Feed your head - Hack your world - Live curious
I often have a hard time getting motivated to make stuff. I ve been looking for ways to trick myself into starting pieces. One is to compose ringtones, notifications, and alarms for my phone. I got tired of the selection of my phone s built-in sounds, so I set out to make some that were more distinctive. I first came up with around 8 alarm and notification sounds and have been using them for the…
I ve tried some online book-tracking sites ( The Story Graph being the latest) and it s motivated me to just (or also) post such info on this site. So: Read(ing)
Fuck Trump and anyone who supports him. Like that piece of shit Musk. I deleted my Twitter accounts. I had a number of them for all sorts of purposes (back in the day the API was an interesting tool). Now it s a white-nationalist cesspool of vile propaganda. I realize this is a trivial thing in the scheme of things, but nonetheless, if you have a Twitter account, delete it. Stop propping up that…
I added another track to my album Loosies. Loosies by James Britt
I ve been stuck in a creative limbo since the death of my wife a few years ago. A big part of it is that so much of my sense of self was based on my relationship with her. So much of the joy of making art of any kind came from sharing it with her. She didn t always care for what I made, often referring to my music as scratchy guitar (a term I came to embrace). But when she died there was,…
I ve added more items to my Suggested Listening page, now at about 140 possible new finds for you.
A little while back I wrote an article about Holger Czukay for a small zine. The same one that ran my Holger Czukay papertoy. I figure I should just publish it here. Holger Czukay Holger Czukay was born March 24, 1938 in the Free City of Danzig (what is now Gdansk), as Holger Schüring. That family name was a fabrication (along with an invented Dutch heritage), owing to persecution of Poles by the…
Some years a go I made a Holger Czukay papertoy for an obscure zine. I decided that it should be available to more people so I ve uploaded to this site. You can read how to download, and how to build, the toy here .
To be fully honest, I ve been on Mastodon since 2018 (so the site tells me) but honestly never got into it. But, with Twitter expected to change in unpleasant ways, I ve taken a new interest in Mastodon. @jamesbritt@mastodon.social
I ve released a new album. It s called Loosies It s a collection of tracks I ve made over the last 2 years or so, tracks that haven t found a real home. I thought to just assemble them into an album to make them available. It s pay-what-you-want. Loosies by James Britt