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I ve lost count of how many times I ve watched an entrepreneur or a VC bounce off music tech and land on the same flustered conclusion: This industry is broken! Usually, they are a few years into a product that worked well with investors in their slides and maybe had a little traction but then they Continue reading "The Music Industry Isn t Broken. It just has a Good Memory"
I couldnt let go of the rabbits. So I made a one-shot role-playing game using Google Slides about them and the myth of Mayahuel. I was inspired by Grant Howitt s one page TTRPGs like Crash Pandas or Honey Heist. Kinda silly, playable one-shot things that you can do with your friends one evening. It is Continue reading "More Drunken Rabbits"
In Aztec or Mexica mythology, the Centzon Tōtōchtin are a group of divine rabbits who meet for frequent drunken parties. Amongst these inebriated characters was Pantecatl (he who knew how to mix aguamiel with plant roots – to produce pulque with medicinal or hallucinogenic properties), Cuatlapanqui (the head opener), Papaztac (the nervous one), Macuil totochtli “Five Rabbit” ( Continue reading…
Perihelion is a browser instrument I made this afternoon that lets you load a sound file and explore its harmonics around the Circle of Fifths. Instrumentals, field recordings, weird noises you ve been sitting on — drop them in and see where your curiosity takes you. It s still very much a work in progress. The next Continue reading "Perihelion"
It has been almost exactly two months since Robert Kaye died. Rob — known online as mayhem , a handle that was both a pose of defiance toward corporate interest and, on occasion, an accurate forecast of his management style — was the founder and Executive Director of the MetaBrainz Foundation. He passed away on 20 Continue reading "Mayhem s Legacy: Why MetaBrainz Matters More Than Ever, and Why We…
The cards for the immersive theatre game I’m making for the Strange Play event for London Games Festival arrived this morning. The game is called Bound Allegiance and it’s about loyalty. It’s sort of a variant on the game I did last June for Voidspace Live, set in the same “Unseen Court” universe of The Continue reading "Bound Allegiance @ Strange Play 18-19th April 2026"
Most artists protect their creative identity like a fixed asset — something to be defended, refined, polished. David Bowie treated his like a context window: something to be cleared, reloaded, and deliberately contaminated with whatever was strangest and richest within reach. He did this with voracious intention, constantly refreshing the inputs that fed his creative Continue reading "Feed Your…
Last week, an autonomous AI tool built with OpenClaw accidentally started a fight with someone s insurance company. Misinterpreted a response, fired off an aggressive email, and then triggered a full reinvestigation of the original claim. The guy who created the agent thought it was funny and shared it socially. OpenClaw is the buzziest tool in Continue reading "Grace Notes and Tempo"
Or: Why Your Next Best Action Shouldn t Be Predictable I ve been thinking a lot about Donald Glover lately. Specifically, about one thing he said while talking about about creating This Is America . Watch the interview video on Instagram. Culture is just compression of information. That line hit me like a freight train. Not because it s Continue reading "Strange Attractors and the Art of Cultural…
Banks wrote that in 1987. He was imagining a post-scarcity civilisation managed by benevolent AI—and even there, with all material needs met, the fundamental human problem remained: the need to matter. This post is a shoutout to systems designer Jan Bunge, who s been writing some genuinely important stuff on his Multiball blog over the last Continue reading "Convergence and (the) Culture"