If You Want Something Make It So - Song Style

In grad school a professor of mine, Mark Hunacek, said one of the most profound things I’ve ever heard to the tune “if you want it, then make it so”… It’s a great benefit to mathematicians at the bar to start a conversation with “hey let’s assume X because we can”…

This phrase has affected my work greatly to the work I do and how I go about it- it’s literally changed how I design some of my code. But I also want this mantra to flow into other parts of my life…

So here’s a post about how I use Pinchflat and Davinci Resolve to tickle my brain with bespoke versions of beautifully crafted mashups

In this example I took a Goobsie mashup, cut the part I didn’t like quite as much (though admittedly it’s still beautiful) and spliced it with itself to give me a longer running version of a musical piece that takes me to another world…

OG Youtube Mashup

Acquiring the Media #

Pinchflat isn’t really necessary here, anyone can use youtubedl or another tool to download from YouTube. I do use Pinchflat to subscribe to Youtube playlists to automate this process for me. See more about that in Homelab Pinchflat

Creating the Mashup #

So Goobsie makes actually good mashups, and I’m not anything even remotely close to an audio engineer or whatever, but there’s a segment of this song that just strikes my whole body in a unique way and I want to sometimes just listen to it conveniently… So enter Davinci Resolve… Basically I took the downloaded file, added it twice to a timeline, and then faded in and out until it sounded ok to me.

Listening to the Mashup #

So now how do I listen to this?

For the moment, it’s a favorite in my Jellyfin library and I listen through that client. It’s a TODO item for me to set-up a more music-centric streaming service