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💿 Experiments in Digital Music
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John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Feb 19
I've managed to essentially switch my entire workflow to Open-Source. Here's a page created to share the tools I use: johnoestmannmusic.com/tooling/

#opensource #gameaudio #gamedev
Open-Source Tooling - John Oestmann Music
I believe that Open-Source is one of the strongest cultural movements towards diffusing power structures. I use Open-Source tooling throughout the production of my works to show that it is not only po...
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💿 Roadtrip
youtu.be/n732LURXJA8?...

Free use for projects | Download from website | CC0 / Public Domain

#ambient #soundtrack #opensource #synthesis
Roadtrip
YouTube video by John Oestmann Music
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December 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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💿 Thunderbolt Lab
youtu.be/BbUU8OLXtBE?...

Free use for projects! | Download from website | CC0 / Public Domain

#videogamemusic #retro #90s #house #opensource
Thunderbolt Lab
YouTube video by John Oestmann Music
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December 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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If you liked "It's Time to Go Home", you'll love "Smol Penguin!"
Haydn Smith has created another tiny & super charming game, and I gladly did the soundtrack again.

Play the game at badmojoverybad.itch.io/smol-penguin

#videogamemusic #gamejam #penguins
Smol Penguin! by BadMojoVeryBad
Explore adventure, friendship, and kindness as a very smol penguin.
badmojoverybad.itch.io
December 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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💿 DigiChip Monastery
Free use for projects! | Download from website | CC0 / Public Domain

youtu.be/IV7NlOt0tFk?...

#electronica #videogamemusic #opensource
DigiChip Monastery
YouTube video by John Oestmann Music
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November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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💿 Component Workshop
youtu.be/iA-RxJTCYiA?...

_software: Cardinal + Ardour
_download + project: johnoestmannmusic.com/component-wo...
_license: CC0 / Public Domain dedicated

#electronica #chillout #opensource
Component Workshop
YouTube video by John Oestmann Music
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November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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One of the areas of AI I am genuinely excited about, and didn't realise it was already here!
Download and run models on your phone - no cost, no data sent anywhere, and works completely offline!

I recommend starting with the Qwen 1.5B model.

github.com/a-ghorbani/p...

#ai #opensource #privacy
GitHub - a-ghorbani/pocketpal-ai: An app that brings language models directly to your phone.
An app that brings language models directly to your phone. - a-ghorbani/pocketpal-ai
github.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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💿 Starter Deck | Free use for projects!
youtu.be/LpKxXHQY40c

_software: Cardinal (VCV Rack) + Ardour
_download + project: johnoestmannmusic.com/starter-deck/
_license: CC0 / Public Domain dedicated

#electronica #videogamemusic #opensource
Starter Deck
YouTube video by John Oestmann Music
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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💿 CSTMSHOP
youtu.be/BwokJZDTGsA?...

_software: furnace-tracker [GBA MinMod]
_download + project: johnoestmannmusic.com/cstmshop/
_license: public-domain / cc0

#gba #videogamemusic #opensource
CSTMSHOP
YouTube video by John Oestmann Music
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November 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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🎵 Megasun Horizon
youtu.be/4AQ0OZg8F3E?...

New album is all about Databending!

_software: Audacity, Gimp
_download: johnoestmannmusic.com/megasun-hori...
_license: CC0 / Public Domain

#glitch #ambient #electronicmusic
Megasun Horizon
YouTube video by John Oestmann Music
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October 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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It may be unconventional, but this short album is probably the truest expression of myself so far. It means a lot to me, and I hope you can find a part or few to connect with. Thank you :)

johnoestmannmusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-...

#electronicmusic #experimental #opensource
a_new_day_in_the_workshop [ Vol II ], by John Oestmann
11 track album
johnoestmannmusic.bandcamp.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Ah, *that's* what AI companies are doing. The business model is not geared towards making money from customers.
It's geared towards making money from investors.
That's why it's 80% hype-farming and only 20% building useful products.

pluralistic.net/2025/10/16/p...

#ai #latestagecapitalism
Pluralistic: The AI that we’ll have after AI (16 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
October 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Realizing how much of my love for future tech growing up was actually just awesome music and aesthetic design of the 90s / early 2000s

It's was always just cool art from the present 🤩
October 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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🎵 times
youtu.be/RW0CoTkCZmc?...

_software: Audible Planets, Audacity
_download: johnoestmannmusic.com/times/
_license: public-domain / cc0

#ambient #electronica #midwest
times
YouTube video by John Oestmann Music
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October 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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🎵 Photographia Sunbox
youtu.be/XvSh_PIkdWo?...

Download: johnoestmannmusic.com/photographia...

#electronica #ambient #experimental
Photographia Sunbox
YouTube video by John Oestmann Music
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September 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Trying to follow intuition as my artmaking process more:

youtu.be/iArfAiCX9bI?...

#electronicmusic #ambient #loops
Patchwork Transformations
YouTube video by John Oestmann Music
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September 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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It struck me last night that the internet actually isn't getting worse.

It is still far easier to find great and sustainable resources than it was even 5, 10, 20 years ago.

Just because the popular options are shitty, doesn't mean that there are less options.
It actually isn't a zero-sum game.
September 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Reposted by John 🎵
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#poetry #writing #poem
Geodesic Flashstick worldlines sculpt new spaces Twelve-armed blooms via coccoon-back contemplation Geodesic Starsmash snap into framelessness Echoed across spacetime maneuvering the reachout High skies flow below widened glass floors Whirlwind of soulspin trajectories zipline north Where avalanche compasses fail each turnover Welcome, welcome, little triangular-mind-ecology
September 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Reposted by John 🎵
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#poetry #writing
Kinaesthetic Dream Archetypes spread like wings across shattered Maw Velvet undergrounds come and go, fifteen minutes or more Seldom do I ask who you are, Even though mystique heights hung foggy breaths on our wedding night. Rachel doesn't know how to peel oranges anymore, I thought about that a lot. Evergreen kids throat-singing around the corner - It says a lot, huh? It says a lot.
September 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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They exploit like empires, they're narcissitic self-declared emperors, and they will fall as such:

youtu.be/e70RT6c01M8?...
Will AI Take My Job? with Karen Hao
YouTube video by Hasan Minhaj
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September 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Each Work a Pilgrimage

Listen + Download + Process Notes: johnoestmannmusic.com/each-work-a-...

#electronica #ambient
Each Work a Pilgrimage - John Oestmann Music
_software: OpenMPT, Audacity_download: 04-EachWorkAPilgrimage.wav_project / process notes: 04-EachWorkAPilgrimage-SOURCE.zip_samples-used: MechSounds, vhio_license: public-domain / cc0
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September 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Well this is blowing my mind a little. The idea of objects are more a (helpful) asbtract framing than actual reality, but doing so also leads to many incorrect conclusions.

"Think of a leaf on a tree as a process, not an object."
Process philosophy - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
August 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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"CYCLE-0x1C6" - Deconstructed [Vitalium + OpenMPT + Floral Sample Toolkit]
youtu.be/O8LOjUU3sqw?...

#electronicmusic #musicproduction #opensource
"CYCLE-0x1C6" - Deconstructed [Vitalium + OpenMPT + Floral Sample Toolkit]
YouTube video by John Oestmann Music
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July 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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#politics #capitalism #society
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July 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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🎵 CYCLE-0x1C6
johnoestmannmusic.com/cycle-0x1c6/

AND the Floral Sample Toolkit codebase is now publicly available: codeberg.org/johnoestmann...

#ambient #electronica #opensource
CYCLE-0x1C6 - John Oestmann Music
_software: OpenMPT, Floral Sample Toolkit_download: CYCLE-0x1C6.wav_project: CYCLE-0x1C6-SOURCE.zip_samples-used: MechSounds_license: public-domain / cc0
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July 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM