Zoë Blade
@www.zoeblade.com
Musician, writer, programmer. Analysis and synthesis. ∞ Makes music for
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In terms of listening to infrasonic waveforms directly, also yes. They apparently sound spooky so church organs have been using them for centuries.
www.sarahangliss.com/infrasonic/
www.sarahangliss.com/infrasonic/
Infrasonic – haunted music? – Sarah Angliss
A controlled psychological experiment, in the form of two back-to-back concerts. These concerts were highly unusual because some of the music was laced with infrasound (extreme bass sound, below 20Hz ...
www.sarahangliss.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
In terms of listening to infrasonic waveforms directly, also yes. They apparently sound spooky so church organs have been using them for centuries.
www.sarahangliss.com/infrasonic/
www.sarahangliss.com/infrasonic/
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Infrasonic waveforms are good for modulation. Technically, each time someone uses vibrato, the variation in pitch is itself an infrasonic waveform applied to the sonic one.
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Infrasonic waveforms are good for modulation. Technically, each time someone uses vibrato, the variation in pitch is itself an infrasonic waveform applied to the sonic one.
Oh no, I've accidentally written an article twice... again.
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Oh no, I've accidentally written an article twice... again.
Working from home, I keep forgetting most people have to use Windows. It doesn't sound fun.
i knew this part of using linux would be different intellectually, but i cannot express how nice it feels to not have my OS nagging me about anything, trying to get me to use AI, or trying to upsell me on cloud storage every three seconds.
December 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Working from home, I keep forgetting most people have to use Windows. It doesn't sound fun.
I'm trying to write less about specific synths that exist, and more about how synthesis works in general... which is easier said than done, because there are always caveats to exclude for brevity's sake, and working out where to draw the line is difficult.
December 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm trying to write less about specific synths that exist, and more about how synthesis works in general... which is easier said than done, because there are always caveats to exclude for brevity's sake, and working out where to draw the line is difficult.
December 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Fully recovered from my holiday, I've started making music again. ❤️
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Fully recovered from my holiday, I've started making music again. ❤️
Selecting some appropriate music earlier this week
November 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Selecting some appropriate music earlier this week
On synthesiser components (oscillators, filters, amplifiers, etc):
notebook.zoeblade.com/Synthesiser_...
If anyone knows of an established term for them, please let me know!
notebook.zoeblade.com/Synthesiser_...
If anyone knows of an established term for them, please let me know!
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
On synthesiser components (oscillators, filters, amplifiers, etc):
notebook.zoeblade.com/Synthesiser_...
If anyone knows of an established term for them, please let me know!
notebook.zoeblade.com/Synthesiser_...
If anyone knows of an established term for them, please let me know!
November 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Given the geeky people it attracts, I always suspected someone would make an S-100 bus style computer in Eurorack... Apparently Europe Card Bus is a computer format based on the same physical Eurocard format. Close enough. Anyone making sequencers for it? 😄
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Given the geeky people it attracts, I always suspected someone would make an S-100 bus style computer in Eurorack... Apparently Europe Card Bus is a computer format based on the same physical Eurocard format. Close enough. Anyone making sequencers for it? 😄
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Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
Zork is now open source
Two years ago, I wrote: Microsoft-the-company does not care about Infocom. But a lot of people in Microsoft must care. Microsoft is heavily populated by greying GenX nerds just like me. Folks who grew...
blog.zarfhome.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
My patrons over at patreon.com/zoeblademusic can now hear my latest demo, and so can you for just $1 a month!
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
My patrons over at patreon.com/zoeblademusic can now hear my latest demo, and so can you for just $1 a month!
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Everyone send your love to the great Burger Becky while you can
I never thought I’d get this wish. Odd seeing eulogies before I expire
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Everyone send your love to the great Burger Becky while you can
It's ridiculous that doctors assume neurodivergent people have only neurotypical friends and family members to compare ourselves to.
It runs in families, and also, that's who we're able to make friends with.
It runs in families, and also, that's who we're able to make friends with.
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It's ridiculous that doctors assume neurodivergent people have only neurotypical friends and family members to compare ourselves to.
It runs in families, and also, that's who we're able to make friends with.
It runs in families, and also, that's who we're able to make friends with.
November 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Pluribus is giving me so many questions... And I realise it's the most dramatic way to reveal things, but it's frustrating how the protagonist is the least inquisitive person on the planet.
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Pluribus is giving me so many questions... And I realise it's the most dramatic way to reveal things, but it's frustrating how the protagonist is the least inquisitive person on the planet.
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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It was always inevitable that the loudest and best-funded (by people in Epstein's emails) anti-trans freaks who spent years trying to brand trans people as sexual predators, would instantly start defending Epstein.
It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.
It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 AM
It was always inevitable that the loudest and best-funded (by people in Epstein's emails) anti-trans freaks who spent years trying to brand trans people as sexual predators, would instantly start defending Epstein.
It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.
It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.
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working at the nyt
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
working at the nyt
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i’ve told tale of my catholic upbringing. the constant psychological torture and sexual abuse. (the clergy kept their hands off me cause i had a psychotic father but to the lay peeps, i was fair game)
and nothing has changed. it’s still going on. no matter who the fucking pope is.
and nothing has changed. it’s still going on. no matter who the fucking pope is.
but please keep stanning the pope because he knows ball or whatever www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
U.S. bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals
U.S. Catholic bishops have voted to make official a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals.
www.seattletimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’ve told tale of my catholic upbringing. the constant psychological torture and sexual abuse. (the clergy kept their hands off me cause i had a psychotic father but to the lay peeps, i was fair game)
and nothing has changed. it’s still going on. no matter who the fucking pope is.
and nothing has changed. it’s still going on. no matter who the fucking pope is.
I feel too much like I’m cheating whenever I use off-the-shelf sounds instead of making my own from scratch. I’m sure as shit never using AI to make anything creative like music, stories, or videos.
100% agree that going a level deeper makes things wonderfully idiosyncratic and personal.
100% agree that going a level deeper makes things wonderfully idiosyncratic and personal.
that makes no sense at all and will look hopelessly naive, exploitative, or both after the bubble bursts.
i'm over here happily doing everything by hand. learning to do things yourself imbues everything with a personal touch and is so enriching. why cheat your employees out of that?
i'm over here happily doing everything by hand. learning to do things yourself imbues everything with a personal touch and is so enriching. why cheat your employees out of that?
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I feel too much like I’m cheating whenever I use off-the-shelf sounds instead of making my own from scratch. I’m sure as shit never using AI to make anything creative like music, stories, or videos.
100% agree that going a level deeper makes things wonderfully idiosyncratic and personal.
100% agree that going a level deeper makes things wonderfully idiosyncratic and personal.