HAPTIC: AMBIVALENCE 2005-2025 wrap up. Departure / there / music / return. A huge thanks to all the musicians we performed with (Tim Daisy, Rose Pearl, @sethcooke.bsky.social, @sarah-hughes.bsky.social, Mark Wastell, Linda Jankowska), the venues, and to all those who attended.

Why is commercial AI so obsessed with making toy projects that have no value?

have to make a poster that involves sticking hundreds of tiny pieces of paper to a big sheet of paper and i'm not looking forwards to it

Shibboleth

thanks AI

bag with bag imagery

local website for gigs run by the council doesn't let you upload the flier as the image and requires some _other_ picture, obviously there's press images of artists etc. but why use this when in we should realise that flier / poster art is a key part of gig promotion historically and now.

attending the city museum tomorrow for an exhibition opening with some stuff I donated in it

oolong received

M U S I C I N B I O

I wonder if the train sound at the end of Pet Sounds was the inspiration for the weird and messed up digital train sound at the end of A Letter from Home by Blue Gene Tyranny. There doesn't seem to be anything online about it.

waving my hand in front of someone reading a newspaper and going CAN I HAVE YOUR ADDRESS PLEASE

I'm glad that this LLM thing has two citations for 'how many rs in strawberry' both of which are about the question and how LLMs can't get it right.

come say hi discord.gg/6ffDVRh3

I wonder if spiders enjoy the back of paintings mounted against the wall as much as we enjoy the fronts

i love to play tetris in my terminal

google's python libraries invariably make me sad

i hate microsoft !

On the 22nd of October at The Adelphi: Sam Weinberg, Emil Karlsen, and Bark (Gaia Blandina & Des Clarke duo) snufk.in/free-music-l...

Next week we're joined by Haptic w/ Linda Jankowska, Hell on Hearth, and Thomas Carroll (me)

I think if people do advanced tickets for events they should quote the final price including fees from the service they're using.

I'm playing this next week!

designed a poster

npm supply chain attacks rn:

made a plugin for sphinx to document typescript it works and that's good, but that's about it github.com/snus-kin/sph...

unicode should add a 'reverse' character that reverses the following character, you could do cool stuff like make headphone emoticons d(-_-)<backwards 'd'>

continuing to put on international acts whose music I love and respect in Leeds for two years tbh

all anyone can say about the Durutti Column is that their debut album was packaged in sandpaper

writing python at 80 chars width is really truly How Its Meant To Be Done I think

scientists have reproduced the first image from a dream

my work doesn't intersect anything thank you very much

say hi discord.gg/jNFYtVZ9

made a poster for an event @free-music-lessons.bsky.social

New site live, including a new section on art / design work. much better music section, and an upgraded Free Music Lessons site. Give it a look and let me know if you find any issues : ) snufk.in

I've had at least 70 different acts play at Free Music Lessons gigs now over the last two years

Duo with Jo Christman @ the last free music lessons, you weren't there so give it a watch youtu.be/oBVzyrgRgHA

some reissues of pet shop boys please look like this it has me creasing, completely didn't get the point of the original design

back in my day we had £50 men and not six music dads

I wish more music-related media was focused on non-musical things the musician does. Feels like there's much more to learn there than adjective spew trying to describe some release when you could have just listened to it.

TIL when americans talk about Foghorn Leghorn they mean a cartoon character and not a historical guy

The Wilko's incident...

dying laughing at this.

s*c*l m*d*a-speak is all censored or using dodging language now please just speak normally why do you care about 'the algorithm' or whatever

have the exciting choice of workmen at my house ripping up the floor or workmen at the office ripping down a wall tomorrow

so true

found a decent looking classical guitar for £25. short scale I think but with some new strings I bet it's good.

i worry that in chasing funding a lot of artists / art organisations lose sight of the fact that a lot of their art isn't important for the reasons a lot of funding bodies want to say that their art is important

i think about the kids who were quite high-energy and seemed like they were there to annoy people doing man on the street videos say to me "you trying to be in a video?" and I was like "no, sorry" and they just went "alright" and stopped there. good that.