Bowerbird’s Upcoming Performances in Philadelphia Bowerbird’s upcoming season brings together outdoor listening, contemporary vocal music, electro-acoustic ensemble work, ambient sound, and Morton Feldman’s stark late minimalism. Here’s what’s coming up: Follow The Sound — May 3, 2026, John Heinz…

That Iranian Jazz playlist doing the rounds is 100% AI generated by the way. If the obvious Nina Simone interpolations and American structures don’t give it away the crisp and flawless production should.

Yet another School for Poetic Computation class that sounds absolutely vital. There is a critical need for syllabi like these in academic institutions.

While Ted was never up to much this is still exceedingly bad. Not linking the video because yuck, but here’s the thumbnail:

We had an incredible day at @radhumslab.bsky.social yesterday, thinking through the pragmatics and politics of critical humanities research. We talked through problems, methods and futures - and at the risk of linkedin-posting, it's really something to share a research centre with people like this.

Spent a wonderful few days with colleagues and collaborators of the Radical Humanities Laboratory at UCC. Great critical and reflective discussions and exciting planning for the future.

Many thanks to everyone who got involved for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland. We enjoyed a great line-up of talks all topped of with the opening of Basil Al-Rawi’s spectacular House of Memory exhibition at Sample Studios. @uccresearch.bsky.social

Quite happily entering my outdoor furniture era

I'm old enough to remember when Hinton predicted that AI would replace radiologists by 2021

For those who have never heard it, Michael Pementel articulates so well why it's such a powerful, immersive work "The abstract ambient nature of the music allows for no concrete form....The Disintegration Loops floods the listener with feeling." www.treblezine.com/william-basi...

A most ridiculous country really

8 years already? Christ.

Oh come on I was right on the money there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

It makes perfect sense. Think Real Gone meets Mezzanine.

Ultrasonic sensors are the same: Ping goes out the transmitter. Reflects off things in the world. Back in the receiver. Distance calculated as function of delay between signals with ref to the speed of sound. That reliance on the passage of time can cause all kinds of interesting problems.

Easily a top 3 husband wife & duet song just behind I Got You Babe.

If you are concerned about the government's plans to give gardaí access to facial recognition technology, then sign our petition today and help us fight back. www.iccl.ie/facial-recog...

"Now I've got claws and a harness!!"

I told the BBC AI has enabled Iran to communicate with Western audiences more effectively than ever before - tools largely trained on Western data are creating "culturally appropriate" content "authoritarian countries wanting to target the West have lacked in the past". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's not a very hot take but the scientific revolution didn't go far enough actually. If it had modern AI discourse would look a lot different. The religious element congregating around AGI would be taken far less seriously for instance.

Unforeseen side effect of the rise of Claude Code and OpenClaw has been the related surge in Obsidian.

Dark but critically important read.

Amazon WS is essentially critical infrastructure for a huge swathe of online, and therefore human, activity. It shouldn’t be, but it is. If AWS goes down all our little comfort apps from Netflix to online banking disappear. Then our power grids start to misbehave as their control systems crash.

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

It's a drawback of working between creative and technical fields that the creative work I'm most proud of exists in technical proceedings that creatives rarely visit and vice-versa. I may eventually consider launching my own Journal.

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Really looking forward to attending the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland next month !

The 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland takes place on 22nd April in collaboration with Sample Studios at the Digital Humanities Dept. @ucc.ie It will be marked by the opening of Basil Al-Rawi’s 'House of Memory' at the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion. Registration & information: bit.ly/DigiArt3

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The 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland takes place on 22nd April in collaboration with Sample Studios at the Digital Humanities Dept. @ucc.ie It will be marked by the opening of Basil Al-Rawi’s 'House of Memory' at the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion. Registration & information: bit.ly/DigiArt3

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

Jesus Christ.

The only message I'm endorsing about this particular day.

Delighted to have some work installed today at the historic Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn for @thewrongbiennale.bsky.social www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...

We just had www.conceptnull.org at #DHUCC delivering intro workshops to TouchDesigner and ESP32. It was an absolute blast with an inspiring group of artists. Thanks to Scott & Walt for all their hard work @artscouncilireland.bsky.social for supporting and Emer Yip for organising & facilitating.

Oh my Christ!

Come work with us in the Department of Digital Humanities here at @ucc.ie. We've 2 openings at the moment for Lecturer (BB) grade: bit.ly/3P5SFkx

And from today onwards, it will be available as a free download from the Crónica Archive www.cronicaelectronica.org/archive/

Come work with us in the Department of Digital Humanities here at @ucc.ie. We've 2 openings at the moment for Lecturer (BB) grade: bit.ly/3P5SFkx

Heartbroken I missed out on this!

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

I haven’t sat at a drum kit and just made noise in years and frankly it’s starting to show on my mental health.

Resources for generative art and interaction design

Some of my recent sonic work will be installed with the The Distance of Blue Pavilion for the Wrong Biennale at Millennium Film Workshop in New York on March 6. Do pop in if you're around: thedistanceofblue.com

Ring has always been a surveillance tool, but adding AI analysis and networking the devices together — like with its "Search Party" feature — turns discrete pieces of tech into massive, automated surveillance dragnets, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social writes. www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Find yourself a partner who loves you like the experimental music underground loves Giorgio Agamben's most questionable works.

We've hit the point of the semester in my Digital Art class where we have to ask, given how entangled the military industrial complex was computer art and avant garde 20th c art more generally, was the whole thing just a CIA Psy-Op: daily.jstor.org/was-modern-a...