“Here Come the Warm Jets wasn’t a Brian Eno album but an ‘Eno’ effort, the mononymous moniker the avant-pop entity draped himself with in all his kaleidoscopic intrigue as had struck its dazzling impact on his former Roxy Music days.” The story of Brian Eno’s art-glam gem ‘Here Come the Warm Jets’:

“The organ becomes less of a "psalm machine" and more of a breathing, unstable body.” www.12k.com/review/gonzo...

whoever invented laying in bed knew what they were doing

The most perfect timeline cleanser.

College students booing AI-loving CEOs gives me hope for the future. We should all be baseline rude to the people who are cheering for a worse world!

The art of arranging marine algae into designs, bouquets, and even sometimes intricate little scenes, was surprisingly popular in the 19th century. See an album of such pictures by a woman named Eliza A. Jordson here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/album-of-seaweed-pictures-1848

Having been in AI market research the last few years - and Brian knows my credentials in DIY music on the promotions side I do think the real divide in music won’t be mainstream/underground, poptimist/rockist, but active/passive listening.

Legislation creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, which later became the Women's Army Corps (WAC), was signed into law on this day in 1942. The 150,000+ WAC members were the first women other than nurses to serve in the U.S. Army. Hear their stories ⬇️ www.loc.gov/collections/...

So, this is what I was doing exactly three years ago today. I was there with my wife, daughter, and niece. It was a beautiful evening and a spectacular show. Eras Tour * Lincoln Financial Field * Philadelphia, PA * May 14th, 2023 (Mother’s Day!) @anniezaleski.bsky.social #TaylorSwift

I read it regularly. An absolute treasure of a book. Smart, whimsical, erudite, but always accessible and gentle. Full of timeless messages that I think we all could use.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Acting Librarian of Congress Robert R. Newlen today named 25 recordings as audio treasures worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage. 🧵 ⬇️ #NatRecRegistry

We don't even completely understand what makes human cognition, the thing responsible for the ability to create stored knowledge and wisdom, and yet we believe we are going to create something that can equal it. Legit tossing our greatest evolutionary benefit out the window for 12 rich pricks.

“Every day a new idea, every day a new door” I like that.

Make a band out of two others? Hüsker Düran Düran

'Dandelions,' was painted by the Danish artist Bertha Wegmann around 1910. It wasn't an arbitrary choice of a plant to paint: the dandelion was used to promote the women’s liberation movement in Scandinavia because of its capacity for uncontrolled, strong-willed growth.

“One day in an inspired moment I wired one of my tiny DC motors in series with a loudspeaker and created my first electronic oscillator. I already knew how to use a potentiometer to vary the DC voltage. Now I had something that sounded like an electronic mosquito that I could play with a knob!”

That is how a picture is attached to reality; it reaches right out to it

Three remarkable solo works of hyper-pianist Magda Mayas that extend and expand the sonic palette of the piano and the resonant language of playing inside the piano. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2026/05/11/m...

"At a moment when broader systems feel fragile, exclusionary, or in some cases actively regressive, experimental music offers another model. Not utopian, not pure, but functional. Small, interdependent communities form around sound." Making Space — The Work of Access in Experimental Music:

Slightly increase a band Tears for Phobias

Slightly increase a band Pearl Compote

The 17th-century philosopher John Locke's method of compiling a “commonplace book”, a notebook used to gather quotes and excerpts from one's literary wanderings — a kind of personalized encyclopedia of quotations: publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...

my recording of ambient pedal steel virtuoso Luke Schneider at MKE-Ultra in Milwaukee two days ago is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available for downloading in both lossless FLAC and lossy mp3 file formats. Revel in the heavenly tones: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/05/luke...

“Organizing to block datacenter construction is a way for regular people to ensure their objections and preferences are heard; disruptive protest is a form of leverage for people who lack wealth and political connections … This excellent organizing should be cultivated rather than dismissed.” 💯🎯❤️‍🔥

This time next week in Ealing, Andrew Brixey-Williams is giving a solo performance of #Satie Vexations, in aid of the Young Minds UK mental health charity: ealing.nub.news/whats-on/mus...

"Before he knew it, Watkins had devised a feedback loop that allowed a variable echo-repeat effect. The result was the first independent tape-loop-based echo unit in the world, and it signaled an impending sonic revolution." Here's How the Watkins Copicat Tape Delay Defined the Sound of an Era:

Absolutely rammed party - thanks so much! @sulkrooms.bsky.social video Q&A Part One today Massive thanks for coming last night, so many of you joined us I couldn’t keep up with the chat! A privilege to hang out and share music - so pleased to see the love for Songs of Soil Full video link below 🧵

Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 107 is out right now... moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-107-...

This David Byrne show is so great. Just life-affirming.

Brian Eno, Harold Budd and Daniel Lanois, Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 1979

Five? Narrowed it down to eight and chose not to narrow further. Cooksferry Queen 1952 Vincent Black Lightning Heart Needs a Home Beeswing Turning of the Tide Walking on a Wire Hokey Pokey (lyrics are cringe, but great guitar playing!) Waltzing’s for Dreamers

Working on art with my dad’s painting behind me and my teens’ art on my fridge. Love and craft. Making is blooming. #art #artist #naker

quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/songs-... @sulkrooms.bsky.social Listening Party tomorrow Thursday 7th May 20:00 UK time - hope you can be there - free to join and all welcome x #sulkrooms #quietdetails #bandcamp #ambient #electronic #music #musicsky

We’re excited to present our latest project to the world today, as Flow is presented at the EGU general assembly in Vienna. Working with the University of Padova and the University of Würzburg, Flow tells the story of a river through sound, from its source to its end: citiesandmemory.com/flow/

New & Notable: Absolutely gorgeous, this collection of 14 works for organ wrings maximum beauty from sustained tones.

Thanks so much for the love on today’s worm audio! And cheers to Alex @quietdetails.bsky.social for giving this project life! If you havent checked it yet, ‘Songs Of Soil’ is an album I made from recordings of worms using a special contact mic quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

Tony Molina absolutely slayed my new Worst Song interview series yellowgreenred.substack.com/p/yellow-gre...

Thankful to @nzmolecules.bsky.social for their “This week I am mostly listening to albums by artists beginning with the letter [ ]” posts. I’m giving so many Bandcamp purchases a fresh listen while making recommendations. This week is the letter K A quietly beautiful album by KRISTIN DAELYN

Twenty years after Deupree's electronic masterpiece 'Stil.,' the two producers unite for an ambitious acoustic reimagining, creating a meticulously documented work that spans sound, design, and philosophical approach. Taylor Deupree & Joseph Branciforte Build a Small Universe:

As John Cage said, "If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all."

Impossible Mission on my brother’s Commodore 64. “Another visitor! Stay awhile… Stay FOREVER!!!”

Quick sketch of cat getting ready to torment other cat

1/2 After another Bandcamp Friday, a reminder that @ampwall.com and @mirlo.space exist. Mirlo is worker owned and operates under principles of sociocracy www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy/ and artists/bands can choose how much per sale they allocate to Mirlo.

I love Éliane Radigue’s music – it informs me, it expresses me – and so I’m very honoured indeed that @electronicsound.bsky.social magazine have published my essay on her music. She was a one-off, the like of which we shall see again. www.electronicsound.co.uk/features/wav...

absolutey mesmerizing rural kosmische from North Carolina, one of my favorites of the year so far

A recommended roadmap to the music of Autechre

“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.” -Wendell Berry (2001)

#NowPlaying 🎧 Somi by Taylor Deupree 2017 Keywords: minimalist, tape loops, old cassette player www.taylordeupree.com/discography/...

My daughter will be taking the SAT this morning and I’m going to have to beg her to eat breakfast because she never does. Which I don’t get… The only time I don’t eat breakfast before leaving the house is if I’m going out for breakfast. But ffs, child, today is kind of a big deal. So, PLEASE.