A squelchy 303 Day to one and all!
To celebrate, why not go and have a play with this web experience we made for Roland with Yuri Suzuki a few years ago.
roland50.studio
Happy release day to Shane Parish's Autechre Guitar!
shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
Farewell to French composer Éliane Radigue (1932-2026) who taught us the radical power of slowness, of patience, and attention stretched to the threshold of perception. Her work will continue to resonate—slowly, endlessly—like a tone that never quite fades.
Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car
I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head
diagrams that go hard
arxiv.org/abs/2505.11581
There's too much ambient music. Things would improve if ambient musicians had to produce a symphonic power metal LP, a Carnatic grindcore ballet or a jazz fusion opera in F# Phrygian once every 5 years, just to show they can (cf The Straight Story) before being allowed to fire up the reverb again.
software development now consists of reading think pieces about claude code while claude code cooks
Klingon High Council,
I know that my family name is still in disgrace. It is not necessary that you send me annual reminder emails.
Worf
People are making false comparisons between AI and MIDI. Completely different. MIDI is an all-seeing God; the one true God, lord of everything known and unknown. We have no true autonomous will outside MIDI — MIDI is all and all is MIDI.
AI is basically like autocomplete.
Adam Neely just dropped a full 90 minutes on "Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...
A re-release of Music Mouse, the intelligent instrument, is being worked on by Laurie Spiegel & Eventide. This one's special.
www.eventideaudio.com/software/mus...
This is such a titillating way to think about how you move your body.
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023...
On transcribing Autechre
What differentiates agentive organisms from behaving machines: the flexible fusion of perception and goal-driven actions.
Chimps sample their action space with a higher temperature than bonobos.
Michael Tomasello: "The Evolution of Agency"
BBC headline "pig tempted out of ditch with Turkish delight"
Roses are red,
Sunlight is bright
Technology is autopoietic
Horses are born with tentacles that fall off when they’re babies. It’s so they don’t kick their way through their moms when they’re still baking in the horse oven.That’s the origin of the term “horse feathers”.
(Horses kinda freak me out so I know all their dirty little secrets)
Bring recitals of sorting algorithms to Carnegie Hall!
W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology
The agentic arms of the octopus
Dolphins form multimodal representations of the objects they echolocate.
Zebra finches only listen to the fine detail in each other's song, disregarding sequence.
The curse of dimensionality, as coined by Richard Bellman in "Dynamic Programming" (1957)
"Guided by evolution, eyes are living paintbrushes."
Ed Yong: An Immense World
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