Oh my Christ!

Great. Now I’ve got Weezer’s Buddy Holly stuck in my day. Like this day couldn’t get any worse!

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

Don’t want to be the middle aged guy talking about computer games on the internet, but if Leon S. Kennedy dies later this week I will riot.

Spent most of today updating the visuals for a musical virus.

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...

I've got a fun little piece called Terminus Recoded at the Metatopia Pavilion by Aisthesis Lab for the Wrong Biennale at the moment. It's a re-cut of the much loved classic Micro-Commando Diatron-5 (1985) to my track, Terminus Abruptus: www.aisthesislab.art?pgid=ml6vhhr...

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

A fearless rocket engineer, groundbreaking artist and communist ‘traitor’ Dr @stephenroddy.bsky.social shares the life and legacy of Frank Malina in a new series dedicated to unsung heroes of science on @theconversation.com.

The @uk.theconversation.com are launching their new series on little-known but highly influential scientists with my piece on Frank Malina. It covers his time as an early pioneer of Rocket Science and as highly influential Artist later: doi.org/10.64628/AB....

Article on the Sonification of Synthetic Virology data with colleagues from the School of Medicine at @ucc.ie is out today in Leonardo. It spans music, media engineering and the biosciences doi.org/10.1162/LEON... @leonardoisast.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

Which is nerd talk for ‘I am enjoying this bank holiday immensely’.

Finally cracked open this new Uno Q and got the MCU and MPU to start exchanging data. As an SBC it's as ganky as you'd expect but, there's potential here for auditory display and digital art. Wish it had been a pure arduino initiative though, I'm suspicious of this qualcomm move

The world is a joke

I may be underpaid but at least I’m over educated .

Ha! No.

I didn't speak to Bowie or Prince in the new RC but I did speak to Wally Badarou

Oh this is very bad news. Music technology world is having a really rough time the last few years.

Were the Son of Sam killings a failure of the University system? #DefundInsideHigherEd

Had a great chat with @martinoconnor.bsky.social on @shushradio.bsky.social. We played some good music too! You can listen back here: soundcloud.com/shush-radio-...

If you want to learn about Digital Arts & Humanities and more specifically, our MA course in the field, pop along to the Postgraduate Expo today. I'll be there from 1pm www.ucc.ie/en/pg-expo/

You can just make a fake 90s OS boot sequence for fun 💾✨ Ain’t nobody gonna stop ya!

Release the Epstein Files

The Wicker Man is a musical.

Recalls this classic: youtu.be/Wh6RLOF3FrE?...

I’m talking to Martin on Shush this coming Monday at 11am on UCC98.3FM. We’ll be chatting music, research and libraries with a nice playlist lined up. Tune in! www.ucc.ie/en/983fm/

Perfect

There's people out here using microcomputers where a simple microcontroller would do and frankly I find it to be a grotesque display of opulence.

It was inevitable.

Writing a thing on the life and times of Frank Malina and my god, Jack Parsons, who everyone seems to love for his connections to Aleister Crowley -a scumbag so foul that that EVEN Yeats hated him,- was a pernicious rat. An actual FBI informant. Good Grieeeef!

Looks like the cover of The Thrills comeback album

This man has never lived in rural Offaly where we’d go 3 towns over, braving even Kilcormac, albeit with the windows rolled all the way up, for a mere glimpse of the most recent Final Destination film. Fool.

del Toro. Probably:

University College Cork will host a talk with Alan Butler, the inaugural Arts Council Digital Artist in Residence at UCC, on Tuesday 20 January at 2.00pm in the Digital Humanities Room, FSB 4.58. www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/ne... @alanbutler.info @ucc.ie

Superyikes

I in fact did not have the Black and Tans US Tour on my 2026 bingo card.

The point at which I knew I was an absolute loser was the day I got emotional on seeing a Marconigram at Kylemore Abbey.

One drawback of doing research in sonification is the sheer amount of time I have to spend talking about Geiger Counters.

Adobe Creative Cloud is essentially ransomware

We are fast approaching the Jan 16th deadline for submissions to the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland in collaboration with Sample Studios at @ucc.ie. The deadline closes this Friday at 5pm. www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/... @uccresearch.bsky.social