M. Azevedo
@azevedoaudio.bsky.social
Audio educator, drone wizard as Retribution Body, Grammy-winning mastering engineer, acoustics researcher. They/Them
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Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people
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completely enthralled by Theodore Gordon’s book “The Composer’s Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America” -especially in resonant in our current man-machine era.
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
completely enthralled by Theodore Gordon’s book “The Composer’s Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America” -especially in resonant in our current man-machine era.
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Alice fucking Wong never had a “job,” scraped by on freelance gigs, had to win a MacArthur to keep from being warehoused in an institution, and got laid off a week before she died by Teen Vogue…
…and this dipshit Nuzzi gets like one of the few writing gigs in America? At Vanity Fair?
…and this dipshit Nuzzi gets like one of the few writing gigs in America? At Vanity Fair?
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Alice fucking Wong never had a “job,” scraped by on freelance gigs, had to win a MacArthur to keep from being warehoused in an institution, and got laid off a week before she died by Teen Vogue…
…and this dipshit Nuzzi gets like one of the few writing gigs in America? At Vanity Fair?
…and this dipshit Nuzzi gets like one of the few writing gigs in America? At Vanity Fair?
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Last Non-Event* of 2025!!! Tomorrow inside Boston City Hall – 3 great local/local-ish artists: YOONA KIM (ajaeng), RETRIBUTION BODY (custom subs & modular synth), SADNOISE (custom electronics & modular synth).
FREE, but RSVP requested. 7:30pm
*parties not included
www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...
FREE, but RSVP requested. 7:30pm
*parties not included
www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...
Yoona Kim, Retribution Body, sadnoise — Non-Event
Non-Event and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture present an evening of deep bass, avant ajaeng, site responsive electronics inside Boston’s iconic, Brutalist City Hall.
www.nonevent.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Last Non-Event* of 2025!!! Tomorrow inside Boston City Hall – 3 great local/local-ish artists: YOONA KIM (ajaeng), RETRIBUTION BODY (custom subs & modular synth), SADNOISE (custom electronics & modular synth).
FREE, but RSVP requested. 7:30pm
*parties not included
www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...
FREE, but RSVP requested. 7:30pm
*parties not included
www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...
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This Soviet cassette of Depeche Mode's Speak and Spell strangely makes it look like a classical album.
The cyrillic text reads "Instrumental-Vocal Ensemble 'Depeche Mode' Directed by Vincent Clarke".
No, seriously.
The cyrillic text reads "Instrumental-Vocal Ensemble 'Depeche Mode' Directed by Vincent Clarke".
No, seriously.
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This Soviet cassette of Depeche Mode's Speak and Spell strangely makes it look like a classical album.
The cyrillic text reads "Instrumental-Vocal Ensemble 'Depeche Mode' Directed by Vincent Clarke".
No, seriously.
The cyrillic text reads "Instrumental-Vocal Ensemble 'Depeche Mode' Directed by Vincent Clarke".
No, seriously.
Oh hey, not for nothing but WBUR thinks you should come see me play at Boston City Hall on Saturday night.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
5 things to do this weekend, including Twilight at MAAM and flamenco at The Dance Complex.
Plus, the Boston Jewish Film Festival and an experimental concert at City Hall.
www.wbur.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Oh hey, not for nothing but WBUR thinks you should come see me play at Boston City Hall on Saturday night.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
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Could a quote possibly be more on the nose for Bari, the Ellisons, the Trump movement, or this whole era in American life than "what's the point of standards"? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Could a quote possibly be more on the nose for Bari, the Ellisons, the Trump movement, or this whole era in American life than "what's the point of standards"? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
I'm playing in Boston City Hall this coming Saturday and I think it is going to be a really great show.
This Saturday at Boston City Hall... likely our final regular show of the year... featuring a great triple bill of @azevedoaudio.bsky.social (Retribution Body), Yoona Kim, and sadnoise.
More info and to RSVP www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...
More info and to RSVP www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I'm playing in Boston City Hall this coming Saturday and I think it is going to be a really great show.
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The best way to support our troops this Veterans Day is to recognize that the Military Industrial Complex uses the economic and carceral drafts to send vulnerable kids to kill and destroy peoples of the Global Majority across the world, and ending imperialism means our veterans stay alive and whole.
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The best way to support our troops this Veterans Day is to recognize that the Military Industrial Complex uses the economic and carceral drafts to send vulnerable kids to kill and destroy peoples of the Global Majority across the world, and ending imperialism means our veterans stay alive and whole.
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the jury looked right at that prosecutor and said
"croque, monsieur"
"croque, monsieur"
the fact that Sandwich Guy is facing this 'wich trial at all is evidence of subpar justice. he is a hero being put through the judicial grinder. i hope the jury wraps up a not guilty verdict without delay or loafing around
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
the jury looked right at that prosecutor and said
"croque, monsieur"
"croque, monsieur"
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going back to ringing the bell that Trump's win in 2024 wasn't because of a huge cultural shift to the right, especially among young voter blocks that went for him, as much as it was a general frustration with Biden, with centrism, and with the lack of a clearly articulated positive vision from dems
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
going back to ringing the bell that Trump's win in 2024 wasn't because of a huge cultural shift to the right, especially among young voter blocks that went for him, as much as it was a general frustration with Biden, with centrism, and with the lack of a clearly articulated positive vision from dems
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Mr. Obama sir we tried to tell you that you were running with a bad crowd (billionaires), they’re bad news
www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...
November 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Mr. Obama sir we tried to tell you that you were running with a bad crowd (billionaires), they’re bad news
www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...
Some of my old consulting colleagues at Acentech were interviewed for this article on the scourge of pickleball noise.
I do not miss consulting, but I do miss the paycheck sometimes.
I do not miss consulting, but I do miss the paycheck sometimes.
Pickleball is full of annoying traits — the sound being one of them for many communities that live near courts.
Research suggests pickleball noise can actually impact health.
Research suggests pickleball noise can actually impact health.
We set out to find the real reason pickleball noise is so annoying
The racket from some 70,000 pickleball courts across the United States has generated bitter fights. If we understand the sound, can we learn to ignore it?
www.washingtonpost.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Some of my old consulting colleagues at Acentech were interviewed for this article on the scourge of pickleball noise.
I do not miss consulting, but I do miss the paycheck sometimes.
I do not miss consulting, but I do miss the paycheck sometimes.
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Tom Humphrey www.flickr.com/tomhumphrey/
November 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Tom Humphrey www.flickr.com/tomhumphrey/
I've been listening to PE for 35 years and it's great to hear still this solid.
I get praised for my support of others,,,, let’s see y’all turn out and support this important piece of art and music history that just dropped 👇🏾
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iX6L...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iX6L...
PUBLIC ENEMY "The Hits Just Keep On Comin" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
YouTube video by Channel ZERO
m.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I've been listening to PE for 35 years and it's great to hear still this solid.
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saw this @skepchick.org video and it's stunning how effective snap is, 0.004% of tax to feed 40 million people and the return on investment is 14:1
youtu.be/l8-oYPtfsRo?...
youtu.be/l8-oYPtfsRo?...
Food Stamps are Good, Actually (Here's the Science)
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
saw this @skepchick.org video and it's stunning how effective snap is, 0.004% of tax to feed 40 million people and the return on investment is 14:1
youtu.be/l8-oYPtfsRo?...
youtu.be/l8-oYPtfsRo?...
Happy Halloween! Here is video of a Halloween concert I played back in 2023:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jx...
All Hallow's Eve
YouTube video by RetributionBody
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Happy Halloween! Here is video of a Halloween concert I played back in 2023:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jx...
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The contrast between what Obama was expected to do to atone for Jeremiah Wright's sermons, which were not at all racist, and what Graham Platner is not expected to do to atone for his own public declarations, which are, is very revealing.
I don’t run a reform school for racism. I’m serious. He could, however, consult with people who do. Read books? I don’t know.
I do believe that should those acts present themselves during a campaign, voters can judge them — they can find them sufficient or wanting. Neither would be a purity test.
I do believe that should those acts present themselves during a campaign, voters can judge them — they can find them sufficient or wanting. Neither would be a purity test.
October 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The contrast between what Obama was expected to do to atone for Jeremiah Wright's sermons, which were not at all racist, and what Graham Platner is not expected to do to atone for his own public declarations, which are, is very revealing.
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There is something truly remarkable about Generative AI.
Several years in this revolution, half of the US GDP dumped to make these tools free, and i can't think of a single generated artifact, text, image, sound, video that had a significant cultural impact.
Several years in this revolution, half of the US GDP dumped to make these tools free, and i can't think of a single generated artifact, text, image, sound, video that had a significant cultural impact.
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
There is something truly remarkable about Generative AI.
Several years in this revolution, half of the US GDP dumped to make these tools free, and i can't think of a single generated artifact, text, image, sound, video that had a significant cultural impact.
Several years in this revolution, half of the US GDP dumped to make these tools free, and i can't think of a single generated artifact, text, image, sound, video that had a significant cultural impact.
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I’ve spent the last three days balancing and mixing what ultimately became a 9-hour mix of Halloween music and sounds which were, to the best of my ability, entirely sourced from 1976. This may be the greatest thing I’ve ever done. Enjoy, freaks!
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/pnpdo...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/pnpdo...
October 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I’ve spent the last three days balancing and mixing what ultimately became a 9-hour mix of Halloween music and sounds which were, to the best of my ability, entirely sourced from 1976. This may be the greatest thing I’ve ever done. Enjoy, freaks!
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/pnpdo...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/pnpdo...
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acceptably removed from "bad choice of tattoo":
"yeah that's a 20 year old video of me with a tattoo when i was young and stupid"
unacceptably removed from "bad choice of tattoo":
"yeah i've had it for 20 years but i got it covered up yesterday after first lying about just learning what it was"
"yeah that's a 20 year old video of me with a tattoo when i was young and stupid"
unacceptably removed from "bad choice of tattoo":
"yeah i've had it for 20 years but i got it covered up yesterday after first lying about just learning what it was"
October 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
acceptably removed from "bad choice of tattoo":
"yeah that's a 20 year old video of me with a tattoo when i was young and stupid"
unacceptably removed from "bad choice of tattoo":
"yeah i've had it for 20 years but i got it covered up yesterday after first lying about just learning what it was"
"yeah that's a 20 year old video of me with a tattoo when i was young and stupid"
unacceptably removed from "bad choice of tattoo":
"yeah i've had it for 20 years but i got it covered up yesterday after first lying about just learning what it was"
Did not need this big an oof this early in my day but: oof.
Big part of working through childhood CPTSD is engaging with a kind of depressing fact: you are developmentally stunted, and have been for probably your entire life.
But it's likely you are stunted in some senses and hyper-developed in others, which is why you can seem "high functioning."
But it's likely you are stunted in some senses and hyper-developed in others, which is why you can seem "high functioning."
October 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Did not need this big an oof this early in my day but: oof.