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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 02/10/2026

today in "out of context screenshots" (yes, this does mean Drugs season 2 is in the works)

A collage graphic of two children standing next to a bottle of heroin

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 02/10/2026

has anyone ever looked so consistently cool as Charles Mingus? every photo of this man is an absolute banger

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 30/09/2026

out of context screencap from this week's video

a skull surrounded by roses. beneath it a golden blackletter font reads "You're gonna die"

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 25/09/2026

Up on YouTube now! Check out my profile on the hilarious Kyle Gordon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftdv...

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How Kyle Gordon Makes Music Funny

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 22/09/2026

Live on Nebula now! I interviewed Kyle Gordon and learned all about the craft of Song Parody. The full interview will be dropping on Nebula later this week, and this video drops on YouTube Friday. nebula.tv/videos/polyp...

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Polyphonic — The Art of Song Parody (Feat. Kyle Gordon)

An interview with rising musical comedy star Kyle Gordon

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 03/09/2026

being a video essayist means being at perpetual war with ones internal desire to do altogether too much

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 01/09/2026

New video is up on Nebula! I got a chance to talk to Grace Potter about her new album. The video drops on YouTube Friday, and the full interview will be up on Nebula in the coming days. nebula.tv/videos/polyp...

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Polyphonic — Trespassing with Grace Potter

Talking with Grace Potter about her new album, Trespasser

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 27/08/2026

Dolly’s legacy will be defined by the music she made, and the incredible charitable work she did. Throughout her career she deliberately avoided becoming a pawn the culture war. So let’s not drag her into it in her death.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 27/08/2026

So if you’re thinking of fighting about Dolly online with someone, maybe turn off the browser and go bump her wicked Disco cover of “House of the Rising Sun” instead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmrr...

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The House of the Rising Sun

YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 27/08/2026

When the ghouls and vultures swoop in to try to claim Dolly for a side in this fight, they’re not acting in good faith. They don’t care. They’re trying to stir up rage because they profit from it. You don’t win by dunking on them or getting into keyboard fights. That only benefits the platforms.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 27/08/2026

This isn’t to say Dolly isn’t a political topic. Her entire career was political, whether she wanted it to be or not. But we don’t need to litigate that. Her body of work speaks for itself.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 27/08/2026

Dolly Parton was an incredible person. A genuine force for good in this world. That’s why it makes me really sad to see that her death is being wrapped up into our ongoing culture war. This is inevitable, the culture war claims us all eventually, but it’s also exhausting.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 27/08/2026

Rest in Peace Dolly Parton. I've had some thoughts bouncing around my head since the news. I hate my brain's desire to turn everything into content so I'm not gonna make a video on this. But there's some stuff I'd like to say as a public music commentator, so here's a thread I guess.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 19/08/2026

New video is up on Nebula! Coming to YouTube later this week. Big thanks to the Polyphonic Discord for helping me on this one. nebula.tv/videos/polyp...

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Polyphonic — I Love This Kind of Album Cover

The joy of Wimmelbilder album covers

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 04/08/2026

While I am an Ontarian, I've never made it as far down as Windsor. Closest I've been is London

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 04/08/2026

no need to apologize. i live for this sort of pedantry.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 30/07/2026

you can tell someone's real if they record a song with a Roud number.

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Arguably all of them, but for me (and I think the most obvious and basic answer) Born to Run, Darkness, River

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 28/07/2026

putting a sex scene in oppenheimer but not the odyssey is wild though. can we all agree on that at least

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 23/07/2026

anyways, probably a bad idea to break my general embargo on posting and engaging with "THE DISCOURSE," but I felt the need to shout this into the void gonna go touch grass now.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 23/07/2026

I think there's room for nuance in this conversation, especially when it comes to films that portray people and events in living memory. But even so, the role of this kind of film is to narrativize and mythologize, not to portray reality.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 23/07/2026

Obviously I'm talking about the Odyssey here but I'm also just talking about filmmaking trends generally. For pretty much my entire adult life there's this cultural desire for "realism" that is just exhausting and kind of ignores the fact that the wonder of film is in its ability to defy reality.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 23/07/2026

This doesn't mean that Hollywood blockbusters can't try for historical accuracy, it's a tool in the kit of any creative team, but ultimately it's something that bends to the spectacle of the work.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 23/07/2026

There's a tradition of filmmaking that cares a lot about accuracy, it's called documentary. I love documentary, but it's generally not a medium of spectacle. That's because good historicism requires careful thought, nuance, cautious speculation, and approaching things from multiple perspectives.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 23/07/2026

To me, complaining about historical accuracy in a Hollywood blockbuster film is kind of like complaining that a metal album is too loud. It's not really engaging with the media on its own terms. Cinema is a medium of spectacle, especially Hollywood Cinema.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 23/07/2026

autocorrect strips so much expression from digital language. let me type what i want to type you demon.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 21/07/2026

Re-watch podcasts are the worst culprits.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 21/07/2026

I swear to god so many podcasts use the worst, most boring clips possible in their ads. It's like they actively don't want you to listen to their shows.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 13/07/2026

I hate AI slop as much as the next person, but can we please stop framing everything good about human creativity in relation to AI. I'm so sick of seeing interesting human art and having the top comments be "so refreshing to see human art" or "AI could never do this" or something like that.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 29/06/2026

The latest episode of my DRUGS series is up on Nebula now! Come and learn all about how cocaine has woven its way through music history over the past century. nebula.tv/videos/polyp...

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Polyphonic — A Cultural History of Cocaine

For more than a century, music has had a torrid love/hate relationship with cocaine.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 26/06/2026

a lot of my visual style comes from trying to entertain myself. editing can get boring if you're just plugging stuff in, so i'm always trying to have fun with it

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 24/06/2026

still from an upcoming video. i promise it makes sense in context

jesus christ in a pile of cocaine wearing louis vuitton millionaire sunglases with a frigidaire in the background

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 23/06/2026

absolutely nuts that "Trent Reznor" isn't a stage name

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 12/06/2026

here's your periodical reminder that curtis mayfield is the goat

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 11/06/2026

In this week's video, I had the privilege of talking with Robert Margouleff, a musical legend who helped to create one of the most important synthesizers in music history. youtu.be/PfKHEJ-_TvA

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This Enormous Synthesizer Changed Music Forever

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 25/05/2026

I remember being incredibly shocked when I first learned that "Proud Mary" was a Tina Turner cover of a CCR song, not vice-versa.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 25/05/2026

Also, the mushroom imagery is more of an abstract representation of the psychedelic experience, like the flower imagery. I used it for cultural associations. Technically the images of the mushrooms I used aren't even psilocybin mushrooms anyways. In fact I think a number of them are quite deadly lol

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 25/05/2026

LSD had the clearest, most interesting story of any psychedelic imo. Depending how long this series winds up going, I'd love to do a future episode on other psychedelics, but I don't know if any of them alone has quite enough music written about them to sustain a full episode like this.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 25/05/2026

The second episode of my new series, Drugs, is up on Nebula! Come learn about the acid revolution, and how LSD's musical impacts still reverberate to this day. nebula.tv/videos/polyp...

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Polyphonic — A Cultural History of LSD

When LSD first hit music scenes in the mid-60s, it kicked off a cultural revolution whose echoes still reverberate to this day.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 13/05/2026

I like this answer a lot. Tokyo Police Club are peak "pretty good music" for me. Sounds like an insult, but I don't mean it that way lol

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 12/05/2026

What's your favourite "pretty good" album? Something that's not amazing or world-changing, but probably has a few solid tracks and is good to throw to relax after work.

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12tone @12tone.nebula.tv · 28/04/2026

Video essayists, I know that smooth segues make ad reads more effective, but I promise it's ok to let your video have a conclusion.

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 20/04/2026

Happy 420 everyone. You should celebrate by checking out the first episode of my new series, DRUGS, on Nebula. This series is a cultural history of drugs and music, told one drug at a time. As you might expect, the first episode is about that sweet sticky icky. nebula.tv/videos/polyp...

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Polyphonic — A Cultural History of Weed

The relationship between marijuana and music runs deeper than any substance out there. For more than a century, cannabis culture and popular music have been engaged in smoke-filled conversations that ...

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Noah (from Polyphonic) @polyphonic.nebula.tv · 27/03/2026

this week i've discovered i'm an enya guy

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Frank Senators 🇨🇦 @sleepenbaker.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

"Could you imagine if the guys who made OK Computer were still around to see what's become of technology?" "They're still around." "So sad. Guess we'll just never know."

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