btcprox 🎶 @btcprox@mstdn.io

And I've also got the #SoundCloud playlist here: https://soundcloud.com/btcprox/sets/apothecary-ep

Whoop whoop, my 2nd EP is out on #Bandcamp now! (Pay what you want starting from $0)

https://btcprox.bandcamp.com/album/apothecary

Honestly pretty glad to finally get this out quickly, rather than have these musical ideas wither in my head while I cram my studies. Plus I get to share more of my stuff here.

#music #ableton #mastomusic

I remember roughly a decade ago I discovered the #Reactable, and I was fascinated by the way you could manipulate these cubic blocks on the table to manipulate #samples + #synths for live #music performance. And now I've only seen blips of its public appearance (I think the last time was Coldplay in 2014?).

To be fair, it looks like it fits in best as an interactive installation at an art gallery party and not as a big stage performance tool

I've just chanced upon Bongo Cat, and it's like a weird revival of nico-nico-like memes on youtube

#PetPeeve: friends who spontaneously meet each other in a public spot with high human traffic... and keep conversing at length while staying still in the same spot

Look, your life isn't a movie where the extras around you magically fade away during your significant personal moments, so the least you could do is move out of the damn way

#PokemonGo has announced they'll soon start limited beta testing of PokeStop submissions, it seems. I wonder if #Ingress would use this data for their portals? Or if the submitted data could be useful for #OpenStreetMap?

https://pokemongolive.com/en/post/poi-submission-beta/

Something I only just noticed: on Android, the #emoji for the #zodiac signs go through a colour spectrum in their chronological order, starting from ♈ in red, ending with ♓ in magenta

Also the 13th has emoji too: ⛎

Asakura Gyosen, chief monk (is that the proper title?) of his #Buddhist #temple, brought in his previous experience in DJing and lighting design to bring new blood to the temple.

Rather than dry chanting sessions, he's created #Techno Hoyo, essentially a blend of #ElectronicMusic with synchronised lights and projection mapping, plus vocoder-enhanced sutras.

One of the sessions uploaded onto his channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdG38fmEDYM

#Japan #Japanese #Buddha #Music #DJ

And I've also got the #SoundCloud playlist here: https://soundcloud.com/btcprox/sets/apothecary-ep

Whoop whoop, my 2nd EP is out on #Bandcamp now! (Pay what you want starting from $0)

https://btcprox.bandcamp.com/album/apothecary

Honestly pretty glad to finally get this out quickly, rather than have these musical ideas wither in my head while I cram my studies. Plus I get to share more of my stuff here.

#music #ableton #mastomusic

Hot dang I actually went ahead and made another account over at kopiti.am 👉 @btcprox

So that's probably where you'll see me sharing more #Singapore things or rant about daily #Singaporean life I guess 🇸🇬

Also any #Singaporeans in other Mastodon instances might wanna check kopiti.am out!

Three men from Buzzfeed #India come forth and share their experiences of being bullied, experience that are hardly talked about because of masculinity issues.

(Side note: Buzzfeed India does have the typical Buzzfeed video content, but also has a good number of videos touching on serious issues in India that are worth watching)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4FAfr5mgpA

#bully #harassment #abuse

Ahhh I just discovered the kopiti.am instance! Might actually make a 3rd account there for #Singapore stuff. (also talk cock and complain lol)

There seems to be a growing impression that a #musicproducer who can perform their own #music live, must have naturally been a #dj at some point. Think it's because it's a common path of progression from DJ to producer nowadays.

Funnily enough I don't DJ at all. Feel like performing my own music is easier than playing a DJ set I curated. In my mind, hunting for the perfect tracks and ordering them properly sounds more exhausting for some reason.

So Buzzfeed just released this #video featuring #furries, and showed two furries having honest conversations with strangers. Interestingly pretty positive portrayal, at least coming from me who's very unfamiliar to the #furry community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPFSbn7GuVs

I occasionally engage in #OpenStreetMap editing. Started off doing light stuff in iD, then pushed myself to do more surveying with #Vespucci.

Something about filling in missing data or updating existing data on #OSM feels satisfyingly therapeutic. And you can include handy details that other maps would otherwise omit (extinguishers, benches, landmark trees, etc).

Haven't ventured into pedestrian paths though. Would definitely improve navigation, but sounds too time-consuming for an amateur...

Also I can finally share on here some musical thing I've done recently! Guess you may have a better idea of the #music styles I may dabble with now?

https://soundcloud.com/btcprox/rabbit-hole

#soundcloud

Me mucking about on the @awhaleslantern #MusicCollab project in #Ableton trying to see what sticks as the deadline looms closer

It's frustrating to me how people throw around labels like they're valid tools of debate and argument. Even more so when the labels are far from accurate. When did the idea that "you fit this label" = "you lose this argument automatically" become so prominent?

I feel like people all over could benefit from way more naps