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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

ross from friends - pale blue dot (2018) floating points and marta salogni - intimate intensity (remix) (2021) depeche mode - waiting for the night (1990) mp3↘ - 16:00

today's research subject ping-pong assembly language icelandic sheep circuit trace widths thatched roofs

"For the holiday weekend they're doing the top 200 songs.

saturday march 4 1pm EST on NTS 2 [web] an assemblage of sounds, old and new and forgotten together. thank you to beau beaumont for the invitation.

cool maritime - temporal dryft (2022) aki tsuyuko - solitary tiger (2019) oneohtrix point never - chrome country (2013) mp3↘ - 19:28

reading old text, recognizing oneself but not remembering writing it "i needed more hands, i made very specialized virtual hands. i did not make a virtual hand training facility or virtual hand factory or virtual hand playground."

hold that thought for a billion years (brilliantly improvised not by me at band practice this evening)

tropic of cancer - i woke up and the storm was over (2015) autechre - yulquen (1994) dead can dance - the carnival is over (1993) mp3↘ - 18:36

unfamiliar territory: i've written a piano composition that i cannot play. it's a strange reversal in that i'm used to writing code that effortlessly executes the humanly impossible. but physically playing this piece is what brings it to life, so now i'm…

the cleaners from venus - only a shadow (1982) the psychedelic furs - sister europe (1980) tears for fears - the hurting (1983) mp3↘ - 12:06

after numerous failed attempts at transcribing upon waking, my dream-self concocted a brilliant idea: record these brilliant melodies and chords and articulations to tape. which i did, in dream-world. now to transport those tapes from that place to this p…

options when encountering a problem: meticulously design a specific solution repurpose an existing thing which sufficiently addresses the issue identify that the problem actually does not exist trying to stay awake and not fight various alluring nonexiste…

lunar new year ceremony drum groups colliding out of time rumble through several panes of glass renew day spa 2 keeping phased time against the less metered new age solo flute record short delay medium reverb maybe eighties but remarkably chromatic at tim…

"If technology advances, if it is, as they say, progress, why does so much of it regress, ending up broken and dead in landfills?

software - island sunrise (1988) dam funk - galactic fun (2009) art of noise - moments of love (1985) mp3↘ - 16:20

sky, hazy blue fading to mauve water, silvery green snow, pink and grey

investigating the territory between ambivalence and acceptance

millennia of the same "The basic principle was that the client depended on his patron for protection and assistance, financial and otherwise, in return for a variety of services rendered, including votes in elections.

the father of a friend once told them a good story: that there's a fine line between being dedicated and being stuck

robert wyatt - nothing can stop us (1982) cocteau twins and harold budd - sea, swallow me (1986) gowns - fake july (2007) mp3↘ - 10:41

"By claiming the end, energy is freed up to create new beginnings."

any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from religion.

for the last couple years i've been slowly refining a collection of ideas embodying the whimsical term "computer folkcraft." it's perhaps a mix of permacomputing [web] and anarchism and appropriate technology and plain old antiquated "computer literacy,"…

spiro world - lupron (2021) fatima yamaha - what's a girl to do (2004) park hye jin - call me (2018) mp3↘ - 13:46 (thanks to k for the discoveries)

sometimes it is profoundly difficult to write words on the internet and othertimes it is profoundly difficult not to write words on the internet

a few sentences which have recently haunted me after emerging from the mist: "high on metaphysics" "normal life file structure" "performative kindness in the age of the global village"

philip glass - glassworks iii (island) (1981) recoil - freeze (1992) nine inch nails - the warm place (1994) mp3↘ - 17:58

"The past is the enemy in their eyes— a stubborn foe, always resisting the future." mark w. brown, the headless vase

years ago a hawk ate most of a mouse on the dock, and a skeleton rested there for more years, and now there there is a beautiful multicolored patch of moss. a sort of reincarnation.

eight years ago we founded a community called lines [web] where people share and discuss art, music, and technology. the site grew out of the monome forum, which itself was founded nine years earlier alongside the release of the first monome designs. lines

the snow departed and a new year arrived. cleaning out digital closets by cramming everything in a single much larger closet. found this photo of the workspace from august 2017. there is energy.

make art, not data

attempting to bury our digital past, into a new extremely spacious mechanical hard drive. it makes sounds which are a near perfect simulation of the winter mice chewing the inner walls of our old farmhouse.

"Man is probably not a machine, but he behaves as such in a situation where the machines impose his operating rules.

fifty degree drop in an afternoon, blowing wind, rain to ice, water down the mountains, seemingly unfreezable, mist rising above the waves of the brook

ratio of collecting to reading approached then energetically crossed the crisis threshold

today while visiting a beautiful church i met a beautiful pipe organ, to whom i quietly apologized for the undignified tunes it was being forced to play

"Reinecke was a smart though modest man — along with his early Chicago partner James Barnes, he once argued that the idea that “form follows function” was stupid because it assumes “that there is one, and only one right way of doing a thing.”

early attempts at cataloging the language of shiitake

"All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary.

"She looked up fondly at the façade of the House.

here at monome we are versed in a wide range of technologies. when we teach soldering workshops i like to repeat something conveyed to us when we worked for a cinematic robotics company: hot glue was originally developed for the electronics industry, but…