Tag: music

• Getting into the groove (August 10, 2025)

  I am slightly obsessed with this video clip of unknown provenance featuring three minimalist electromechanical puppets bopping and lip-synching to Madonna’s “Into the Groove”.

• A long thread of thick beats (August 10, 2025)

  Andi McClure posts several times per week to a personal Mastodon thread of interesting audio.

• “Doodles”, Rose Betts and Its ok koy (August 8, 2025)

  A three-minute animation by Its ok koy, set to the catchy “Doodles” as written and sung by Rose Betts. We tour an art-museum exhibit of the narrator’s lifetime of regrets. One of our fellow visitors is the spirit of the narrator’s younger self—more willing to forgive than the obsessive adult, and to reset things a bit through some creative doodling of her own.

• I followed a YouTube synth tutorial (August 6, 2025)

  Recently my friend KAdam facilitated my acquisition of a used Roland T-8 Beat Machine. This device emulates sounds and functions from several genre-foundational drum and bass synthesizers, and it’s the first bit of dedicated electronic-music hardware that I have ever owned as an adult.

• ACK, boomer (February 14, 2025)

  I wish there was an ACK symbol in the Unicode emoji set, for slapping a “I receive and comprehend your message” reaction on a text. “👍” implies more assent or agreement than I necessarily want, and “🆗” often seems sarcastic outside of certain specific contexts.