if you're in berlin come say hi at ikii tonight... lush ambient with good friends (hifi + sake = yum)

what if photo dumps were preset banks 🤔 @manifestaudio.bsky.social #synthsky

Old and busted: audio-reactive visuals New hotness: video-reactive... audibles? More fun with the Data MIDI #Sonification Tool from @manifestaudio.bsky.social: manifest.audio/data-midi (With apologies for the incessant bobbing & weaving 😅) #synthsky

🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this. Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...

Brainwave sonification experiment: Muse 2 headband transmitting to Mind Monitor iOS app, which converts brainwaves to OSC, sent via wifi to the @manifestaudio.bsky.social Sonification Tools I developed, running in Ableton Live 12. #synthsky #braindance

Excited to share this method I've been teaching for years - download link for the free guide + audio effect rack at the bottom of this thread...

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

I wish every image of Gaza bombed and razed into smithereens included a “before” shot, when Gaza — even after decades of brutal occupation, of crushing blockade, of periodic bombings — was so lush, so green, covered in palm trees and beautiful buildings.

NEW: Since giving NYT hacked info from a Nazi and sending a swastika push alert, Substack's extremism is in the spotlight again. An investigation finds Substack is a haven for newsletters dedicated to white supremacy—with the co-founders' blessing. A collab between @katz.theracket.news and me:

This an especially amusing case of -- I needed to figure out how to do something and the best documentation was by me. (well not so much me as @isotonikstudios.bsky.social and @noahpred.bsky.social but on CDM)!

cool how the Nobody Wants To Work Anymore guys are also the We Don't Want Human Employees Anymore guys. we're working as hard as we can to replace you with an iPad but until then let's see some hustle out there

we are so literally cooked

The world is letting them

Reminder that all proceeds from our Desolation Echo go to the PCRF - but today's a great day to give directly... pcrf.net ✊💙

This story is updated. I stand by my reporting on this and throughout the past years. Our ability to make music depends on safe spaces. cdm.link/no-more-musi...

stop fighting / start uniting: did a mix of unreleased material from the vault + some of my favorite classics from that era for the technaustia crew: soundcloud.com/area3000/tec... / if 1 ≠ free then free = 0

Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation

feels more like plato's GRAVE in here today, what's got you guys so bummed out? oh did you figure out the thing with the shadows

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Push the limits of musical creativity with MIDI Toolset 003: our latest suite of advanced MIDI Tools with four powerful Generators and eight versatile Transformations - on sale now with introductory pricing for a limited time only: manifest.audio/midi-toolset... 🎛️💡🔊

Psyched to show what these can do… join in!

The President is slashing government services, sending troops into US cities to abduct people, illegally bombing Iran, and the Democratic Party is mobilizing its full might to … stop New York City from electing a mildly left-leaning mayor.

this has to end. these people have to go. let the people who have to try to live in the future you ghouls created try to navigate it. youve done enormous, unfathomable damage already. retire

Do the right thing: rank me #1, Zohran #2, and DON'T RANK ANDREW CUOMO.

I've been back and forth with friends in the last days. The message has been clear: don't be silent, and don't let the media ignore death and destruction in Iran. Round-up with resources, what artists are saying, and eyewitness reports:

With the arrival of Live 12.2, X-FX v2 is finally here: new algorithms, new devices, new features, new designs. On sale now with a deep introductory discount for less than two weeks! Learn more, try the demo, save now: manifest.audio/x-fx 🔌💡

🆕 🥳 X-Pressor now gets an automatic Make-Up gain toggle and interface improvements. 🆕 🥳 In Relay or MIDI input modes, X-Delay now features an optional delay time quantization option to quantize transposed delay times to the nearest selected timing interval (ie., 16n, 8nd, 32nt, etc.).

Going live with @noahpred.bsky.social to explore our powerful new X-FX in 20 minutes - join in! www.youtube.com/live/cVXWCNc... 👀

Is pure evil good or bad? The debate continues

Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

Time for another stream. 📡💫 We are going live in t-minus 40 minutes with @noahpred.bsky.social to unfold a future-forward bass track from a single solitary MIDI note - using mostly free tools! Lock in: www.youtube.com/live/jvrAj4g... 📺

Our powerful polyrhythmic pulse generator is on sale now!! Enter PLAYGROUNDING at checkout for 20% off Pulse Engine until May 31: manifest.audio/pulse-engine 🔵 🟡 🟢

Should be a fun one… join in!

please listen to the new KAMM record

Weekend viewing bonus - check this recent deep dive on our Sonification Tools with @noahpred.bsky.social for Design Research Week 2025 at Northeastern University: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Md...

Join in - always a fun ride with Mr. Selway..!

never forget

Projected onto University of California Berkeley's sproul Hall by artist Michelle Pred

burnt friedman at the neighborhood soundbar. a welcome respite

Livestream session today with @noahpred.bsky.social diving deep into Pattern Engine: our generative sequencing powerhouse that just happens to be on sale... 📡 Join in: www.youtube.com/live/zAd8tiq... ✨

Feel like things are falling apart? Let's build sonic shelter - follow along in a couple hours as I develop a warm and spacious house jam while - stretching musical construction metaphors well beyond all reasonable limits... 🛠️

Congratulations to all the winners of this year's inaugural Data Sonification awards! The winners have been announced - check out their sonifications here: sonification.design 🔊

ICYMI: Our full line of Sonification Tools just got a major free update with 64x image and video zoom, 2 new video modes, play Once trigger mode option, improvements & more... 🙌 manifest.audio/sonification...

Join Ableton Certified Trainer @noahpred.bsky.social for a dub-wise junglist expedition into our new modulation and sonification features - along with some of the amazing new updates in #Live 12.2, streaming live in just under an hour at: www.youtube.com/live/URzJdiB... 🌴🔊

Government funding expires March 14 and there's a chance they'll need Democratic votes to prevent a shutdown so that could be a good time to demand that Musk and his teens are out of government and an impartial investigation into what they've done thus far

Solvoid - Nine (Plus) out now wherever you listen [except $p0tify] 📡

Only a few days left to save on the introductory sale pricing for our revamped Sonification Tools v2 Bundle - until March 3 at: manifest.audio/sonification... 🔌⚡️

Creative looping, generative sequencing, multitimbral workflows & more - it’s back to future basics in our latest livestream... join us in under an hour for a deep-dive into future-forward broken beats with @noahpred.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF_z... 📡✨

After releasing these new Sonification Tools (including my first ever sonification synth) + an inspiring workshop with Portrait XO at this year's CTM Festival, I felt compelled to distill some thoughts on sonification as conveyance, creative expression - and encoding method…

Very cool to see @futuremusic.bsky.social spreading the news about our latest Sonification Tools..! 😎https://futuremusic.com/2025/01/manifest-audio-unleash-data-synth-sonification-tools/ 🛠️