Ana Roman

going hard since 1988

tag a tech bro

who's headlining Bogota Experimental?
This crazy puta?
guess it pays to be a malfunctioning mami

I get zero engagement on this platform.

🔮WHY IT'S HARD 4: I also don’t produce for trends. I produce to fracture time, reprogram and transmute trauma into magic. And that shit is hard. I hope this answers the question. And I'm genuinely thankful that people care to even ask. 👽

🔮WHY IT'S HARD 3: EVERY synth patch, every visual layer, is charged with ancestral memory and algorithmic defiance. I sculpt sound from breath, distortion, sacred noise, and softness. Music is the only thing that deserves my softness and tears. Not humans. Not resident advisor.

🔮WHY IT'S HARD 2: Music-making is super emotionally coded for me and comes with very little in return. Yes I have to unpack that way of thinking too. On top of that I'm super hard on myself. Being your own sound and ahead of your time ain't easy.

🔮WHY IT'S HARD 1: People ask me when I'm going to drop new tracks almost like its some perfunctory bodily function. I don't like emotions. I prefer flight. I prefer physics. I prefer science and alchemy. Yes that's self-protection. Yes I have to work on unpacking that.

The Dance Typewriter: IBM, the Labanotation Element, and “Women’s Work” in 1973 | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 119, No 2 Abstract A typing element released in 1973 promised to mechanize the transcription of dance. The new typeball applied symbols from Labanotation, a twentieth-century graphic language for recording move...

“A typing element released in 1973 promised to mechanize the transcription of dance. The new typeball applied symbols from Labanotation, a twentieth-century graphic language for recording movement… Its story uncovers cultural attitudes abt bodily expression, tech, work, + womanhood during the 1970s”

Being a woman has got to be the most violent act known to MAN

i want to be the mother of a new kind of machine

Trans Music Archive opens, dedicated to physical preservation - CDM Create Digital Music Trans communities are organizing and acting, building on an ongoing long-term struggle. And it's time to go physical. Trans Music Archive is working on physical editions of some terrific music, and th...

More than just music - and there are some great tracks for you here. This opens the question of how physical editions can answer "technofascism." (with discussion...)

How to Read an AI Image — Cybernetic Forests. A text about reading AI images as infographics.

Please, if you are writing that "AI images are infographics" and/or data visualizations about their dataset, cite my paper from 2022. If you are using the method described in this paper, citations are both appropriate and very appreciated! www.cyberneticforests.com/news/how-to-...

Careful someone gonna make this an album cover

NEW YORK - i have been rained on by you way too much since i got back from London. Saw sunnier days in the UK!! She's drenched!! And sneezing. 🫥🫥

Podcast Episode: Why Three is Tor's Magic Number Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing first, cheaper, better, best. But what if collaborat...

What if collaboration and community breeds innovation just as well as adversarial competition? @torproject.org’s @1s4.bsky.social joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @thejasonkelley.com on the new episode of “How to Fix the Internet.”

you're entering your soft girl era while i'm entering my post-human pleasure era. we are not the same.

You’re already an avatar. That part’s done. What matters now is the non-consensual parasocial energy flooding your field. Don’t fear it. Alchemize it. Transmute it into strategy, sovereignty, signal boost. Turn their gaze into a power source. #cyberfeminism #data #posthuman

i dont care about german techno as much as i care about latin electro

me: germany is bringing back the military draft?!?

dad: oh good maybe they'll have less DJ's now.

"It's shocking what you can do." - Angelina Jolie on the Internet from the set of "Hackers" (1995).

Compressed music might be harmful to the ears In guinea pigs it can weaken muscles important for hearing

Okay so you’re telling me compression might be the real Goebbels invented mind control psy-op and not 432 hz???? Pro-audio is a German invention afterall.

www.economist.com/science-and-...

Four-panel cartoon by Lainey Molnar. 1. Smartly dressed woman - "I got a promotion" 2. Fashionable woman holding keys - "I bought a house" 3. Woman in wedding dress - "I got married" 4. Woman in plain t-shirt with dark rings around her eyes - "I got out of bed"

Celebrate all the achievements

METROCrossReferenceCoalition_Students The Cross-Reference Coalition An Experimental School

[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers; and creating an open publicatio

ask me if its gemini season

tech-gazing under the weight of all my emotional data. #creativecoding #ebosuite #ableton

SKULPTOR 2050: Cyber-Witch Ascension Series by o. takec photography.

concept, styling and creative by me.

Personally yes ... its the fascism for me

Sorry i have not been pontificating every iota of my brain on this platform in a min. Been making big life moves IRL. BET