Arbitrary governance

November 9, 2024

Some 'rules' and perspectives on compositional practice

Picks and shovels

March 3, 2024

Hello, It’s been over a year since I last wrote you. Here’s why you might have subscribed many moons ago: some articles I wrote in 2021 about plug-ins and...

Long cords of milk unravel through water

November 7, 2022

Pale Ribbons Tossed into the Dark, the band of Djuna Lee, Jameson Feakes, and myself, are releasing our debut album 17 November at the Bird in Boorloo/Perth,...

The succession of a whale carcass

March 23, 2022

The blue whale skeleton hanging from the roof of Hackett Hall at the Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip beached in 1897 near Undalup/Busselton. He is...

Because the writer told them so

December 19, 2021

Platformisation refers to the way technological platforms insinuate themselves into more aspects of our lives. We most know and experience platformisation...

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

Instruments are technologies, means-to-ends. Systems made to repeatably produce a result or affect. The category ‘instrument’ isn’t something inherently...

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...