Will you do a collection of sun and surf music? Hopefully with a Ballardian vibe?
13.08.2025 16:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@jasonnolan.bsky.social
Noisy Autistic. Not that kind of Academic. Professor and co-director Responsive Ecologies Lab Toronto Metropolitan University. http://accessmusic.ca
Will you do a collection of sun and surf music? Hopefully with a Ballardian vibe?
13.08.2025 16:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"It's only a model" a la Python.
12.08.2025 18:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Never thought of that. Most of my life teaching and academic jobs I had never paid a living wage. Living wage should be law. It really is a human right to me. If everyone had a living wage, think of how the arts would flourish.
12.08.2025 18:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0What does that mean? I'm embracing a requirement for students to prove no AI was used in their work.
12.08.2025 18:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The Patchwork event in the RE/Lab is already sold out. I can't wait for it! polarismusicprize.ca/blog/patchwo...
12.08.2025 18:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βGeorge Orwell ! Wert Thou Living At This Hour β
12.08.2025 00:39 β π 85 π 35 π¬ 4 π 2I thought there was always an inverse proportional relationship between job satisfaction and pay for most jobs, unless someone's lucky, rather than the average joe (using gender neutral joe). As prof/teacher salaries rose, working conditions and job satisfaction plummeted. Or am I missing something?
12.08.2025 11:41 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It is a mushroom of concrete.
12.08.2025 07:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0They're highly over rated anywhere I've seen them used, outside of absolutely practical uses, such as "Where are the eggs?" and "I think I have a splinter in my foot."
12.08.2025 07:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Should have mentioned that what I've done is put up 3 steel unistrut bars vertically. Screwed 2 of them to the walls. Then 2 across the top joined with a U bracket. Then hung 4 acoustic panels from them.
11.08.2025 16:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That is disturbing.
11.08.2025 16:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Done. First design didn't work, but I put in a centre post with 2 metal shims at the ground level and mounted the panels. Will need to be adjusted when @kemig.bsky.social comes to install the other panels. But good enough for now!
11.08.2025 16:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Building a truss that will get mounted in front of Studio RE/Lab's windows and I'll hang 4 acoustic panels from them. Has to be exactly 152.5" wide.
10.08.2025 19:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I am sure you're 100% right, but I my brain is failing to apprehend much today.
09.08.2025 15:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My thought of the day for myself: no amount of planning, patience and preparation can avoid the impending disaster in application.
09.08.2025 12:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0RE/Lab event September 7. Patchwork: Modular Worldmaking Patchwork is a hands-on workshop series organized by Katie Stelmanis that aims to create an unintimidating space for learning about modular synthesis. polarismusicprize.ca/blog/patchwo...
09.08.2025 11:35 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Tracking Canadaβs fascist fight clubs: CBCβs visual investigations team reveals where some of Canadaβs white nationalist 'active clubs' gather to prepare for violence www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
19.07.2025 13:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh, ya, and in the 2020s, it will be a FPS coming soon from PhantomCompass.
17.07.2025 02:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I can't imagine a better place for him.
17.07.2025 02:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I support Canadian Radio, and the CBC, but not the stupid music they play. There was a time that CBC wasn't the home for twee hipster twartling.
17.07.2025 02:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I just like to delete my data and pretend it didn't exist. :)
I threw out my 60 and 90 TB raid years ago, and never looked back.
Don't trust big drives.
16.07.2025 02:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is an unedited or processed photo I took a year ago at @kemig.bsky.social 's place. Can't wait to see what happens when I visit again this week.
15.07.2025 19:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Studio RE/Lab Status Update. Starting to look good and make sounds. www.youtube.com/shorts/nkGj8...
15.07.2025 15:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'v tried to only interacted with people I can confirm are real, directly or through trusted others. I'm applying that thinking to media, to minimize LLM impact. I avert my gaze from AI summaries, until I can scroll past. Great article by 404 about the situation. www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
14.07.2025 14:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Preparing for hosting this event in the RE/Lab Wednesday: "I was born in the perfect place": Community, language and identity in Caribbean popular music. Learning about Deaf culture in the Caribbean context. www.eventbrite.ca/e/i-was-born...
14.07.2025 14:28 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Happy to see the guys replacing the glass on my office window. It's been covered with plywood for over a month.
14.07.2025 14:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Air quality in Toronto is nasty.
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