New Session Issue 4: Upheaval now live on telnet: issue4.anewsession.com featuring work by: @asterolsen.bsky.social @mbbischoff.com @ultraviolet.gay @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social ...and more! web release coming on Saturday so STAY TUNED!

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

look how big our monitors were before the turn of the century! big ol' things that had a degauss button

tonight's deep rabbit hole obsession with a genius artist who had a truncated and underappreciated career is costume designer Mary Ann Nyberg, who only did five films, but absolutely crushed them all

"SHOSTAKOVICH'S 5TH PLAYED BACKWARDS IN A CONCRETE SILO" by Sheet Noise is the best album TITLE of the year

Scully: Four helicopters and a string quartet? Mulder, what are you Mulder: *throws file at her* In 1971, composer Karlheinz Stockhausen reported having dreams where he learned he was from the Sirius system,

I tried to "further the spread" of the World Wide Web as outlined in the original 1992 whitepaper. Outraged it doesn't still work come on

the latest 10k drum machines (by @maxy.bsky.social & friends) are so beautiful kubb.mingus.space 10kdrummachines.com/machines/wor... bmo-mpc.vercel.app they're all so gorgeous, so inventive..!! I wish/dream/would die for a 10kdrumhackthon and yes AM STILL procrastinating on making one.........x

The 7 Habits of People Who Read Books About Habits

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...