Audities 5: Playing with the media - Zoetrope, C64, DAT, Holo-vinyl, Game Boy
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- čas přidán 29. 07. 2024
- Looking at an assortment of unusual ways to get music noticed.
00:00 Zoetrope - Vinyl
02:48 Sid Chip Club - C64
05:31 The Rusty Nutz - DAT
07:35 Richard Houghten - Holo-Vinyl
09:07 Rob Dimeo - Gameboy
12:37 Credits - Music from Dimeo
LINKS
They Might Be Giants Vinyl Zoetrope: theymightbegiants.merchdirect...
More similar discs here: thevinylfactory.com/features/...
SID Chip Club: Purchase - markus-klein-artwork.de/sid-c...
SID Chip Club: CZcams - • SID Chip Club - Full A...
Richard Houghten on Bandcamp: bloomypetal.bandcamp.com/merch
Lavender Sweep Records: lavendersweep.bandcamp.com/merch
Dimeo's Jukebox for Gameboy: www.tgvirtual.com/dimeosjukebox
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FAQ
Q) Why are there comments from a week ago when this video has just gone live today?
A) Patrons usually have early access to videos. I'll show the first version of a video on Patreon and often the feedback I get results in a video going through further revisions to improve it. e.g. Fix audio issues, clarify points, add extra footage or cut extraneous things out. The video that goes live on youtube is the final version.
FAQ
Q) You’re doing the Vinyl Zoetrope wrong
A) Nope - Here’s the technical info kindly provided in a comment by groenendiek
Counting the images there's 38 sectors with images on the record, resulting in 20.9 images/second at 33 rpm and 28.5 at 45 rpm. There's no camera shooting mode which uses 20.9 frames per second, so indeed it will never work as advertised. But, when you play at 45 rpm and record video at 30 fps then you'll see the animations, but moving counterclockwise at 2,25 rpm.
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"This is an electronic music album created for the Commodore 64 but if you don't have one you can listen to it on vinyl" might be the most hipster pitch I've ever heard in my life
Mat, WOW! I’m absolutely speechless. What an amazing honour to have you feature my game. Thank you so much for the incredible review and support... And I insist you keep the Game Boy! My heart broke a little when you showed your broken one!! And a massive thank you to everyone who is supporting this. It means the world to me and I couldn’t be more grateful. So, thank you from the bottom of my heart! Stay safe, healthy, happy... and retro!! ☺️
This project is so cool!!!
This is an ingenious concept, and brilliantly realised! Breathes a new, and very different life back into the old classic Gameboy handhelds... :-)
Does the cart work on the Super Game Boy or the Game Boy Player? Those are way more common than GB Light, and an excellent way to convey GB audio over good speakers, so their omission confused me. Also, great use of LightScribe. :)
Indeed. I have an External LightScribe Drive. But sadly don’t have the discs to go along with it
@@OrangeHarrisonRB3 If it's compatible with original Game Boy hardware, it should work fine on a Super Game Boy.
I love the Flood album, Birdhouse In Your Soul contains my favourite song lyrics of all time.
What are they lyrics?
@@anthoneyries1 The chorus. Blue canary in the outlet by the lightswitch, who watches over you, make a little birdhouse in your soul, not to put too fine a point on it, say I'm the only bee in your bonnet, make a little birdhouse in your soul. I also really like the line that goes "Blue bird of friendliness, like guardian angels, it's always near".
I haven't listened to that album in ages, but I listened to it so much as a kid that 30 years later, and provided I was listening to the album at the time, I could probably still sing every song on that album. I remember when Tiny Toons did music videos for Particle Man and Instanbul (not Constantinople). "Now here's another video from THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS..... who are these guys?"
Am I the only bee in your bonnet?
Make a hole with a gun perpendicular
To the name of this town in a desk-top globe
Exit wound in a foreign nation
Showing the home of the one this was written for
My apartment looks upside down from there
Water spirals the wrong way out the sink
And her voice is a backwards record
It's like a whirlpool and it never ends
Re: SID Chip @ 3:00 onwards. Interestingly I have just released an adapter to allow an 8580 to work in circuits/computers designed for the 6581 (I've been making interfaces to use the SID sound chip on Z80 based systems since 2003). It takes care of the different voltages, filters etc, so this would allow the SX-64 to use a 8580 and play the music as sonically intended. I won't spam this post with links, however the latest video on my own channel shows it in action and has further information and points you to my website.
Thank you Mat! I love this channel, its such an honor to get to be in one of your videos. ~Richard
The picture disc: counting the images there's 38 sectors with images on the record, resulting in 20.9 images/second at 33 rpm and 28.5 at 45 rpm. There's no camera shooting mode which uses 20.9 frames per second, so indeed it will never work as advertised. But, when you play at 45 rpm and record video at 30 fps then you'll see the animations, but moving counterclockwise at 2,25 rpm. Though it is shown in a video at the band's website, the question remains: was this the intended effect, or was it a bit of a fumble - we shall never know unless someone asks the band.
Thank you for doing this.
Do you know how many sectors with images it would need for it to work at 33 RPM?
Would it stabilize if your turn-table has a +10% to -10% speed slider?
@@omahahnful You'd need 54 images on the record (33-1/3 rpm / 60 sec/min = 0.555~ rps, 30 fps / 0.555~ rps = 54 frames/revolution) to get to 30 fps. 25 fps would need 45 images. (Edit: Corrected math)
@@omahahnful At 33 1/3 rpm (NOT 33 to be exact), in one second there’s 33,33/60=0,56 rotation. So if you want to view 30 images in that one second, they’ll have to be in that 0,56 rotation. We’ll have to divide 30 by this number, finding 54 which is the number of images you need, to produce a still image on a LP at 33 1/3 rpm. The frame rate of the average smartphone video recording is 30, though the cheapest ones often use variable frame rate recording. And I can’t tell what frame rate you see on screen without recording, so I can’t say for sure that using a phone camera as a strobe effect to view these records will work without actually recording the video. Also, with needing 54 sectors to able to view a still image through a camera, the sectors containing the visuals are becoming quite narrow (360/54=6.7 degrees) - which may well be the reason that they've chosen a compromise allowing for a larger canvas.
This is how I like to spend my Saturday mornings. Coffee and Techmoan.
I agree
A little Moan-ing goes a long way. ;D
@@LowdownBoy lol. No.
@@Fender420 Cialis and Techmoan
@@Fender420 We'll watch together
I absolutely *love* when you do these videos, and this is no exception.
(Yes, also hearing you say "An EP on DAT from The Rusty Nutz" made me giggle despite being an adult.)
Dimeo's Jukebox - the presentation is magnificent! Great video.
And sending something in payed off as a marketing campaign - I pre-ordered a Christmas present!
I'm definitely too hungover to watch that record spin. I'll be back later
Did you come back
@@thecianinator haha! No.
I'm very thankful that you told me about that TMBG record! It will make a very nice Christmas present for my dad!
That SID Chip record is amazing. I used to record C64 game music off the headphone jack on my TV and listen to them at school on my Walkman... Can you get any more 80s than that?!
Techmoan, GameBoy 👀
Hmmmm, yes
Yesssss
Oh hey dude, checking out your dad's channel?
@@squabbbb lmaoo
The moment I saw those lines on the LCD, I imagined the title “Repairing Techmoan’s Gameboy” on your channel...
Wow, I never expected to see TMBG on Techmoan. I love that album (and picturedisc) and this channel
Loved every minute of the video. Totally interesting and eye-opening to new/old formats. Great that there are people who are experimenting like this.
4:30 Recording digital chiptunes in an analog medium...
We've gone full circle ladies and gentlemen...
The year is 2020. Techmoan can't play an album released on a Commodore 64 cartridge, so it's a good thing he also bought the vinyl record version.
2010 would be very confused.
@rrobertt13 As was mentioned in the video, these tunes only play correctly on a PAL 64 with an 8580 SID chip, they sound absolutely awful on a 6581 SID.
To be fair, the SID is actually a digital/analog hybrid. :)
TISM (awesome Australian band) is re-releasing all their music on CD and vinyl soon. But most importantly they have the "Deluxe Omni-Album" so you don't need to buy all their albums on vinyl you can just buy an "all-purpose album cover containing liner notes, artworks and song listings that are suitable for all six TISM album releases." It has 100 minutes of analogue silence across 2 clear vinyl discs so you can listen to the digital versions of their albums in peace.
Yes, I bought it.
Once I bought a CD out of a 3 dollar bin knowing it was too scratched to play. I already had the album in lossless FLAC so I could easily burn a copy to replace the scratched cd. So basically I was paying for the packaging.
the effort and cost these small artists are doing to create things like this is amazing. If only the big million selling artists would be creative. It highlights the love these smaller bands have for their work that they want to showcase it in unique ways.
Great video.
Last part. The best.
Thanks Matt.
Greetings from Tunisia
I NEED that gameboy album! Eventually.. when I have money
The Flood album by TMBG... one of the few recordings that my Dad would actually tell me to “turn that up!” when I was a teenager 😁
Good on him! Maybe yer ol' man was a fan of their Four Lads cover
The visualizer looks so cool on the SX-64!!!! It doesn’t get any “techier” than that 🤩👾
You should send your C64 Cart to the 8-BITGuy, I bet he would love to tinker with it. He would probably even be able to explain exactly how it works! Nice little crossover there!
I like it when you show unusual formats, it takes me back to geek mountain everytime
I love the turntables! As for the bit about the Richard Houghten record, that tape recorder with the purple 'eyes' is creepy.
Thanks Mat! This is exactly the kind of awesome retro obscure new stuff I absolutely love seeing! I hope you will do many more of these as the opportunities present themselves.
Loved the look of Richard Houghten's Holo-Vinyl and finally managed to get one, the 2021 reissue of "Sailing Through Rainbows Of Sound" in Metallic Green Splatter with Holographic A-side. A nice addition to the section of my record collection that you have influenced , it joins Tacet's oreloB (Bolero) and Trimicron's Beethoven 2
Thanks as always for the videos - and for the heads up on such a cool TMBG album. I just stopped the video, and ordered it before the "Techmoan Effect" sells them out completely!
Cool. I sent you the link to that Flood zoetrope disc months ago. Glad you got around to getting it and making a video of it!
Damn I’m grooving to that SID chip
Another enjoyable video Matt,always enjoy them.thoroughly enjoyable to watch and re visit old videos over and over.
5:28 that was some very satisfying word play, thank you
I agree. I really appreciate well scripted videos and the work people like Techmoan and Technology Connections and Aging Wheels put into their videos.
So cool, I immediately pre-ordered Dimeo's jukebox.
Thanks for reviewing flood, one of my favorite albums from them. I just got the Apollo 18 zoetrope
Shout out to *Gozer's Den* here on CZcams who has done some cool videos on zoetrope records (and other albums that have cool prints and/or packages)
I like the very humble "every now and then" at the beginning of the video. Might be a polite british expression to say : "every day, I wake up and buy some random old audio tech on eBay".
There are two sides on the spectrum. On this end, we have Techmoan. On the other end, we have Ashens.
@@raremediumdonewell So true lol
The Brits are famous for understating things ;)
@@BertGrink I love the outdoors having worked with the Greatest Show on Earth when I mean Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus from Florida to Maine, from Philadelphia to Oklahoma, from Phoenix Tucson Arizona 2 San Diego California up to Sacramento California up to Portland Oregon Seattle Washington Utah Salt Lake City Denver Colorado Chicago Illinois back down to Florida in all kinds of weather
. But living in England it has to drive one crazy not having been born there and having constant wet weather at a unavoidable constants of everyone's life.
The stiff upper lip is another truth that comes from this Island Kingdom.
There are so few days of good sunshine and much dreary weather to contend with the rest of the year.
Remember the B.B.C. Sherlock Holmes "once more into the breach", or his love of finding a very difficult situation as the "greatest challenge" as a gift from above.
He is over the top with joy at his success as well.
Without a doubt the present situation for such a people who live under a lot of outside pressure just from bad weather.
It must be a great outlet to find good times where ever you can and thrill to it always being there with the introduction of the Internet at ones finger tips.
His counting of his blessings is a reality check to himself at the expense of of those not having to live under a wet climate that can make you crazy.
The mental toughness is either learned as a salvation or a curse that makes your character that of the famous proverb " Only Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday Sun!"
So sorry but the lockdown had me going nuts😷
Being honestly humble is a good way to keep yourself from going insane.
When I get my new IPS modded GBA, I already know what game I am getting for it. :D This is awesome stuff. Thanks for all the bandcamp links - new stuff to follow, more tunes to buy, many people to support!
The Duruti Column - Guitars And Other Machines on DAT! Wow! It must sound excellent. My Vinyl copy has been played many times. Nice one Matt!
I recalling seeing SDAT on an anime called Neon Genesis Evangelion when I was a teenager, I always figured it was a thing in Japan before Minidisc.
S-DAT is Stationary recording head Digital Audio Tape - an example of which is DCC.
R-DAT is Rotating recording head Digital Audio Tape - examples of which are DAT or NT.
@@Techmoan Thanks for the information, it seems to have been a format that passed me by.
S-DAT was just made up, at least as a DAT variant, for the anime. The device Shinji used to play them was based on the real life Sony WMD-DT1, which like any other DAT recorder or player, used a rotating head. It also didn't have the display seen in the anime.
"an anime"
If this was another kind of channel you would have 79 replies complaining saying "EVANgelIon isN't juST An anIME it'S lifE itSelF!!!111"
@@salis-salis lol I it was a decent anime at the time but people take it too far. I did watch the rebuild and although the animation was excellent I wasn't a fan of the changes.
NIce video Matt! So nice to see that there are still artists that go the extra mile to make something different and you are there to show them to us. Enjoy your weekend!
Nice! As a studio engineer, the DAT would be the only format I really can relate to, but I never even saw any commercial releases. For us DAT was a “pro” format for delivering stereo mixes for mastering or soundtrack, between say ‘91 and ‘00. I say “pro”, because our well tuned 1/4“ analog Studer A-80 sounded way better than our £6k Sony PCM-7030 (1992). The Sony was a real beast, a fantastic machine to use. A simple clean took two minutes, while keeping the Studer in top shape took hours each week. No wonder I took the easy way out back then. Today no one requests those “CD- quality” (same effective data format) master originals. Sheer luck if we can dig out the analog tape copy instead.
Well, that’s an early digital audio history lesson. In 2020 it seems few care about the integrity of their music’s source data files, session copies are sooo boring... 😅👍
My They Might Be Giants Vinyl Zoetrop just showed up today. Have not had a chance to play it yet. It looks really cool thanks.
This was fun and the chip-tune outro was excellent!
That was an incredibly nice video! Thanks for doing what you do!!!!
Another very interesting video, Matt I've found all your videos very interesting and each subsequent video that you produce never fails to impress.
That Sid Chip Club album is awesome as someone who loves house and techno! Thanks for telling me.
I'm going to get super high and vibe with the album tonight! Stay safe your videos have really helped during these stressful times.
What a great post of various erratica. You are the best, Technoman.
Great idea! You played ones i have not heard of, did see a picture of the sega genesis music ive heard. Great content as always!
Cheers from Flordia!
I’m real excited about “They might be Giants” 30 anniversary release of Flood. One of my favorite albums from the 90’s. I’ll probably get that for my daughter, she loves listening to vinyl albums now. Thank u for making this aware to the public.
Great video as always, I always love to see the Gameboy getting some love.
Oh i just picked up a cassette of Flood last week. Hadnt listened to them since i was in middle school. Great album. I need that picture disc though 🤔
Still have the cassette I found at a flea market a few years after it came out. Would be great upgrading to a vinyl copy anyway, but I'd get that pic disc even if I didn't like the music!
Thank you for the Richard Houghten recommendation!
Always informative and interesting. Thank you!
i love artists so much 😩 thanks for sharing!!!
This channel is a treasure museum visit with each video.
Cutting right before the drop each time when showing the Sid chip club was torture!🤣🤣 Love your work tho.
Quite the quirky little collection of media outlets used to play music and have a niche market to do it with. I’m sure a lot of people would be following the links to look for the next (little) big thing
Very interesting stuff there you have. Like it a lot.
HeIIz yeah...🤘🏼🤪🎶 I'm digging that Gameboy music melody...👍🏼💯✔
Ah, William Allen White. That's the face that is shown during They Might Be Giant music videos and concerts. Editor and Publisher of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette from the 1890's until the 1940's. I love They Might Be Giants and have all their albums and have been to a few of their concerts.
I rally like the style and type of this video, and indeed the less common media types and new music that gets released. I would really like to see more of these kind of videos next to the normal lineup. (I guess making a comment says more than simply hitting the like button)
I'll take that onboard - thanks for taking the time to give feedback.
thanks Matt great unusual and fun stuff
This is one of the most fun channels on youtube.
Love stuff like this! Maybe somebody knows where RCA stuffed some of their Capacitance Electric Disc pressing machines! I'd watch any band's video on CED
Congratulations on 1,000,000 subscribers 👍
Enjoying my Sunday morning, 🌧️ and techmoan
That Lightscribe disc is great! Never used it myself but I do have an old laptop that can do it. What a great way of short run homebrew releases! Thanks for this uwu xxx
Always nice to hear the word GIF said correctly
I also have that 30th Anniversary Flood album! I'll have to give that 45 RPM trick a try to see the animations
I wonder if 78rpm would explode the average mind lol
Great video as always
Ever get the feeling that people release these oddities to be featured on your channel 😊? As usual an excellent, fun and entertaining video - the perfect antidote to all this Corona misery! Thank you for being out there in cyberspace!
Glad I found this, immediately had to buy two copies of Flood, one for me and one as a surprise for my best friend. Flood was one of the most influential albums of our young lives, and I'm super excited about it. Gotta dust off the turntable and maybe set up a strobe.
Hi Matt, great and informative post 👍👍
You could do a collab video on the marantz pmd740. The other person shows what all the knobs are used for, etc., and you tear the thing down showing the tech and giving your traditional bit of history on the brand and product. Love your work, man, thanks for the videos (always great content with proper research done well).
I love your channel because you usually do great videos on interesting tech. A for effort on this one.
cool af, thanks, you make some great videos, brings back some memories. :-)
Very interesting video, thank you.
So, back in the day there was a brick and mortar store near where I lived that specialized in CD and DAT. Lynn's Disc & DAT, as I recall. It was too expensive for a teenager, but I did go in a few times, they probably sold every DAT release that ever existed. Long defunct of course.
The Richard Houghten record was mastered by Arthur Joly, a brilliant Brazilian mind, you should check him and his synthesizers!
I now have Birdhouse In Your Soul stuck in my head despite it not being played at all in the video...
Re: those vinyl zoetropes-- I had those Red Raven children's records as a kid with the little mirror device that would sit on top of the spindle so you could watch the animation while the record played. I still have a few of those with the mirror.
Ah man... Spoiled by heavy breathing!!
Joking of course. Thanks for the warning, but I couldn't hear it. Pure class and a great selection of interesting titles!
That Sony DAT deck is beautiful. Hell, all your Sony gear is beautiful.
Fascinating! I like the idea of releasing music on game cartridge/ROM!
Another great video thank you 😁
Thanks for the video Mat.
Awesome video.
This track on, 5:04 is amazing.
artwork by Miles Wintner!! Such a cool dude and in many rad bands- college buddy from the days of house shows at The Carpentry and Cloyne Court
The Dimeo game reminded me of "Repton" for the BBC Micro - but I guess there was many similar games in those days!
Thank you for the nice and informative video.
Love you featuring the Flamingo
I like the closing music, great choice.
The genre of music from the Richard Houghton record sounds like either chill house or lo-fi
Thumbs up for the correct pronunciation of the word GIF!!!
Color me intrigued, definitely going to try and pick up a copy of Dimeo's Jukebox.
Not sure if this is something you'd be interested in, but Tristan Perich has a few albums on a chip: 1-bit music, 1-bit symphony, and noise patterns. Even if the music isn't of interest to you, the tech is pretty cool. In any event, great video, as always!
They Might Be Giants and Techmoan combo. Something I have been waiting for.
also god, i’m in love with those holographic records. i need one so so badly
Yesss! love this series!
Sailing through rainbows of sound, good god.