ra / sol

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:

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“He started trying to play chords on it and he said ‘Malcolm! Bob! What’s wrong with this instrument? It only plays one note at a time!’”: Robert Margouleff on the first time Stevie Wonder got his hands on the TONTO synth Margouleff also says that he had to talk Wonder out of giving Superstition to Jeff Beck

“Stevie came in and we showed him the instrument [TONTO] and he put his hands all over it. And then he started trying to play chords on it and he said ‘Malcolm! Bob! What’s wrong with this instrument? It only plays one note at a time!’”

The first time Stevie Wonder got his hands on the TONTO synth:

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now." Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

hi! “making samples from scratch” is called “writing music” - hope this helps!

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

What I would give for a completely honest, anonymous assessment of this appalling and ludicrous spectacle from the commanders in the room.

being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"

Miles Davis - Miles In Berlin - FULL ALBUM - YouTube Miles Davis ‎– Miles In Berlin Sello: Columbia ‎– 2 519507, Legacy ‎– 5195072001 Formato: CD, Album, Remastered País: Chile Publicado: 2005 Género: Jazz Esti...

Recorded this day, 1964: The Second Great Quintet starts an autumn European tour in Berlin. The show was released as 𝙈𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙄𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙣 (Columbia). With Wayne Shorter- ts, Herbie Hancock- p, Ron Carter- b, Tony Williams- d.
#jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis

taking fistfuls of tylenol to become even more powerful

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I've been banned from facebook and twitter because I run the only psychedelic storefront in the world that openly sells shrooms, LSD, DMT, 2CB and more, located in Vancouver Canada. Follow me before I get banned here too!

Really wish people learned to deal with the weird little thoughts in their heads and built trust that the things their brain conjures up and chooses to respond to does not reflect their morality. Your actions do. That's all this puritanical shit is. People scared of their own thoughts and feelings.

anti-intellectualism and forcefully increasing illiteracy is certainly no coincidence

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

apparently there's dairy farmers that play jazz for their cows to increase quality of milk production!

They are literally canceling culture

Brian Eno: Why I’m hosting a concert for Palestine at Wembley Arena www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

hey mom i made it onto cow tools daily 🐄

that was an elektron model:samples groovebox!

🧿ra / sol🧿 | 🗡️babyradium🗡️ contact/booking: atomic88music@gmail.com ra / sol and babyradium are two sonic exploratory projects of mixed afro-indigenous 2S artist aurora sol, under the imprint atomicnumber88.

it was mostly experimenting with jazz chords and some weird samples!! they really hated 808 bass! and they don't like hip hop haha. but they definitely love sad jazz. here's my soundcloud - i am hoping to make a documentary with more performers and more cows!
on.soundcloud.com/uk3jpDTCSKlz...

twitter profile: ra @atomicnumber88 they/them ~ mixed afro-indig 2s artist ~ freelance journalist ~ i put my most anti-imperialist opinions here, fair warning ~i dream of being plant their pinned post is the pic of playing for cows with the text "i set up a performance for some cows as a study into ecomusicology. they all came towards the vibration and created a very curious but respectful audience. they didn't like loud bass/drums very much, but seemed to be very appreciative of sad minor guitar melodies and jazz chords"

the place I got it from gave no context, but a reverse image search tells me its @atomicnumber88.bsky.social

hey mom i made it onto cow tools daily 🐄

 ‪@sentientcardboard.bsky.social‬ oh yea hey that's me! 🐄🎶🐄🎶🐄 cows make the very best audiences, very polite

I want to live in a world where empathy is a compulsory school subject.

A banner that says "Happy Birthday Eloise" looms over a little girl, presumably eloise. She looks disappointed as both her parents are glued to a TV screen that says "Assassination!"

This is Holly. She won't fall sleep until she's been given her stuffed cow. 13/10 sweet dreams Holly (TT: hollythebluestaffy__)

sometimes having a cat means being woken up at 3am to licking noises 3cm from your face

My very first encounter with Gender was Nermal from Garfield