Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto – Conversation 1

Actress – Paris

FKA twigs : live at the Adidas Arena, Paris – ARTE Concert

Had to do a sniper bid as the auction closed at 1.30am NZ time, but scored this mint 90mm macro lens for a measly NZ$300…

Apart from being super well engineered metal 90mm macro lens with max aperture of F2.5 the Tokina AT-X M90 Macro also had a nickname back in the day apparently, aka the Bokina, in a combination of the Tokina and the beautiful Bokeh it creates… Had I known about it sooner, I could have saved myself $1k and got it instead of the plastic Canon 100mm macro lens that I’ve been using. Autofocus is its only advantage and with macros AF is rarely of any use….

Will post some test photos when it & the CY>EF adaptor arrive!
Good in depth review of it here

Moas x Cup Noodles!?

SLOP WARS 2026?

‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

Someone showed how easy it is to hijack an artists Spotify account with AI slop

Universal Music Group sues DistroKid, accusing it of ‘unlawful practices’ and ‘flooding platforms with AI-generated slop’

So its like the tech bros went
“We haven’t degraded music enough via streaming,
so lets swamp the humans with slop…”

interesting music DAW controller: LIOBOX designed for gig use: Launch songs instantly with the touch of a pad, all displayed clearly on the integrated screen. Create and manage your setlists. Manage all transport functions (play, pause, resume, stop, rewind, forward, play again), uninterrupted performance with native dual USB ports.

alt firmware for ableton MOVE

Sound Devices released new Wave Agent X

Synaesthesia’s Colour Debut (1883)

setting records for all the wrong reasons…

The most important product decision is what you don’t build

‘The Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting’

Suzanne Cianis Buchla Cookbook republished

Interview with Shiro Takatani

So what’s the problem?

Sa Pa – Last Dance (Ballroom Dub) [DTL002]

Deadbeat – Primordia

The Specials – Racist Friend

(wish we could have designed & mixed the trailer!)

Shabba Ranks + Bulby York – Champion
love this, so hooky!!

Freddie McGregor – Come Now Sister [1979]
bought a copy of this in FLAC so I can stem split

Johnny Clarke – Come Back To Me
via Stinky Grooves 08.09.26
respect!

Took the wee 1927 Chev out for a drive on a sunny Sunday and at last recorded its AHOOGA Horn! A free library coming next week for owners of HISSandaROAR VEH006 library!

Drove right around Pauatahanui Inlet… The funniest thing is that after driving it for a few hours, with no power steering or syncro mesh between gears, when I get back into my normal car it seems so quiet & effortless to drive… Ah the things we take for granted…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLqycC2tVE
Tōru Takemitsu – VOCALISM　A・I for magnetic tape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqvnN7S1tLw
Tōru Takemitsu – WATER MUSIC for magnetic tape

Bonobo : Distance in Static

cv313 – 08 lost sequence

Plastic Infinite 7″ animated vinyl record, by Sculpture
bandcamp

Movie Location Map

Behind the scenes of Laika’s forthcoming film Wildwood #stopmotion

Deadpan Photography: Enjoying the Pretence

Music theory for programmers?

Fascinating photographic history of ufos

Shen Lieyi’s “Rain” series

Help! I am being surveilled!

tempted to buy this just for the art residue

Hexham Heads

Ad Reinhardt making memes before there were memes!

Noise cancelling gaffer tape!

“We’re so excited that it’s been announced at last that BLACK SHEEPS will have its world premiere at the Sitges International Film Festival, the biggest genre festival in the world, in Spain in October!”

Early access to KODA Sampler plugin is available!
As a new sampler it seems very well thought out… Documentation available on the site

From their FAQ:

What does early access actually mean?
Anybody can get a licensed copy of KODA for free while we finish version 1. We’re not setting a strict end date. Expect at least three months, and we’ll reassess from there.

Can you tell me more about the programming language?
For performance scripts, we use “KodaScript”, which is a simplified domain-specific language that transpiles to Cmajor – a C-family language optimized for real-time DSP and audio applications. KODA also supports plain Cmajor for building your own Insert Effects.

Do I need to know how to code?
No. But this will depend on two things: What you are wanting to achieve with your instrument, and whether you choose to use an AI coding agent (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) We are building KODA to suit both the experienced programmer, and the person who never wants to touch a line of code. If KODA lights your spark for wanting to code, then we can certainly point you in the right direction for getting started.

What does it run on?
Windows and MacOS, as a standalone app or as a VST3 and AU plugin in your DAW.

Conversation 6 – Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto
nasty edit at 3.11

Bonobo – Talk to Me (feat. Nicole Miglis)

Andy Stott (feat Elaine Howley) – Something in mind
new album Late Loop, out 30th October 2026 via Modern Love

LTJ Bukem – KISS FM London – 28 February 1996

DJ Marky Live D&B Sessions – 1st September 2026

Jacques – Against The Clock (& his razors batteries?)
ymmv but gotta love the sonar pings!

Musical Instruments by Bart Hopkin

Having grown up next to the Rangitata, a massive braided river, “Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?” is not a question I would ask but I’m glad someone did!

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic in multi-billion dollar lawsuit:
‘One of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.’
#accidental_album_title?

Visualizing binary files

The equipment and instruments left behind by Ryuichi Sakamoto will be used for the next generation of creativity: “Sakamoto Ryuichi Lab at KUA” opens at Kyoto University of the Arts.

The Business Card That Lights Up When You Tap It – love this use of passive charge…
Reminds me of the drum synth powered by the CV driving it – NOON and MOON

“Normally, I deal with a single disaster – this is 27 concurrently” #Nepal

What is one of your favourite Youtube channels?
me: Process X document Japanese industrial via long form vids
– link to 500+ vids
Latest episode: How Ship Engine Parts Are Made. Japanese Forge Using an 8-Ton Hammer

Who Regulates Graffiti: Inside America’s Freight Yards

picked up a print in the Hutt & noticed these great stencils on the owners garage!

skilled trolling!

take the hint bro!

genius!! check vid on twitter
(for the uninitiated, when capacitors like this blow they explode… so this is anxiety inducing!!)

Some people have hobbies…

beautiful, but I prefer the Aldous Huxley approach…

love the design!

lol

Can anyone, especially a psychiatrist, explain WTF is going on with the little mirror??
WHY IN THE HOLY FCK WOULD YOU NEED THAT?
WHY?????????????????????????????????????
Like whats the thought process?

“So if I do a topdown video like all the other synth nerdlingers, no one can see me make ‘synth face’ which is unaccecptable.
EVERYONE MUST SEE MY FACE AT ALL TIMES!!
There must be a solution – i’ll ask AI
1. more cameras, splitscreen
2. use a mirror
3. WTF are you even doing??

BEFORE and AFTER photos of todays #fieldrecording – very cathartic, smashing the shit out of an old wardobe!
Sennheiser MKH8040/8050/8040 LCR plus MKH8020 x2 inside wardrobe…

A simple example – someone on FB marketplace was selling a panoramic photo print, which I am going to buy & pick up later this week. The back of the photo has this on it:

A decade ago, I could google search “Clayton Tume” and get lots of search results.
Now when I tried it, it found absolutely zero results and could only find info about some sports person ‘Clayton Tune”
So its not like ok five pages down the results I find some answers. Its now like, NOTHING. Google has no results at all.
And that is despite using the quotes for explicit term search.

So I switch to DuckDuckGo and use same search term and… instant results. Yes it still found the sports person, but on the first page there are 10 seperate search results for the photographer.

Next I switch to Kagi and use same search term and… instant results. Yes it still found the sports person, but on the first page there are 7 seperate search results for the photographer.

Google used to be an endless search engine – you could just keep paging through endless search results.
Not anymore. One has to wonder why? Do they really think they can force me to use their shitty AI with unreliable results?
For tech, AI really is the fall of the roman empire.

Anyway, this is a PSA: change your default search engine to anything except Google!

some relaxing listening for a Monday morning!

“From 1968, Terry Riley’s trippy 20 minute re-arrangement of The Harvey Averne Dozen’s “You’re No Good”. Two reel to reel tape machines twisting in and out of sync amongst passages of heavy proto-synth oscillation, ring modulation, tape delay and echo. Breathtakingly modernist. Not for the faint-hearted….”

HISSandaROAR Sale Ends Sept 1st!

FFT of some of SD086 ROOF IRON Contact Mic recordings…
Ehrlund EAP Contact Mics really do hear up to 100kHz!

But I’d never read an indepth interview with him… there is a 15 questions interview here

A while ago I was in a secondhand bookstore and picked this book up:

HOLO 1 New Perspectives: A Survey of Perceptual Paradigms
Searching for agency in the post-Snowden era of mass surveillance and powerful computer vision systems, a cast of key interdisciplinary voices analzye eroding privacy, the proliferation of computational aesthetics, and our increasingly augmented realities. Also: artist encounters, a digital art history lesson, and tales from the dawn of computer graphics

It was sold on this site with release date April 2014, but it seems is only available secondhand. I found a copy of HOLO 2 and ordered it via Abe Books.

But HOLO 1 has a great interview with Zimoun, I’ll post some below:

thanks Kirke!

Floating Points – Mere Mortals
it has its moments, YMMV

DJ Marky Live D&B Sessions – 25th August 2026

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon

love this: old furniture brochures glitched out

Steve Reich’s Clapping Music is now a free rhythm action game

Smarter people are happier, right? This meta-analysis says no but so would common sense…

RIP Dolly Parton.
But for me, her deeply human actions transcend her music!
I was utterly amazed to learn of her book gifting project, the Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library – the contrast with the billionaire class who do nothing could not be more stark.

F1 2026 Highlands Motorsport Park | Liam Lawson Onboard Lap

nice collection of Korg Phase 8 vids at CDM – I will add to the genre one of these days…

Phil Tippett | Legendary animator shutting his studio, selling off decades of art and memorabilia – auction gallery is here

interesting kickstarter ending very soon:
MegCell Pulse: Your Guitar Can Play Itself
Build a 3D-printable robot that physically performs music on your own guitar.

accidental new genres?
#tasteless
#chilltonic

Life goals!

new HISSandaROAR Library: SD086 ROOF IRON
captured with Sanken CUX100K mics plus a pair of Ehrlund EAP 100K Contact Mics and a LOM Geofon!

ALSO NOTE: 16th Birthday Sale Ends in 48 hours!! 50% off all libraries for another 48hours/Sept 1st.

Clark – Skein

Grace Jones – She’s Lost Control (Long Version)

Tenor Saw – Ring the Alarm

Beat Spacek – Ring Di Alarm

RA.1052 – The Bug

new Ghost Dubs – Oblique

Wilfred’s *Lumia Suite, Opus 158*

Marcel Duchamp’s “Anémic cinéma” (1926)

Thomas Wilfred, “Luccata, Op. 162”

Thomas Wilfred – Master of light

Liliane Lijn – ‘I Want People to See Sound’

Nicolas Schöffer – Lumino-Dynamics (1960)

Nicolas Schöffer – CYSP1

Nicolas Schöffer – Cyspe

Optimism, forever! Welcome to the world of Julio Le Parc

What is a Transchromie? | Carlos Cruz-Diez

Nicolas Schöffer exhibition at the LaM: a retrospective!

sharing research!

Artist Talk: James Turrell with Michael Govan

I found a small lifehack re FaeceBook
quick version: I changed my FB bookmark to take me directly to FB Marketplace, which doesn’t serve ads because it is a free marketplace. From there I can jump directly to my own personal account or to HISSandaROAR page, or to a FB Group (eg Darkroom, XPAN or NZ Astro etc) without ever being exposed to the FB Algorithm serving up ads.

longer version: As you may guess I absolutely loathe FaceBook & Meta & Mark Zuckerberg… But there are a very few things FB does that I need to retain access to. The most annoying aspect of this scenario is the ads – if I access FB via my iPhone FB app, every second or third post is an ad. I despise ads but I especially despise nowing every time an ad is served at me, Meta makes money…
Accessing FB via my desktop Mac using Chrome I use a plugin called FB Purity which blocks ads, but even it doesn’t work some of the time… But then I realised!! If you are never exposed to the FB algorithm, they cant serve ads at you!! For example, in Chrome my FB link took me to the top level of FB ie the algorithm… So I changed that bookmark to take me directly to FB Marketplace, which doesn’t serve ads because it is a free marketplace. From there I can jump directly to my own personal account or to HISSandaROAR page, or to a FB Group (eg Darkroom, XPAN or NZ Astro etc) without ever being exposed to FB Algorithm!! And somehow its changed how I think of FB – its not social media, its an ad market. Visit their algorithm, and you suffer their ads but bypass it going direct to marketplace and its just like visiting eBay or TradeMe… You get what you expect and not what FB algorithm chooses to serve you!

IKEAs naming method To ensure consistent use of names

For naming sounds I have always aimed to start with most important obvious info and leave details until later in the name. I do not use UCS filenames as they prioritise metadata/machine reading over human reading, the classic is “Dog bark…” vs “MAMDog_bark….”

also this:

uv birds
#notaband

How to engineer dissent

the kids are alright

Wellington second-hand bookstore’s mysterious orders

warning: insanely addictive and fun free sound making app
coded by Kristin Erickson aka Kevin Blechdom:

Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse

Japan live camera feeds

insta follow: math.brick
‘does weird things with model trains’ doesn’t sound like a recommendation but it is!

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Floating Points’ Sunflower Sound System

mmmm Supersonic Trebuchet…

but also: Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet

youtube @FixOldCameras

Cory Doctorow On Why AI Won’t Replace Workers, But Will Crash The Economy

Mad Professor demonstrating his art of dub mixing. Excerpts, 1997
via Video Stock Archives – 1980s and 90s

https://tal-software.com/products/tal-effects

Clean audio panned as per vids
(MKH8040x2+8050 plus MKH8020x2 inside box on floor)

Clean audio with tuned resonator on each side, panned as per vids

PT calculates its 119.88bpm vs 122.43bpm (at 23.976fps)

then tried four loops: golf club hit loop 48 frames vs 47 vs 46 vs 45 – pitched each & panned…

Just an experiment but kind of interesting to hear it…

Freddie McGregor – Revolutionist [1977]
instrumental/dub at 3.42

Skee Mask – Junt

Djrum – I Wander

wow what a trailer!!
KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS Trailer | TIFF 2026

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

‘Bass on one shoulder, bow and arrows on the other’: life with Fela Kuti on history’s most dangerous tour
In 1979, my father Roy Ayers went on an extraordinary three-week tour with the Afrobeat pioneer amid extreme violence in Nigeria. Three band members recount the unforgettable trip

Tubbutec SH-1oh1 Max for Live Editor and Controller for the Roland SH-101 via MatrixSynth

Someones idea of a filing cabinet?

a relic of the COVID era

Heres a google maps link – easiest is to park near corner of Ahuriri St and Kekerenga St, as its a short walk with a very well formed path as it also provides access to the new radar station which is in a secure fenced off zone nearby…. Just be aware there are plenty of ways to hurt yourself if climbing up on top of the bunkers and the photos don’t show the cliffs etc… But it has spectacular views to the South as well as of the entire airport…

CABARET VOLTAIRE – Live NowSoc, Sheffield’s University 26th June 1978
Previously uncirculated recording of Cabaret Voltaire live at Sheffield University’s Now Society (Bar 2), 26th June 1978. The Cabs’ earliest known full gig recording, captured on a reel-to-reel tape recorder by Geoff Davis. Edited and mastered by The Cabaret Voltaire Vault.

Tracklist:
00:00 Photophobia
05:58 Talkover
10:12 Heaven And Hell
16:00 Capsules
21:30 Baader-Meinhof
24:54 Do The Mussolini (Headkick)
28:24 Oh Roger
33:24 Here She Comes Now
38:03 The Set Up
44:10 No Escape
48:04 A Minute Is A Lifetime

Steve Reich – It’s Gonna Rain (1965)

“It’s Gonna Rain is a minimalist musical composition for magnetic tape written by Steve Reich in 1965. It lasts about 17 minutes and 50 seconds. It was Reich’s first major work and a landmark in minimalism and process music.

“It’s Gonna Rain … is a very heavy piece written in the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the voice is a spectacularly moving, intense voice about the end of the world.” (Steve Reich)

The source material of It’s Gonna Rain consists entirely of a tape recording made in 1964 at San Francisco’s Union Square. In the recording, a Pentecostal preacher, Brother Walter, rails about the end of the world, while accompanying background noises, including the sound of a pigeon taking flight, are heard. The piece opens with the story of Noah, and the phrase “It’s Gonna Rain” is repeated and eventually looped throughout the first half of the piece.

For the recording, Reich used two normal Wollensak tape recorders with the same recording, originally attempting to align the phrase with itself at the halfway point (180 degrees). However, due to the imprecise technology in 1965, the two recordings fell out of sync, with one tape gradually falling ahead or behind the other due to minute differences in the machines, the length of the spliced tape loops, and playback speed. Reich decided to exploit what is known as phase shifting, where all possible recursive harmonies are explored before the two loops eventually get back in sync. The following year, Reich created another composition, Come Out, in which the phrase “come out to show them” is looped to create the same effect.”

Steve Reich – Come Out

So I knew of these works for many years, and while its easy to ‘unsync’ two buffers nowadays, its the ideas & intent that intrigue me… and the potential.

I have always been utterly fascinated by a work by composer Arvo Part, because I could not understand how it was made. This work:

ARVO PÄRT – Sarah Was Ninety Years Old

I was reading a book, Arvo Part in Conversation, and was motivated to start this thread as he explained the techniques used, which includes phasing:

I’d love to learn of other works, past or present…

Steve Reich’s Pendulum Music (1968) would be another:

Note: I posted same to Lines forum here & have lots of great input

YAY!! Its HISSandaROAR 16th Birthday!!
Every #sounddesign library is 50% off until Sept 1st, I have a bunch of new libraries to release and there will be cake! Thanks to everyone who has supported us – there will be some presents at the end of the month too!

With @reversalcine

VEH006 1927 Chev Roadster

Porter Ricks – Bay Rouge

Pole – Raum 1 Variation (Kit Clayton)

Moritz von Oswald – Ole (Remix)

Emma Louise & Flume – Monsoon

Buju Banton – Untold Stories

Prince Fari ft Culture – Message From The King

Prince Far I ‎- Suru-Lere Dub

Neuromancer — Official Teaser – Streaming on Apple TV on January 22, 2027!?

lol at leg hair harassment or a term coined online “sunehara”

WG DAW Convertor
Move sessions between Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic, Reaper, Ableton LIVE & more.

Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over
I tried to watch it (Youtube link) but couldn’t be bothered… For someone smart enough to have made District 9, its sad to see a talented intelligent human fall for similar metaphors as D9 warned of: colonisation

instagram follow: lito_leafart makes art by removing peices of a leaf

Be skeptical of OpenAI’s rogue hacker agent story

great read: The Artist Who Colored Ghibli

interesting idea & the demos seem good: adding a mute to virtual brass instruments

With much of the content available online now exhausted — and increasingly polluted with poor-quality, AI-generated writing — AI labs are turning to uncorrupted texts published pre-2022’: the age of destructive scanning is upon us

LOL

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Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Conversation 3

leo – Cicada Burnt

A Guy Called Gerald (Live in Session) @TheLotRadio 07-17-2026

XPAN II with 30mm lens and Kodak TriX400

“Folks have a lot of pet peeves with movies these days, but my biggest one is probably that an absurd number of score composers are afraid of melody. I should be walking out of a theater humming your lietmotifs, you cowards, not feeling vaguely unsettled by ambient atonal strings…”

While everyone is entitled to their opinion, the crucial part they get wrong is that it’s not due to the composer. It’s a choice by the director.
They direct an approach, style, aesthetic for the score. As with all departments, nothing goes into a film without their sign off. If a director wants iconic melodies, they work with a composer who can deliver those…

So rather than making some grand claim about “an absurd number of composers…” they are complaining about watching a film with a score exactly as the director intended it to be heard. If you don’t like it, go watch a different film.

But I think their issue would be better served by asking for what they want.
For example, rather than making absurd claims, ask “Please recommend me recent films with an iconic melodic score?”

With access to IMDB they can answer their own question.
So if you are a complainer, name a film that you loved the ‘grand melodic score’.
Now go to IMDB, check who the composer is.
Now check the composers IMDB. Have you seen all of their films?

It is a personal taste issue, rather than some universal issue.
Everyone has their own taste. I for one, grow tired of epic melodic scores within about 30 seconds. But I do still appreciate melody, so I seek out the work of more subtle film composers, who’s past work I adore. For me that might be Carter Burwell, or Ryuichi Sakamoto or Thomas Newman or etc…

You do you.

hand tracking module

Zimoun: 9 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, 10 metal bowls ø 67 cm, 2026

great to see Australian Government taking a stand on AI and publicly stating they will work to protect their IP – NZ has an election in November this year. Still waiting on any policy from NZ parties…

AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert
Do you use Suno? Have you been notified by them of the breach? Have you cancelled whatever form of payment you used?
Is this what vibe coding gets you?

Hack also reveals Suno AI Slop Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius
#scum

Too Many Books? Impossible… but Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment

I’ve never used it but seems Letterboxed is in line to be assimilated by AI and inevitably enshittifed…

Finger drum youtube videos – via matrixsynth

How to hide from killer drones: in the Ukraine war, anti-AI tactics are producing bizarre forms of camouflage

Ghost Font – an anti-AI font that can be read by humans but not leading AI models.

Climate change survival guide: Key advice for what to do if you find yourself caught by a wildfire

Good Tools Are Invisible

power of nature – amazing drone footage of recent Kaikoura flood by Geoff Mackley #nz

mmm a transparent case for your 303

Soviet Control Rooms

The Exorcist 1973 Banned Trailer
(projected on film this would be anxiety-inducing!!)

a testament to how good sound editing is!

Some people have hobbies…

Shooting bulb exposures of fibre optic light, as digital previz before shooting film…

Lee “Scratch” Perry – Cricket on the Moon

Beenie Man – Crazy Baldhead (feat. Luciano)

King Tubby · Scientist – Scientist’s Japanese Dub

Beat Pharmacy – Ghostship (Deadbeat Dub)

Linton Kwesi Johnson – Peach (Dub)

Linton Kwesi Johnson – Cultural Dub

Prince Far I – Tribute to Bob Marley

Important part as text:
Focusing the 80mm lens:
Before exposing with the telephoto lens, measure the distance of the subject with the rangefinder of your RETINA, and read off the distance against the index (15) on the focusing scale (4).

Then turn the camera towards you and transfer the measured value to the focusing scale for the telephoto lens (37) marked in white figures on black.

To do this turn the focusing knob until the appropriate distance on the telephoto scale is opposite T-index mark (37 a).

Do not, however, use the black ring (39) on the telephoto lens itself for setting the distances.
This ring is part of the depth of field indicator and serves only to show the depth of field available.

Thanks to Butkus website for archiving this & many other vintage camera manuals