Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

[ugly_bassplayer]

@lordradish
I feel your pain for the finger injury thing.
This winter I caught my left hand’s middle finger in a metal handle at work.
Thought nothing of it, it was barely a flesh wound. Taped it up and went on my way.
It got major infected and had to cancel three weeks of rehearsals and almost had to get an IV. Got a fever and pain like a burning nails in my finger.

It got better slowly with meds and dips in water/bleach solution.

 

[lordradish]

@lordradish
I feel your pain for the finger injury thing.
This winter I caught my left hand’s middle finger in a metal handle at work.
Thought nothing of it, it was barely a flesh wound. Taped it up and went on my way.
It got major infected and had to cancel three weeks of rehearsals and almost had to get an IV. Got a fever and pain like a burning nails in my finger.

It got better slowly with meds and dips in water/bleach solution.

I was mostly worried about it getting infected, but it turned out okay. It just sucks that I still need to give it a break for another week, as I was getting quite addicted to that 6 string fretless.

 

[JES]

Congrats @lordradish ! Looking forward to listening.

I finally got to try out my Five12 QV-L today. I really like it. The secret sauce is internal mixing, modulation, and attenuation. I also love that it has a scope right on it. I think the preset function will also be quite interesting if it switches instantly. The firmware isn’t quite finished but I trust Jim.

 

[monsterthompson]

Interesting tool. I thought this already existed in some form but perhaps not.

 

[monsterthompson]

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

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I read that book about 15 years ago, still have it.
Can’t remember a single thing in it. But I do remember enjoying it very much

 

[Spectrum]

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Reminds me of that stupid thread about names for people not into music, the thread that presumably got nuked the other day.

As for Clarke, I was always a fan of Clarke's work, especially his short stories. His novels weren't quite as good, but still decent. Childhood's End, IMO had a cliche ending, though I don't know if it was a cliche when it was written.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Reminds me of that stupid thread about names for people not into music, the thread that presumably got nuked the other day.

As for Clarke, I was always a fan of Clarke's work, especially his short stories. His novels weren't quite as good, but still decent. Childhood's End, IMO had a cliche ending, though I don't know if it was a cliche when it was written.

Haven’t liked any of Clarke’s novels either, any recommendations of short stories??

 

[monsterthompson]

Reminds me of that stupid thread about names for people not into music, the thread that presumably got nuked the other day.

As for Clarke, I was always a fan of Clarke's work, especially his short stories. His novels weren't quite as good, but still decent. Childhood's End, IMO had a cliche ending, though I don't know if it was a cliche when it was written.

Of all the things on TB, that thread was truly one of them.

 

[Spectrum]

Haven’t liked any of Clarke’s novels either, any recommendations of short stories??

I have a 2 inch thick book full of them, called "The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke". There's "The Sentinel", which is the story that 2001: A Space Odyssey gets its premise from.

There's one story about a guy in a cargo container trapped in lunar orbit who is going to crash into the moon within an hour and has to figure out how to not die, called "Maelstrom II".

There's also "Rescue Party" about aliens coming to Earth to rescue us from an imminent sun explosion, only to find Earth deserted.

There's also one about a guy exploring Jupiter's atmosphere in a high tech nuclear-heated hot air balloon, can't remember the name...

Clarke is great at coming up with story ideas and getting the science and math correct, but on novel-length stories I find his characters to be lacking a bit, I think that's why I prefer his short stories.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Of all the things on TB, that thread was truly one of them.

I didn’t see that thread, I thank (insert deity of choice) for missing that presumably steaming pile of $izzle

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

27531617[/URL], member: 190717"]I have a 2 inch thick book full of them, called "The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke". There's "The Sentinel", which is the story that 2001: A Space Odyssey gets its premise from.

There's one story about a guy in a cargo container trapped in lunar orbit who is going to crash into the moon within an hour and has to figure out how to not die, called "Maelstrom II".

There's also "Rescue Party" about aliens coming to Earth to rescue us from an imminent sun explosion, only to find Earth deserted.

There's also one about a guy exploring Jupiter's atmosphere in a high tech nuclear-heated hot air balloon, can't remember the name...

Clarke is great at coming up with story ideas and getting the science and math correct, but on novel-length stories I find his characters to be lacking a bit, I think that's why I prefer his short stories.

Definitely added to my book list.
Huge thanks!!
That’s exactly why Im allergic to Phil K Dick novels. Sorry if this is blasphemy for some.

I think I read Maelstrom II somewhere before??!!
Its a very familiar synopsis

 

[Spectrum]

Definitely added to my book list.
Huge thanks!!
That’s exactly why Im allergic to Phil K Dick novels. Sorry if this is blasphemy for some.

I also prefer Dick's short stories to his novels, though I'll read either.

 

[Bob_Ross]

Clarke is great at coming up with story ideas and getting the science and math correct, but on novel-length stories I find his characters to be lacking a bit

I was a big Arthur C. Clarke fan during my 20s, but a decade or so later I decided that the novels don't really hold up: Their premise can be vast in unimaginable ways, and yet their characters all act like simplistic children. Or maybe Clarke just writes as if he's talking to simplistic children. The depth is in the initial vision, rather than the execution.

I remember Childhood's End being the most emotionally impactful, but Rendevous With Rama was the one that kept me most intellectually engaged.

 

[theunknowndude]

Randomly reminds me of the Netflix series love death and robots… because they are really short ( and some with good music too hah!) the animations get really impactful or just work to have great twists in the plot.
I could be wrong but I think some of them were Clarke or Phillip K based.

 

[Starthief]

On a somewhat different branch of the SF tree, Steven Universe had an alien character who was baffled by music at first, but she figured it out. It was maybe the most charming bit of the whole thing to me.

 

[Spectrum]

Well, speaking of aliens and music...

There is a documentary about the ARP company, and according to it the guy who is playing the ARP synth in this scene was the ARP employee who delivered the instrument to the movie set. Spielberg needed someone who knew how to play as well as set up and operate the synth, so he cut a deal to hire this guy for a few days to film this scene.

 

[monsterthompson]

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I’m 30 pages in and it’s just been a collection of anecdotes about people with no musical background suddenly having intense musical interests after a life changing event. I’m hoping it turns around in the next section. For all the praise the book gets, I was hoping for something more substantial, but there’s still a lot of book left for me to read.

 

[monsterthompson]

Doing some RTFM experimenting with my OTO boxes, running Ableton loops to external effects. Testing compression settings and various delay and reverb settings. Trying to understand attack/release times, and non-linear reverb.

 

[JES]

So I'm starting to plan for my July cottage retreat. I'm wondering if any of you have wisdom for a travel setup. I'm not talking tiny for hotel rooms, but more like a table full of stuff you take in a car to a destination to really focus on for a chunk of time. In my case a month. A friend said "don't involve the computer much."