Opera Rocks

Opera Singer. Franz Võlker Fan. Emerging Elitist. Alliteration Advocate.

Audio Engineer at Kudu Productions for Devon Eriksen's 🔥 Theft of Fire 🔥 ☦️

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

Orbital Space: Box of Trouble is coming!

And It deserves a brand new mixing and mastering studio in which to work!

Couldn’t help but go all American in lighting today to celebrate one of the very best sci fi writers today: @Devon_Eriksen_ on the home stretch.

Box of Trouble is gonna SING!

Go Team 🔥 Theft of Fire 🔥

Free sample of first audiobook at https://t.co/Z4BmjwXlrw

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

@Opera_Rocks @mattwriteguy @ikmultimedia The BoT audiobook is going to have really good sound quality, isn't it?

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

I can verify. He doesn’t have girl hands. He’s got normal sized hands and is a mofo with a gun, and they are sensitive and soft and warm.

(Shit. This post went sideways.)

Was very disappointing had to run to airport and miss shooting yours. Got so enamored with the 9mm I couldn’t stop.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Contributions from America: electricity, telephones, personal computers, lightbulbs, chocolate chip cookies, the internet, airplanes, Xbox, the microwave, air conditioners.

Contributions from Belgium:

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

@bavedikian So true. Very typical of them. Victims.

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

Recently moved back from Belgium to my native USA,

having lived and worked there for more than a decade,

growing to understand the systemic apathy and powerlessness of their public,

the ineffectiveness of their technocrat class, its simple ugliness that pervades its filthy streets,

may i kindly say…

gfy

[Jason Reid @JasonReidx]

The whole world stands with Belgium.

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

@Sipowicz1042 @VDAREJamesK How is propping up our economy a bad thing? And by storing up, you mean, pays more taxes than anyone else?

Strange definitions you have.

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

@grok @esrtweet @tekwendell Sheeeit. I just got moist.

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

@livelifekaye @DominicFrisby Lord have mercy. I love this even more

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

Babushkas FTW.

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

He is almost certainly singing*. I was wondering if he would sync it or not too, as it's a very difficult aria.

Here are tells that it's likely not:

--The rhythms to certain phrases are "wrong" and it would prove almost impossible to lip sync to it (unless he's a dark lord of magic and has a perfect memory of what he did in the studio. Most performers can't do that on an aria of this scale nor especially in front of a crowd this size.)

--The first coupla phrases are pretty damn shakey. Understandable he's dealing with nerves. That'd be the first thing I'd have insisted be changed if sync'd/edited.

--Diphthongs match up to video. One of the big tells to sync is that you can see the tongue move to form certain interiors of the vowels. The italian language doesn't have them, but Macchio's italian isn't perfect, so there are some in his singing. Hiding that in post is a major pita. It can be done, but this is a live stream and the delay would have to be a long time to do it. Like, over 30min to an hour.

Kudos to Macchio. I didn't hate this.

I was prepared to, but this is pretty well sung.

Particularly the F#'s thruout are appropriately 'covered' and not shouted. There's a certain Harry Secomb quality to the vocal production.

I'm not a fan of most operatic voices on a dynamic mic nor at this proximity, but...I didn't hate this singing.

My elitist qualifier: while we can enjoy his singing, the sheer dBl output he's working at would probably not work in a strictly acoustical setting with a Puccini-sized orchestra and no mic, which is just me stupidly nitpicking, so I take it back.

This is enjoyable to hear.

*There ARE likely some moments where he MIGHT be lip syncing. The very obvious video cut aways to the performance is a way for video editors to show a far away shot where you can't see the performer's mouths moving. If you, the production team, know a singer has a few lines where he's gonna lip sync (usually to rest before a big phrase), you know to pull camera out and not show that phrase in close up.

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

@jzpitts @acrobatichobbit @AnEriksenWife @CDoombeard That’s an imagined Gospel Singer “CeCe Winan” btw.

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

@jzpitts @acrobatichobbit @AnEriksenWife So close….

One of the best moments of @CDoombeard performance was “Zip. Zero. Zilch. Nimic. Ingenting. Nekas. Na-da.”

Not To be missed.

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

@SavageDan Lemme know how this goes, seriously. Maybe I’m just tired but I’m having a problem just conceptualizing what it can do for musicians in the real world.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

It's OK to love America.

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

@Jringo1508 Your wife made you watch Outlanders final season too?

[wanye @xwanyex]

Seems like you blew an almost unbelievable head start

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

@politicalmath My swarthy, slightly ethnic whale is War and Peace. Determined to get to it this summer.

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

Happy Independence Day!

God bless this wonderful country.

[Opera Rocks @Opera_Rocks]

Now THIS is AI slop i can get behind!

And of COURSE Randy Quaid saves the day. Hell yeah!!!!

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson