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Nostalgia

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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It astounds me that here in the year of our tech overlords 2024, it is now so much harder than it was in 2000 to sync up a music track with a GPU shader that would generate some cool visuals for you. Computers just used to come with that, like it was what they were for!

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is Winamp not working for you?

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It really kicks the llamas ass!

Sorry blacked out for a second

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Whips.

It really whips the llamas ass.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

oops! It's been a couple years lol! Even though i can still hear his voice perfectly in my head. Even the echo...

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Always thought it to be "kicks" as well.

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Hah, I suppose it would, and yes there's MilkyDrop and Processing (which I should really play with sometime) but most of the music I listen to now is streaming. And yeah, that's like 100 other problems before "lame/nonexistent visualzers" with streaming, but ripping my cd collection and setting up my own music streaming servers and all that is a lot of work and time that I also don't have.

Like some other poster said, to paraphrase, maybe I just miss how music sounded and felt when I was 14?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

The milkdrop visualizer format is still around and kicking, but yeah, visualizers aren't built into nearly any desktop software anymore.

I have an old formative memory of a big crt TV sitting on the corner of the librarian front desk (I think in elementary school?) with really mesmerizing animations on it. Looking back, they were definitely some sort of procedurally animated art thing, or much more likely they were music visualizers. Maybe given the year they were just VHS's of trippy computer graphics in the same style that we'd eventually see with visualizers.

No matter what it was, it sparked a lifelong interest in that sort of art and style.

Damn, I should pick back up my old Processing language image manipulation projects. Can do some real trippy stuff really easily by just doing arbitrary math on pixel color values and x,y coordinates.

Anyone know of any glitch art communities on lemmy?