Greetings again. Music is the topic today. I hope you get a bit of a lesson out of it. I've been wanting to create music for a few months. It started with Csound and has morphed from thing to thing since then. Not a single piece of decent music has come from my efforts. However, my efforts are not in vain. I'm learning how to make music and I'm thinking about very interesting things in the process. At the current point, I am happy where I am with Soundtracker for Linux. I'm past the learning curve for the tracker's basic functionality. Now I'm working on creating samples with Csound (I have a pretty good start) and putting them into a pattern. It hasn't created anything musical, so I'm still working, but I've gotten a pretty good start in three days. With a month of work, I can create bunch of decent songs for Hack Mars and have the skill to do as many more as I have patience for. I really like listening to modules. I have a collection of ~1600 minutes of electronica (most of it is: monotonik vol. 1-4, acid-100, and ). I have about 50 mods growing daily. I like about 80% of my electronica which gives me a large collection to listen to each day and not get repeats. Compared to my commercial collection of ~4500 minutes, it's taking over. I'm not buying anymore RIAA music. Since the electronica I get is free, it allows me to listen to all indy and support what I like. It's a downhill battle from here. No business can fight a downhill battle. How about you?
Greetings readers. I'd like to focus on a topic tonight that may prove itself right or wrong. It is about speech. So speaking of speech can be tested over a certain amount of time. It's convenient. Libertarians believe in freedom of speech among many other freedoms. We often write about writing which may seem redundant. Why should we say: "The right to freedom of speech should never be abridged." We are using it to extend its longevity. If we are not here to extend it, there are many who wish to erode it.
Tonight's lesson is about Mars. Since my video game is about Mars, it makes sense to tell you a bit about the history of Mars habitation (colonization). Today I went to a lecture given by Robert Zubrin. It's a pretty historic speech, I think, since the topic explains our current state. Here is a brief synopsis of Zubrin's lecture and his book, Case for Mars.
What a nice day today? Sun is shining through the clouds through my window. Monotonik is playing in my headphones.BitTorrent is uploading 22 kBps to unknown friends somewhere out there in the Small Wide World™.
