Ana Roman
@anodromedan.bsky.social
Sonic Cyberfeminist | Creative Technologist | Music Tech Educator | Producer | DJ 🗣️: MIT MEDIA LAB, ITP NYU, BERKLEE 👽 MINDWARE: www.sonicwerks.net MUSIC: https://catalog.works/skulptormusica/release/develop-her
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Ana Roman
@anodromedan.bsky.social
· Dec 12
INSIGHT 006 Ana Roman — MANIFEST AUDIO
Manifest Audio provides creative music production tools for Ableton Live: Max for Live effects, modulators, sequencers, and more - for studio, stage, and beyond...
manifest.audio
My Interview out today with MANIFEST AUDIO BERLIN x ABLETON.
I speak on systemic biases embedded in the tools we use, algorithmic bias and decolonizing the grid.
manifest.audio/insight-006-...
I speak on systemic biases embedded in the tools we use, algorithmic bias and decolonizing the grid.
manifest.audio/insight-006-...
going hard since 1988
August 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
going hard since 1988
who's headlining Bogota Experimental?
This crazy puta?
guess it pays to be a malfunctioning mami
This crazy puta?
guess it pays to be a malfunctioning mami
August 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
who's headlining Bogota Experimental?
This crazy puta?
guess it pays to be a malfunctioning mami
This crazy puta?
guess it pays to be a malfunctioning mami
I get zero engagement on this platform.
August 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I get zero engagement on this platform.
🔮WHY IT'S HARD 1: People ask me when I'm going to drop new tracks almost like its some perfunctory bodily function. I don't like emotions. I prefer flight. I prefer physics. I prefer science and alchemy. Yes that's self-protection. Yes I have to work on unpacking that.
June 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
🔮WHY IT'S HARD 1: People ask me when I'm going to drop new tracks almost like its some perfunctory bodily function. I don't like emotions. I prefer flight. I prefer physics. I prefer science and alchemy. Yes that's self-protection. Yes I have to work on unpacking that.
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“A typing element released in 1973 promised to mechanize the transcription of dance. The new typeball applied symbols from Labanotation, a twentieth-century graphic language for recording movement… Its story uncovers cultural attitudes abt bodily expression, tech, work, + womanhood during the 1970s”
The Dance Typewriter: IBM, the Labanotation Element, and “Women’s Work” in 1973 | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 119, No 2
Abstract A typing element released in 1973 promised to mechanize the transcription of dance. The new typeball applied symbols from Labanotation, a twentieth-century graphic language for recording move...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
June 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“A typing element released in 1973 promised to mechanize the transcription of dance. The new typeball applied symbols from Labanotation, a twentieth-century graphic language for recording movement… Its story uncovers cultural attitudes abt bodily expression, tech, work, + womanhood during the 1970s”
Being a woman has got to be the most violent act known to MAN
June 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Being a woman has got to be the most violent act known to MAN
i want to be the mother of a new kind of machine
June 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
i want to be the mother of a new kind of machine
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More than just music - and there are some great tracks for you here. This opens the question of how physical editions can answer "technofascism." (with discussion...)
Trans Music Archive opens, dedicated to physical preservation - CDM Create Digital Music
Trans communities are organizing and acting, building on an ongoing long-term struggle. And it's time to go physical. Trans Music Archive is working on physical editions of some terrific music, and th...
cdm.link
June 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
More than just music - and there are some great tracks for you here. This opens the question of how physical editions can answer "technofascism." (with discussion...)
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Please, if you are writing that "AI images are infographics" and/or data visualizations about their dataset, cite my paper from 2022. If you are using the method described in this paper, citations are both appropriate and very appreciated! www.cyberneticforests.com/news/how-to-...
How to Read an AI Image — Cybernetic Forests.
A text about reading AI images as infographics.
www.cyberneticforests.com
June 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Please, if you are writing that "AI images are infographics" and/or data visualizations about their dataset, cite my paper from 2022. If you are using the method described in this paper, citations are both appropriate and very appreciated! www.cyberneticforests.com/news/how-to-...
NEW YORK - i have been rained on by you way too much since i got back from London. Saw sunnier days in the UK!! She's drenched!! And sneezing. 🫥🫥
June 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
NEW YORK - i have been rained on by you way too much since i got back from London. Saw sunnier days in the UK!! She's drenched!! And sneezing. 🫥🫥
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What if collaboration and community breeds innovation just as well as adversarial competition? @torproject.org’s @1s4.bsky.social joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @thejasonkelley.com on the new episode of “How to Fix the Internet.”
Podcast Episode: Why Three is Tor's Magic Number
Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing first, cheaper, better, best. But what if collaborat...
www.eff.org
June 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What if collaboration and community breeds innovation just as well as adversarial competition? @torproject.org’s @1s4.bsky.social joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @thejasonkelley.com on the new episode of “How to Fix the Internet.”
you're entering your soft girl era while i'm entering my post-human pleasure era. we are not the same.
June 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
you're entering your soft girl era while i'm entering my post-human pleasure era. we are not the same.
You’re already an avatar. That part’s done. What matters now is the non-consensual parasocial energy flooding your field. Don’t fear it. Alchemize it. Transmute it into strategy, sovereignty, signal boost. Turn their gaze into a power source. #cyberfeminism #data #posthuman
June 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
You’re already an avatar. That part’s done. What matters now is the non-consensual parasocial energy flooding your field. Don’t fear it. Alchemize it. Transmute it into strategy, sovereignty, signal boost. Turn their gaze into a power source. #cyberfeminism #data #posthuman
i dont care about german techno as much as i care about latin electro
May 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
i dont care about german techno as much as i care about latin electro
me: germany is bringing back the military draft?!?
dad: oh good maybe they'll have less DJ's now.
dad: oh good maybe they'll have less DJ's now.
May 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
me: germany is bringing back the military draft?!?
dad: oh good maybe they'll have less DJ's now.
dad: oh good maybe they'll have less DJ's now.
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"It's shocking what you can do." - Angelina Jolie on the Internet from the set of "Hackers" (1995).
May 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"It's shocking what you can do." - Angelina Jolie on the Internet from the set of "Hackers" (1995).
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Okay so you’re telling me compression might be the real Goebbels invented mind control psy-op and not 432 hz???? Pro-audio is a German invention afterall.
www.economist.com/science-and-...
www.economist.com/science-and-...
Compressed music might be harmful to the ears
In guinea pigs it can weaken muscles important for hearing
www.economist.com
May 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Okay so you’re telling me compression might be the real Goebbels invented mind control psy-op and not 432 hz???? Pro-audio is a German invention afterall.
www.economist.com/science-and-...
www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Celebrate all the achievements
May 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Celebrate all the achievements
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[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers; and creating an open publicatio
METROCrossReferenceCoalition_Students
The Cross-Reference Coalition An Experimental School
docs.google.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers; and creating an open publicatio
ask me if its gemini season
May 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
ask me if its gemini season
May 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
SKULPTOR 2050: Cyber-Witch Ascension Series by o. takec photography.
concept, styling and creative by me.
concept, styling and creative by me.
May 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SKULPTOR 2050: Cyber-Witch Ascension Series by o. takec photography.
concept, styling and creative by me.
concept, styling and creative by me.
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Sorry i have not been pontificating every iota of my brain on this platform in a min. Been making big life moves IRL. BET
May 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Sorry i have not been pontificating every iota of my brain on this platform in a min. Been making big life moves IRL. BET