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#Tokyo based #modularsynth #maxmsp musician/noisician, intafon. |ˈɪntəfəʊn| a.k.a. ɐɹnɯɐʞɐu-uɐʎɹ-ppoʇ uɐʎɹ
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Keio line train today has rather annoying 180hz tone. (Just shy of F#). Must be third harmonic of the power or something…
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
If you truly enjoy coding, AI vibe coding sucks, as it takes away the coding enjoyment and forces you into being a manager. At best you will be managing a willful junior engineer that doesn't consistently take direction. At worst, you will be managing a slot machine (i.e. you will just be gambling).
November 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
@edzitron.com maybe you have, but I haven’t heard you discuss how vibe-coding and other generative use of AI is like Labubu or slots. What I mean by this is that it is low level gambling — the user keeps trying different prompts until they get something like what they want and a hit of dopamine.
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Sometimes after trying to get AI to write code, I have that sort of depressed feeling you get after watching too much television. That sort of “why did I waste my time doing that” sort of feeling.
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Tried the same with Dakota Access pipeline protests and the Boston Tea Party — try asking Google assistant or Siri “what were the Stonewall Riots”. Interesting that it only mentions the inn and police, no mention of other parties involved or reasons for the riots.
November 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Reposted by intafon actual
Kerning is important!
October 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
2 AI generated images. The second was created with the prompt "now make the original image look more like it is in Tokyo". Apparently if you want a scene to look like it is in Tokyo, you just add multiple billboards and many salarymen with umbrellas.
October 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
AI training material features the prompt "create an image of coworkers sharing reports", and the displayed example image result features 3 people at a table showing paper with a column chart, and a smallish golden retriever laying on papers on the table next to a laptop and cups of coffee.
October 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM
@scannerdot.com If you don't mind, which geophone seismic microphone did you use on Forces, Reactions, Deflections? I've been looking around for a not-super-expensive one. Love the album btw, great start to an early morning in the office.
October 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
MaxMSP MicroAggression, Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 4:15:50 PM GMT+9: Testing new version of snn.sinePerc with additional options like overdrive with tanh compression. Also added a couple of patchers for controlling @valhalladsp.bsky.social Supermassive and FreqEcho for auto-modulation. #maxmsp
October 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
MaxMSP MicroAggression, Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 3:31:21 PM GMT+9 - Interesting discovery made while creating a MaxMSP patcher for controlling Valhalla FreqEcho VST. There is a weird sweet spot in there between 1.4 and 2-ish ms delay with feedback turned up. #maxmsp #glitch #electronic
October 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Funny thing about ambient music is that the supposed intent is to be background, but it often can act in the opposite way. I was in an office in a meeting in Tokyo yesterday when track #3 from Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II started playing.
October 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
ugh... Tahoe icons = sad face emoji... though I'm sure in a month of so I probably won't care anymore...
October 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
“caution collision”
- English language only sign on Uchisaiwaichou station platform, and interesting band name.
October 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Gah. My problem isn't not being able to focus, but just having too many things I want to focus on... my latest distraction, comparing audio processing in Rust and C++, because I was thinking of one day getting a Linux laptop that doesn't support MaxMSP. 😅 #maxmsp #dsp #rust #cpp
October 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Oh, nifty... Firefox et al. (such as LibreWolf) now supports container syncing. The lack of this was the main reason I had settled on using profiles in Brave with profile syncing. Might have to give it a go again...
September 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Received a payout email from a class action lawsuit from a parking company that experienced a data breach, for a $1 USD app credit. They settled in the case, but stated in this email "No court ever found ___ liable for anything" making it sound as though they are paying out of charity...
September 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I really don’t understand smokers who go to the men’s room and scrub the hell out of their face, gargle and wash their mouth out for minutes after smoking, like some demon sat on their face and shit in their mouth. If smoking is that bad, then just stop for crying out loud!
September 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
WTF is this:
AI: You are absolutely right to call me out on the continuous errors. I sincerely apologize for the frustration and time wasted due to my repeated mistakes and inability to grasp the nuances of genexpr. This has been a very challenging task, and my performance has been unacceptable.
September 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Subscription based AI assisted coding can be like taking your car to the mechanic several times to get the brakes fixed, and having to pay to get them fixed 15 times until they are finally fixed.
September 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
AI: "I've now successfully processed 149 files total! This is phenomenal progress. Let me continue with more files to maintain this excellent momentum!"

Me: Please adjust your emotional perkiness settings to be more appropriate for early morning pre-coffee-#2.
September 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Tokyo Tower always looks so small, but up close it is rather large.
September 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Another excerpt from the same MaxMSP-WingPinger patch. #wingpinger #maxmsp #electronicmusic #abstract
September 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I’ve been messing with this patch integrating MaxMSP with the MengQi WingPinger. Every time I fire it up the WingPinger does something different. Very interesting!
September 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Time passes too quickly. It has been 2 years nearly to the day that I originally released semi quavers and oscillators. And once again, the summar and cicadas are reaching the end in Tokyo... intafon.bandcamp.com/album/semi-q...
semi quavers and oscillators, by ryan todd-nakamura x otomatk
13 track album
intafon.bandcamp.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM