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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 4h

This is great, and making me think about how much art of the time was in conversation with the bicentennial, even if it was critiquing jingoistic rah rah patriotism. 250 came and went and barely anyone noticed

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10h

America was an empty mall. America was shoddy caulk oozing from a vinyl arc in a historic heatwave. America was a brutishly redacted Frederick Douglass speech on foam posterboard in a tractor trailer Freedom Truck. America was not even selling corndogs. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

artnews.com

How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration

What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era tackles United States’ most ambitious cultural project: the bicentennial.

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Kilmo 🐽 @kilmo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 16h

dang I miss the weird discount DVD store, RIP

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This state is full of progressives but ruled by moderate republicans who call themselves democrats. It sucks!

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what I mean is what it ingests sounds bad so what it produces sounds bad

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

so I also wonder if it's just that it ingest highly compressed audio so then outputs highly compressed-sounding audio

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah AI music always has a weird swishy quality, kinda like overly compressed MP3 sound. which I guess is hard to discern because everyone is always listening to heavily (file) compressed audio on spotify and whatever, but it's somewhat different from actual audio compression

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I watched the whole series and then immediately rewatched it with my partner who does not like any science fiction at all (though tolerates OG Star Wars Trilogy) and it was a 100% hit, truly crazy that one of the best shows of the last decade is just incidentally a Star Wars

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VHS Vault @vhsvault.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Coil - Live at St. John's Church, Gdansk, Poland (2002-10-25) [AMT #2] : 912s

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There's an experimental music organization / venue in San Francisco called Center For New Music which they were gonna abbreviate as CFNM until someone googled it, so now it's C4NM instead

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Center Is a Hallway is a collaboration between myself and my good friend Andrew Weathers, improvised drone music recorded at the CCM. Available on CD with Risograph artwork.

theincessantnoise.bandcamp.com

The Center Is a Hallway, by Andrew Weathers / Aaron Oppenheim

3 track album

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ryusuifudou by Fumio Miyashita is unreleased music from the late 1970s that I discovered at my day job (Technical Director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College). Amazing proto-new age music from the founder of the Far East Family Band. Available on LP and CD with Risograph artwork

theincessantnoise.bandcamp.com

Ryusuifudou, by Fumio Miyashita

2 track album

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OrbGazer @orbgazer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

shit like this is infuriating. Tom Morello is many things but a great guitar player is not one of them.

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The fourth chair there was Ricky Gervais lol

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The best Soundgarden and maybe the best major label grunge record. Unlike basically all the other first wave grunge bands they didn’t water down their sound at all but just got much more focused for this one

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lots of Israelis are Ashkenazi but the culture there is a meld of Ashkenazi and Sephardi and Mizrahi - it’s a divergent evolution rather than the diaspora being an offshoot like it might be for Italians, Irish, etc

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah I’ve never thought of myself being like “from israel” or anything like that. Ashkenazi jew from Europe, family in the US by the late 19th century, no real connection to Israel. My father is a liberal zionist and visited a bunch but very clearly is not of the Israeli jewish culture

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

you mean you don't want to go out to lunch and try to have a civil conversation with a raving lunatic racist? you're so closeminded

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wow that’s a sick opening spot! I opened for Quintron years ago (he was doing some weird droney side project thing) and he was a real nice guy

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He could still hit you with the chainsaw. Might not do a lot because they’re very bottom-heavy but still it could hurt a little

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t mind writing email, I like doing research, it’s an okay search tool sometimes but that’s largely because normal search has degraded so much. It has no place in my life, my job, my creative outlets. Just fucking use it and let me be, I’m not being a luddite I’m just in a different field!

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think the hardcore anti-AI folks are being silly, there are clearly some uses that have real utility, and I believe people who tell me it makes coding easier and faster. I, and a lot of people, have absolutely zero use for it, and resent being told I need to figure out uses for it!

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A bunch of people left very thoughtful comments to me the other day in a thread about what they use AI for in their daily lives. It basically broke into one of two groups: a) something that's either computer coding or coding-like; or b) stuff that Google can do now but is AI does faster/ easier.

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gonna do my duty and vote in every single election in the country as many times as I can. Because I am an American

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Center Is a Hallway is Andrew's and my tribute to the legacy of music at the Mills College Center For Contemporary Music (where I work), with portative organ, sopranino saxophone, guitar and electronics. Physical edition features Risographed artwork and liner notes #CDFriday #BandcampFriday

theincessantnoise.bandcamp.com

The Center Is a Hallway, by Andrew Weathers / Aaron Oppenheim

3 track album

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ryusuifudou is a long-lost album from Fumio Miyashita, recorded in the late 1970s in Los Angeles, after Far East Family Band broke up. Synths, flute, santoor, and field recordings over two side-long jams. Physical edition features Risographed artwork and liner notes #CDFriday #BandcampFriday

theincessantnoise.bandcamp.com

Ryusuifudou, by Fumio Miyashita

2 track album

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also Quebecois sugar pie? Basically just pecan pie without the pecans?

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

sometimes I use it as a search engine semi-inadvertently when Google gives me a quickie answer to something and it's good enough, but I would prefer if Google just worked like it did a decade ago!

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm not against AI, I'm just tired of people telling me how great it is and how much I need it! I literally have no use for it! It has nothing to do with my life, my job, my creative outlets. A couple of years ago I was using image generators to make weird basset hounds but eventually that got old

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey it's both #Bandcampfriday and #CDFriday! what are the odds! Out today - two CDs on my new label, The Incessant Noise! Ryusuifudou by Japanese ambient pioneer Fumio Miyashita, and The Center Is a Hallway, a weirdo free-improv-drone album by me and Andrew Weathers theincessantnoise.bandcamp.com

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

theincessantnoise.bandcamp.com

The Center Is a Hallway, by Andrew Weathers / Aaron Oppenheim

3 track album

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

theincessantnoise.bandcamp.com

Ryusuifudou, by Fumio Miyashita

2 track album

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They’ll turn up at goodwills and such relatively frequently, always a good buy

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah that series of 70s nonesuch explorers were really great, excellent covers

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's insane! She asked to be hung because she has vein and circulation issues! The state said no, that would be cruel! The only purpose of execution is to satisfy societal bloodlust - just embrace it, bring back the guillotine or the firing squad or whatever!

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why wouldn’t someone want to take an intercontinental flight only to then have some goon arbitrarily deny them entry for their planned and paid-for vacation and strand them thousands of miles from home?

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This one hit me hard, man. Without Cronos and Venom, my entire existence would be so much different (and so much worse). If there are any music pubs out there that want to commission an impassioned obituary for one of the most important heavy metal musicians of all time, hit my line. Venom forever

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah I find the supposedly humane and civil methods or execution so disturbing. Just admit what you’re doing! “Woops we tried to kill this person but it didn’t work so now she’s in the hospital and doctors are trying to save her” that’s insane, what is the purpose of any of this

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Scarin’ Oppenheim, MFA, BFA, BFA @aao.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wait so what is the “pain”? It sounds like it’s just a number that goes up. Like “answer this prompt or pain.var gets a +1”

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