Nuanced piece on how GDPR's banning export of contacts between apps, while a win for privacy, hamstrings competitors to Facebook and Amazon who can't access the valuable social graph to kick start their businesses https://stratechery.com/2021/the-webs-missing-interoperability/
A few bits of #counterpoint in triple meter. Not saying I've mastered this but it's the first of the month and I'm itching to move on to more complex exercises. So next time will be some "third species" four notes against one. #Music #musictheory #composition
This one's copied from an anatomy book! Some warn against crosshatched shading (e.g. Mark Holmes in his great #urbansketching book), but I like it #Art #Sketch #pencil
Wish I had more news to toot, but, y'know, I'm unemployed in a #COVID19 pandemic. Walks in the park, meals with my parents, sending out CVs, some sketching is the height of it.
#counterpoint exercises.... Three notes against one. I feel I've hit my stride with these, they're coming pretty easily. Next up, writing lines below the given line instead of above as I've done in all these. #composition #classical #Music #musictheory
Counterpoint study's going well. I'm getting a grasp of second species (two notes against one). Maybe I'll try three notes against one, next! #composition #counterpoint #classical #Music #musictheory
Two-voice harmonising exercises from the last few days. Nice to be in a minor key! Next exercise will be harmonising this melody from below instead of above. #composition #counterpoint #Music #musictheory Made with #FOSS
My brother and I are doing a friendly competition to improve our knowledge of #Drawing hands. #Art #Sketch #siblingrivalry #anatomy Here's round 1:
The sun was out this morning, which made for strong shadows #pencil #sketching #urbansketching #suburbansketching #nature
This was fun to write :) Structural analysis of ten gorgeous songs from Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3 https://drumchant.wordpress.com/2021/02/14/jrpg-song-forms/ #Music #jrpg #Soundtrack #composition #analysis #harmony #musictheory
I have a #datavis challenge... trying to present analyses of JRPG soundtracks. My (perhaps eccentrically chosen) software, LibreOffice Calc, is not up to the task of accurately laying out or exporting what I want
More second species (two notes against one) #counterpoint #Music #composition exercises. Probably should try a minor key now.
Planning a sweet blog post analysing JRPG soundtracks... if you're into that kinda thing, stay tuned. Might take me a couple of evenings! #retrogaming #jrpg #Music #analysis #harmony
Aspiring dev, former jazz musician. He/him. Irish-French.