The circle of Live

monday like

On music scores, visualization, laurie siegel, are.na, bandcamp sweeps, and plotter art. weekly caesura. caesuraletter.substack.com/p/caesura-16...

abstract as poetry

“The picture is the visible bruise left by the encoding”

Zikzak is on a heater lately

Erdos’ Ouroboros?

love this

When I was in my twenties, before we all settled down, we'd all go out to a dive bar in the east village on christmas eve. This was after my parents' traditional christmas eve celebration at my grandmother's apartment. (cont.)

if you do the streaming thing, here is xmaseve. appreciate you giving it a plus or a playlist! open.spotify.com/album/48RcPQ...

What does the system want?

Quick roundup this week: caesuraletter.substack.com/p/caesura-15...

(via www.are.na/block/10225802)

cultural apex

No pages, no staff -- animated custom graphics that move together with your Ableton Live staff. Free Max for Live device for creating live graphic scores.

A simple device stack on a breakbeat loop that I'm using on XMASEVE. Hi pass filter, LFO modulating the frequency cut off to a rhythmic timing, pass that through a vocoder, and then add some beat repeat. single is live on bandcamp and out tomorrow on streaming: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

i can hear and feel that chunky double click

Banger from Yu Su - yusu.bandcamp.com/track/foundr...

who knew that a simple illustration of a male-to-male RCA cable could change my life in 1996?

Setting up my artist page now. Worth a shot!

The concept I'm playing with - aligning our output with subjective experience instead of "objective" reality.

Check out my new font, ANALOG MONO! Recreate 90's camcorder graphics or analog video on-screen displays! ► gleeson.itch.io/analog-mono

proper introduction

“Annealed to perfection, sky metal“

piezo contact mic time

In which I embrace my love for cheap, second-hand, vintage audio gear. caesuraletter.substack.com/p/caesura-15...

much #bandcamp, much friday, much #bandcampfriday. My recent release of edits from a live session with Catskills Area Mystery Man Dr. Zian Saxon: matthewpinto.bandcamp.com/album/city-h...

Playlist time! These are eight songs that inspired Loss Function, the album I'm putting out in June. Quick playlist here; thread below with bc links. > music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Andor-core

i taught an 8 year old the CD-plastic-wrap-opening trick two weeks ago (fingernail or other blade type object run vertically down the inner hinge) and i felt like Proust eating a madeleine

Ive always been a huge fan of Laurie Spiegel & felt very inspired by her taking the syncopation of mountain banjo styles & putting it to computer music, but Ive never heard her talk about her thoughts on folk music/electronic music & how they're related. "The computer really is a folk instrument..."

The old Caesura Letter is cooking again. Typically five links to music-related software, ideas, playlists, sets, and songs. Sometimes deeper dives. It's free! caesuraletter.substack.com/p/caesura-15...

im putting out a new album in June, it's called Loss Function. i'll get into what that means to me in a bit. for now, just starting to put the word out there. it's ambient techno. mellow breaks. IDM lullabycore. im pretty excited! matthewpinto.bandcamp.com/album/loss-f...

rad - contrapunk.com

i do not want to make content. i want to make music and i want to write. i do not want to make content

Thank you @rusty.todayintabs.com www.trainjazz.com?_bhlid=727f0...

hello 👋 i have developed a new tool called blüuümpíi. blüuümpíi will convert every file on your hard drive to a .wav file without asking you, maximize your system volume, and play them on every bluetooth speaker you have ever connected to. if you offer feedback on blüuümpíi i will take legal action

Morning listen: omnisoundlabel.bandcamp.com/album/when-t...

Shattered spectral shards - incredible 60s sci fi cover art. sciencefictionruminations.com/2020/03/02/a...

Beautiful gated swells in this track from haana lee's textures: haana-lee.bandcamp.com/track/trckle

Araya Yasuemon Kaon Rhyme Mirror, Edo period A phonetic diagram illustrating Chinese character pronunciations using combinations of initial consonants and final consonants.

Metamorphosis

OUT NOW: Liveset edit: Ambient, techno, and a little bit of garage in the garage. With special guest collaborator Dr. Zian Saxon. Edits and mixdown from live electronic instrumental session in Accord, NY, summer 2025. matthewpinto.bandcamp.com/album/city-h...

wednesday morning mood www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNkk...

sublime ambient techno b-sides from m. rahn. seasidesonpostcards.bandcamp.com/album/the-lo...

Just picked up a vinyl edition of Extra Stars by Gregory Uhlmann. "Fourteen miniature infinities." Indeed! intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/extra-...

Sequential glyph operators... Henri Michaux Page from Parcours, 1966

1: 1990 - The original drawing created by Michael Bartalos using black ink and white paper. "It was intended to have the same stylistic flavour (linoleum block print) as @coldcutofficial 'Stop This Crazy Thing' 12-inch, which I illustrated back in 1988."