these sounds. I'm delighted and somehow pleasantly disturbed

I love this aleatoric album! It's where we are heading with our next two albums.

Dani and Mat not quite being background music for a midday gig at Mona Wine Bar as people chatted, drank and nibbled before descending into the Museum that is MONA. Thanks to those there and MONA music staff for a wonderful sunny winters day in Tasmania

LIVE@MONA Wine Bar   Kirby/Ward

Rocktober day and track 27.
Finally some oldschool synth, phew. Last year I had a few more and after that, I hardly made something like this. I was afraid I lost "it" ...... but no, I am very pleased with this one!!

"Somewhere between circuit and soul, the giants move on.
Their steps echo through analog skies — slow, luminous, unending."
Inspired by the vast calm of the 1980s imaginary future.

I looked at the sky tonight and was thinking, am I seeing stars or satellites? What are these "tech giants" actually? What is nature? Isn't everything eventually "nature"? Why doesn't it feel like it yet and why do I feel excited and anxious at the same time?

27 Giants

Just another little something for the project. I'll pop it right in here with the others. My kid had a pretty bad fever today but thankfully it has gone down but he was definitely lost in the frying pan for a short while. Im excellent company and hospitable to any fellow temporarily out of their mind so I made sure the little dude was comfortable while he was making it through.  Hopefully we can do Halloween tomorrow, but if not we will still have a jolly old time recovering at home. threw this together once he was finally able to get a little sleep.

Photograph of early evening in Florida visiting family.


Identifying Identity

‘simius urbem salutat’
Modular Hedonism.
2025 live performance.

Un Singe en Hiver (A Monkey in Winter / Ein Affe im Winter) is a French film directed by Henri Verneuil (1962) and based on a novel by Antoine Blondin.

The title refers to the story of Chinese monkeys who get lost in big cities during winter. Some residents, convinced that they have souls, take them back to the jungle by train.

This is the only time Jean Gabin and Jean-Paul Belmondo appear together on screen.
‘Le Picon-bière, ça pardonne pas’.

Tools :
Pam’s, SIG.
- Chainsaw > Beads.
- Telharmonic (noise out) > Sisters > Data Bender.
- Rings > Monsoon (oliverb mode).
- Plaits (pair of classic waveforms) > FX Aid (#26 reverb hall chorus).
- Pluck > DSP (granular delay).
Tetrapad, Diode Chaos, Batumi, Ochd, 3x MIA, Sinc Defero.
A-138s, Quad Vca, StMix, Black stereo mixer, Listen IO.
Recorded live and mastered with Logic Pro.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

Un Singe en Hiver [modular hedonism]

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TurboCzipsy - "I Was a Teenage Mooney" JAM

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Fine lines, hard edges

Free Men

work in progress

cover image take from here: https://threwthelookingglass.com/cognitive-biases/

cognitive bias

Sample from the radio program Gunsmoke believed to be in public domain. No copyright abuse intended. 

Smells Like America

Caveat: I explicitly prohibit the use of any material I post for purposes of torture, brainwashing, hypnosis, bedazzlement or any other nefarious activity. This prohibition applies to all governments, corporations, institutions, agencies and individuals. 

“The avant garde is dead. That is its triumph. Let it lie.” - Chris Cutler in “Not As We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology”. (Highly recommended!)

“… there is increasingly less call to exercise an already too rare generosity of aesthetic hospitality.” - Chris Cutler

" Music is one of the great Mysteries. It gives life. It is not a career, nor a business, nor a craft. It is a gift... and a great responsibility. Because one can never know where the creative spark comes from or why it exists, it must be treasured as a Mystery. For the most part I believe creativity chooses you, not the other way around." - John Zorn (excerpt from the liner notes to 'Magick')

“Listen as if you were being told a secret” - Federico Fellini

“Experimental and electronic music was once not-so-benignly tolerated at the margins of western art music, but it has over the last decade or so moved toward a central position as something of the soundtrack of our digital culture. Where it once was merely tolerated it is now more engaged and doesn’t have to apologize to anyone”.  - Douglas Kahn 

"Through technology, voices are amplified and silence is broken. Spaces are shared." – Laurie Anderson

"I frequently hear music in the heart of noise." - George Gershwin

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." - 
Malaclypse the Younger in 'Principia Discordia'

“Let us cross a great modern capital with our ears more alert than our eyes and we will get enjoyment from distinguishing the eddying of water, air and gas in metal pipes, the grumbling noises that breathe and pulse with indisputable animility, the palpitation of waves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of the tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags. We enjoy creating mental orchestrations of crashing down of metal shop blinds, slamming doors, the hubbub and shuffle of crowds, the variety of din from the stations, railways, iron foundries, spinning mills, printing works, electric power stations and underground railways.” — Luigi Russolo in 'The Art of Noises' (L'arte dei Rumori)

Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mesmo)
(New Norberian English)

1. lit. in a state of mesmerism, hypnotism; in a trance
2. in a state of bewilderment or confusion, daydreaming; 'out of it'
3. mind bogglingly awesome, spellbinding, captivating

(1) "He swung that watch in front of her face and she got all mesmo"
(2) "When the teacher called me to the board I had just woken up and was still pretty mesmo"
(3) "The new N64 cartridge is totally mesmo, bro”

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