Aurelio Meza
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Aurelio Meza
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Fave topics include (but are not limited to) literature, sound studies, music criticism, media archeology, databases, translation, critical making, and gender studies.
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Because I am completely ATProto brained, this mention of Prototype Directory aka Zapier “zaps” makes me just think about a lexicon and social rating.

And of course @knowtheory.net is thinking about this pattern for an app lexicon directory too.
If This Then AT:// First Look - Graze Newsletter
A first look at the workflow automation platform for the decentralized social web.
graze.leaflet.pub
September 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A bit more about "Café Cabinet," an Arduino-based digital storytelling project by yours truly and Cristina Jimenez aureliomexa.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/c...
#arduino #digital #storytelling #critical #making #miniature #scenery
September 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Faltó el de Chicali
I don’t care about your sign, name your hotdog.
May 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Sony’s Japanese Minidisc ads with Jamiroquai are straight up iconic
May 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"Café Cabinet", a digital storytelling multimedia installation by Cristina Jimenez and yours truly, is displayed at Concordia University until May 16. I will post further details in my blog soon. More info here: storytelling.concordia.ca/event/exhibi... #arduino #making #digital #interactive #audio
May 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
April 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Need a break from today's political news? Have you tried thinking about cancer? This isn't the most fun post--mostly me documenting all the self-experimentation I'm doing just trying to improve breathing, sleep, and swallowing. superbon.net/2025/01/20/2...
20 Jan 2025 Cancer Crawl: Works in Progress – Super Bon!
superbon.net
January 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
In 2016 I took a course on sound and instrumentality by Jonathan Sterne and Emily Dolan. I told him about my surf rock writings and recommended that I submit it to music/sound blog Sounding Out. When published, Jonathan shared a review from a Chicago journal. soundstudiesblog.com/2017/03/06/s...
Surf, Sun, and Smog: Audio-Visual Imagery + Performance in Mexico City’s Neo-Surf Music Scene
Riding the Surf Wave in a City Without a Seashore On April 24, 2005, at Zócalo square in downtown Mexico City, the Surf y Arena music festival gathered around 100,000 people and nine bands, rangi…
soundstudiesblog.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I was really sad to learn about the passing of Jonathan Sterne, audio expert and professor at McGill. His writings on the cultural history of audio and listening will still be relevant for many years to come. Rest in power, Jonathan.
March 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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The first time the word "ska" appeared in print was on March 17, 1964. But I found that ska was first spelled "sca" and it actually appeared in print before this. I reported it to the Oxford English Dictionary about a decade ago, but no reply. Have a read and see the articles here.
#OED #ska #reggae
Origins of the Word Ska
A documentary on the origins of the word “ska” cited an article from the Daily Gleaner on March 17, 1964 as the first printed mention of the word (You can view it here: However, I have …
skabook.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Forgot to post this here cause life’s been 🤪. But happy 30th to my fav game of all time, Chrono Trigger! #chronotrigger #pixelart #chronotrigger30th
March 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Kraftwerk was in Montreal this week, here are some pics I took. Can you guess the songs? #multimedia #electronic #music #placedesarts
March 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Soon the #haikubox prototype will be ready. Will keep you posted of course! #arduino #poetry #haiku #montreal #making #thermal #printer
February 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Salut Frankétienne…

« Diagnostic ou verdict.
Tous les murs finiront par devenir des fleurs, des ruines lépreuses exquises.
La révolution vue d’en bas. »

Et la voyance explose, 1997
February 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
February 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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For researchers and writers--UC Santa Barbara has a great list of 172 free and open access databases:

guides.library.ucsb.edu/az/databases...
A-Z Databases
guides.library.ucsb.edu
February 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM