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  • Hardware

    22Jul26 | 08.41 CDT
    © 2026

    michael raven

    c: 260722.0841

    I recently decided to take the plunge and get a hardware synth to stop my dallying and futzing around with software emulation of synths.

    For several years now, I’ve intended to lean less on pre-loaded patches and work on an understanding towards how a patch is created from the basic soundwave (sine, saw, square, pulse, etc.) and massaged into the sounds you hear in music — whether it is someone like Depeche Mode or cinema’s Vangelis.

    I have played with the software synths on my digital audio workbench (DAW), and purchased a few other software variants in an attempt to find something that “clicks” with this wee walnut I store where most folks store a brain.

    Not a one clicked.

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    tagged:

    hardware synths, hydrasynth, music, patch creation, self-education, self-improvement, sound design

    filed under:

    sound
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  • dollhouse

    21Jul26 | 11.10 CDT
    © 2026

    michael raven

    c: 260721.1110

    Picture this, I said by way of gestures, and less of word:

    dreamscapes & lemondrops
    discomfitures & dollhouse memory
    (i dress pretty one day)
    over tea, biscuits, the telly
    and her rye
    (always, there is rye)

    keepsake those now,
    those nicotine bones,
    those tar stained ivories
    all in tow with the
    mustperfumed gingham of a
    silent generation
    slipping to broken stone

    tagged:

    exploration, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • night train

    20Jul26 | 21.35 CDT
    © 2026

    michael raven

    c: 260720.2135
    scratches stand testament
    to an erosion of caring

    transients in many lives
    only too happy to cast scars
    before they hop aboard
    the next night train
    heading out towards the stars

    tagged:

    melancholia, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • Half-penny thoughts — 20jul26

    20Jul26 | 14.30 CDT
    © 2026

    michael raven

    c: 260720.1430

    Giving name to a musical project should be easy, right?

    No. It never is.

    It’s worse than naming a character in your story. Or a fictional place.

    Everyone should be named Bruce and Sheila, and everyone should live on Main Street in Greenville. Sometimes I even write stories with placeholders like that.

    See how simple that was?

    But if I want to start a musical project… Eeesh. All the good ideas are taken.

    I swear this is the absolute truth.

    I bet there’s even a band named “Bruce and Sheila” (google tells me there are gospel groups performing under that name — several of them, in fact — so there goes that idear).

    If you were starting a band that did coldwave/darkwave music, what would you call it? Be silly. Be creative. Be deadpan serious. I honestly want to see your ideas below. It could be educational. I’ll even give you kickbacks after my first half-million if I use it.

    I’m sure Greenville is probably taken and isn’t all that coldwave, so don’t suggest it, please.

    tagged:

    band names, half-penny thoughts, projects

    filed under:

    thinking
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  • Hei, Skogkatter — 19jul26

    19Jul26 | 08.56 CDT
    © 2026

    michael raven

    c: 260719.0856

    It is very hard to believe that it will only be a few more days until this house is filled with new floof and chaos. I occasionally wonder at the wisdom. Or lack thereof.

    Anyway, money has changed hands and, ready or not, not one but two fairly large kittens with the DNA to grow into even larger cats will be joining the tribe. We just need to do a little drive and back on Friday and suddenly two Norsk skogkatter, Norwegian Forest Cats, will run rampant in the home.

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    tagged:

    adventure cats, grendel, grímnir, hei skogkatter, kittens, norsk skogkatt, Norwegian Forest Cat, skogkatt

    filed under:

    Grendel and Grímnir
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  • spirit alone

    18Jul26 | 21.37 CDT
    © 2026

    michael raven

    c: 260718.2137
    echo drops the cave
    shall we deeper delve?
    here, roots still tangle
    writhing their way down
    giving away from doors
    to raw in stone
    to blind all light
    give to silence of bone,
    listen to ticks and
    echo drop, and to
    spirit alone

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • surrendered

    17Jul26 | 20.26 CDT
    © 2026

    michael raven

    c: 260717.2026
    gifting a
    fistful of moonlight
    a'glitter of firefly
    taken to void save
    crimson nightsky
    surrendered
    wrists turned out &
    speckled with lovebite
    lake caught pictures
    swept on the
    bye by the bye

    tagged:

    betwixt and between, poetry

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • sketch

    17Jul26 | 08.54 CDT
    © 2026

    michael raven

    c: 260717.0854
    falling in love
    with somebody
    else again under a
    redlight tonight
    he softshoes puddles
    dodging reflected
    neon lights to a
    wetless whistle
    —whisper, whisper, whisper—
    his wornout soles
    cold socks, damp feet

    tagged:

    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • trailing

    16Jul26 | 13.39 CDT
    © 2026

    michael raven

    c: 260716.1339
    barefoot walking
    broken pictures
    on kitchen floors
    numb for the tide
    ebbing to moons
    drawn away
    scarlet ribbons
    remain, giving
    legend to maps
    trailing to yesterdays

    tagged:

    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry
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  • inkstained

    15Jul26 | 14.43 CDT
    © 2026

    michael raven

    c: 260715.1443
    fingers all inkstained
    from my loveletters
    you never knew or
    you never returned

    weary of shadows avoided
    i practice in scarlet
    under rawhead stairs
    claws catching
    dustfiltered light
    hinting at dusk
    in violet hues

    tagged:

    poetry

    filed under:

    poetry
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