Kapok Itch
@kapokitch.bsky.social
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#Experimentalist Making noise, musical or otherwise and using anything as a musical instrument... at One Blind Mouse HQ I'm not pretending to be anything..!! Projects: kapokitch.beandcamp.com frind.bandcamp.com oneblindmouse.bandcamp.com
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The #IndependentMusic community:
The same people, doing the same thing, for the same people, doing the same thing, for the same people.
kapokitch.bsky.social
Sell me your latest album as something I should listen to... whilst I still have a copy of Drunken Forest by Death Ambient on CD

You're original... right..?

Tip: If you don't describe your music to me, I won't even click the link... I probably don't know who the fuck you are....
kapokitch.bsky.social
In the most recent of my audio renderings that I refer to as 'music', I have been using quantum theory...

...or have I..?!
#ExperimentalMusic
kapokitch.bsky.social
Supermarket self-service check-outs...
...built by people who can see well for people who can see well..!!
kapokitch.bsky.social
I've been revisiting some of my older stuff and... for the record...
Low Yield Mushroom is not about any kind of fungus..!
kapokitch.bsky.social
I'm a very different 'musician' now than I was a few years ago...
...less enthusiastic for guttural anger noises and more just beaten down by the proliferation of humdrum, two dimensional, so called 'protest' music spamming the fuck out of my feed.

Thank you?
kapokitch.bsky.social
Now that would be telling :p
kapokitch.bsky.social
Yeah, I know what you mean.
I don't have much social media these days and none at all on my phone so if I don't have access to a laptop, I don't see much...
Doesn't stop me posting shit though 😬
kapokitch.bsky.social
I left there because it was shit. I think the man-child may have bought it by then but am not sure.

This place isn't much better, perhaps a little less toxic but I did unfollow someone the other day for using the attack in Manchester to promote their song.
kapokitch.bsky.social
I don't believe people when they say they left Twitter on moral grounds... why..?

A lot of them are still on there and many are actually still active..! And really... engagement on here is utter shite..!!

Yes, I still have a sock puppet on there
kapokitch.bsky.social
I no longer get asked for favours because I'm redundant... in the light of alternatives.

I get it, that's how the internet works... you buy the smell of roses, piss on people, spray it and just come up again.

Seriously though, listening to their recent output..? They still fucking need somebody.
kapokitch.bsky.social
For a while now, I have been struggling to clean a 'dirty' vocal audio... until...
I decided to start removing the bits I didn't want over trying to extract the voice.

The simple solutions are often the best and yet, the most elusive to a human brain.
kapokitch.bsky.social
Yes, this is me, plugging me... I do this occasionally.

The 'Circles of Hell' album (2023) feels ancient now... this is the opening track... ad-lib upright bass, ad-lib synth and noise, some piano and a lot of recording noise with no gate.
#ExperimentalMusic
oneblindmouse.bandcamp.com/track/limbo
Limbo, by One Blind Mouse
from the album the Circles of Hell
oneblindmouse.bandcamp.com
kapokitch.bsky.social
I can still recall a time when people, resistant to the notion that they were just creating content, creating content moaned bitterly about people creating content...
...and now look..!
kapokitch.bsky.social
Sorry but... I fail to see how anyone aggregating the praise of their 'friends' is pro #IndependentMusic...

...they're pro what they can do for themselves..!

#WakeUp
kapokitch.bsky.social
We have a tendency to digitally overproduce everything but nobody cares.
The best example I know is Metallica, when used in the video game Guitar Hero, sounded better, fuller and simply more competent... as opposed to their maxed out, barely listenable vinyl masters... and barely vinyl-able ear-blob
kapokitch.bsky.social
A lot of music sounds better when used in 'quieter' formats because it lacks the over-compression associated with higher loudness levels.
kapokitch.bsky.social
The only difference in #UKLabour's welfare reform bill and #Reform's will be that Reform's will go unopposed by the backbenchers.

Dig in people... Labour will usher in a new government and one we have never experience before.
#SuckItUp
kapokitch.bsky.social
Too many people confusing the word 'fact' with the word 'supposition' and too many confusing 'news outlet' with 'TikTok'..!!
#humans
kapokitch.bsky.social
Honestly..? Some of the emails I seem to remain subscribed to are plain and simple, hilarious..!
kapokitch.bsky.social
That reminds me...
...don't bother with merch.
kapokitch.bsky.social
My value as a musician has always lain in the capacity for je to disagree with you...

...now just try and grow the fuck up..!!
#YourMum
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Took wnyv-udtf
Cheers.
kapokitch.bsky.social
I don't have to look too hard to find something very similar to what we, here, choose to describe as either 'original' or even 'groundbreaking'...

Let's just satisfy ourselves with something like 'different to what I usually do'

#IndependentMusic