Estevan Carlos Benson

comic pages from it's bitter, out of order

23/34 pages done! 68% finished

The Splice blog article about Brazilian Phonk vs Drift Phonk that I gave some comments for came out in October and I missed it until now! Thank you to @estevancarlos.bsky.social for the shout out that led to me being interviewed for this.

splice.com/blog/brazili...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Radio music is the problem. Too general audience. It's dull. Overly polished and produced. Only performed by attractive people.

Uninstalled Nuendo 14.

Ah. So fun.

I feel like when the new Boards of Canada drops, it'll be a sign that we're all near the end.

How Genocide Happened

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

Vibe coding with ChatGPT feels like working with an over-confident jr programmer who's probably using ChatGPT.

We need her more than ever.

You know what I miss? Websites. Easy to navigate, with all the info in one place. They're vanishing, being replaced by Instagram (pretty pics that tell you NOTHING), Tik-Tok, FB, etc. Times are stressful, just give me your hours, rates, product info, product, etc. please don't drain my brain more.

Watching Unsolved Mysteries from the 1990s. This feels relevant today.

Scan of a typed letter from 1970, from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, addressed to "Joel Lipton, 622 N. Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210" It reads: "Dear Joel: I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever been before. Certainly all any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy. Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call "American Virtues" who lack this faith in our country. I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities. Sincerely yours, Charles M. Schulz" At bottom is an illustration of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, a kite wrapped around the dog house.

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.

h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

That MPC 3 looking rather interesting when compared to the Push 3... 8 core CPU as opposed to 2 cores. Ability to trigger different note patterns and samples on different quadrants of a single pad. I think that last feature could be built in Max for Live.

Macabre Valley #1 inks by Anna Readman

Macabre Valley #1 inks by Anna Readman

Macabre Valley #1 inks by Anna Readman

Macabre Valley #1 inks by Anna Readman

Anna Readman is one of the most interesting and talented cartoonist in comics right now imo

her inks for our book, Macabre Valley #1, were so good we decided to offer a limited black-and-white artist edition, numbered 1 of 50

as of now there are just 20 left: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_Z_p...

Will probably try this for auto-sound design purposes in other software such as Pigments and Falcon.

A bit strange. I've created a Max patch to automatically record notes from a Rompler software, so that I resample the samples in a new context (will use on Push 3). So I'm resampling a Orchestral Tools library here.

Colored photo Leonard Cohen in his classic gray suit & hat with microphone, head bowed down, on a knee, singing on stage with band in background. via W.Thrasher pin

🙏🙏

Ah the wars will be fought again
The holy dove, she will be caught again
Bought and sold, and bought again
The dove is never free

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
That's how the light gets in

LC

I think we're at the "underground" phase of this period. As far as I'm concerned the pigs are winning. Not morally. Not ethically. They're taking what they want through force, illegality, and coercion. I think the rest of us may need to retreat "underground".

My suggestion: put the internet aside.

My new post on a concept I call "Ethnographic Sound Design"
open.substack.com/pub/estevanc...

Autechre - Drane2

Malcolm X’s fearlessness lives Every day, Americans are carrying on Malcolm’s fearlessness.

Malcolm X’s fearlessness lives theemancipator.org/2025/06/30/s...

God says, "Next time no people."

Protect Yourself From Meta’s Latest Attack on Privacy Researchers recently caught Meta using an egregious new tracking technique to spy on you. Exploiting a technical loophole, the company was able to have their apps snoop on users’ web browsing. This tr...

Meta’s web-to-app tracking proves you’re right to distrust Meta, and we need to end surveillance advertising.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Sound familiar?

We feed you.
They hunt us.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday that she signed an executive order seeking greater transparency from federal immigration officials. She said the city will submit regular Freedom of Information Act requests to find out who ICE is detaining and on what grounds.