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.

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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

the brainrot is setting in. just noticed myself basically running the world's slowest most expensive shell.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfTp... DOOM FOREVER

"Audio Signal Processing in the Artificial Intelligence Era: Challenges and Directions" A good review paper on the status of ML for various audio tasks, and the major open problems. aes2.org/publications...

"It’s likely that as AI advances and makes reasonable facsimiles of even more genres, there’ll be a reverse push for realness—akin to listeners obsessing over vinyl or obscure formats, the human touch could become a boutique feature, like raw milk at the farmer’s market."

NETtalk (1986) neural network for text to speech phoneme translation. 18K weights. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gakJ...

"Based on the same principles that gave rise to the #CC licenses and tens of billions of works openly licensed online, CC signals will allow dataset holders to signal their preferences for how their content can be reused by machines..." info for CC signals town hall in link #openweb #opensource

The Backrooms: CSS Edition codepen.io/ivorjetski/p...

Tonality Fluctuation & Ryuichi Sakamoto youtu.be/Gm2bgDGU4M8?...

left: the interview questions right: the actual job

safari is finally adding audio support to webcodecs webkit.org/blog/16993/n...

"We won’t find salvation by escaping technology, but by using our awareness—our capacity for critique, ritual, invention, and refusal—to carve out room for messiness, for mourning, for risk, and for deep attention." AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion fakepixels.substack.com/p/ai-heidegg...

Comma v0.1 1T and 2T-7B are two brand new LLMs trained exclusively on public domain and openly licensed text! I got the 2T one running locally on my Mac after porting it to MLX - notes on that here: simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/7/c...

TIL that the famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss *might* have proposed constructing a giant diagram illustrating the Pythagorean Theorem, large enough to be visible from the moon or Mars, in order to communicate with extraterrestrials! Historians can’t be sure. However ...