Bye Bye Orban! 🥳

There's a character named Bluetooth in Downbelow Station. Not the namesake of the technology, that was a 10th century Viking King I just learned.

Finishing up a new install in Jacksonville featuring mashups of local songs.

Love Came Here, by Lhasa de Sela from the album Lhasa

#30GreatWomenMusicians #MusicChallenge
9/30

Currently discovering the late and great Mexican/American/Canadian Lhasa de Sela, singing in 3 language and across multiple genres. A beautiful voice, earthy, intimate, melancholy.

lhasadesela.bandcamp.com/track/love-c...

Michael Pollan, Alex Ross, Marcia Bjornerud, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Presents to myself. On mushrooms, stones, music and consciousness.

Also resonating so much with what they are saying.

Super interesting. From Blackhat marketing (fake hype for real artists) to money laundering (fake artists streamed by bots) in the music industry. Everything is an arms race.

Strangers Need Strange Moments Together | Strangers Need Strange Moments Together: A Manifesto When was the last time you laughed with a stranger? In this first episode of Strangers Need Strange Moments Together, Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat, cofounders of art and design studio Daily to...

🎙️ @dailytlj.bsky.social now has a podcast >>
snsmt.transistor.fm/episodes/a-m...

🎶 Wanted Dead or Alive 🎶
Acoustic, shared lead vocals, only.
#myJam

The Carney doctrine Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

open.substack.com/pub/paulwell...

Did not expect to find music recommendations in a Robert Macfarlane book. But if one of his cloud forest travel companions is a musician, I gotta listen. #CosmoSheldrake

Excited that #Eurovision is staged in Austria next year ->
EXCITED that #Eurovision is currently imploding for all the right reasons.

Back from the #MAB25 Media Architecture Biennale in Bangkok. Hosted at the beautiful BACC. Mango sticky rice, night markets, temple gongs, academic papers and inspiring talks about alternative media facades, light experiences and storytelling platforms.

Bixi bike-sharing program among the top 25 inventions in 25 years, TIME Magazine declares The list also includes the iPhone and the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator.

As a Montrealer, this makes me so proud! 🙌
“Though other cities offer bike-sharing programs, “Montreal revolutionized the trend,” TIME wrote, calling Bixi’s technology “the backbone” of bike-sharing services in cities including London and New York.”
montrealgazette.com/news/bixi-bi...

♫ Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five ♫
Paul McCartney
#myJam

(pretty cool to see he's still performing that one!)

Pacific Northwest textures

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Beach activities on Hornby Island

Forest install on the Canadian West coast, two flights and two ferries required 🎤🌲

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Ever wondered why it’s often cheaper to fly across Europe than take the train? 🤔Here’s why polluting airlines can afford to sell ultra-cheap tickets! 👇✈️

Mutek Village Numerique highlight: Éco-sonorités du vivant by Victor Drouin-Trempe. village-numerique.mutek.org/en/circuit/e...

@renaudfv.bsky.social you will like this! Chirping electronics, a swarm of electronic birds, calls of non-existing birds ...

Can almost hear the crowd from my place. Vicky Mboko, what a star #NBO25 🏆🇨🇦

August is Women in Translation Month. My favorites that I read since last year's #witmonth:

"Summer in Prague" by Zdena Salivarová
"Eden" by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
"My Husband" by Maud Ventura

Pretty soon my email and SMS will only be verification codes.

What a way for Iga to end her title drought 🏆 #Wimbledon

Okay, flight tracker apps are pretty cool. Inspired by Kate Folk's Sky Daddy.

Can confirm.
Fairphone 3+, 4 years and going strong-ish.

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

The Music Instinct by Philip Ball The Science of Musical Sound by John R. Pierce Helmholtz by Michel Meulders Music and the Mind by Anthony Storr The Soundscape by R. Murray Schafer Music Theory by George Thaddeus Jones Harmonograph by Anthony Ashton

Inspired by my new digital piano (and also work), I am on a mission to learn more about music theory. Plus all things adjacent. Half the books from the library the other half pulled off my unread shelves. Even started a Great Courses lecture on music theory 🎼

On the Calculation of Volume (I) by Solvej Balle Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane

Additions to the summer reading pile:

On the Calculation of Volume (I) by Solvej Balle
.. curious if it holds up to all the hype

Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
.. can't go wrong with a Robert Macfarlane