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Ana Roman

@anodromedan.bsky.social

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Sonic Cyberfeminist | Creative Technologist | Music Tech Educator | Producer | DJ 🗣️: MIT MEDIA LAB, ITP NYU, BERKLEE 👽 MINDWARE: www.sonicwerks.net MUSIC: https://catalog.works/skulptormusica/release/develop-her

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Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · Dec 12

My Interview out today with MANIFEST AUDIO BERLIN x ABLETON.

I speak on systemic biases embedded in the tools we use, algorithmic bias and decolonizing the grid.
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INSIGHT 006 Ana Roman — MANIFEST AUDIO

Manifest Audio provides creative music production tools for Ableton Live: Max for Live effects, modulators, sequencers, and more - for studio, stage, and beyond...

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Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · Aug 4

going hard since 1988

Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · Aug 4

tag a tech bro

Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · Aug 4

who's headlining Bogota Experimental?
This crazy puta?
guess it pays to be a malfunctioning mami

Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · Aug 4

I get zero engagement on this platform.

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Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · Jun 26

🔮WHY IT'S HARD 4: I also don’t produce for trends. I produce to fracture time, reprogram and transmute trauma into magic. And that shit is hard. I hope this answers the question. And I'm genuinely thankful that people care to even ask. 👽

Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · Jun 26

🔮WHY IT'S HARD 3: EVERY synth patch, every visual layer, is charged with ancestral memory and algorithmic defiance. I sculpt sound from breath, distortion, sacred noise, and softness. Music is the only thing that deserves my softness and tears. Not humans. Not resident advisor.

Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · Jun 26

🔮WHY IT'S HARD 2: Music-making is super emotionally coded for me and comes with very little in return. Yes I have to unpack that way of thinking too. On top of that I'm super hard on myself. Being your own sound and ahead of your time ain't easy.

Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · Jun 26

🔮WHY IT'S HARD 1: People ask me when I'm going to drop new tracks almost like its some perfunctory bodily function. I don't like emotions. I prefer flight. I prefer physics. I prefer science and alchemy. Yes that's self-protection. Yes I have to work on unpacking that.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jun 25

“A typing element released in 1973 promised to mechanize the transcription of dance. The new typeball applied symbols from Labanotation, a twentieth-century graphic language for recording movement… Its story uncovers cultural attitudes abt bodily expression, tech, work, + womanhood during the 1970s”

The Dance Typewriter: IBM, the Labanotation Element, and “Women’s Work” in 1973 | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 119, No 2

Abstract A typing element released in 1973 promised to mechanize the transcription of dance. The new typeball applied symbols from Labanotation, a twentieth-century graphic language for recording move...

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Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · Jun 24

Being a woman has got to be the most violent act known to MAN

Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · Jun 22

i want to be the mother of a new kind of machine

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Peter Kirn @pkirn.bsky.social · Jun 17

More than just music - and there are some great tracks for you here. This opens the question of how physical editions can answer "technofascism." (with discussion...)

Trans Music Archive opens, dedicated to physical preservation - CDM Create Digital Music

Trans communities are organizing and acting, building on an ongoing long-term struggle. And it's time to go physical. Trans Music Archive is working on physical editions of some terrific music, and th...

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · Jun 16

Please, if you are writing that "AI images are infographics" and/or data visualizations about their dataset, cite my paper from 2022. If you are using the method described in this paper, citations are both appropriate and very appreciated! www.cyberneticforests.com/news/how-to-...

How to Read an AI Image — Cybernetic Forests.

A text about reading AI images as infographics.

www.cyberneticforests.com

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Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · Jun 15

Careful someone gonna make this an album cover

Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · Jun 14

NEW YORK - i have been rained on by you way too much since i got back from London. Saw sunnier days in the UK!! She's drenched!! And sneezing. 🫥🫥

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Jun 11

What if collaboration and community breeds innovation just as well as adversarial competition? @torproject.org’s @1s4.bsky.social joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @thejasonkelley.com on the new episode of “How to Fix the Internet.”

Podcast Episode: Why Three is Tor's Magic Number

Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing first, cheaper, better, best. But what if collaborat...

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Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · Jun 12

you're entering your soft girl era while i'm entering my post-human pleasure era. we are not the same.

Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · Jun 12

You’re already an avatar. That part’s done. What matters now is the non-consensual parasocial energy flooding your field. Don’t fear it. Alchemize it. Transmute it into strategy, sovereignty, signal boost. Turn their gaze into a power source. #cyberfeminism #data #posthuman

Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · May 27

i dont care about german techno as much as i care about latin electro

Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · May 25

me: germany is bringing back the military draft?!?

dad: oh good maybe they'll have less DJ's now.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · May 24

"It's shocking what you can do." - Angelina Jolie on the Internet from the set of "Hackers" (1995).

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Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · May 24

Okay so you’re telling me compression might be the real Goebbels invented mind control psy-op and not 432 hz???? Pro-audio is a German invention afterall.

www.economist.com/science-and-...

Compressed music might be harmful to the ears

In guinea pigs it can weaken muscles important for hearing

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CrazyMyra @outonthemoors.bsky.social · May 22

Celebrate all the achievements

Four-panel cartoon by Lainey Molnar.
1. Smartly dressed woman - "I got a promotion"
2. Fashionable woman holding keys - "I bought a house"
3. Woman in wedding dress - "I got married"
4. Woman in plain t-shirt with dark rings around her eyes - "I got out of bed"

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · May 21

[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers; and creating an open publicatio

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The Cross-Reference Coalition An Experimental School

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Ana Roman @anodromedan.bsky.social · May 19

ask me if its gemini season