Wayne & Wax
@wayneandwax.bsky.social
musicologist at Berklee, farmer at Belmont Acres, amateur bassist, erstwhile DJ, reggaetonera hasta la tumba
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Wayne & Wax
@wayneandwax.bsky.social
· Jul 31
I'm here to make friends
the final paragraph is truly a kicker, beginning "And that just suggests there may be no limits"
January 4, 2026 at 4:02 AM
the final paragraph is truly a kicker, beginning "And that just suggests there may be no limits"
this many bingo cards can't be wrong. here's to some happiness in the new year.
December 31, 2025 at 11:44 PM
this many bingo cards can't be wrong. here's to some happiness in the new year.
The sun
It destroyed the clouds
Yes
YES
The sun is out
It destroyed the clouds
Yes
YES
The sun is out
December 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The sun
It destroyed the clouds
Yes
YES
The sun is out
It destroyed the clouds
Yes
YES
The sun is out
morning coffee with anisette, fresh baked cookies, and this on the stereo. tidings of comfort and joy, my friends.
December 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
morning coffee with anisette, fresh baked cookies, and this on the stereo. tidings of comfort and joy, my friends.
we're saying it again: happy holidays, sorry for being white
December 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
we're saying it again: happy holidays, sorry for being white
is there a Sirhan Sirhan Jr.?
December 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
is there a Sirhan Sirhan Jr.?
I've long thought of "fiddle" as a colloquial way of naming the musical/cultural/class differences between ways of playing the violin. today I learned that "fiddle" is actually the same word as "viola" and "vihuela" -- all from "fídula"! 🤯 (in La Manta y La Raya #19, Dec 2025)
December 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I've long thought of "fiddle" as a colloquial way of naming the musical/cultural/class differences between ways of playing the violin. today I learned that "fiddle" is actually the same word as "viola" and "vihuela" -- all from "fídula"! 🤯 (in La Manta y La Raya #19, Dec 2025)
*finger to earpiece* eyes wide shut did not go hard enough?
December 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
*finger to earpiece* eyes wide shut did not go hard enough?
important thread/development! 1925 marks the dawn of electric recording, so the next crop of public domain recordings offers access to a dramatically new audio era -- which, to boot, was ruled by blues queens and hot jazz combos.
sound recordings from 1925 are finally about to enter the public domain in the US. here's a gem from '25, one of the first Boswell Sisters sides, "Nights When I Am Lonely": www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtot...
Very Early Boswell Sisters - Nights When I Am Lonely [1925].
YouTube video by mrblindfreddy9999
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
important thread/development! 1925 marks the dawn of electric recording, so the next crop of public domain recordings offers access to a dramatically new audio era -- which, to boot, was ruled by blues queens and hot jazz combos.
listening to soca parang, as one does this time of year, and I love how this Machel Montano song puts the soca (aka dembow) drum pattern over a 12/8 groove. what a pull. on dasher, on dancer!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rMg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rMg...
Soca Santa
YouTube video by Machel Montano - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
listening to soca parang, as one does this time of year, and I love how this Machel Montano song puts the soca (aka dembow) drum pattern over a 12/8 groove. what a pull. on dasher, on dancer!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rMg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rMg...
tasked students with going out dancing & writing up an ethnography of the experience. this one note had me howling: "Dancers were half regular Cambridge people, probably doctors and lawyers in training wearing polos and button downs, and queer Cambridge people who were more
appropriately dressed."
appropriately dressed."
December 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
tasked students with going out dancing & writing up an ethnography of the experience. this one note had me howling: "Dancers were half regular Cambridge people, probably doctors and lawyers in training wearing polos and button downs, and queer Cambridge people who were more
appropriately dressed."
appropriately dressed."
when it finally happens we will have little reason not to gleefully trumpet the good news
December 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
when it finally happens we will have little reason not to gleefully trumpet the good news
when a student makes a silly mistake like writing "Caleb Calloway" it helps me feel like they aren't using AI
December 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
when a student makes a silly mistake like writing "Caleb Calloway" it helps me feel like they aren't using AI
this mix I made of schmaltzy christmas classics, looping breakbeats, and Caribbean confections turns 20 this year!
www.mixcloud.com/wayneandwax/...
www.mixcloud.com/wayneandwax/...
Remix-Mas
www.mixcloud.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
this mix I made of schmaltzy christmas classics, looping breakbeats, and Caribbean confections turns 20 this year!
www.mixcloud.com/wayneandwax/...
www.mixcloud.com/wayneandwax/...
even just the first 5 minutes of this is amazing. used to be so easy for the most popular singer of the day to tell a bunch of kids that they shouldn't be nazis.
Ooh! In honor of Frank’s birthday, go watch THE HOUSE I LIVE IN. Postwar antiracism and music, from the future blacklist Albert Maltz. You won’t regret it! Only 10 minutes. 🗃️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovwH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovwH...
December 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
even just the first 5 minutes of this is amazing. used to be so easy for the most popular singer of the day to tell a bunch of kids that they shouldn't be nazis.
not once but twice in the last week I have cracked students up entirely inadvertently by telling them, while soliciting feedback on my courses, that I am "always tweaking"
December 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
not once but twice in the last week I have cracked students up entirely inadvertently by telling them, while soliciting feedback on my courses, that I am "always tweaking"
this blessed boy had a front row seat for Ron Carter tonight at the Regattabar in Harvard Sq. so riveting to bear witness to a true great -- and in fine form at 88!
December 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
this blessed boy had a front row seat for Ron Carter tonight at the Regattabar in Harvard Sq. so riveting to bear witness to a true great -- and in fine form at 88!
dev/null rules! enjoy this set of sizzling jungle while watching what a good DJ does via the cellphone strapped to Pete's chest!
dev/null demolishing the decks right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Wa...
Dev/Null All Vinyl/PO-33 Jungle Mix December 2025
YouTube video by Dev/Null
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
dev/null rules! enjoy this set of sizzling jungle while watching what a good DJ does via the cellphone strapped to Pete's chest!
you there, boy! what day is this?
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
you there, boy! what day is this?
made myself an "elevated fluffernutter" for lunch today. by "elevated" I mean that I held it aloft while taking this picture. (and toasted the country sourdough before spreading the spreads.)
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
made myself an "elevated fluffernutter" for lunch today. by "elevated" I mean that I held it aloft while taking this picture. (and toasted the country sourdough before spreading the spreads.)
the neighborhood coyote turned down our street at the same time I was biking home. wish I'd gotten a better shot. broad daylight in the middle of town!
December 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
the neighborhood coyote turned down our street at the same time I was biking home. wish I'd gotten a better shot. broad daylight in the middle of town!
this degree of darkness is not 3:45pm, to me
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this degree of darkness is not 3:45pm, to me
can't believe someone leaked footage of me watching Stranger Things with my daughter last week, late at night, after several drinks and lots of tryptophan. embarrassing, honestly.
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
can't believe someone leaked footage of me watching Stranger Things with my daughter last week, late at night, after several drinks and lots of tryptophan. embarrassing, honestly.
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My colleague Carlo Rotella wrote this as a response to doom-and-gloom reporting on genAI's impact on the humanities and as a framework for thinking about what works. I think it's pretty good.
Gift link.
Gift link.
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My colleague Carlo Rotella wrote this as a response to doom-and-gloom reporting on genAI's impact on the humanities and as a framework for thinking about what works. I think it's pretty good.
Gift link.
Gift link.
now that's my kinda venn diagram
Giving a somewhat unusual talk for me tomorrow - it's on what Antonio Gramsci might have thought about large language models, leading off a new series at University of Copenhagen on AI and Democracy. On zoom at 9am Boston time: cpai.ku.dk/events/grams...
Gramsci's Nightmare – AI, Platform Power and the Automation of Cultural Hegemony
Online talk by Ethan Zuckerman.
cpai.ku.dk
December 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
now that's my kinda venn diagram