▶ Lockdown project: Teach Yourself to Echolocate also at NPR ▶ This parasite drugs its hosts with the psychedelic chemical in ‘shrooms ▶ prepared guitar archive ▶ Do the work…
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▶ William E. Jackson communicating with whales on the Serge Modular Music System ▶ new Alva Noto album in September: graphic scores look intriguing ▶ the Bowie fan x gardener venn diagram …
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▶ Constance Demby playing her Space Bass ▶ this cat does not exist ▶ Metabunk and a great thread there: How do you stage UFO photos and videos? Let us count the ways …
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▶ very satisfying sounds… ▶ The Endless Acid Banger ▶ Aesthetics wiki ▶ “Oh, I’m mostly erasing, using the eraser….” – guess the composer? ▶ love the story Dave Rossum…
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▶ Marlon Brando Explains why He SNUBBED the Academy Award For Best Actor Of THE GODFATHER ▶ Turkish garbage collectors open a library of rescued books ▶ Public libraries are: Palaces for the People!…
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▶ “Since 1977, Yoshiaki Sofue, an astronomer at the University of Tokyo, has told anyone who would listen that the Milky Way’s “North Polar Spur” is an expanding shock wave from an ancient galactic…
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▶ This is an excellent demo of what great creature vocals contribute to films… Just try suspending your disbelief through this playlist of Orc scenes dubbed with “normal” human voices ▶ Sad to hear that Rupert…
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▶ Nobukazu Takemura Interview no subtitles but there is a translation in the comments at YT ▶ Listen to the oldest known conch shell horn from 18,000 years ago ▶ new six part series…
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▶ “My favourite species of birds are the ones named by people who clearly hate birds… (very funny twitter thread or via threadreader– thanks Michael) ▶ Cutouts of Japanese urban buildings ▶…
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▶ Radiotone X-Rays Synthesizer by Giorgio Sancristoforo More info on the project here ▶ I try to not buy products that cannot be maintained & repaired, because quite frankly FCUK planned obsolescence! So respect & thanks…
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▶ I had never seen this presentation, and it is fascinating to have a brief look at Olivier’s development process, especially of modules that I know so well & love! Part Two is here ▶ wow…
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▶ North Island Kokako pair duetting ▶ David Bowie as spiders ▶ Most annoying sound? ▶ What a hideous human experiment Spotify is. As if conspiring with the big labels to reduce…
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▶ Best one yet? ▶ If you enjoy karesansui, check this insta account by artist Yuki Kawae ▶ “There are some things that when you listen to them again and again begin to irritate…
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▶ bandcamp show how to lead, next: vinyl on demand equally good to read rational critique of their approach ▶ I listened/suffered thru a Tim Ferris podcast interview with the lead Spotify…
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▶ The epic SolarWinds hack affecting thousands of government agencies and companies could mark the beginning of the end of the open internet. ▶ “Central to Can’s sound was Irmin Schmidt’s custom‑built, one‑off effects…
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▶ Remember when email was delivered via a giant mylar balloon? ▶ If I could time travel, first stop: 1970 World Fair in Osaka ▶ wow ▶ bad ideas…
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▶ wish their music was as strangely brilliant as their videos!! via “Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even…
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▶ A Guide to the Doctor Who Theme Music ▶ lol Bernie as an ‘Anarchist Grandpa” One of many v.funny zingers in Charlie Brookers ‘Death to 2020’ on Netflix ▶ great year…
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▶ Mariah Robertson’s Chemical Reactions camera-less prints! ▶ fascinating doco: Skeptics – Sheen of Gold by Simon Ogston is free to view on NZOnscreen (maybe geolocked to NZ?) One aspect I’ve always loved of…
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▶ What do you do when one of the world’s largest wet-plate glass negatives, a nineteenth century panorama of Sydney weighing over 30 kilos, smashes into hundreds of pieces? ▶ It is almost seems…