Love this: Dick Moby - Or, the Book "Moby Dick, or the Whale" by Herman Melville, but with all the words in alphabetical order. mouseandthebillionaire.com/dickMoby/

One day, you'll close Microsoft Word for the last time, but you won't know it

I am super on board with this, I got a good CD player hooked up to good speakers again recently and seriously people, CDs sound amazing
(and also libraries have excellent CD collections)

today I learned that the word for a bagpipe in Dutch is a "doedelzak", which I would encourage you to say out loud

I'm probably not the first to suggest this, but in a way I find it sad that alt-text fields for pictures are not limited to 1000 words

oh hey I just realised I haven't posted the Period Instrument here! it's a menstrual blood musical synthesiser I made with my friend and collaborator
@nadiacw.bsky.social
and you might like it too. I think it's one of the top 5 menstrual blood synths ever designed youtu.be/vOGdXnA11Is

new painful slider cap just dropped

Performative now just means “doing something in public” and “liminal” is an empty swimming pool or something

Today I'm thinking about a music controller that uses thermistors instead of knobs, so I guess you play the instrument with ice cubes and a hair dryer?

I feel like I read some good academic writing a while back about how the obsession with "realism" and "quality" in audio field recording was super creepy and weird, but I can't think of where I read it now, help me social media

Last time I'll post about this thing (this week). I tied the string to the head of my guitar so I can control the sample by moving the guitar around, which is fun

my STR-500 sampler has proved frighteningly popular on the social medias, because apparently the world wants to watch me move my hands awkwardly to control sound (kids, ask your grandparents about dragons den). So here's a thread about it + my thoughts on future developments

IN WHICH I tie the string from my STR-500 sampler to my wrist and play a duet with myself in the recent past

Hello there! For my first post on this here social network, here's a new thing I've been working on, a live sampler where you scrub through the sound by pulling a string. It has a filter!