salamaundra » s.word http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog my netpad (v2.3rev4) Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:34:47 +0000 en hourly 1 wordle is fun (and tagul too) http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/11/wordle-is-fun/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wordle-is-fun http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/11/wordle-is-fun/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:49:10 +0000 maux http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/?p=426 ye…I discovered it only today…and it kept me busy in a dark day.

http://www.wordle.net

salamaundra-wordle

http://tagul.com/

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Dubfix sent me this one last week

]]> http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/11/comunist/feed/ 2 music is free…is it ? http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/10/music-is-free-is-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=music-is-free-is-it http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/10/music-is-free-is-it/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:31:11 +0000 maux http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/?p=393 bathroom_wall
oooooopsss…..it is leaking so bad…sounds like they have bad emorroids….
I just found out about this brilliant news from damion psyreviews tweets…the new shpongle album has been leaked before the official release…http://psyreviews.net/content/view/650/65/
the golden boy is crying loud on the twisted rec forum (sorry…i will not put a link to his pathetic winges)…it seems that twisted records will close very soon too (oh nooo…pls tell me this is for real….)….but somehow it is starting an uprise…for example on this blog page by Paniq (that I fully subscribe):
The Shpongle Debacle & Why My Music is Free

it is absolutely hilarious to see the reactions of this buba buba bloated rotten psy(cotic)superstars in front of the tzunami that is flooding….
and anyway…piracy or not piracy (this is soo boring)…soon legal free music will be beating the copyrighted one for numbers of releases and even quality…oh yes…wait and see…

where the soul is alive.

music is again free from any constrictions and physical ownership…we can only let it flow…enjoy the ride…sing this song. (in the toilet)

]]> http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/10/music-is-free-is-it/feed/ 0 mastering is killing music http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/08/mastering-is-killing-music/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mastering-is-killing-music http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/08/mastering-is-killing-music/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:06:56 +0000 maux http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/?p=347
I (finally) start to be tired of this music that sound loud…and louder.
I mean…enough is enough!…let’s stop the loudness war.
the heavy use of multiband compression and brickwall limiters is killing the dynamic range…and the music.
many ppl in the music industry regard the mastering as even more important than the mixing and the recording itself.
especially record labels…they know that spending a relative small amount of money in a “good” mastering studio can transform a dodgy sounding album is a blasting hit….that will sound loud even out of the computer speakers and those crap headphones…well…true..a good mastering can really do that…
but an exagerated mastering can also kill the music…and the listener…
it’s the same for the images…all is glossy nowadays…and saturated…
I am honestly very unhappy with the mastering that mr Dave Black did for my album “viceversa” for example…too compressed…too much bass…
and I had enough of all this wobbly trend…from Tipper (his Wobble Factor is TOO LOUD!!) to blasted dubstep.
INFACT…MUSIC THAT SOUNDS TOO LOUD IS LIKE WRITING ONLY IN CAPITAL LETTERS…
or like somebody screaming all the time….
I have mastered many of the tracks of the cloudcycle project…I am not a pro masterer and I don’t have pro gear and I am not sitting in an acustic treated room…but I reckon that I can do a decent job with my software (since we can’t afford to pay for a mastering session)…not as loud but loud enough…
but now I realized that I pushed the level of some tunes too much…trying to be loud as the trend…
so after a lot of reading (and listening)…I decided to remaster them…at a lower level…with little compression and very little limiting…so they don’t look like bricks anymore…infact…greg was right.
this are few links about the loudness war:
loudness wars (wikipedia)
The Loudness War Analyzed (on musicmachinery)
loudness wars (on stereosubversion)
dynamic range foundation – an organization defending the dynamic range, they release also a free plug in to check the dynamic range.
turn me up – another organization defending the dynamic range
justice for audio

]]> http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/08/mastering-is-killing-music/feed/ 1 i don’t do milk http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/05/i-dont-do-milk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-dont-do-milk http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/05/i-dont-do-milk/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 18:22:49 +0000 maux http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/?p=248 this is another saga happening somewhere on the web

mr David Abravanel recently wrote a very intellectual review of my album “viceversa” on the respected milkfactory blog/magazine…

i didn’t like it…neither kris and greg…so we did a review of the review…and they didn’t like it…

the milfactory on viceversa

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only when is dark we can see the stars

]]> http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/01/is-dark/feed/ 0 boycott israel http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/01/boycott-israel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boycott-israel http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/01/boycott-israel/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:14:50 +0000 maux http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/?p=65

it’s really sad and frustrating
what is happening in gaza is pure horror
there is not much that can be done….they even ignore UN
israeli army as usual is strong only against people without any defense
we seriously need to start to boycott israel and all the businness related to it…
from jaffa fruits to waves plug ins…and isratrance too.
viva for the victims in gaza

]]> http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/01/boycott-israel/feed/ 0 happy new year http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/01/happy-new-year/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-new-year http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/01/happy-new-year/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:11:30 +0000 maux http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/?p=57 so…a 2k8 (full of speed bumps) arrived to the end…

here we go into the next cycle

today israeli army entered gaza strip

can we do something about it ?

or we just sit and watch the show ?

btw….happy new year

]]> http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2009/01/happy-new-year/feed/ 0 internet is shit http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2008/05/internet-is-shit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=internet-is-shit http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2008/05/internet-is-shit/#comments Sat, 03 May 2008 01:20:00 +0000 maux http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/?p=25 ” We need to start again. We need to stop saying how wonderful things are. We need to openly, truthfully and respectfully admit that the internet itself, in almost all of what’s been done with it, is shit.”

internet is shit

]]> http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2008/05/internet-is-shit/feed/ 0 why to shoot on your own foot ? http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2008/04/why-to-shoot-on-your-own-foot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-to-shoot-on-your-own-foot http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2008/04/why-to-shoot-on-your-own-foot/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:54:58 +0000 maux http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/?p=22 I am not on myspace anymore….after one year I had nausea of it.
I am not on facebook either.
some friends said…don’t shoot on your own foot…true…sometime I do….
I started to hate all this networking web stuff….and the ideology that is behind of it….
to create a copy-paste humanity.
this is a very interesting (long) article that gives actually good reasons to my feelings.

facebook…with friends like this…(from The Guardian)

“So by his own admission, Thiel is trying to destroy the real world, which he also calls “nature”, and install a virtual world in its place, and it is in this context that we must view the rise of Facebook. Facebook is a deliberate experiment in global manipulation, and Thiel is a bright young thing in the neoconservative pantheon, with a penchant for far-out techno-utopian fantasies. Not someone I want to help get any richer.” Tom Hodgkinson on The Guardian

]]> http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2008/04/why-to-shoot-on-your-own-foot/feed/ 3 boycott mauxuam http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2008/04/boycott-mauxuam/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boycott-mauxuam http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2008/04/boycott-mauxuam/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:33:51 +0000 maux http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/?p=14 thanks again to Rui
I have to say…I loved it :-)
boycott mauxuam on isratrance forum

]]> http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2008/04/boycott-mauxuam/feed/ 0 under occupation http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2008/04/under-occupation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=under-occupation http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/2008/04/under-occupation/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:16:18 +0000 maux http://mauxuam.net/mauxlog/?p=7 a very intense documentary on palestine…it really struck me


occupation 101

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