Klingon High Council, I know that my family name is still in disgrace. It is not necessary that you send me annual reminder emails. Worf

People are making false comparisons between AI and MIDI. Completely different. MIDI is an all-seeing God; the one true God, lord of everything known and unknown. We have no true autonomous will outside MIDI — MIDI is all and all is MIDI. AI is basically like autocomplete.

Adam Neely just dropped a full 90 minutes on "Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future" www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...

A re-release of Music Mouse, the intelligent instrument, is being worked on by Laurie Spiegel & Eventide. This one's special. www.eventideaudio.com/software/mus...

This is such a titillating way to think about how you move your body. www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023...

On transcribing Autechre

Chimps sample their action space with a higher temperature than bonobos. Michael Tomasello: "The Evolution of Agency"

Roses are red, Sunlight is bright

Horses are born with tentacles that fall off when they’re babies. It’s so they don’t kick their way through their moms when they’re still baking in the horse oven.That’s the origin of the term “horse feathers”. (Horses kinda freak me out so I know all their dirty little secrets)

Bring recitals of sorting algorithms to Carnegie Hall! W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology

The curse of dimensionality, as coined by Richard Bellman in "Dynamic Programming" (1957)

"Guided by evolution, eyes are living paintbrushes." Ed Yong: An Immense World

Head over to Google Helsinki in a couple of hours and say hi 👋

I've just shipped Aeriform, an interactive ambient techno experiment built with Google DeepMind's Lyria RealTime model. aeriform.ctpt.co

my relationship with tech has drifted over the 10-15 years as things became more about hyper-scale and extraction vs creating and collaborating. this, uh, resonated deeply with me and i hope it resonates with you too: resonantcomputing.org

I'm speaking in the Future Frontend Meetup in Helsinki next week. I'll be yapping about my recent experiences with React Native - the good, the bad, and the ugly - from building the Starmirror app for Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst. www.meetabit.com/events/futur...

"Drone-ambient-noise synthesizer in Javascript: when instability is a feature, not a bug" bs.stranno.su/drone-ambien...

"Around the wwworld: Web MIDI, Web Audio and what the web does best" by Katie Fenn www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3h...

important news: this year's 24/7 livestream of a litter of puppies has begun areena.yle.fi/1-76362374

The KickStarter is live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/190... Our big fat beautiful book, Designing Imaginative Environments is a deep dive into the world of environment design for storytelling.

I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

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I computed Stable Audio Open latent space embeddings for my Bandcamp music collection. A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.

Joan La Barbara

Jim O’Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi

Wrote up my September 2025 "How I'm using coding agents" - blog.fsck.com/2025/10/05/h...

Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...

Brian Eno and Ezra Klein discuss the impact @stevereich.bsky.social's music has had on them on the latest episode of @nytopinion.nytimes.com's 'The Ezra Klein Show.' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

Visualising principal components of Stable Audio Open latents over time. 0.8s hann window, 0.03s hop (latent rate ≈21.5 Hz)

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The musician and record producer Brian Eno delves into his experiments with ambient music, his thoughts on generative A.I. and his deep gratitude for the uniqueness of human life. open.spotify.com/episode/1Dio... youtu.be/AfYY9v0Q0X4?...

sonnet 4.5 seems to respond quite well to explicit "give me some chain-of-thought on this" requests. self-corrected nicely with this slightly delicate bit of logic.

sonifying the wind on a great circle journey around the globe

putting sonnet 4.5 through its paces as an ambient melody composer

Generative features are utilized to enhance audio understanding; audio generation models encode both spatiotemporal perception and semantic prior; a fusion strategy is proposed; experiments demonstrate consistent performance gains in sound event classification, tagging, and audio captioning.

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this is the really ineffective head-in-the-sand reaction a lot of folks on Bluesky tend to have if you talk about any harm reduction-based approach to the reality that millions of people are using AI tools today. The current approach to critiquing AI is obviously not working, but they don't care.

HP Spaceball 2003 (1991). While the mouse operates on X and Y axes, the HP Spaceball also used the Z axis, making it easy to rotate objects in 3D space. Plus the white plastic made it look like something out of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

"If mind is everywhere, where are all the panpsychiatrists?" thoughtforms.life/if-mind-is-e...

"Big Tech treats its techies better than its artists because it has to: there are far more tech jobs than there are qualified technologists to fill them. The instant that changes, those engineers are toast." Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism (2022)

Listening now, fantastic spiky sound worlds made of metal and glass and electricity.

1KB JS Numbers Station by Terence Eden shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07...

📜 "When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?" An article by @littledan.dev from TechAtBloomberg on the latest advances that make JavaScript & Wasm play nicely together 🤝 Key takeaway: Build steps for Wasm and JS glue code are not going away - and that's OK 👍 queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...

coding with ai assistance shifts ballmer's peak at least a couple of notches to the right

The many issues and misuses of AI in the music industry are well documented, but there are still people who believe it can be a positive force if used correctly. Nadia Says reports, speaking to Mat Dryhurst, Holly Herndon, Robert Owens, Imogen Heap, and more