iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I made this record and I'm still glad you found it on the path of the beam, say thankya.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Happy birthday to the one and only

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Happy to find you out here on the precipice 🦥

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I get it. It's just been twenty plus years of this one comparison, and it gets exhausting.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ah right, interesting. All that stuff was built with granular processors using Zach's sounds as compost, so I'm pleased to know I was getting acoustic instrument overtones out of that process.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The pursuit of unique and exotic modes of synthesis leads only to sheet metal and Kapton tape.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Thank you for the kindness and consideration. I have to ask where you heard a trumpet in there though?

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Pleasantly baked, about to pass out reading Borges again. Bummed about baseball, but enjoying beer and frozen custard in my first Cleveland summer. Haven't been online much, haven't wanted to be, although I genuinely love and miss all of you here.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Really pleased to see you passing the cigarette around, man! We ought to catch up sometime soon. Still loving everything you put up on Bandcamp by the way.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I appreciate you listening but how exactly does this sound like Boards at all? The whole thing is orchestral vinyl sampling, tropical bass and drum breaks from funk records.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

They? Who? I'm certainly not sending anyone out to anyone else's doorsteps.

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Tim Stebbins @timstebbins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Final: Guardians 6, Cubs 5 Cleveland splits the twin bill and is now 6-4 to open the season, with two series wins and one tie against three postseason hopefuls. Not too shabby.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Good, because I was just about to make a phone call

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I'm so glad you like it then. I don't know what it was for me, it just felt like too much of a tempo change or something like that at the time. It's been years though so who knows!

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

(So far as I am aware. Can only watch so many Dracula movies)

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Yeah, by all means enjoy! You'll also see how weird it is that as famous as the story is, no adaptation has ever done the count the way he looks in the book.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I loved the whole first half, but once it gets to the letters it really dropped off for me.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

If they can drop J Rod to make room for Hoskins, they should have been able to move Festa over for Allard. I'm so mad about how they've treated Kolby despite him giving us a career year last year.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Is it just me, or does D'Onofrio in the new Daredevil thing look like Cleveland's own kingpin Tim Misny?

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Amazing photo, but a whole lotta nope for me

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I may or may not have bought a Pasquantino jersey following Italy's stellar WBC game today. I feel like even though I'm a Cleveland lifer and my grandpa was a Yankees guy from upstate NY, the two of us would be rooting for this fantastic team together, if he could've been around for these games.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

They don't! That was perhaps the most predictable part of the whole game.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Not ashamed to admit that I began this series cheering for the US, but I'm now firmly rooting for Italy. It's hard not to appreciate the pageantry of a pitcher with mostly MiLB experience closing a game against Judge like that. Absolutely wild, underdog stories are what makes me love baseball most.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Pretty sure Conan the Barbarian was shot that way. It's a cool format.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I still love this mix to death dude, if it weren't a shared piece I would have put it on an album, easily.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I love the dude but shouldn't we also just admit that Nolan Jones is a prospect too?

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Evenson is always referring back to himself, sometimes from a different side of the same conversation, sometimes through that conversation happening between totally different people. It's like a dense Venn overlapping with a dozen others, and I've always felt it makes his work so much richer.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

A lot of people are going to be listening to "Trilogie" around the world today. We lost our queen. For me, the way I experience sound at the deepest fundamental level can be divided into "Before I heard Eliane Radigue" and after.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Anyway something must be working out right, because it's now that "good problem" of not wanting to turn the machines off after a whole day of recording and testing because every new idea becomes something really good that tickles the ears and gives me more ideas. This is the best when it happens.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

There's a pessimism in me as well, something grumbling out "You try making two-thousand records in uncomfortable spaces and see how you like it!" It makes me curious about what other artists that I admire were thinking when they set up their own creative spaces - is this just how it always is?

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Of course, this could also just be the guy who is turning 43 talking, wanting things to be "just so" and obsessing over what is within arm's reach at any given angle in my chair. I can't find any good reasons to not see it this way, though, as pedantic as it all really is. Hm.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This was all meant to happen after the bunker-like windowless and freezing basement back in Dayton. I made a lot of music there but it became unnecessarily uncomfortable, and today I have resolved that the studio must be comfortable above all else, even at the cost of certain functionality.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The spatial aspects of it are new as well, with everything sorta built up around me in a big U shape. Keyboards, then mixer/racks, then desktop units and PC, then modular cases, then another rack shelf at the end. Once everything has a set place, I can get all the cables nice and neat too.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Having all my equipment arranged and turned on might seem like a given, but in this new studio space everything is novel and deserves consideration for placement, since this is probably the first time I've tried to set up a permanent workflow that isn't a constantly rotating list of machines.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Warm enough day in the basement to finally rig up the Juno, Poly 800 and TX81Z with the big Peavey board and MIDI arranged via the Kawai. It's grand to be able to integrate these old machines with my modular system, and to be able to sequence on them via several different key beds too.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I think it's a good idea, esp if it takes some of the heavy lifting off of CDL and George, who are both apparently made of glass

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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Hey J-Ram? How many more days until the first @CleGuardians #SpringTraining game?

José Ramírez stands near third base, looks towards the camera and holds up two fingers with his right hand. He wears sunglasses, a blue Guardians pullover and a red Guardians cap.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 19/02/2026

A fabled collection of John Coltrane live recordings captured at jazz clubs in New York and Philadelphia between 1961 and 1965 are set to get their first official release this year You can watch a a new video for ‘Acknowledgement’, from A Love Supreme, here: buff.ly/CwrUOhF

John Coltrane, black and white photograph by Francis Wolff.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Bill if you've not seen it (and you probably have) check out the two-part Outer Limits episode "The Inheritors" which stars a very young Duvall in an absolutely great story. Can't recommend it enough, and there was no mention of it in this article.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Haha I appreciate that statement, as seldom as I've ever been the subject of it. I don't know that I love it, when it comes to managing it and organizing it, but it's hard to stop yourself from doing the thing you've done for most of your life to feel happy.

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Brian Grainger @milieu.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Friday night in the Cloven Land is Animal Crossing, a pipeful of kief, some R70x cans and this.

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