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Zoe Brownstone: Pride & Premises Live at The Bill Murray FULL SPECIAL - YouTube I don’t remember where I heard about this, but it’s good! You can’t beat a funny canadian. 🇨🇦
Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering — surma.dev I am sure this super niche, but I enjoyed this rabbit hole. Me too. The Atkinson Dither (of classic Mac fame) still holds a special place in my heart.
Don’t die lil thing The current moment is so incredibly extractive, it has converted every ounce of human care, kindness and creativity into a “ model,” which we then burn as much fossil fuel as possible to convert into a subscription service. We are being asked to pay for a chopped-and-screwed memory of the time we used to live in a semi-functional society. This post is good, and manages to be…
Decomputing as Resistance We can lift directly from those tendencies in the form of Illich’s work on tools for conviviality. He defined tools as both technologies and institutions, and convivial tools as those that enabled the exercise of autonomy and creativity, rather than the conditioned responses demanded by manipulative systems. This whole talk/essay is interesting and I need to read it four…
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online Illich poses convivial tools as directly opposed to this industrialized, radically-monopolized set of social systems. Similar to E.F. Schumacher’s concept of “ intermediate technology” introduced in his 1973 book Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered, convivial tools are sustainable, energy-efficient (though often labor…
on permanence: album art as aesthetic object When I was in Pittsburgh last weekend I bought several beautiful books, one of them being a book length essay by Laura Lopez Paniagua called Mike Kelley: Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions. In it she says there is no way to separate an object from the way it appears, and that’s what I’m trying to get at. Music can sometimes be just auditory…
You do not need “ analytics” for your blog because you are neither a military surveillance unit nor a commodity trading company — This day’s portion We should resist the urge to data-fy and commodify our personal websites. Unintuitively, that means smaller, more closed communities and networks where communication is intentional rather than automated and surveilled. You’ll never know everything…
The Age of the Double Sell-Out The 20th century taboo against selling out was, at its heart, a communal norm to reward young artists who focused on craft and punish those who appropriated art and subculture for empty profiteering. Now the culture is most exemplified by people whose entire end goal appears to be empty profiteering. True. But also in my experience young artists don’t really have…
I wrote this back in 2023 and never posted it. Not sure why. I have a few 60s GEM organs in various states of disrepair. One thing that usually helps to sort them out is to replace any electrolytic capacitors that are bulging or leaking, usually around the power and amplifier circuits. I’ve done this a few times, and started to get curious about how the amplifier circuit actually works. It’s a…
The vibrato circuit for the Saffari was originally based on this one from Transistor Electronic Organs for the Amateur : I couldn’t get it to work (maybe my substitute transistors weren’t close enought to the original?) but it looked very much like a Phase-shift oscillator so I tried out some variations on that circuit with the 2N3904 transistors I had and pretty quickly had a beautiful sine wave…
Yesterday the PCBs arrived for the prototype of my analog transistor organ monosynth and I built it. It sounded great so I made a little video of my first jam and posted it to Mastodon , where it got some really nice comments. In theory the oscillator generates a square wave, but because it’s made using a super simple circuit and discrete components (just like the transistor organs of yore) the “…
“ What’s the synth you’re working on?”, asked nobody at all after reading my post about PT2399 filters . Good question! I’m a keyboard player. Piano originally, then organs ( Hammond , Farfisa ), then synths . I am mildly obsessed with transistor organs like the Farfisa Compact . Their circuits are ingenious but also simple enough for an untrained tinkerer like me to understand (just about). They…
I’ve been playing with the PT2399 (every DIY guitar pedal maker’s favourite lo-fi delay chip) for a couple of years now, and I still find myself confused by the filters and pinouts. The canonical PT2399 Analysis by Electrosmash was a great help in getting my head around how to use the chip, but I find it difficult to match their re-drawing of the block diagram to the jungle of resistors and…
I made a Simon Says toy with Clem over a couple of weekends. Started with an OKdo project and customised the code to fix some quirks and add our own musical touches (it plays Nazareth from Nativity (2009) every few levels). We built it in a metal guitar pedal case using some arcade buttons and a speaker I had lying around from audio.computer experiments. It turned out to need a lot of wires, but…
Beanie Tapes was featured on Bandcamp’s November Tape Label Report . What a treat! One might call Oxford’s Beanie Tapes the ultimate Bandcamp tape label.