#Erstwhile

[zerefdark]

Character Reference of my Character Static Static Height : 6ft Uses and mimics others voices even using multiple while speaking. One of the Voice canons being Jack Stauber. This is a redesign of him I thought it best to do so because I was not happy with his old one.

[celestdraws]

This was my contribution to the interact witht he art above you game! Erstwhile, though, is a questionable therapist….

[eliteprepsat]

[siryl]

A common type of freighter from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The same model was used for the Sanction in "Symbiosis," the Erstwhile in "The Outrageous Okona," and the Arcos in "Legacy" (and in different configurations it portrayed additional ships in further episodes). The physical model was created by Greg Jein and Bruce MacRae, and a computer-generated model was created by Douglas E. Graves to replace missing footage when the latter two episodes were remastered. That digital model probably formed the basis for these images credited to Fabio Passaro from Eaglemoss' Official Starships Collection.

[dustedmagazine]

Ernst Karel & Bhob Rainey — 47 Gates (Erstwhile)

First-time duos make up a significant chunk of the Erstwhile Records catalog. Typically, the label invites two artists who haven’t previously worked together to come up with an album, and sometimes music results. While this encounter qualifies, one wonders if Bhob Rainey and Ernst Karel relinquished the word “first” over the course of a partnership that was initiated in 2015 and finally yielded 47 Gates in 2024. Whatever fresh ideas were sparked when Erstwhile initially commissioned the duo to make a record have likely undergone recurrent interrogation in order to make the final cut and be included in this immaculately interwoven construction made from environmental, instrumental and processed sounds.

And while music is a big and often beautiful thing, 47 Gates defies the term’s boundaries. On their respective websites both Rainey and Karel assert at the top of their respective bios that they work in sound. Rainey is identified as an improvising soprano saxophonist, an instrument and practice that he has exercised with the duo Nmperign and the larger ensemble BSC. But he’s also developed sonic accompaniment for dance and theatre, as well as sound-manipulating software. Likewise, Karel has wielded a trumpet, and if you’re acquainted with albums made in Chicago during the 1990s on which rock, improvisation, and experimental practices jostled for space, you’ve probably heard him. But nowadays he performs occasionally with electronics, and mostly collects and manipulates environmental sounds that tend to end up in films.

If either man blew a horn on 47 Gates, they aren’t admitting to it; both are credited with electronics and recordings, and Rainey is also credited with piano. Two of its four tracks also feature contributions by a clarinetist and a string quartet. Each has moments where the combination of made and found sounds will confound efforts to determine where one ends and the other begins. But the album also moments when the divisions are not only clear, but essential to its periodic musicality because they establish periodic  divisions that could be characterized as rhythmic. Wind gusts and low electronic tones begin “Weather Imprint,” alternating  so that one feels like one is being buffeted by a stuttered cadence of meteorological events.  But the piece doesn’t stop there; first voices that sound like they’ve been lifted from shortwave radio broadcasts utter phonemes, and then objects are heard being moved.

Every included element is material, something one can use to make something else. Karel and Rainey don’t prioritize their choices of material by type, but by utility at any given moment; droning strings or a blast of antique Indonesian pop that sounds like it’s blowing up an AM radio speaker can be just as handy as the sound of a fly flitting back and forth between speakers.

Bill Meyer

[elleskinner-justart]

Congrats to Erstwhile for getting 700 followers over on webtoons! We three super missed having these stories online for folks to read and it's lovely to see so many folks reading along with us :)

Are you following along with us too? My first story, Bird Mouse and Sausage, just started today! Three animal friends live happily in the woods until they switch up their chores and meet disaster.

[moonlitglen]

Of course I lied to you all these years, he told Neverfell in his head. For the same reason I had to tell you the truth just now. You're the only real friend I've ever had, you stupid little hen.

- Frances Hardinge, A Face Like Glass

[itsnouseorsomething]

we should say shit like "betwixt" more often.

like when did we stop saying "poppycock!!" and "crapulous!" i need you bitches saying "donald trump is a snollygoster" more often

[ginabiggs]

What happened to your Erstwhile Tales website? I can't access it!

The Erstwhile site had an issue where it would continually break and I'd have to rebuild it each time. It was a right mess.

The good news is Erstwhile has a new home on WEBTOON. Updates begin January 24th, 2024!

[zef-zef]

Moniek Darge & Vanessa Rossetto - Lincoln 2 from: Moniek Darge & Vanessa Rossetto - Dream Soundies (Erstwhile, 2023)

[bl-bam-beyond]

A LOOK BACK at NUEA & TOH

SECRET CRUSH ON YOU (2022, THAILAND)

IDOL FACTORY

Featuring Erstwhile Ship of BILLYSENG

Adapted from The Novel Series: STALKER

Toh (WICHAI SAEFANT aka SENG) is a nerdy COMM ARTS MAJOR with a secret crush on popular senior Nuea (PATCHANON OUNSA-ARD aka BILLY)

With no confidence his feelings will be reciprocated Toh hides behind corners, pillars and cars to watch his crush.

He collects small and often weird tokens of Nuea's no matter how small, insignificant or strange.

He has a wall of photos of Nuea and bed spread featuring the popular sports university star.

But when he realizes Nuea likes him back, Toh still with little confidence expects his good fortune to be limited.

But Nuea is all in on his nerdy photographer.

SCOY also featured side couple SKYJAO and not enough of DAISYINTOUCH

@pose4photoml @lutawolf

[celestdraws]

This is Erstwhile in his shop! It fits right into the code we have. Each item is one actually in the shop: the blank mask, the mirror, rhe snakeskin, the bottle of sea water, needle and thread, the sealed letter, the ordinary stones, the locket, and a rose bud.

[infoanalysishub]

Erst Meaning, Definition, Synonyms, Usage, History & More

Discover the complete dictionary guide to “erst”—learn its pronunciation, definitions, synonyms, antonyms, history, grammar, examples, and literary usage. Perfect for writers, poets, and language learners. Erst Pronunciation: /ɜːrst/ (British English), /ɜrst/ (American English)Part of Speech: AdverbSyllables: 1 (erst)Rhymes with: cursed, burst, first, nursed, versed I. Definitions Formerly;…

[a2zsportsnews]

Sunday Notes: A Yooper, Derrick Edington Was Tutored By an Erstwhile Closer

Derrick Edington is hoping to join select company. MLB history includes fewer than a dozen players born in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the most accomplished being Mike Bordick (Marquette) and George Brunet (Houghton). Also notable are Kevin Tapani, who was born in Iowa but grew up in the U.P. (Escanaba), and John Michaelson, whose family moved to a small town in the Copper Country when he was…

[eliteprepsat]

[dustedmagazine]

Moniek Darge / Vanessa Rossetto — Dream Soundies (Erstwhile)

Belgian Moniek Darge and American Vanessa Rossetto, are sound artists who work primarily with collected sounds. Each sources their material from a practice of recording everyday environments, but since their respective days are as different as their emotional orientations, their respective works are different. Darge has traveled the world, often seeking out what she finds to be sacred. Rossetto has spent her life in a small number of American cities, and her personal struggles tend to get folded into her work; she once made an album that dealt primarily with the sounds of a hotel room that she had trouble navigating and the limited distance that she could move when she escaped it.

Their differences prove to be complementary on Dream Soundies (Darge applies the word “soundies” to her audio productions, using the diminutive term to escape the limits of music). Together, these two women who are accustomed to working with anything at hand turn a selection of regular sounds into a soundtrack that is simultaneously ineffable and ordinary. It’s definitely a soundtrack, since sounds often deploy in a cinematic fashion. Loops create continuity, and the arrival of each new element — a chirping bird, a slammed door, a banging disco party, a distant hum that might be a car engine — advances the action as purposefully as the introduction of a new character or visual perspective moves a film along. But these action sequences do not add up to a narrative. Why should they? Sounds were around for a long time before stories, and their vibrations will surely persist much longer than story-bound humans are likely to last.

One might as easily turn to painting to metaphorically describe Dream Soundies. Each moment is layered with sounds, like a thick crust of oils applied to canvas over a span of time. Sirens wail and critters cluck, church bells toll and lesser metals clatter, flutes call and respond and harmonize in compatible disregard with music boxes and ducks. And just as a painter stops at just enough paint (or at least refuses to show you the works where they didn’t stop at the right time), even the densest moments of Dream Soundies are never overloaded. That’s what separates this work from, saying, opening the windows and turning on the TV and radio at the same time; it is arranged, and even if you can’t grasp the rules governing its arrangement, it resonates because of them.

Bill Meyer