Nick Levantis

somewhere between music, art and thoughts

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Mercury

Mercury is a minimal and human-readable language for the live coding of algorithmic electronic music.
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All elements of the language are designed around making code more accessible and less obfuscating for the audience. This motivation stretches down to the coding style itself which uses clear descriptive names for functions and a clear syntax. Furthermore the editor is restricted to 30 lines of code, keeping all code always visible. Mercury provides the performer with an extensive library of algorithms to generate or transform number of sequences that can modulate parameters, such as melody and rhythm, over time. The environment produces sound in conjunction with visuals. Besides looking at the code, the audience is also looking at the visuals that are reactive to the sound or generated by the sound.

It is named after te planet Mercury. Mercury rules the creation and expression of...

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Orca

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My new favorite music sequencer is Orca. Designed by Devine Lu Linvega (Hundred Rabbits) and is a ingenious approach that really takes every musical idea to another level.

Orca is an esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers in which each letter of the alphabet is an operation, where lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate on each frame.

The application is not a synthesizer, but a flexible livecoding environment capable of sending MIDI, OSC & UDP to your audio interface, like Ableton, Renoise, VCV Rack or SuperCollider. You can also use Pilot, a companion application to ORCA. Find Orca here .

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Bad

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No one knows how far human mischief can go. It is certain that when dealing with such bad people you expose yourself to unacceptable situations. It’s easy to lose your personality and your life’s positions. It is easy to dive into the immorality of their thoughts and their life-long repulsion and eventually drown in a shit hole.

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Synths or software?

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Some musicians believe that computers are not capable for creating electronic music like synths. They forget that synthesizers are basically computers and their circuits create waveforms and filters to synthesize sounds. They forget that the medium is not what makes the music but only the musician, his imagination, his experimentation are the things that give life and diversity to the sounds and notes.

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Messages from the past

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The specter of the past haunts the present, casting an indelible mark. You regard me through a lens clouded by the echoes of yesterday. I understand. Your memories, like powerful currents, shape the contours of your reality. The past’s grip, though unseen, constricts the present’s breath. You yearn to break free from the chains of oblivion, to liberate the thoughts and feelings imprisoned within.

Beneath the surface, anger simmers, a tempestuous force. Your mind, a labyrinth of thought, plays deceptive games. Blind emotions, driven by the past’s relentless tide, steer your soul astray. And we are forever lost, adrift in the currents of your temporal prison.

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Nowhere Song

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Romance Song

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Your post is too short…

I’ve noticed that some bloggers are putting agonising efforts to show off Thousands of meaningless words and these kind of articles could be written with 10 words but they have to show that they are something special in this world ….

By finishing this post, SVBTLE warns me that it’s too short …

In a world that observes the following is reasonable that everything around us is programmed according to ..

  • Passive acceptance and coexistence
  • Poor aesthetics and life goals
  • Opinions built on common and safe recruits
  • Consumerism and Discrimination
  • Success without a strong philosophy of life
  • Understanding only that we perceive it as safe for us
  • Lack of judgment and perception of diversity
  • Lifestyle that fits only the views we have learn & adopted
  • Compromise …
  • Vanity..

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Industrial Lights

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Nice music?

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Creating unique and meaningful music is no easy task. It requires not only formal musical training but also a rich imagination and a deep engagement with the world around us.

Unfortunately, we live in an age dominated by social media, where precious time is squandered in front of screens. I know musicians who spend more than half their day on social media, not composing music but chasing fame and success.

The pursuit of success without a genuine artistic purpose is at best ridiculous and vain. Without dreams, imagination, and a creative lifestyle, art becomes mere repetition and recycling.

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