Ernst Karel
@sesamecircuits.bsky.social
electroacoustic noise / sonic ethnography / Expedition Content (w Veronika Kusumaryati, 2020); 47 Gates (w Bhob Rainey, Erstwhile Records 2024) / Local Locations (KWMR) / https://ek.klingt.org
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Music is basically a detective novel where the musicians are the suspects/criminals, the listener is the detective and of course the music is the crime. The listener tries to determine what happened and what was the motivation, while the musicians try to obscure this, so they can get away with it.
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Music is basically a detective novel where the musicians are the suspects/criminals, the listener is the detective and of course the music is the crime. The listener tries to determine what happened and what was the motivation, while the musicians try to obscure this, so they can get away with it.
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Last Non-Event* of 2025!!! Tomorrow inside Boston City Hall – 3 great local/local-ish artists: YOONA KIM (ajaeng), RETRIBUTION BODY (custom subs & modular synth), SADNOISE (custom electronics & modular synth).
FREE, but RSVP requested. 7:30pm
*parties not included
www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...
FREE, but RSVP requested. 7:30pm
*parties not included
www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...
Yoona Kim, Retribution Body, sadnoise — Non-Event
Non-Event and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture present an evening of deep bass, avant ajaeng, site responsive electronics inside Boston’s iconic, Brutalist City Hall.
www.nonevent.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Last Non-Event* of 2025!!! Tomorrow inside Boston City Hall – 3 great local/local-ish artists: YOONA KIM (ajaeng), RETRIBUTION BODY (custom subs & modular synth), SADNOISE (custom electronics & modular synth).
FREE, but RSVP requested. 7:30pm
*parties not included
www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...
FREE, but RSVP requested. 7:30pm
*parties not included
www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...
Caroliner Rainbow Unruly Twists in Odible Brewes Cloth
FRI NOV 14
Caroliner
Antimatter w/ Jacob Felix Heule
Amphibious Gestures
Sharkiface
KROB
Birdspanker
SAT NOV 15
Caroliner
Jeweled Snakes
Midmight!
Head Boggle
Human De-Selection
at Pretty Gritty SF 7pm both nights
Caroliner
Antimatter w/ Jacob Felix Heule
Amphibious Gestures
Sharkiface
KROB
Birdspanker
SAT NOV 15
Caroliner
Jeweled Snakes
Midmight!
Head Boggle
Human De-Selection
at Pretty Gritty SF 7pm both nights
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Caroliner Rainbow Unruly Twists in Odible Brewes Cloth
Caroliner Rainbow Unruly Twists in Odible Brewes Cloth
Big stuff happening on Friday now.
Big stuff happening next month. Not one but two Caroliner shows.
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Caroliner Rainbow Unruly Twists in Odible Brewes Cloth
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พรุงนี้วันพุธที่ 12 จะเป็นครั้งแรกที่จะพูดถึงเล่มที่กำลังเขียนอยู่ (หลังจากที่ส่งโครงการหนังสือให้บก.สำนักพิมพ์พิจารณา เคยเสนอส่วนต่างๆก่อนหนังสือเริ่มก่อตัว) (ยังไม่ได้ก่อตัวเสร็จ แต่เริ่มๆ) เป็นเล่มที่เป็นทั้งประวัติศาสตร์ของการจองจำนักโทษการเมืองและประวัติศาสตร์เชิงความคิดของนักโทษการเมืองตั้งแต่กบฏสันติภาพถึงปัจจุบัน ยังมีอีกหลายต่อหลายคำถามที่วนๆอยู่เพาระตอบไม่ได้
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
พรุงนี้วันพุธที่ 12 จะเป็นครั้งแรกที่จะพูดถึงเล่มที่กำลังเขียนอยู่ (หลังจากที่ส่งโครงการหนังสือให้บก.สำนักพิมพ์พิจารณา เคยเสนอส่วนต่างๆก่อนหนังสือเริ่มก่อตัว) (ยังไม่ได้ก่อตัวเสร็จ แต่เริ่มๆ) เป็นเล่มที่เป็นทั้งประวัติศาสตร์ของการจองจำนักโทษการเมืองและประวัติศาสตร์เชิงความคิดของนักโทษการเมืองตั้งแต่กบฏสันติภาพถึงปัจจุบัน ยังมีอีกหลายต่อหลายคำถามที่วนๆอยู่เพาระตอบไม่ได้
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Never. Kids should not be allowed near AI.
When should kids start learning AI? India is taking a bold step—introducing AI education to students as young as 8.
trib.al/wgpgORo
trib.al/wgpgORo
India to extend AI education to students as young as 8 years old
Nearly 200m children to be taught AI, but experts doubt its effectiveness
trib.al
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Never. Kids should not be allowed near AI.
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Guillotine earrings, ca. 1793
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Guillotine earrings, ca. 1793
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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.
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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.
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Excited that my new Arctic album, "near the bear" is featured in Bandcamp's Best Field Recordings this month. Thank you Matthew Blackwell.
"...a deep interrogation of our place in the world, put into high relief against the brilliant whites and blues of the High Arctic."
"...a deep interrogation of our place in the world, put into high relief against the brilliant whites and blues of the High Arctic."
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, October 2025
The best sounds captured outside the studio and released in the last month.
daily.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Excited that my new Arctic album, "near the bear" is featured in Bandcamp's Best Field Recordings this month. Thank you Matthew Blackwell.
"...a deep interrogation of our place in the world, put into high relief against the brilliant whites and blues of the High Arctic."
"...a deep interrogation of our place in the world, put into high relief against the brilliant whites and blues of the High Arctic."
on the air now with recordings from Muir Woods National Monument made during the current government shutdown
'Local Locations' on KWMR Community Radio
kwmr.org/shows/local-...
@kwmrradio.bsky.social
'Local Locations' on KWMR Community Radio
kwmr.org/shows/local-...
@kwmrradio.bsky.social
KWMR
kwmr.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
on the air now with recordings from Muir Woods National Monument made during the current government shutdown
'Local Locations' on KWMR Community Radio
kwmr.org/shows/local-...
@kwmrradio.bsky.social
'Local Locations' on KWMR Community Radio
kwmr.org/shows/local-...
@kwmrradio.bsky.social
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Omg yes
“I asked ChatGPT—“ yeah well I asked you to stop doing that and now we can’t be friends anymore
November 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Omg yes
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Subvert will be a Bandcamp competitor for downloading digital music (no physical formats or merch as of yet) - I’ll be trying it out as artist and listener as soon as it opens up
Our platform is ready.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
November 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Subvert will be a Bandcamp competitor for downloading digital music (no physical formats or merch as of yet) - I’ll be trying it out as artist and listener as soon as it opens up
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deep cut time here but anybody have a copy of BROMP TREB WANTS TO FIGHT they can share?
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
deep cut time here but anybody have a copy of BROMP TREB WANTS TO FIGHT they can share?
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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Did a quick interview with Eyvind Kang on his first solo instrumental album, the viola d'amore's "unstruck strings," and what it means to listen with nature. A conversation about "Riparian," ecomusicality, and the coyotes of East LA.
Eyvind Kang and the Music of Unstruck Strings
Photo by Cassandra Croft For over three decades, Eyvind Kang has moved through musical worlds with the curiosity of a traveler and the rigor of a devotee. A longtime collaborator of Jessika Kenney …
foxydigitalis.zone
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Did a quick interview with Eyvind Kang on his first solo instrumental album, the viola d'amore's "unstruck strings," and what it means to listen with nature. A conversation about "Riparian," ecomusicality, and the coyotes of East LA.
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in case anyone hasn't watched the full thing, do it. it's a damn treat.
I don't think I realized it until now, but I'd been waiting my whole life to hear a politician sound like they want the people to govern with them
I don't think I realized it until now, but I'd been waiting my whole life to hear a politician sound like they want the people to govern with them
FULL SPEECH: Zohran Mamdani's victory speech following historic NYC mayoral win
YouTube video by ABC News
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 AM
in case anyone hasn't watched the full thing, do it. it's a damn treat.
I don't think I realized it until now, but I'd been waiting my whole life to hear a politician sound like they want the people to govern with them
I don't think I realized it until now, but I'd been waiting my whole life to hear a politician sound like they want the people to govern with them
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Inspired by fellow booksellers, we at @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social will be donating Sunday profits in November to the SF-Marin Food Bank. You can donate directly to the food bank here: www.sfmfoodbank.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Inspired by fellow booksellers, we at @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social will be donating Sunday profits in November to the SF-Marin Food Bank. You can donate directly to the food bank here: www.sfmfoodbank.org
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“The incalculable damage left by Bush and Cheney’s day-in-and-day-out contempt for national and international law includes the power to sweep forward in time and trivialize into a matter of personal preference any future president’s adherence to the law.“
Elaine Scarry in 2008:
Elaine Scarry in 2008:
Presidential Crimes - Boston Review
Torture must be addressed through legal instruments, not simply through the electoral repudiation of bad policy.
www.bostonreview.net
November 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“The incalculable damage left by Bush and Cheney’s day-in-and-day-out contempt for national and international law includes the power to sweep forward in time and trivialize into a matter of personal preference any future president’s adherence to the law.“
Elaine Scarry in 2008:
Elaine Scarry in 2008:
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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signed: "An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education" #ai openletter.earth/an-open-lett...
An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education
openletter.earth
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
signed: "An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education" #ai openletter.earth/an-open-lett...
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In addition to being an amazing filmmaker, he was a great theorist of the cinema as well. Highly recommend his writing on the "monoform":
www.ocec.eu/cinemacompar...
www.ocec.eu/cinemacompar...
Notes on the Media Crisis
Revista digital de cine comparado. Departamento de Comunicación, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
www.ocec.eu
October 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In addition to being an amazing filmmaker, he was a great theorist of the cinema as well. Highly recommend his writing on the "monoform":
www.ocec.eu/cinemacompar...
www.ocec.eu/cinemacompar...