Come on! Eh?
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Then again, why not indeed, give them impeccable pop culture as early as possible. The children who hear this may well grow up to shake off the insidious shackles of Max Martin's Abba-On-Steroids crown of thorns garbage hyper music.
I never did and still don't particularly like or enjoy Sting's music, but he did work with Andy Summers, and a lot of folk like The Police, so there's that.
The shrill fake American accent, extremely dull lyrics and pompous celebrity lecturing puts him high on my NO LISTEN list, along with all the other fakers from the English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, NZ and Australian rock and pop world.
Except that the other day I heard a part of his 'Russians' song out of the corner of my ears on the radio, and a little 'fail buzzer' seemed to spontaneously go off in my mind. Lyrics jarred me at the time and now even more.
Confused rich pop star skewers the wrong target. Again. Tyrants and bullies always claim they are the victims. Rich white liberals flash their suicidal empathy cards because they are guilty about being rich and white. POTUS 40, referenced in Sting's shallow lyrics, had zero to do with Russia's deep and murderous self hatred emanating from the regime since 1917. Better if he had stuck to his usual lyrical fare of stalking and making unwanted advances.
Since 2022, of course, but also non stop since 1940, 1917, let's face it, there is indisputable (indisPut(in)able?) evidence that the Fathers of Russia never did love their children and always treated them with cruelty and contempt. One hardly needs to mention the treatment and fate of Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn as typical, and he was not alone.
I can never quite grasp the scope of that self hatred.
At long last, scripting/coding and Ableton Live converge! A dream come true.
https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/introducing-extensions-sdk/
The Extensions SDK has been released, but the Ableton update needed to use it hasn't happened yet, although it can be used in beta. I'm too unfocused at the moment, still having fun with my suno.ai adventures, to do the beta thing, happy to wait for the official 12.4.5.
I know my full attention will return to Ableton, not just for Extensions, but all the Roland, Cherry Audio, Arturia, GForce and Korg synths that I haven't fully explored. The ability to script everything will create some very interesting possibilities. And to enjoy open source Extensions from others. Going to be huuuuuge.
Looking at the SDK package, it's all very familiar coding territory, using Nodejs & Typescript what's more, so after a decade of professional programming, this should be a relative doddle. The ultimate construction kit. Absolutely smashing!
https://ableton.github.io/extensions-sdk/
Well, well, well! Third incarnation. Wow!
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As we've known since the mid 70s, the views are unsurpassed. Incredibly rich panoramas.
This is the time of year when the angle of the rising sun shines square on into my windows. Ideal for renewed experiments with prisms. Some of the most exquisite and rich effects I've ever seen. Not lasers, only the sunlight of 7:30am! Some of these rays seem to hover in a plane above the surface they are shining on.
