All week I’ve been walking around staring open-mouthed at all the colors

No AI here

Pinch me, I just hung out with friends OUTSIDE and we didn’t have coats on.

This week's newsletter is about the differences between "bands" and "ensembles," where Philip Glass fits in that, and the newest music from Claire Chase/Terry Riley, & co.

Hey LA listeners, the beautiful film “For the Love of a Woman” is premiering in LA this weekend And NYC, it’s screening for a week in June at the Quad Cinema

Honestly one of my fav things every year

I’ve disabled trackers and cookies and scripts so now most websites are completely blank…and I think I’m ok with that.

Sometimes I get all tied up in knots about whether to release my film scores. The music is made in service to a film so the choices I make are different and I might play other instruments. I still don’t know if it’s wise but in a spontaneous moment I released “The Edge of All We Know”

Audio nerds, what is this connector? It comes out of a wall of my house where I think the previous owners had a home theater and I’m guessing it connects to the speakers in the living room and kitchen ceiling that I have NEVER USED.

Here is Big Bad Biden being kind to my son

We saw the movie that was Knives Out but make it sheep and it was good

Subvert is a new platform and I’m sure they are working hard to iron out any bumps. One of these bumps seems to be that old nemesis that has been rejecting my special character and throwing errors since the 90s…. ie if you search on Subvert for “Zoe Keating” it will not find “Zoë Keating”.

I just made two purchases on the newly-launched @subvert.fm site: Two albums by @zoekeating.com (modern classical, found by looking for launch posts by musicians), two albums by Educated Owls (post rock by DC-area musician, found by trying stuff at random). What will you buy today?

Congratulations to artist-owned music platform @subvert.fm on their launch! In honor of the occasion I’ve released the score to “The Edge of All We Know”, a film about the Event Horizon Telescope, exclusively to Subvert. Anyone can listen and if you’re a member, you can download it for free.

Happy Birthday to my amazing boy who is so sweet and kind and creative and smart and funny and talented and cool and quietly strong and 16 today.

This is outrageous and hope Ashley MacIsaac wins. I remember being livid 10+ yrs ago about mistakes that appeared in the then new meta page that Google spawned about me. The only way I was able to move the needle was through a friend of a friend. What Ashley is dealing with is exponentially worse

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Subvert launches on Tuesday 12 May. We are now just days away. If you are a Member of Subvert, check your email for more details on how we will launch together next week. Not a member yet? These are the final days to join as a Founding Member of Subvert. Join the co-op at subvert.fm

This is wonderfully framed: “Art is…present across every system of power for five hundred years, empire’s trophy and the site of resistance simultaneously. The medium controls what flows. Art is what people reach for when they want to say something the medium was built to suppress.”

Roe V. Wade

Interrupting this Mother’s Day evening to bring a pronouncement from my teenager: from this day forward every and all movie remakes shall be done only by the Muppets

"Honestly, how hard is it to be perfect in a precise, scientifically calibrated way designed to be 100% infallible without ever being exhausted, needing a break, or losing your cool for a single second from the time your children are born until each one goes to college?" buff.ly/yiV5KNc

Fuck

Happy 100th birthday to the great Sir David Attenborough

Do other countries also let the ruling party manipulate the boundaries of electoral districts in order to hold on to power?

The Trump administration is deleting government data

I never get tired of watching this

Jon Stewart talking to Amy Goodman. The film about her “Steal This Story, Please!” is in theaters nationwide right now, go see it! * * * *(ps I made the music score)

One part of another incisive thread from @doctorow.pluralistic.net

Pleased to report my terrible French was finally useful. I couldn’t get past the robots of an automated phone tree so I just started speaking appalling French and I was connected with a representative immediately!

I personally love to read shit like "U.S. Pauses 'Project Freedom'" in headlines. Not all good jokes need to be complicated.

Among the many tragedies of America this is a huge one

incredibly ambitious & righteous program being built by Mitch Harris (Napalm Death) to connect bands directly with promoters & generally make touring more doable. Very worth looking into, hope it launches tourflip.com

Vermont spring is so astonishing: nothing happening nothing happening nothing happening nothing happening nothing happening and then BOOM, spring happens in four days

I am a terrible person. I don’t know if I will remember Giuliani but I will always remember Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

My dad took me to see Star Wars in Medicine Hat, AB. I was 5. All I remember was the terrifying entrance of Darth Vader and my dad hustling me out of the theater because I was screaming. May the 4th be also with you

I wish a disembodied hand would appear and smack them in the face with a glove everytime they blame Biden for their incompetence

A while back I asked for recommendations for a simple non-phone mp3 player for my son. Here’s an update: I gave him my almost 20yr old old iPod Classic and he LOVES it. Long live the iPod

SCOTUS saw that Louisiana had two Black congressmen and said "What is this, Showtime at the Apollo?"

Post your warning sign

It happens every year that Vermont spring takes longer to arrive than I expect and I start to worry that maybe it won’t happen. At last, it is here! This morning there are even some trees that appear more poof of green than twigs.

Mail seems slower than ever. Today in the post I got three weeks worth of New Yorker mags, a letter from San Francisco that took 3.5 weeks to travel to Vermont, and a letter from 2hrs away that took 10 days. If you vote by mail probably safest to mail it a month in advance?

Chicago folks! Amy Goodman, independent journalism, cello music soundtrack!

What number constitutional crisis is this? I’ve lost track

If you know you know …..

“Unexpected placements in film, TV and advertising can also bolster labels during tough times” That’s certainly what has kept me afloat the last decade but one issue I haven’t seen mentioned, maybe because it’s so secretive…I think those little instrumental placements are getting eaten by AI

I got a reply from @routenote.bsky.social after asking them if they could explain the recent doubling of their payout transaction fees. * (*The fees are now 4.5% of royalties even if you pay for Premium service which advertises “keep 100% of revenue”) It’s a long reply, posting it below: 1/

In 1791 each member of the House represented 33,000 constituents. Today, each each House member represents about 761,000 Americans. It is time to make our House bigger.

🙌🙌🙌🙌 thanks for posting this!