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sweden is great, the bureaucracy openly talks about the use of ”påtryckningsmedel”, which is literally “means of [exerting] pressure”, to encourage compliance. for example, fines. a delightfully clinical word; ”medel” is also used for “bleach” (”blekmedel” ~= “bleaching agent”)

varför kallas det för ”eftertanke” om man väntas göra det före

don't learn about scales!! they are a gateway drug to improvised enharmonic modulation 😱

this just in: the C major scale is finally getting updated!! changes in v2.0:

• removed 6th degree. affected users recommended to modulate to another key
• changed 7th degree to conform to EU definition of B (old version available as H)
• sharpened 2nd, 3rd and 4th degrees

trying to make music is making me relate a bit to generative ai models, the ones that “hallucinate”. if i pick some kind of genre, i can imagine and hear in my head a whole song, which i've probably never heard before, and i cannot tell you what memories it was synthesised from

“BLÅHAJ wa neko de aru” – natsume sōseki

the roland t-something something-zero-something is an electronic synthesiser/sequencer released in 1980-something. it was enormously influential, defining the sound of multiple genres and has inspired many clones. it was a commercial failure, selling only something-thousand units

64kbps mp3 sounds way better than i thought it would??? so long as there's no cymbals it actually sounds fine???

they should make a computer with individually-addressable nibbles

as an art appreciator i think non-irrecoverably damaging a unique original physical artwork as a political protest about its subject can be respectable sometimes. you know, the damage adds to the work and becomes an inescapable part of its history