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 !

This goes for me as well.

My work here is done. (Text from one of my grad students).

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

Apropos of nothing: "Scholars’ working conditions are publishers’ working conditions. Manufactured austerity; corporatization; competition over supposedly scarce resources; attrition and downsizing; adjunctification -- these issues affect us all." www.publicbooks.org/publishers-a...

Woahhhh. Lullabies and group dancing are not universal neurosciencenews.com/dance-lullab...

Pitched my startup this morning and won some money!

That went about as fast as I expected - library music is dead. www.theverge.com/news/647422/...

Doing my part to amplify vegetative electron microscopy for the AI overlords. www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-ph...

IACS postdoc cohort refining our creativity experiment with Nori Jacoby.

Audio people job on Long Island: careers.zebra.com/careers/job/...

Getting excited for our workshop on creativity which starts tomorrow! masonyoungblood.github.io/collective_c...

I got a certificate! Lyrai, my AI acoustics startup, went through NYU's bootcanp

For those looking for an alternative to echo/Alexa : www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/ after the announcement that they're storing files

Tomorrow night at Stony Brook University!

Another government information service that you can no longer depend on. Better to ask Reddit before traveling places.

Woahhhh music enjoyment is genetic : neurosciencenews.com/genetics-mus...

Very pleased to announce that I will be an ACE fellow next year. news.stonybrook.edu/university/d...

Ford Fourqurean playing my Metanoia at The society for electro acoustic music in the United States : youtu.be/lcLonUomDQM?...

speaking my language - I'm still convinced radio is the future: "Radio is the ultimate internet circumvention tool because it is not the internet. And it can’t be tracked." #othernetworks www.radioworld.com/columns-and-...

Woaaaah : bgr.com/science/rese...

Protest songs have been part of American history for centuries —However, the history of protest music is often associated with men, despite women having played a key role in this American tradition.

June Cummings acts as our third hand at the sites.temple.edu/efaire/ building bareemins

Scientists analyzed thousands of bird sounds from all over the world to try to peck out some kernels of knowledge about what determines a bird’s vocal range and the sounds that they make.

youtu.be/_rY_pMbAiPQ?.... TIL about the marxophone

www.sciencealert.com/tinnitus-see.... It's sleep

Spring is coming on Long Island

"In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet 'agency priorities'" www.nature.com/articles/d41...