falling into the world

An audiovisual musical instrument inspired by the hurdy-gurdy and the LED rings we've been using for a current Biome Collective project. Keep the mouse moving to keep the drone going, and touch the points at the side to trigger notes.

Download falling into the world

Controls: escape: quit; mouse: play the instrument; -: minor key; +:major key; zsxdcvgbhnjm,: set root note

The Rules:

• The file at this link will be deleted 1 month from now (5/7/23).
• All downloads are zipfiles containing a Windows executable.
• All source code and assets are included, licensed under the Anti-Capitalist Software License.
• As long as you abide by the license, you can do whatever you want with the download.

Further Reading

Porpentine Charity Heartscape with advice for someone going through hell: "But most of all, you have to live"

I feel like I might have linked this before, but it came across my feed this month and seems like the kind of thing that is worth re-reading periodically: Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning

Erin Kissane with a beautiful piece of writing about the online structures we've built and how they shape our lives.

Found myself listening to this early HudMo remix quite a bit this month.

Aura Triolo with a nuanced take on the "shorter games with worse graphics" meme.

An excellent portrait of a cooking show dystopia by Gabriella de la Puente.

One of the best pieces of writing about that terrible billionaire sub that I've seen, by Lupi on cohost.

An unexpectedly moving piece on rabbit keeping by Noah Smith.

I'm currently reading Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home, and I found it fascinating to stumble across this line about the Kesh's understanding of learning, that so neatly parallels the critical pedagogy of people like Paolo Freire and bell hooks:

"learning is not a transfer of something by someone to someone, but is a relationship. Moreover, the relationship is considered to be reciprocal."

I'm struggling a bit with the book as a whole though. I can absolutely see how useful it must be as an example for other writers (and particularly writers for games), but I think I just don't care that much about worldbuilding; I think I'd rather have a more coherent story than all of these fragments devoted to filling out the world.

The list of Fairy Chess pieces is absolutely wild. I've never been good at chess, so this list feels like stumbling across the remnants of some ancient civilisation, with descriptions that are largely baffling to me. My current favourite is the Treacherous Fox (description: "Ferocious Leopard that can move forward or backward as Alibaba").

Okay, that's it from me this month. Hope you're keeping well and looking after yourself. I'll write again next month.