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Disclaimer I'm not actually a professional streamer. I'm a fantastic artist living waaay below the poverty line. However, I'm lucky enough to have a few people are able to support my work with a subscription on mustics.com . I dislike Twitch I started out streaming a few years ago, and quickly found an amazing community of streamers: The Golden Shrimp Guild : a lovely international…
I know my phone is The Anxiety Machine. What can I do about it? Prompted by this podcast : an interview with Casey Johnston, who wrote this great article about “The DIY Dumbphone” (in which you do a factory reset on your phone, and get more intentional about installing apps). Yes, I’ve deleted the main offenders: “X”, Facebook and Instagram. But my phone is still absolutely full of apps. A lot of…
Here begins an #incredible new blog. I love reading from other people's personal sites on RSS, but mine tends to be more like "I released this" and other boring shite. I decided to create a new feed, for posts I wouldn't necessarily want on the front page of my website. Just in case a rando visits to see if I'm a good musician, and instead finds a bunch of witterings about gestalt…
Fedi MTV is LIVE! It's late capitalism, and artists have nowhere to go. Where's left? Where can people discover new, risk-taking art? We can try our luck in a clickbait-optimised shitpocalypse (YouTube). Or a nightmare panopticon hellscape, where we use coy euphemisms like "unal1ved" so we don't get banned (TikTok, Instagram). We need a real human place for real human video art. So,…
Everyone on Team Meljoann is now on board with the idea that Spotify is a fuckin' evil cesspit that can --- and should --- be boycotted. I've submitted takedown requests, and my music should be off it within a week.
It's normal to boast about press coverage on Instagram. Should we normalise boasting on one's own website? Yes. Yes, we should. Press King. Back when I had an Instagram account, I had mastered the art of the #humblebrag. Life hack: boast about how great your life is, then include HASHTAG BLESSED or something, and attribute your good luck to being God's favourite influencer. Well,…
Status is out today! I like to think of it as the soundtrack to your digital detox. All buy & stream links . Today, unclassifiable art (such as my weirdo sound) gets buried under ads and influencers, while Big Social oligarchs cosplay ecologically feckless cartoon villains. We are moving away from stats and clout, and towards a more sustainable culture. What happens to us when billionaire-owned…
‘Data Ghost’ is out today! It's a song about slipping through the cracks in the algorithm. I made a nostalgic collage-style video for this. We are very chuffed to find has been premiered on The Line of Best Fit. Huge thanks to my manager Dwayne, LOBF music editor Sam & writer Camryn for this brilliant writeup. What really so much to me: they shared my Peertube link, supporting the decision to…
New single out. Translate Me is about the horror of mis-translation: how capital’s mis-translation of art renders it pointless. What if a mis-perception of you can change you? Streaming and buy links are here Music video is here If you subscribed on mustics.com , you may have already seen the video and got yer download nice and early. The full album is out next week!
updated post with more info and resources! 🚫 Byeeeee I left Meta on April 15th, 2025. I'm hoping other music heads, friends & family will join me elsewhere. 🔎 Where to find me You can check my socials page for a full list. But mainly: Mustics® This site's email list Mastodon , & a 2nd, even sillier Masto account Bluesky , less so. But I'm there. 📚 Resources for leaving Meta -…
Not quite techno-utopian, because I don't think social problems can be solved purely with tech. Cyberpunk? Solarpunk? Open web advocate? I just strongly feel: our technology shouldn't be absolutely disgusting. I love tech. With computers, art is theoretically limitless. You just have your imagination, and your chops. Why should we entrust the future of all human art to Big Tech…
This new single is out on Friday, July 26th. "Bye" is about hatching an escape plan. I'd like nothing better than to say a permanent FUUU to billionaire-owned Big Social. You can buy or listen on Bandcamp Or, ironically, all the big streaming sites The fruity video is out next week.
Why Ghost? For those that haven't already hit "peak subscription," I wanted to offer a way to put that extra cash to extremely good use: supporting The Arts (that is, MY The Arts). With Patreon, Substack and similar subscription based platforms, a chunk of your sub goes to supporting the platform. This is something you may not want to do, if you believe in de-platforming fascists. 1 , 2…
Owncast is an ethical, community-run, open-source alternative to streaming platforms like Twitch. It's a welcoming, growing community of lovely weirdos. We are out here on the open web, creating unique, independent spaces to share our art with each other. Finding a friendly server Owncast is not like Twitch: there's no one place like twitch.tv to get an account. Instead, lots of people…
So, Bandcamp's new bosses are caught union-busting , and the corporate web just gets more enshittified . Some of the naughtier musicians are going back to self-hosting our own music . This is a tutorial for setting up your own Faircamp , Simon Repp's beautiful music site design. I'm aiming to fill in the gaps, providing extra instructions for musicians who may be new to the indie…
A new single. Incredible.
I'm Meljoann, the only living hyperjack music producer and video artist. Which is a bad thing.
Here: gravitons.org I wanted to create a space for us that's independent of the big tech platforms.