ezra

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researcher/librarian's librarian/archivist of the "queer ways in which a people resist innovations" (vannevar bush, "as we may think," atlantic magazine 176(1), 1945, 107)

artist documenting how "all good machines destroy themselves" (Billy Klüver, interview by Calvin Tomkins, January 18, 1961, IV. C. 20, CT/MoMA. Quoted in McCray 2020, 92).

Bagel Corridor Die Hard

websiteredthunderaudio.com
Show threadezraMar 5
I will be trying to make a google meet link for these, let me know if you want it
ezraMar 5

this review was posted https://leonardo.info/review/2026/03/the-composers-black-box-making-music-in-cybernetic-america

it's missing my bibliography and the web version added a few typos but i stand by the content

The Composer's Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America

Theodore Gordon's first book tells us how a handful of practitioners (Morton Subotnick, Donald Buchla, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Lucier, and Sun Ra) realized their singular visions of music in cybernetic contexts.

Leonardo/ISAST
Show threadezraMar 4

should be free to all!

sorry I've been busy. If I owe you a hang please come to my house for dinner I'll feed you

ezraMar 4

some talks next month / des conferences le mois prochain

EDIT: please note there was a typo in the earlier poster, the first talk is wednesday april 8th not sunday april 12th

EDIT2: I've updated the location for the second talk! mXLab is J-R601 in the UQAM pavillon Judith-Jasmin at 405 Ste. Cath. E.

Show threadezraFeb 11
The patch is available on voidbin via perma.cc here https://perma.cc/2FE7-8RGT , simply save the ascii code as a .pd file and you should be able to open it in pure data. It is provided under a cc 0 license
Untitled Paste

Sackbut PD patch

ezraFeb 11
Based on recent examination of the Electronic Sackbut, I'm sharing a block diagram of the system and a simple pure data patch approximating some of its mechanisms.
ezraJan 27
Stay tuned for a potential local screening of https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/ghost-in-the-machine-review-sundance-elon-musk-ai/
'Ghost in the Machine' Review: Documentary Delivers a Searing Takedown of AI, Elon Musk and Techno-Fascism

'Ghost in the Machine' Sundance review: documentary delivers a searing takedown of AI, Elon Musk and Techno-Fascism

TheWrap
ezraJan 27
⁡snow  Jan 26
new tech warcrime

ppl always complain that the clock on my microwave never shows the right time bcs i cant be assed to set it manually

so now i have an unfuck-microwave.sh cronjob which briefly kills its power every day at midnight
ezraJan 24
do you ever think about how alfred hitchcock released "Sabotage" in 1936 and "Saboteur" in 1942
ezraJan 21
Sasha AkhaviJan 21

#Canadian? Concerned about #AI ?

https://www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/