"My manager says I need to spice up my act. Fucking cocksucker!"

Soliciting advice on transducers for light materials, low volume-type stuff. Easy to amplify. The less soldering I have to do, the more skin I'll likely have a month from now. And, do people make these for noise folks, like contact mics, maybe with 1/4" connectors? Need to get going kinda fast 😅

The rapture so far has come for my bathroom fan and perhaps my dryer. Not what I was hoping for.

As usual, N+1 goes deeper. Stupidology www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Xynthii users, I've added some significant features. Oscs: 1. You can now switch between frequency modulation and phase modulation. Alt/option click the fm text box to switch. It is quite a different sound. 2. All oscs can use all three waveforms now. 1/4

I'm glad for this post and glad I took it seriously, because Red Rooms is the shit and I probably would have missed it otherwise. In the midst of so much "creative" horror that is mostly design decorating basic themes (it's fine, I like it), this is some real cinema. Like seeing Taxi Driver in 1976

Xynthii users, I've added some significant features. Oscs: 1. You can now switch between frequency modulation and phase modulation. Alt/option click the fm text box to switch. It is quite a different sound. 2. All oscs can use all three waveforms now. 1/4

If you like long walks listening to squelchy and squealing, occasionally grating, squiggly wiggly, somes steady state, always active textured electronics you might like From Null Lands Led, Starrily by @mphonic.bsky.social bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/from-n...

Brad Inglesby can throw in as many references to scrapple as he wants, run every script through ChatGPT to maximize occurrences of the long "o", I don't care. But the way that British actor Emilia Jones says, "Are you serious right now?" has earned her a friend for life.

This is super cool. @cranksatori.bsky.social has released the first xynthii album (to my knowledge), using a pipsqueak with spectral-tracking to control and blend with xynthii. A different approach from many of the things I've done with it, as well as much of what I've heard from other people.

Kevin Drumm showed me Xynthi about 10 years ago. I was able to get it running on a very old MacBook but this is very cool if it can now run on a modern OS

this might be one of my favorite synthesizers i've ever used xynthi was a supercollider patch inspired by the ems synthi that was used by computer legends like kevin drumm and peter rehberg unfortunately the software became outdated till now !! here's me messing with it: youtu.be/an4f3IChdVM

Xynthii by @mphonic.bsky.social is back in updated form. In 2019 I bought a 2002 Powerbook to run the original from 2006. Time warp. Now I don't have to anymore. Runs in Supercollider this time around.

Xynthii is ready. If you’ve been around for a while, you may have used 2006's Xynthi, inspired by but not emulating the EMS Synthi A. A lot of people used it, from Pita to Kevin Drumm to, well, me. It had a pretty long life, but OS upgrades eventually killed it.

No

I've been building software in an open source ecosystem populated by experts and nerds and dabblers, with the intention of sharing it with, well, you, who may or may not be one of those things. The labor for creating and distributing something this complex has been divided into the usual categories:

It took many years and billions of dollars, but Microsoft finally invented a calculator that is wrong sometimes: defector.com/it-took-many...

Back from a few days playing music in the Northeast’s sweltering August, thinking thoughts about the sounds and the people and time, all exceedingly lovely for such a humid weekday tour. Long thread. Apologies in advance.

Oldheads will know. It's nearly done.

Like Lazarus, only with more modulation. Soon to arise from a grave near you.

Three me on soprano sax next week: 8/13 Mt Tremper, Hudson Valley NY. Solo, plus Laura Cocks 8/14 Greenfield Records, Greenfield, MA. Duo with Vic Rawlings, plus Milk of Mustard Seed 8/15 The Prospect Series, Brooklyn, NY. Solo, plus Weseley / Wallace / Newsome, plus Katie Porter

Messin' youtu.be/4hL21iXWYDk

Dearest noise-making friends: What if you had the Moog Drummer from Another Mother, but you could make it... Dumber? Well. github.com/mphonic/SC-D...

I've been giving lessons in Supercollider lately, and I invite anyone who's interested, beginner, intermediate, advanced, to try a few with me. Sliding scale, remote or in person where feasible, flexible schedule. Maybe you're in one of these positions:

It might seem a funny thing to do in the age of "vibe coding" and with many artists turning away from tech, but, as one of my students said (paraphrasing), "I don't necessarily use SC to make that much of my music, but learning it gives me tons of ideas that make my music better."

I've been giving lessons in Supercollider lately, and I invite anyone who's interested, beginner, intermediate, advanced, to try a few with me. Sliding scale, remote or in person where feasible, flexible schedule. Maybe you're in one of these positions:

July 14th, Doors 7, Music 8 @ Beautiful World Syndicate. Bhob Rainey, Joey Sullivan, John Moran trio. Paula Sanchez. Philadelphia.

It's been internalized as "punching up"

Pretty good headline/photo interplay.

So good. I didn't really care much about Melville when I was a brat chewing up New Wave films, but now... but this... along with Le Samouraï... pretty much perfect.

I keep coming back to this album. Never paid a ton of attention to Maupin's career as a leader, so I assumed that there would likely be a decent collection of other material like this, but, to me, it's a one-off. Incredible, soulful clarity, unrushed, earthy. Love his papery sound on all horns.

Just finished this after a few years of stops and starts. It's good! More than half traces the mutating relationship between Qi & Dao in Chinese thought, contrasts with Greek thought - oops, no geometry - plus Heidegger (I always like a tale of small diffs btwn China and Greece turning big)

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

Feelings shared. The "Business Idiot". www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...

It's spring sunny and in the seventies today and I'm gonna ride to this motherfucker and cross it over and over like it was the bridge ever made.

Guys, when this came out, people were writing stuff about music like, "eschews bleep-bloop abstraction for a rich tapestry of sound," and, like, who feels ok after writing "eschews?" I didn't intend to listen to it tonight, but I did, and it made me really fucking happy. Happier if you, too, listen.

This is that Friday. That Friday is today.

I love this. I always ride to the end of that trail (gotta watch the dogs from that elevated spot) full of hope that it won't be the end.

Thanks to @sarahhennies.bsky.social and @falsepositives.bsky.social for recommending this conversation. I was initially only half interested since it appeared to be focused on notation, which is not an urgent topic for me. But, it's as much about why we do this at all www.e-flux.com/journal/154/...

Friday. Nmperign. Lauren Pakradooni / Bill Nace. The Rotunda. Philadelphia. 8pm.

Just yesterday I was suddenly asked to write an "article" about music I did for a play. The play is complex, oblique, and the music was done in a short time amidst chaos. High intuition quotient. For me, the process of writing was also one of understanding. I get what we did now, only by writing.

Is "torqued ribbon of consciousness" an embarrassing thing to say?

Is there a specific impetus for (what feels to me like) the uptick in "we drank from the hose" cross-generational bickering, or is it ambient cultural weather that congealed into that particular phrase?

Five recs for today. First two read a bit like "studies", the 1st, homemade organ pipery. 2nd, just-intoned cello. Those words describe things that I like but approach with skepticism because: too easy to like. Skepticism overcome. pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com/album/mi-osz...

ICYMI, May 16th, The Rotunda, Philadelphia, PA. Nmperign, Nace/Tether duo

To-night

I've pretty much been doing this. With the windows open and a massive amount of birds, including some coloratura virtuosos, just outside, louder than the city surrounding them, it dilates this fragile moment of spring that always seems gone before I notice it.

at CNMAT in Berkeley this Sunday 27 April, presenting a multichannel version of a piece from 47 Gates by me and Bhob Rainey @mphonic.bsky.social

Pretty great two-fer of recent releases. shitandshine.bandcamp.com/album/mannhe... joshuabonnetta.bandcamp.com/album/the-pi...

I dunno.