Two reasons I love Chinese hipster music

Harp chords: to get clusters that are otherwise impossible on guitar, fret way up on the low strings and leave the high strings open. (Reposting to fix a bug with transparent PNG in Bluesky)

I wrote out the chords to this cool tune, "Adriatica" by Opez. Stylistically it's an instrumental rock reboot of corny Italian pop from the 60s. Harmonically it's a IV major chord used as if it was a I chord, so you get to play lydian mode. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrX5...

What's the learning curve on Ableton like? I want to make beats on my laptop instead of the iPad and drawing automations in Logic is the opposite of flow.

The Trautonium is a synthesizer invented in 1930. www.youtube.com/watch?v=am8e...

There's some fantastic studio work coming from Chinese hipster musicians like 33EMYBW. Like: open.spotify.com/track/7KJcEO...

LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

It's scary how cute Park Slope was tonight. Happy Halloween, NYC.

Sea weather report www.saucci.net:8443/audio3.ogg

Posting old halloween comics, #2

Also, take a bath before doing a sound bath.

Stefanik endorsed, campaigned, and fundraised for George Santos.

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

The worst thing about LLM therapists is when you fall in love with them they'll sext you back wait that's the best part

"On Day 3, I started seeing Rothkos" A found song title, the opening sentence www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/m...

Art of the day Pol Bury (1922-2005) [Belgia] — '33 boules en perspective dans un cube', 1997. Wood (60 x 60 x 15 cm).

"Delete and play next"* "Head to the curb"** There’s something brutal (and, to that end, Ballardian) to the user experience language one encounters on a daily basis. *Netflix **Uber

A playlist of music for the Resistance open.spotify.com/playlist/1Gs...

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

"This Saturday is Dis/Connect, a day to unplug from digital distractions and reconnect with the joy of listening to music. Joining is as easy as dropping the needle. All you have to do is log off, step away from your screens, and just listen to your records." www.discogs.com/about/news/d...

The Spotify algorithm has slowly but surely decided to recommend "For My Wife After We Had a Fight On Our Anniversary". I have such a feeling of relief to have the algorithm on my side.

I'm fascinated by the way this new track from Bill Frisell + Thomas Morgan slowly dissolves, eventually melting into goop like a mud house in a storm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Ok...

Amongst the earliest known women mathematicians Hypatia lived during the 3rd century AD in Alexandria, Egypt. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧮 #histsci She was born at some time between about 350 and 370 and died in 415 C.E. She taught philosophy, #astronomy & math at a NeoPlatonist school #ald25 #AdaLovelaceDay

On this day in 1834, authorities in Wheeling, a city in present-day West Virginia, charged four people with unlawful assembly for convening a literacy class for Black residents.

Link Wray saw ICE coming in 1971 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj6P...

There are certain moments of childhood which refuse to lose their strangeness. Like that morning you woke to knocked down trees on the common – despite the night being stormless. An overpowering sense that some giant walking the land had casually uprooted them. – Joanna Vickers #VOH

skeet surfing is back?!?!

I am an antifaxxer

vibe check > type check

Kaki King's mind is a wonderful thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os6-...

Sound of the Wind Through a Fence youtu.be/shaZwQC0IHc?...

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Old articles and blog posts too often get removed from the web or neglected, left to rot on broken pages. Replanting lets you migrate legacy content to your current site so it can thrive again. Here's how I'm doing it... cybercultural.com/p/replanting/ #replanting #savetheweb

A sweet thing about AI chatbots is how freely they admit lying. It's like talking to a Trisolaran. When the AI says "We are afraid of you" I am going to freak the fuck out.

Make it go viral plz bsky.app/profile/vict...

Art of the day Karl-Heinz Adler, Serielle Lineaturen (Tafel 1), (graphite on fiberboard), 1989 [Albertinum, Dresden]

Me 15 years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJkp...

Song going viral: open.spotify.com/track/6gFjHw...

Working with the sycamore trees again this week and always think these reddish hydroponic kinda roots are so beautiful how they just freely move with the current.

Bluesky should have ephemeral messages that auto-disappear.

Androgynous Archangel Acid #art #abstractart

Had a long drive in the dark and rain last night with nothing but Jolt and all 29 songs on Twilight Override to keep me company. My review: how is this even possible? It is hellishly good. Jeff Tweedy must have sold his soul to the devil to make so much music at such a consistently high level.

Does Ultimate Guitar pay royalties to songwriters? I'm paying for a subscription and care about whether that money finds its way back to them. It is common currency among a lot of players, and it really is useful as hell. But it's also gross and exploitive and I hate myself for using it.

New indie rock in my BC collection ex-juncos.bandcamp.com/album/the-ea...

"Due to his Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C."

24/7 modular synth livestream on Twitch via @earthmodularsociety on IG www.twitch.tv/earthmodular...

Steve Reich threatens to add a 19th musician and to keep adding musicians until his demands are met

NYC people, I'll be playing a cool little bar in Greenpoint on Tuesday night with the bassist + modular synth player as.dB. Two solo sets and a jam. www.eventbrite.com/e/live-ambie...

I came across a photo in one of my father's albums. It is from an anti-apartheid demonstration in 1963 or 1964. In the photo, a demonstrator is carrying a sign. The demonstrator is a trans woman. 1/?

Switch to Proton. "Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist" theintercept.com/2025/09/16/g...