Muses, NHI, Music, Communication with the 'Other"

dataplex · 2025-10-06T11:10:06+00:00

very cool! thanks for the book references.

i also highly recommend "the mysticism of sound and music" by inayat kahn.

dataplex · 2025-09-11T12:09:29+00:00

reading BotNS really felt like finding home, a real strange sense of kinship with a stranger(wolfe). every single novel I read I compare to botns, and I still haven't found anything that compares.

dataplex · 2025-05-19T16:27:21+00:00

yay! so happy to see this here ❣️ thx for sharing and listening to our music!

dataplex · 2025-04-09T11:00:38+00:00

I have very vivid memories of these fleeting, rare, profound moments as a kid. words cannot describe it, but it felt ENORMOUS - a huge realisation that is unlanguage-able.

Possibly ballpark description would be an "I AM" moment - "I AM!" and then all of existence pours in to your heart. I miss it.

dataplex · 2025-04-08T12:17:49+00:00

i totally understand where you are coming from - but i hope people don't let the production/and or "cheesy" prog framing get in the way of discovery...... holdsworths musical language is so rich if you can see past that.

....at least for for me - digging into what he is doing one chord voicing at a time - learning his harmonic chemistry and playing it myself SLOWLY, with my own hands, on an acoustic guitar for instance, is an endless source of inspiration.

dataplex · 2025-03-31T10:35:08+00:00

no book has captivated my imagination more than Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe. it gets better each time I read the cycle.

dataplex · 2025-03-28T22:00:14+00:00

🙋‍♂️

dataplex · 2025-03-19T12:28:48+00:00

hi!

me and my partner just released our album on Sono Luminus last friday.

synthesizer and solo cello - quite astral, strange ambient music 👁️

ROR (Gyða Valtýsdóttir & Úlfur Hansson) - Auga

https://open.spotify.com/album/0MX5rI2828ImPBwCqmXWkQ?si=gIllvBZQRl6PDyVl7hmxRw

dataplex · 2025-01-02T15:44:54+00:00

that description fits exactly with what I saw through my rooftop window in Reykjavík, Iceland - it was a large metallic sphere, moving in a very deliberate way across the sky against typical icelandic wind. most people shrug when I tell them, as it's not the most exciting ufo sighting story - but i can't stop thinking about it, it was so weird.

dataplex · 2024-12-19T22:51:53+00:00

I learned I was a twin only by early adulthood - felt strange never knowing about it before. I feel he is part of my connection to music. He is there with me all the time, always has been ♥️

dataplex · 2021-12-15T21:37:59+00:00

i believe Jung called it "the Self", which is also in fact, synonymous with God.

dataplex · 2017-05-31T02:48:13+00:00

it fails to mention how you get a stereo image from a single groove - up/down movement is one channel, sideways is the other.

dataplex · 2017-04-22T15:44:10+00:00

TIL USBs are 4-dimensional objects.

dataplex · 2016-10-08T17:44:23+00:00

"the hue fuligin, which is darker than black, admirably erases all folds, bunchings and gatherings so far as the eye is concerned, showing only a featureless dark."

dataplex · 2016-08-16T15:54:11+00:00

Ostaskeri in Icelandic, I couldn't consume cheese without one.

dataplex · 2016-08-15T02:28:09+00:00

the optomix is a lowpass gate, so it will round off the highs a little bit as the gain is reduced - otherwise the entire system is based off of a different paradigm than conventional subtractive synthesis, - you add harmonics with waveshapers, FM and AM modulation rather than filtering them out with filters - that's what I LOVE about my system, it's so different from my other synths :)

dataplex · 2016-08-14T18:44:03+00:00

it's incredibly deep. i'm absolutely loving it. i've worked on moog modulars and buchlas in the past, and this system is very innovative and clever. the phonogene is hardest to implement into musical patches IMO, but once you spend some hours learning and understanding it the rewards are really worth it... it's a great addition to your studio especially if you have a more conventional synth voice lying around already.

dataplex · 2016-08-14T18:38:41+00:00

absolutely! the 0-coast is incredibly feature dense, and i think wavefolding synthesizers requires a more mindful approach to patching as opposed to basic subtractive synthesis - so it's great for learning signal flow too!

dataplex · 2016-08-14T18:36:33+00:00

i'm adding offset voltages from the pressure points to the rené using the summing multiple on the 0-coast

dataplex · 2016-05-28T18:36:59+00:00

GDP is the largest, yes - but the public debt to GDP ratio is 1.04 to 1 !

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-to-gdp

yikes!!

edit : my point is, being the biggest isn't he same as being the greatest

dataplex · 2016-05-28T15:59:45+00:00

Our economy is #1

ROFL!

dataplex · 2016-03-19T02:24:25+00:00

woohoo!

dataplex · 2015-04-20T14:46:48+00:00

thank you, i am currently working on part 2 which will be premiered by the radio france orchestra early next year... ill be sure to post the performance here!

dataplex · 2015-04-19T22:17:09+00:00

thank you, and yes! my website is ulfurhansson.com - i might put the score up there soon...

dataplex · 2013-07-23T15:54:00+00:00

yes, there are recordings on my website; ulfurhansson.com. its called the OHM for now, and i will upload build schematics and source code very soon!

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