If you look intently at the little window on a cassette while it’s playing, you will sometimes see a tiny demon in there, smiling, enjoying the music, but also clawing mischievously at the tape, causing noise and artefacts. That’s why they put the window there.

Capturing jams is great but capturing nature is a whole other level

Pass on the clot, you love retailer

Curved monitors are great but an absolute nightmare for creating perfectly-focussed phase-distorting reflections if you're recording dialog sitting in front of them, which I do for basically all my vids.

London folk! I'm doing a semi-secret new live show preview next Tuesday 23rd September in London, Bethnal Green. Let me know if you want to come!

Every time I see a toddler's fingers wander into the gap in a door's hinges all I can see is those vids of electric door closers chopping carrots in half. Is this just neurosis? Seems a miracle that most don't get at least one finger snapped off in early years.

My new live show is basically a wrestling match with a generative music system experiencing institutional decay. Zeitgeisty

Quandary of the day - I'm debuting an all new live show in 2 weeks time at @machinabristronica.bsky.social. Using a heavily modified PTNSHIFT. Everything from meticulous planning to complete blank slate improv is achievable. Can't decide which path to take.

I remember - maybe even 20 years ago - a conversation with an old pal where I first heard the phrase 'content is king'. Seemed hilarious that the internet was all about these containers and nobody who actually ran it gave a shit about what was in them. Anyway happy technofeudalism y'all.

Farting along to the clap pattern 'everybody crap your pants say yoooo'

Download Patches and Samples I made or just support my music making here patreon.com/jeremywen

@fry.design and I escalated this nicely

How boomer is it to intentionally mispronounce words intentionally - like BANGER pronounced like away in a manger? I know @nigella.bsky.social did microwavé but... can we 2.0 this shit up? Anyway your latest track as an absolute BANGER

Webflow's login on Chrome has been broken since I started using it months ago. @fry.design even flagged it with their team in like April. Wild!

Arvo Pärt - Spiegel Im Spiegel (Wagner mix)

Tell me... these whispers of Obsidian... should I?

Great mix / arrangements separate elements into their own frequency bands. Amazing mix / arrangements create conversations between parts across multiple frequency bands. The 'EDM' crowd have this nailed. Still more science than art though right now.

I have a tremendous idea: SaaP Software as a Product Instead of paying every month, you just buy it once and then you just kind of keep it Who's with me

Jeepers you should watch this. Encapsulates so many of my thoughts and intuitions over the last year or so.

Long been chewing people's ears off that small things will be the best thing to come out of genAI coding. H/T @asnaroo.bsky.social

I should probably have an alt account for toddlerisms but “I want to go inside your tummy so I can send a message” is a banger

Ha nice title @sonicstate.bsky.social great to be on with you today

Sycophancy As A Service

This week I have been mostly upcycling things I built 20 years ago

Delivered two mix / masters on Sunday and haven't heard from either of them. Good thing or bad thing I have no idea!

Thankfully my daughter loves flying faders as much as I do

Technology has the most heartbreaking gaps for stupid reasons. Still so much to explore in the realm of physical <> digital music interfaces but the hardware landscape is too fragmented for the effort to make sense. Ableton Push could be this but it's too locked down to their ecosystem.

This is the area in Austin, Texas where you can order a robotaxi. Notes of Bezos rocket.

😅 We're still gonna be OK for a bit folks. Asked ChatGPT 5 to come up with some similarly delightful situational wordplay to the below and... nah

This is the best thing to happen to words this year

What I LOVE about this project is that it's brought me closer to other peoples' music than I've ever been. Didn't even know it was possible to fall in love with other people's music like you fall in love with your own. I thought it was narcissism but actually it's just repetitive attention.

I always wished mixing could be fun, fast and intuitive if you don't want to dive into thousands of parameters. So I built this. On pre-order in my shop for a discount. Full release in October. Full vid at www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVuH... Shop at www.timexile.com

It's so easy to underestimate the commitment of small-scene participants. Feels like there's an endless supply of heads but actually there's just a few dozen people who will arrange their entire lives to travel to wherever the action is happening. Here endeth the oldguy hindsight shit.

Out here being British @fry.design @echolox.com

Ha!

The German phrase for no worries is Nils Frahm

Finally watched skibidi toilet last night. Absolutely not what I was expecting and frankly totally amazing. Was expecting to have “the youth of today” feelings but no. Go gen alpha.

Been quietly rapping A G I, when the crowd say boh selecta under my breath all afternoon

Congrats on getting your ChatPhD

Two eggs have albumen. One egg has album.

Bool Frites

Practice the craft of music

The hardest thing about designing frameworks is actually having the discipline to use them

The weirdest thing about getting old old is seeing younger people getting nostalgic for things that you were too old for even at the time.

What's a curveball listen you wheel out once a year or so? Mine is Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Never gets any less astonishingly good.

Creativity ≠ Craft. Vulture capital wants you to think craft is cute while creativity is what grindset winners outsource to AI. Have a feeling this next decade will show this up to be very wrong.

There are train tracks behind our building. They diffuse off the surrounding blocks. All electric spectral whine. Sometimes they pitch match with what's playing. An airy angel choir dopplering into a savage drop.

8455 is the new 8008135

You will not regret getting this. In the slightest. It's like fireworks night on mushrooms on the Tron set. But actually it's a soundtrack. Utterly amazing.