Neil from BeatBalance
@beatbalanceneil.bsky.social
I'm the developer of BeatBalance, an iOS application to help develop the fundamentals of drum technique.
http://beatbalance.co
http://instagram.com/beatbalanceapp
Also does/did music (Forever Sound/Bookkeep/Savoy Grand/Seachange etc)
http://beatbalance.co
http://instagram.com/beatbalanceapp
Also does/did music (Forever Sound/Bookkeep/Savoy Grand/Seachange etc)
Luigi got done dirty AGAIN
February 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Luigi got done dirty AGAIN
Morrison’s really need to decide to consistently categorise their aisles by either nationality of foodstuff or type. Is risotto rice ‘Italian’ or ‘rice’? (Rice) whereas pasta is ‘Italian’
Then the other grains are in an unlabeled section between ‘gravy mixes’ and ‘canned vegetables’ (of course)
Then the other grains are in an unlabeled section between ‘gravy mixes’ and ‘canned vegetables’ (of course)
February 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Morrison’s really need to decide to consistently categorise their aisles by either nationality of foodstuff or type. Is risotto rice ‘Italian’ or ‘rice’? (Rice) whereas pasta is ‘Italian’
Then the other grains are in an unlabeled section between ‘gravy mixes’ and ‘canned vegetables’ (of course)
Then the other grains are in an unlabeled section between ‘gravy mixes’ and ‘canned vegetables’ (of course)
For some reason my partner was a bit sceptical when I asked her to follow me down a dark corridor in Pollokshaws Burgh Hall so I could show her a gigantic and beautiful organ
February 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
For some reason my partner was a bit sceptical when I asked her to follow me down a dark corridor in Pollokshaws Burgh Hall so I could show her a gigantic and beautiful organ
Loving this Analogue Solutions Fusebox
January 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Loving this Analogue Solutions Fusebox
Been experimenting with this new recommendation algorithm called 'asking my friends about what they like' and let me tell you this record is a record that I do like a whole lot, meditative, human and just generally a vibe intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/the-wa...
The Way Out of Easy, by Jeff Parker ETA IVtet
4 track album
intlanthem.bandcamp.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Been experimenting with this new recommendation algorithm called 'asking my friends about what they like' and let me tell you this record is a record that I do like a whole lot, meditative, human and just generally a vibe intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/the-wa...
Petitioning Unicode to make ‘emojus’ the singular form
January 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Petitioning Unicode to make ‘emojus’ the singular form
After having listened to this about 15 times in the last week, strongly agree with @brianmck.bsky.social’s assessment here
Album of the year 2024
This album landed in my life in December and totally disrupted my album of the year plans.
Ugandan lukeme player Ekuka Morris Sirikiti’s first studio album on Nyege Nyege Tapes is crucial stuff. It’s simultaneously urgent and hypnotic, and utterly, utterly beautiful.
Link👇
This album landed in my life in December and totally disrupted my album of the year plans.
Ugandan lukeme player Ekuka Morris Sirikiti’s first studio album on Nyege Nyege Tapes is crucial stuff. It’s simultaneously urgent and hypnotic, and utterly, utterly beautiful.
Link👇
January 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
After having listened to this about 15 times in the last week, strongly agree with @brianmck.bsky.social’s assessment here
Super nice time at the Glasgow Improvisers’ Orchestra open session on Tuesday.
Just the purest expression of what’s most vital for me about music- being in a place together with people, weaving something together out of nothing. Magic.
Just the purest expression of what’s most vital for me about music- being in a place together with people, weaving something together out of nothing. Magic.
January 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Super nice time at the Glasgow Improvisers’ Orchestra open session on Tuesday.
Just the purest expression of what’s most vital for me about music- being in a place together with people, weaving something together out of nothing. Magic.
Just the purest expression of what’s most vital for me about music- being in a place together with people, weaving something together out of nothing. Magic.
The novel thing about the economics of streaming is not that artists are being paid a pittance while middlemen profit, it’s that transparent accounting and consequently fair compensation are absolutely technically possible with little effort but deliberately withheld
January 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The novel thing about the economics of streaming is not that artists are being paid a pittance while middlemen profit, it’s that transparent accounting and consequently fair compensation are absolutely technically possible with little effort but deliberately withheld
Or indeed that the record industry used to be not a place where hugely successful stars were often broke/living on small wages/sometimes never paid at all while the record sales money mysteriously disappeared
There seems to be some strange consensus building across my timeline at the moment that in the mid/late 20th century being some kind of outsider artist was a stable and indeed profitable career choice, which seems an odd reading
January 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Or indeed that the record industry used to be not a place where hugely successful stars were often broke/living on small wages/sometimes never paid at all while the record sales money mysteriously disappeared
The thing about being ethical is it sort of requires you to consider your actions and their consequences. It can't really be outsourced for a small fee
people always want to know what the ethical alternative to spotify is. i'd rather they just be honest with themselves abt the reality that they're all mostly bad + grapple w the complexity of that than thinking sending $10/mo to a diff tech company changes anything. supporting art is a diff equation
January 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The thing about being ethical is it sort of requires you to consider your actions and their consequences. It can't really be outsourced for a small fee
My favourite feature of Google’s AI summaries is definitely how it will regularly hallucinate non-existent features of software I’m trying to use, or just now a completely fictitious WWDC talk
January 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
My favourite feature of Google’s AI summaries is definitely how it will regularly hallucinate non-existent features of software I’m trying to use, or just now a completely fictitious WWDC talk
What I'm working towards here is an open repository of drum practice data for researchers (and those interested!) to use and hopefully try to gain some insights in terms of large-scale, accurate distributed data in terms of what is and isn't effective in terms of drum practice. #musicscience
January 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
What I'm working towards here is an open repository of drum practice data for researchers (and those interested!) to use and hopefully try to gain some insights in terms of large-scale, accurate distributed data in terms of what is and isn't effective in terms of drum practice. #musicscience
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If you make a mistake while performing, rather than just going on as if the mistake was intended, the best thing to do is to stop immediately and carry out a root cause analysis while the facts of the mistake are still fresh in your mind.
January 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If you make a mistake while performing, rather than just going on as if the mistake was intended, the best thing to do is to stop immediately and carry out a root cause analysis while the facts of the mistake are still fresh in your mind.
Trying to write some nice, clear, ethical informed consent permission forms for (anonymised) data collection and it's making me want to read @cennydd.com's 'Future Ethics' again.
January 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Trying to write some nice, clear, ethical informed consent permission forms for (anonymised) data collection and it's making me want to read @cennydd.com's 'Future Ethics' again.
Looks more like 100% off tbh
January 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Looks more like 100% off tbh
Enough time has definitely elapsed for me to confidently say Clams Casino’s beat for I’m God by Lil B is one of the all time greats
December 31, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Enough time has definitely elapsed for me to confidently say Clams Casino’s beat for I’m God by Lil B is one of the all time greats
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December 30, 2024 at 6:53 PM
LOUFR "FEARS" POINT#55 / released in Februrary 2024 ⭐ enjoy some free BC codes!
7wxa-6yz9
vse8-kukz
9q73-yqz6
zbwl-79yk
yvhq-vz79
y9e7-ggqz
yt7x-376g
tkms-hv9u
tz8p-5yyq
2tzb-3rnz
xvtn-695b
7wxa-6yz9
vse8-kukz
9q73-yqz6
zbwl-79yk
yvhq-vz79
y9e7-ggqz
yt7x-376g
tkms-hv9u
tz8p-5yyq
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Yep.
Don’t use streaming myself but it’s difficult to imagine a better deal (for the consumer) than ‘access to (almost) everything, in your pocket, for a small amount of money’ so the answer has to be better regulation
Don’t use streaming myself but it’s difficult to imagine a better deal (for the consumer) than ‘access to (almost) everything, in your pocket, for a small amount of money’ so the answer has to be better regulation
Something more convenient comes along.
what exactly has to happen before you people will stop using spotify?
December 29, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Yep.
Don’t use streaming myself but it’s difficult to imagine a better deal (for the consumer) than ‘access to (almost) everything, in your pocket, for a small amount of money’ so the answer has to be better regulation
Don’t use streaming myself but it’s difficult to imagine a better deal (for the consumer) than ‘access to (almost) everything, in your pocket, for a small amount of money’ so the answer has to be better regulation
Reposted by Neil from BeatBalance
Yes, to which I'll add - keep making that half-broken Pd patch, keep collecting field recordings of your washing machine, keep producing dance music that inflicts foot injuries, keep doing exactly what you're doing as it's a hell of a lot better than what a lot of people are doing with their time.
Keep playing your guitar. Keep painting that sunset. Keep writing that screenplay. Even at the level of hobbyist you are richer than these people could ever dream of in ways they will never, ever have. They know it, so should you.
December 28, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Yes, to which I'll add - keep making that half-broken Pd patch, keep collecting field recordings of your washing machine, keep producing dance music that inflicts foot injuries, keep doing exactly what you're doing as it's a hell of a lot better than what a lot of people are doing with their time.
Want to make yr iPhone less of an attention sponge? Set up the colour filters in Accessibility to make the screen black and white and set up automations using Shortcuts to de/reactivate it for apps that need colour (maps/camera etc)
December 20, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Want to make yr iPhone less of an attention sponge? Set up the colour filters in Accessibility to make the screen black and white and set up automations using Shortcuts to de/reactivate it for apps that need colour (maps/camera etc)
Urgh
For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social
harpers.org/archive/2025...
harpers.org/archive/2025...
The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly
Spotify’s plot against musicians
harpers.org
December 19, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Urgh
After several listens of the full record, I can confirm it’s absolutely one of the best records I’ve heard this year. My partner loves it as well
Just from hearing a couple of songs I’ve got a strong suspicion the Deep Cabaret record reissued by Wrong Speed will be one of my favourites of this year, absolute chills up the spine stuff deepcabaret.bandcamp.com/album/matchl...
Matchless (Reissue), by Deep Cabaret
14 track album
deepcabaret.bandcamp.com
December 14, 2024 at 3:26 PM
After several listens of the full record, I can confirm it’s absolutely one of the best records I’ve heard this year. My partner loves it as well
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Anti-algorithmic recommendation - share an album from the last five years that has gradually become a Keeper and you love more now than ever. Here’s one.
Voice Notes, by Yazmin Lacey
14 track album
yazminlacey.bandcamp.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Anti-algorithmic recommendation - share an album from the last five years that has gradually become a Keeper and you love more now than ever. Here’s one.