Bhob Rainey
@mphonic.bsky.social
Music about which one could justifiably say, "That's not music." Saxophone (tortured). Cornputer (despised). I read a lot and walk around cities.
https://bhobrainey.com
https://bhobrainey.bandcamp.com
https://bhobrainey.com
https://bhobrainey.bandcamp.com
Got anything March 2nd or 3rd?
February 5, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Got anything March 2nd or 3rd?
Both beautiful, it's true
January 30, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Both beautiful, it's true
NYC. Nmperign @ Lava Club, March 7th. Small room, limited space. You gotta RSVP in advance. Check www.instagram.com/___lava__clu... for how or DM me if you're nice.
January 29, 2026 at 12:37 AM
NYC. Nmperign @ Lava Club, March 7th. Small room, limited space. You gotta RSVP in advance. Check www.instagram.com/___lava__clu... for how or DM me if you're nice.
Been a resident of the e6ast most of my life, and that's how we say it.
December 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Been a resident of the e6ast most of my life, and that's how we say it.
As the sun sets in the e6ast, the West still glows with Bandcamp Friday light. bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/live-2...
Live '25 — Saxy Bootlegs Good Title, by Bhob Rainey
3 track album
bhobrainey.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
As the sun sets in the e6ast, the West still glows with Bandcamp Friday light. bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/live-2...
Reposted by Bhob Rainey
cranksatori.bandcamp.com/album/a-ques...
crude modern analog hardware paired with a software reinterpretation of classic analog hardware filtering, modulation, and resynthesis. more raspberries than raspberries
much thanks to Martin Freeman and @mphonic.bsky.social for the hardware and software
crude modern analog hardware paired with a software reinterpretation of classic analog hardware filtering, modulation, and resynthesis. more raspberries than raspberries
much thanks to Martin Freeman and @mphonic.bsky.social for the hardware and software
a question of maps, by J.Soliday
3 track album
cranksatori.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
cranksatori.bandcamp.com/album/a-ques...
crude modern analog hardware paired with a software reinterpretation of classic analog hardware filtering, modulation, and resynthesis. more raspberries than raspberries
much thanks to Martin Freeman and @mphonic.bsky.social for the hardware and software
crude modern analog hardware paired with a software reinterpretation of classic analog hardware filtering, modulation, and resynthesis. more raspberries than raspberries
much thanks to Martin Freeman and @mphonic.bsky.social for the hardware and software
As promised, Live '25 — Saxy Bootlegs Good Title. bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/live-2...
Live '25 — Saxy Bootlegs Good Title, by Bhob Rainey
3 track album
bhobrainey.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As promised, Live '25 — Saxy Bootlegs Good Title. bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/live-2...
On Friday I'm going to release Live 25 - Saxy Bootlegs Good Title. It's a little over an hour of solo soprano sax performances from this year, recorded by audience members. Includes footfalls, chair squeaks, passing vehicles, idling vehicles, idling vehicles with sub woofers, and soprano saxophone.
December 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
On Friday I'm going to release Live 25 - Saxy Bootlegs Good Title. It's a little over an hour of solo soprano sax performances from this year, recorded by audience members. Includes footfalls, chair squeaks, passing vehicles, idling vehicles, idling vehicles with sub woofers, and soprano saxophone.
From back in the summer, when I played in a crooked house.
Bhob Rainey - The PROSPECT SERIES 🏡 House Show
YouTube video by Jonathan Moritz
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
From back in the summer, when I played in a crooked house.
See ya in Red Hook on Wednesday night, NYC
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
See ya in Red Hook on Wednesday night, NYC
Fire Walk With Me is such an incredible and devastating film, I often think it's a shame that it is nearly impossible to grok without familiarity with the TP canon, particularly in the way the film subverts it. At least that canon is also great.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Fire Walk With Me is such an incredible and devastating film, I often think it's a shame that it is nearly impossible to grok without familiarity with the TP canon, particularly in the way the film subverts it. At least that canon is also great.
There's a lot of ChatGPT in the ensuing thread. It's like there's no other way to access thought
November 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
There's a lot of ChatGPT in the ensuing thread. It's like there's no other way to access thought
I mean, it would be so cool to be amazed that you can type some words and get something that reminds you of recorded music in a very short period of time. It's surprising and weird! But then context steps in.
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I mean, it would be so cool to be amazed that you can type some words and get something that reminds you of recorded music in a very short period of time. It's surprising and weird! But then context steps in.
It's also kinda funny that the app inserts "neon lights" and "whispers" into lyrics so often that platforms are flagging songs with those words in them.
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It's also kinda funny that the app inserts "neon lights" and "whispers" into lyrics so often that platforms are flagging songs with those words in them.
This probably reads as dinosaur talk to the converts, but, as I've said elsewhere about all these kinds of things, playing an instrument in a group is, at minimum, fun. Fussing with prompts at a black box that would happily burn Jupiter for a country song is, at maximum, sad.
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This probably reads as dinosaur talk to the converts, but, as I've said elsewhere about all these kinds of things, playing an instrument in a group is, at minimum, fun. Fussing with prompts at a black box that would happily burn Jupiter for a country song is, at maximum, sad.
Plus, playing an instrument in a group is, at minimum, fun. Fussing with prompts at a black box that would happily burn Jupiter for a country song is, at maximum, sad.
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Plus, playing an instrument in a group is, at minimum, fun. Fussing with prompts at a black box that would happily burn Jupiter for a country song is, at maximum, sad.
Right now, a bunch of people are paying Suno for the privilege of training and beta testing it until it either dies or goes fully "enterprise" pricing.
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Right now, a bunch of people are paying Suno for the privilege of training and beta testing it until it either dies or goes fully "enterprise" pricing.
It's possible that this all fizzles out once people have made 6000 songs that no one wants to listen to. And at some point, the cost to use it this way will be staggering. Probably some piece of this gets folded into a tool that sees general adoption in a more traditional workflow.
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It's possible that this all fizzles out once people have made 6000 songs that no one wants to listen to. And at some point, the cost to use it this way will be staggering. Probably some piece of this gets folded into a tool that sees general adoption in a more traditional workflow.
An algorithm beat me this morning, because seeing this (from the Suno Studio FB group) got me "engaged", and it's bleak out there. I did like one guy dispensing the advice that, until you've made 6000-7000 ai songs, you don't know what separates quality from novelty.
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
An algorithm beat me this morning, because seeing this (from the Suno Studio FB group) got me "engaged", and it's bleak out there. I did like one guy dispensing the advice that, until you've made 6000-7000 ai songs, you don't know what separates quality from novelty.
I've recommended this show so many times, mostly to polite nods. It's probably the last show I truly loved, and, now, years later, I often find myself in laughtears remembering some bit from it.
wrote about PATRIOT, a double great show, over at @rollingstone.com for its anniversary, with thoughts from Steven Conrad, Terry O’Quinn, and Kurtwood Smith: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Inside 'Patriot,' the Cult-Favorite Spy Caper You Should Be Watching
'Patriot' creator Steven Conrad and stars Kurtwood Smith and Terry O'Quinn reflect on the short-lived Amazon spy series, which debuted 10 years ago.
www.rollingstone.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I've recommended this show so many times, mostly to polite nods. It's probably the last show I truly loved, and, now, years later, I often find myself in laughtears remembering some bit from it.
Reposted by Bhob Rainey
Bored today? Go into your Bandcamp collection and write some comments in the 'what do you love about this album' boxes. Artists really, really love to hear that stuff.
October 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Bored today? Go into your Bandcamp collection and write some comments in the 'what do you love about this album' boxes. Artists really, really love to hear that stuff.
Reminder that you can and should study Supercollider with me.
I've been giving lessons in Supercollider lately, and I invite anyone who's interested, beginner, intermediate, advanced, to try a few with me. Sliding scale, remote or in person where feasible, flexible schedule. Maybe you're in one of these positions:
October 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reminder that you can and should study Supercollider with me.
I'll be in Austin, TX this weekend for my sixth No Idea Festival, performing a solo saxophone piece and a commissioned 4-channel electroacoustic piece with live bass by Juan Garcia.
October 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I'll be in Austin, TX this weekend for my sixth No Idea Festival, performing a solo saxophone piece and a commissioned 4-channel electroacoustic piece with live bass by Juan Garcia.
Reposted by Bhob Rainey
I am listening to an incoherent Hollywood Christian substacker talking to Tucker Carlson about Nick Land and demons and boy is context collapse real
October 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I am listening to an incoherent Hollywood Christian substacker talking to Tucker Carlson about Nick Land and demons and boy is context collapse real
"My manager says I need to spice up my act. Fucking cocksucker!"
Democrats race to embrace swearing and angry comebacks – but will it work?
Democrats are abandoning their careful messaging in favor of gut-level rhetoric that’s unapologetically more profane as the party faces an authenticity problem
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"My manager says I need to spice up my act. Fucking cocksucker!"