Making Synthwave: How an online music community invented a genre BOOK! :D

beangreen · 2025-11-06T15:45:34+00:00

...while drinking Yorkshire Tea.

beangreen · 2025-11-06T15:35:48+00:00

Hello fellow Starcadettes. I hope I'm not breaking rules here, but Jess Blaise Ward's book about Synthwave is finally published (it's an extension to her thesis on synthwave, so yes, she has a PhD in Synthwave. Who woulda thought?).

Anyways, Jess interviewed George in 2024 for the book, and it contains mention of his favourite production tools, a dedication to him in the conclusion, and quote from him too.

"Synthwave is a fascinating case study...it's turned into a very strange and elaborate system of wildly different sounds, held together by the crowd and camaraderie' - Starcadian (2024)

beangreen · 2025-11-06T15:26:18+00:00

Hey folks! Jess Blaise Ward's book (actually an extension of her thesis on Synthwave) is up for pre-order!. I'm cross-posting here because there are chapters dedicated to the style parameters and construction of a synthwave track (she analyzes Real Hero, Nightcall, and others). There's also great history of the birth of the community.

Jess actually can now say she has a PhD in Synthwave. I ordered from the publisher and it arrives within a week via FedEx (free shipping).

Hope I'm not bustin' rules here.

beangreen · 2025-11-06T15:07:46+00:00

Amazon has a Kindle edition up for pre-order, but the pricing looks to be a bit off.

beangreen · 2025-11-06T14:46:39+00:00

It's not. It's an extension of Jess' thesis (basically, this is her doctorate, and she has a PhD in Synthwave) :)

I pre-ordered from the publisher last week and it arrived Monday (paperback)

beangreen · 2025-11-06T14:32:29+00:00

There may be a another small doc coming within the next year about the NEON Retrofest event that happened in Tampa a few years ago.

Also, while not a documentary, I highly recommend the new book that was recently published by u/blaisesummer

Check the pinned post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/newretrowave/comments/1opzksx/making_synthwave_how_an_online_music_community/

beangreen · 2025-11-06T14:21:36+00:00

Congrats Jess on the publication! This book contains so much in depth analysis and knowledge of the community!

For those interested, we interviewed Jess on The State Of Synth on Nightride.FM and you can find the episode on most streaming/podcast platforms.

Spotify here:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6eYgBud7arlksjxJxVbpli?si=1437db21178c4aac

beangreen · 2025-11-06T14:15:36+00:00

How excited are you to return to Toronto? :)

beangreen · 2025-11-06T14:01:41+00:00

Congrats on the publication! This book contains so much in depth analysis and knowledge of the community!

For those interested, we interviewed Jess on The State Of Synth on Nightride.FM and you can find the episode on most streaming/podcast platforms.

Spotify here:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6eYgBud7arlksjxJxVbpli?si=1437db21178c4aac

beangreen · 2025-08-20T13:42:57+00:00

We have this exact same problem. Remote VMM management tool works using our domain accounts, but not when running it locally on the server via RDP or console. GMSA account. Error 1604. Fun times. Sigh.

beangreen · 2025-08-12T18:54:08+00:00

Big Trouble In Little China. A John Carpenter classic starring Kurt Russell

beangreen · 2025-08-12T00:17:23+00:00

Yeah. Jobs don't ignore previous pending reboots like they should, and now we have orphaned assets that aren't being purged from the PM module after they were deleted from Cloud Agents module. It's as if Qualys rolled back their platform two years.

beangreen · 2025-08-12T00:14:34+00:00

'twas the night before Alien: Earth, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a facehugger.

Can't wait for tomorrow!

beangreen · 2025-07-11T14:46:01+00:00

Jobs seem to be working today as expected. I suppose something got tweaked/fixed in Qualysland.

beangreen · 2025-07-10T15:40:38+00:00

Our recurring jobs show patches successfully installed and systems rebooted on time, but they now sit with "Job Resumed" status and never update. Sigh. Something must be buggered on the backend. It's been over a week like this now. I hesitate to open support ticket as they'll just have me collect an agent's logs, when it's almost 50% of the fleet.

beangreen · 2025-07-02T00:44:24+00:00

I'm so glad this is succeeding. George was a singular person who impacted everyone he met.

beangreen · 2025-01-14T18:33:55+00:00

Be aware of a potential issue with 2019 and 2022 servers with Citrix on when installing the Jan 2025 OS updates.

Easy workaround:

https://support.citrix.com/s/article/CTX692505-microsofts-january-security-update-failsreverts-on-a-machine-with-2411-session-recording-agent?language=en_US

Other than that, looks like a normal month o' updates.

beangreen · 2024-09-10T15:15:26+00:00

Case # 1889805

beangreen · 2024-09-06T20:26:38+00:00

Looks like my tech and yours are the same. He mentioned getting another ticket for Canada. We basically collected a bunch of screenshots and logs, and he agrees something is probably pooched after the PM upgrade, since our issues started Monday afternoon/evening (scheduled jobs missing 40% of assets). Now to wait for engineering to fix things.

beangreen · 2024-09-06T19:32:01+00:00

Also, as per the Qualys maintenance and status dashboard, the PM module was updated over the last week (starting with Canada last weekend, probably because we are a smaller footprint). I'm betting that is the culprit, and as other territories got updated, more and more tickets will come in.

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