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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦

@swinburnecomplex.bsky.social
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VISUAL ARTIST. SONIC EXPLORER. Art School Spawn. sound images degenerated video Canadian Artist. Elder. Human Rights. Climate Preservation. Birds Are People. Cyclist 🚲

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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 6h
#video #videoart #filmsky #musicsky vimeo.com/962874733
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euphoricSILOS
Another addition to the DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME: a collection of decomposed work from my catalogue. While I am releasing audio versions online, the intent is to exhibit the collection as a mo...
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
#experimentalvideo #art #video #artsky #glitch #musicsky vimeo.com/1207185085
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HATRED IS WASTED ENERGY psychLIGHT 26
A very early decomposed work psychLIGHT with words of wisdom from Hitch. The DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME EXHIBITION COLLECTION which is a process project whereby I am decomposing my video catalog...
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
#experimentalvideo #art #video #artsky #glitch #musicsky #drones vimeo.com/1210052518
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IT'S GONNA RAIN l'eau et les rêves
This iteration of the collection is an homage to Steve Reich and Gaston Bachelard decomposed from my original "L'eau et les rêves" moving image work. This process also runs as a parallel process to Ge...
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
ARCHES The palette and soundtrack both bring back fond memories of a trip to the #4corners region of the south west #usa Follow on #Vimeo for more. #movingimageart #musicvideo #filmfestival #glitchart vimeo.com/944940906
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Decomposed memory for the DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME collection.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
DETAILS from the #workinprogress clay iterations of DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME. This clay impression is a materialized decomposed (glitched) video. Find out more on #IG www.instagram.com/p/DeFgdMiGyX...
Detail of clay imprint that looks patterned in a way that looks similar to patterns in antiquity- like column decorations, cuneiform, inscribed ancient murals but not. The clay colour is grey-white Detail of clay imprint that looks patterned in a way that looks similar to patterns in antiquity- like column decorations, cuneiform, inscribed ancient murals but not. The clay colour is grey-white
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
DETAILS from the #workinprogress clay iterations of DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME. This clay impression is a materialized decomposed (glitched) video. Find out more on #IG www.instagram.com/p/DeFgdMiGyX...
Detail of clay imprint that looks patterned in a way that looks similar to patterns in antiquity- like column decorations, cuneiform, inscribed ancient murals but not. The clay colour is grey-white Detail of clay imprint that looks patterned in a way that looks similar to patterns in antiquity- like column decorations, cuneiform, inscribed ancient murals but not. The clay colour is grey-white
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes yes yes Yes yes yes Yes yes yes Yes yes yes Yes yes yes yes
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Beautiful. I also became an artist because of nature, or perhaps more specifically, patterns in nature and in its wider context that influences behaviours of materials.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online
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The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online
The history of the printed word is full of bibliographic twists and turns, major historical moments, and the significant printing of books now so obscure no one has read them since their publication.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Latest from the collection on #vimeo #artsky #filmsky #video follow on Vimeo if you like weird abstract moving image art/sound. vimeo.com/1228596520
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WANDERlostONaSCROLLofLIGHT
FLICKER ALERT / HEADPHONES RECOMMENDED Decomposed from the original wanderLOSTintheFOOTHILLSofIMAPASTO which was always predominantly created for the audio, with a very minimal visualization. So here...
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEUROsquirrels By Jan Swinburne as part of the Below The Radar Special Edition: From A To U. A collection of tracks from the New York label Alrealon Musique specially compiled for The Wire. alrealonmusique.com #noise #musicsky #glitch #filmsky #video #videoart #thewire vimeo.com/1111193079
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NEUROSQUIRRELS 2026
Another addition to the DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME EXHIBITION COLLECTION which is a process project whereby I am decomposing my video catalogue. The goal is to exhibit these slow silent looping ...
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEUROsquirrels By Jan Swinburne as part of the Below The Radar Special Edition: From A To U. A collection of tracks from the New York label Alrealon Musique specially compiled for The Wire. alrealonmusique.com #noise #musicsky #glitch #filmsky #video #videoart #thewire vimeo.com/1111193079
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NEUROSQUIRRELS 2026
Another addition to the DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME EXHIBITION COLLECTION which is a process project whereby I am decomposing my video catalogue. The goal is to exhibit these slow silent looping ...
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Latest from the collection on #vimeo #artsky #filmsky #video follow on Vimeo if you like weird abstract moving image art/sound. vimeo.com/1228596520
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WANDERlostONaSCROLLofLIGHT
FLICKER ALERT / HEADPHONES RECOMMENDED Decomposed from the original wanderLOSTintheFOOTHILLSofIMAPASTO which was always predominantly created for the audio, with a very minimal visualization. So here...
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Clay imprint detail from a still of the above video. It is in the process of air drying. Interesting my phone camera immediately tries to translate text before deciding it is not text. However I got one translation of a single word: JUT
Highly textured grey clay with vertical and horizontal swirls and indentations forming a pattern that can be read like architectural details or cuneiform like patterns.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sculpture Source #musicsky #artsky experimental video art. Decomposed moving image (#glitch) Sculpture detail in comments vimeo.com/939652586
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7 24 12 2024
New iteration of 7 24 12. Music by Ryan Campos Frequencies and digital pillars. Ryan Campos - Jan Swinburne Collaboration. Find more from us here: https://soundcloud.com/ryan_campos http://janswinbur...
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Carney’s god-tier skills are 1) to normalize the abusive intentions of capital through the affects of moderation, security, and wholesomeness. And 2) to reassure the world’s wealthiest people while making regular people think he’s reassuring them.
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
All leftists should study Carney. His politics are easy. More complex is his skill at affect—ennobling patriarchal capitalism, offering the illusion of secure attachment. Anybody who thinks they can bypass the Frankfurt School in sussing him out is playing with half a deck.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Sickness of Reason (2003). Robert Longo's charcoal drawings of nuclear explosions Untitled (Hercules)
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Clay imprint detail from a still of the above video. It is in the process of air drying. Interesting my phone camera immediately tries to translate text before deciding it is not text. However I got one translation of a single word: JUT
Highly textured grey clay with vertical and horizontal swirls and indentations forming a pattern that can be read like architectural details or cuneiform like patterns.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sculpture Source #musicsky #artsky experimental video art. Decomposed moving image (#glitch) Sculpture detail in comments vimeo.com/939652586
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7 24 12 2024
New iteration of 7 24 12. Music by Ryan Campos Frequencies and digital pillars. Ryan Campos - Jan Swinburne Collaboration. Find more from us here: https://soundcloud.com/ryan_campos http://janswinbur...
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Experiment 1 : This wood block and cast fragments are a materialized video still. #artsky #videoart #intermedia #torontoartist
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Source video vimeo.com/939652586
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7 24 12 2024
New iteration of 7 24 12. Music by Ryan Campos Frequencies and digital pillars. Ryan Campos - Jan Swinburne Collaboration. Find more from us here: https://soundcloud.com/ryan_campos http://janswinbur...
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Latest from the DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME collection #artsky #videoart #abstractart #glitch #musicsky #vimeo follow if you’re into weird stuff . vimeo.com/1225113652
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Another addition to the DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME EXHIBITION COLLECTION which is a process project whereby I am decomposing my video catalogue. The goal is to exhibit these slow silent looping ...
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Latest from the DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME collection #artsky #videoart #abstractart #glitch #musicsky #vimeo follow if you’re into weird stuff . vimeo.com/1225113652
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GRAVEyardSHIFT 26
Another addition to the DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME EXHIBITION COLLECTION which is a process project whereby I am decomposing my video catalogue. The goal is to exhibit these slow silent looping ...
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
One of the things that I've said before on the podcast and will say again is that aside from everything else, there are things that ought to be beneath the notice of the provincial government. You make law for 16 million people and you're whining about bike lanes! www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...
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Doug Ford’s government rejected Toronto’s proposals to restore traffic lanes and keep bike lanes: sources
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says the province walked away from compromises to restore traffic lanes while keeping bike lanes on major streets.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Source video vimeo.com/939652586
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7 24 12 2024
New iteration of 7 24 12. Music by Ryan Campos Frequencies and digital pillars. Ryan Campos - Jan Swinburne Collaboration. Find more from us here: https://soundcloud.com/ryan_campos http://janswinbur...
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Experiment 1 : This wood block and cast fragments are a materialized video still. #artsky #videoart #intermedia #torontoartist
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is the 300-year-old Yew Tree Tunnel at Gormanston Castle in County Meath, Ireland 🇮🇪
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Is this your car? Egads. I’m still in the blackout exhaust from clearing catch basins and mopping up in the basement - I have pics of lake America visiting my street in my feed….worse than 2013. No one brought out their canoes this time.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#stormTO 8 hours of blackout and Lake America showed up on my street… always seem to be mopping up the climate mess now because, you know, crazed minds allowed to gain power.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
lol 😂
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is an image of decomposed video #glitchart carved by CNC and an attempt at casting. The second image shows the similarity to cuneiform writing. Full text on instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DcwKcZUG9V...
This is an image of decomposed video #glitchart carved by CNC and an attempt at casting which are displayed as white broken pieces on top of the wooden mould . The second image shows the first image beside a clay cuneiform example from antiquity. There is a similarity to cuneiform writing.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#glitch
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william basinski @musex1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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William Basinski returns with new solo album, 'Passing the Cup of Sorrows'
The avant-garde composer's first solo release since 2020 arrives October 23.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I’ve come to embrace this visual process as aligned with Reich's&other explorers of that era. While wholly created through primarily low resolution digital processes, as opposed to the physicality of tape, many of the principles of the method remain. vimeo.com/1220665919 #videoart #filmsky #musicsky
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FLICKER WARNING As I decompose my moving image archive, I felt it was Important to include this particular work as it is indicative of the influence and inspiration of Steve Reich's early explorations...
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Umm what do I do now? 😳
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hey #Toronto it’s gonna rain. #soundstreams. Looking forward to #SteveReich at 90 . Music for 18 musicians has/is such a vital source of inspiration and influence to my artistic journey.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#glitch
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I’ve come to embrace this visual process as aligned with Reich's&other explorers of that era. While wholly created through primarily low resolution digital processes, as opposed to the physicality of tape, many of the principles of the method remain. vimeo.com/1220665919 #videoart #filmsky #musicsky
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FLICKER WARNING As I decompose my moving image archive, I felt it was Important to include this particular work as it is indicative of the influence and inspiration of Steve Reich's early explorations...
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sol-ways.bsky.social @sol-ways.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Sort of #CBT or #neurolingsiticprogramming therapy, or rather the outcomes of those oh so treasured 12 session therapy programs. #Psychiatry in so many words… #artwins
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Nature @nature.com · 20/08/2026
The US National Science Foundation will award about 30% fewer new research grants this fiscal year than in the last one, Nature has learnt. go.nature.com/3UcGoNW
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Haven’t seen or heard a bird today but this beauty stopped by for a feed for quite a while. instant salve for an irksome day.
Monarch butterfly perched on pale pink phlox Monarch butterfly wings amid pink phlox with a section of its head showing through the flowers
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hey #Toronto it’s gonna rain. #soundstreams. Looking forward to #SteveReich at 90 . Music for 18 musicians has/is such a vital source of inspiration and influence to my artistic journey.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
DROIDSdoITtoo #videoart #synths #glitchart #trippy #krautrock etc etc vimeo.com/1154516194
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DROIDSdoITtoo
Another addition to the DISCRETE EVENTS DECOMPOSING TIME EXHIBITION COLLECTION which is a process project whereby I am decomposing my video catalogue. The goal is to exhibit these slow silent looping ...
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hatred is wasted energy. #kindness is not.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I keep finding errant words lying about…
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
When tidying up your work space becomes an intervention of sorts 😉 #studiovibes #wordcollage #artistintervention #words #collage impromptu #assemblage #poetry
Open eyeglasses case with words clipped from magazines all in a pile.
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Jan Swinburne @ janswinburne.com🇨🇦 @swinburnecomplex.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If you love a piece of music, you will love it the same as you always have, whether it is heard full of static or in a live concert. It is much the same with people. #musicsky #love
Two blue digital posts with a waveform line and textured background off horizontal lines in warm orange colours against green waves particles with text on top that says “If you love a piece of music, you will love it the same as you always have, whether it is heard full   of static or in a live concert.
It is much the same with people.”
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