Perfectly timed release for a Friday in Aoteatoa! Paul St. Hilaire - w/ The Producers #tikiman kynantrecords.bandcamp.com/album/paul-s...

Released a new gore #soundfx library last week - last few days for discount! #sounddesign #gameaudio HISSandaROAR SD080 SQUELCH GORE www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Lz... hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibr...

wish I could get to this exhibition in Auckland: Philip Clairmont - Windows gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/... #nz (saw one of his paintings at Park Road Post & started scheming if it was feasible to steal it... hiviz + a trolley = ?)

not sure what time signature this doggo works at??

Luxon is a believer #nzpol #therapture

I feel bad for the generation of people handing over their ability to act creatively to AI… i don’t think they realize that creativity is a muscle, and when you don’t use it-

UK under attack! photo credit to: Fuzzypiggy commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To...

I met a time traveller this week! I went to an auction & bought a camera: an 1898 Lancaster Instagraph! 1/n

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

NorWester painted across the sky dusk Mana Island #wellington #nz

David Lynch's house is up for grabs. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

one spare channel on the recorder! MKH8020/CUX100k/8040/8050/8040/CUX100k/8020 to SoundDevices MixPre10-II #fieldrecording

Dusk, down the road from the lambs Hunterville #nz

I don't use a boom very often, but when the talent requires it... #fieldrecording

#nuzic www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pbY...

Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/

Cat vs printer - which is reliable? (by Lynn Miclea)

Ahooga! Final 48 hours of the HISSandaROAR sale Last Orders.... #sounddesign #GameAudio

One for the birders: Frequency dependence of parabolic microphone gain legallyblindbirding.net/2023/10/13/f...

My birthday present to myself arrived... First quick jam and... WOAS = OMFG!!!

Random normie: What are you working on at the moment? Me: um... Fisting a watermelon... #sounddesign can be messy!

What genre is your new album? um....

Pretty sunset just now! Sunset is getting a little later every day and is creeping South, back towards Mana Island... time to get some seeds in the ground! #nz

I did not know about DSP56300 Emulation, which sounds a tad boring but... same site hosts free Access Virus A/B/C/Ti/TI Snow, Walfdorf MicroQ, Microwave 2/XT synths to be used with their DSP emulator!!! #synth dsp56300.wordpress.com/vavra/

HISSandaROAR Sound Design Challenge 07: - Make this robot dance & then malfunction, within 30 seconds - Only source material is provided Win free sound libraries! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTEj... hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibr... #sounddesign #gameaudio

one of Bluesky apps UI flaws occurs when you save an image. The Save button is at the bottom of the screen. The confirmation is at the very top of the screen, which is where I am not looking as button requires finger/eye coordination. Every time i save, no response. Save again. Oh right. UI flaw

Lugosi

oh! new Mark Ernestus mix on soundcloud (& downloadable) soundcloud.com/resident-adv...

Using two massage guns on resonant objects = new HISSandaROAR library SD079 VIBE GUN! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkb3... hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibr... #sounddesign #gameaudio

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGy8... "the pause/paws between the notes, that's where art resides..." Artur Schnabel/some cat

One of new HISSandaROAR #sounddesign libraries just released: UI Magnet Snaps! Capturing clicks & double clicks of magnets grabbing metal objects.. #gameaudio www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nxX...

AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

Wahoo! HISSandaROAR 15th Birthday Sale has now started!! Every sound library is auto-discounted 50% and by the end of August COMPLETE will reach 205, so its also discounted and now includes one year of new releases. hissandaroar.com #noAI #sounddesign #gameaudio

Reading James Baldwin and every page seems to glitter with wisdom.

dusk light - Mana Island Aotearoa #nz

Finally starting to get my head around working with a matrix rather than a single procedural timeline of data points to generate sound. All thanks to @cycling74.bsky.social Jitter, Gen and MC objects

@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social talks to film editor, sound designer and director Walter Murch about working on Apocalypse Now, the Godfather films, The Conversation, Barton Fink and Return to Oz..

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

Anyone #sounddesign remember this guy/fraud? Brice Carrington www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/remembe... Turns out he did get a credit on IMDB - someone made a doco about his fraud lol www.imdb.com/title/tt1931... Now I want to see it!

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

hah! Wellington Film Society are screening Polyester (John Waters 1981) July 28th and they have the “scratch and sniff Odorama” cards for it! #wellington wellingtonfilms.nz/films/polyes...

a random find at Helter Skelter today in Lower Hutt, a toy parabolic dish! #fieldrecording #wellington #nz

Excellent event for music locals!! Spotify & Ek are toxic, extracting $$$ from music for AI warfare tech

Seagull checking my symmetry.... Plimmerton today, flat as! #nz

Learning how to play piano #sounddesign

Hokkaido cyanotype If you see this, post your blue art