Eyeless In Gaza are one of the great bands that emerged post punk… They were truly unique… Martyn Bates is one of the great white soul singer voices, by soul I mean Ian Curtis not Jamiroquai. I still love them —Alan McGee, March 2005
And after 18 years, they’re back on tour. I can’t say that anything they’ve made in the past (um) 25 years does much for me, but it’s hard to resist the temptation… just one encore from Caught in Flux would make it worthwhile…
Have updated my music player to use the JACK low-latency realtime library for output, and replaced Mplayer with alsaplayer as the media player. Have also dropped the Meridian 518 and Yamaha decoder from the output chain, feeding audio straight into my Bryston via the music box’s onboard DACs.
Given the hardware (and purpose of the box), there’s little benefit to be had from the low-latency features of JACK, but the realtime support helps keep the output smooth in the face of other stuff running on the box (CD ripping, for example).
And something in the combination of the simplified signal path and JACK/alsaplayer has definitely tightened up the high end a bit more, which is always a good thing. If only I had some Vivids to audition this all properly!
Now what I really want to play with is to tweak JACK to emulate the 518’s noise shaping/upsampling algorithms. Later…
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“Apart from 'Black Hairy Tongue' I seem to be working my way through most of the 'common' side-effects of the metrozinadole. Lucky me.” | |
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“Let me get this right -- Republican govt in US has just nationalised the risk in the mortage market? WTF?” | |
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“er sorry WHY they don't use BT eludes me.” | |
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“Spore for Mac license codes just arrived. Downloading. What they don't use BitTorrent for this eludes me.” | |
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“amped up the lifestreaming on BST http://www.bigshinything.com” | |
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I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com | |
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Fearnet -- integrating cable VoD and web video (and making money from it) | |
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Theoi.com | Rustic Gods & Spirits of Greek Mythology | |
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“Caught sight of self in window. Look like some kind of Brakhage mountain man. Where did that beard come from? Must Make Heroic Art.” | |
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“Can I just say one more time how much I hate apple earbuds? Audio of last resort...” | |
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“RTS: post on Ubiquity vs Matisse, sync vs async sociality. Later. First, gym” | |
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“First surfacing since tooth collapse. When did it become Winter?!” | |
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Businesses Can't Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0's Impact Across Industries - ReadWriteWeb | |
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Businesses Can't Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0's Impact Across Industries - ReadWriteWeb | |
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“The Bloodied Clown summons his familiars” | |
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How to read a movie - Roger Ebert's Journal | |
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“Gibson and De Niro in film of Edge of Darkness? Hmm. Evidently 'Bobby' has already walked off set...” | |
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“hello metronizadole. goodbye cocktails” | |
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“ow. but whiskey helps. but ow.” | |
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“Evidently have very high bone density. Minor consolation.” | |
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Siberfi's Burning Man photoset | |
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One Laptop signs up with Amazon | |
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$98 Linux Laptop - The HiVision miniNote | |
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“Fuck. Crown and half a tooth just broke. Ow” | |
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“John Geilgud's 1963 Caedmon recording of the Sonnets.” | |
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“http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/aug/31/art copper sulphate art installation” | |
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“Danny Rampling, John Taylor, Tom Baker & Helen Noir will play the book launch at Cargo, 9 October. Come! http://tinyurl.com/6zfks7” | |
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“Mmm sushi time” | |
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“xymox and wrdpress. plotting.” | |
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“@Cahoots ah i may have been getting ahead of myself. soon...” | |