Novelty

While we’re at it:

Screenshot of new audio effect app Osculatrix running inside AUM on iPhone.

WT had a “coming soon” page for Osculatrix from probably 2016 until last week. That app was going to be a synth module. There was a mostly working version, but I just didn’t like the sounds it made, so it never seemed worth finishing.

This isn’t that, though it reuses the assets — that knob was undoubtedly the best thing about the original. It’s another perverse AUv3 effect, basically a multiband tremolo with some other stuff layered in. I do like the sounds this makes, at least some of them. Mac version available right now at the software page. iOS links to come when the bureaucracy allows.

Resurrection

I mean, if you’re going to have a tireless and uncomplaining grunt programmer to take on the scutwork, you might as well apply it to tasks so fiddly and tedious you’ve been putting them off for the best part of a decade.

Screenshot showing Nebulizer, Muckraker and Frobulator running on multiple lanes in AUM.

Moribund no more. My decrepit audio effects apps Frobulator, Muckraker and Nebulizer have been dragged kicking and screaming into the AUv3 age. Mac versions are available now for direct download. iOS will be available once I’ve slogged through the App Store submissions rigmarole. Alas Claude can’t yet take on that tedious scutwork.

Penultimate

I enjoyed Sweet Mambo. It’s entertaining, oh so characteristic, often beautiful. But sad.

Not in the moment, always, exactly. There are landmarks of fun, excitement, hilarity. There’s a lot of yer actual dancing — not always guaranteed in Tanztheater. Beautiful dancers. Gorgeous billowing set. Lovely music. But the abiding impression is just so achingly sad.

Hindsight is tricky. It’s hard to keep track. But I’m almost certain her last piece was more upbeat than this, second to.

Also. Tangentially. I feel like I have seen Cafe Muller more times than I possibly can have. It’s confusing. I’m confused.