▶ 2023 Photomicrography Competition
wow to #2 match strike… and 10,11,16!

▶ “In my conversations with him, we never seemed to be talking precisely about music or not about music but, rather, a continuum of events with musical implications.”

▶ Found first three issues of 1980s Darkroom Photography Magazine at Archive.org
– download as a PDF

▶ fantastic kinetic visual art by PARKER HEYL

▶ but no bitcoin!

▶ great read, on criticism and AI: empire of the senseless

“One could rephrase Greene’s question as “Who is trying to make this technology happen and why?” Who wants us to believe that we should delegate to statistical models the capability to dictate what sounds “really” convey by certain descriptions? Who wants a post-critical world where works can be fully described algorithmically and functionally deployed to accomplish various ends?
This can be asked of every “AI” application: chatbots, text-to-image models, emotion-detection technology, brain-wave translators, and on and on. On what terms can these projects even be understood to “work” — in what sort of world are emotions, aesthetic experiences, thoughts, etc., directly translatable into specific data — and who wants us to believe in them? Who is demanding that we live in that world? For whom is that world appealing?”

▶ The corporate takeover of music – lessons from bandcamp

▶ Fact checking isn’t enough

▶ “We’ve also come from this kind of approach where we’re not Danny Rampling waving vinyl around, or suffering from that sort of visibly loud ‘hot encoder/hot fader’ syndrome.” – lol

▶ EU leading by example with data privacy

▶ Fungi: Web of Life Trailer – love the v/o

▶ great explainer why log video matters with new iPhones

▶ Dear reputational damage
You have a new friend: Songtradr
Every member of Bandcamp union bargaining team was laid off in huge cuts at Oakland firm
plus this
Actions speak louder than words.

▶ re Bandcamp, there is one truth that will remain:
a void will not exist for long
something better will come into existence

▶ also incase you need it:
a Bandcamp batch downloader browser extension for Chrome: Batchcamp

▶ I’ve been with @mailchimp since 2010, but will be exiting their service due to this:

Update: I have exchanged a series of emails with them, and they have disabled those features for my account and removed that section from my Terms & Conditions. Surprised yes. But without someone making me aware I would have agreed to those T&C.

Nagra 4-L time varier schematic from Nagraaudio
byu/Hainbach inHainbach

▶ Nagra 4-L time varier schematic from Nagraaudio

▶ trigger warning for ‘autotune dog rabbithole’

▶ ryoji ikeda interview

▶ The Tron Project: How Japan Almost Ruled IT

▶ future daw? yeah/nah

▶ 12 year old me would have loved one of these Zoom music things

▶ jeepers.
Having extracted most of the income out of the music industry leaving actual musicians chasing pennies, Spotify now has authors in its sights
There is only one way I know of, to protect yourself from this kind of exploitation:
Never sell your rights.

▶ thread via Twitter
Does anyone still think it was a good idea for the Bandcamp owners to get their $$ exit?
All in the name of progress… what next? fckng Spotify buy it & dissolve all of its value?

▶ Faircamp – a self hosted option?

▶ Six months ago NPR left Twitter. Effects have been negligible

▶ yay for hippy nostalgia

▶ “When you understand every opinion is a vision loaded with personal history,
you will start to understand that all judgment is a confession”
Nikola Tesla

(I’m saving this quote for the next time someone shares a toxic opinion)

▶ “A knife with good kireaji will both react and reply when you pass it over a whetstone. Such knives are made to be sharpened, to be modified by their users…” – Forming an edge + microscope photos of said edge via MF

What genre of music uses such a controller? Wrong answers only