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Sometimes Art
Sometimes Art
A couple years ago, the streaming site told me I listened to this album 56 times that year. Convinced me just to buy a fresh copy and pull the plug on those bozos. Happiness!
25 years old today!
Loop Finding Jazz Records by Jan Jelnek
A landmark ambient / glitch album - dark moody and simply beautiful.
Hearing this record really made me see the potential of sound and technology and music hasn't quite been the same since.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop-Fi...
Loop Finding Jazz Records by Jan Jelnek
A landmark ambient / glitch album - dark moody and simply beautiful.
Hearing this record really made me see the potential of sound and technology and music hasn't quite been the same since.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop-Fi...
Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 2, 2026 at 9:11 PM
A couple years ago, the streaming site told me I listened to this album 56 times that year. Convinced me just to buy a fresh copy and pull the plug on those bozos. Happiness!
February 2, 2026 at 7:34 AM
In an interesting moment of the Daniel Lopatin Workshop today, he recalled not having any idea how to do the glitch granular he was going for on Sunset Corp, so he read somewhere that loading an .exe into a sound editor and playing it back as an audio file might be the ticket.
February 2, 2026 at 3:35 AM
In an interesting moment of the Daniel Lopatin Workshop today, he recalled not having any idea how to do the glitch granular he was going for on Sunset Corp, so he read somewhere that loading an .exe into a sound editor and playing it back as an audio file might be the ticket.
Marc Laidlaw is updating the cover-art realtime — every sale is another line on the grid. I’m #4. Great way to market some synth jams.
marclaidlaw.bandcamp.com/album/ur-gho...
marclaidlaw.bandcamp.com/album/ur-gho...
Ur Ghost Got Any Plans?, by Marc Laidlaw
3 track album
marclaidlaw.bandcamp.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Marc Laidlaw is updating the cover-art realtime — every sale is another line on the grid. I’m #4. Great way to market some synth jams.
marclaidlaw.bandcamp.com/album/ur-gho...
marclaidlaw.bandcamp.com/album/ur-gho...
Love that scene where he finally gets his Aeron chair…
Oh yeah, Christmas Adventurers Club has a great pension program.
Oh yeah, Christmas Adventurers Club has a great pension program.
January 27, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Love that scene where he finally gets his Aeron chair…
Oh yeah, Christmas Adventurers Club has a great pension program.
Oh yeah, Christmas Adventurers Club has a great pension program.
Tonight Laura Dern recalled sitting in the back of the theater at Telluride when Blue Velvet premiered. At the 30 minute mark after 1/4 of the theater had left, Lynch squeezed her arm and said,
“See, we really made them feel something.”
“See, we really made them feel something.”
January 27, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Tonight Laura Dern recalled sitting in the back of the theater at Telluride when Blue Velvet premiered. At the 30 minute mark after 1/4 of the theater had left, Lynch squeezed her arm and said,
“See, we really made them feel something.”
“See, we really made them feel something.”
Ian Wellman’s Particularly Dangerous Situation arrived this afternoon on Vinyl. This is the best way to process a tragedy.
January 26, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Ian Wellman’s Particularly Dangerous Situation arrived this afternoon on Vinyl. This is the best way to process a tragedy.
Laura Dern introducing Inland Empire at the Academy to a sold out crowd, said that when David first gave her the script, she saw all the female characters and asked him who would be playing these roles.
“Idiot! That’s you” Lynch replied playfully.
“Idiot! That’s you” Lynch replied playfully.
January 26, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Laura Dern introducing Inland Empire at the Academy to a sold out crowd, said that when David first gave her the script, she saw all the female characters and asked him who would be playing these roles.
“Idiot! That’s you” Lynch replied playfully.
“Idiot! That’s you” Lynch replied playfully.
Timbre Wolf made an appearance at the LaSynth Club booth at Buchla and Friends. Some people tried it, some were afraid to. The Music Thing Modular Workshop was there to offer some sweetening.
January 25, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Timbre Wolf made an appearance at the LaSynth Club booth at Buchla and Friends. Some people tried it, some were afraid to. The Music Thing Modular Workshop was there to offer some sweetening.
Mad bonkers energy closed the Buchla and Friends afterparty tonight. 10/10 Honeysmack.
January 25, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Mad bonkers energy closed the Buchla and Friends afterparty tonight. 10/10 Honeysmack.
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Joyeux anniversaire to French composer Éliane Radigue (b.1932) who turns an incredible 94 years of age today! Her work is proof that subtlety can be seismic, and that the smallest shift can change everything. Long live sustained tones, deep attention and Éliane Radigue!
January 24, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Joyeux anniversaire to French composer Éliane Radigue (b.1932) who turns an incredible 94 years of age today! Her work is proof that subtlety can be seismic, and that the smallest shift can change everything. Long live sustained tones, deep attention and Éliane Radigue!
The most available international film to see the last month in LA was No Other Choice. Crazy that it didn’t make it on this list.
January 22, 2026 at 3:19 PM
The most available international film to see the last month in LA was No Other Choice. Crazy that it didn’t make it on this list.
Post-lunch bardo playlist
January 21, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Post-lunch bardo playlist
Last night in Pasadena just as Blanket Forts (blanketforts.bandcamp.com) was finishing an amazing set — throwing me a skipping stone from the Octatrack, some ripples to kick me off.
January 20, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Last night in Pasadena just as Blanket Forts (blanketforts.bandcamp.com) was finishing an amazing set — throwing me a skipping stone from the Octatrack, some ripples to kick me off.
We drove 45mins in each direction to see a film in the 80s. I’d drive even more than that to see a film in LA. You know what I can almost never see— Netflix theatrical. Seeing the new Knives Out was almost impossible in this A film market. Dweebs hate theatrical.
"You’re not going to get in the car and go to the next town to see a movie," says Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos
Ted Sarandos commits to 45-day theatrical windows, believes theaters are for city folk
Ted Sarandos commits to 45-day theatrical windows, believes theaters are for city folk
www.avclub.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:36 AM
We drove 45mins in each direction to see a film in the 80s. I’d drive even more than that to see a film in LA. You know what I can almost never see— Netflix theatrical. Seeing the new Knives Out was almost impossible in this A film market. Dweebs hate theatrical.
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John Boorman is 93.
This anecdote about him & Lee Marvin has quite the punchline.
This anecdote about him & Lee Marvin has quite the punchline.
January 18, 2026 at 12:14 PM
John Boorman is 93.
This anecdote about him & Lee Marvin has quite the punchline.
This anecdote about him & Lee Marvin has quite the punchline.
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the USA is the leading producer of garmonbozia in the world
January 9, 2026 at 12:22 AM
the USA is the leading producer of garmonbozia in the world
And here it is with the M8 just throwing in a test loop of fm tones.
#75 Taj Mahal sounds amazing. (Though for some reason this patch won’t bypass).
#75 Taj Mahal sounds amazing. (Though for some reason this patch won’t bypass).
January 20, 2026 at 1:48 AM
And here it is with the M8 just throwing in a test loop of fm tones.
#75 Taj Mahal sounds amazing. (Though for some reason this patch won’t bypass).
#75 Taj Mahal sounds amazing. (Though for some reason this patch won’t bypass).
Quadraverb plus chip I bought on Xmas eve after too much champagne? Got it installed tonight. Never swapped an IC before but it was pretty painless. And no bent pins. Pretty sure this is not the best way to send these chips in the mail though.
January 20, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Quadraverb plus chip I bought on Xmas eve after too much champagne? Got it installed tonight. Never swapped an IC before but it was pretty painless. And no bent pins. Pretty sure this is not the best way to send these chips in the mail though.
Last look at the working rig for tonight’s show, before I pack it up 🤞. New gear in the mix tonight- Dyad on the P3SA— and as always the Strega supplying the witch glue.
January 19, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Last look at the working rig for tonight’s show, before I pack it up 🤞. New gear in the mix tonight- Dyad on the P3SA— and as always the Strega supplying the witch glue.
Eno mentions in this memoir that he was most proud of being one of the first to get Kevin Kelly/ Wired to actually pay him to be the cover story. They wanted him to just think about all the free PR 🤣
Brian Eno: Gossip Is Philosophy in WIRED May 1995 #interview www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_wire...
January 16, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Eno mentions in this memoir that he was most proud of being one of the first to get Kevin Kelly/ Wired to actually pay him to be the cover story. They wanted him to just think about all the free PR 🤣
All of these in the theater (except Wake Up Dead Man). I think I watched Hamnet, Marty Supreme, and No Other Choice between Mirror and The Shining, but I’m not always great at logging.
January 16, 2026 at 7:50 AM
All of these in the theater (except Wake Up Dead Man). I think I watched Hamnet, Marty Supreme, and No Other Choice between Mirror and The Shining, but I’m not always great at logging.
Caught Visconti’s The Damned in a theater tonight. Sadly, it’s aged really well.
January 15, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Caught Visconti’s The Damned in a theater tonight. Sadly, it’s aged really well.
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Rest well Béla Tarr.
What an incredible vision.
What an incredible vision.
January 6, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Rest well Béla Tarr.
What an incredible vision.
What an incredible vision.
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What even *is* music? There's a surprisingly little agreement but I wanted to give my students a sense of how to characterize it. Christopher Smalls' _Musicking_ suggests we can't agree because it isn't one thing, it's something people do. But what's distinctive about it vs. ritual, theater, dance?
What makes rituals work? From prayer to sacrifice to public ceremonies they hold a special power to invoke feelings. But exactly what *is* that feeling? Scholars tend to portray it as a primal, indescribable "experience" but in my Ritual, Myth, and Music class we take a different path inside it (1)
January 5, 2026 at 1:52 PM
What even *is* music? There's a surprisingly little agreement but I wanted to give my students a sense of how to characterize it. Christopher Smalls' _Musicking_ suggests we can't agree because it isn't one thing, it's something people do. But what's distinctive about it vs. ritual, theater, dance?