Tech ethicist, engineer emeritus and open source activist. I make music and I make trouble. Creator of Contributor Covenant & the Hippocratic License, and founder of the Organization for Ethical Source. Author, “We Just Build Hammers”.
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Last Notes npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Remember in the late 2010s when some lone voices were calling for tech workers to get serious and unionize? And no one cared because they thought the 6-figure salaries and flex time would continue forever? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke OK, the read aloud feature in Zotero 9 is WILD. The voices are amazing. I’m on an M3 Pro—can anyone with older hardware comment on voice qualiry? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Well, I was not expecting a Tom Waits / Massive Attack collaboration npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…xwqj Stream of consciousness that I performed npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke I found so many new musical fedi friends after the Bonk Wave listening party today! #bonkwave npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke What the what, I have two tracks on here! "A Machine Must Not Feel (Theme from RUR)" and "I've Been Deleting Your Texts", two tracks that don't fit anywhere else! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…jpgl We three kings of Oriontaur npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…jpgl If the javascript is being hosted on a CDN and you're using a VPN that could be the issue npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Which one of you is utopia and which one the single suffering child? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Bone tired npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…scnc I feel you. Sorry Robert. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke This is a great example of why we don't accept machine translations of Contributor Covenant, by the way. Words matter. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Please please please universe give me a chance to catch my breath npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke What's good software or service for membership org management? Hosted preferred, open source bonus npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…jpgl Ashe, have you tried virtual desktops? I keep some apps in maximized windows on a dedicated virtual desktop, which I can scroll through only using the keyboard. Something to look into if you haven't already tried it? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke I’m getting lots of confidence boosts musically lately. A long-time collaborator said I had really turned a corner recently, another friend asked if I'd been studying music theory, and members of the Disquiet Junto community have been incredibly kind and supportive with feedback. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…5d9g I have a 2016 iMac Pro that I would love to rehome. It's reached EOL with OS upgrades but is a real workhorse. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…pcl0 Ere I am JH npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Thank you, past me, for labeling every single cable in the studio, USB or audio or MIDI, on both ends. You're going to make this studio move a little less hellish! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke An experiment in polychords as suggested by this week’s Disquiet Junto prompt. Features Argon 8M synth and live bass. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Happy International Women of Mystery Day npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…prjl A fellow Unknown Places fan! Thanks for the kind words npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…6ay4 So noisy. I love this. I'm doing a little spoken word stuff too these days so it's interesting to hear that done from a different perspective. Thanks for putting this into the world. <3 npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke My first peer-reviewed paper! "Queer(ing) Epistemology through Intersectional Data Science: Relational Knowledge and Affective Queries with TMI-WEB", co-authored with Dr Jess Parris Westbrook, was accepted by the Design Research Society! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Is anyone working on an open data standard/protocol for moving context and history between AI platforms? Is this a path to more data autonomy? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke I got the nicest comment on one of my tracks today! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Wow, there's a new And Also the Trees album? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…3eqn Think of it as sympathetic magic maybe :) npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…6ay4 I get a lot more traction on Sound Cloud, but I post there at least weekly, and I take part in a community prompt project too. It's nice to know that people are listening sometimes! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…6ay4 This year on Bandcamp I peaked at 2 listens on Feb 17. I feel you. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…j2nr Hey thanks! It's nice to do something acoustic from time to time :) npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…j2nr listening right now in fact, you were at the top of my soundcloud feed! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke This is the latest version of Ivory (mid-Jan update?) on Mac OS Tahoe 26.3 npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…exvm :) npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…z0sl Do you take bug reports by toot? Using the up-arrow to navigate to the top of the Notifications tab with unread notifications makes the "pull down to refresh" pane take over a big chunk of the window, even though there's no refresh triggered or happening. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…exvm I think you missed that that was intended as a trick question? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke h/t to @nprofile…gm5m for teaching me what a barbed wire telephone was! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke This week's Disquiet Junto prompt was an invitation to work with sympathetic vibrations. No, not the New Age kind. I reached for an acoustic guitar and recorded this. As you listen: every sound you here is from the vibrations of a single instrument. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Y'all still out there building neutral tech or no? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Anyway, I guess y'all did it to yourselves, so good luck and fuck off. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke What kills me is how many of us software "engineers" happily took a paycheck to code ourselves out of ever having a job again, while simultaneously destroying our own field on our way down. I dunno, seems a little short-sighted. Who needs the AGI apocalypse when we have capitalism? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke I want to push back on the notion that code review is, or ever was, what software developers are best at. In fact we kinda suck at it at the individual level, which is why we have FOSS. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…7rqs @nprofile…7duz Thank you for sharing this conversation! Boosted. <3 npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Followup question: are you ready for a world in which there are no use cases for a new programming language? Or framework? Or architectural paradigm? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke From a conversation today with @nprofile…7duz : if AI coding agents are so advanced, why have them write in high-level programming languages at all? Shouldn't they be outputting byte code? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…kfng I hate this timeline. I left corporate tech in 2021, and it would have been hard enough to return had not this rug-pull pulled this particular rug. Now I can only code on passion projects or grant-funded work I guess. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…dt95 Thanks for your support, Phil <3 npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…dt95 Sadly Github only cares about licenses with the OSI's stamp of approval. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…w2cy I actually built the feature that warns you about blocked users, back when I worked for Github for a minute. Could not have predicted this use case! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…hxau Given my recent propensity for spoken word pieces I feel called out sir npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…aa75 I literally said nothing about writing code as being the same as participating. Participating + in good faith = a lot more than writing code! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…aa75 I said that renting a robot is not participating in good faith. I didn't say renting a robot is wrong (though I think it's shady). I didn't say you're a bad person for renting a robot. I said that that is not the same thing as participating. I chose those words carefully. I don't know how to be any more clear than that. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…aa75 I'm not even talking about the code. I'm talking about participating. Participating in FOSS is more than writing code. This is the point that you are missing. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…aa75 That's not what I said. I said "participate in good faith". See followup toot. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Call me old-fashioned, but "I rented a robot that wrote some code" doesn't seem like participating in FOSS in good faith. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…hxau If that was me I apologize npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke What are the safety concerns for folks like me (DEI association, nonprofit and democracy work, trans) crossing in or out of the US border? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Today's 3-card spread was The Sun, 3 of Swords, and The Lovers. Heavy. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke https://live.retrostrange.com npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke “We Talked About Nanoseconds” This week's Disquiet Junto response! The instructions were to open a window, record what we heard, and set it to music. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Our first neighborhood cookbook club potluck is tonight! I’m making slow cooker lasagna with homemade ragu. Wish me luck! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…zetw Can you confirm that it was version 3 of Contributor Covenant? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…zetw Thanks for that! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Can someone who uses Claude confirm if this bug, disallowing Contributor Covenant from being added to a repo, is still an issue? It was automatically closed and I need to know if it's time to make a stink. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…kfng Love it! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke My first attempt at banana bread! I made it with walnuts, and the secret ingredient was sour cream. I call it a success. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke I had a breakthrough idea while working on the new book today. I think I'm finally transitioning from research into synthesis? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…hlpy that's lovely to hear :) npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Snowed in at home alone and wanting studio time but it's COLD DOWN THERE npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Watching music videos on The Indie Beat TV and wow this is really really good stuff! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…xyxk In case you're interested: scroll down to Part 4 which provides overviews for chapters 10, 11, and 12. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…xyxk Highly recommended npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke I finally got around to reading LeGuin's _Dispossessed_. I only recently learned that its original subtitle was "An Ambiguous Utopia”, and that Delany's “Trouble on Triton” (which I wrote about in my first book) was intended to be in dialog with it. Thus Delany’s subtitle, "An Ambiguous Heterotopia”. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…mmls Hey I am totally lacking context on what you're doing with these overall but I wanted to tell you that I'm really enjoying following along with the exploration :) npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…59up With the caveat that I Have No Idea What I'm Doing, I follow other bandwagon.fm accounts from my main (ruby.social/@CoralineAda). I use a list to collect posts from creative accounts that I follow (like yours), either Mastodon or Bandwagon. My Mastodon client (Ivory) lets me exclude list members from my main feed, keeping things nice and neatly segmented. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…59up Welcome! I'm at https://bandwagon.fm/@CoralineAda npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Our imaginations are being constrained by our dire circumstances, preventing us from imagining better possible futures. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke A little piano (mainly) piece in the Lochrian mode, following a challenge from a friend. It's a little more harmonically complex than my usual stuff, so this was a nice departure. Also features string synth, 808, and Moog Minitaur. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke My fern (her name is Friendly) has a creeping rhizome (see the pic), so I also took a cutting from that to try to propagate it in moist soil, and covered with a plastic bag. I'll find out if it was successful in a few weeks if roots start to appear! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke My daughter got me these amazing skull-shaped containers for germinating plants. I cut some babies from Spider Mama (my ur-spider plant) to break them in! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…l2q9 Amazing! It's a great community and I’ll be happy to see you there. <3 npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke The final Disquiet Junto prompt of the year, every year, is an invitation to do a 12-month retrospective. The world may have gone to hell in 2025, but I made an awful lot of music. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…jqhj These are my very favorite cookies of all time. I should learn to make them npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…e8ap <3 yes but do the cooking spirits believe in me too? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Saying a prayer to the kitchen divinities that my first time making Christmas dinner won't be a disaster... npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Oh hey, the recording of my talk from XO Ruby just went live! "Dystopia: How We Got Here, and What We Can Do About It". Intended as a vital history offering a little hope for the future of the internet. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke My first book* had a whole chapter devoted to HG Wells, followed by a chapter tracing his influence on physicist Leo Szilard, and establishing a thread that wove its way through the whole narrative. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Holy crap npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…jqhj That looks (and sounds) like so much fun npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke "The illusion that the current historical moment represents the culmination and climax of history is not a new one; since Hegel first proclaimed it after Napoleon's 1807 victory at Jena, the secular world has glimpsed the End of History as often as the religious world has seen the approach of the Last Judgment." npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke "We'll find a cathedral npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…ac3n That joy is the most important part npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke I'm also not much into generative stuff but I did record the 0-Coast doing hell's own brass with random note triggers. I think it worked in context. (It’s most prominent in the breaks between verses) npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…ac3n Do you have a whole eurorack skiff now? npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke @nprofile…ac3n I can see the lure! npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke I'm not a modular synth person in general but holy crap is the MakeNoise 0-Coast fun to mess around with. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke I practiced so much electric guitar today that I sliced right through my calluses. Hopefully I'll have something left for rehearsal tomorrow... npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Looking for something a little different? I put together a playlist of spoken word pieces that I’ve made over the past few years. Some poetry, some fiction, and some true stories. npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke Details about the prompt and 10 takes (and counting) from other members of the Junto community are collected in the playlist at https://soundcloud.com/disquiet/sets/disquiet-junto-project-0729 npub1zu9ash835sfa29xn0jp4sl9lwp2kt60fadxpnpa5nkwf62dfhufqj2qjqj Coraline Ada Ehmke This week's #disquietjunto prompt gave us a 1920 recording of an 1700s-era piece of music as source material. I set a mournful tale of consumption to the mournful sound of the cello. Features spoken word, public domain recording, and some acousmatics of my design.
