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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 27/09/2026

Tonight: Philadelphia Orchestra performing Brahms and Bernstein. Love having easy access to one of the best orchestras in the world.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 27/08/2026

Happy birthday to Alice Coltrane -- John's centennial is getting the rest of the year; we can afford one day for Alice. (not my car, seen randomly in a Philadelphia grocery store parking lot)

Car bumper with stickers:
- "Keep Honking! I'm listening to Alice Coltrane's 1971 Meteoric Sensation 'Universal Consciousness'"
- "My other ride is the extra-terrestrial energy generated by the cosmic transmissions of the SUN RA ARKESTRA"

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 25/08/2026

If anyone wants to get out their 5 string electric violin and play along…

First page of the score to JL Ponty’s “Egocentric Molecules”.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 08/08/2026

It's always easy to spot me.

Closeup photo of me, a generic aging fellow, wearing a Roland 808 hat.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 10/07/2026

BRB, gonna go check the neighborhood Facebook group to listen to them complain about this new kind of gentrification.

This image shows a real-time safety alert for "Loose Goats on Street" displayed on the Citizen app interface.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 05/07/2026

Neighbors launching everything they have before the thunderstorm hits us.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 05/07/2026

Watching the Philly July 4 concert from my cool basement instead of walking 15 minutes in the heat Jill Scott's band are fantastic.

Jill Scott performing at the big July 4 concert on the parkway in Philly. A giant version of her is projected behind her.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 02/06/2026

Living in the future: live realtime translation at the Audio Developer Conference in Tokyo.

Live transcript of English speaker translated into Japanese. Looking forward to seeing how this handles my talk in a few hours.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 30/05/2026

Day two: more fun at Roland

Prototype piano from the future. Only two ever made, saw both of them yesterday.

… And I got to play the piano from the future

Roland VS – 2480 virtual recording studio. I did some of the work on this project about 20 years ago.

One panel from the system 700 modular synth

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 30/05/2026

Day 2 trip to visit Roland…

Going to spend a few hours playing with everything at the Roland museum

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 30/05/2026

Tokyo pics day 2: trip to Hamamatsu

Waiting for the train that will take us to the Shinkansen bullet train

View of the train window of the countryside between Tokyo and Hamamatsu

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 30/05/2026

Tokyo pics: first day in Akihabara

Nighttime view of brightly lit Akihabara in wide angle

Lineup for the Ramen shop directly across from my hotel

Cool nighttime shot of a café with funky neon outside

Me, and aging white dude in sunglasses in front of a Pachinko parlor

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 17/05/2026

Reporting from night 2 of They Might Be Giants in Philly: John Henry feature. Bonus tonight: VIP by proxy.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 16/05/2026

Reporting from the They Might Be Giants show in Philly night 1.

TMBG on stage with pink and blue lights. S-E-X-X-Y

After show pass. It’s nice to have a friend in the band.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 13/05/2026

Ever since I started working from home in 1997 (!) I have made it a strict policy to get out of the house and walk at lunchtime. Today, I stumbled into doing a man-on-the-street interview with the local Fox station about the World Cup Fan Fest that's taking over my neighborhood next month.

Me, a balding middle aged dude in sunglasses, mid-interview, trying hard to form complete and concise sentences. Caption: "What to know about World Cup parking permits near Lemon Hill". Chyron caption: "Internal bleeding was the reason he missed 2nd round." Hope they weren't talking about me.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 30/03/2026

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness. #filmsky #moviesky

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 24/03/2026

Agreed -- seeing "Bells (I Am)" live was as close as I've come to a religious experience.

Two musicians with large metal handbells

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 18/10/2025

In Center City Philadelphia for the No Kings demonstration (in lieu of alt text: 4 photos of a lot of people in the city, many with signs ranging from funny to livid in their messages.) NO KINGS NO NAZIS GO BIRDS

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 21/09/2025

Fantastic set at Solar Myth last night. The new (asterisk) tunes were fantastic, looking forward to hearing them again someday.

Mary halvorson sextet at Solar Myth, Philadelphia.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 09/09/2025

Lived in #philly for 6 months and already at the point where I read this and say, "yeah, makes sense."

Screenshot of "Citizen" app, headline: "Report of man Armed With Fistful of Rice, Fish Threatening People" 4.6 miles away from me. Icon of a knife inside a golden circle in the middle of the image.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 04/08/2025

(between sets my son and I still appeared stunned by the whole thing...)

Selfie showing the Central Park summer stage, waiting for They Might Be Giants to take the stage, Aug 2017.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 20/07/2025

The MIDI Innovation Awards, established in 2021, celebrate groundbreaking advancements in MIDI technology. We've had a record number of entrants this year, including in the new category dedicated to MIDI 2.0. Help us select the finalists in each category by voting at midi.org/innovation-a...

Banner: Vote in the 2025 MIDI Innovation Awards

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 19/07/2025

This is where I post from

Orson Welles points at a picture of himself as CF Kane

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 26/06/2025

It's hot out! Share some movie or TV characters at the beach.

Barton Fink sits fully dressed on the beach next to a mysterious package

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 21/06/2025

Two friends I met on the sidewalk

A snail hiding inside their brown and yellow shell

A black and blue spray-painted graffiti dinosaur

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 18/06/2025

It’s worse than we thought:

From Citizen app: report of man in Mr. softee truck armed with gun

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 03/06/2025

An update from the neighborhood regarding my stamp collection: bgporter.net/posts/philly...

old-timey looking Sidewalk Stamp, "Wm Krause Cement & Asphalt Paving"

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 28/05/2025

Cf achewood.com/2013/09/06/t...

Panel from a achewood comic showing a tattoo saying ICE CREAM HEADACHE

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 27/05/2025

We moved to Philadelphia this spring, and the sidewalks have these little badges to identify the company that installed them. I can’t pass one and not photograph it.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 08/05/2025

Happy Pynchon in Public Day to everyone that observes...

A crude graffiti-esque drawing of a muted post horn

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 27/04/2025

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 25/04/2025

I owe @darcyjamesargue.com an apology. More than once I made light of his complaints about the Mr Softee truck parked outside his window. Living in an urban neighborhood now where it’s getting warmer, I am coming to understand the actual severity of this. Let’s see if I make it through the summer.

A Mr Softee truck outside my window. The music DOES NOT STOP.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 16/04/2025

My FOMO was under control over missing this show until my son just texted me this.

Miles Okazaki and Bill Frisell playing guitar, with a few people seated behind them.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 20/03/2025

I've been quiet here: 3 weeks ago we moved into our new place in Philadelphia and 2 weeks ago I started my new job (actually my old job at Art+Logic where I worked from 1997-2021.) All my music gear is still packed away to encourage me to get fully into a groove before starting anything new.

My wife and me standing in front of our new row house.

Empty main floor before the movers arrived

Me on our roof deck, with Center City Philadelphia behind me

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 12/01/2025

I've been following @iadh.bsky.social online for many years. Big surprise to see him emceeing here at the winter jazz fest...

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 14/12/2024

Great show tonight! Plus I got to hang out with 66% of your horn section.

Me and my son with trombonist Dan Levine

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 18/11/2024

Spent the week back in my ancestral homeland of Rome, NY. Saw the empty (thanks to a freak tornado) space where the building that used to contain my family's camera store was. Also saw the newly re-lit neon sign on the former Revere copper factory, dark for decades.

A large neon sign of a man on horseback and the words REVERE COPPER & BRASS

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 14/11/2024

Flying home to the US from Bristol after spending a few days at the Audio Developer Conference, still feeling whiplash between bouts of pure inspiration from the work others are doing and imposter syndrome from seeing the work others are doing. Lucky to work in this industry.

Green and white Aer Lingus plane at the gate in Dublin Airport

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 08/11/2024

What’s your sign? This is my sign

A golden sign that says “Charles Bukowski Pissed Here”

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 07/11/2024

Finally pulled the plug on Twitter, after hovering over the DEACTIVATE button and not clicking for the past few weeks.

Screenshot of twitter saying "Your account is deactivated"

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 05/11/2024

Mission accomplished. First time I’ve needed to wait more than five minutes since we moved to this house 28 years ago.

A sticker with a picture of a US flag that says "I voted".

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 29/10/2024

quote with your kids in the hall role model

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 27/10/2024

Scarlet and I both say 'hey'

Closeup of a very goodbrown and white pup laying on a green lawn

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 20/10/2024

The Liberty Ellman set was as good a show as I've seen in a long time. Fresh and vivid from stem to stern. Hard to believe this is the first time I've seen Greg Osby play live.

Liberty Ellman -guitar
Greg Osby -alto saxophone
Harish Raghavan -bass
Eric Harland -drums

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