This resonated with me www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

An interesting way to repeat performances for neuroscience www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/a...

To understand what's going down at WaPo, this information is essential. The tech bros brought Trump to power, and the are exploiting their hold on the administration to accumulate wealth in an obscene fashion. The last thing they want is a newspaper running exposés that mess things up.

Completely shocked by the sudden loss of Catherine O’Hara, one of the funniest and most talented people on this planet. As a massive fan of The Nightmare Before Christmas, I couldn't think of a better send off than her performance of Sally's Song.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"So much of the power of major labels is rooted in their ability to protect this idea that musical genius is this rare and scarce thing that only they have ownership over."

Bob Dylan writing about Bob Weir in The Philosophy of Modern Song

Incredible to see this rare footage, close-up, of the legendary David Tudor performing live at STEIM in Amsterdam in 1994. youtu.be/Fo30MgBRQO0?...

New year's dinner - crab cake with saffron aioli and pomegranates with suspended caviar.

RIP Tatiana Schlossberg, journalist and member of the Kennedy family She wrote an amazing essay about RFK Jr. and I think a wonderful tribute to her is sharing it with you www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Musicians being helpful for science !! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Excited to be playing in Kingston for the release of the "A Year of Deep Listening" at Creative Music Studio.

I'd appreciate if any audio tech folks could help circulate this exciting call for a fully-funded PhD position working in multichannel audio design for galleries. It's part of an ARC funded project 'From Noise to Signal: Improving Sonic Experiences in the Gallery' www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...

Reinforcing what people have posited about audio and cave paintings. www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

The pocket squirrel, the demon, the authentic dj with local news, I lurv youtu.be/yknMJOgy2pA?...

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s... Super cool!!

I didn't know most of these things about Josephine Baker www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/jose...

Wonderful to hear a trautonium played so well youtu.be/am8e99r2pEY?...

Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper? Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

Excited to be in Boston speaking at Northeastern University and New England conservatory.

Still from Saturday's performance. Dan Gitlin, photographer

When you forgot to charge your tech but remembered to charge your portable batteries.

Tonight!!!!

Our new collab w/ @apnews.com on how #Mexico City's ancient agriculture tradition of floating gardens is growing again, is out The @mongabay.com team published a cool companion video report you can watch here, www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqpD... Great to get solutions like this out to a wide audience:

NYC peeps - come out!!

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Bag theory of culture in action! phys.org/news/2025-09...

Woah scitechdaily.com/a-masterpiec...

Rehearsing for Oct 11 show in the original Cooper Union building which has a beautiful view of the new Cooper Union building.

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

www.earth.com/news/scienti... want for music !!

My final service to SBU libraries - serving as chair of this search for an AI Research Scientist apply.interfolio.com/172379

A bit about theremin's bug developed for the Soviets. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Got to record this silo at Art OMI in upstate New York for my AI powered acoustics startup, Lyrai. The night before sampling had the amazing experience of improvising in the space with the resident musicians.

I mean having enough pollen would be better but this is good news. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

This track was ahead of it's time youtu.be/78YDlgZfPus?...

Just learned and sciola today : youtu.be/Ez9vvsFa-KU?...

The term "dumbbell" originates from a device used in the 18th century for exercising silently, often by removing the clapper (the noisy part) from a church bell-like object.

Anyone else remember when Amazon replaced every version of fire with Kindle in ebooks?? This is much worse. www.psypost.org/secret-chang...

And how many are also crabs? phys.org/news/2025-07...

Most recent issue of the journal of networked music and arts is live : commons.library.stonybrook.edu/jonma/?fbcli...

A quintessentially Aussie experience - getting to play the fairlight synth - thanks Sam!

Killer whales mutually groom each other with a type of seaweed. Marine animals use tools in a way that was previously thought to be the preserve of primates such as humans. 🧪🐋🌊 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Jenny Soep made this sketch of me playing in Sweden and posted it on an Instagram story. I was using a sound field mic, a broken dumbec, and max/msp to create multiphonic feedback.

Nothing like trying to rehearse low frequency feedback in a hotel room .... Getting excited for Friday.

Excited for this weekend. Showing housework Commons at the Smithsonian!!!

Getting excited for the Housework Commons at Sound Scene this weekend at the Smithsonian !