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- Published: 2024-11-27 13:31
- Updated: 2025-01-07 10:57
What I’m focusing on¶
This format: started as update of my now-page. Following the itch of externalizing everything I know, find interesting, inspiring or useful—in one place. For future reference. As well as valuable stuff that stood the test of time for me.
This is escalating into not only a map of my notes, but also a map of my brain. Already serving its purpose: enabling me to find shit within 5 seconds, when I need it.
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Filters¶
2025¶
01-08The personal website/digital garden thing of iamrob.in- ✨Web, Design
01-07Industrial Designer Richard Sapper worked on many iconic things- ✨Design, Industrial
01-02Bauhaus—the movement of novel perspectives- How modernism struggled with, yet eventually prevailed against conservatism
- ✨Documentary, BBC, Architecture
2024¶
12-25Louis Rossmann’s thoughts about influencers are spot on- “99% of the people that are recommending you shit on YouTube are so out of touch, they’re recommending products that not only screw you, but also them.”
- “We need to restore the proper meaning of the word influencer."
- I like the idea of “cleaning up my little corner of the world”
- ✨Language, Reality
12-23Played music for friends, escalated strangely 🤷♂️- 🎧DJ Set, Electronic, Output
12-22Malala Noir is a design books, sorted by different topics- Like analog tapes from 1970-2000
- Record label logos from 1960-2024
- Or arcade marquees to name a few
- 📘Design, Inspiration, Culture
12-14Tangara: a hackable, Open Source-take on the classic iPod- Feat. MicroSD storage, Bluetooth support, USB-C charging, changeable batteries, and a 3D-printable case
- 🔨Music, Player, Crowdfunding
12-13‘Unanswered Oddities’ is a human-scripted, AI-generated series- What if Strax/Dr. Who explained the mysteries of human existence to his species?
- 🍿 Comedy, Fiction, Shorts
12-11Steinkamp’s free Max4Live devices are organic modulation helpers- And his TapPanZeit multitap delay fills a void (curve-control for taps)
- 🎹Plugins, Ableton
12-10Asked a pro: “How did you learn instructing LLMs more specifically?”- Notes from a chat with Manuel Odendahl about how he’s using LLMs to boost his productivity tenfold
- Of course, there’s a structured process to this
- 📝Coding, LLM, Output
12-09Qwen2.5-coder synthesizes usable javascript (with a bit of trial and error)- Used above filter/search as test-scenario, halfway decent result
- 🔨LLM, Local, Model
12-08‘Low-tech Magazine’ explores how past technology can inform the future- Via Danny Van Kooten’s bookmarks
- 📝Solar-powered, Sustainability, Web Design
12-06Hilarious: ‘This aged great!’ tries to explain pasts’ movie normality- “Stand-up comedian Ben Moore defends a movie from the past that hasn't aged well while explaining the plot to his much younger friend Jordan Elias (who hasn't seen it).”
- 🍿Comedy, Ouch
12-04distrosea.com lets you test Linux distributions in your browser- 🔨OS, Comparison, Decision Making
11-29Finally watched ‘Mars Express’ with friends—recommended!- And was the only person unaware one of them contributed to making it 🤷
- For viewers who like Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop and Psycho Pass
11-29Jan.ai wants to be an offline ChatGPT replacement- Support for Huggingface models, Cloud APIs, extensions
- 🔨FOSS, LLM, Local
11-28Started iterating this format- Connecting the need for centralized bookmark/brain organization with the simplest format I can think of. So far resulting in a now-page I feel comfy using.
- 🔨Project, Now-log, Output
11-27Derek Sivers studies Rick Hickey (Clojure): Complexity vs Simplicity- “It’s very easy to (…) make your life more complex.”
- Etymology: complected, simplex
- 🎤Tim Ferriss, Interview, Dependencies
11-26jarun/buku: Personal mini-web in text- 🔨CLI, Bookmark Manager, Python
11-23How Arto Saari survived skateboarding and became a photographer- ✨Portrait, Perseverance, VICE
11-14Pinokio is a virtual computing environment for AI applications- Simple 1-click installation, manages dependencies, creates self-contained environments for eg Open WebUI for Ollama
- 🔨LLM, AI, Local
11-14Ollama simply runs Large Language Models offline- Having gotten use out of Perplexity.ai as sparring-partner for thinking, I’d like to roll my own local version
- 🔨LLM, Local, Self-contained
11-14What’s the most hasslefree way of exploring LLM’s locally?- Read: ‘For dummies’ who don’t feel comfy with Python, dependencies etcpp
10-29dedeco’s PlayStation 2 DJ Mix ft. a track by yours truly 💓- His sets generally capture that early 90s, japanese lo-fi vibe—recommended!
- 🎵🎧Game music, DJ set, Techno
10-27❤️ Recue’s Remix of Artificial Latvamäki is a brutalist take on Krautrock- 🎵 Music, Fave, Electronica
10-27Davisynth Ripple Multi-Tap Delay is free, weird and inspiring- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
10-25Variety of Sound TesslaSEmkIII is one of my go-to saturators- 🎹Plugin, Windows
10-22DAC research: E-mu SP-1200- ✨DSP, AD conversion
10-22Defender Sound Studio—JS emulation of Williams 80s soundboard- ✨Sound-Design, DSP
10-21namelessalgorithm.com dives into old music soft-, and hardware- ✨DSP, Computer music, History preservation
10-20Researching sound-design for a Pinball project (tba)- Unlocked a childhood memory from 1982
- 🎹Synthesis, Strategies
10-11Himitungl Labs The Seeker is a free, and detailed frequency analyzer- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
09-13Monolake—Studio, From Robert Henke’s production notes:- “Most of the tracks on this album got revised countless times, and then even more, once I knew in which context and order I wanted to arrange them. I have been living with my music for months now, listening, thinking, changing, diving deeper and deeper into each piece.”
- 🎵Album, Dub Techno
09-11Simon Fordman’s car restorations are wholesome- 📹ASMR, Craftsmanship, Photography
08-29“I always like the idea of trying to fail.”—Willem Dafoe- ✨3 minutes, Perspective
08-28An emotional portrait of former pro-Skater Ed Templeton- ✨Perseverance, Skateboarding, Photography
08-15Do these sound illusions fool you?- 💡Perception, Hearing, Veritasium
08-03Meet Andy Anderson if you need a lil boost of faith in humanity- 📹Skateboarding, Wisdom
07-05❤️ The time Alva Noto filmed a video at the Mäusebunker/Berlin- 🎵Music, Architecture, Brutalism
07-04Hyper 8—Static site generator for video- 🔨FOSS, Self-hosted, SSG
07-02Ghost Dog: How to face absurdity- “Being human is about making structure in a world that isn’t predictable.”
- 📹Identity, Code, Philosophy
06-09Caspar Schols’ cabin ANNA adapts to its residents’ needs- ✨Architecture, Design, Nature
03-19Creative flow as optimized processing- Study using EEGs comparing the brain-state of flow between experts and non-expert Jazz musicians
- 🤔Neuroscience, Creativity, Flow
01-30“Time is the inexorable progress of computation.”—Stephen Wolfram- 💡Framing time as progression using the current iteration of a systems' state as input to compute the next incremental state as output is satisfactory
- 🎤Interview, Physics, Entropy
2023¶
12-31Mr. Purkeypile quit Bethesda to solo-develop his own game- 🎮Mastery, Unreal Engine, Game development
12-28Fave new track: Maarten Mittendorff—Futura- 🎵Dub Techno
12-28Faircamp is a static site generator alternative to Bandcamp- 🔨Self-hosted, SSG, Webdev
12-20This 7.5h roadtrip across the Lincoln Highway is soothing**- ✨Documentary, America
12-10Stop watching mixing tutorials- 🎹Mixing, Advice
10-09Are mixing tutorials useless?- 🎹Mixing, Advice
12-08Detroit Techno—”Tales from the future”- 🎵Playlist, Spotify, Detroit Techno
12-07‘8 Million Species of Aliens’ offers a lovely perspective- “Bi-pedal, furless oik” 🤣
- ✨Humor, Philosophy
12-06Word digging:- pro-: “forward, forth, toward the front”
- process (n.): “a going forward”
- profess (v.) “declare openly”
- profession (n.): ”vows taken upon entering a religious order”
- ✨Etymology, Language, Reality
12-06“Prove to the court that I am sentient”—Jean Luc Picard- Star Trek: The Next Generation—SE02E09 “The Measure of a Man”
- ✨AI, Self-Awareness
12-05Plagiarism and YouTube dissects the nature of content farms- ✨hbomberguy, Journalism, Values
12-02Note to self: Watch Mars Express- 🍿Movie, Animated, Recommendation
12-01Because it’s that time of the year again- 🤣Short, Hilarious, Christmas
11-29Ian Shepherd: Inter-sample peaks and True Peak limiting- 🎤Research, DSP, Lack of Standards
- 📝Output The-True-Peak-situation
11-27Variety of Sound updates his ThrillseekerXTC to mkIII- 🎹Plugin, Exciter, Windows
11-13SIGNALIS is a hauntingly beautiful indie-game about trauma11-08Aberrant DSP Digitalis is a fun, digital lo-fi degradation toolbox- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
11-03New fave album: Guentner & Spieth—Overlay- 🎵Dub Techno, Dark, Ambient
11-01Gilles Deleuze, the Dub Techno philosopher- ✨Philosophy, Difference, Repetition
10-28Mad Professor: “Don’t just use effects for effects sake”- Act with intention: Perform intuitively—let your hands do the thinking.
- 🎹Recording, Engineering, Physical interaction
10-25David Bowie’s advice to young artists- “Always remember that the reason you initially started working was that there was something inside yourself. That you felt—that if you manifested it in some way, you would understand more about yourself. And how you co-exist with the rest of society.”
- ✨Quote, Creativity
10-18Commit Mono is a neutral programming typeface- 🔨Font, Coding, Development
10-17Steph Ango: Don’t delegate understanding- “There is a parasite, I see it everywhere. It consumes your health and wealth. It preys on ignorance and is easy to catch. It’s so common you may not even notice you have it.”
- 📝Learning, Fallacy
10-13Cutting vinyl at Abbey Road , or: what “mastering” actually means- 🎹Engineering, Process
10-13New fave music: The Black Dog—My Brutal Life- 🎵Album, Brutal Ambient
10-11Fullbucket NY is the quintessential Dub Techno orchestra- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
10-088BitDo make mechanical keyboards with retro aesthetics- 🔨TKL, C64, Nintendo
10-06Mudda beats the most impossible Trackmania map- 🤯Perseverance, Dedication, World Record
10-02Released Katsumaki with Pixtur/Still at Deadline Demoparty- 🧊Demoscene, Realtime, Output
09-27Fave new music: Rod Modell—Ghost Lights- 🎵Dub Techno, Drone, Ambient
09-24Herb Alpert does East Bound and Down ❤️- 🎵Country, Western, Jerry Reed
09-22When a game critique becomes a thoughtful inquiry about the soul- 🎮SOMA, Philosophy, Essay
09-17The Story of Sequential Circuits Prophet VS development- 🎹DSP, History, Synthesizer
08-30The insane engineering behind 10cc—I’m not in love- 🎹Reel, “Sampling”
08-21John Martin’s apocalyptic paintings explore the sublime- ✨Art, Video essay, Religion
08-17David Whyte about fostering the practice of imagination- ✨1 minute, Communication, Philosophy
08-08Ohmforce set their catalogue of legacy plugins free- 🎹Effects, MacOS, Windows
08-06USB device tree viewer is useful to identify failing cables- 🔨DAW, Windows, Utility
08-02Made a demo about mourning a loss for Evoke with mfx (❤️ Ben)- 🧊Demoscene, Realtime, Output
07-04Listeners care about what music feels like, not what it sounds like- 🎹Asking better questions, Gregory Scott, Kush
07-02Let’s build a computer in Conway’s Game of Life- ✨Emergence, Logic, System Theory
06-29Goblin.tools can help neurodivergent 🧠 eg check for language- 🔨Self assessment, Decision making, Planning
06-28Neosensory devices want to help you hear through your skin- Via David Eagleman @Tim Ferriss podcast
- 🔨 AI, Hearing Loss, Neuroscience
06-14Markwhen is a markdown-like journaling language for timelines- With extensions for VS Code, Obsidian and a library of tools
- 🔨Blogging, Writing, Planning
06-13Berry’s Paradox vs the search for algorithm for truth- 🤯Algorithm, Math, Pattern
05-31Why nothing matters—the art of John Cage and Samuel Beckett- “Music is the space between the notes”—Claude Debussy
- ✨Experience, Minimalism, Spacetime
05-30Scuba and Shifted discuss Business Techno- 🎹Commercialization, Podcast, Interview
05-23Play—browser based ASCII playground- 🔨Live-coding, Visuals
05-20‘D2: Declarative Diagramming’ turns text into diagrams- Supports Markdown, LaTeX, code snippets, animations, tables…
- Ships plugins for VS Code, ViM, Obsidian, Discord
- 🔨Context, Data, Visualization
05-19Kevin Kelly: Excellent Advice for Living- “Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points”
- 📘Book, Perspective, Philosophy
05-18Fave new music: Sparks—Veronica Lake- 🎵Electronic
05-17MyHouse.WAD is a mind-, and engine-bending DooM mod- 🎮Game, Design, Storytelling
04-28ChowMultiTool’s waveshaper and elliptic EQ modes fill a void- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
04-16Hires audio w/ inaudible high-frequency content induces relaxed state- "As a mechanism underlying the effect of inaudible high-frequency sound components, we speculate that the brain may subconsciously recognize high-resolution audio that retains high-frequency components as being more natural, as compared with similar sounds in which such components are artificially removed. A link between alpha power and ratings of ‘naturalness’ of music has been reported. When listening to the same musical piece with different tempos, alpha-band EEG power increased for excerpts that were rated to be more natural, the ratings of which were not directly related to subjective arousal (Ma et al., 2012; Tian et al., 2013). As high-resolution audio replicates real sound waves more closely, it may sound more natural (at least on a subconscious level) and facilitate music-related psychophysiological responses.
- ✨Study, Cognition, DSP
04-13mkDocs Material serves this website- 🔨Markdown, Self-hosted, SSG
02-28Useful resource for reviving a Windows XP/2000 installations- In case you want to DAW like it’s 200x to revisit old music projects, too
- 🔨Software, Updates, Drivers
02-02Donald Glover understands a lot about manifesting creativity- ✨Childish Gambino, Portrait
01-14John G. Young M.D: What is (the purpose of) creativity?- “As we transcend our past in the things we do, we also become who we can be. Thus creativity is those attitudes by which we fulfill ourselves. It is more than working in a “creative” field such as art or inventing or research, for as Maslow (1968) says, “It is better to make a first rate soup than a second rate painting.” Creativity is the actualizing of our potential. It is the expression of ourselves in our becoming. It is our “being becoming.” It is our adventure into the unknown.”
- Etymology: Greek Krainein—to fulfill
- 📝Psychology, Mental Health
2022¶
12-25Resonate in Peace, Maxi Jazz/Faithless- “Music is an expression of humanity. You can touch people with three chords of music more, than say, a book full of words sometimes. That’s the immediacy of it, the urgency of music. It allows you to feel parts of yourself that you wouldn’t necessarily—on a ordinary day to day basis—feel. … It’s a way of communicating, and it’s almost heart to heart.“
12-15Silverbullet.md is a markdown-driven note-taking application- 🔨FOSS, Self-hosted, PWA
12-09EURkey makes sensible changes to the ANSI layouts, adding Umlauts- 🔨Keyboard, Layout, Productivity
11-28Fave new album: John Shima—The Empty Lands- 🎶Detroit Techno, Futurism
11-23❤️ Krzysztof Domaradzki’s game and movie posters- Favorites: Heat, Blade Runner, The Last of us 2
- ✨Art, Print, Design
11-18The birth of the classic DBX 160 compressor in 1976- ✨Music production, Engineering, History
11-04Glyphs is a table of, erm, glyphs to copy/paste into your designs- 🔨Design, Typography
10-26R-Kontrol lets you remote control Bitwig from your iOS device- 🔨Bitwig, Extension, App
08-07Gave a talk during Art of Coding Seminar @Evoke Demoparty- Facilitated the conversation around the question “What made you stay in the Demoscene?”, extending the whitepaper with André Kudra ‘Demoscene Dark Matter’
08-04Tourbox’ custom controllers want to boost your workflows- 🔨Productivity, Editing, Design
08-03Work Louder’s mechanical keyboards sport a lot of extras- 🔨TKL, Industrial Design
08-02“Veritasium: The 4 things it takes to be an expert”- Valid environment (fixed set of rules)
- Many repetitions (combining the 4 things)
- Timely feedback (requiring results)
- Deliberate practice (conscious thought)
- ✨Expertise
07-26The Holey desk uses the dog hole standard to be adaptable- 🔨DIY, Woodworking, Modular
07-15Fave new track: Der Dritte Raum—Hale Bopp (BSB’s Remix)- 🎵Electronica
06-30“Gregory Scott: A better way to use reference tracks/mixes”- 🎹Mixing, Engineering, House of Kush
06-23Markdown Memo turns VS Code into a knowledge base- 🔨Note-taking, Extension, PKM
06-19Creative Cuts diorama builds from scratch are relaxing- 🍿DIY, Craftsmanship
06-01Skelet v3 is a typography-focused CSS framework- 🔨Webdev, Design, Layout
05-27Laragon is a portable, easily extendable, local WAMPP stack- Stack: Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PHP, Redis, Memcached, Node, Python, Ruby, Java, Go…
- 🔨Webdev, Windows
05-25“What does DJing have to do with leadership?”- ✨🎧Talk, DJ, Output
05-23Blink gets to the gist of intuitive, snap decision making- 📘Malcom Gladwell, Psychology, Intuition
05-22The Guardian: How Amiga computers reprogrammed modern music- "You learned by analysing the music files that came with the software. It was fundamental in my career, giving me a chance to make music while having no access to expensive studio gear or synthesisers.”—Legowelt
- 📰Music Production, Demoscene, History
05-17Wagtail is a Python-based CMS, made to scale- 🔨FOSS, Enterprise
05-01“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is ADHD in a nutshell ❤️- ✨Movie, Fave
04-25Strangehaven: The comic that’s impossible to finish- What it takes to write, draw, print, publish and distribute a series worldwide
- ✨Creativity, Perseverance
04-11Chow BYOD wants you to build your own distortion- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
04-06‘Principles of Pleasure’ should be part of every school curriculum- ✨Education, Sexuality, Psychology
04-02Fancy playing Skidmarks in your browser against others?- 🍿Amiga, Game, Classic
04-01This Kruder & Dorfmeister liveset in Vienna- 🎵🎧Liveset, Dub, Downtempo
03-1810 mins of Tetris before bedtime can positively affect sleep?!- ✨Jane McGonigal, Tim Ferriss, Podcast
03-13Great resource about the history of radio broadcasting- ✨Website, Electronic, Engineering
03-12Milkshake.app lets you make a ‘link in bio’-website in minutes- 🔨Social Media, Webdev, Design
03-11Adjust Firefox devtools font settings via userContent.css- 🔨Webdev, Legibility, Output
03-10Fira Code is my new go-to monospace font-family for coding- 🔨Development, Typography
03-01PUG is a pre-processor that speeds up writing HTML by margins- 🔨Webdev, Productivity, Codepen
02-15typographicposters.com archives design across the ages- ✨Design, Typography, Inspiration
02-13❤️ Edgar Wright’s documentary about the Sparks brothers- ✨Music, Perseverance, Creativity
02-10frontmatter.codes is a headless CMS for static site generators- 🔨Webdev, SSG, VS Code
02-03csvchain.com is a hilarious take on NFTs- 🍿Humor, Bullshit
01-30Brandon rebuilds the machine shop he inherited from his grandfather- ✨Craftsmanship, Engineering, Soothing
01-10❤️ ‘Valuing All Kinds of Art’—Mr. Rogers’ Neighbourhood- “Since each person is somewhat different from everyone else in the world, each of us would draw the trolley in a different way. Isn’t that wonderful?”
- ✨
01-07Recorded a special/unexpected mix for Breakfast of Champions cast- 🎵🎧DJ set, Eclectic, Output
2021¶
12-24“The only people we think of as normal are those we don’t know well yet.”- ✨Perspective, School of Life
11-20New fave track: Aleksi Perälä—FI3AC2158010- 🎵Electronica
11-19‘The Sound of 16-Bit’ is a good video essay about trackers- 🎹Amiga, Protracker, History
11-14Unpacking is an isometric pixelart game about unpacking stuff?!- 🎮Windows, Switch, Xbox One
11-13Intriguing arguments for switching from QWERTY to Colemak layout- 🔨Keyboard, Productivity
11-01Create or edit microtonal scales- 🎹SCL, Tool, Browser
10-26SyntherJack DIYs synthesizers and tools, like:- 4sum portable audio mixer
- Ocean Noise Generator
- Krautrock Phaser
- 🎹PCB, Schematics, Projects
10-25Leet is a series of cheap MIDI controllers you can build yourself- 🎹DIY, Arduino, 3D printing
09-22Fave new album: CiM—Unselected Protracker Mods- 🎵IDM, Electronica, Amiga
10-19Rick Rubin: The invisibility of Hip Hop’s greatest producer- 🎹Portrait, Perseverance, Creativity
10-15Humans are born with an innate understanding of logarithms?- 🤯Radiolab, Podcast, Numbers
09-03GrainyDays analog photography excursions are hilarious- 🍿America, Roadtrip
09-02New fave album: Carbon Based Lifeforms—Stochastic- 🎵Ambient, Drone, Electronica
07-29Tagspaces helps you organize your local files using tags- 🔨Organization, Productivity
07-28Research: Tape/Reel machine resources06-28XYplorer is a Total Commander alternative- 🔨Windows, Productivity, Workflow
06-27‘Being a human person’ portraits Roy Anderson- ✨Creativity, Documentary, Film-Making
06-26Resonate in Peace, Peter Zinovieff (Founder of EMS)- 🎹Electronic Music, Pioneer, Synthesis
06-14Adrienne makes Yoga accessible by being down to earth- ✨Physical, Workout, Inspiration
05-27Dendron turns VS Code into a knowledge management system- 🔨Markdown, PKM, Learning
05-26Midilar makes modular, customizable MIDI controllers- 🎹DAW, Hardware
05-23‘From Emptiness to Infinity’ portaits my fave architect, Tadao Ando- Example: His Vitra Campus conference pavillion
- ✨Brutalism, Minimalism, Documentary
05-20Creating a VS Code Second Brain is a fine resource- 🔨PKM, Extensions
05-17PowerToys FancyZones is a productivity upgrade, Download- 🔨Microsoft, Window Manager, Utility
04-23kkrieger: Making an impossible FPS by Nostalgia Nerd is humbling- 🧊Demoscene, Farbrausch, Video essay
03-27**Mix buss compression: When and Why?- 🎹Dynamics Processing, Gregory Scott, House of Kush
03-13ADHD 2.0 is an insightful book about developing strategies- 🔨Neurodiversity, Focus, Mental Health
03-10“Comparison is the deadliest thing we can do to ourselves”- 🎹Expectation, Management, Simon Sinek
03-03Fave new album: Sense—Inside- 🎵Ambient, Covid, Reflection
02-26Andrew Huberman: “Awareness cues brain change”- ✨Neuroscience, Learning, Podcast
02-14VSauce: How our brain fucks with our perception of time- Introduced me to the protagonist syndrome
- ✨Biases, Fallacies, Illusions
02-13Todd Hido: ‘I Use Photography to Express Myself’- ✨Minimalism, Intuition, People
01-24Don’t Try—The Philosophy of Charles Bukowski- If you have to try to care about something, or have to try to want something, perhaps you don't care about it.
- ✨Creativity, Writing, Perseverance
01-13’Brutal Sheffield’ is a photographic study by Martin Dust/Black Dog- 📘Architecture, Brutalism, Photobook
01-12Print your own clips for Ikea Samla boxes- 🔨3D print, Thingiverse
01-11About GAS: A purchase without a goal/purpose is a distraction in itself- 📝Gear Acquisition Syndrome, Music Production, Output
01-10Morkredd is a physics-based puzzle game for two, Steam- 🎮Windows, XBox
01-06This ‘93 documentary about Laibach feat. a young Slavoj Zizek- 🎵EBM, Philosophy, Politics
2020¶
12-06Nick Carver talks about artistic intention in photography- ✨Authenticity, Creative Process, Manipulation
11-26Programmed patches for Bitwig’s new Polymer wavetable synth- Incl Berlin Duo, Fat Garage Bass, Ebb and Flow, Triple Phase Dubber
- 🎹Sound-Design, Patch Programming, Output
10-17Struggle with reverb? Study the real thing everywhere, anytime- 🎹Gregory Scott, House of Kush
09-17Fave new track: MOWUKIS—How Much A Body Can Achieve- 🎵Trip-Hop
09-16Balanced mixes are boring mixes- Especially valid for anything Dub and Techno
- 🎹Goals, Mixing Gregory Scott
09-15Sound thinking with Arovane- 📝🎹Interview, Sound-Design
09-09Korg Volca Beats: Add individual outputs- 🎹Hardware, DIY, Modification
09-04Series recommendation: Dispatches from Elsewhere, Trailer- 🍿WTF, Life, Perspective
08-13Mixing too slow kills your creativity- “Shave your mix into being”—Gregory Scott/House of Kush
- 🎹Mixing, Strategy, Productivity
08-08Tamiko Thiel, the designer who inspired Steve Jobs- ✨Design, Product, Industrial
08-01Photographer updates postcards of 60s resorts into abandoned ruins- ✨Photography, Modernism
07-30How to pandemic with RTOEhrenfeld ft. Erobique 😍- 🎵Funk, ZDF, Public German TV
07-29Nils’ K1v is a free 90s powerhouse PCM synth- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
07-28The Snow Cruiser—Antarctica’s abandoned behemoth- And the Soviet follow up Kharkovchanka
- ✨History, Engineering, Brutalism
20-27New fave track: Deadbeat & Paul St. Hilaire—Mind Control- 🎵Dub Techno
06-26Hugh Jackman on the 85% rule, daily routines…- ✨Tim Ferriss, Podcast, Life
06-29New fave album: The Exaltics & Heinrich Mueller—Temporal Matrix- 🎵Elektro, Detroit, Futurism
06-17Encoderaudio develops interesting Ableton Live devices- 🎹MIDI, Effects, Instruments
06-12Bass Worship: The influence of Dub & Soundsystem Culture- 📹Documentary, Music
05-21Tom Chi: Everything is connected—Here’s how- ✨TED, Talk, Science
05-16The Control Panel Archive: retro-futuristic dials and knobs- ✨Brutalism, Engineering, Design
05-15The YT session where I talk about finishing tracks and stuff- 🎹Music Production, Strategies, Output
05-12Tim Ferriss interviews Liz Gilbert, Transcript- “You can’t be good at grief. You can’t be good at it. It’s not something that is to be mastered. It’s something that’s to be survived."
- 🎤Podcast, Life, Creativity
05-10Not automating your effects? Boring.- 🎹Music production, Production value
04-27How do astronauts deal with isolation?- Spoiler: Routines, routines, routines
- ✨Covid, Strategy
04-23Gollum is a git-powered wiki with a local frontend- 🔨Ruby, Markdown
04-22Pask Makes: Neil’s wood-, and metalworking videos are soothing- 🍿Craftsmanship, Processes
04-16Fave old music: Electro Music Union re-issue- 🎵Album, Electronic, Detroit Techno
04-16The Olbers paradox renders the night sky black- ✨3 minutes, Physics, Universe
04-11Wackelkontakt by Alcatraz & Prismbeings is 4kb intro bliss- 🧊Demoscene, Realtime, 4096 Bytes
04-10Recorded a VERY eclectic set for Revision Demoparty- 🎵DJ set, Pop vs Electronic
04-04Auditory distance perception in humans- 📝Research, Hearing, Space
03-30The Marvellous Mod World of Sci-Fi Supermarionettes- ✨Thunderbirds, Craftsmanship, Production design
03-15What happened to the Ekranoplan?- ✨Engineering, Brutalism, Soviet Union
03-14A look at CEM3320 filter designs (OB-Xa, Elka Synthex…)- 💡DSP, Analog, Circuitry
03-09James Brötorhead—Superkill’s my fave mashup ever 🤙- 🎵Mashup, James Brown x Motorhead
03-08Cute things make us careful and focus our attention- 📝Kawaii effect, Cognition, Neuroscience
03-02Blind magician Richard Turner does impossible things with cards- Trailer for his documentary
- ✨Tim Ferriss, Podcast, Perseverance
02-29FontGoggles is a font viewer for MacOS- 🔨Typography, Design, Utility
02-27The book of Drexciya tells an ancient story of slavery to repair the future- 📝Afrofuturism, Detroit Techno
02-27Brian Eno ponders what happens when we virtualise our desires- ✨5 minutes, Philosophy
02-21How you can use impostor syndrome to your benefit- ✨🤣TED, Talk, Mike Cannon-Brookes
02-20Sense—Peacefunction- 🎵Ambient, Drone, Fave
02-19Subwoofers: How and where to place them ideally?- 🎹Acoustics, Studio, Monitoring
02-16ORCA is a live-coding environment for performing music, Intro video- 🔨Sequencer, Experimental, Standalone
02-15Popular & Contemporary Music is a great series of mixes- 🎵🎧DJ sets, Eclectic
02-09What the worlds longest echo sounds like- 🍿3 minutes, Sound-Design, Physics
02-09Bad Circuit Modelling explores the artefacts of failing components- 🎹Plugin, Free, Experimental
02-08Turkish Disco rules: Teselliye Sen Gerek, Donme Dolap- 🎵Disco, Turkey
02-05DJ Mag: Meet the illustrators pushing flyer design forward- 📝Article, Design, Techno
01-28Fontfabric Age, File, VAL and MOD are great for 90s Techno designs- 🔨Fonts, Design, Free
01-22Envelover is a free VCA with analog envelope behaviour- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
01-19Decisive is a book about biases and decision making, TL;DR video- Narrow framing is an interesting everyday fallacy
- 📘Psychology, Philosophy, Self-awareness
01-15WTF: IGORRR - VERY NOISE- 🎵Video, 🤷♂
01-14Psychedelicious is my playlist for Krautrock and related genres- 🎵Spotify, Psychedelic Rock, Output
01-11E-Phonic XPressor is a well rounded, free saturator and compressor- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
2019¶
12-31The man who invented the 80s talks about the art of record production- ✨Trevor Horn, Sampling, Music Production
12-30Tim Harford explores cautionary tales aboutoraclespredictive algorithms- ✨Podcast, Biases, AI
12-10rktic @Kraftfuttermischwerk Adventskalender- 🎵🎧DJ set, Dub Techno, Output
12-06New fave track: Samurai Drive—I would never have to know- And Neon Side
- 🎵Trip-Hop, Indie
04-22Produced the soundtrack for JvB’s pathtracing eyecandy ‘VO’- 🧊Demoscene, Electronica, Output
2018¶
06-10New fave blog: Unintendedconsequenc.es- 📝Systems, Complexity, Unknown unknowns
2017¶
11-10❤️ Universal Paperclips is abrowser-gameexponential growth experience- Featuring story-telling that emerges from its mechanics, an addictive gameplay loop, and the ultimate end. Background information
- 🎮AI, Resource Management, Humor
10-17Alex Atala is wholesome (Chef’s Table @Netflix), Trailer- ✨Craftsmanship, Processes, Preparation
09-30Released ‘Hold On’ with Holon at Deadline Demoparty- And it still looks better in your browser!
- 🧊Demoscene, Java, Output
06-15‘Bang the House’ is out on Communique Records- 🎵Music, Acid, Output
04-17Absolute Territory is an ode to Mika Vainio in 4096 bytes- 🧊Demoscene, 4k Intro, Fave
04-10Cheryl Strayed: How to be creative like a motherfucker- “Surrender to your own mediocrity”
- 🎤Interview, Tim Ferriss, Creativity
2016¶
06-10Cal Fussmann about the value of asking high quality questions- ⭐How he extended his interview with Mikhail Gorbachev from 2.5 to 20 minutes
- 🎤Interview, Tim Ferriss
05-10Fave new album: TM404—Acidub- 🎵Dub Techno, Electronic
03-27❤️ The Revision 64kb compo that raised the bar of cinematography:- ‘Fermi Paradox’ by Mercury vs
- ‘Darkness Lay Your Eyes upon me’ by Conspiracy
- 🧊Demoscene, Realtime
01-10Resonate in Peace, David Bowie
2013¶
08-18Made the soundtrack for Calcifer by Still- 🧊Demoscene, Soundtrack, Output
02-15🤣 This short by Felix Colgrave (Honk)- 🤣Animation, WTF
04-07Was interviewed in depth by John/Subsekt- And recorded a mix for their podcast
- 📝Music Production, DJing, Output
2011¶
03-10How to describe the Pigpen short by Felix Colgrave?- ✨Animation, WTF
04-01Vihart’s Gauss Christmath Special is my kind of nerd humor- ✨Creativity, Numbers, Internet classic
2010¶
06-07Krautrock—The Rebirth of Germany BBC documentary- Digs into the cultural landscape of post-WWII Germany. How overcoming the uniformity of ‘Schlager-Tristesse’ pushed the boundaries of electronic music. As well as the partial roots of Elektro and Detroit Techno. Thank you, Arte.tv
- Feat. Einstürzende Neubauten, Kraftwerk, Neu, Manuel Göttsching, Tangerine Dream
- 🎹Culture, History, Music
01-25Kirk Degiorgio’s Bodytonic Podcast #066 🔥- 🎵🎧DJ set, Techno
01-12Alex Roman’s ‘The Third & The Seventh’ is a CG masterpiece- ✨Architecture, 3D Animation, Short
2009¶
10-18(Hard)Wax Treatment Podcast got a great selection of mixes- 🎵🎧DJ sets, Dubstep, Techno
10-15Fave new DJ set: Surgeon Live @Bunker NYC- 🎵🎧DJ set, Techno, Podcast
08-09Variety of Sound releases Density mkII compressor- 🎹Plugin, Windows
08-09Fave new DJ mix: Surgeon’s 3hr set @Fabric London kills it- 🎵🎧DJ set, Techno, RIP filter27.com
06-10Ari Folman’s ‘Waltz with Bashir’ is a history lesson about trauma- 🎥Animation, Movie, Lebanon war
03-30Fave new music: Ronny Ragtroll—Bedubs EP- 🎵Dub Techno, rohformat
04-27‘Look around you’ is as British as it gets- 🍿Humor, Maths
03-12HBO’s ‘Eastbound and Down’ is fkn hilarious- 🍿Series, Kenny Powers,
03-07Farbrausch fr-025:the.popular.demo is available in HD- 🧊Demoscene, Realtime Art
02-19This Ghetto House mix by DJ Guy 🔥- 🎵🎧DJ set, Chicago
02-09My website got Smashing Magazine’d for excellent menu design- ✨Design, Inspiration
01-23Fave new album: Yagya—Rigning- 🎵Dub Techno, Iceland
01-21Move D’s Bunker Podcast mix is a must- 🎵🎧DJ set, House
01-20New fave track: Equalized—EQD#002- 🎵Dub Techno, Bomb
01-18“Band meeting”: ‘Flight of the Conchords’ SE2 finally airs, Trailer- 🍿Series, Recommendation
01-18Little White Earbuds interviews echospace- 🎹🎧Dub Techno, Podcast
01-15Netvibes is great custom portal to the web (RIP)- 🔨WWW, News, Startpage
01-09Paniq’s ode to Microsoft Songsmith (Chacarron)- 🍿Music, Humor, Demoscene
01-02Go with Flickr as home for my photography- 📷Photography, Social Network, Output
2008¶
12-30Closing the musical year with ’Fuck off 2008’-DJ mix- 🎵🎧DJ set, Techno, Output
12-01’Let the Right One in’ is a disturbingly beautiful surprise- 🍿Movie, Horror, Sweden
11-30Richie Jackson’s ‘Better than Life’ part is pure bliss- 🎵 The Attack—Too old (1968)
- ✨Skateboarding, Style, Creativity
11-20Monty Python’s finally got a YouTube channel- ✨Humor, British
11-17Shorpy.com archives historical photos from America- 📷Analog, Glass Negatives, 1800s
11-12‘Gsellmann’s Weltmaschine’ is a weird mechanic installation- ✨Art, Engineering
11-06Fave new/old music: Huong Thanh—Bakida- 🎵Vietnam, Folklore
11-04The 3D-animated classic Gas Planet from ‘91 is finally online!- ✨Animation, Short, Pacific Data Images
11-02Recorded that ’Music for grey days’ mix- 🎵🎧DJ set, Dub Techno, Output
09-22Fave new/old album: H.U.V.A. Network—Distances- 🎵Ambient, Electronic
08-11Dropped the ‘Interstellar Disco Express—Station 1’ DJ mix- 🎵DJ Set, Italo Disco, Output
08-09The 1st season of Heroes features the most evil villain ever- 🍿Series, Recommendation
2007¶
12-17Made the OST for Ferner by Still- 🧊Demoscene, PC, Output
04-09This 178kb demo named fr-041:debris somehow happened- Or: the impossible challenge at first, second and third glance…
- 🧊Demoscene, Soundtrack, Output
02-24Abduzeedo is an inspiring design-blog to follow- ✨Typography, Branding, Illustration
2006¶
11-30‘Ghetto Tracks’ is a short doc about Dance Mania/Chicago- With DJ Funk, Waxmaster, DJ Deeon, Rated X, Jammin’ Gerald, Ray Barney
- 🎹Ghetto House, History
10-13Universal Extractor unpacks any archive or installer- 🔨Windows, Unpacker
08-10FILTER27.com is a fine electronic music/production blog (rip)- 📝Sotek, W3 Culture, History
03-29‘MNMLSM118’ slowly drags through 27 deep CC-released tracks- Tracklist available via realaudio.ch at archive.org
- 🎵🎧DJ set, Output
2005¶
10-13rktic ‘Acid Dubs’ mini LP is out on realaudio.ch- Still digging this one a lot, convenient listening @archive.org
- 🎵Dub Techno, 303, Output
07-20The ‘Distant Paths Extracts’ vinyl hits the stores\- 🎵Detroit Techno, Output
04-18New fave album: Bad Loop’s ‘Luo’ is Electronica at its finest- 🎵One Netlabel, W3 Culture
01-10Arguru Stardust is a a funky Enhancer/Multiband/Compressor- Still works in Bitwig. For the Dub-heads: You may dig the phase rotator!
- 🎹Plugin, Master-Channel, Free
2004¶
07-10Holger Flinsch’s ‘Organon’ gets an rktic endlos remix (raam010)- Download from archive.org
- 🎵Ambient, Remix, Output
06-18Bash Again! releases my ‘Fuckin’ Swearz EP’- 🎵Techno, 12”, Output
12-05‘ramx006: click & chord discount’ is a selection of my fave netlabel tracks- Tracklist at archive.org
- 🎵🎧DJ set, Netlabel, Output
06-01❤️ Stadtgruen is a new Ambient/Dub/Techno CC-netlabel- The releases are still available here
- 🎵Free, Netlabel, History
04-23Breitbannt ft. R. Pries ‘Lost’ is a 4-tracker on One (one07)- 🎵Music, Dub Techno, Output
03-10‘No Response’ is a new netlabel by Nico/Kollektiv Turmstrasse- 🎵Dub Techno, CC-Music
01-15LittleDetroit.net is a community for Detroit Techno heads- Which had the funniest picpost thread ever
- 🎵🌐W3C, Culture, History
01-05Innigo Kennedy starts Asymmetric Records as CC-netlabel- 🎵Abstract, Techno, UK
2003¶
10-07Surphase & rktic ‘Norddeutsch EP’ is available on Thinner- 🎵Music, Dub Techno, Output
10-06We release AudioRealism Bass Line v1.0- And bwoooy, did that involve a lot of listening and tweaking to get it right (forgot how cute it looked back then)
- 🎹Plugin, 303, Output
08-20csszengarden.com makes me wanna dig into CSS, archive.org- 🔨Dave Shea, Design, Inspiration
07-30Through The Fog 12” hits record shops around the globe- Ohmforce Ohmboyz ftw!
- 🎵Techno, Dub Techno, Output
07-26Played a rktic liveset @Norbergfestival with this Buzz setup- And yes: it eventually crashed
- 🎹Buzztracker, Thinner, Output
07-27fr-019:poem.to.a.horse gets the Siggraph stamp of approval- Is this really the first Demoscene production ever shown at the international computer arts festival?
- 🧊Demoscene, Farbrausch, Output
07-16em411.com is a community for electronic music producers (rip)- 🎹HUB, News, History
07-14Breitbannt is ‘Back from Exile’ and resurfaces on Thinner- 🎵Dub Techno, Output
06-11Magnus Ambience is the 1st reverb with a freeze- And no, the presets named rp-something are not by Rob Papen
- 🎹Plugin, 32bit
06-03rgc:Audio Triangle II is a fat mono-synth- 🎹Plugin, 32bit
02-08Stencilarchive archives stencil grafittis from across the world- 🎨Design, W3C, Culture
01-03Danny Kreutzfeldt’s ‘Core 1’ get the rktic treatment (THN024)- 🎵Dub Techno, Remix, Output
02-01James Nachtwey is a War Photographer- “Is it possible to put an end to human behavior, which has existed throughout history, by means of photography? The proportions of that notion seem ridiculously out of balance. Yet that very idea has motivated me.”
- Not for the heart-fainted: this one’s a challenging reality-check
- ✨Documentary, Food for thought
2002¶
08-22Reduced Digitalverein’s ‘Abends am Gasometer’ (THN018)- 🎵Music, Ambient, Output
07-01Johan Bakken’s Styleboost is a great source of inspiration- 🎨Design, W3C, History
06-29Depthcore art collective releases visual Techno in chapters- And I wish they came in desktop resolutions
- 🎨Design, W3C, Culture
05-13deformat is the ‘german beautysite catalog’- 🎨Design, W3C, History
04-01fr019:poem.to.a.horse 64kb says hello- 🧊Demoscene, Soundtrack, Output
02-17urbanlog.org is a simple one-liner log for sharing links- 🌐Inspiration, W3 Culture, History
2001¶
12-29❤️ Elements by Haujobb- 🧊Demoscene, Soundtrack
09-14rktic ‘Northern Lights’ surfaces on Thinner- 🎵Music, Dub Techno, Output
06-09Projectneo is a community-curated design-news thing- Funky: it’s still online and being used?!
- 🎨Design, W3C, Culture
04-03❤️ Don Hertzfeldt’s REJECTED fictional advertisements- 🤣Animated Short, Absurd, Comedy
03-13Forte Records releases my ‘Tracked Romance’ EP- Which I deem to be Detroit-ey at heart—ends up as example for Trance/Anthem/Tech in Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music, gets played by Armin Van Buuren, Sander Kleinenberg
- Resonate in Peace Christian Morgenstern ❤️
- 🎵Techno, Output
01-06Mentored Sebastian Redenz through the relaunch of Thinner netlabel- Also designed the first iteration of the website, covers for some of the early releases, working on the first rktic release
- 🌐Netlabel, Design, Output
2000¶
06-10Fave new album: Speedy J—A Shocking Hobby- 🎵Brutalism, Techno
04-24‘fr-03:untitled’ was disqualified at MS’00 for being fr-02- Although we finished it, and it ran. At the same time: Fair choice😅
- 🧊Demoscene, PC Demo
03-12‘fr-02: raum, klang und design’ wins Ambience Democompo- Without actually being shown in the compo, because it crashed (and yes, we handed the price to the 2nd place)
- 🧊Demoscene, Vote-faking sucks, ThatEscalatedQuickly 🤷
02-26Precurser/Endeffect’s wallpapers make my desktop look good- 🎨Design, Techno, History
01-16k10k.net/Kaliber10000 is a resource for designers- Pity the archive.org snapshots prior to 2003 are fkcd
- 🎨Design, W3C, History
01-01‘fr-01: lifestyle 600’ (a website?) marks the birth of Farbrausch- And it’s as irritating as we intended it to be
- 🧊Demoscene, Guerillia Marketing, Output
1999¶
12-28Elitegroup ‘Kasparov’ @TheParty’99 accelerated PC compo- Wouldn’t have been able to make the soundtrack without mp3 compressed samples—Cheers KB for implementing this ❤️
- Also made the music for our Playstation 1 Demo ‘Pavlow’
- 🧊Demoscene, Output
12-28❤️ Threestate ‘Melrose Space’- Killer soundtrack, great mood, super consistent design and flow: instant fave
- 🧊Demoscene, Software rendering, Design
01-22Snitzer & McCoy ‘Auto Agression EP’ is available on Superstition Rec.- Incl a kickass remix by Pascal F.E.O.S. (resonate in peace)
- 🎵Techno, Vinyl, Output
1998¶
12-29Elitegroup introduces itself with Schleudertrauma PS1 demo- Strange ‘Doskpop meets Techno’ Fasttracker.xm, good times
- 🧊Demoscene, Output
11-01Signalgrau’s eyesaw is an inspiring web/design/thing- 🎨Typography, Layout, History
07-10Einhänder is a brilliant shmup for Playstation 1- Been returning to it ever since, would love to develop sth like this!
- 🎮Game, Fave, Japan
04-13Gone Disco for Lego’s ‘Cosmonautic Jazz’ Amiga AGA demo- Hm, was this the last Protracker .mod I made?
- 🧊Demoscene, Music, Output
02-27Superstition Records releases Snitzer & McCoy “We Will Rock You”- 🎵Techno, Vinyl, Output
01-05.schleudertrauma. trolls the scene with ST-001 by Breitbannt**- Fasttracker, Netlabel, Output
1997¶
11-03CS & RMC remix Mijk van Dijk’s ‘More’- 🎵Techno, Vinyl & CD, Output
08-26Phase^D: ‘German Brigade EP’ two-tracker with Pirat- 🎵Netlabel, Protracker, Output
07-11‘Hausmusik’ surfaces via Phase^D- 🎵Netlabel, Protracker, Output
06-20❤️ Hellcore & Omnicolor ‘bakkslide 7’ 64k- Great AFX-inspired IDM soundtrack meets well composed 2d/3d DOF rendering in black’n’white, spiced with scene poetry at its finest
- 🧊Demoscene, PC, Intro
05-20Elke’s ‘Toilet Flush’ remix EP/musicdisc hits the Amiga05-09Snitzer & McCoy vs Humate ‘Oh My Darling, I Love You’ is out- 🎵Techno, Vinyl, Output
05-05‘The Sound of Superstition Vol. 5’ triple CD is released- Incl. previously unreleased ‘A sad song’
- 🎵Compilation, CD, Output
04-07Snitzer & McCoy ‘Hot Wheels EP’ is out on Superstition Records- Available on 12” and limited 7”
- 🎵Techno, Vinyl, Output
03-02TBL’s Captured Dreams is next-level Amiga perfection- 🧊Demoscene, Fave, Electronica
1996¶
12-28‘Alto Knallo’ by Team FEB ranks 1st @PC Democompo at The Party’96- Made the track ‘1 Million Miles’ for the music competition, ran into Chaos & Mr. Pet/Sanity who needed a track for their demo: perfect fit
- 🧊Demoscene, PC, Output
08-18Dubius releases Machines of Madness at Assembly demoparty- 🧊Demoscene, Fave, PC
07-10Get a Pentium 90MHz PC05-12jodi.org is a mind-bending body of broke webdesign ❤️- Spent hours refreshing the index
- 🤯Web, Design, Rabbit Hole Effect
1994¶
12-24Recorded this 303-infested mix on a lousy cassette- 🎵🎧DJ set, Techno, Output
04-10Fave new albums:- Future Sound of London—Lifeforms
- Delerium—Spheres
- 🎵Electronic, IDM, Sci-Fi
03-??Being gifted a 486 PC—its only use: watching Second Reality- Compared with the Amiga, what a pointless machine? Okay: DooM, Hexen and Duke Nukem are alright
- 💻Computing, Upgrade
1993¶
05-??Hello World Wide Web—now what?- How is this useful for anything else than IRC and BBSing? 🤷
- 🌐Internet, Culture
04-20Fave new albums:- B12—Electro Soma
- Black Dog Productions—Bytes
- F.U.S.E.—Dimension Intrusion
- 🎵IDM, Techno, Futurism
1992¶
??-??Fave albums:- Relics—A Transmat Compilation
- 🎵Detroit Techno, Futurism
1991¶
08-?Buy my firstSonyvinyls: Joey Beltram—Energy Flash, Musicology—Musicology, Psyance—Motion- …guess I need a job 🤷
03-??🤯 I’m being handed this “mixtape”. WTF IS THAT MUSIC?- And why are there no gaps between the tracks?
- ⭐Techno House, Detroit Techno
??-??Join the Amiga division of Alpha Flight 1970 as a musician- 🧊Demoscene
01-??Fave new album: Front 242—Tyranny >For You<- 🎵EBM
01-??Getting my hands on Protracker and ST-xx disks- WTF is this? And why does it look like a spreadsheet editor? Seems capable, well then…
- 🎹Software
1990¶
??-??🤯What the heck is a Megademo?- Red Sector Inc—Megademo & Budbrain—Megademo
- 🧊Amiga, Demoscene
04-10Replace the C64 with a Commodore Amiga 500- 💻Computing
1989¶
??-??I suck at skateboarding—Deck vs balls 1:0- Fascinating how much a scrotum can grow in size
- Deck: Danny Way, H-Street
- 🛹Life, WantsToKillYou
??-??Play F/A-18 Interceptor at a friends place, Amiga-crave gets real- Also: The music of the Crack-Intro stuck with me
- 🎮Flight Sim, Demoscene
1988¶
??-??Gary Basilio’s Target Renegade soundtrack**- 🎮C64, SID, Music
??-??Catch John Carpenter’s Escape from New York on TV- Alex Ball interviewed Alan Howarth about the process of working on the soundtrack with John
- 🎵Soundtrack, Inspiration
01-??Discover ‘Night of Darkness/Grenzwellen’ on public Radio FFN- Weekly program by Ecki Stieg
- 🎵Music, Ambient, EBM
1987¶
??-??Fave new radio discovery: Hypnosis—Droid- 🎵Italo, Disco
??-??Goosebumps: Ben Daglish’s Wilderness bassline @Last Ninja- One of my fave sounds of all time, up to this day (Farewell, mister)
- 🎮C64, SID, Synthesis
1986¶
06-04The Tripods BBC series had me right at the intro- Watched the series with my son decades later. And can still recommend it as a great series for kids. It asks valuable questions about what it means to be an individual in society, courage and so on. You can find it here.
- 📺TV, Series, Science Fiction
1984¶
??-??Instant fave game: Bruce Lee??-??The Breadbin finally enters our home- 💻Computing, C64
1982¶
??-??Williams Centaur pinball attract mode is mesmerizing- Got a fond memory standing in front of this with great fascination for the sounds.
- Hindsight: That bucket brigade delay ❤️
- 🤷Echo, Space, Sense of place
1976 Hello world.¶
Slong-term projects¶
Aka slow productivity/long-term quests I’ve got in the back of my head. As they require continuous reflection, untangling dependencies and consciously connecting the dots.
The VAULT¶
Since 2020, I’m fostering a 360° Discord community for people exploring music production as a form of self-expression. In the pool of genres surrounding Dub-, and Detroit Techno. It’s an ongoing conversation about engineering, sound-design, synthesis and production value beyond products and cooking recipes. Where I’m sharing the processes and strategies I gathered over 30 years. Through my lens as artist, DJ, sound-designer, label-founder and owner. As well as product co-developer and consulting UX-designer in the field of music production and DJing.
A synthesis/music production masterclass¶
Read: untangling “It-depends”, or: the intertwined nature of music production. For those interested in soulful, organic, flowing genres of electronic music. With a focus on bridging the gap between production methods of the 90s and modern DAWs. I’m trying to develop a curriculum that:
- Builds upon first principles as a thread
- Replaces assumptions with awareness for the complexity of the subject
- Contextualizes processes and dependencies in a logic manner
- Makes the field more accessible for beginners and advanced producers alike
To do this, I need to identify my own biases and assumptions. As well as my muscle-memory driven processes and habits. That I developed over more than 30 years of ‘just doing it’. Easier said than done 🤷♂😄 Fortunately, I’ve got help by my community.
Explore different/novel ways of writing¶
I ❤️ lists. They liberate me from getting stuck writing ‘nicely’. Instead, they promote being brief and specific. Nested levels mutually help structuring ideas. How can I maximize the potential within?
“The human operating system”¶
Subtitle: “How to human for mere mortals”. Years ago I jokingly said “I feel like a major software update got stuck”. Then realized how much sense it made. From the perspective of a human-centered UX-designer, we’re all running the same piece of software. Shaped by evolution and our individual experiences.
Think of consciousness.exe and subconsciousness.exe as containers for our other subroutines, and you get the gist.
What makes me create THIS instead of THAT?¶
What enabled me—someone who always just wanted to make music—to become a UX designer? Why did it take me 43 years to realize I’ve got an AD(H)D-🧠? What makes me perceive everything as a system by default? What makes the gravity of infinity a much more interesting point than its absolutely relative size? How is everything connected?🤷