Writing
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On AI
The damage generative AI did to the arts is more complicated than any one law or overreach. A tool was made, and the people deciding either didn't consider its effects or didn't care about them, and not considering them…
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hope as haunting
hope as haunting follows on from the past in progress. That record heard the past chewing on itself, the haunting Mark Fisher and others described, and the answer was already in it: a shell recursing on itself, a…
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Mutation
Mutation is about the relationship between humans and tools. The idea was that machines, or tools, can be like a mutation that forces some adaptation in the gene pool. Being able to make tools was a massive thing in our…
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rotting.
rotting. was written in recovery from a psychosis, while I was processing what had happened and how I felt during it. A lot of what it explores reaches beyond the psychosis, though. It's about identity fragmenting to…
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THE PAST IN PROGRESS
Yearning for days of old creates a cycle of regurgitation — past decades chew on themselves in the crucible of nostalgic worship. Unrealised futures from the past leave decaying echoes like ghosts haunting our present.…
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Sounds of Solaris
Sounds of Solaris was the first album I made after my second psychosis. I just wanted an album to listen to that could accompany Solaris, Stanisław Lem's book. The book doesn't need music. I wanted music at that time,…
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A Tram To Sadovaya
There's only one sound source: AudioThing's Noises, several instances per track. The rest of the music-making happens in automation lanes and mixer channels, which make each track's movements and parts. I wanted long…
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i miss the rain
i miss the rain was the first release under AKOL, but I'd been releasing music for years before it. Most of that music doesn't exist any more, or it's buried in corners of the internet I probably couldn't find again.…