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drngmnt.bsky.social
cg (karplus-weak) 🪨
@drngmnt.bsky.social
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makes ambient sounds

💿 https://causticgates.bandcamp.com
🎟️ https://band.codes/causticgates
🎛️ https://soundcloud.com/caustic_gates
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drngmnt.bsky.social
this doesn't sound good
web3 word salad "Blockchain but different Releases on Nina are semi-fungible tokens issued on the Solana blockchain. Technically they are similar to NFTs. In practice this verifies that you own the releases you collect, so you can do things like unlock bonus material from an artist and ensure permanent access to the music in your collection. Most of the releases on Nina are very affordable or free."
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
drngmnt.bsky.social
logging on
sam in death stranding looking at a hilly landscape
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
drngmnt.bsky.social
what playing gregtech: new horizons feels like
screenshot of primitive technology youtube channel. mixing crushed terracotta and ash in a 3:1 ratio
November 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
drngmnt.bsky.social
this book goes places
cǎrtǎrescu's solenoid, cover, on a kobo ereader
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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photo of my setup recording my new album, 'reality-based forms'. 16n faderbank was the main control interface for moving around the patch

listen to reality-based forms at https://causticgates.bandcamp.com/album/reality-based-forms

#music #ambient #eurorack #modular #synthsky
photo of 16n faderbank controller with messy labels attached and eurorack modular system all patched up with colourful patch cables, some white circular squiggles
November 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
drngmnt.bsky.social
it's strandin' time
death stranding screenshot. sam posing in front of some mountains
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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will be hitting that publish button on the new album tomorrow, 'reality-based forms'. gloopy looping lofi ambient w/ field recordings. here's a little album art preview
album art for my new release 'reality-based forms'. it is light blueish, photos of palm trees merging into clouds, with some white circular squiggles.
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
drngmnt.bsky.social
mfw someone pronounces niche as 'nitch'
president xi face scrunch
November 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
drngmnt.bsky.social
quick sofa palette patch after work. yes i am doing the thing (marbles into rings into beads), it's been a long day #modular #modularsynth
monochrome photo of a small eurorack modular synth, mostly mutable and intellijel modules, a tascam recorder off to the side
November 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
drngmnt.bsky.social
messing around with alternative artwork for new album
layered collage showing 16n controller with labelled faders stuck on, faint palm trees visible on top, and white circular squiggles
November 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
drngmnt.bsky.social
np
closeup of vinyl record on a turntable: aphex twin's selected ambient works vol 2, side e
November 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
drngmnt.bsky.social
nathan fielder in the curse, that comedy improv scene
October 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
drngmnt.bsky.social
this new youtube layout is utterly cursed
screenshot of the new youtube layout - full width taken up by 'watch next' thumbnails
October 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
drngmnt.bsky.social
the 'is this' butterfly meme but it has me gesturing at 'us-east-1 goes down' with the caption 'is this butlerian jihad'
October 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
drngmnt.bsky.social
tweaks and final touches for final album draft tracks before some listening. rough outtakes here for a preview https://soundcloud.com/caustic_gates/sets/new-album-outtakes-and-b-sides
collage of ableton live screenshots. intentionally zoomed out, details aren't important
October 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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"big tech companies are putting ai in everything" ... "introducing lumo, your private ai assistant" no thanks proton
proton email shilling their ai assistant "Privacy and freedom should be easy for anyone to achieve without compromising convenience. That’s why in the last few months we’ve released several new products and features that give you new ways to protect your data and stay safe. In this newsletter, we’ll share some of the recent highlights from the Proton ecosystem: Introducing Lumo, your private AI assistant" proton email shilling their ai assistant "AI is accelerating some of the worst abuses of surveillance capitalism. AI is more personal and more pervasive than even search engines. Big Tech companies are putting AI in everything, training their models on your data, and building even "
October 14, 2025 at 6:33 AM
drngmnt.bsky.social
up to some nonsense
finder screenshot showing a folder called "draftv1-flac" with 16 flac files titled "draft01" through "draft16", each labelled with date and the phrase "grainy loops - v2" sopranos meme chris: i actually just finished makin a 3 hour ambient album paulie: oh yea? so did my dishwasha
October 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
drngmnt.bsky.social
np. one of my favourite sferic releases in recent years
tibslc - hypertranslucent (translucent vinyl record on cork slipmat) tibslc - hypertranslucent (sleeve)
October 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
drngmnt.bsky.social
🔥
"The main immediate use of Sora so far appears to be to allow people to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, blogs, books, images, videos, photos, and pieces of art that OpenAI has scraped from people far less powerful than, say, Nintendo. As a reward for this wide scale theft, OpenAI gets a $500 billion valuation. And we get a tool that makes it even easier to flood the internet with slightly better looking bullshit at the low, low cost of nearly all of the intellectual property ever created by our species, the general concept of the nature of truth, the devaluation of art through an endless flooding of the zone, and the knock-on environmental, energy, and negative labor costs of this entire endeavor."
October 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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silksong muted word
September 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
drngmnt.bsky.social
lol
hackernews screenshot. article titled "Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too". focus is in a comment that reads "I’ve built a script to filter out these and other negative articles and show a more upbeat hacker news. Let me know if you want a copy."
August 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
drngmnt.bsky.social
jfc
hackernews screenshot showing a link titled "Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits"
August 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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rollercoaster tycoon title menu screenshot
August 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
drngmnt.bsky.social
is this something
yakuza kiwami style intro of the 'ibiza final boss' guy, subtitled 'normal person from newcastle'. photo shows man with peculiar bob style haircut, sunglasses and goatee
August 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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npt
the caretaker - an empty bliss beyond this world (record, side a) the caretaker - an empty bliss beyond this world (sleeve, 'happy in spite' by ivan seal)
August 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM