Rest in peace Dean Roberts

Rest in peace Éliane Radigue

Rain, snow, rain

Rest in peace Alison Knowles

Rest in peace Barry Vercoe

Birds walking on the ground: it's the best.

There's a river cruise ship stationed at the park again. I wonder if they smell as bad inside as they do outside.

the starlings are hanging out around here again

small birds acting tough

wide guy

Was feeling kind of blue, then a bird pooped on me

sleep

dog bark car honk

Keeping the wood glue next to the coffee mug maybe isn't the best way to organize a desk? Thank you glue bottle safety cap.

Pepper, the grumpy kitty of the shampoo horn, used to make her rounds studio to studio

the probative recalcitrance of confusing models for reality

We will miss you a lot, Jocelyn

inside the out feeling, the okay feeling

sounds are memories

Please stop calling these silly things AI

They'll eat ya up, nom nom nom

Hey kids, stay away from computer jobs.

nothing is for sale

so much sun <3

From now on I'm calling every pigeon by their proper name, Bert

Yesterday's time was strange. Long periods of shortness, short periods of longness.

A weather storm!

squirrels are people too

Taking a shortcut home

"a balloon bursting behind one’s head."

squirrel report: tucked into a ball on the perch outside my window on this blustery day

squirrel report: my tan-ear-tuffed friend has survived the -25 degree cold days, to my relief

shift, churn,

having a cry to birdhouse in your soul

rain! after snow

Inside the out feeling

Ready for some rain, again

hello fediverse

Imperative programming is comfy

Hoping the kitty I'm watching will start snoring again, my recorder is ready this time.

coffee crash

sun, sun, rain

Respect to the end of Totem Pole on Sidewinder by Lee Morgan

rain, sun, rain

sun, sun, sun

rain, rain, rain

Radio advertisements slapping away sustained thought on the coffeeshop stereo. I'd like a real-life ad blocker.

Each piece, alone and then together

Feathers dripping dry from the drainspout with a new thought on his lips: this is tedious.

Some clunking machine at the coffeeshop is in perfect sync with the pop song playing on the sound system.

Oops! The magic smoke has arisen from the tweeter.

No space for space

I don't hate fun... ...I think?

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

away from keyboard, chair, life, etc

Best way to write programs: turn off the computer.

Spring clearing

Glue my grandmother’s earliest ancestors onto the inside of an enamel urn.

rain

Recordings mingle with the present

Recordings erase the space around you

the context is an input

heard a bird

"As HANNO says, 'My music is a universal hymn to the primitive pain and pleasure of being human'"

My coworker started chatting over wall this morning as we were both on the same server investigating something... it's the best chat client haha

John Wall didn't own a sampler until he was 40. Life can go ways, it's good to remember.

Sweet little squirrel skittering across the telephone lines in the snow, not slipping too much

Whenever I write O_RDWR it makes me think of Martin Crane

"the decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing"

taku sugimoto's since 2016... down, deep... into the depths... pitch-sound-forms...

the beauty as it flies

Here comes the train, through the twigs while the birds wait

"Took my ride", says Maurice.

The library is so peaceful

Kory Reeder - if the thought evaporates #nowplaying

Hello to the train pulling through the park on its way to the grain mill.

The spider friend in my bathroom waved at me.

Somewhere I read that changing location, like entering a room, can rejigger neural pathways so that some thoughts and memories are somehow associated with the space. It's the same for me when picking up a laptop. My purpose feels clear until I open a blank web browser window and my mind goes blank, too. In all the moments where I'm drawing a total blank, and then suddenly the thoughts come easily again: maybe that's my brain looking for the room it was in before.

Starting (again) to work on something very old, I discovered it modulates up by a halfstep twice. Up, up, done. Maybe I can work in some extremely slow contrary motion, too.

I like it when I'm too distracted to want decide what to play, but there is a tape waiting to be flipped since yesterday.

Once, or possibly never

Experimenting with going out at night and doing nothing much is a tentative success so far.

Today I have a feeling of déjà vu except it's a nightmare and it's happening in real life.

The soundworld of the river in February is pretty different from August. There are so many sloshy water-type sounds right now. I suspect some of it is actually fishes vocalizing. So hard to tell!

The last entry in my voice memos is a 436 minute mp3 recording documenting a period in the life of my pants pocket.

Sad to see moc removed from the official arch linux repos, but also cool to learn the debian project has been quietly patching it and keeping it up to date in recent years. Long live the music on console player. (And debian!) :-)

This is a great performance of Scott Lindroth's Bell Plates by Alyssa Resh.

The river was frozen for a few weeks this winter (somehow I even saw folks ice fishing at one point) but melted away again pretty fast. NOAA is saying now it's probably not going to freeze again this year. Wow.

the hydrophone is back in the water again! two of them this time. i'm hoping the river will freeze soon. one will stay until the spring and the other will come in and out for me to listen in the meanwhile...

Very exciting performance by Francis Dhomont in Russia 2016

A sweet interview with the Hartnoll brothers

New Helado Negro day!! #nowplaying

I have a habit of running system updates on my work laptop before going out for coffee. Like some kind of ritual to prepare to go into the world fully patched.

Whoops, the pool6 archival stream was down for a while. It's croaking again now.

"You know who makes very good sandwiches? Felix! Did you ever taste his cream cheese and pimento on date-nut bread?" #nowplaying

craque - perspective ❤️ #nowplaying

George Lewis' update to Voyager: Forager I love everything about this. #nowplaying

Daniel DePalmas Neighborhood #nowplaying

How long will the tomte be out?

It's nice to read Emma's blog.

The country music vamp n' talk is a nice format. A stolen-from-the-blues-thing? I like the vibe of someone pouring out their heart into the mic in plain speech while their friends pour their hearts into their instruments gently in the background.

Eve Beglarian's Did he promise you tomorrow? #nowplaying

It's awfully distracting trying to get distraction-free, sometimes.

fendoap's plain music: exploring methods and concepts #nowplaying

Found a nicely-resonant wine glass in a free box on my way home.

low fidelity != low consideration

Rodrigo Constanzo's Landscape NOON experiments. #nowplaying

August McKinney's AudioSoup sounds lovely and takes a nice approach to simple grain visualization. #nowplaying

Wonderful new collection of solo guitar music by Chris Rosenau. #nowplaying

Leslie Eaton and the Weird Winonans #nowplaying

I'll take a bit of Spring now, thanks

"The strong physical presence of the beats resulting from the two engines running at slightly different frequencies put me in such a trance that I nearly rode off the side of the mountain."

RIP Phill Niblock. <3

lmdb looks like it might make a wonderful embedded replacement for redis in astrid instruments!

a moth object #nowplaying

I've never had a punch-tape style label maker before. This is super fun. Labels for everything!

Radbound Mens' Three Pieces for Upper Partial Tones is very enjoyable on tape. Ever so slight wow and flutter bubbles nicely onto the surface of the long tones.

Printing is hard.

Hm, I just realized I probably need to finish the piano roll before I can finish 3walks...

Very nice having a working cassette player again. I'm in a virtual jungle of lawnmowers with Coppice's Bypass Ideal tape. #nowplaying

Sam Scranton's new album Body Pillow lives up to its name. Giving it a big hug again this morning. #nowplaying

The temp forecast here for the next 48 hours looks like a straight line. It'll be hovering a few degrees above freezing, day and night, just fluctuating by a degree or two. Odd.

The Rolling Stones doing Sympathy for the Devil always makes me think of slow panning studio shots interspersed with young people holding machine guns. Good job, Godard.

New Helado Negro day!! #nowplaying

lab notebook lab notebook lab notebook!

spearing from a dark house