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got the basic signal path working to launch Ableton clips with a tracker, making it time signature/phrase length agnostic and able to suddenly switch up the pulse in real time without other setup- a hell of dummy midi tracks and confused routing rn, but one step closer to Car Bomb type beats…

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Correcting some accidental omissions from last time I did this! (honorable mention: Diablo 2 for introducing me to the idea of stochastic processes in art as a kid-)

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I forgot I was listening to Frontierer in the car yesterday after work and was absolutely shocked awake by this track when i hit the ignition this morning- very stoked for their new record www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YE4...

youtube.com

Disintegrative

YouTube video by Frontierer - Topic

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

testing some stochastic drum programming 🤘😌🤘

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

About 20 hours into Sword and Fairy 6, and it’s one of the most interesting RPGs I’ve played in recent memory: philosophically, even theologically dense, slowly revealed conspiracy narrative, complex and inscrutable characters, beautiful art direction

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

trying to emulate the Aurora style xtreme side chain compression in my eternal quest for technical death metal ambient music…

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Had an idea to use several instances of Renoise Redux as kind of a meta sequencer for weighted randomization of live clips and I have to realize it now

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

was trying to do some evolving sound design that would also respond well to faster harmonic rhythm; sidebands are way too hot for this register, but I really like this little progression

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’ve been obsessively spinning the entire discography for weeks, but I think Clockworks may be my absolute favorite Meshuggah track; endless fractal detail where I hear something new every time I listen to it: youtu.be/oFiDcazicdk?...

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MESHUGGAH - Clockworks (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Reigning Phoenix Music

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sword and Fairy 7 😌 (I have been bouncing back and forth between 3 of these Wuxia RPGs and feel like I should start cultivating immortality…)

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

GuJian 1 transcendent vibes 😌

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I adore Jack DeJohnette’s description of “washing machine time.” I think he and Tomas Haake are my all time tavs for the way they liquidated the bar line in their respective fields, but in a way that deftly balances structure and entropy!

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

a fan translated the colossal script of the first GuJian game and made an English mod for the steam version- unbelievably inspiring work 🥲

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is such a killer title screen- I was loving Sword and Fairy 7 so much I decided to try the prior game- stability and translation issues aside, it’s quite incredible!

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

wow Sword and Fairy 7 environments look absolutely gorgeous!😮

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

should have seen this coming, but the Rocky Mountain national park altitude change caused all of my brush pens to explode lmao

A bag of pens stained with ink and 2 pieces of paper with brush scrawling

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Pretty much every time I listen to a Meshuggah record, I think “this one is their magnum opus!” Catch 33 has a strong claim to that title tho, and the new remaster is absolutely crushing: youtu.be/VnUX-Dlf7Ck?...

youtu.be

In Death - Is Death (2026 Remastered)

YouTube video by Meshuggah - Topic

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Saw a bunch of AI generated kitsch at a gift shop in Colorado- strange to feel melancholy for the loss of the Thomas Kincades of the world… youtu.be/xrMHbGNcQSg?...

youtu.be

Coma Cinema - Thomas Kinkade's Grand Delusion

YouTube video by summer time in hell

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

was nearly done in by a texture bug last night, but my revamped audio reactive ps2 bio horror world is cooking again hours before soundcheck 😮‍💨

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

the 0.0 tyga review is funny, but the tradition of generative composition is qualitatively different from AI on a fundamental level. Setting aleatoric processes in motion or defining actions spaces for performers creates a feedback loop of sonic and perceptual exploration.

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

doing live visuals w/ jerod at this show on Saturday at @grayarea.org! bay area ppl come thru if you're out there! 🙏

poster for a live show at gray area in SF on 8/15

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

wtf RIP half price books in Berkeley! They had a great philosophy section, and I should have bought their sealed figure of Payne from FFX-2 when I had the chance 😔

Picture of half price books in Berkeley boarded up

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It’s so sick that they modeled multiple instruments, including an oboe, bassoon, and timpani with accurate looking older tuning pegs, seemingly just for a corner of this one room!

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

got my ancient live visuals unity project to open and run without errors holy shit-

Screenshot of unity window with abstract geometry

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

the "villain" in rdr1 and 2 is the nascent American empire's faceless, totalizing process of "civilization" that sweeps across the continent quantifying and controlling everything in its path, not any of the characters often labeled as such imo! they're only resisting or succumbing to this process-

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

saw a translated snippet of a Nojima interview hinting at a thematic core of Yogachara Buddhism and Jungian psychoanalysis in the Remake trilogy. Excited that I clocked epistemic instability as a core theme, but my life really has been fundamentally molded by the JRPG to Humean skeptic pipeline!

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Barret echoing Blood Meridian’s critique of the high modernist impulse to catalogue and control. The primitivist/anti-civ DNA of the OG remains alive and well!

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

figured bass/partimenti practice is so badly taught in theory classes that it borders on sabotage, but actually engaging with it as an improvisation method unlocks insight about linear harmonic motion in a way that cannot be gleaned purely from chord symbols imo- i'm kinda getting obsessed with it

music examples of accompaniments to bass motion from fenaroli

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Illustration from Kathy Acker's "Empire of the Senseless." (i kind of want to actually get this as a tattoo 😎)

tattoo from Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless, with the words discipline and anarchy wrapped around a dagger

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

the games that move me on a spiritual level seem to commit to either the Beckett paradigm of obsessive microscopic thematic iteration, or the Joyce paradigm of trying to consume the entire universe. (the soulsbornering/FF7R axis lmao)

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I initially fell in love with Dark Souls and its descendants because of their exploration of Beckettian futility through an iterative refining of the same structure and mechanics across multiple works, analogous imo to Beckett’s process- (DS1 even has guys stuck in urns like in “Play”!)

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

sick new @deathsdynamicshroud.com poster in forlorn holy maiden symmetry with my TSOAF poster 🙏

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

this pitchfork review line: "broken techno that switched gears as often as Meshuggah change keys" haunts me. Meshuggah aren't known for key changes; their music is mostly not even tonal! I guess they were grasping at "as often as Meshuggah riffs phase against an underlying 4/4 pulse..." 🧐

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The Morrowind concept art is some of the coolest ever though!

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is so depressing- Morrowind is a towering achievement that showed how games can weave a narrative that is fundamentally different from any other medium, but they’ve been coasting off Kirkbride and co’s sui generis world building now for nearly 2 decades now

Headline about concept artists being laid off at Bethesda

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

These two ripping some actual Ornette + Charlie Haden adjacent material in the middle of town 🤘

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Pretty wild that Hardt & Negri wrote this in the 90s, and the processes they’re describing have just exponentially intensified in the intervening years 🫠

Screenshot from the text of empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The rebirth mM7 chords reminded me of a thematically appropriate moment of ego death I experienced while doing one of the date quests in 2077; Mingus’ Solo Dancer from Black Saint and the Sinner Lady started playing on the car radio, perfectly fusing the game world with one of my irl memories.

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I forgot you could play minor-major 7ths and and m9 chords in the rebirth piano minigame; and you can spin the L stick on the sus chord wheel to do McCoy Tyner licks! probably the greatest game ever made tbh

Screenshot of the FF7 rebirth piano mini game interface

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Rosalia’s Lux tour show was so fucking sick! Insane choreography, super tight chamber ensemble with an incredible conductor blending perfectly with the electronics, and a rave censer 🪽🪽

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

wow 20 years of Xenosaga 3 🥲- here’s the copy I got on release day with my beloved pre-order art book. Still unparalleled in its ambition for philosophically dense RPG storytelling!

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Bring back physical media, especially magazines published by secret societies of anti-fascist Dionysus worshippers

The title page from the Acephale publication compilation

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Rx Bandits were sick as hell- I love this riff🤘🔥🤘

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Jdub @newagewildlife.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Tifa after attending a seminar on logical positivism: *🦗🦗*

Text from FF7 remake, reading “Heidegger’s not gone like that”

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