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A collection of 74 issues

Haruspicy Is Murder: From Twin Peaks to the Man Amplifier

Or: The Silly Human Race and Its Uncertain Machineries of Certainty Someone on social media recently wished they could "put all of Twin Peaks into a blender and have a random number generator pick a scene as a form of divination." The wish is funny because it'

Thunderstruck

A Scene Report from the Guitar Case They've carved us into totems. Excaliburs for boy-kings who thought they could bend the world to heel with sound. Woody Guthrie's instrument slaying fascists. Robert Johnson's six-string memorialized with that dangling cigarette. B.B. King carrying Lucille

Turtles Have Short Legs

Architectures As Infrastructure: Sound and Vision Every week for past two years on xray.fm, DJ Gilliflower has built worlds from scraps—both sonic and visual. Turtles Have Short Legs isn’t background music; it’s architectural. Miaux’s lunar synths fade into Alice’s fragile chanson, Lauten der Seele’

Two Points Make a Line

Helsinki Dérive, Part Eight Wednesday. We fly back tomorrow morning. I started feeling quite worn down last night, was overheated and achy throughout the night, lots of water and 400mg of Ibuprofen has me functional on our last day in Helsinki. On one hand, I feel that I’ve completed

Under the Weather, Beating the Odds

A Helsinki Dérive, Part Five A gloriously sunny Sunday afternoon, Töölö, Helsinki. The Relove second hand shop has (for me) some of the essentials of life: a delightful affogato and wi-fi. We had a later than usual start from the Airbnb, Nancy feeling under the weather with coughs and aches,

Rhythm & Blues: A Blues Brothers RPG

We're on a mission from God. Based on Lasers & Feelings by John Harper THE HACK: RHYTHM ↔ BLUES You are trickster saints on a divine mission. Your tools are music, chaos, and unshakeable faith. Your enemies are authority, racists, and anyone who'd silence the song. Your

Noise: Lost in Transmission, Found in Translation

Noise is a slippery word. It resists neat definitions, resists borders, and — maybe most of all — resists staying still. It's a relationship more than a category, a dance between sound, context, and intent. Signal, Noise, and the Role of Intention In the traditional signal/noise dichotomy, signal carries

Erica Chenoweth and the Working Girls

Impossible Dreams of the 3.5% Cargo Cult Part One: I was here The livestream buffered. Ten people holding handmade signs outside a shuttered municipal building, their chants barely audible against the hum of traffic. An overhead drone shot caught the stillness just before the feed cut out. By the

Electric Eden Meets The Lost Folk

Well, what have we here? We made a joke, of course. That's what Electric Eden was — and still is — a sharpened stick whittled into a kind of prank, poking at the ambered reliquary of British folk tradition. We wrote a rules-light machine for breaking songs because we wanted

The Outward Helix

On Trent Reznor and the Art of Aging Forward There's a meme floating around that captures Trent Reznor's evolution in four panels: high school band nerd clutching a trumpet, skeletal scarecrow in his Downward Spiral years, buff and ripped "GNC Valued Customer" in his