Ether Diver
@etherdiver.bsky.social
Weird music, esoteric sound design, music reviews/promo. I want to write about your music! Give me a follow and ask about that.
Anti fascist. Nazi/TERF/GOP belong at the bottom of the ocean.
https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/
https://www.etherdiver.com/
Anti fascist. Nazi/TERF/GOP belong at the bottom of the ocean.
https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/
https://www.etherdiver.com/
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This has always been my approach to open mic -even if it's only enough people showing up to fill up the sign up list, those people stay the whole night. Do that enough times and you start to develop taste that operates outside of your own preferences, and before you know it you have a music scene.
Oh! A big one! I long ago accepted, and EMBRACED, that my audience was mostly other musicians.
There are SO MANY of us... and we're all obsessive about music, so why not embrace them?
Those 50k other artists releasing songs on any given day? That's not your competition -- it's your audience!
There are SO MANY of us... and we're all obsessive about music, so why not embrace them?
Those 50k other artists releasing songs on any given day? That's not your competition -- it's your audience!
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
This has always been my approach to open mic -even if it's only enough people showing up to fill up the sign up list, those people stay the whole night. Do that enough times and you start to develop taste that operates outside of your own preferences, and before you know it you have a music scene.
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It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
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Ready to make the inscrutable depths of FM synthesis scrutable? Dive into my FM Basics I guide, and learn how to make the weird approaches of FM synthesis (almost) as clear and obvious as a simple subtractive synth!
www.etherdiver.com/how-to-synth...
#SoundDesign #SynthProgramming #FMSynthesis
www.etherdiver.com/how-to-synth...
#SoundDesign #SynthProgramming #FMSynthesis
How to Synth: FM Basics I – Ether Diver
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November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Ready to make the inscrutable depths of FM synthesis scrutable? Dive into my FM Basics I guide, and learn how to make the weird approaches of FM synthesis (almost) as clear and obvious as a simple subtractive synth!
www.etherdiver.com/how-to-synth...
#SoundDesign #SynthProgramming #FMSynthesis
www.etherdiver.com/how-to-synth...
#SoundDesign #SynthProgramming #FMSynthesis
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I sure do love the #Arturia #Microfreak! Here's a playlist of my videos on it. One's an intro and overview. The other two go thru each synth engine and creates a new sound for every one of them!
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
MicroFreak - YouTube
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November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I sure do love the #Arturia #Microfreak! Here's a playlist of my videos on it. One's an intro and overview. The other two go thru each synth engine and creates a new sound for every one of them!
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Black Friday/holiday deals are starting, so I'll be dedicating my streams for the next few weeks to looking at some of the synths I own (software and hardware) in case you're thinking of buying some of them!
Give me a sub here:
www.youtube.com/@etherdiver
#LiveStream #Synthesizer #BlackFriday
Give me a sub here:
www.youtube.com/@etherdiver
#LiveStream #Synthesizer #BlackFriday
Ether Diver
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November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Black Friday/holiday deals are starting, so I'll be dedicating my streams for the next few weeks to looking at some of the synths I own (software and hardware) in case you're thinking of buying some of them!
Give me a sub here:
www.youtube.com/@etherdiver
#LiveStream #Synthesizer #BlackFriday
Give me a sub here:
www.youtube.com/@etherdiver
#LiveStream #Synthesizer #BlackFriday
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IDK about potential pop stars, but if you're an underground, indie artist doing yr own thing, Spotify isn't for you. You are wasting your time & energy promoting THEIR platform at the expense of YOUR music.
You do the promo, they make the money.
Fuck that. Promote your music, not their platform.
You do the promo, they make the money.
Fuck that. Promote your music, not their platform.
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
IDK about potential pop stars, but if you're an underground, indie artist doing yr own thing, Spotify isn't for you. You are wasting your time & energy promoting THEIR platform at the expense of YOUR music.
You do the promo, they make the money.
Fuck that. Promote your music, not their platform.
You do the promo, they make the money.
Fuck that. Promote your music, not their platform.
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The horrors of Monday persist, but in this Other People's Music, so does the music. Especially the rock! 3 different strains of rock: heavy indie rock, classic art-rock, weirdo singer-songwriter rock! Plus some experimental breaks and folktronica!
www.etherdiver.com/2025/11/07/o...
#musicsky
www.etherdiver.com/2025/11/07/o...
#musicsky
OPM: Rock Persists – Ether Diver
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November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The horrors of Monday persist, but in this Other People's Music, so does the music. Especially the rock! 3 different strains of rock: heavy indie rock, classic art-rock, weirdo singer-songwriter rock! Plus some experimental breaks and folktronica!
www.etherdiver.com/2025/11/07/o...
#musicsky
www.etherdiver.com/2025/11/07/o...
#musicsky
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Let's share what's worked, eh?
What do you do to get people to actually go to bandcamp? I have made under 300 USD since 2020 and it's really discouraging when i would post daily for like 3 years and no engagement.
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Let's share what's worked, eh?
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Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias.
He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social.
(Published January)
He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social.
(Published January)
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
www.propublica.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias.
He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social.
(Published January)
He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social.
(Published January)
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November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Sony Music Entertainment have blocked a documentary on Afunakwa, the un-credited Islander voice of Deep Forest's Sweet Lullaby.
November 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Sony Music Entertainment have blocked a documentary on Afunakwa, the un-credited Islander voice of Deep Forest's Sweet Lullaby.
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KING KONG (1976, 8/10) - I...kinda loved this? I think it's grand in scope in ways both old-Hollywood earnest (even if the "natives" are a little TOO old-Hollywood) and 70s-modern, there's a sense of spectacle and enormity here that really appealed to me, everything felt large and intense and fun
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
KING KONG (1976, 8/10) - I...kinda loved this? I think it's grand in scope in ways both old-Hollywood earnest (even if the "natives" are a little TOO old-Hollywood) and 70s-modern, there's a sense of spectacle and enormity here that really appealed to me, everything felt large and intense and fun
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even as i open myself up to change the rules do not find themselves needing to
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
even as i open myself up to change the rules do not find themselves needing to
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It is only capitalism that suggests that musicians rival others; corporations that make money off the idea “You should buy our Artist©️, because theirs is bad, smelly, and no good.” We are a collective; ours is to grow, support, and learn from each other.
So yes, support your fellow musicians!
So yes, support your fellow musicians!
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It is only capitalism that suggests that musicians rival others; corporations that make money off the idea “You should buy our Artist©️, because theirs is bad, smelly, and no good.” We are a collective; ours is to grow, support, and learn from each other.
So yes, support your fellow musicians!
So yes, support your fellow musicians!
Let's share what's worked, eh?
What do you do to get people to actually go to bandcamp? I have made under 300 USD since 2020 and it's really discouraging when i would post daily for like 3 years and no engagement.
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Let's share what's worked, eh?
A M E N
sidebar but you know what would be cool... if bandcamp actually did any advertising. like of /their/ product. like Big Streaming definitely does.
people that don't make music themselves have barely heard of it half the time, i find.
people that don't make music themselves have barely heard of it half the time, i find.
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
A M E N
Get 'em while they are still cheap!
(Then rip them as FLAC/wav so when the discs rot you still have the music)
(Then rip them as FLAC/wav so when the discs rot you still have the music)
Interesting convo with a friend who owns a hip NYC record shop about a sudden renewed interest in CDs, which were a negligible part of his business till recently.
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Get 'em while they are still cheap!
(Then rip them as FLAC/wav so when the discs rot you still have the music)
(Then rip them as FLAC/wav so when the discs rot you still have the music)
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A reminder: if you are ever wondering about music, there are two feeds that pick up bandcamp links with specific genre references:
Metal Bandcamp
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Screamo, Hardcore, Crust
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Metal Bandcamp
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Screamo, Hardcore, Crust
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A reminder: if you are ever wondering about music, there are two feeds that pick up bandcamp links with specific genre references:
Metal Bandcamp
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Screamo, Hardcore, Crust
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Metal Bandcamp
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Screamo, Hardcore, Crust
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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In the 70s my grandmother, a drama teacher, was hired to give Gordon Lightfoot acting lessons. But during the first session he just lit a blunt and dozed off on the couch. “I thought maybe he wasn’t that serious about acting.” He never did break into the Pictures
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
In the 70s my grandmother, a drama teacher, was hired to give Gordon Lightfoot acting lessons. But during the first session he just lit a blunt and dozed off on the couch. “I thought maybe he wasn’t that serious about acting.” He never did break into the Pictures
Oh hey, I have been wrong a lot, I will do this! 1 like = 1 thing I was wrong about.
stealing an idea I saw floating around here. 1 like = 1 thing I was wrong about, and for once I'll abide by the like number
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Oh hey, I have been wrong a lot, I will do this! 1 like = 1 thing I was wrong about.
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65. Let’s just say that Young Adult Me was completely wrong about how you pronounce “cumin”
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
65. Let’s just say that Young Adult Me was completely wrong about how you pronounce “cumin”
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life pro-tip:
play 3 ambient music videos on youtube at the same time to really maximise the ambience to the extreme
play 3 ambient music videos on youtube at the same time to really maximise the ambience to the extreme
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
life pro-tip:
play 3 ambient music videos on youtube at the same time to really maximise the ambience to the extreme
play 3 ambient music videos on youtube at the same time to really maximise the ambience to the extreme
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I think the thing that really made the Joyce Carol Oates tweet sting so bad is that it's a nerd power fantasy, this devasting, eloquent putdown that hurts worse than anything a bully can physically do to you, and that's the kind of thing he thinks he's supposed to be doing
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I think the thing that really made the Joyce Carol Oates tweet sting so bad is that it's a nerd power fantasy, this devasting, eloquent putdown that hurts worse than anything a bully can physically do to you, and that's the kind of thing he thinks he's supposed to be doing