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Interview with Liz Pelly / O,D,E / Ripairian
August 26, 2025
Three local projects
It ends in a crypt
June 5, 2025
An album made with the ruined pianos of Ross Bolleter
Delete the room
March 10, 2025
An album built from videogame audio assets
Arbitrary governance
November 9, 2024
Some 'rules' and perspectives on compositional practice
Picks and shovels
March 3, 2024
On the chapter book "Creative Tools and the Softwarization of Cultural Production" edited by Frédérik Lesage and I
Long cords of milk unravel through water
November 7, 2022
On the band Pale Ribbons Tossed into the Dark
The succession of a whale carcass
March 23, 2022
A live solo piano performance recording at the Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip
Plug-in Capitalism
December 19, 2021
On the article "Plug-in Capitalism" (Bellona Magazine) and venture capital's enthusiasm for music production
Anodic dance music
September 20, 2021
A middle-aged man is playing live techno to the last few dozen passengers remaining, before the ship’s captain, having earlier attempted suicide, gives his...
Unhappy Mr. Peel
June 13, 2021
On Marx's brief mention of the Swan River Colony (aka Boorloo/Perth)
Bleeding for the harder styles
March 28, 2021
Last week I had my essay about DAWs published, and debuted Merino Chute, a project I'm describing as speculative dance music. In the essay, for Liquid...
Is that too corny, Blue?
December 17, 2020
Before a concert at a music conference in Melbourne several years ago I got to chatting with the sound artist Ros Bandt. Her 1981 album Improvisations in...
Platinum status
September 20, 2020
Good evening—hope things are getting better. Going by the top YouTube comments on every single song, people are digging up a lot of old favourites lately. I...
Vaguely political nothings
June 27, 2020
Hi! I hope you’re keeping well, all things considered. It feels like the last three months have been the most consequential in years, maybe you feel the same...
Buying clothes with prints on them
December 15, 2019
Hello, it's me, your freshly-scented TinyLetter pal, reneging on a promise to not write a quitpiece or a leavepiece or a sadpiece! This is ostensibly a...