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How can trains help rehabilitate the struggling UK grassroots live music scene? That's an odd question but ok. Perhaps concert tickets could include train travel so journeys to and from venues would be cheaper and also encourage people not to drive. Trains could run later to allow people
As usual for 2026, life outside of The Komoy Noise Research Unit remains too busy to allow me much time for the Serious Noise Studies this blog is world-renowned for, but I'm once again sneaking in just under the wire to make sure I get some kind
Alright. The heat is upon us. My brain cannot multitask at the best of times and certainly not in these end-of-days temperatures. So like a broken record an urgency loop , I will repeat at the top of yet another KNRU dispatch that, as usual, I continue to work
It's been a month of scattered and irregular Wreckage Eternal development . I have not done as much as I had hoped due to various other musical activities eating up all my time/brain. A good problem to have, for sure, but the sluggishness begets more sluggishness as I
Let's dig into the mechanics of Wreckage Systems . Its fundamental approach to audio favours samples over synthesis. While this is primarily due to the way the software it was built with operates, it is also true that my tired and noisy heart also tends to favour sampling over
Recently I have seen various blog posts from software developers that are coming from the perspective of 'I am an AI skeptic, but for [my own particular reason] I tried a project using [some AI code assistant] and it kind of worked. I hated that it kind of worked
I read this paper the other day titled ' What Was Lo-Fi? ' by Adam Harper, whose writing on music I've always found compelling. It is one of those papers where the gist of the argument is easily and immediately graspable, i.e. 'lo-fi'
There's niche and then there's niche. But perhaps at least one of you has an interest in 65daysofstatic and No Man's Sky and vinyl and generative music systems and two middle-aged dudes called Paul W who respectively look a bit rough (Wolinski) and
Good afternoon. The sun is shining. I can hear birds singing their tiny hearts out. In Gorton and Denton in the UK, not far at all from where I grew up, the Green party have just beaten Reform. A small sliver of hope against the rising tide of fascism. Congratulations
Apparently, back in late September 2022, I recorded 20 minutes of an odd procedural piano system as it ground out endless variations of minor key melancholia, added it to a pile of forgotten projects scattered across various hard drives, and never looked back. This morning I stumbled across it again.
Well, here's to another year swallowed by the landslide of history. Time for a quick accounting. The Komoy Noise Research Unit began early 2024. Back then I was lucky enough to have regular chunks of what I guess Mark Fisher would have called 'prospective time'. Time
It has been a good year for my relationship with books. I managed to read loads of them and I think at least a couple read me right back. This photo at the top of the email might make it seem like I'm trying to show off all
You know something that is absolutely worth considering? Planning an exit from the culture-destroying, weapons-investing, ICE-advertisement platform known as Spotify, a place where music is seen only as a tool to destroy people's imaginations and flatten art into a homogenised, AI-friendly, beige churn of
I wrote a new song. It's called garden_heart for some reason. Listening to it now I suppose it does kind of remind me of the hidden mess of unruly life and death you might find lurking just underneath the surface of a garden. Rhizomatic mycorrhizal networks passing
I just finished a book by Kohei Saito called Slow Down . It originally came out in Japan in 2020 and sold a quarter of a million copies, which seems like quite a lot for a book about Marxism and what Saito calls 'degrowth communism'. I can imagine how