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Support Grenzwellen 2019! - Leetchi.com

Grenzwellen originally shared:

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In eigener Sache

Seit dem April 2014 gibt es nun die „neuen“ Grenzwellen.

Nach einer 17jährigen Zwangspause zwischen den „Grenzwellen“ der ersten Phase, zwischen 1987 und 1997 bei radio ffn, hat Radio Hannover an eine Neuauflage der Sendung gedacht, als ich dieses Thema selbst schon zu den Akten gelegt hatte.

Auch als ich deutlich machte, dass eine Neuauflage der Sendung zwar, wie 1987, von der Neugier und Suche nach neuen Klängen geprägt sein wird, diese aber musikalisch und stilistisch nur noch eine kleine Schnittmenge mit der von EBM und Gothic geprägten Sendung der 80er und 90er Jahre beinhaltet, wollte man an dem Namen und dem Neustart festhalten. Mir wurde sehr schnell bewusst, dass die Verantwortlichen verstanden, um was es bei dieser Sendung wirklich geht. Vielleicht zum ersten Mal, dass dies wirklich begriffen wurde.

Dementsprechend ließ und lässt man mir redaktionell und inhaltlich alle Freiheiten, in dem Bewusstsein, dass ich diesen Raum eben nicht als „Narrenfreiheit“ missbrauche, sondern jede Sendung eine bis ins Detail ausgefeilte, sehr zeitintensive Produktion ist, der unzählige Stunden des Hörens und Sondierens vorausgehen. Dazu gehört es auch, Erwartungshaltungen bewusst zu brechen, immer wieder zu überraschen und jegliche Algorithmen zu meiden.

Dass eine solche Sendung mit großem Erfolg ausgerechnet auf einem privaten regionalen Radiosender ausgestrahlt wird, macht die Sache noch bemerkenswerter, denn die hier gespielte Musik findet in der gebührenfinanzierten öffentlich-rechtlichen Radio-Landschaft so gut wie nicht statt, obwohl es eigentlich der Auftrag wäre.

Damit wären wir auch beim Punkt angekommen:

Die „Grenzwellen“ laufen seit 2014 werbefrei und ohne jegliches Sponsoring.

Dabei soll es auch bleiben.

Die wöchentliche dreistündige Sendung im Jahr verursacht natürlich nennenswerte Produktionskosten, die Radio Hannover und ich bisher getragen haben.

Bei Gründung des Senders hatten wir uns zunächst auf eine Sendelaufzeit der Grenzwellen für drei Jahre verständigt. Diese Laufzeit wurde um 3 Jahre verlängert – und der Erhalt in diesem Jahr war nicht zuletzt durch Eure Spenden im vergangenen Jahr möglich.

Dafür an dieser Stelle noch einmal herzlichen Dank!

Auch 2019 wird mir Radio Hannover den Sendeplatz wieder kostenlos zur Verfügung stellen und auch wieder einen Produktionskostenzuschuss leisten, dadurch würde weiterhin die Möglichkeit bestehen, die Grenzwellen zu senden.

Allerdings benötige ich eine weitere finanzielle Unterstützung, damit meine Arbeit von der bisher gewohnten Qualität und noch darüber hinaus gewährleistet ist.

Wie im letzten Jahr möchten wir dies über ein Crowddonating-Projekt realisieren. Das bedeutet, dass jeder, dem die „Grenzwellen“ und ihr Erhalt bei Radio Hannover am Herzen liegen, herzlich dazu eingeladen ist, dieses Projekt jährlich mit einem Beitrag seiner Wahl zu unterstützen.

Bitte geht in Euch und überlegt, was Euch diese Sendung bislang gegeben hat – und entscheidet dann.

Start der Aktion ist ab jetzt bis Ende 2018.

Wir freuen uns über jede Unterstützung, alle Einnahmen fließen in vollem Umfang in die Produktion der Grenzwellen.

Ecki Stieg

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In our own cause

Since April 2014, the "new" Grenzwellen are on air and available via stream.

After a 17-year break between the Grenzwellen of the first phase, between 1987 and 1997 at radio ffn, Radio Hannover thought of a new edition of the programme, when I had already put this topic aside myself.

Even when I made it clear that a new edition of the show, as in 1987, will be marked by curiosity and the search for new sounds, but will contain only a small musical and stylistic intersection with the EBM- and Gothic-influenced show of the 80s and 90s, they wanted to stick to the name and the new start. I quickly realized that the people in charge understood what this show was all about. Perhaps for the first time ever, this has really been understood.

Accordingly, I was left with all the editorial and content freedom, knowing that I do not misuse this space as a "fool's freedom", but rather that each show is a time-consuming production that takes countless hours of listening and exploring.

This also includes deliberately breaking expectations, constantly surprising them and avoiding any algorithms.

The fact that such a show is broadcasted with great success on a private regional radio station makes it even more remarkable, because the music played here is hardly ever played in the public radio landscape, which is financed by fees, although it would actually be their task.

This brings us to the point:

Grenzwellen have been running for over four years without advertising and without any sponsorship.

Let's keep it that way.

This weekly three-hour broadcast production naturally causes considerable production costs, which Radio Hannover and I have shared so far.

When the station was founded, we initially agreed on a three-year broadcasting period for the Grenzwellen. This term was extended by 3 years - and the receipt in this year was possible not least by your donations in the past year.

For this I would like to take this opportunity to thank you once again!

Also in 2019 Radio Hannover will make the show available again free of charge on Wednesday between 9 p. m. and midnight from 2019 for another 2 years and to provide a production cost subsidy again, which would allow me to continue to send the Grenzwellen.

However, I do need further financial support to ensure that my work is of the quality you have been accustomed to and even beyond the usual quality.

As last year, we have therefore decided to implement this through a crowddonating project.

This means that anyone who cares about the Grenzwellen and their preservation at Radio Hannover is cordially invited to support this project with a contribution of their choice every year.

Please think about what this show has given you so far - and then decide.

Start of the campaign is now until the end of 2018.

We are happy about every support, all income is fully channeled into the production of Grenzwellen.

Ecki Stieg

https://www.leetchi.com/c/support-grenzwellen-2019

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The Beast Project | Beast - Music Synthesizer and Composer

Beast 0.12.0

After quite a bit of polishing and last minute regression fixing, Beast 0.12 is finally out.

Beast is a Free Software #music #synthesizer, composer and Digital Audio Workstation - #DAW.

It has a #MIDI #sequencer, support for Linux #Audio Plugins - #LADSPA, Soundfont 2 and various other audio formats.

The source code is available via Git or tarball and pre-built binary packages are provided for #Linux.

→→→ https://beast.testbit.org/#downloads ←←←

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Beast 0.12.0-beta.1

Long time no see.

It's been a while since the last #Beast release, mainly because we have a lot of code migrations going on, some of which caused severe regressions. Here are the tarball and Debian package:

https://beast.testbit.org/pub/testing/beast-0.12.0-beta.1.tar.xz

https://beast.testbit.org/pub/deb/beast_0.12.0~beta.1+20.gac2f0b3_amd64.deb

At this point, we hope the code is reasonably stabelized so we can produce a final 0.12.0. The beta.1 release is here for people to poke into an prove us wrong. So please give the tarball or pre-built Debian package a shot and file any regressions in the issue tracker: https://github.com/tim-janik/beast/issues/

This release removes the #Rapicorn dependency as well as the runtime dependency on CPython. To achieve that, a number of utilities from Rapicorn had to be integrated, which has made the code base a fair bit larger:

639 files changed, 75204 insertions(+), 44290 deletions(-)

Most notably, this is the first release that installs the new ebeast UI. Tracks, piano rolls and dB meters are already displayed, but not much beyond that as it's still in pre-alpha stage. However it's a good showcase for our future UI direction, you can start it and take a quick look with:

/opt/beast-0-12/bin/ebeast # replace '/opt' with your build prefix

Beast 0.12.0-beta.1

* EBEAST: development of a new user interface based on Electronjs has

started and the first (pre-alpha) bits are shipped and installed

with this release under $prefix/beast-0-12/bin/ebeast.

* EBEAST: added About, Tracks with dB meters, Parts with thumbnails.

* EBEAST: added Play controls, Piano roll, color picker palette.

* Upgrade to Electron-1.8, Vue-2.5, Chrome-59.0, V8-5.9, Node-8.2.

* Added internal integrity tests.

* Added various documentation improvements.

* Fixed memory corruption crash, #25. [stw]

* Fixed FluidSynth test on Bionic, #42. [stw]

* Fixed crash when adding mixer bus during playback. [stw]

* Merged and enhanced the new Beast IDL layer AIDA.

* Introduced asynchronous Events to replace signals.

* Removed all C procedures, migrated method calls to Aida IDL.

* Removed large chunks of old and outdated code.

* Integrated required utilities from Rapicorn.

* Removed Rapicorn as build and runtime dependency.

* Removed Python runtime dependency.

* Work around apport reporting assertion tests.

* Handle UTF-8 mixed with Latin-1 gracefully.

* Renamed Demos/, Effects/, etc resource directories.

* Added shared memory allocator with external bookkeeping (without

boundary tags). Communicate dB meter levels and other values via

shared memory between DSP engine and UI code.

* Continued migration of C structs to C++ classes.

* Adjusted remote reference GC for Beast work loads.

* Added ANSI colors to logging output for non-dumb terminals.

* Reduced libbse.so size down to 14% by splitting debug syms.

* Clarified licensing, Beast is released under LGPL-2.1+.

* Adapted code to depend on and make use of C++14.

* Fixed code to compile cleanly with g++-7.2.

https://testbit.eu/2018/beast-0-12-0-beta-1

#DAW #Linux #Audio

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Tim Janik ❌ (@timj@mstdn.io)

I've been mostly active on #Mastodon lately, but switched accounts after a while.

I appreciate everyone wanting to connect to my new account:

https://social.tchncs.de/@timj

#NoTwitter

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Beast - Music Synthesizer and Composer

The new and much simpler beast website just went live:

https://beast.testbit.org/

#linux #audio #synthesis #daw

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Beast 0.11.0 and onwards… | | Testbit

Beast 0.11.0 and onwards…

We have just released Beast version 0.11.0.

The announcement gives a high level overview of the changes (Soundfont support, multi threaded signal processing, new packaging, etc) and links to all the details like NEWS, tarballs, the binary package and shortlogs.

In this post, I’d like to extend a bit on where we’re going next. Beast has come a long way from its first lines of code drafted in 1996 and has seen long periods of inactivity due to numerous personal reasons on my part and also Stefan’s. I can’t begin to describe how much the Beast project owes to Stefan’s involvement, development really thrives whenever he manages to put some weight behind the project. He’s initiated major shifts in the project, contributed lots of demos, instruments and of course code.

Lately we were able to devote some time to Beast again, and with that reformulated its future directions. One important change was packaging, which already made it into the 0.11.0 release. This allows us to provide an easily installable binary package that extracts into /opt/. It’s available as a DEB for now, and we hope other package formats will follow.

Another major area of change that I’m working on behind the scenes is the UI technology. The current UI has huge deficits and lacks in workflow optimizations compared to other DAWs. Stefan has several big improvements planned for the workflow as do I, but in the past Gtk+ has not been helping with making those changes easy. Rapicorn was one attempt at fixing that, and while in theory it can provide a lot more flexibility in shaping the UI, based on concise declarations and use of SVG elements, it is still far away from reaching the degree of flexibility needed for our plans.

So far indeed, that I’ve had to seriously reconsider the approach and look for alternatives. Incidentally, the vast majority of feature needs and ideas I’ve had for the toolkit area appear to already be readily accessible through web technologies that have impressively advanced in the last few years.

Though we’re not planning to move Beast into an online application, we can still leverage these technologies through the #electron project, which is an open source project providing HTML & CSS rendering plus Javascript on the desktop using libchromiumcontent from Google Chrome.

In my eyes it makes little sense to replicate much of the W3C specified features in desktop toolkits like Gtk+, Qt, Rapicorn which are much lesser staffed than the major browser projects, especially if we have a way to utilize recent browser improvements on the desktop.

So in effect I’ve changed plans for Beast’s future UI technology and started to construct a new interface based on web technologies running in electron. It’s interesting to change desktop UI development like this to say the least, and I’m curious about how long it takes to get up to par with current Gtk+ #Beast functionality. I have some ideas how to address real time display of volume and frequency meters, but I’m still unsure how to best tackle large track view / clip view displays with wide scrolling and zooming ranges, given the choice between DOM elements and an HTML5 canvas.

Apart from the UI, we have several sound Library improvements pending integration. Stefan wants to finally complete Jack driver support, and as always there are some interesting plugin implementations in the queue that are awaiting completion.

If you want to help with any of the development steps outlined or just track Beast’s evolution, you can join our mailing list. Although the occasional face to face meeting helps us with setting development directions, we’re doing our best with keeping everything documented and open for discussions on the list.

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timj on mstdn.io

Got myself a #Mastodon account as well.

I appreciate everyone wanting to connect over there:

https://mstdn.io/@timj

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Whee, first snow this winter!

#ersterschnee #snow

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Beast 0.10.0 and Rapicorn 16.0.0

Beast 0.10.0 and Rapicorn 16.0.0

Beast is an audio composer and modular synthesis application, Rapicorn is a toolkit for declarative UIs and SVG-based theming.

Besides lots fixes and improvements, this release brings a long awaited developer feature: Python bindings for BSE (the synthesis engine of Beast). 

See the full announcement for a detailed account.

#Linux   #Audio   #Beast

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netzpolitik.org sucht: Assistenz der Geschäftsführung / Büroleitung

Wir suchen Zuwachs für unser Team!

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Glowing Harddisk at #32c3 ...

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Water Bottle Recycling

#32c3  style...

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See you at #32c3 !

Bags packed, ticket printed, starting the last backup...

And off to Hamburg it goes! #ccc

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Static:Main_Page

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Forschern gelingt Datenklau bei Offline-Computer

Creative Hacking: Bridging air-gapped computers by using memory lanes as GSM antennas

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Wow, really impressive hack, here's the Heise coverage (German): http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Forschern-gelingt-Datenklau-bei-Offline-Computer-2764699.html

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DevLog: #Rapicorn’s IDL moving into Beast

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Topics covered this time:

- Git Branches (in Rapicorn and Beast)

- Hello and goodbye clang++

- New Widgets

- IDL Improvements

- BEAST Developments

- What’s next?

https://testbit.eu/rapicorn-idl-moving-into-beast/   #BEAST #Rapicorn #DevLog  

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DevLog: A day of templates

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Yesterday I spent some 14+ hours on getting a templated undo method wrapper going. Just to throw it all away this morning. Here's what I was trying to achieve...

https://testbit.eu/a-day-of-templates/ #C++11 #template #lambda

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Atomkraft? NEIN DANKE · http://www.no-point.de/ #AntiAtom 

#Atomausstieg, Kam heute mit der Post... ;-)

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