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Sounjaerk @soundcrack.net · 2d

Sonoma County!

Ritmos Tropicosmos is playing a benefit organized by UndocuFund: a fundraiser for Sonoma County's migrant community.

this Saturday Oct 18. Get your No Kings! on, and then head out to the Graton Community Club 7PM.

con Rascuaches y DJ Nadie

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poster for the Oct 18 event featuring photos of the bands and show information en Español. the poster has a general pink & blue theme. $25.

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Wonway Posibul @wonway.bsky.social · 1d

Special one tonight on @kalwradio.bsky.social .
Tune in..

91.7 FM Bay Area
KALW.org 🌎
8-10pm pst

#RIPDAngelo

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Sounjaerk @soundcrack.net · 1d

new @melvingibbs.bsky.social LP out on @hausumountain.bsky.social

2 listens in: love the way these tracks move, sidestepping through deep grooves, jazzy flights without ever landing on a too-familiar landscape. production cracks the sternum like a bone saw. alien, indeed!

Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2, by Melvin Gibbs

6 track album

music.melvin-gibbs.com

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder - NO KINGS DAY is this Saturday, October 18. Find a protest event near you and be there if you can. This can be the largest day of protest in U.S. history if enough of us show up.

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Sounjaerk @soundcrack.net · 2d

Sonoma County!

Ritmos Tropicosmos is playing a benefit organized by UndocuFund: a fundraiser for Sonoma County's migrant community.

this Saturday Oct 18. Get your No Kings! on, and then head out to the Graton Community Club 7PM.

con Rascuaches y DJ Nadie

secure.everyaction.com/Ygbo-YGTmU6w...

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Chaki @chaki.bsky.social · 2d

I took this pic of D'angelo at The Fox in Oakland 2015 it was the best show I ever been to. RIP.

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Radio Shock @radioshock.bsky.social · 2d

Radio Shock ON THE ROAD
So happy to be heading out on a tiny tour, basically my favorite thing to do, which I've rarely done in recent years. But let's change that huh?! I'm hitting Chicago, Columbus, Detroit (technically Hamtramck) maaaybe a 4th place. HUGE THANKS to those who helped hook it up! 💚🩷

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Melvin Gibbs @melvingibbs.bsky.social · 3d

look
I'm "straight" "cis-het"...whatever terminology you want to use.
Back in the day the Broadway singer whose band I was playing in called me "relentlessly heterosexual"
But I believe
When You Play Free Music
You Stand For Freedom
For EVERYBODY

Melvin Gibbs @melvingibbs.bsky.social · 3d

10/10 - no notes

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d

In a world where most politicians won't mention trans people except to throw us under the bus, this ad from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is honestly such a breath of fresh air.

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Sounjaerk @soundcrack.net · 3d

trimmed the neighbor's tree and cleaned the roof and gutters. bring on the rain!

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 13d

Boosts appreciated 🔁

It's a great time to start shopping for holiday gifts! I make handmade jewelry for a living, so your business this holiday season means far more to me than it will to any large business. Grab my new spooky earrings → cvkvlv.com

MVTO!!

Goal progress in comments ↓↓

#Beadwork

Two pairs of fringe earrings with ghosts on them, one with a purple and orange background and one with a purple and green background

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4d

I won't go on & on about it. But what Dr. Demento put out into the world was special. It connected who knows how many people to music they didn't know they needed. to weird music. to big laffs, which we need. his final show will cost you three bucks, but it's priceless. 3/3 drdemento.com/online.html

Dr. Demento - Streaming

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 4d

another lingering thought about the Raven Chacon performances yesterday: just about every aspect of conventional western classical performance is both present and up for rethinking in these works. the relationship between visual cues and sound, the relationships across composer-work-performer(s)…

Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 4d

today was my first time hearing any of Raven Chacon’s visual scores performed live and everybody delivered. so cool to get a whole day of chances to practice this kind of attentiveness.

visual score for Raven Chacon’s piece Compass, installed on a full gallery wall. four circles arranged as compass points and connected by arced arrows. each circle has three squares with icons representing different pitch relationships, duration, timbre, and sequence. the whole
thing is bracketed by angled lines.

guide to the icons that appear in the score

text reads:

Pitch
Induce feedback, resolving and settling on a stable, constant tone
Pluck a 3-note unison
Pluck a 3-octave (same pitch class) chord

Progression
I - Any starting pitch class
III - Any pitch class between I and V
V - Any pitch appoximately a 5th interval from the starting pitch class

Rhythm/Tone
Use the volume knob to effect feedback oscillation.
This may also affect pitch
Rhythmically switch the toggle switch between all possible settings
Very slowly press or depress the wah pedal over the course of the prompt

Transition
Right-hand or left-hand hammer-on any 3 notes, one at a time, letting each sustain before tapping the next
Left-hand prepare pre-bend and pluck string while prepering another pre-bend to be played next
Right-hand slide 3 fingers along 3 strings (over the fret board) to produce harmonic glissandos

Wall text continues:

For overly amplified electric guitar, distortion options, and wah pedal or tone controls.
To be performed (or prepared) in an outdoors open space or field or desert.
Slowly turn up the volume of the amplifier.
Starting with the first prompt circle (Pitch), choose a note/chord type. Sound the tone(s) and sustain them, constantly shaking the guitar if necessary.
Next choose if this tone is to be I, Ill, or V of a harmonic progression.
Next choose a rhythmic/tone-altering technique and perform it while still sustaining the tone.
When the tone is no longer sustainable, choose a transitional gesture and
perform it to restart the cycle of prompts.
To choose the next note type and relative harmonic position where the note will occur, pay attention to the direction that the wind is blowing.
This will decide for you to choose the option that is clockwise or counterclockwise to the first choices. Perform the new pitch(es) in their appropriate positions.
To choose the next rhythmic/tone technique, look at the shadows of your surroundings. They will point to the next action. Activate this technique to alter the rhythm/tone.
To choose the next transitional gesture, look for other life, mobile or immobile, and witness how they move. They will teach you and you can use this technique to begin the cycle again.
Continue for as long as you desire, then slowly turn down the volume of the amplifier.
Then turn it off.

more wall text:

Raven Chacon
Diné; born 1977 at Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation
Compass, 2021
Score
Courtesy the artist

Compass... explores this idea of reading the pulses and paces of the world around us. There are things happening in nature, and then there is music. And somehow, we can read these things, we can be a part of them and then respond, and the aligning of the musician with the rest of the world is what creates the music.
-Raven Chacon

Central to Raven Chacon's multivalent work is site and setting:
"I think of my compositions as a long-time study of... the dynamics of the musicians in a context: who they are, where they are geographically, the specific site in which they are performing, and the history of that site and its surrounding geography." These contextual dynamics, and their presence in his work as a composer and musician, are fundamental to how we see, hear, and read Chacon's works. Compass is a composition for a solo performer on an overly amplified guitar, to be played outdoors. As presented on the wall, Compass is a graphic picture that functions as a fixed position that grounds the artworks it hangs alongside.

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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 5d

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

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Sounjaerk @soundcrack.net · 4d

beat LA

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 4d

Hear @melvingibbs.bsky.social discuss his forthcoming album @hausumountain.bsky.social Sonny Sharrock, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Henry Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Wadada Leo Smith, Pete Cosey and more.

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 4d

New episode archived @wfmu.bsky.social

Amasia / Anamibia Sessions: Melvin Gibbs Interview

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Sounjaerk @soundcrack.net · 5d

BLACKBRAID at Stork Club, Oakland Oct 10, 2025 - one for the ages - easily in my top 5 metal shows, ever.

black and white photo of the band Blackbraid performing onstage at the Stork Club on Oct 10. the singer is a blurry shadow. you can make out the drummer and a couple guitarists, but mostly obscured in shadows.

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Sounjaerk @soundcrack.net · 5d

BLACKBRAID at Stork Club, Oakland Oct 10, 2025 - one for the ages - easily in my top 5 metal shows, ever.

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Sounjaerk @soundcrack.net · 5d

BLACKBRAID in Oakland tonight

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Sounjaerk @soundcrack.net · 6d

some pimples for your pumpernickel

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modular synth and microphone madness animated through Jitter in realtime.

¡¡no AI!!

branphygemia

a pimpled pus-filled pastry by bran(…)pos

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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 7d

Sound design is my favorite part of making music, and arguably what I am best at, but I would NEVER.

Sound design is for everyone, and I am good with however you do it, whether you program every sound from scratch or just pick out presets that you like.

Scavenger @scavengersongs.ca · 7d

Sound design isn't sacred. Don't gatekeep, don't be elitist.

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id m theft able @idmtheftable.bsky.social · 6d

Very happy to be doing two solo sets next week, my first gig in Portsmouth, NH in many, many years on Thursday, and Brooklyn, NY on Friday, who's got the comfy crash spot somewhere between those two points on late Thursday night?? I'm outta the crash pad loop.

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Subvert @subvert.fm · 8d

Subvert is launching this fall.

Before we get there, we want to give an early look at what’s being built.

Subvert Members get first access to explore the alpha stage platform later this month.