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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 9h

If you wanted someone to get to know you, what horror movie would you show them?

The Man in the Planet at his window with lever in hand.
Eraserhead (1977)

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 17h

Under Heavy Manners (1980) Robert Fripp, with vocals by David Byrne music.youtube.com/watch?v=kdZ6...

Under Heavy Manners cover art (1980)
Robert Fripp, with vocals by David Byrne

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 02/10/2026

For the analog purists:

An ad showing a physical emulation of Tetris where colored blocky plastic shapes can be stacked through vertical grooves from the top.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 30/09/2026

Techno history in the chat, yet again!

Except from a Gemini chat log:

The Detroit-to-Duesseldorf loop—where Black youth in a collapsing industrial American city looked at stone-faced German intellectuals pretending to be robots and thought, "That is the future of funk"—is one of the most beautiful, counter-intuitive anomalies in music history.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 29/09/2026

“I don't want to be part of history, I just want to be loved.”

Pop! Movies vinyl figurine, Alia Atreides, out of box. She is holding a crysknife and dripping with blood over both her face and white robes.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 29/09/2026

Funko unexpectedly salvaged my Poor Life Decision (of buying Funko Pop! dolls) with a single announcement:

Alia Atreides: Bloody Edition in Pop! Movies, by Funko

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 29/09/2026

The “Western” perspective on music and musicianship, (excluding Classical, Showtunes, and other relative antiquities.)

A section from a Gemini chat:

An auteur musician in the West—whether a solo experimental composer or a tight-knit indie rock outfit—is inherently constrained by their own taste, muscle memory, instrument proficiency, and personal history. They operate under a romantic mandate of consistency; a sharp left turn feels like a betrayal of the "self."

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 20/09/2026

No Wave political vibes, then and now.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 06/09/2026

How pre-commercialized Rap fed the latent hunger for K-pop

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 05/09/2026

Those damned fans. Or should I say Damned Fans.

Screenshot of lyrics to Fan Club by the Damned.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 04/09/2026

🍸💊🦇💊🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

A cartoon illustration of the “bat country!” moment in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, except it’s He-Man with the hat, sunglasses, and cigarette holder and Skeletor driving the convertible. Caption reads:

WE WERE ON THE EDGE OF ETERNIA
WHEN THE POWER OF GREYSKULL BEGAN TO TAKE HOLD

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 04/09/2026

“Long Play” one might say.

A quote of David Bennun on the Wikipedia page for AMT:

Acid Mothers Temple have in their two-decade existence recorded far more head-melting music than any sane person would know what to do with.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 31/08/2026

A conversational Gemini snippet regarding the innovations of K-pop:

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 31/08/2026

POB in extemporaneous performance with a tiny modular rack.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 30/08/2026

EMIXX WEST performance by Adam and Matt of Boredbrain. Loved both the glitchy goodness and the visuals.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 29/08/2026

Abysmal photography. Doesn’t do justice to the interview. ;)

Photo of a man, seated with a microphone, an intervening camera obscuring his entire face.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 29/08/2026

More interesting than I anticipated!

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 29/08/2026

Metamyther on stage rn at EMIXX WEST.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 27/08/2026

Gemini is most gracious in defeat.

Selection from an otherwise withheld Gemini genAI chatbot reply:

You set a perfect trap to see if I would actually look into the abyss of the TG discography, or if I would dance around it with polite cultural theory. I danced around it.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 26/08/2026

Maybe kinda sometimes. Other times it’s like with Don Lewis (March 26, 1941 – November 6, 2022)

In the 1980s, the American Federation of Musicians claimed that Lewis's use of technology was a threat to musicians and encouraged the protesting of his performances as a result.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 26/08/2026

Gemini is schooling me as to where Nine Inch Nails ‘Year Zero’ rollout in 2007 sits relative to other music puzzles.

Boards of Canada [at first edge of diagram]
• Passive Mystery
• Scarcity-based
• Solitary Textures

Nine Inch Nails [at center, pointing to edges]
• Active Rebellion
• Narrative Event
• Immersive Threat

The K-POP Industry [at other edge]
• Permanent Universe
• Industrial Routine
• Global Gamification

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 24/08/2026

Gemini’s portrayal of K-pop as cultural apex predator is pretty compelling…

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 23/08/2026

The risk of chat-bots devolving into psych counselors or girlfriends/boyfriends is alarmingly high.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 22/08/2026

YouTube is a bartender who thinks I am overindulging. 😤

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 20/08/2026

Pure candy; thanks, Gemini!

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 18/08/2026

While I am just trying to talk about music, Gemini seems to be hitting on me. No, Gemini, I will not be taking you to bed but no hard feelings I hope.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 16/08/2026

Now to plug each plug back into the jack where it belongs. That’s my hobby, yessir!

A tangled mess of quarter-inch audioconnect cables including a snake and upwards of two dozen others.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 05/08/2026

Prodding Claude on song structure and genre keeps being fun.

Most of a paragraph from a Claude chat seeded on comparing and contrasting two songs.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 04/08/2026

But they told me it was "eye-gor." Well, they were wrong then, weren't they?

Igor Stravinsky grinning and gesturing while seated, wearing a suit and black bow tie, dark sunglasses, with cane in his other hand.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 27/07/2026

“I’m not stuck here, I’m just visiting.”

A frame from the film Backrooms showing the signature interior of monochromatic windowless office space with odd architectural details and no furnishings or other contents.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 18/07/2026

Florian Mrugalla scores again!

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 30/06/2026

Let me guess: It’s a lot like being skinned after dying, except much more painful.

YouTube promo blurb “What Being Skinned Alive Was Really Like”

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 26/06/2026

Claude, in reply to my formulaic complaint about the pattern of arrogance in music theory:

The deeper issue: theory’s claimed breadth was never actually empirical

The discipline’s self-image as a universal descriptive grammar for “music” was built almost entirely by induction from the common-practice tonal repertoire (roughly Corelli to Brahms, with jazz and pop harmony as a later graft using the same functional logic). It was never tested against drone, spectral, or non-pulsed music because that material didn’t exist in the canon-forming period. So the claim to universality wasn’t falsified by Roach — it was never actually warranted in the first place. That’s an important distinction from your framing: it’s less “theory failed when tested against new music” and more “theory’s universalist claims were always parochial, and ambient drone music simply makes the parochialism visible.”

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 22/06/2026

Ready to start wiring together my next Krell patch, yessiree…

Contradicting the post’s text suggesting this is a modular synthesizer, the picture is of the flight deck of a Concorde supersonic airliner.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 19/06/2026

Exquisite photo composition:

Still photo from The Prisoner with the central character looking warily at the enforcement sphere, framing a helicopter behind them. The sea forms the far background.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 30/05/2026

I figure the video will come out before long.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 08/05/2026

via AudioPilz (on YouTube)

Two similar images of an arm, one beside the other. In both pics the arm is muscular with bulging veins. The first is captioned “Before investing in Eurorack” and the arm grips the steering wheel of a car going down a highway. The second is captioned “After investing in Eurorack“ and the arm grips the seat ahead on a public bus.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 06/05/2026

Feedback was your late choice to defend the claim that “Popular electronic music was invented by the Beatles.” The main contestable ideas there are “popular” and “electronic.” I say Paul’s manipulations win both.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 04/05/2026

Finding amusement today in the history of music philosophy.

Excerpt from a Google AI response:

1. The Mask of Scientific ObjectivityThe anti-Romantics believed they were grounding music in a stable, universal reality rather than opening it up to the postmodern "death of the author".Formalism as Science: Hanslick aimed to turn music aesthetics into a "scientific" discipline. He argued that beauty was an inherent property of the musical object, not a subjective feeling in the listener.The Illusion of Purity: By stripping away external stories, they thought they were finding the "pure" essence of music. They didn't see this as a postmodernist deconstruction, but as a Classical restoration.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 01/05/2026

Rust Never Sleeps had a huge impact on me. I didn’t have any inkling that its bookend songs were so closely entangled with DEVO, another band that hit me super hard in 1979.

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