vinyl 4. Strings （標準的なストリングス） Strings 2 （上記の音源にはない奏法が収録されたストリングス音源） Frozen Strings （冷たい感じのストリングス） Amplified Cello Quartet （チェロのカルテット） Scary Strings （おどろおどろしいストリングス） Choir （クワイヤ） Soft Piano （アタックが優しいピアノ） Pipe Organ （パイプオルガン） Modular Piano （シンセっぽいピアノ） Music Box （オルゴール）.

Chorus Digital Peak Meter Flanger FreqAnalyst Gain Suite Phaser Stereo Chorus Stereo Flanger Triple EQ. 歌もの楽曲において、ボーカルは一番重要なパートであることは皆さんご存知の通りだと思います。が、ちゃんとピッチやタイミングを修正していますか？ まれに、「ピッチ修正をすると本来のボーカルの良さが失われる」という意見がありますが、それはもう昔の話。最近のソフトは非常に高性能なので、本来のニュアンスを失うことなく自然に直すことができます。どんな歌の上手いシンガーの音源でもほぼ％使われいます。もはや必要不可欠と言っていいでしょう。 今回の記事では「ピッチ・タイミング補正」のやり方を紹介して DTM カテゴリの最新記事.

[thesinglesjukebox]

WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA - THE BAMBOO PRINCESS [7.86] Have a good Wednesday! And a good day, as well...

Ryo Miyauchi: "The Bamboo Princess" wipes Wednesday Campanella's slate clean. Gone are the mouthful word salads, replaced by a lyrical and logical tale that makes more use of silence. Kenmochi Hidefumi moves away from the hottest dance-music sounds for string plucks, woodblocks and big brass, though he still can't resist including some skittering drums and electronic sound effects. The biggest shift comes from Kom_I, whose vocal aspirations of the past few years fully bloom. Knowing her performance antics of the past -- which included a few times where she wandered backstage mid-song as the TV cameras kept rolling -- it's a moment of growth to witness the once-restless Kom_I stand rather proper and calm while embracing the music. [8]

Pedro João Santos: A quiet triumph from Wednesday Campanella, whose Galapagos EP bridges the gap between their pop sensibilities and their newfound propensity toward ambient soundscapes. "The Bamboo Princess" is peppered with bubbly horns and string arpeggios, conflating buoyancy with tranquility. The florescent pre-chorus means to lull us into a summer trance, only to be disrupted by that burst of energy within the hook -- playful and earthbound. The theme appears to be rejuvenescence through death, which is as bright an outlook on finitude as they come. [8]

Julian Axelrod: Gorgeous and surreal in its electronic approach to nature, like watching a beautiful sunset fade into a desktop background. The sumptuous strings set the table for one of the most vivid and exciting drops in recent memory, a whirlwind of horns, yelps and snares that makes a pretty convincing argument for trusting the machine. [7]

Dorian Sinclair: I'm a huge sucker for pop songs that make use of traditional forms or instruments. Perhaps it's because I'm Indigenous -- it is difficult to make generalizations across cultures, obviously, but there's a long history of us finding ways to modernize while remaining connected to our traditions and history. It helps, of course, that "The Bamboo Princess" is smartly put together, with instruments combined in interesting ways and KOM_I's voice effortlessly skimming above everything else going on in the mix. [7]

Tim de Reuse: Soft-loud-repeat isn't really a new paradigm in J-pop, but this has such loose, organic sound design that it's a joy even when it's predictable. It helps that the overstuffed arpeggios that lie underneath the chorus are short-circuiting my secret love for Bollywood-esque string section theatrics. [8]

Katherine St Asaph: Every time I think it's no longer possible for pop to surprise and stun and sound utterly new, like sound has found an entirely new way to unfurl out into the universe, I'm proven wrong. Strings help. [9]

Iain Mew: The progression of the strings and beats is a gorgeous otherworldly scattering which brings to mind equally the celestial procession in Studio Ghibli's take on the same traditional story, and Oxide & Neutrino's treatment of the Casualty theme. While this particular techno-pastoral sound is a new twist, its ambition and the confident execution is no more than par for Wednesday Campanella. [8]

[Read, comment and vote on The Singles Jukebox ]

[zunkopic]

RT @iRaha1868: 新曲です。よろしくお願いします！ 『あしたの風』 Vocal : AIイタコ Chorus : AIきりたん Music & Lyrics : Oo TextAliveを使用↓ https://t.co/M7rhidXrDw 人物イラスト：I様 背景イラスト：秘湯れい様 #NEUTRINO #AIイタコ #AIきりたん #DTMerと繋がりたい フル版↓ https://t.co/3q81hu6NhM https://t.co/bRTkIJLCRe (via Twitter https://twitter.com/t_zunko/status/1457646744645234690)

[effectsdatabase]

Weekly overview (2017, week 28): 2 new brands and 43 new pedals

2 new brands

3rd Power Amplification

Nanolog Audio

43 new effects

323 Effects Ridges - Reverb

3rd Power Amplification Roosevelt Drive

Alexander Pedals Clang - Championship Edition Overdrive

Alexander Pedals Radiacmeter Dist-O-Drive

Alexander Pedals Radical Delay II+

Alexander Pedals Syntax Error - Audio Computer System

Amptweaker Bass BluesFuzz Jr.

Amptweaker Bass TightFuzz Jr.

Amptweaker BluesFuzz Jr.

Amptweaker TightFuzz Jr.

ApolloFX Timekeeper

Classic Audio Effects Aloft - Shimmer Reverb

Classic Audio Effects Space Cadet - Pitch Bend

Cusack Music Tap-A-Delay Deluxe

DigiTech SDRUM - Strummable Drums

Dwarfcraft Devices The Curse - Tap Tempo Delay with CV

Electro-Harmonix Expression Pedal

Electronic Audio Experiments µ Blaster - FET Boost/Overdrive

Electronic Audio Experiments Longsword

Electronic Audio Experiments Model feT - Model T Preamp

Epigaze Audio Ascension Reverb

Ernie Ball VP - 40th Anniversary Edition Volume Pedal

Ezhi & Aka Terverb

Fuzzrocious Pedals LunaReclipse

Greer Amps Moonshot - AC-128 Class-A Germanium Treble and Mid Pre

Jim Dunlop Cry Baby Geezer Butler Signature Wah

Keeley Electronics Caverns 2 - Delay + Reverb

Keeley Electronics Neutrino Deluxe

MXR M-xxx Carbon Copy Deluxe

MXR M-xxx Mini Booster

Mythos Pedals Dædalus - Overdrive

Mythos Pedals Erlking - Overdrive

Mythos Pedals Golden Fleece - Fuzz

Mythos Pedals Herculean - Overdrive

Mythos Pedals Mjolnir - Overdrive

Nanolog Audio The WaveFunction - Overdrive

Neunaber Technology Inspire - Tri-Chorus Plus

Old Blood Noise Endeavors Whitecap - Tap Tempo Tremolo

Pigtronix Mothership 2 - Analog Synthesizer

Stomp Under Foot Mud Creek - Dual Fuzz Machine

Wampler Pedals The Doctor - Lo-Fi Delay

Way Huge WHE-xxx Doubleland Special - Overdrive

Yellowcake Lida Machine - Resonant Filter

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[ecotone99]

[SP] The day Art died

It happened that one day, at a press conference held during a major exhibition, a selected group of the greatest living Artists faced the critics, the public, and the journalists airing their images all throughout the world, and with solemnity and a tinge of sadness, but not a hint of hesitation, announced that, exactly one year from that day, they would kill Art. And everyone who heard them knew instantly it had been long coming, and could not happen any other way.

It had started decades before. Having long forgone the excessive straightforwardness of painting and sculpture, Art had sought refuge for a while in more unusual forms, injecting artistic value in unconventional object, or creating experiences, ephemeral moments that would exist for a few days and then be forever gone, and so much more valuable in the memory for that. But soon, those forms faced the same end as all the ones before. There was a baseness, a vulgarity to being so grounded in matter, in the mundane and the tangible, be it a human body or a can of soup. Man is made of breath and mud; and it was not to the mud, that Art belonged.

A new, revolutionary generation came, crashing conventions, sweeping the world by storm, blinding it with wonder. Entire exhibitions consisting only of empty white rooms. Hearts trembled and minds struggled to grasp the immense intangibility of such classic works as "Roomful of motes" and "Four thousand moles of nitrogen". In one occasion, as a provocation that some considered incredibly innovative, some outright reactionary, an Artist went to great lengths in order to make such a room completely sealed and suck all air from it with the most powerful pumps available, to title this work "Nothing". In an even more disruptive act of subversion, another Artist silently walked to the door and on the name tag attached a yellow post-it with a new, more accurate title: "Shower of solar neutrinos".

There was despair following that; some Artists even decided to forgo Art forever. But those who resisted were enlightened by even greater understanding. The core mistake, they realised, was to root themselves in matter altogether, no matter how small or light the particle they would tie their work to. They moved to pure concepts; and to make sure, tags were forgone as well. Artists would announce what the work was, once; but there would be no physical tribute to it, no room in a museum, no shrine for admirers to practice their pagan pilgrimage. The subject itself would have to be as vague and intangible as possible. "A fond childhood memory" and "A doubt" are perhaps among the most appreciated works of the era, together with another whose title we are now forbidden to speak, for those were the conditions in the contract under which it was sold to a collector for the exhuberant sum of one billion dollars.

And yet, not even that was enough. For after all, what are memories, or doubts, if not just electric pulses in one's brain? A new era of jadedness and discontent fell on the world of Art as more and more often critics and Artists alike pointed out the hypocrisy of it all. And this time, there would be nowhere to seek refuge into. No more room to abstract. For Art to sublimate itself entirely, the only road was to cease to exist.

The plan was simple, like all the most beautiful things. The Artists had all come to an agreement. Anyone among them who wanted to had one year to officially and publically renounce Art, and renege their own work. There would be no shame for it. Everyone else, on the appointed day, would meet in an established location, where, under the gaze of the world, they would commit suicide, and take Art to the grave with them. It was absolutely forbidden to take up any apprentices or impart any teachings during that year. Those who held teaching positions at academic institutions renounced them. Their knowledge had to die with them, or there would be no point.

Some facetious people suggested that so many would simply declare to give up Art there would be no one to kill themselves at the end, and certainly, many did, but some Artists were made of sterner stuff than that, and would not deny the craft that had given meaning to their lives that last vigil, and that last sacrifice. The legality of the matter was argued; some asked vociferously that the suicidal Artists be stopped, and if necessary interned, for their own safety. In the end, many of them went into hiding, and it was agreed to carry out the ceremony on a ship, far in international waters. Having all been lifted from the responsibility of doing anything, governments were content to declare the matter out of their hands, and express regret at what the world was about to lose, then go on about their business.

The fatal day came. It was a clear, cool morning in the North Atlantic; as beautiful a day as one could pick to leave the world of light forever behind. The Artists walked silently out on the deck, in front of a public that was holding its breath. They all wore black, breezy tunics, like the chorus of a Greek tragedy. Women and men alike wore no make up, and had their heads shaved. Each held in their hand the chosen instrument of their own destruction.

Pills fell the first one; a sweet, painless death coming like slumber. The second fiercely struck a short sword in his own gut, like a samurai, and fell with great cries of pain, as blood spilled out together with his intestines. The third had prepared a contraption that tied his neck and his wrists with rope behind his back, and then, slowly, pulled them together, finally killing him by strangulation. The fourth slashed her own wrists open, and theatrically held her arms in front of her, letting the blood flow and cover the ground like a carpet, until she could stand no more. And so on, and so forth.

There was some hesitation when it came down to the last. He was a young one, that Artist, and a timid type, and the media had often maligned that he'd been dragged into this affair more by peer pressure than anything else. He didn't do anything for a few minutes, shaking lightly, a gun in his hands. Then someone from the public shouted to him that he should give it up, to please abandon this madness, that he could live in so many more ways. That seemed to decide it for him. He gazed back defiantly, straightened his back, and put the gun in his mouth.

One moment later, it was all over, and Art left the world forever.

Those who had watched could never decide how they felt - but they all agreed that they felt something , something powerful, that had not dwelt in their hearts for a long time. When gods die, even their corpses are greater than the lives of many smaller than them. They were asked to speak of it, but most never did. It was too intimate, too precious a feeling to share.

Time passed, and after the initial shock, the world stopped thinking too much about the day Art died. There was, to be sure, still lots of art being made, all over the place, to distract one from the memory. Kids would draw their parents and teenagers would write poetry to their crushes. Everywhere, everyday people sang and narrated and danced and acted and crafted and put together stuff just for the love of it, to see what would happen, or to make something they thought was beautiful, or to gift to the one they loved. Seeing all of that, one might have thought that on the fatal day all that had happened was that a group of eccentrics not quite right in their heads had offed themselves for no good reason. But in the end, all that drawing and writing and singing, that was all just that, just art. The ones who knew better could tell, it was not the real thing. No, Art had left the world, and was never to return, and all they could do was mourn it, and cherish what relics were left of it. The horror of it was, the more time passed, the more, for all that they tried, they realised even the memory of it was fading, and they could not quite remember what it had ever been like.

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Observatories Across the World Announce Groundbreaking New Gravitational Wave Discovery

- by Ryan F. Mandelbaum, Gizmodo

- From LIGO: “Artist’s illustration of two merging neutron stars. The narrow beams represent the gamma-ray burst while the rippling spacetime grid indicates the isotropic gravitational waves that characterize the merger. Swirling clouds of material ejected from the merging stars are a possible source of the light that was seen at lower energies.” Image: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet 

Vicky Kalogera, a Northwestern University physicist, took her week of much-needed vacation in Utah this past August. She promised her family she’d stay off of email for a week. It wasn’t a real promise, of course, but she was going to try. She’d arranged the perfect day for August 17. Her husband was going to take the kids hiking in Arches National Park while she’d spend the whole day at the spa. Right as she left her room, she just had to give her email a peep. The deluge brought the news: Telescopes and detectors across the world were making a monumental observation.

“I canceled everything and ended up working nonstop since that moment,” she told Gizmodo.

Today, physicists and astronomers around the world are announcing a whole new kind of gravitational wave signal at a National Science Foundation press conference in Washington, DC. But it’s not just gravitational waves. That August day, x-ray telescopes, visible light, radio telescopes, and gamma-ray telescopes all spotted a flash, one consistent with a pair of neutron stars swirling together, colliding and coalescing into a black hole. The observation, called a “kilonova,” simultaneously answered questions like “where did the heavy metal in our Universe come from” and “what causes some of the gamma-ray bursts scientists have observed since the 60s.” It also posed new ones.

“We’re going to have a lot more to do moving forward,” said Kalogera.

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space telescope started the dominos at 8:41 am EDT, detecting what NASA astrophysicist Julie McEnery called a “perfectly normal short gamma-ray burst,” a quick flash of invisible light from some distant source. Scientists have known about short and long gamma-ray bursts for a long time, surmising that the short ones must come from colliding neutron stars, but weren’t sure. McEnery then received an email with a subject line in all caps—the bursts had a friend. Two seconds earlier, one of the two Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatories (LIGO), the one in Washington State had set off an alert from receiving a gravitational wave signal (folks received the alert after the Fermi announcement). Analysis later revealed that the other LIGO detector in Louisiana also heard the signal but glitched and didn’t report it.

LIGO’s detectors consist of two L-shaped arms, each several kilometers long. They split laser light into two beams, send them down the arms into mirrors, and merge them back onto a detector. A gravitational wave, a tiny ripple in the shape of spacetime itself, makes the two light beams move in and out of phase with one another as it passes, causing the beams to cancel out and then amplify repeatedly in a wave-like pattern. You may remember back in 2016, the two LIGO detectors reported a waveform that sounded like water dripping from a faucet, the result of colliding black holes. This time, they reported a two-minute-long increase in frequency that took two minutes to finally stop.

- Image: LIGO 

This wave would be perfectly explained by a collision 130 million light years away between two neutron stars, dead stars so dense that a spoonful would weigh something like the combined weight of all of the humans on Earth. Each star probably had a mass between one and two times that of the Sun, resulting in a black hole a little less than three times the mass of the Sun. They named the event GW170817. The collision would have sent a bright beam of radiation outward in an explosion, called a kilonova, and gravitational waves towards the Earth. The third gravitational wave detector currently sensitive to astronomical sources, Virgo in Italy, did not hear the waves since they were in the detector’s blind spot. This helped the researchers better determine the stars’ location in the sky.

“It’s the equivalent of what happens when we drive and use a rearview mirror to see cars behind us,” said Kalogera. Knowing there’s a car, but not seeing it in your rearview, means it must be in your blind spot.

Immediately, astronomers brought in other telescopes like the Dark Energy Camera in Chile to locate the flash’s source galaxy—this wide-angle camera could image lots of the sky at the same time. They also brought others like the Very Large Telescope in Chile, the space-based Chandra X-ray Observatory, and Hubble to answer more specific questions. The color spectrum from the optical light observations, for example, revealed a direct fingerprint that the two stars left behind an enormous cloud of elements like gold, platinum, and uranium, whose origins were previously unconfirmed, Harvard astronomer Edo Berger told Gizmodo. The radio waves and x-rays let scientists know that the gamma-ray burst was joined by a high-energy jet of particles.

“We saw everything from radio waves to gamma-rays—that was surprising and astounding,” said Berger. “Every part of the spectrum tells us something different about the merger. We’re getting this complete picture of everything going on from the moment the neutron stars smashed into each other.”

- The source flashing and disappearing between the yellow lines (Image: P.S. Cowperthwaite/E. Berger/DECam/CTIO) 

But questions remain. “What we thought we knew about short gamma-ray bursts might not be the full story,” McEnerey told Gizmodo. The gamma-rays weren’t as strong as they should have been, for example—but other measurements confirmed that the neutron stars were surprisingly close. Maybe we just weren’t in the jet’s line of fire. This would be bolstered by the fact that neutrino detectors didn’t spot any of their tiny, charge-less particles. Physicists also wondered why there haven’t been any black holes between three and five solar masses, or what happened after the neutron stars collided—did they immediately collapse into a black hole, or stick around as a larger neutron star for a little while?

This detection still brought hints. “After the merger in optical, infrared and ultraviolet, we said, ‘this is more than we’d expected had the system collapsed into a black hole right away,’” Imre Bartos, assistant professor at the University of Florida told Gizmodo. “It’s possible that there was extra time the system took to collapse.”

The announcement was clouded in secrecy. Rumors swirled, and many thought another press conference held several weeks ago would hold today’s news (instead it just announced another black hole merger from August 14). Nature News correctly guessed the source in an article from August after a scientist leaked the information on Twitter. The papers, published in several journals including Nature, were not distributed to journalists prior to today’s press conference like they usually are, making it difficult to accurately report on the story. Promises to distribute any materials at all prior to the announcement were delayed.

- Image: LIGO-Virgo/Frank Elavsky/Northwestern 

All in all, the discovery marks an important milestone in gravitational wave astronomy and proof that LIGO and Virgo do more than spot colliding black holes. At present, the detectors are all receiving sensitivity upgrades. When they come back online, they may see other sources like some supernovae or maybe even a chorus of background gravitational waves from the most distant stellar collisions. And physicists expect to see these types of neutron star events as often as once a month. “That’s both extremely exciting and really terrifying because of the amount of effort and energy to study just one of these events has occupied us for two months,” said Berger.

Today, though, scientists are mainly celebrating. And Kalogera hopes to take that hard-earned vacation. “I intend to take more than a day off.”

- original article here [x]

YES. FINALLY!!!!

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Izotope Release Ozone 8 and Neotron 2

Izotope Release Ozone 8 and Neotron 2

Ozone 8: the future of mastering

As the industry’s most comprehensive mastering suite, Ozone 8 adds to its legacy by introducing new intelligent signal processing, spectral shaping, Tonal Balance Control, and more. It’s the smartest version of Ozone yet.

The future is here                                                                                                                                                                                                

Assistance with control

Master Assistant uses the sonic profile of your audio to help you get to a logical starting point. Because your time is better spent adding your sonic signature, Master Assistant will suggest targets, signal chain, and processor settings, so you can get back to what’s most important—adding that personal touch.

Balance your master

The new Tonal Balance Control plug-in introduces industry-first visual analysis and communicates with all instances of Ozone so you can shape a perfectly balanced master. Instantly call up any Ozone Equalizer and adjust your tracks to targets based on ten of thousands of professional masters. You can even create your own custom targets from one or more songs in your personal library.

Ozone...meet Neutron

The Tonal Balance Control plug-in not only communicates with the Ozone 8 Equalizer and Post EQ modules, but Neutron 2 EQ modules as well. This inter-plugin communication lets you fix mix issues during mastering and helps bridge the mixing and mastering gap. No more context switching or opening up multiple windows—just tonally balanced, professional sounding music.

Taming of the shrill

Smooth and sculpt problematic and harsh frequencies with the new Spectral Shaper module. Mold your audio by applying frequency-specific dynamics, surgically or creatively, to create smooth, balanced audio. Fantastic for taming percussive transients, Spectral Shaper can tame sibilant hi-hats, harsh vocals, plucky acoustic guitars, and other overly bright mix elements. For a creative twist, use Spectral Shaper across any frequency band to experiment with timbre, resonance, and transient information without affecting other elements of the source audio.

What's new in 8?

Intelligent signal processing, spectral shaping, Tonal Balance Control, Track Referencing, new look and feel, and more

Intelligent track referencing

A/B your master against reference tracks directly within any instance of Ozone or its standalone application. Now an integrated process, track referencing is easy, intelligent, and incorporated into Ozone’s workflow. Load up to 10 tracks and Ozone will identify sections of references like a Verse or Chorus for easy playback, so you can spend less time searching through references and more time mastering.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Neutron 2: A smarter way to mix

Achieve a clear, well-balanced mix with Neutron’s innovative new mixing and analysis tools. Control every aspect of your music, from the visual soundstage of your tracks to the tonal balance of your mix—all with iZotope’s award-winning digital signal processing.

Top Features                                                                                                                                                                                                

Balance your mix

The new Tonal Balance Control plug-in introduces industry-first visual analysis and communicates with all instances of Neutron so you can shape a perfectly balanced mix. Instantly call up any Neutron EQ and adjust your tracks to targets based on intelligent analysis of tens of thousands of professional mixes. You can even create your own custom targets from one or more songs in your personal library.

Neutron...meet Ozone

A new way to analyze your music, the Tonal Balance Control plug-in communicates with the Neutron 2 and Ozone 8 Equalizers (available separately). This new inter-plug-in communication lets you fix mix issues that hinder mastering and bridges the gap between the two. No more context switching or opening up multiple windows—just tonally balanced, professional sounding music.

Introducing the Visual Mixer

The new Visual Mixer creates a picture of the entire soundstage, giving you control over individual tracks and enabling you to quickly and intuitively set the contour of your mix—all without leaving the window. Control the pan, gain, and width inside of Neutron so your mix sounds exactly how you intended.

Unmask your mix

An industry first, Neutron's Masking Meter allows you to visually identify perceptual frequency collisions, which can result in guitars masking lead vocals, bass covering up drums, and other issues that can cause a "muddy" or overly crowded mix. Toggle seamlessly between any two tracks to carve out sonic space and ensure that each instrument has its own place to shine.

Tap into every track

We understand that producers and engineers don’t always use iZotope plug-ins on every track. That’s okay! You can still route any of your tracks to the Tonal Balance Control plug-in, Visual Mixer, or Masking Meter from the new Mix Tap plug-in. Enjoy the flexibility of using any plug-in while still getting all the benefits of our innovative new tools across your entire mix.

Neutron for Post

Neutron is the smartest way to mix for audio post production. Neutron 2 Advanced includes Track Assistant to quickly analyze and set a starting point for your audio across Neutron's six zero-latency, CPU-efficient audio processors. Highlights include an award-winning BS.1770 True Peak Limiter, multiband Gate with Hysteresis, EQ Learn, dynamic EQ to sonically balance sub-mixes, dialogue-polishing Neutrino mode, and surround sound support across all modules.

Improved Track Assistant

Another industry first, Neutron’s updated Track Assistant lets you create a custom starting point based on your audio so you can focus on what’s most important—your creative take on the mix. In version two, we’ve made improvements including piano instrument detection based on machine learning, the ability to automatically set release, ratio and attack on the Compressor, and more.

Award-winning processing

Neutron features some of the best audio processing we've ever created, allowing you to achieve professional sounding mixes inside your digital audio workstation.

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It now includes six industry leading mixing processors, all zero-latency capable, including a new Gate with hysteresis, a static/dynamic Equalizer with analog-inspired soft saturation, two multiband Compressors, a multiband Exciter, and a multiband Transient Shaper, as well as an ultra low-latency True Peak Limiter—perfect for all your mixing needs.

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LOONA - FAVORITE

[5.89]

Come back in a few months when every single TSJ writer will be writing on Loona's next single, because we're just working up to our real debut here too. Maybe.

Joshua Minsoo Kim: LOONA's pre-debut was so successful in establishing the identities, personalities, and sounds of each individual member (and consequent subunits) that it was hard to imagine what a collective debut single could've looked like. It turns out that Blockberry Creative's plan was to use the Odd Eye Circle strategy of providing two polar opposite singles in order to appease as many fans as possible. "Favorite" was the first glimpse of the 12-member group, and it's the "Sweet Crazy Love" of the pair. While I wasn't expecting there more personality than what was present in previous releases, the result is even worse than expected: a greyscale, ready-made composite. The Desiigner-like adlibs lack energy, the bridge doesn't provide a strong enough contrast to feel the least bit smooth, and the entire 2000s brass-stomp beat is sorely muted. While altogether seamless, it's hard to imagine "Favorite" being anyone's, well, favorite. One wishes the song capitalized on the strengths of its members more, but it doesn't really matter at this point: biases have been determined, and fans are just happy to see that everyone's got some lines. Even the title is stylized to announce that this is the OT12 they've been waiting for. A shame that this is the result. [3]

Iain Mew: It's funny that they stylised the title with OT capitalised, because surely if ever there was a group where the full group isn't the One True thing, it's Loona. The journey and all the different true forms along the way were at least as important as the destination, and that would be the case even if that destination wasn't a below par f(x) album track. [6]

Jessica Doyle: Twelve is a lot of performers, and I suspect that after a few establishing rounds Blockberry Creative will rely mostly on subunits and combinations thereof, a slightly more flexible version of EXO's strategy. That said, this does do its best to make a virtue of the clutter. (And "tie up my shoes and do it" will be my motto for fall semester.) [6]

Will Rivitz: All the parts of the Loona machine finally slam together with neutrino-bomb force, as expected. I just wish it didn't sound like they were trying so hard -- power is that much more impressive when wielded nonchalantly, and this is about as nonchalant as a high school pep rally. [6]

Anjy Ou: It's a strange sensation hearing a style of music that I only ever hear on the streets of DC in my K-pop. But as the genre expands globally, companies are casting a wide net to find new sounds for their artists. I particularly love it when go-go music shows up because it's (a) perfect for dancing (b) a specific touchpoint to a city I love -- despite gentrifiers trying desparately to just make it all go away. LOONA kills it on this track, which I've loved since they danced to a demo version at their debut showcase. The horns, the call-and-response, the percussion, and the fact that the song is just a dance jam, are all quintessential go-go, with a cute contemporary switch-up on the second chorus to let you catch your breath. I have a feeling the "rrrrrrrah!" will be controversial, but I love it. It's almost an ululation, an expression of pure joy that fits the song's "letting my hair down, ecstatically in love" vibe. The only downside to having all 12 girls singing is that we can't appreciate the depth of the group's vocal talent -- Haseul only gets 2(!) solo lines. But my fave Jinsoul gives me AD-LIBS -- which are surprisingly rare in girl group songs these days -- and the sub-units will continue to promote. LOONA is here to stay and to slay. #StanLOONA #StreamHiHigh [8]

Thomas Inskeep: Clattering and chaotic like the best TRL-era hits by Britney-and-the-rest, "Favorite" beats you into submission like a much louder version of Dream's forgotten 2001 hit "He Loves U Not." To paraphrase "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," you're gonna love them -- even if it kills you. But you'll die smiling. [7]

Katherine St Asaph: If you're going to pour years into some kind of labyrinthine ARG rollout, I expect the result to be something other than a pretty good Jessie Malakouti song. [5]

Edward Okulicz: Suspending one's disbelief is sometimes fun and sometimes necessary when approaching the absurd in pop. And yes, I'm willing to suspend it and go, yes, these girls are having a great time and are not overworked cogs in a terrifying machine. I'm willing to go along with pretending this is a debut single just because it's the first with the full line-up. But I'm not willing to swoon over a track that would have sounded warm at best 15 years ago (though really, this style was perfected by Amerie and there's no possibility to match that) and really wants for a strong voice, or a strong personality to sell it to me rather than just being an Event to consume for the sake of consuming a band. [5]

Alex Clifton: Part of the appeal of Loona has, of course, been the extended rollout of the member lineup. I've followed it half-heartedly, and I know the thrill of finally seeing these twelve girls together packs more of an emotional punch for those who have been longtime fans of the project. It's difficult to pick out who's who as a casual listener, and I'm a little in awe of how they've managed to pack twelve people in for one song. It's bonkers and sweet at the same time, but lacks some of the bubblegum rush that propelled last year's "Girl Front" to the top of my workout playlist. But it's a great debut for the group at large, and I remain curious to see what comes next. [7]

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