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AN UPDATE... WELL, FRACTAL FANS, it can come as no surprise that my output has dimished this year. Whether this is a temporary slowdown or a permanent sea change remains to be seen. But it's certainly true that my interest has been diverted of late: primarily to a sound editing program, Audacity, freeware and open source, and brought to you by the same people that host the fractal program Apophysis that's been my prime creative tool these last couple years. It's a full-featured sound editing program, capable of everything from multi-channel original recording and mixdown to simple tasks like chopping the applause off live tracks and flattening out the volume variations in classical music to turn it into background go-to-sleep stuff. Somewhere inbetween is the following mashup, which I include simply because I like it. Always did love those sci-fi echo loops, and I still can't get over the way digital allows you to alter speed and pitch independently -- a capability we would have killed for back in the days of analog tape (yes, I'm a veteran of real-to-reel)
So enjoy! Music to look at fractals by. --posted 14 October 2011
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to read my recent essays,
click HERE or my slightly older ones
HERE, still older ones HERE,
& my original Rants HERE.
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I leave you with some poems--fractal poems, naturally.
Click on the thumbnails below to read. I got the inspiration to try
this form from Terry Gintz (www.mysticfractal.com)
but all the poetic and fractal ideas are mine (so don't blame him) More
to follow when inspiration permits, but the Muse has been raped, drugged,
and embroiled in stupid controversies that are nothing to do with her
for a generation now, and she hasn't been herself on her visits of late.
Besides, hussy that she is and always has been, she spends most of her
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For more of my twisted efforts (without even any fractal artwork
to redeem them) click here.
Or read my translations from the German here.
New poets are featured in my Guest
Gallery: "Men of no fortune, and with a name to come."
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