seneca said, we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
seneca was born in the year 4 BC, some time before the invention of the Internet.
tuxedo moon - in a manner of speaking (1989)
john martyn - small hours (1977)
nels cline - the bond (2016)
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seefeel - ever no way (2026)
isan - remegio (2002)
caterina barbieri and bendik giske - alignment, orbits (2026)
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jon hassell - empire v (1983)
sam gendel and nate mercereau - the vilage (2025)
bo hansson - i elronds hus / ringen vandrar söderut (1970)
mp3↘ - 13:22
added scores to hypervisibility
selections from last year now live at drawings
a threshold was crossed.
hypervisibility is a new collection of music.
it has occurred to me that, when writing down an idea, i should be also be recording where it came from, as frequently ideas form while walking on a mountain or through a forest i've gotten to know, so that i might give attribution and appreciation for the gift
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
George Bernard Shaw (maybe↗)
to witness someone correcting their bad attitude with the phrase "life is full of mystery"
in order to create (or perhaps simply think or breathe) we require space. and to make space we remove, eliminate, destroy, quit, abandon. and so the unmaking gradually gets associated with the making, and perhaps we lose track of when to switch, that we might go too far in one direction or the other. but also maybe it's all the same.
jessica kenney and eyvind kang - dies mei (2005)
dream dolphin - island humming (1996)
you'll never get to heaven - beyond the clouds (2017)
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time passed. three months ago we finished a new revision of the arc. it's a one hundred percent redesign, but the new aspects are not overt. so instead of trying to hype and spotlight the new, we made art.
four slowly phasing arpeggios, playing an old beloved synthesizer into analog tape feedback. the projection started as ring juggling captured by jay gilligan, which i then projected onto the winter snowscape at night and recaptured, which was then projected onto the wall while the arc stepped through time.
hania rani - anette (2023)
holden and zimpel - incredible bliss (2025)
mr beatnik and richard greenan - superb crafty garden (2023)
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"wabi tek sabi is way of seeing and living with human craft and technology. like the japanese idea of wabi sabi it has much to do with aesthetics and pleasure, but it is mainly a way to look at, work with, and live with, technology."
“Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward -- reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
arvo pärt - da pacem domine (2004)
sonic youth - beautiful plateau (2004)
grouper - hollow press (2009)
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“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’”, Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t — till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’”
“But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,” Alice objected.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
corin - empress (2015)
kaitlyn aurelia smith - what's between us (2025)
koreless - sun (2013)
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jan garbarek - a tale begun (2004)
perimeter o - my senseless kind of hunt (2024)
yoko kanno - folly fall (2000)
mp3↘ - 10:11
so at some point you think you know how to do things, that things will go a certain way because you did it before and it was a disaster so you did it again and it was a different disaster but this time you've thought of all of the past and potential disasters, but then also the rules just totally change and all sorts of things can happen that seemed inconceivable, both disasters but also miracles, both equally perplexing, and eventually it becomes just a pastime to classify events as disaster or miracle, until maybe a day is just, having coffee and seeing birds, and whatever happens next is, next
pet shop boys - it couldn't happen here (1987)
romain bertheau - trichomonas gallinae (take 4) (2023)
julee cruise - the world spins (1989)
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oliver coates - please be normal (2024)
cocteau twins - feet-like fins (1986)
tim hecker - black phase (2016)
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after describing izzzzi to a friend as "barely an idea" i recognized my longstanding disposition towards what might be called the hyperbolic undersell.
from the very beginning almost two decades ago the unrehearsed hot sentence from an early monome interview was something like "it doesn't do anything by itself. isn't that wonderful?"
this is likely just schizmogenesis in its natural habitat, defining oneself in opposition to that which one opposes. in this case the overselling of promises. particularly in technology, where nothing is new, and we are sold worse versions of old things which actively undermine our happiness and humanity.
maybe it's just the idea of selling in general.
maybe you just need barely an idea which leads to radical transformation, where you then see everything differently.
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