Travis Briggs @audiodude@tiny.tilde.website
Musician and programmer. http://tilde.town/~audiodude I refuse to paste my bio from birdsite.
But I probably don't want anyone to read my poetry actually, because I imagine it reflects poorly on me
If you're like me, you assume that your friends have never heard of any band you're going to go see.
That said, Abby and I are going to Belle and Sebastian in Oakland tonight. Woot!
Feeling very anxious at work, send hearts.
New song I just wrote and recorded:
https://songs.travisbriggs.com/sub/
"Okay, now I'm hitting an instrumental track groove, definitely. Listened to some dub today, and the influence is pretty clear."
#music #original #experimental #electronic #sounds #instrumental
Okay now I've subscribed to this guy's newsletter. Down the rabbit hole I go?
Oddly enough, almost as soon as I finish writing this, I find the article:
https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-most-important-skill-nobody-taught-you-9b162377ab77
Which I think pretty much sums up how I'm feeling.
I don't know how I want to feel, but it's not like this.
Red Sox beat the Mariners, 14-10. That is literally a football score.
The hell is this bullshit, MIT?
And a song I wrote tonight, kind of in the same spirit:
https://songs.travisbriggs.com/four-sided-triangle/
"Similar to last night's experiment with sounds, just trying to explore in freeform and see what comes out."
I made this yesterday, not sure why I didn't post it:
https://songs.travisbriggs.com/flywheel/
"I was just playing around with some different sounds and came across this, which seems relatively pleasing, if simple."
The website for the mental health non-profit in Texas that I'm helping is almost done! Should be published between 1 and 2 weeks.
Took my personal laptop to work today instead of my work laptop: oops! Guess I'll post on masto.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
html, body {
background-color: #aaa;
margin: 0;
height: 100%;
}
.msg {
color: pink;
font-size: 48px;
text-align: center;
height: 100%;
line-height: 100vh;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="msg">I love you</div>
</body>
</html>
Wrote a song today. Like I said in the description, this is the kind of groovy, non-genre specific electronica that I like making:
I have moved past the initial joy of not having a Facebook account into the sublime zen of not even thinking about Facebook most days, unless it shows up on Hacker News or something.
I took the time to really work on the vocal line for one of my songs this weekend. Set up the microphone at the proper angle and height, used my condenser, warmed up, and used just a touch of autotune.
The improvement is pretty dramatic.
Later for work, had to take BART. Eh, at least I'm getting there.
She just got back to me and apparently it went really well. <phew>
My wife is having dental surgery today, and I'm suddenly worried sick. Don't like this feeling.
I have made no edits to Wikipedia in 2018. That's kind of sad really.
