Ernst Karel

And on Sunday, July 27th as part of the West Oakland Sound Series, I’ll be presenting this new quadraphonic version of Atmospheric Rivers with the additional element of magnetically resonating the extra-low bass strings of the Bösendorfer piano.

www.sfsound.info#July-27-2025

bleak!

also, unlike our version, this one is just made from unprocessed location recordings

And on Sunday, July 27th as part of the West Oakland Sound Series, I’ll be presenting this new quadraphonic version of Atmospheric Rivers with the additional element of magnetically resonating the extra-low bass strings of the Bösendorfer piano.

www.sfsound.info#July-27-2025

I should probably call it ‘Atmospheric rivers (quad version)’ to distinguish...

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going live on KWMR community radio with Local Locations shortly
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Completely different from the version of the piece on our CD!

Breathing Matter(s): Listening Sessions silent green presents

Saturday, July 26th at silent green in Berlin, a presentation of my quadraphonic piece, ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS.

Breathing Matter(s): Listening Sessions silent green presents

Saturday, July 26th at silent green in Berlin, a presentation of my quadraphonic piece, ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS.

Any amount is harmful. People may be able to tolerate small amounts, but it's addictive and ultimately harmful.

And both are poison, both for humans and for ecologies

This is King Buzzo’s friend.

e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=27we...

“Keep it Weird”: Listening with Jonathan Sterne (1970-2025) Dr. Jonathan Sterne passed away earlier this year. He was, in many ways, a model scholar and colleague. The intellectual ferment of the field now called “sound studies” is often traced to the sonic…

I wrote a tribute to Dr. Jonathan Sterne, who passed away this March way too young, in Sounding Out! — a venue he’d published in, and which felt right for it. I owe him a deep debt intellectually and personally, and he was frankly a great person.

soundstudiesblog.com/2025/07/14/i...

YouTube video by J Soliday bug music

bug music for Zlob Modular
youtu.be/s0isl2nJLo0

Buddhism is about humans, it’s about suffering. We need a meaningful spiritual, ethical, and philosophical critique of AI from Buddhism, not fawning complicity with techno-fascists.

Makes more sense if you think of it as sabotage bsky.app/profile/jaco...

I hope it'll be recorded

Man (Thomas Ankersmit) standing, performing on a modular synthesizer, against a black background. Photo credit: Udo Siegfiedt

Thomas Ankersmit artist talk “Non-Technological Spatial Sound” TODAY, 6/25 (!) at MIT's Spatial Sound Lab. 6pm (5:30 for drinks & snacks)

MIT, Room W20-429, Stratton Student Center 4F, 84 Mass. Ave, Cambridge, Free & open to the public

Mira Nair doing the classic desi mother cheek-pull right on camera as her kid is on stage after a political victory.

The people running our music industry are the same people “doubling down” on AI military technology. To build a fair and just music industry, we also must dismantle imperialism in all its forms. Daniel Ek is a warmonger who pays artists poverty wages 🤮

And the lift features the BBC logo from the 1930s

Title card for Koyaanisqatsi, with the name of the movie superimposed on a long exposure of a complex highway intersection at night, except it's Zohraanisqatsi.

Someone on Twitter posted that they had run into Philip Glass at their lower Manhattan polling place, saying nice things about Mamdani.

The campaign put this up as a quote-tweet within the hour.

A black and white photo of Sly Stone singing into a microphone.

"It packed an explosive, joyous wallop … The thrill in Sly’s gospel-bred squalls and croons, the band’s multi-part harmonies, and the galvanizing, hard-hitting grooves epitomized freedom."

Remembering Sly Stone — Nine Essential Albums: www.discogs.com/digs/music/r...

“‘I’m sure people will criticise it and that’s OK,’ Ek said. ‘Personally, I’m not concerned about it.’” - HE IS REFERRING TO INVESTING MONEY FROM MUSIC STREAMING INTO MILITARY AI TECHNOLOGY

Text on a metal plate suspended on a wooden frame: NO WAR ON IRAN

Resonating plate by Ava Koohbor, used in performance on 19 June 2025 in San Francisco

Ava Koohbor performing on modular electronics with resonating metal plate that says "NO WAR ON IRAN"