music 🔙 timothy

the devious democrats are casting a cruel spell on babys to make them become full grown adults with hair and opinions. they're calling it "the ceaseless march of time"

i have a fundamentally unhealthy relationship with the process of music making but if I change anything ever then the music might get worse so that's a real pickle

dark souls is a platformer. like banjo kazooie

it's soooo hard not to tell people worried about having their style copied "maybe get a more interesting style"

I'M ALWAYS SAYING THIS AND YOU'RE SO RIGHT FOR SAYING THIS

Look I know the powers at be aren't gonna be as discriminate as my next sentence implies but: I kinda don't care if ppl who make the kind of shit AI slop makes get replaced

the number one sin of AI generated music atm is that the output is boring and cloying and hokey and embarrassing. i do not care if it has a human soul or not. many humans write boring tripe too

I think on some level they are being deliberately obtuse. the rockists want the things they care about to have prestige and are using "a human made this" to lash out at anything they don't like because it's a useful cudgel in this moment

the gall of bringing up autotune in 2026. remember when a lot of black artists started using it prominently as a deliberate aesthetic effect and then ten million white critics started calling it the end of musical talent? this guy hopes you don't remember!

broadly, anti-AI sentiment from artists online continues to fail the "criticize the things without being a reactionary conservative" test

radiohead

i don't think Selected Ambient Works Volume II is very interesting

the spirit of parc jarry appeared to me in the night and told me yesterdays winning lottery numbers

The ‘biggest lie’ of ‘the 90s’ was that ‘wavetable’ was somehow ‘better’ than ‘FM synthesis.’ Case in point: the ‘Mac version’ of the ‘SimAnt soundtrack.’ …What? That was ‘wavetable’? No it wasn’t. What? It was? Well, even if it was, ‘my point’ ‘still stands,’ ‘fuckface.’

It was bandcamp Friday yesterday. To support me please make sure to have already bought my music in the last 24 hours. If you haven't then it's too late. don't bother anymore

zag on 'em

today I got so mad at pytorch I gave myself a stomachache. never do machine learning

adam curtis's superhypermegaturbonormalization

“Great stuff, mate. Cheers & thanks.” Noise music guy leaving a Bandcamp review for a power electronics duo called Femicide War Crime

“she came to my dorm & started slamming my head against the exposed concrete & called me a fag“ theythem gayboy praising the top Sephora soundbar artist of the week

^ my impression of talking to someone from england idk ive never been

love my fellow Citizens, hate the refugees, simple as

yeah, i don't think the answers to this question mean what the OP is implying they mean. i imagine every country interpreted the question differently in the first place

also funny that near the bottom of this list are two of the most homophobic countries and two of the least homophobic countries. "i love my fellow citizens, including the gays" vs "i love my fellow citizens because none of us are gay"

Most surprising entry on here for me is really India. Not a country that is known for internal harmony, lately!

mitski i looove your new album but you really should not be letting your beautiful white cat outside to kill the bird that eats the bugs that drink your blood. cats decimate native songbird populations. no matter the depths of your melancholy please keep the cat indoors

"this is worse and makes worse code" that is not going to stop anyone

the claude-maxxers are right about one thing: this is probably the future of software development. if the last 30 years of software have taught me anything it's that coders eventually choose tools/environments in such a way that software dev gets more frustrating

rest assured that any monetary benefit i might have received from this association was significantly limited by the weakness of the indian rupee. and the fact that they don't pay you that much to have a government job in india in the 80s

he worked on a bunch of reforms to fiscal policy in india and opened a school for economics in chennai. he does have a wikipedia page for this reason. i'm sorry to all my fans that you had to find out this way

For the morning crowd!

I wrote about how old music (catalog) is like a money printer for rich folks that runs at the expense of new artists and music. Not great for the sustainability of music in the long term!

brodieconley.substack.com/p/investing-...