Speaking of stats, here’s some stats from Jetpack for this web site. Lots of countries have checked in, which gives me hope that running this web site isn’t a total waste of time.
Here’s hoping for better results in the next twelve months.
Here’s some links for you to peruse:
https://linktr.ee/jaypeach53 – this site has links mostly to streaming sites, although there are sites like Bandcamp and Mirlo where you can listen to some of my catalog. Maybe even purchase some music.
I’ve been getting more plays in more regions on Apple Music lately. Here’s a sample from Apple Music of my reach. The stats from Apple Music supposedly got an upgrade, something I don’t see.
As you can see, I’m now getting listens in 7 countries, so Apple’s been successful in extending their reach outside the US.
And this is a sample of Apple stats for a single release:
Small progress, but progress just the same. And I guess the stats from Apple have improved slightly.
Well, I had a productive March, with some paintings worked on, some music moved along in the production process, along with some music recorded .
This post will go into more detail about the progress, even though the weather lately hasn’t been conducive to working outdoors. Today we had a wind advisory, meaning 20-30 mph winds, just enough to get the dirt and dust flying if I felt adventurous enough to try painting when it was in the sixties temperature-wise. It’s hard enough painting when the bugs try to kamakaze themselves into the acrylic paint that I usually paint with. Dunno if the oil paints I recently bought will have the same attraction to bugs.
I got a copy of Henry Dreyfuss’ “Symbol Sourcebook” as I’ve been unsuccessful at locating to copy I bought probably 30 years ago. And that being the second copy I’ve purchased. I include those symbols I think are relevant in my paintings. Just another odd way I have of distinguishing my work from others. Though, I don’t think I’m unique in that respect as I think I read that Jean-Michel Basquiat also had a copy of that book.
“Symbol Sourcebook” is a rather primitive compendium of symbols that Dreyfus’s collected in his endeavors. Originally published in the early 1970s, print quality has either degraded through numerous reprints, or the quality wasn’t great to begin with. But this is no concern to me as I just freehand the symbols in the book, to the extent that the symbols in my works only have a fleeting resemblance of the “original” image.
The sourcebook was an offbeat production even back in the ‘70s, collecting a foreword by Bucky Fuller, which is probably how I got introduced to the book.
Well, I had a productive March, with some paintings worked on, some music moved along in the production process, along with some music recorded . And a personal high water mark in visitors, though I don’t know what they looked at because WordPress stats suck so bad.
This is WP ‘s (there goes the fucked up “smart” quotes again) stats page:
It shows 408 pages viewed, from 400 visitors, (which is weird; usually a visitors views 3-5 pages) but only 48 homepage hits. Where are the rest of the page hits? Who knows. And the referer links are significantly lower than expected.
Well, Jetpack on iOS ipad shows different stats than iOS iphone. Here’s the iPhone stats for March:
This time the individual page stats look normal , but the visitor count is different. Way to fuck things up Automattic!
And to just throw a monkey wrench into the mix, here’s Google’s Analytics posted today. It shows significantly lower viewership, more in line with the expected results.
And here’s two snapshots of viewers and page hits which seem more believeable:
All told, Automattic needs to revisit their stats generation process; it seems to be genuinely fucked up.
What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?
I just wish I could paint more often without having the shakes. Between my hockey injuries and the fact that two of my medications can cause tremors, I’m constantly having to compensate for the tremors. Mostly I just avoid any kind of detail work that requires fine motor skills. So my work tends towards that of Basquiat, I wish I could afford the canvases Basquiat used in his work, it might make creating work a little more appealing.
Well, this post is about stats of your engagement. This is one of the panels in Jetpack’s stats page. I know that the readership is kinda lame, but it is what it is.
As you can see, I get readers from all over the globe, and not shown here is a data point that says I have gotten a 13 percent rise in readership over the past year.
Read a post on the fediverse complaining about sound recordings recorded at 44.1kHz. It seems the poster wanted to sample recordings to be used at 48kHz, and they weren’t sure that the recordings would be true. Well, if you weren’t illegally sampling other people’s music you wouldn’t have the problem, eh?
I record frequently to be output at 44.1kHz since sometimes I want to convert the music to samples to be placed on my Octatrack, which AFAIK, only accepts 44.1 samples. I don’t care if it inconviences illegal scraping of my music, which is all copyrighted. So there, turkey.
Well, over the holidays I found time to get my Moog Sub 37 cranked up to do some sample recording. I just started playing with presets, modifying them sometimes, and recording to my Zoom H8 recorder. The samples are destined to be transferred to my Octatrack and/or mr SP-404.
I’d had this as a to-do for months and I finally started to work on this. I’m planning to do this with more of my synths.
Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car).
My most expensive purchase besides cars and houses has to be my Moog Model D, original output. Its was probably built around 1979-80. I got it around 2008, and paid, I think around $4000-4400 for it. Its somewhat defective, as the filter doesn’t work the way it should, but I like the effects it causes, so I’ve never had it fixed. If I want the OG sound, I have two Model D soft synths that replicate the “ correct” sound. But soft synths can’t really replicate the feel of a real piece of hardware.
