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Yann Novak
@yannnovak.com
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└ Queer Artist, Composer & Technologist
└ Housefather at @dragonseyerecordings.com
└ Preservationist at @substratum.digital
└ Developer at @3n.design
└ 💍 to @robert.takahashinovak.com
📍Los Angeles, CA
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If we see people wearing Meta glasses, we need to start calling them Gargoyles, it’s only fitting to help Z*ck fully realize his complete misunderstanding of the book Snow Crash.
Screenshot with white background and text that reads: “Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time.” — SNOW CRASH
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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"Con l'esponenziale crescita del flusso di dati, vuoi vedere che la vera disto-pia si nasconde nella lentezza?"

Another great review of my recent album 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮 in Italian magazine BLOW UP.

🎧 LISTEN/PURCHASE → yannnovak.bandcamp.com/album/contin...
Scan of a review and the cover of Plow Up Magazine, the review reads: FIELD RECORDINGS DISTOPICI; Yann Novak; Continuity • DL Room40 • 3t-31:12; Partendo da 28 loop di registrazioni ambientali e suoni sintetici Novak costruisce 3 pezzi che vogliono essere una riflessione sulla manipolazione delle informazioni, soprattutto quando i mezzi tecnici a disposizioni sono molto potenti e raf-finati. Sullo sfondo ci stanno le questioni dell'uso dell'Al come strumento di controllo sociale visto come eterogenesi dei fini (William Gibson docet). Musicalmente ne esce una ambient pa-cata, vagamente inquietante, come una specie di colonna sonora per "2001 Odissea nello spa-zio" al rallentatore. Con l'esponenziale crescita del flusso di dati, vuoi vedere che la vera disto-pia si nasconde nella lentezza? [7.5] Girolamo Dal Maso
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I recently did an interview for EX! Magazine, published by Adventurous Music. I talk about art, music, tech, and privacy/security in the age of authoritarianism. It's packaged with some great music by great artists too!

📖 PRE-ORDER → adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ex-zin...
Magazine cover made to look 3D with a light gray background and shadow. The magazine cover features a painting of a woman's face in profile with flowers pained over in a pattern. The bottom has a white band with test that reads: "EDITION 4; FEAT. ASJA SKRINIK, AURA KAMIKURA, BIONIC & THE WIRES, CORINA RETZLAFF, D4000, FRENETIC MAGIC SOUND, JEAN-FRANÇOIS MAGRE, JEFF DUNGFELDER, MANUEL CARBONE & LUCUS, PAUL JETTENBACH, PEER SMITS, PERNILLE MEIDELL, SARA MOHAMMADI SHARIFI, THIERRY ARNAL, YANN NOVAK; PLUS MUSIC BY CONURE, INYAN, LIMESTONE ZIGGURAT, NIAYESH EBRAHIMI, PAXILLUS SUCCUBUS & DRUMRAYZ, RELAY STATION, TRAILOFGHOSTS, ÜMLAUT, WXR_JR, A BOÖTIX, EX! Magazine for Experimental Art"
October 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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A new episode of 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙏𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘼 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖 airs today on @campradio.bsky.social at 9am PDT / 6pm CEST, I have way to much going on right now, so I did something a little different, an unreleased redux and samples from a talk relevant to 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮.

📻 LISTEN → www.listen.camp
Flyer with a white background with pale touches of blue, pink, and yellow. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 21; Yann Novak — Intermission; Meredith Whittaker — The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality. CAMP (logo). 10.10.2025, 18:00-19:00 CEST
October 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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"Un lavoro che affascina, inquieta e obbliga a riascoltare il modo in cui siamo stati abituati a vedere o peggio, a sorvegliare, IL REALE."

From a great review of my recent album 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮 in Italian magazine Rockerilla.
Scan of a review of 'Continuity' from Italian Magazine Rockerilla, it reads: Tre lunghe tracce: Metric of Caution, Context Collapse e Zones of Privacy, si estendono nell'oscura continuità di questo lavoro. Come affluenti notturni, sussurrano un racconto nel quale la promessa di trasparenza si dissolve nell'incertezza. Il dark ambient qui non è mera atmosfera: è un ordito di tensioni, un interrogare silenzioso del rapporto fra verità e controllo. In quest'epoca di apparente trasparenza dei media, il prisma deformante che tutto mostra tranne il vero, Novak costruisce architetture sonore che sembrano tradurre il suono in specchi deformati. Un lavoro che affascina, inquieta e obbliga a riascoltare il modo in cui siamo stati abituati a vedere o peggio, a sorvegliare, IL REALE. Mirco Salvadori
October 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Excited for this tonight at Rip Space!
Photo of a loft prior to a panel discussion with a pa and a video wall with text on it.
September 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Fuck you RFK Jr.

Got my Covid and Flu vaccinations today, despite the new CDC recommendations and not having insurance. Spoiler, it was $227, but at least in California I was able to do it.
Photo of Yann Novak with a black t-shirt on, the left sleeve is rolled up revealing a bandaid from getting vaccinated. He has a slight smaile and with his other hand is putting up his middle finger. The photo has been treated to be in black and white accept for his streak of red hair and the light blue bandaid.
September 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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At the last possible minute, I decided to release something for @bandcamp.com Friday! 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙨.𝟎𝟎𝟏 gathers tracks made for various compilations, originally released between 2017–2021 and newly remastered by @room40.bsky.social.

🎧 LISTEN/PURCHASE → yannnovak.bandcamp.com/album/artifa...
Album cover made to look 3D with a light gray background and shadows. The album cover is a purple, pink, and tan gradient, with a ton of digital noise creating a district texture and blured in the upper left and lower right corners to give depth.
September 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Very cool new @bandcamp.com feature!!! Now you can use your Bandcamp URL as your @bsky.app handle if you do not have your own domain!
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August 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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A new episode of 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙏𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘼 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖 airs today on @campradio.bsky.social at 9am PDT / 6pm CEST, this episode is a bit dark and brooding with a little sexiness at the end.

📻 LISTEN → www.listen.camp

🗃️ ARCHIVE → www.mixcloud.com/yannnovak/
Flyer with a white background with pale touches of blue. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 20; Yann Novak — Zones of Privacy; Black Rain — Tokyo Night City [excerpt]; Pinkcourtesyphone — our story [with AGF]; Timothy Fairless — Means of Mutation; The OO-Ray — Hanami; Alejandro Morse — 444 (...Giving U Everything); Cameron MacNair — Infinite Light; Aho Ssan & Resina — Egress V; FKA twigs — Eusexua. CAMP (logo). 08.15.2025, 18:00-19:00 CEST
August 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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My new album 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮 is out now! Through this release I wrestle with what is public and private, true and false, as the world slides deeper into a fascist surveillance state. 

🎧 LISTEN/PURCHASE → yannnovak.bandcamp.com/album/contin...
The album cover for 'Continuity' by Yann Novak. Its a dark grey photo background of electric and phone cables nested together on a pole. Over top is 42 lines of white text that are as wide as they are tall, its encrypted text so its gibberish all the way until the end where there are two == and then a few spaces and the word Continuity.
July 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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"A profound work that is probably best served by focus and attention, but in the spirit of versatility can also sit neatly in the background as ambient music was born to do."

First review of 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮 from Musique Machine, the album is out tomorrow!

📖 READ → www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/revi...
The album cover for 'Continuity' by Yann Novak, made to look 3D with shadows on a light grey background. The cover is a dark grey photo background of electric and phone cables nested together on a pole. Over top is 42 lines of white text that are as wide as they are tall, its encrypted text so its gibberish all the way until the end where there are two == and then a few spaces and the word Continuity.
July 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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A new episode of 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙏𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘼 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖 airs today on @campradio.bsky.social Radio at 9am PDT / 6pm CET, this is my pride edition that moves from a broken radio in a dive bar all the way to the dance floor!

📻 LISTEN → www.listen.camp
Flyer with a dark blue gradient that turns into a ranbow at the right edge. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 19; Flare — You're The Only Star (In My Blue Heaven); Anne-F Jacques — janvier [excerpt]; Yann Novak — Metric of Caution; Terre Thaemlitz — She's Hard (2007 Archive Of Silence Mix); Celestial Trails — Aeonian Waves; DJ Sprinkles — Sisters, I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To; Kid 606 — Smack My Glitch Up; Le Tigre — Dyke March 2001; Elton John — Rocket Man (Scott Hardkiss Remix). 06.20.2025, 18:00-19:00 CEST
June 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Hey LA, come visit me in Pasadena today, I am gallery sitting from Noon - 5pm at @fulcrumarts.bsky.social. On View is Malena Szlam: 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘰 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘉𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴. with a score by @room40.bsky.social

www.fulcrumarts.org/malena-szlam...
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June 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I have never been so proud of an automation. I hate updating my audio plugins because they all require an app and the only way I don't forget they exist is to keep them in my dock.

Now with one click, and one icon in the dock, they all launch at once! Plugin housecleaning has never been faster!
Screenshot of the Automator app showing an automation that launches 7 different audio software updaters all at once.
June 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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The @fulcrumarts.bsky.social bathrooms is a gorgeous pink and perfect for selfies, another benefit to coming in today or Saturday!
Photo of Yann Novak wearing all black in a bright pink bathroom.
June 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Thanks! The single cover is actually slightly different than the album. Both feature the encrypted album description, but the albums uses the album title as the encryption key and the single uses the track title as the encryption key. Then each has a different photos from Tokyo in the background.
The album cover for 'Continuity' by Yann Novak. Its a dark grey photo background of electric and phone cables nested together on a pole. Over top is 42 lines of white text that are as wide as they are tall, its encrypted text so its gibberish all the way until the end where there are two == and then a few spaces and the word Continuity. The album cover for 'c0n73x7_c0ll4p53' by Yann Novak. Its a dark grey photo background of train tracks with all the cables they run on in a lattice overtop. Over top is 42 lines of white text that are as wide as they are tall, its encrypted text so its gibberish all the way until the end where there are two == and then a few spaces and the word c0n73x7_c0ll4p53.
June 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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𝗰𝟬𝗻𝟳𝟯𝘅𝟳_𝗰𝟬𝗹𝗹𝟰𝗽𝟱𝟯, the single from my upcoming album 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮 (on @room40.bsky.social), that premiered as a video last month, is now available on all streaming platforms! Visit your favorite streaming platform and search 'c0n73x7_c0ll4p53'.
The album cover for 'c0n73x7_c0ll4p53' by Yann Novak. Its a dark grey photo background of train tracks with all the cables they run on in a lattice overtop. Over top is 42 lines of white text that are as wide as they are tall, its encrypted text so its gibberish all the way until the end where there are two == and then a few spaces and the word c0n73x7_c0ll4p53.
June 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Big thanks to @richardchartier.bsky.social for including my track 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘱𝘴𝘦 from my upcoming album 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮 in is recent @dublab.bsky.social show.

🎧 LISTEN → www.dublab.com/archive/rich...
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May 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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A new episode of 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙏𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘼 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖 airs today on @campradio.bsky.social at 9am PDT / 6pm CET with tracks by Jake Cassavetes, @rhinsedzell.bsky.social, @timothyfairless.bsky.social, @awave-amouth.bsky.social, @ianwellman.bsky.social, and more!

📻 LISTEN → www.listen.camp
Flyer with a light yellow gradient background with pink and salmon on the edges. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 18; Yann Novak — Accelerating Distance (redux); Jake Cassavetes — Something all girls do; Yann Novak — Metric of Caution; Rhins — Roll and Square; Timothy Fairless — Currency Exchange; Jake Cassavetes — I see her in the mirror; a wave, a mouth; — She Wears the Crown; Ian Wellman — Mercury-vapor Lights [excerpt]. 05.23.2025, 18:00-19:00 CEST
May 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I have had a tough week, if you have too maybe my new album will help? Here are a few DL codes for my Bluesky friends.

room40.bandcamp.com/yum

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The album cover for 'Continuity' by Yann Novak. Its a dark grey photo background of electric and phone cables nested together on a pole. Over top is 42 lines of white text that are as wide as they are tall, its encrypted text so its gibberish all the way until the end where there are two == and then a few spaces and the word Continuity.
May 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙥𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙤 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝘽𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨 by Malena Szlam, with sound by @room40.bsky.social opens tonight at @fulcrumarts.bsky.social in Pasadena! It’s gorgeous, come by if you can!
Photo of a 3 channel video projection, each video is a different type of landscape. The room is dark and a person with long curly hair is sitting on a bench viewing the video.
May 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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My mother passed away just over 19 years ago, I created my album 𝙈𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙩 in dedication to her a few months later. I set it to name-your-price for today only. Have a listen and let me know if you think I should reissue/remaster for the 20 year anniversary?

yannnovak.bandcamp.com/album/meadow...
Photo of a woman with long hair surrounded by meadowsweet flowers. The photo is black and white.
May 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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To get a first listen, head over to @foxydigitalis.bsky.social, where they are premiering the video for 𝗰𝟬𝗻𝟳𝟯𝘅𝟳_𝗰𝟬𝗹𝗹𝟰𝗽𝟱𝟯. It's a bit of a visual departure for me where I play with encryption as an aesthetic overlayed on top of urban areas in Tokyo.

📺 WATCH → foxydigitalis.zone/2025/05/08/v...
A video still from the video for 'c0n73x7_c0ll4p53'. The background is a dark grey photograph looking out over a train yard in Chiba. On the top and bottom edge is small red text that is just strings of characters, its encrypted text. In the venter is a massive white X.
May 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I am excited to announce that my new album 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮 is available for pre-order from @room40.bsky.social, out July 4. On it I wrestle with what is public & private, true & false, as parts of the world slide deeper into fascist surveillance states.

🎧 LISTEN → yannnovak.bandcamp.com/album/contin...
The album cover for 'Continuity' by Yann Novak. Its a dark grey photo background of electric and phone cables nested together on a pole. Over top is 42 lines of white text that are as wide as they are tall, its encrypted text so its gibberish all the way until the end where there are two == and then a few spaces and the word Continuity.
May 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM