Soma & Axiom
Now here’s a beat for June 28 and you come in with the melody. It’s Marzipan Potpourri.
Luma & Micro
One of my more lasting internet obsessions has been the Lumatone keyboard: a gorgeous, extraterrestrial device that gives the musician access to a much wider range of pitches than the standard seven-note octave. Microtonal music can sometimes sound eerie and discordant, like regular music gone wrong—but in the right hands, it’s bliss. The musician Zhea Erose is particularly wizard-ballistic at it:
Give it a listen? I hope it starts your Friday off right.
Raise & Glaze
I don’t eat many donuts these days (due to my agonies) but I still love this humble—and in my opinion, unfairly maligned—treat.
I like a standard raised n’ glazed with a nice hot cup of coffee. Feel free to reply and share your favorite donut.
Retry & Retrace
If at first you don’t succeed: triangle triangle Agincourt.
Sun & Spine
I’m having some profound shifts in my body awareness lately, one of which concerns my sensory aperture for the light of these long summer days.
Seattle, being shrouded in darkness for most of the year, has been a safe place for me as an easily overstimulated photosensitive. But the sun beckons. How can you resist it? The sun is the organizing principle of our reality. It is an Actual God, if you want one of those.
Dorsal & Fluke
I wonder if in a hundred thousand years we’ll flop back into the sea. For now, let’s enjoy these land-adapted bodies. I love you all.
—Dara Khan