My new album is out! Pale Blue Dot.
Uncompressed, 24 bit, downloads available through Bandcamp.
trakzero.bandcamp.com/album/pale-b...
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New music video for my new album, Melodia.
1996
youtu.be/uBs8f0JdyBo
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My new album, Melodia, is released! CD's shipping in mid-November. 🎵 💿
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trakzero.bandcamp.com/album/melodia
My new maxi single, Free Run, is released. You can listen and buy uncompressed audio tracks on Bandcamp. The CD will be available in early October.
trakzero.bandcamp.com/album/free-run
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Picture of analog synthesizers and Eurorack equipment in my music studio.
My maxi single, Free Run, will be released on 10/10/25. My new album, Melodia, will be released on 10/25/25. 😎
#independentmusic #music #independentartist #electonicmusic
New tunes coming soon, I can see them!
The DBX Corporation made gear, specifically, for making audio on tape, sound better. This little box helped your "stolen" music sound as good as possible! I sill have one. 😍
www.vintagedigital.com.au/dbx-118/
20 years ago, I published my first music album. I was working 8 to 5-ish (for a laughable salary) as IT tech support and driving hours to a remote home studio to get it recorded by Mike Dollar. I was dealing with debilitating migraine headaches, multiple times a week. I didn't know it, then, but POTS and ME/CFS were creeping up and making life harder by the week. I was also driving from Grand Rapids to Lansing, MI every other Friday, right after work, to pick up my son for the weekend. Then driving him back on Sunday. His mom would only meet me half way every other weekend. My job required a lot of driving as well and if a job wen long on a Friday, I might not see my son for a month. All that driving and took a number on my, already, struggling body and mind. Perhaps I pushed too hard, perhaps. I finished this album and sent it off for publishing and shortly after, gained full custody of my 10 year old son. Probably the best year of my life.
Detached CD, on display.
The, sacrificial, juniper bonsai that was used for the, Detached, album. Post editing.
Alternate album and inside cover for the, Detached, album.
20 years ago, I published my first music album. Detached. 🎹 🎼 🧑🎨 🎊 💿 🖖
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small illustration of a girl holding a pencil with the text "support human artists"
Artistic photo of rural/residential side lot with dormant tree and sunset. Slow shutter speed with a downward pull.
View from my studio window. Spring is here!
Glass block, slow shutter. 📷
Trakzero's, Inclusions, album. Laying in a Power Macintosh 7500, CD tray.
Playing my recent album on an old Mac computer, like the one I first used for music. 🎹🎵
#powermacintosh #cd #music #mac #retro
I have a lot of artsy-super-techie stuff I can post right now, but I feel a new, peace, lily flower blooming while my cactus, also, blooms is a nice break in the snowy cold.
#peacelily #peace
My neighbor was doing this. Got cancer and died within a year.
Hope they apply this to preventing food waste and the need to destroy perfectly good food to suit a narrow sector of the economy.
Getting people to stop living and swimming in their own filth had the biggest impact. Public sanitation efforts were put into effect at the same time and polio cases dropped at the same time.
There's a great clip of him talking about using a synthesizer (Mellotron) for the first time. He wasn't sure the musician's union would allow it because it was replacing jobs. Didn't stop him from using it, knowing it was replacing jobs.
My wife mentioned this to me the other day. Because of my disabilities, one involving circulatory issues, weather is important to stay on top of. Same goes for tracking air pollution, it triggers my erosive arthritis. But WiFi and EMF sensitivity keeps me from using the iPhone much at all.
Same here. With Apple's series of lousy keyboards adding to that... My erosive arthritic hands have had a real hard time since about 2016-on. Can't even use an iPhone much at all anymore. UX is a joke.
Apple's spell check is worse than a drunk 5th grader at spelling. Why would anyone trust their AI? Especially given Apple's routine design and engineering failures. And given those, routine, failures... How could anyone trust their security or privacy?
Would be interesting to see a study done with languages, other than human. Such as programming language. Same outcome? Also wonder if larger brains happen from bilingualism, or do folks with smaller brains simply give up on bilingualism or never get exposed to the possibility?
I've been battling POTS for most my life. Erosive arthritis started in my hands with Covid-19 and ME/CFS was triggered by a Covid-19 booster. I've lost over 120 pounds and have just barely managed to keep weight on.
Last year I won an award, appropriately titled.
#mecfs #pots #arthritis #music
I've done much better with ME/CFS and POTS by limiting and varying activity. Physical activity is needed, in small amounts, but I have found it needs to vary, repetitive tasks are difficult and stressful. Modern medicine knows so little about ME/CFS, it should, typically, keep quiet.
Few know what acoustic management is, or have ever heard of it. Just installing some basic sound absorbing tiles would be a nice, "I don't really hate you", message to customers.
Such an easy issue to fix, if the proprietor cares.
To be fair, we all have to put up with the really bad software coming out of Cali.
CD, front cover art for Trakzero's music single, Hold On.
CD, back cover art for Trakzero's music single, Hold On.
Trakzero's publicity "One sheet" and, Hold On, single CD in a plain clear, slim jewel case.
Trakzero's, Hold On, CD in full size jewel case with spline facing forward to show text.
Making CDs of the new single, Hold On, to distribute to local radio stations. Started getting airplay before the new year. 🤩
Thin cases are hard to read in a wall of CDs, went with a better case.
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Thanksgiving cactus in bloom, wide shot. Plant pot is embossed with the words, "I love you".
Thanksgiving cactus flower in full bloom, close up.
My Thanksgiving cactus is providing some wonderful color through the winter months. Kinda looks like the blooms are flying towards the light! 😎
#trakzero #plants #flowers #cactus #thanksgivingcactus #winter
My latest single, released on winter solstice 2024.
If you like 80s music, synthesizers and electric guitar—it's all here! 😎
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uY8...
#trakzero #music #electronicmusic #rockmusic #1980s #1980smusic #electricguitar #synthesizer #independentmusic #grandrapidsmichigan
