where's the HIIT class that blasts Mozart's Requiem

Project Gutenberg is one of those places that exemplifies what the internet was initially all about: studying, preserving, and celebrating the arts, especially the written word, and Greg Newby was a huge part of that. Thank you, Greg, and rest well.

2025 and still no Aphex Twin ballet

Along with 14 other scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders, and engineers I shared my thoughts on DEEP TIME DATA ARCHIVES for the @harvardlil.bsky.social Generational Data project with @maxy.bsky.social and Clare Stanton. What data, if any, should be stored for a century? Who decides? 💎

LIL fellow @maxy.bsky.social asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?" Their answers: lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...

I made a little toy for exploring and mixing mathematically possible backbeat rhythms! In a 2-beat 16th-note grid with kick/snare/hat, there are 1,458 combinations. And in combination, there are 2,125,764 ways to fill in a 4/4. Enjoy playing ALL of them here: salexanderreed.com/backbeats

Retrospectively I can see that *Season 6 of Grey’s Anatomy* and *M*A*S*H* were both early expressions of a homegrown form of Australophobia that was beginning to shape and color Dwarven life...

CHOTINER: So you wrote how many symphonies? BRAHMS: Four CHOTINER: And Beethoven wrote nine BRAHMS: Well, yes, but— CHOTINER: Mozart wrote over forty BRAHMS: Symphony numbering was different then, and also he died at thirty-five— CHOTINER: So you had more time than Mozart

I am grateful to @maxy.bsky.social for including my vintage web based drum machine from 2012 in #10kdrummachines 10kdrummachines.com/machines/sdm...

Just saw an *Iron Maiden boyfriend / Oasis girlfriend* walking hand in hand with their respective band t-shirts and dispositions it was beautiful

absolute geniuses @natanlast.bsky.social and @xor.blue made "fill harmonics" a CROSSWORD EDITOR DRUM MACHINE for the 10,000 Drum Machines project!!!! fillharmonics.com

some recent work! shelby.cool/array-of-arr...

Just a boy reading The Viennese Ballroom In The Age Of Beethoven in Central Park while waiting for a dentist appointment

a perfect website chainmailbasket.com

Hoping someone edits my story down to a tight 0

I think the main lesson I’ve learned from watching a lot of opera vids is that it’s okay to have a lot of merely serviceable music as long as you have a few real bangers

In observance of the recent New Jersey earthquake, please check out my Seismic Activity drum machine and make a fun rhythmic pattern based on earthquake data 10kdrummachines.com/machines/sei...

A drum machine -- created by @maxy.bsky.social -- that plays patterns based on word-occurrence in classic literature Item #2 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here here here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

my harsh noise piece wasn't accepted to the [REDACTED] conference, but my pleasant microtonal soundbath was, so I guess that's cool (can't be too greedy and demand people learn that I contain multitudes)

The best parts of the 10,000 Drum Machines project are not the machines I make, but the contributions from friends new and old. Like check out this absolute MIRACLE by Viola He 10kdrummachines.com

I’ve made a start! 🥁 🥊🥚

DVD Bouncing Logo Drum Machine 10kdrummachines.com

DVD Bouncing Logo Drum Machine 10kdrummachines.com

word search drum machine feat Moby Dick 10kdrummachines.com

word search drum machine feat Moby Dick 10kdrummachines.com

all these years of Love Island, and not a single needledrop of 'Bombshell' by Operation Ivy

always loved @thelincoln.bsky.social's thoughts on the perils of what's become narrowly defined as "world building" countercraft.substack.com/p/is-your-wo...

An amazing collection of videos by @kristenroos.bsky.social detailing the history of digital painting/drawing software — from Sketchpad (1963) to Deluxe Paint IV (1991). "Paint: a timeline" kristenroos.ca/timeline

Minesweeper drum machine now live at 10kdrummachines.com

the video of "Vanishing Point", the piece I worked on this past spring as a dramaturg at the the New York Choreographic Institute at New York City Ballet, is live! www.nycballet.com/discover/sto...

Stochastic Drum Machine (where every single step and setting is applied based on probabilities). Over at 10kdrummachines.com with the ever-growing list

Chatted a little about The HTML Review with the great @kristinmerrilees.bsky.social www.phonetime.news/p/the-html-r...

my submission to @maxy.bsky.social's 10kdrummachines.com, which (spoiler) turns the entire website into a drum machine, is now online! go boot a cat or two for me

Every year @jessiechar.com and I watch the Tetris World Championships (typically the same day as the French Open Final and an NBA Finals game that we also watch), and every year we are shocked that only a few thousand people watch the streams. It's genuinely just as good

So much going on at 10kdrummachines dot com... For my birthday @jessiechar.com made an incredible drum machine where patterns are generated by USGS's global earthquake data

a whole lotta tech bros are gonna be disappointed when AGI comes and the machines are only interested in making noise music

a perfect website www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/i...

The good @skatebylines.bsky.social has produced audio of my chapter from The Most Fun Thing dedicated to closely watching Dylan(.), the most beautiful man to ever stand on a skateboard, and arguing that the human soul is transmitted & received by the nuances of style. soundcloud.com/skate-byline...

today's drum machine - "The Terminator" 10kdrummachines.com

today's drum machine - "The Terminator" 10kdrummachines.com

Thinking about how data storage keeps getting smaller and cheaper, data centers are maybe the biggest construction growth market in the US, and yet Glitch dot com's likely few hundred at best terabytes were deemed too costly for the bottom line

my newest drum machine at 10kdrummachines.com uses "famous" number sequences to create rhythms. Everything from Fibonacci and primes to numbered street Manhattan stops on the 6 train Make some beats. And then make your own drum machine and send it to me so we can publish it!

MAKE WEBSITES LIKE THIS www.myphysicslab.com

Two more drum machines added at 10,000 Drum Machines today, an excellent "Centre of Mass" drum machine from Chris Johnson, and a piece of anti-4/4 time signature propaganda from me 10kdrummachines.com

"MORE PRODUCTION"

Incredible things are still happening at 10kdrummachines.com We now have the "Boots and Cats" sequencer you've always wanted and a machine where you are limited to four random 0.5 second slices of The White Album Danger Mouse LIVES

During the ball at Netherfield in Chapter 18 of Pride and Prejudice, Mary Bennett is in the middle of a complicated classical concerto and her sisters fucking yell at her to play something they can dance to with the officers. People have been telling DJs to just play the hits for hundreds of years

A Moment of Romance is so crazy for being kind of a normal over the top early 90s HK action movie and then having shots like this in it