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old noiser
real electronicsist
still theoretically good

J.Soliday
neural goldberg
xTAL fSCK
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Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

[best starship pilot in the fleet]
Jeff Carey at the controls, strobes flashing behind
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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sounds like it's time for an ae + Matt Robidoux collab!
mattrobidoux.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
text from Matt Robidoux's website which reads: Why corn? I like to focus on the modularity/ubiquity of corn and this kind of illogical sculptural sound causality as a starting point for free improvisation. The instrument was invented during my residency at ACRE in Wisconsin, where I cast two corn cob moldings in aluminum at a metal pouring workshop in a cornfield. Movement and touch determine the parameters of pitch, velocity, and duration. This makes for an accessible instrument, at once charming and absurd, while also a merging of my practice creating space for unrestricted musical improvisation. The modular environment, configured around two touch controlled aluminum cast ears of corn, is informed by my ongoing work with Pauline Oliveros' final project AUMI (Adaptive Use Musical Instrument) in direct collaboration with the disability community and multidisciplinary arts organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. The powerful echo and artistic legacy of Mills College CCM (1967-2022) resonates in my design of the corn synth, modeling it after the Buchla 158, the original synthesizer used at the San Francisco Tape Music Center beginning in 1963. a hand touching two aluminum corncobs connected to some electronics
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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so the guy who doesn't drink built a wine rack today...
a photograph of a room with blood spattered walls and a lamp and tv with the text "caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent"
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Cover of Fu Manchu - daredevil A blue dune buggy with all wheels in the air, jumping over a sand dune
November 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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not sure yet if I'm going to be able to attend this myself, but tomorrow afternoon The Digital Media Workshop is presenting a discussion with @dtemkin.bsky.social about his book Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Codes. Definitely worth checking out if you can make it...
Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Codes Nov. 4th, 4:00-5:30, Cobb 311 (5811 S Ellis Ave) Presenter: Daniel Temkin (Independent researcher and writer of the esoteric codes blog) Discussant: Marc Downie (Associate Professor of Practice, CMS, University of Chicago)
November 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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nephews' Halloween party escaped.. settling in
a message from the future, robed figure in a doorway surrounded by static
November 1, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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here ya go... Vertonen of Earth Central Hum Control
Dan of Earth on the left, Blake Edwards on the right, behind a table covered boxes full of tubes and wires
October 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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- Currently unidentified sounds - Formerly unidentified sounds
October 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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You had to ask Chat GPT, I have a jar full of these Grandpa left me. We are not the same.
a shiny little allen wrench, sitting on a purple surface
October 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Illusion of Safety (Dan Burke & Thymme Jones) at Jazz Gallery Milwaukee
Dan Burke on the left leaning into a grand piano to play the strings from the inside, Thymme Jones plucking at an electric guitar balanced across a keyboard stand
October 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Dan of Earth & Blake Edwards (as Vertonen) doing their best Taos Hum impression
Dan of Earth and Blake Edwards sitting at a table staring at some homemade electronic devices
October 25, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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TV Pow at Jazz Gallery Milwaukee
three middle aged gentlemen seated at a table playing computers and synthesizers
October 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Thymme Jones making the front window squeal and screech, rubbing it with a singing bowl from outside the space during tonight's Illusion of Safety set at Jazz Gallery Milwaukee tonight
A hand holding a metal bowl against a gallery window
October 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Friday Night Milwaukee
Complacency & JGCA present Chicago Experimental Noise Projects TV Pow Illusion of Safety Jason Soliday Vertonen (Blake Edwards & Dan of Earth) Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts Milwaukee Friday October 24, 2005 7-10 PM $10 all ages doors 6:30
October 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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jokes been made a dozen times but just to be clear
Frowning Blockhead looking at a photo of the East Wing of the Whitehouse being demolished by an excavator above a Smiling Blockhead pointing at the sky like it just had a good idea across from a photo of Eye destroying a club with an excavator during a Hanatarash performance
October 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Flyin' Henny
Yellow-white striped cat on a green-gray rug, upsidedown all four paws stretched out in the air like Superman doing a barrel roll
October 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Hanging out with this gray goof this week. Little guy sounds like a cross between an old style percolator coffee pot and a flock of pigeons and it is loud and never stops.
A very gray cat with yellow eyes lounging on gray carpet, next to a gray wall. One long leg stretched out towards the camera
October 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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new one from @rroocc.bsky.social for #CASSunday
Orange cassette with white text in a clear Norelco case.
October 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Word is it's World Octopus Day
A pair of black coiled audio cables, each with a contact mic attached - one with a handful of short lengths of guitar string attached, one with a spiral of flexible wire soldered to the bottom They are sitting on top of a blue tabletop with a pattern of white octopi on it
October 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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centered white text on a black backtground that reads: FUCK MELODY FUCK COMPOSE DEDICATED TO NO ONE THANKS TO NO ONE ART IS OVER Total Amount Due 119.20 USD Additional charges may have been applied based on recent tariff policy changes.
October 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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ALL YOU NEED IS AN AUDIO SHOCK
text black text on a white background, except for two instances of the name GERO 30 that appear in red. the text reads: You need to listen to it once completely through while driving a car alone. Then you have to listen to it indoors lying down. THEN you pick a few and listen to them WHILE you read the lyrics on your computer. You WILL find that you misheard some of the lyrics. DONT panic. Its COMPLETELY normal and healthy. DONT think about GERO 30s life yet and DONT try to make sense of the lyrics and DONT panic if you dont like some of the songs at first be your brain will LEARN to like them (evolutionary mechanism). THEN, continue listening on loop as needed but have 2-3 that you sometimes just listen to on repeat. THEN re-emerge into the world and connect with others about their response to the text. THEN apply practically to your life. THEN examine how they fit into GERO 30s At this point you can start to lightly engage in online discourse if that feels healthy and safe.
October 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Chicago.
Wednesday.
Empty Bottle.
Synthesizers.
Noises.

ANOMS XI
A Night of Modular Synthesis

Wednesday, October 1st, 2025

J.Soliday
Andy Ortmann
Sarah Lutkenhaus
Caro Arroba
Melon Sprout
John Lovetron
Onur Zlobnicki

visuals by

Video Waste

Empty Bottle
8PM | 21+ | $20 Door
1035 N Western Ave
ANOMS XI A Night of Modular Synthesis Wednesday, October 1st, 2025 performances by J.Soliday Andy Ortmann Sarah Lutkenhaus Caro Arroba Melon Sprout John Lovetron Onur Zlobnicki visuals by Video Waste Empty Bottle 8PM | 21+ | $20 Door 1035 N Western Ave Chicago
September 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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A rattling shudder like a motor in the distance, quiet tones eb and flow, thump of objects as if against the side of a boat, dull clang and ringing gong

Mahesa Almelda
A LT O/P A N
Hasana Editions
2018

#CASSunday
A clear front/white back Norelco case Golden J-card with artist and title in black, sitting on a white surface
September 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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exiting the house show we played tonight, two deer just walking down the sidewalk
Two deer walking down a brightly lit north side of Chicago sidewalk
September 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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might be a doing it anyway type situation
a mohawked Dave Phillips lying on his back on the floor in front of an audience wearing a headset mic and eating an apple
September 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM