"It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process"
"Despite its name, Red (the album) does not have the most Red (the color) references. That honor goes to Midnights." via data is plural
"industrial / noise / ambient / experimental music by women/non-binary/trans folks"
"an 8-bit accordion primarily made of C64s, floppy disks, and gaffer tape"
motherlode thread
fpp on Orca, a really cool language for livecoding music!
"Created in collaboration with futuristic folk artist Lyra Pramuk, this collection of emotive vocal drones, chants, tempo-synced rhythms and pads has been made using recordings from her debut album, ‘Fountain’ — composed entirely from the sound of the artist’s own voice. These experimental textures will bring a human touch to your tracks, with a hint of alien-like processing — serving as a testament to the limitless possibilities of the human voice."
ooh this looks cool
not sure why I'm thinking so much about this album recently? the puff daddy remix of "ava adore" is extraordinarily strange
this is very good
really remarkable speculation/scholarship on rhythmic patterns in music and language
"a modular synthesiser that runs in the open source programming language Pure Data"