We sat down with Okaloosa County UF IFAS Extension Agriculture & Natural Resources Agent  Jennifer Bearden and Okaloosa County, FL Resident & Farmer Shannon Nixon of Nixon Farm in Baker, FL to talk about the current situation of the Agriculture Industry and its biggest issues. We further discussed Urban Sprawling, what kinds of misconceptions threaten agriculture and How are wildlife an issue on the farm and what can we do to mitigate this.

The State of Agriculture in Northwest Florida

I've recently finished reading the Sprawl triology written by William Gibson. Freeside is a space station that is situated at Lagrange point L5. I enjoyed reading the novels and the space station (and other things) sticked in my brain...

Freeside

Some Things Are Actually Square (Post DMT)

DEEP FRIED SOUP

Music from the 2025 Victorian Theatre Company & Brisbane Music Festival co-production of St Kilda Tales: A Performance Rave

Music composed and produced by Jack Bochow.

Director: Matthew Connell
Playwright: Raimondo Cortese

"Score and incidental music to ’St Kilda Tales’ was commissioned by Alex Raineri for Brisbane Music Festival and Victorian Theatre Company. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body"

I Wanna Hear You Talk : Act 2 Rave Sequence

Lost in the Sprawl

Aquatica

Folk and their systems
People and their plans part two 
Need some nuanced memes     
A dream to a populist 
People; their things, their beliefs

Tell me what to think
Read one or two sentences
Cause an online stink
All this talk about science
No need to read any more

People and their things.
You cannot take it with you.
All the blings and rings

consumed with illness
Schadenfreude of late
Their lives are joyless

Apotheosis 
of snide, preacher on the box
their vile corpses hide
A pest who appeals to cocks
Hating folk at one’s behest

Wholly abhorrent 
Air leaks from the inner tube 
Get a grip on this
Machinations of the few
Unsure what the problem is

Hardwired for nonsense
it’s not real mate it’s your mind
Hatred needs your kind

C$*@$s puffing on vapes, 
They really do boil my piss
All banal as apes

Lend me your ear pal
This involves some gravity
What I’d like to say.
May be unpalatable 
Questions your depravity

Namaste Wilhelm
Wilhelm my functional tree
Project onto him
German looking, I must say
Start my day a mindful way

Beagle got fat shamed
privileged fat kid crying
diabetes maimed 
I’ve got a proper problem
with peanuts, it’s the new crack

glory and grandeur
for the British people this
hatred and slander
for the British people that
I’ll have to have a gander

Said on the telly,
Your plant has an epic yield
They said it a lot

not having a wank
I’m on me exercise bike
Got to go the bank

Split down the middle
“live free or die” they chanted
I wasn’t arsed me
“Sack the unjabbed” said others
I’m no anarchist or thug

a folkmote of fools
Ruminants chew cud in a field
the British People         
Funny looking cunts them sheep
I’ll show you who’s a chicken

Pot noodle container
Full of human excrement. 
My mate took his bird
quality that today means
art installation of turd

users of a drug
Wait for the meth to kick in 
‘skiz one bag taa lad 
Dealing drugs and banging doors
Benzo selling budget whores

I fell in love with Drum & Bass while I was listening to "Aphrodite - Calcutta" for the first time in 2002. Now, 22 years later, I'm having fun producing mainly Liquid Drum & Bass tracks in my spare time.

Hey! 

Here are some sounds I’ve cobbled together and forged into something hopefully resembling music! 

Please take a listen!

If you’d like to use any of the music for something, or have a project that might work with my sound, let me know.

Some other text —

I’ve noticed I’ve got a bit of stuff here now — though it’s rather disjointed and all over the place. Please rummage through; perhaps there’s something you’ll like. 

I also think I’m closing in on a sound of sorts. But I suspect I’ll never quite find it… and that’s ok!  There’s a compulsive want to just make weird shit. And I’m cool with that.

Process —

What I do here is mostly based on the hardware gear I have. (Though I do use plugins for guitar and a few soft synths or keys.) 

I only just—almost don’t—know how to use it all.
I just keep working and iterating until it sounds good to me. It’s just the best I can do really…

Drums are usually played in or sequenced (programmed)

I use Ableton Live (with an Ableton Push) and mix and master in Ableton using a bunch of plugins. 

I shall continue to make stuff… Continue to listen, if you please.

Cheers.


Note: I don’t knowingly use any AI for music creation.

Nothing against AI — I just want to make what I can,
with what I’ve got, and whatever knowledge I can scrape together. For what it’s worth.

antipsychotic & antidepressant medicated autism spectrum depressive paranoid schizophrenic.

New tracks tagged #Sprawl