241114-3track

karen gwyer - pikku-kokki (2013)
tangerine dream - love on a real train (1983)
underworld - pearl's girl (1996)

[mp3] - 17:49


241110

241110


241018-cali

"All of this public funding and community involvement has had an enormously beneficial albeit unacknowledged and uncosted effect on the development of Silicon Valley and other hi tech industries. Capitalist entrepreneurs often have an inflated sense of their own resourcefulness in developing new ideas and give little recognition to the contributions made by either the state, their own labour force or the wider community. All technological progress is cumulative it depends on the results of a collective historical process and must be counted, at least in part, as a collective achievement."


241012-surrender

241012


241008-fetters

1ST GENT.  Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.
2ND GENT.  Ay, truly: but I think it is the world  
           That brings the iron.

240926-birch

240926

birch overheard us talking about ginkos
now birch is showing off
look look look


240925-fortune-teller

240925

desert iii, ocean iv (2024)

part of Fortune Teller, a group show on view September 20 through October 20, 2024 at Luck Dragon, Delhi, NY.


240920

240920


240918-3track

daniel o'sullivan - the oscillating love (instrumental) (2024)
teebs - prayer i (2019)
jessika kenney and eyvind kang - no sound (2024)

[mp3] - 17:40


240805

240805

the season where a disproportionate number of photos taken feature things-in-bowls

(seen here, nigella in k ceramics)


240803-3track

panoram - limbo (2024)
purelink - maintain the bliss (2021)
carlota - cool in the pool (2020)

[mp3] - 13:50


240721-avalanche

a word for a feeling of anticipation equal parts enthusiasm and anxiety ahead of the near certainty of an avalanche harvest, the moment we dreamt when planting an orchard so long ago and the energy required in attempt to respect that original vision and figure out what to do with it all


240709-negation

"The ubiquity of algorithmic recommendation and prediction systems may also make it easier to recognize one’s own variability: When confronted with what past behavior suggests we should want, we may just as often balk and disavow it as let it frictionlessly proceed. In that situation, one is surprised only by one’s own refusal to comply — negation rather than discovery becomes the principle of self-realization."


240617-mistakes

oftentimes construction is literally a practice of figuring out how to live with past mistakes and assumptions


240614

240614


240603-why

the walk from the house to the barn is just long enough to begin daydreaming, upon arrival invariably i will ask myself: why am i here


240602-paradox

"To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs. A roadless marsh is seemingly as worthless to the alphabetical conservationist as an undrained one was to the empire-builders. Solitude, the one natural resource still undowered of alphabets, is so far recognized as valuable only by ornithologists and cranes.

Thus always does history, whether of marsh or marketplace, end in paradox. The ultimate value in these marshes is wildness, and the crane is wildness incarnate. But all conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish."


240528-3track

mondo grosso - labyrinth (2017)
olof dreijer - hazel (2024)
billie eilish - everything i wanted (2019)

[mp3] - 18:42


240527

240527


240507-tomorrowperhaps

in celebration of big round numbers, cleanly quantifying time which actually feels infinitely far away through a haze of recollections. twenty years ago i finished this short record and recently i agonized over pretending to be one of those important bands that reissue their twenty year old record, all remastered and include extra bits that somehow accumulated significance while hiding somewhere for so long. i present to you, none of that. these are the original mp3 files encoded however people did things in 2004. perhaps, the burning hills imparted some spark or sparkle, difficult to recreate, time and place never the same.

[tomorrowperhaps]


240503-3track

aphex twin - sekonda e,+2 (1995)
broadcast - follow the light (2006)
ro - senescence (2009)

[mp3] - 15:23


240416-recycling

the phone battery was swollen
so we removed it
like bad lunch meat on a sandwich
and then proceeded to eat the
circuit board and screen and case as
the bad battery juice didn't touch those parts
so they were still good


240308-3track

satoshi and makoto - crepuscule leger (1991)
germaine tailleferre - nocturne (~1927)
the drums - searching for heaven (2011)

[mp3] - 12:40


240302-local

on a shared computer that we all log into at once, maybe we don't need complex chat applications. how about two one-liners?

tehn@kaatsk:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/say
echo -e $(date +'%m/%d %H:%M') - $(whoami) - $@ >> /home/kaatsk/said
tehn@kaatsk:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/what
tail -n 10 /home/kaatsk/said

say adds a line. what shows the last ten entries.

since kaatsk is our shared folder (where we all can also edit the website) the said file is just a log of our chatter. when logging into the system we are shown recent messages.

it ends up looking something like:

02/29/2024 19:35 - tehn - new things
02/29/2024 19:35 - gavin - toosick
02/29/2024 19:35 - palomakop - hi this is a test
02/29/2024 19:36 - davek - yowhat
02/29/2024 19:37 - graham - i have not read the book
02/29/2024 20:05:14 - burnheart - last
03/01/2024 10:05:02 - darwin - it was a really fun meeting last night!
03/02 19:50 - tehn - i removed the second, and the year. we are losing control.

240225

240225


240220-3track

blonde redhead - in particular (2000)
kali malone - moving forward (2024)
ellen arkbro and johan graden - love you, bye (2022)

[mp3] - 17:10


240129

hesitation


240121

240121


240101-3track

cocteau twins - it's all but an ark lark (1982)
mj lallo - buddhas 2nd coming (1982)
thom yorke - cymbal rush (2006)

[mp3] - 18:30


231230

231230


231228-text-adventure

you encounter (technology). what will you do next?

  1. surrender
  2. negotiate
  3. avoid
  4. control
  5. destroy

231220-farthest-skies

farthest skies is a new collection of music.



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