Lustening to an old favourite, synth pioneer bruce haack, for the first time in years because i'm trying to dig up vibe references for our composers youtu.be/DQbQBW7PRIc?...

Great work from @404media.co tracing the the multi-pronged attack on culture: book bans, slopification, and the sabotage of libraries, universities, and schools. www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Broken 80s analog gear modified into a no-input mixer feedback synth gives zero fucks.

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” -- Issac Asimov

NEW: Salesloft said hackers accessed its GitHub account between March and June of this year. During that time, they were able to access data that later helped them steal information from several customers, such as Bugcrowd, Cloudflare, Google, Proofpoint, among others, some likely still unknown.

Death Stranding 2 is the most beautiful game I've ever experienced or even thought possible, really. Words utterly fail me. This meditation on connectedness and steadfastness when confronted with shattering grief moved my very soul. I award 13 out of 10 points. The best ever.

Hey, @qubitelectronix.bsky.social. The Bloom v2 module is rad and will never leave my rig. <3

house i was living in was sold from under me and since i cant get a job i cant afford to have my own place in seattle and am staying with my boyfriend. i don't have the secret to success or money OBVIOUSLY but i did work really hard to make a good album and i want my circumstances to change please

Now I just need to book performances. 🙃

This performance synthesizer patch runs on the most brutal hell energy available.

My integrity is not for sale. Fuck you.

Okay, now we're having fun.

'Swamp Thing' (1982) dir: Wes Craven 📽️

Hermit Thrush is here strictly to raise morale, nothing else. #birds

Recording harsh noise tracks seems to be an appropriate and comparably healthy response to this clusterfuck. baddomain.bandcamp.com/album/smooth...

"There is only one hope for humanity–the synthesizer." www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXgN...

Added an Elta Solar 42F drone synthesizer to my studio. This instrument is just... magnificent. One of the most immersive and rewarding desktop synthesizers I've ever played. Top-notch build quality and electronics. Perfect for ambient music compositions.

A modular synthesizer patch for (mostly) generative ambient music soundscapes.

Working on a modular ambient set using time-lapse photography for visuals. I chose heresy and used a super fast BPM to drive the patch. Result? Beautiful ambient textures that remind me of the staccato elements in the Oppenheimer soundtrack. I'll share a sample if I still like the patch tomorrow.

Event Horizon has nothing on this harsh noise hell portal.

Today was the first day since mid-November that I haven't been reminded of my shoulder separation and rotator cuff tear. I'm so grateful. This gives me hope I'll be able to continue climbing.

Chappie's happy with the patch.

Diabolical.

Beautiful noise.

Joann Fabrics is going out of business and scammers are taking advantage of people looking for deals. There is a pretty well done fake site, joannofficial dot com, that has a fully functioning catalog and shopping cart. My wife got tricked this evening. 1/5

The soundtrack for the film Upgrade is chef's kiss good. Lush dystopian soundscapes with moments of harsh noise. It captures the tension between being human and ceding control to a machine. Thanks, @musicbyjedpalmer.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDvO...

You’ll never guess which world famous album Chase has produced. #cats #synthsky #catsandsynths

My favorite guitar, ever: Aristides with an Evertune bridge and Fishman active pickups. Perfection.

If you don't have the curse of chronic migraines and the sensation of eyeballs popping out of their sockets that they cause, I envy you.

Hobby-wise, all I want is to do is perform modular sets in front of a live audience, no matter how small. I spent years doing performances on various musical instruments. It was such an awesome rush. I miss that feeling dearly.

Just for your interest - there's my Elka Rhapsody 490, perched atop my old ARP Pro-Soloist and Korg Lambda (my mighty "Tower of Cheese") - you can see the MXR Phase 90 there, with a TC Electronics June 60 Chorus to thicken everything up. 🙂 An absolutely horrendous racket ensues, I just love it.

A patch I made several years ago with the goal of turning a modular synthesizer into a string ensemble. #synthsky vimeo.com/1058839251

Reflecting on my journey to here: I was an angry little kid on Quake multiplayer. Friends I made there introduced me to the hacking scene. I started listening to NIN because of the Quake soundtrack. NIN is why I learned audio production. Quake truly shaped my professional and personal life.

Happy place with my shoegaze board.

Quality human.

I released “The Pyre” by Bad Domain. It’s about sifting through the ashes of life’s wreckage to find peace. Stylistically, it’s electronic shoegaze—a wall of sound that ebbs and flows instead of following typical song structures. It’s meant to wash over you. baddomain.bandcamp.com/album/the-pyre

#synthfam #synthsky

“It had fucking better be metal.”

Tonight I begin work on building a large generative music rig. No idea where this project will end up, but it’s going to be weird. 🤷‍♂️

here's a gift for y'all. Les Documents Interdits (The Forbidden Files), 13 short found footage stories from 1989 that, if not horror, are undeniably Weird. Interesting as one of the earliest examples of the genre and just genuinely superb art, I absolutely love it: mega.nz/folder/g3MQ2...

Some happy news—I’ll finally begin live streaming modular synth experiments later this month. Yeeting bleeps and bloops into the void always brings a smile to my face.

My ice climbing days are probably over.

Holy shit. Separated shoulder with bronchitis is like a perpetual motion machine of pain.

Can I just have robotic arms like Adam Jensen already?

Hi. I’m nullcookies and I’ve separated my shoulder in an accident. Genuinely surprised my clavicle didn’t end up with a compound fracture and my ligaments didn’t snap. Painkillers go burrrrr.

Since we were discussing technique wrt electronic music yesterday, I'd like to mention that I sometimes make videos about stuff you can do with modular synths. Here is a video about using Serge style slope generators to make obnoxious noise. #synthsky youtu.be/lCZo86Xkb60

I’m set to travel more than 14,000 miles over the course of two weeks. Not a vacation. Brutal.

The friendly community we have here is so, so refreshing. It stands in stark contrast to the toxicity over at Elmo’s Twitter.