Notices by Schall und Stille (stephan@sonomu.club)

#sheepofmastodon #photography #noai #myownwork #spektrafilm

Kleines Abkühlungsbildchen zwischendurch. Passt auf euch auf.

#ducksofmastodon #noai

One of the things that really surprised me during #strategiesagainstalgorithms is that many people no longer know what to do with a flash drive full of MP3 (and OGG, and FLAC) files.

7 people out of 85 had trouble transferring the files to their iPhone or Android phone, and I know of two who didn’t take part at all because of this.

I find this very worrying, as it shows that people are increasingly allowing themselves to be rendered technologically powerless, (…)

#activism #noai #music

"[…] Es war nachts um 21 Uhr und das Schlafzimmer wackelte, weil erstens der Sportauspuff mal wieder dröhnte und zweitens der Subwoofer wummerte. Der Wagen, von dem das ausging, stand mitten auf dem Feldweg vor meinem Haus. Während ich also das nächste Magengeschwür heranwachsen fühlte, ging ich nach draussen und fragte den dafür verantwortlichen jungen Mann, warum ich mir mitten in der Nacht seinen Motor anhören müsse…"

https://strategies.schallundstille.de/de/liner-notes/the-motor-song/

#strategiesagainstalgorithms #autokorrektur

One of the best features of the TG77…

#strategiesagainstalgorithms

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Dies war ein Post über #KI

Dear creative people of the fedi 😊🎨🎹❤️

I am thrilled to announce that my 3rd album is now not available online.

Yep, you read that right, you can't download it, you can't stream it, you can't buy it, and AI bros can't harvest it.

It is only available in exchange for something creative that you have created yourself.

More info and how it works:
https://strategies.schallundstille.de

Boosts are hugely appreciated. :boost_requested: 🥰

#strategiesagainstalgorithms
#music #offline #protest #activism #noai

#Artists wanted!

I'm currently writing a little #retro game for the #mega65 computer (mainly to get my mind off a couple of things; but don't worry, I'll be back to producing music in no time ;-))

The game is 95% done… what I now need is original #artwork in the form of one or two 320x200 px pictures, one of which showing the main game and (optionally) the other one being the loading screen.

Please boost and/or read on for details. 😊 :boost_requested:

#retrocomputing #gamedesign #pixelart

I have an intense dislike of #AI generated "art"; I even feel dirty having this throwaway mockup generated… so I'd really appreciate it if someone had the muse to help me out with this project.

"Mitosis" (as the game is called) is a strategy game played on a 7x7 grid. For the main screen, I need the game board embedded in some kind of laboratory scene (test tubes and instruments to the left and right and below the board), like in this ugly mockup here.

Feel free to DM me for details 😊

And on I go moving my stuff to #PeerTube

Today's clip is something special, as it was originally produced for the short-lived Fediverse home of our sanctuary.

Many of the donkeys and mules in our care get to spend the summer at a nearby nature reserve.

This video shows two of them reunited with their friends.

It's underlaid with "Little Glitch", a track from Schall und Stille's debut album "The Drunken Fisherman".

https://rankett.net/w/e5aiifwYMbddDUjRjRYu87

#music #animals #asstodon #animalwelfare

Hmm… I posted a new post on my blog, which federates via the #ActivityPub plugin.

Apparently, the post was federated to pixelfed.soclal. But it doesn't appear here (on sonomu.club)

Can anybody tell me what's going on? Is anyone else having this kind of issues?

Sometimes my posts get federated, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes federation includes the picture, sometimes it doesn’t include anything at all… I’m not sure if the problem is the plugin or my provider, but it sure is not optimal…🙁

@nielso my posts all include pictures, and posts from my blog have been known to appear here (and on pixelfed.social, and elsewhere)

but sometimes they just don't. or they're broken. argh.

Well I did it.

Instead of sleeping, I spent the night writing an open letter to Mikey Shulman, the CEO of #suno.

https://schallundstille.de/2025/01/14/open-letter-to-mikey-shulman/

I am dog-tired, and boosts are greatly appreciated. :boost_requested: ❤️

#music #art #creativity #ccmusic

Ich persönlich würde gerne in einer Welt leben, in der ganz allgemein nicht so wahnsinnig herzzerreißend viele Tiere (und Menschen) unter der Rücksichtslosigkeit und Dummeheit ganz enorm weniger (Menschen) leiden müssen.

Natürlich sind wir davon leider 2024 noch weiter entfernt als in den Jahren zuvor.

Trotzdem braucht es nur eine Silvesternacht am Gnadenhof, um wieder Hoffnung zu schöpfen.

Dann nämlich, wenn man all die Menschen sieht, die in diesen Stunden für die Tiere da sind. ❤️

Auch Silvester '24 müssen wir am Gnadenhof leider wieder einige besonders schreckhafte Pferde über den Jahreswechsel hinweg sedieren.

Das belastet sie zwar auch, ist aber immer noch 1000x besser, als dass sie sich vor der Silvesterböllerei buchstäblich zu Tode erschrecken – was leider auch schon vorgekommen ist. Mehrfach.

Echte Hardcore-Böllerer lässt das natürlich kalt. Aber von den anderen lassen sich vielleicht noch ein paar umstimmen… insofern, gerne :boost_requested:

#tierschutz

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@thisven btw, love the "Influenca" video, it's really well made, at the first look one wouldn't guess that it uses stock material; it's very well thought out.

My problem is, if I do something, then I do it right. If I were to do another video, I'd have to step up my game quite a bit, but in the end I'd only do it to direct people to my music – and that has always been difficult for me. The more effort I put in, the more frustrated I'll be if it's crickets again (as it invariably will be).

@thisven @openshot @Blender

Hey thanks very much for your input!

Believe it or not, I actually used both @openshot *and* #pexels for our last video (which can be seen here):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNyNhwmcaUQ

But I don't want to repeat myself, and the truth is: I'm no video artist or director, I'm first and foremost a musician, and I'd really love to find someone working with video who's interested in collaborating with me.

(and, as was to be excepted, the search is not going all that well…)

Ok, I know it's a long shot, but I got to try anyway 😅

With my new #album around the corner, I'm looking for #video #artists interested in doing a video for one of the new songs.

If you're interested, drop me a DM and I'll gladly share the song(s) and more info.

You can hear some of my previous work here:
https://submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/biike

and here:
https://botanybay.cc

and in the past three halls of fame for the last three #fedivision contests.

#collaboration #music

(boosts are appreciated)

Huhu Fediverse 🌞 Ist hier zufällig jemand, der sich mit Altokzitanisch auskennt und es eventuell sogar sprechen kann?

Boosts sind gerne gesehen ❤️ :boost_requested:

#sprache #sprachwissenschaft

good morning!

here's a spontaneous ambient winter improvisation, using a behringer pro vs mini, rd-6 and waldorf m for good measure

it's cold.