Tryptophonic Social

I was joking a couple of months ago that we need #Beck to have a particularly bad breakup so we can get another one of his excellent depressing acoustic albums in the vein of Sea Change & Morning Phase. Well, what do you know? #NowListening & five tracks in, Ride Lonesome is bloody excellent. His love-life's loss is our artistic gain. #music

#Synthtember No.12  "De Meteoris". Quite happy with this evening's #BerlinSchool (ish), #ambient (adjacent), #psychedelic (yes) #synthesizer excursion into the cosmos. I played #UweRosenberg's Sagani for the first time last night, so this one is named after Albertus Magnus’ book _De Meteoris_ (for reasons that will no doubt be obvious to the many of you out there who are well acquainted with occult works from the middle ages [or not]).

When I see the words "#cozy" and "#fantasy" in the same sentence as part of a book description, my brain instantly and seamlessly edits the word "cosy" into "annoying". But that's just the tip of the genre annoyance iceberg - don't get me started on LitRPbloodyG.

#Synthtember 2026 #3 "Omnia exeunt in mysterium". An #ambient #synthesizer #electronic #music #improvisation. I've always had a giant soft spot for #Vangelis' L'Apocalypse des animaux, which I think should be no surprise when listening to this one.

I don't expect to inflict every one of my #synthesizer bleeps and bloops from my yearly #Synthtember event on people of the fediverse, so for those who are deranged enough to have an interest in listening to often long, usually quite #ambient, #psychedelic and or #BerlinSchool inspired #music one-take mostly DAWless synthesizer performances, I am posting the daily recording, as well as accompanying art & whatever thoughts float through my consciousness, on what might well be commonly called a #blog, though I would call it a website. (That was an exceptionally long and needlessly winding sentence, which pretty accurately mirrors the nature of the music contained therein). https://maxvolu.me/

#Synthtember 2026 #6 "Ulibox III". Today's synth improv. Father's Day, heat haze, march flies, goannas. #analogue #synthesizer #electronic #music

The upside of having no electricity all day on this, the first day of #Synthtember, is that the studio and #synths have has an almighty deep clean, the like of which has never been before.

(In a #DavidSylvian voice) #Synthtember's heeeeere again!

#Synthtember approaches! Going to have to work around the planned power outage tomorrow, which is gonna put a major dint into studio time, not only for playing, but for all the planning and setup. Maybe I should just fish out some batteries and take a #Korg #Volca or two & a zoom recorder out into the field.

To paraphrase #Blancmange, I think I'm going to listen to #Coil.

The wind is positively #Ballardian here this morning. Hopefully I won't need to go searching out a millionaire's underground pyramid.

Never thought I'd be able to utter the phrase "I'm listening to the new #DuruttiColumn album" again. And what a great thing it is to be doing so. Vini's one of those those few guitarists who only need play a few notes and is instantly recognisable. A perfect antidote to the great AI-generated clicktrack homogeneity snap-to-grid plugin-preset content-creator #music #slop spewnami in which we find ourselves. A delight. I wish I could lash out on the vinyl at the moment. https://thedurutticolumn.bandcamp.com/album/renascent

I find myself filled with a deep sense of ennui as I wade through the #slop filled valleys, the once-mighty edifices now crumbling under the weight of lost optimism, the blowing pixel-dust #LLM generated wasteland that is #TheInternet nowadays.

"Try to hold on to any creative work prior to the rise of these companies (#Anthropic, #Meta, #Google, #OpenAI). Try to make something beyond what these companies say you can. Try to think of yourself as anything other than a "content creator." Be a writer. Be a singer. Be a friend. Be a lover." #LLMs and the contentification of culture. Excellent article by @rwg https://fossacademic.tech/2026/07/30/pulp-content.html

It ain't #DarkSun if it ain't #Brom. #ttrpg #dnd

Looking to connect with a group of like-minded #synthesizer enthusiasts to pull off an elaborate bank heist in order to afford Vangelis's very first CS-80. #Vangelis #synthesizers https://musictech.com/news/gear/vangelis-yamaha-cs-80-for-sale/

Bill was my favourite Goodie, but more than #TheGoodies, what I really loved was I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again. Gorge yourself on hours upon hours of superior quality #BBC #radio #comedy in honour of the all round lovely human being #BillOddie here - https://archive.org/details/ISIRTA-broadcast-master-recordings

I see the #WainwrightPrize longlist is out. An excellent source of recommended #nature and #conservation #books for the to-read list. I've tried to read as many of the longlisted books every year as I can - a wonderful antidote (or at least respite from) the techno-feudal-media-torment-nexus in which we currently find ourselves. #NatureWriting #bookstodon https://wainwrightprize.com/news/2026-longlist-announcement/

#PJHarvey's new track Voyager. I haven't been so emotionally affected by a song for some time. Incredible. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=XzCjzFsGl_c

Ooh yeah! I've been waiting for #GoToSocial to support relays for ... well, since I started using it. Which was immediately after #Yunohost made it available, so that's quite a while now. Very exciting news for my favourite #ActivityPub fedi server.