“Died of sadness,” according to family. An immeasurable loss.

Pleased to publish this lovely comic by Ruby Arnone about skating, transitioning, and the endurance required for each. www.simplemagic.ca/i-dont-have-...

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

It's probably about time that I switch away from Chrome anyway.

"A tribute to Michael Whelan" ...who has told you unequivocally to stop using his name in prompts. 🙄😮‍💨

What an oddly specific scam.

My friend Richard Lewer won this year's Archibald Prize. It's the only Australian art prize that the general public knows about, and predictably brings the kooks out the woodwork to bemoan the state of the arts. Richie's been a finalist six times, it's a very well deserved win.

When I’m not doing OSL stuff I build websites for money. I’m getting real tired of clients sending me ChatGPT generated walls of text explaining, incorrectly, how to achieve some feature they want.

I’ve been running a one man boycott of Native Instruments for the past six years, but I grudgingly admit that this might be a good thing if it saves NI from going belly up.

Recently Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books were $1.99 each for Kindle. I was very tempted, but if I’m going to do this I want to do it properly. My latest acquisition arrived today. 6 down, 35 to go…

I should be working, and yet...

Nightcrawler puts his spin on some iconic movie themes nightcrawler.bandcamp.com/album/cult-r...

When AI “smells bad”, people won’t want to be around it. It’s good to see that public attitudes are shifting in that direction.

When I was a kid our video store had a tiny selection, but an obscure z-grade action-slasher called Master Blaster was always available to rent. It’s on YouTube, and I certainly don’t recommend it, but the VHS ident at the start is tops! youtu.be/S_WWM1phbsA?...

Finally got around to watching The Rise of the Synths documentary, seven years later. Lovingly made and authentic, but cursory. The “synthrider” interludes are corny and cliched. Kind of bittersweet, knowing that synthwave was about to reach the limit of its popularity.

When an actor starts work on a new film do they give their personal photo album to the set design team, so they can stock the movie set with fake family photos? I have this thought literally every time I see childhood photo of an actor used as a prop in a film.

This is priceless. “Seven copies of Evil Dead” 😂 youtube.com/shorts/7Kv0y...

Fuck yeah

I'm trying to see if anybody has printed a QRD (Quadratic Residue Diffuser, aka the weird sound diffusers that are a bunch of wood cubes at various heights) and the answer is yes, a few people have: www.reddit.com/r/diyaudio/c... www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index....

Great film, great song! I heard a rumour that Dreamkid uses Hex Drum.

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Geeky birthday gifts

This should be good

Catching up on Suicidal Tendencies weekend 2 Coachella set. Robert and Tye Trujillo🤘

I posted about this fantastic FM synth when it was under development. It's now available, with tons of factory presets and 140 presets by the one and only @saifsameer.bsky.social. I notice that the plugin's developer, @sheafmusic.com, has a new EP out too. I'm assuming that Swayed is all over it!

MAVS just released a new album called “i made these songs for the final season of that huge streaming series but they didn't use any of them.“ Can you imagine? makeupandvanityset.bandcamp.com/album/i-made...

Here’s the final Biotech demo track, under my Binary Oblivion alias, some hard techno influences on this one. on.soundcloud.com/dBThLaadtWtE...

Catching up on Moby’s second weekend performance. Damn, Jacob Lusk stole the show with his vocal on Natural Blues! Here’s the first weekend’s rendition: youtu.be/A28LjnOZo24?...

Watching the Coachella livestream is usually an exercise in disappointment, but the XX did not disappoint. Romy’s performance of Angels was beautiful.

I'm also running an Absynth 6 Flash Sale where you can get any of my Absynth, Massive and FM8 soundsets for half price, using the discount code THEJOYOFSIX. Sale ends Monday 20th, April. Enjoy! :) www.theunfinished.co.uk/absynth-is-b... #synth #composer #absynth

Another Biotech demo track. Van Derand and Turbo Knight teamed up to explore the set’s synthwave side. on.soundcloud.com/2Ln1wZSdOme1...

Has generative AI produced one single significant piece of music or visual art? Like anything at all? All I see is low effort, scammy and novelty content being churned out at a ridiculous rate, squeezing out human made art.

I just learned that one of the pioneers of darksynth, James Cody Lollar (aka Gost) passed away earlier this month.

Bluesky’s algorithm is so weird. Last week my feed was filled with people announcing the death of a pet. I told Bluesky to show me less of that, and now my feed is filled with amethysts and rare rocks.

I-SAAC's demo for Biotech is a cyberpunk monster that showcases stacks of patches from the pack! soundcloud.com/oblivionsoun...

@killstarr.bsky.social's demo track for Biotech is epic cyberpunk. Slap this on the next time you're reading William Gibson. soundcloud.com/oblivionsoun...

My daughter and I are revisiting one of my all time favourite board/card games, The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game (aka LoTR LCG). We had a rules question and found the answer on the BoardGameGeek forums. Noticed that it was written by me back in 2017. A totally trustworthy source. 😂

Element Skateboard's Search video is great. Insane terrain, top tier skating, and a cool soundtrack. Alexis Lacroix's style is completely mental. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT9T...

My new soundbank for Serum 2 is available now. Biotech includes 92 dystopian sci-fi and cyberpunk patches. oblivionsoundlab.com/product/biot...

This very much sounds like my kinda thing.

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

My new album with Dogs Versus Shadows is out now! ‘16mm’ is our unique brand of radiophonic beatless acid, or “exploratory electronic music that lurks in mental doorways.” Limited edition cassette shipping from EU and UK via STR strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/16mm

Been a little nervous about my upcoming Serum pack, since I've ventured into a genre I'm less familiar with as a listener (cyberpunk). Just received a demo track from a producer in that scene that blew my socks off. Monstrous! Now I can't wait to release this thing.

OK I need to see this episode youtu.be/O_8S_7P7abM

Added some more soundset demos to Bandcamp. A pair of short chill/dreamwave tracks. Headlights is previously unreleased. binaryoblivion.bandcamp.com/album/lucidi...

Going through tracks that I composed to showcase OSL synthesizer soundsets, and adding them to my Bandcamp. binaryoblivion.bandcamp.com/album/stay-w...

My folks arrive today for a week long stay. Wish me luck!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROEI... omnimusic.bandcamp.com/album/miscel... ghost note on the miscellany EP on omni is here! :P

Just had a nice YouTube comment left by a chillwave artist called KrystalSurf. Check out their new EP, it's dope. soundcloud.com/krystalsurf/...

Floating Anarchy sent me a track made using an older soundset of mine, Photon. Really cool slow jam. soundcloud.com/oblivionsoun...