▶ nifty!

▶ Why the Ferrari F355 Sounds So Good

▶ Fascinating article that I hope I never need: Preventing Secondary Trauma
“Whether it involves victims of a chemical attack or a bombing, open source investigators are required to watch and interact with raw footage from the field — it lies at the core of online open source investigation. As a consequence of the increase in eyewitness media, investigators come in contact with a high amount of graphic footage. While this is potential evidence for investigative and accountability purposes, we must be mindful of the effects that traumatic media can have on those coming in contact with it on a regular basis.”

▶ Such a brutal review in the Guardian of Eno & Fred Agains new album – “as if prompted by an edition of his famous Oblique Strategies commands to artists remade for the under-fives: perhaps “play the piano with one finger” or “make a noise like the wind” or “think of a time you were sad”….

I had a listen and only went looking for reviews as found the album somewhat underwhelming, and so I expected mixed reviews… but WTF! That review is attempted murder! Or far more likely, pent-up venting, by someone with an axe to grind.

▶ Doctorow on the Hollywood Writers Strike

The scale of fraudulent streaming!?!

▶ Robots creating music, streamed by other robots, as criminals bank the profits.

“According to a recent French study, up to 3% of music streams on services like Spotify are known to be fraudulent. Yet this number only represents the ‘fake streams’ that services can actually detect; it doesn’t include the ones they don’t uncover.
Stream fraud monitoring firms like Beatdapp put the actual figure at “at least 10%” of overall streams.
The 7% differential there (between the 3% known figure, and the 10% cited by Beatdapp) would have been worth $1.2 billion in stolen royalties in 2022 alone. (Music streaming generated USD $17.5 billion in wholesale global industry revenues in 2022, according to IFPI.; 7% of that figure is $1.23bn.)”

▶ Could Soundclouds fan powered royalty system fix the currently inequitable pro-rata streaming payment system?

▶ Fascinating interview with WMD founder William Mathewson – love the ethical entrepreneurial spirit!

▶ wow check this haikyo building near Nara

▶ An adult female Haast tokoeka
photo credit: Orokonui Ecosanctuary

Check out this adult female Haast tokoeka. At full size these birds a huge, and can reach weights of around 3kgs!

We are proud to work alongside Te Rūnanga o Makaawhio, Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki, and the Department of Conservation to care for these toaka. pic.twitter.com/P0EEzsvfe7

— Orokonui Ecosanctuary (@NZEcosanctuary) May 4, 2023

▶ the (distorted/clipping) sound of a 15,684kg bell ringing #FML
annoying dude on the left watching: ‘there’s a spare one over here’

Also: building a bell sound

#aspirational

▶ “How much use is a blurry jpeg, when you still have the original?”

▶ love the photos in this article of Yuri Suzukis sound installations
I think there is some of his work outside the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan which I visited in 2017 (photos here) (the Museum also has a James Turrell space!)

▶ Musical instrument ui is a fascinating subject: Hannes on icons and symbols

▶ mmmm Braun hifi brochures (thanks Tom)

▶ Spiritual Jazz LPs 4×4 – how many do you know?

▶ The best kind of advice?
Advice That Actually Worked For Me

▶ whoah!

▶ impressive work!
(photo from reddit)

▶ #aspirational

▶ I might have actually stuck with learning notation if it used Klavarskribo
Every Good Boy Deserves FreedomFromNotation!

▶ Gawd… Has the judge & jury not suffered enough already!?
(Ed Sheeran sings in court as part of Marvin Gaye copyright case)

▶ bleak af: “PFAS is an umbrella term for thousands of human-made substances known as “forever chemicals” because they will not break down in the environment for thousands of years. Some are also known to be toxic and can accumulate in the human body.”

▶ I’d love to record this!

▶ This Content is for Human Consumption Only

▶ “I WOKE UP one day last year and realized I no longer listened to music.
Instead I just listened to sludge (what’s the bet they “get into vinyl”)

▶ CymaScope

▶ Cymatic violin?

▶ Loved the audio mcguffin in Succession S04E06

▶ There is a great thread on the lines forum: Nature Timers; Periodicity where someone prompted an old memory, and I found the source of it. The work of Mineko Grimmer – “Sculpturing With Sound : Mineko Grimmer uses ice, pebbles and other materials to create works that are as pleasing to listen to as they are to look at”

▶ “The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. Light at the blue end of the spectrum does not travel the whole distance from the sun to us. It disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in water.” – A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST
by Rebecca Solnit via Twitter (also a book I have gifted to nieces & nephews)

▶ ‘The film industry is gone. It sucks’: Jim Jarmusch on swapping directing for drone rock

“Our music isn’t always formulaically structured, so we don’t quite know where it’s going to go when we’re starting out. We don’t have the traditional structure of A, B, C – we just have A, and occasionally B. Structures are not what we’re interested in; we’re interested in a feeling.”

▶ great album title: “Terraforming with sludge”

▶ beautiful & profane?

▶ “Put your hands in the air!”