I am defending my thesis on Wednesday! Come hang out and throw me some softball questions. Info and zoom link here: intra.kth.se/en/eecs/kale...

I'm going to use PONGS in a lecture soon and so I'm revisiting it and I am once again struck by how amazing PONGS is, it works on so many levels my little brain can hardly contain it, thank you @pippinbarr.bsky.social pippinbarr.com/pongs/

I can’t seem to find out any information about this Lego…robot…sensor…something set that I came across in my university lab, does anyone out there know what it is? #lego

My printed dissertation has arrived! I think it looks great. Get in touch if you want a copy! I can get the university to send a few to anywhere in the world.

It turns out that I can get the university to send out hard copies of my dissertation to whoever I want. Let me know if you want one, they will be printed up next week!

Just realizing that if I was clever I would market my instrument designs as samplers with roguelike elements

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

Progress in my string sampler instrument (STR-500). Now I have two of them! They are fun to play together

New paper for #CHI2026 - Play/Destroy: A portfolio of sound destruction devices. I dive into my thoughts and process behind destroying sounds, what it can mean and do. I frame it all in terms of sustainability, to push against the relentless pursuit of growth and seamlessness doi.org/10.1145/3772...

Hi. I'm still looking for work! I'm a games generalist programmer that has done tons of different things over the past 15 years: - game design & engine development - audio programming for music games & board games - graphics programming & tools engineering - ui work someone must have a lead for me?

Getting ready for my trip to #chi2026 in Barcelona. I'll be presenting a paper on Monday about destroying sounds. Let me know if you'll be there, or in Barcelona, and want to say hi!

#zine jam is still running for ICT4S! If you’d like to contribute or chat dm me. We’re inviting any kind of contribution about sustainability and ICT/tech! We encourage: - Critical perspectives - unfinished ideas - fictions - poems - photo albums - games - absurdity - thinking “otherwise”

Please enjoy the two minute crucible that is this turtle trying to get on to a log that other turtles are on.

New game: As Slow As Possible Slow down.

ok so let's all list the albums that we think best embody the aesthetic of the compact disc as an audio medium, I'll go first with Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher because I'm listening to it now and OOF it is so good

I once read an interview with a game designer who said something like "player feedback on game design is useful 0% of the time". The argument was that the specific requests made by players were almost always bad, but their feelings were correct and should be addressed. Would love to find this again.

very long shot, if anyone has a recommendation for a swedish small-scale manufacturing-type place, please let me know! I've been trying to find a local place for getting custom drilled metal enclosures for my new instruments, it has been incredibly frustrating!

thinking about just one of the many ways that academia is broken today, and wondering: has anyone figured out an automatic way to identify fake AI-generated "hallucinated" references in a paper? like, a script that checks the bibliography of a PDF for fake refs?

This game is completely amazing rose.systems/animalist/

📓 ICT4S Zine Jam @ ICT4S 2026 (Bern, Switzerland) We’re excited to host the ICT4S Zine Jam and invite you to explore different ways of doing research on ICT and sustainability. conf.researchr.org/track/ict4s-... We’d love to have you there. The ICT4S Zine Collective More info in thread ⬇️⬇️⬇️

here's 15 plays of a Bach prelude, overlaid on top of each other simultaneously

looking into making another PCB, I am once again feeling like there is an enormous business opportunity for someone to start simple + low-cost PCB manufacturing in the EU. How hard could it be?! [narrator voice: it is extremely hard]

Bela Gem is here: the biggest upgrade to the Bela platform in a decade, with a quad-core processor (PocketBeagle 2), up to 10ch audio I/O, and a completely new IDE. We've delivered the boards to our Crowd Supply backers and it's now available on our shop: bela.io/products/bel...

Trying to remember which magical realist type book I read that has a character who is trying to make a 1:1 map of the world, anyone able to help? or am I misremembering?

Kickstarter pledges for my spoke board are now out in the wild and its both very very exciting and also a bit nerve wracking.

doing a lot of pondering these days about the feasibility of a project around making a new version of the gametrak string mechanism for the adafruit/sparkfun hacker-hobbyist market (spoiler alert: I think the feasibility is low, but the idea is tantalising)

Made an "analog" YouTube book for my kid so she can choose what she wants (from pre-approved list) without being exposed to a thumbnail hellscape. Also automatically cuts her off after x scans

today I learned about this triple groove fortune telling record from 1901 youtu.be/MhZQpFKLuEE

Testing the new enclosure and PCB and stereo input/output on the STR-500 string sampler I've been working on

I've been working away on my STR-500 string sampler and (a bit) on the Memory Cloud synth, with the idea of maybe making a few for sale along with DIY kits etc. I now have a mailing list you can join if you'd like updates on either of these instruments: www.yannseznec.com/docs/updates/

this Allen Toussaint track is just everything oh my goodness be prepared for both the heaviest of grooves /and/ the most unexpected of chord changes www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zU1...

need some advice about internet things. What is a good way these days to offer people to sign up for updates about a thing, particularly from instagram? I've been out of this game for a while. Requirements: simple, ethical, free

I'm recruiting a PhD student for autumn 2026 on a project on accessibility in musical instrument design, in partnership with disability arts charities OHMI and Drake Music. Application deadline 15 February 2026. More info and contact details: liss-dtp.ac.uk/project/inst...

among the many interesting things about having a hardware project that's popular on the internet is people asking me to "share the schematics". I'm never sure how to respond to this, because it feel like it's a question that stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of the design

I've made a PCB for my string sampler and it seems to work, which is both fun and a relief

say hi to the Memory Cloud: an ultra-personal cloud library granular synthesizer that turns your memories into musical material youtu.be/O04mHHChG2U

Looks like gametraks are back on the menu, boys

Taikyoku Shogi (possibly the largest ever chess-style game) is mind boggling "The only played game in recent history was played in 2004...which took 32 hours and 41 minutes, spanning over three days, and a total of 3,805 moves" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikyok...

Wow the new iOS update really is something, huh. I really thought I was jaded by humanity’s ability to make things worse, but here we are

just heard yet another higher education person talking about how we "have" to teach students how to program with AI because that's just what's happening in the real world anyway. this is such an insane argument

Another request, music tech community (esp in Australia) pls give this a boost. A fully-funded 4-year PhD at UNSW Art & Design, working with 256 speaker array with sensor array tracking human responses to audio. The project investigates sound in the art gallery. www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...

Overhead view of my string sampler, doolulululululuboobap!

this is fine

I think about this little guy all the damned time. I saw him in the DIA collection almost ten years ago and he's remained a permanent fixture in my brain ever since. Art is fucking wonderful. dia.org/collection/s...

ahhh joining bluesky has reminded me of the whole "indie game social media drama" thing, it's been a while

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I was offered the position of manager of a combination ice cream shop and Segway tour company called Segs in the City.

Tomorrow evening Sweden time I'll do a seminar about my work. It is represents the completion of 80% of my PhD, which is nice. I'll be talking about my sound machines and the reasons behind them, followed by a chat with Will Odom. Let me know if you'd like to attend and I can send you the info.

I have always been lightly obsessed by the Philips "Pure Perfect Sound Forever" slogan that accompanied the launch of the CD. I only now noticed the translations, though. German and Dutch are basically the same, but the French was "Le son laser", which is hilariously less ambitious. Laser sound!

Love this: Dick Moby - Or, the Book "Moby Dick, or the Whale" by Herman Melville, but with all the words in alphabetical order. mouseandthebillionaire.com/dickMoby/