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Second try

Posted on August 31st, 2024 – Comments Off

Dmitri’s timeline set to music.

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First try

Posted on June 19th, 2024 – Comments Off

If you’ve watched, and listened to, the /sectionb shorts then you’ll probably recognize the musical motif but if not then maybe you’ll be experiencing it for the first time, in which case that’s maybe for the best.

This tune also happens to rather happily coincide with the 25th anniversary, more or less, of Lola rennt. If it sounds like the film may have been an inspiration for the track, that’s just pure speculation. Great movie though.

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Chopin’ Twenty

Posted on June 1st, 2023 – Be the first to comment

I know, my AFK time has been excessive as of late but as usual it doesn’t mean that I’ve been idle. I had some new adventures, got busy with some undercover work (more on that later), and stuck my fingers into far too many pies.

Take the thing above, for example. Figured I’d try something different but new directions always come with a price. Don’t even get me started about inflation!

Anyway, this tune is supposed to be Chopin’s Nocturne No.20 in C Sharp Minor … or at least what’s left of it.

Filed under: Dispatches, Patrick Bay, Sounds

/sectionb: COMPROMISED [DSD version]

Posted on February 13th, 2023 – Be the first to comment

I’ve been thinking about producing a more immersive rendition of /sectionb. I’ve also been thinking that producing a “Parapsychological Spy Thriller” via conventional means is not be the correct approach. It needs to be a little more artsy, interpretive, associative. Unfortunately, illustration and animation aren’t really my thing.

Although I can draw some basic proportions and I try to pay attention to composition and colour, I can’t produce the type of visual output that modern artificial intelligence can. But as it happens I also dabble in code so it wasn’t long before I was fucking around with Stable Diffusion and similar software. Unfortunately, if I wanted to use the AI to produce short films the still images it spat out would need to be animated using something like morphing — doable but laborious.

By one propitious circumstance a fairly recent upgrade to Stable Diffusion by Deforum popped up in my search results one day and as soon as I saw a few samples I got giddy. Not only is the animated output of DSD dream-like and trippy, which is very apropos for /sectionb, it also improvises around the periphery of supplied prompts/themes in surprising ways, which is also quite apropos.

Initially I tried adding voice narration but it just didn’t fit so instead I converted the text to subtitles/closed captions, chucked in some original music, and after that the video basically just produced itself.

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show me your love to ease my mind

Posted on November 9th, 2022 – Be the first to comment

Yeah, still making music.

Actually, these combined renditions have been percolating for a while and I’ve only recently put on the finishing touches. They feature the vocal stylings of Roland Clark (?) from a track named “Show Me Your Love” (?) followed by The Supremes on “You Can’t Hurry Love”. Despite my take on The Supremes’ tune I think that you’ll find that the lyrics are (eventually) recognizable whereas I’ve had a heck of a time finding any information on Clark and his song, hence the parenthesized question marks. If you can shed any light on this vocal sample please let me know!

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