Bhob Rainey
@mphonic.bsky.social
Music about which one could justifiably say, "That's not music." Saxophone (tortured). Cornputer (despised). I read a lot and walk around cities.
https://bhobrainey.com
https://bhobrainey.bandcamp.com
https://bhobrainey.com
https://bhobrainey.bandcamp.com
From back in the summer, when I played in a crooked house.
Bhob Rainey - The PROSPECT SERIES 🏡 House Show
YouTube video by Jonathan Moritz
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
From back in the summer, when I played in a crooked house.
See ya in Red Hook on Wednesday night, NYC
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
See ya in Red Hook on Wednesday night, NYC
An algorithm beat me this morning, because seeing this (from the Suno Studio FB group) got me "engaged", and it's bleak out there. I did like one guy dispensing the advice that, until you've made 6000-7000 ai songs, you don't know what separates quality from novelty.
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
An algorithm beat me this morning, because seeing this (from the Suno Studio FB group) got me "engaged", and it's bleak out there. I did like one guy dispensing the advice that, until you've made 6000-7000 ai songs, you don't know what separates quality from novelty.
I've recommended this show so many times, mostly to polite nods. It's probably the last show I truly loved, and, now, years later, I often find myself in laughtears remembering some bit from it.
wrote about PATRIOT, a double great show, over at @rollingstone.com for its anniversary, with thoughts from Steven Conrad, Terry O’Quinn, and Kurtwood Smith: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Inside 'Patriot,' the Cult-Favorite Spy Caper You Should Be Watching
'Patriot' creator Steven Conrad and stars Kurtwood Smith and Terry O'Quinn reflect on the short-lived Amazon spy series, which debuted 10 years ago.
www.rollingstone.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I've recommended this show so many times, mostly to polite nods. It's probably the last show I truly loved, and, now, years later, I often find myself in laughtears remembering some bit from it.
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Bored today? Go into your Bandcamp collection and write some comments in the 'what do you love about this album' boxes. Artists really, really love to hear that stuff.
October 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Bored today? Go into your Bandcamp collection and write some comments in the 'what do you love about this album' boxes. Artists really, really love to hear that stuff.
Reminder that you can and should study Supercollider with me.
I've been giving lessons in Supercollider lately, and I invite anyone who's interested, beginner, intermediate, advanced, to try a few with me. Sliding scale, remote or in person where feasible, flexible schedule. Maybe you're in one of these positions:
October 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reminder that you can and should study Supercollider with me.
I'll be in Austin, TX this weekend for my sixth No Idea Festival, performing a solo saxophone piece and a commissioned 4-channel electroacoustic piece with live bass by Juan Garcia.
October 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I'll be in Austin, TX this weekend for my sixth No Idea Festival, performing a solo saxophone piece and a commissioned 4-channel electroacoustic piece with live bass by Juan Garcia.
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I am listening to an incoherent Hollywood Christian substacker talking to Tucker Carlson about Nick Land and demons and boy is context collapse real
October 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I am listening to an incoherent Hollywood Christian substacker talking to Tucker Carlson about Nick Land and demons and boy is context collapse real
"My manager says I need to spice up my act. Fucking cocksucker!"
Democrats race to embrace swearing and angry comebacks – but will it work?
Democrats are abandoning their careful messaging in favor of gut-level rhetoric that’s unapologetically more profane as the party faces an authenticity problem
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"My manager says I need to spice up my act. Fucking cocksucker!"
Soliciting advice on transducers for light materials, low volume-type stuff. Easy to amplify. The less soldering I have to do, the more skin I'll likely have a month from now. And, do people make these for noise folks, like contact mics, maybe with 1/4" connectors? Need to get going kinda fast 😅
September 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Soliciting advice on transducers for light materials, low volume-type stuff. Easy to amplify. The less soldering I have to do, the more skin I'll likely have a month from now. And, do people make these for noise folks, like contact mics, maybe with 1/4" connectors? Need to get going kinda fast 😅
The rapture so far has come for my bathroom fan and perhaps my dryer. Not what I was hoping for.
September 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The rapture so far has come for my bathroom fan and perhaps my dryer. Not what I was hoping for.
As usual, N+1 goes deeper. Stupidology www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
Stupidology | William Davies
The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...
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September 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
As usual, N+1 goes deeper. Stupidology www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
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Xynthii users, I've added some significant features.
Oscs:
1. You can now switch between frequency modulation and phase modulation. Alt/option click the fm text box to switch. It is quite a different sound.
2. All oscs can use all three waveforms now.
1/4
Oscs:
1. You can now switch between frequency modulation and phase modulation. Alt/option click the fm text box to switch. It is quite a different sound.
2. All oscs can use all three waveforms now.
1/4
September 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Xynthii users, I've added some significant features.
Oscs:
1. You can now switch between frequency modulation and phase modulation. Alt/option click the fm text box to switch. It is quite a different sound.
2. All oscs can use all three waveforms now.
1/4
Oscs:
1. You can now switch between frequency modulation and phase modulation. Alt/option click the fm text box to switch. It is quite a different sound.
2. All oscs can use all three waveforms now.
1/4
I'm glad for this post and glad I took it seriously, because Red Rooms is the shit and I probably would have missed it otherwise. In the midst of so much "creative" horror that is mostly design decorating basic themes (it's fine, I like it), this is some real cinema. Like seeing Taxi Driver in 1976
I watched Red Rooms last night and it is one of the most masterful and unsettling movies I've seen in a while. On the short list of films that have convincingly captured the experience of Becoming Progressively More Insane Online aka the human condition circa now.
September 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I'm glad for this post and glad I took it seriously, because Red Rooms is the shit and I probably would have missed it otherwise. In the midst of so much "creative" horror that is mostly design decorating basic themes (it's fine, I like it), this is some real cinema. Like seeing Taxi Driver in 1976
Xynthii users, I've added some significant features.
Oscs:
1. You can now switch between frequency modulation and phase modulation. Alt/option click the fm text box to switch. It is quite a different sound.
2. All oscs can use all three waveforms now.
1/4
Oscs:
1. You can now switch between frequency modulation and phase modulation. Alt/option click the fm text box to switch. It is quite a different sound.
2. All oscs can use all three waveforms now.
1/4
September 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Xynthii users, I've added some significant features.
Oscs:
1. You can now switch between frequency modulation and phase modulation. Alt/option click the fm text box to switch. It is quite a different sound.
2. All oscs can use all three waveforms now.
1/4
Oscs:
1. You can now switch between frequency modulation and phase modulation. Alt/option click the fm text box to switch. It is quite a different sound.
2. All oscs can use all three waveforms now.
1/4
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If you like long walks listening to squelchy and squealing, occasionally grating, squiggly wiggly, somes steady state, always active textured electronics you might like From Null Lands Led, Starrily by @mphonic.bsky.social
bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/from-n...
bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/from-n...
From Null Lands Led, Starrily, by Bhob Rainey
3 track album
bhobrainey.bandcamp.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
If you like long walks listening to squelchy and squealing, occasionally grating, squiggly wiggly, somes steady state, always active textured electronics you might like From Null Lands Led, Starrily by @mphonic.bsky.social
bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/from-n...
bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/album/from-n...
Brad Inglesby can throw in as many references to scrapple as he wants, run every script through ChatGPT to maximize occurrences of the long "o", I don't care. But the way that British actor Emilia Jones says, "Are you serious right now?" has earned her a friend for life.
September 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Brad Inglesby can throw in as many references to scrapple as he wants, run every script through ChatGPT to maximize occurrences of the long "o", I don't care. But the way that British actor Emilia Jones says, "Are you serious right now?" has earned her a friend for life.
This is super cool. @cranksatori.bsky.social has released the first xynthii album (to my knowledge), using a pipsqueak with spectral-tracking to control and blend with xynthii. A different approach from many of the things I've done with it, as well as much of what I've heard from other people.
a question of maps, by J.Soliday
3 track album
cranksatori.bandcamp.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This is super cool. @cranksatori.bsky.social has released the first xynthii album (to my knowledge), using a pipsqueak with spectral-tracking to control and blend with xynthii. A different approach from many of the things I've done with it, as well as much of what I've heard from other people.
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Kevin Drumm showed me Xynthi about 10 years ago. I was able to get it running on a very old MacBook but this is very cool if it can now run on a modern OS
this might be one of my favorite synthesizers i've ever used
xynthi was a supercollider patch inspired by the ems synthi that was used by computer legends like kevin drumm and peter rehberg
unfortunately the software became outdated till now !!
here's me messing with it:
youtu.be/an4f3IChdVM
xynthi was a supercollider patch inspired by the ems synthi that was used by computer legends like kevin drumm and peter rehberg
unfortunately the software became outdated till now !!
here's me messing with it:
youtu.be/an4f3IChdVM
xynthii squiggles
YouTube video by kyrsive viesel
youtu.be
September 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Kevin Drumm showed me Xynthi about 10 years ago. I was able to get it running on a very old MacBook but this is very cool if it can now run on a modern OS
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this might be one of my favorite synthesizers i've ever used
xynthi was a supercollider patch inspired by the ems synthi that was used by computer legends like kevin drumm and peter rehberg
unfortunately the software became outdated till now !!
here's me messing with it:
youtu.be/an4f3IChdVM
xynthi was a supercollider patch inspired by the ems synthi that was used by computer legends like kevin drumm and peter rehberg
unfortunately the software became outdated till now !!
here's me messing with it:
youtu.be/an4f3IChdVM
xynthii squiggles
YouTube video by kyrsive viesel
youtu.be
September 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
this might be one of my favorite synthesizers i've ever used
xynthi was a supercollider patch inspired by the ems synthi that was used by computer legends like kevin drumm and peter rehberg
unfortunately the software became outdated till now !!
here's me messing with it:
youtu.be/an4f3IChdVM
xynthi was a supercollider patch inspired by the ems synthi that was used by computer legends like kevin drumm and peter rehberg
unfortunately the software became outdated till now !!
here's me messing with it:
youtu.be/an4f3IChdVM
Reposted by Bhob Rainey
Xynthii by @mphonic.bsky.social is back in updated form.
In 2019 I bought a 2002 Powerbook to run the original from 2006. Time warp. Now I don't have to anymore.
Runs in Supercollider this time around.
In 2019 I bought a 2002 Powerbook to run the original from 2006. Time warp. Now I don't have to anymore.
Runs in Supercollider this time around.
September 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Xynthii by @mphonic.bsky.social is back in updated form.
In 2019 I bought a 2002 Powerbook to run the original from 2006. Time warp. Now I don't have to anymore.
Runs in Supercollider this time around.
In 2019 I bought a 2002 Powerbook to run the original from 2006. Time warp. Now I don't have to anymore.
Runs in Supercollider this time around.
Xynthii is ready. If you’ve been around for a while, you may have used 2006's Xynthi, inspired by but not emulating the EMS Synthi A. A lot of people used it, from Pita to Kevin Drumm to, well, me. It had a pretty long life, but OS upgrades eventually killed it.
Xynthii is Live
YouTube video by Bhob Rainey
youtu.be
September 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Xynthii is ready. If you’ve been around for a while, you may have used 2006's Xynthi, inspired by but not emulating the EMS Synthi A. A lot of people used it, from Pita to Kevin Drumm to, well, me. It had a pretty long life, but OS upgrades eventually killed it.
No
LOL. Are they listening to your band? panamaplaylists.com
Panama Playlists
panamaplaylists.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
No
I've been building software in an open source ecosystem populated by experts and nerds and dabblers, with the intention of sharing it with, well, you, who may or may not be one of those things. The labor for creating and distributing something this complex has been divided into the usual categories:
August 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I've been building software in an open source ecosystem populated by experts and nerds and dabblers, with the intention of sharing it with, well, you, who may or may not be one of those things. The labor for creating and distributing something this complex has been divided into the usual categories:
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It took many years and billions of dollars, but Microsoft finally invented a calculator that is wrong sometimes: defector.com/it-took-many...
It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector
It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of…
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August 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It took many years and billions of dollars, but Microsoft finally invented a calculator that is wrong sometimes: defector.com/it-took-many...