▶ I don’t have any great issues with Facebook – it is what it is… but for a platform to be so all pervasive, its behaviour and functionality at times is surprising… Here are three such examples:   ▶ “Welcome…

▶ Trotify   ▶ on complexity in music   ▶ “Leibezeit’s system, which is roughly analagous to Morse code, is referred to as E-T…” – fascinating rhythms!   ▶ macro room   ▶ on the same wavelength?   ▶ Ennio…

▶ interesting read: Facebook and the cost of monopoly   ▶ If you have to say “I am not a robot….”   ▶ Frictionless digital music   ▶ if your tear ducts need a clean, this will do it  …

▶ James Turrell | Art + Film Honorees   ▶ hmmmm declassified nuclear test footage   ▶ imho The Wire Magazine has been the best music magazine & resource for a very long time now, and regardless of a plethora…

  ▶ love these tiny robots made from electronic waste   ▶ Awesome google map of where eurorack module companies are based (come on New Zealand!)   ▶ a great philosophical read “After Sound Design” by Rob Bridget (I’ve always…

▶ searching…     And ▶ how they work: PDF   ▶ wow, a pointillistic pinhole camera   ▶ cute meme: animal photos anthropomorphised as band photos   ▶ Apple, Inc. announced an update earlier today for the popular GarageBand…

▶ the tiny trump meme is so great (they should have pitched his voice up a bit)   ▶ “It’s a discipline, because the path of least resistance for anyone with a lot of sound-making tools is to keep making…

▶ beautiful obituary for sound legend Richard Portman – “his hundreds of film credits include Star Wars, The Godfather, Nashville and his favorite, Harold and Maude. He was the first in Hollywood to mix a film entirely by himself –…

▶ Ever wondered what the rich 1% worry about – what keeps them awake at night? this – it is somehow reassuring to think that despite all their wealth, they live in fear…   ▶ ten seconds is plenty…  …

▶ good work!   ▶ music notation based on cymatics   ▶ first vinyl, next film   ▶ Listen to School of Sound lectures online   ▶ the drum voices have been available in many forms for ages but a…

▶ skip to 1’46” for group chaos…. and @4’45” for tuning… and @5.10 OMG!   ▶ great interview with Robert Henke abut the early days & evolution of ableton LIVE   ▶ ever use Air BnB? if so, you’ll want…

▶ earrings that look like ears?   ▶ SOUND + PROCESS podcast   ▶ Six ways the film business is changing – interesting re the shift of balance to post   ▶ The lost sounds of Stonehenge   ▶ 6…

▶Ryoji Ikeda :: the radar [kyoto], Kyoto Experiment, 1-6 NOV 2016   ▶ the exponential view   ▶ the ultimate sound designers message hidden in a movie? deciphering what was typed based only on the sound   ▶ “My religion…

update: for a great summary of 2016 with some hilarial British humour, the whole show is on youtube here   ▶ Celebrity isn’t just harmless fun – it’s the smiling face of the corporate machine   ▶ I know of…

    ▶ mmmm ER301   ▶ shimonrobot.com   ▶ apparently they have ID’d that mysterious sound coming from the Mariana Trench!   ▶ no doubt you’ve seen radio.garden posted elsewhere, where you can supposedly explore radio stations from all…

▶ re finishing things…   ▶ Artist recreates Sgt. Pepper’s cover with stars who died in 2016   ▶ I own some BBC Sound effects LPs but not these two – squeaky eyeballs? uncomfortable silences?   ▶ “we’ve lost the…

  ▶ Such interesting times in the analog world: vinyl outsells digital for music in the UK for the first time, combines with the irony of seeing ads on local TV for vinyl ‘hear your favourite albums like never before……

  ▶ this is like the opening lines of a film I’d like to see: “Abandoned in space in 1967, a US satellite has started transmitting again”   ▶ oscilloscope music   ▶ love these gifs by Mochimochiland   ▶…

Void Jungle_白靄林 from mwva on Vimeo. ▶ An audiovisual live performance by Chang Funju 張方禹 & Han ChengYeh 韓承燁 via s-v-m   ▶ incredibly beautiful photos of NZ night sky   ▶ sacred geometry & harmonics… & stuff   ▶…

▶ fish sing a dawn chorus? who knew?   ▶ I changed my flight home by 10 days so I could go to a gig by Ryoji Ikeda x Merzbow, but this makes it even better! #we_LOVE_kakapo!   ▶ get…