A question for my fellow jazzholes. See that F diminished in the 6th bar? There’s an E natural note in the melody. WTH? That is about as far from a chord tone. as you can get. I checked a couple different transcriptions to verify that this is how people play it. And the melody is not wrong. #jazz

Spotted just now this great reimagining of classic 1936 Spanish Civil War poster "Aixafem el feixisme - Let's crush fascism" by Pere Pic i Català, this 2026 version produced the Centre LGTBi de Barcelona.

So many wonderful ideas and sounds We are in a golden age of instrument tech youtu.be/6sPbJwzi87k

The world is always weirder and more beautiful than you can imagine. Case in point, ERD/WORM soundcloud.com/martin_howse...

Nothing says Spring like brooding, occult-inspired soundscapes youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Remembered Sky Whitley Bay 2019 #RememberedSky

"At the very end of spacetime, on an old wooden dock suspended over the calm and iridescent waters of eternity, a hobo dangles his legs over the edge and plays his harmonica without a care."

You can use sQratch.us to strip the formatting off rich text. To try it out, copy something fancy like goop on a web page. Open the site. Paste. Hit this button.

There’s no way to raise this much money without enshittification. Bluesky’s manner of death is foretold.

Art not made with AI.

A better, simpler, more obvious test for replicants and other computer beings: impossibly comprehensive knowledge. Like, Google Maps knows the traffic 1000 miles away and it knows the houses on your block. An AI knows everything about prime numbers and current memes. Only a computer could know.

Poonam Khanna

Can — live in Paris, March 1976. Complete flow state, interstellar krautboogie at its finest, pure elemental groove. Or as Irmin Schmidt said, “A lot of the time in the mid-70s we felt quite funky.”

🚨 NEW MUSIC ALERT 🚨 My son Simon just released his first album on @bandcamp.com. It’s a gorgeous chamber pop confection with cascading vocal harmonies, impressionistic lyrics, and some really impressive songwriting and arranging. Sufjan meets Hosier meets Sondheim. Give it a listen:

In composition/improvisation, musical direction can either be imposed by unelected, centralized bureaucrats or left to be steered by the invisible hand of the free market.

TIL the advent of robotic lawn mowers has led to an uptick in hedgehog deaths

I wasted a photo from an Ilford HP5 roll to capture the churro shop in my neighborhood. Not a customer but I'm happy it exists. I would contemplate the churro shop while I smoke from my window and the churro shop owner would contemplate me while he inspires the churros' smoke. A bond, truly.

I added markdown support o sQratch.us, my fast-private-calm text editor. Convert pasted markup to markdown or simply strip all formatting. As always zero tracking, client-side only, instant loading, works offline, distraction free, and keyboard-friendly.

Soundscape for a rainy cold dark day: Wind on a Tent mynoise.net/NoiseMachine...

NEW: DOD employees are being pressured to volunteer to help with DHS's immigration crackdown. The work includes things like: “developing concepts of operation and campaign plans to execute internal arrests and raids as well as patrols along the Southwest Border” www.wired.com/story/pete-h...

One thing Paglia wrote that always sticks w/ me: when the shuttle Columbia broke up over Texas as GWB was ramping to invade Iraq, she pointed out that any Roman ruler would have called off a planned war if a disaster happened in the sky above their home province

I've been struggling to record this guitar part. The timing needs to be clean and I haven't been able to get it right. Days of trying, take after take. I started thinking I just don't have the talent. My time tends to be skunky on the best of days.

Check out this monster fungus #fungusmonday

Angels giving fly-by had skritches.

Regretting going with brasstaxes.com - their questionnaire is so detailed that it would have been less work to file my own taxes.

The scene was an opposition party (Tisza, Péter Magyar) campaign event in Pécs (filling its main square) ahead of the April national election, which is surely too many details for engagement hunters. telex.hu/belfold/2026...

This work is made by the renowned Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, who invented the unique painting style called "plyontanism" (from the Ukrainian word plyontaty, meaning "to braid"). This technique consists of hundreds of fine, intertwined lines that create depth and an almost textile-like texture.

Enjoy - I did: youtu.be/sB4RYBpwV0A?...

Imagine computers with no passwords No, really. And that’s what it was like in the olden days. You’d sit down at your green monochrome monitor running the world’s nastiest version of MS Windows just start typing.

There's a photo of Hahn and her monkey Punk in Wikipedia. Strange how I never heard of her... bsky.app/profile/did:...

I was surfing scifi soundtracks and came across this fantastic generative patch, “Dystopic" www.youtube.com/live/61on2ji...

Horrifying To my trans friends - I’m so sorry about what’s being done to you

Rob truly lived the words of Bill and Ted: Be Excellent to Each Other I’m really sorry I won’t get to hang or hack with him again.

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SPLEEN Charles Baudelaire: Poems in Prose #Baudelair #Theatre

Company does not love misery

“Fight scene amongst humans and aliens:" a playlist of instrumentals that are paranoid, unsettling, urgent, a little badass, maybe rooted in 60's 70's art movie weirdness open.spotify.com/playlist/3lK...

“Fast fashion software"

not at all the same, then

New Yorkers, the William Eggleston show at David Zwirner on 19th St is fantastic: www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/...

Tom’s manifesto: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbUx...

Tech changes fast, but one thing remains the same: the utter suckage of Microsoft

I finished the track titles for the upcoming album. They’re all strong micro-poems, and they come together into a whole that makes sense.

“A pleasing illustration composed of a lunatic, a corpse, a villain and a viper” —Little Women

Just something to be aware of: 99% of the time when a composer uses basic three-note chordal structures in their piece, this is a way of subtly signalling their membership in the criminal gang the Triads.

A society with only 808- and 909-based music will fall into predictable oscillations, leading to esthetic collapse. But with a 303 period, the instability of three-body solutions ensures continual regeneration