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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 21h

ok so I'm realizing I need to set up a web store for people to buy my instruments/PCBs/etc. what is a good web store system to use these days?

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've been working on these STR-500 string sampler instruments for over a year, the first batch is nearly...done? A strange feeling! Need to figure out the best strategy to sell them...

Four blue electronic musical instruments on a white desk. A small mixer and a keyboard is also visible. The instruments are STR 500 granular synthesizers. They have strings built in, a hand is pulling one of the strings.

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I went on a guided mushroom picking walk the other day. A person next to me was taking notes on a phone. So far so normal THE TWIST: they were doing this by composing WhatsApp messages and sending them to a contact named "My Phone" this is, objectively, SO GOOD

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I recently found five CD copies of an album I made ten years ago after a residency in a small town in the Scottish Highlands. You can buy one! Or not, the choice is yours really. yannseznec.bandcamp.com/album/helmsd...

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ok so I’m gonna be putting together an alt.ctrl video game party for a bunch of ten year olds next week. Any suggestions for good one/two button games that would lend themselves to wacky controls?

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Anyway here’s a video where I test my string sampler with an SK-1 beat

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

a few months ago my instagram videos had been picked up by ~the algorithm~ and were getting crazy traction. I always knew that one day this would end, and it seems like that day is today! What a weird media landscape this is, where the visibility of your creative at the whims of the techbros

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I guess there are probably more pressing issues in the world, but I find it sad that fashion has returned to t-shirts with stuff printed on the back

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This is so 100% amazing and correct and applicable outside of games too, I have run into a lot of these kind of writing tropes in the experimental music tech world too

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Lord Chief Justice @lordchiefjustice.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Matmos plays in Stockholm tonight! We have curious merch and a good show, not like other ‘electronic’ music, but close enough to scratch that itch while bringing something different as well! Sez me. billet.to/1754380-art

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MATMOS Stockholm: Rumtiden (Närkesgatan 6) 9 juni: 19.00 Legendariska MATMOS återvänder till Sverig...

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Lord Chief Justice @lordchiefjustice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

ARE YOU IN SWEDEN? Consider coming to see Matmos live at Rumtiden in Stockholm on June 9th. An enjoyable show with unusual sounds! MANY others have considered this an enjoyable, satisfying night of music! Join them! billet.to/1754380-art

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is starting in a few minutes, 14:00 CEST! Here's the direct zoom link: kth-se.zoom.us/j/65593603052

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I am defending my thesis on Wednesday! Come hang out and throw me some softball questions. Info and zoom link here: intra.kth.se/en/eecs/kale...

The printed copy of my PhD thesis on a desk surrounded by custom made electronic instruments. Thesis is titled Configuring Alternative Human-Media Relations. Info text says ”come to my public PhD defence! 3 June 14:00 (Swedish time). Online or in person in Stockholm. I’ll be presenting a thesis about designing and making machines that reimagine our relationship with sound, media, and computers”

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I'm going to use PONGS in a lecture soon and so I'm revisiting it and I am once again struck by how amazing PONGS is, it works on so many levels my little brain can hardly contain it, thank you @pippinbarr.bsky.social pippinbarr.com/pongs/

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I can’t seem to find out any information about this Lego…robot…sensor…something set that I came across in my university lab, does anyone out there know what it is? #lego

Pieces from what appear to be some sort of Lego interactive programming robotics set

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

My printed dissertation has arrived! I think it looks great. Get in touch if you want a copy! I can get the university to send a few to anywhere in the world.

An open cardboard box with two visible copies of a thesis dissertation from KTH entitled "Configuring Alternative Human-Media Relations". The books have a black and white cover image of an electronic instrument.

Thesis dissertation open to a page with the header saying "Making Weird Things”

My hand opening my thesis dissertation to a page with four black and white pictures of various experimental musical instruments

Thesis dissertation open to a page with two black and white images, one of them of an electronic music instrument and one of the screen of a laptop with some Pure Data code on it

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It turns out that I can get the university to send out hard copies of my dissertation to whoever I want. Let me know if you want one, they will be printed up next week!

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Just realizing that if I was clever I would market my instrument designs as samplers with roguelike elements

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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Progress in my string sampler instrument (STR-500). Now I have two of them! They are fun to play together

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

New paper for #CHI2026 - Play/Destroy: A portfolio of sound destruction devices. I dive into my thoughts and process behind destroying sounds, what it can mean and do. I frame it all in terms of sustainability, to push against the relentless pursuit of growth and seamlessness doi.org/10.1145/3772...

Screenshot of the first page of a paper entitled Play/Destroy: A portfolio of sound destruction devices, by Yann Seznec, Andreas Lindegren, Frida Lindegren, and Rob Comber. Abstract: Digital media operates on a curious boundary between storage and loss. While each new storage format promises a permanent solution to our exponentially expanding media libraries, they inevitably fail or otherwise become unusable. This paper reflects on a long-term design process that attempts to bring a different paradigm to the experience of personal digital media: destruction. We present an annotated portfolio of a set of sound listening devices, critically unpacking the particular temporal, perceptual, and experiential qualities that emerge when designing for the loss of personal media. These annotations show how destruction comes to matter in designing against the traditional bias towards growth and accumulation in HCI.

First paragraph of the conclusion of a paper about the design of sound destruction:
"As I write this section an email notification arrives in my inbox, telling me that my cloud storage is full. Our digital lives are currently full of these moments where the responsibility of limiting our resource use is suddenly shifted to us personally. Our technology encourages us to create and share media without limits, but then punishes us when we do so. What content will I delete to free up space? How will it feel? The tools at my disposal do not enable this in any way that reflects the meaning of the content I must delete. And neither does the act of deleting them reflect or illustrate the actual act of deletion."

Three hexagonal boxes on a white background. Each box has a chrome button. They are each painted a solid color: yellow, blue, and green.

A pudgy finger presses a chrome button on a wooden box

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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Hi. I'm still looking for work! I'm a games generalist programmer that has done tons of different things over the past 15 years: - game design & engine development - audio programming for music games & board games - graphics programming & tools engineering - ui work someone must have a lead for me?

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Getting ready for my trip to #chi2026 in Barcelona. I'll be presenting a paper on Monday about destroying sounds. Let me know if you'll be there, or in Barcelona, and want to say hi!

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oliver @oliverbates.co.uk · 01/04/2026

#zine jam is still running for ICT4S! If you’d like to contribute or chat dm me. We’re inviting any kind of contribution about sustainability and ICT/tech! We encourage: - Critical perspectives - unfinished ideas - fictions - poems - photo albums - games - absurdity - thinking “otherwise”

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Please enjoy the two minute crucible that is this turtle trying to get on to a log that other turtles are on.

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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

New game: As Slow As Possible Slow down.

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

ok so let's all list the albums that we think best embody the aesthetic of the compact disc as an audio medium, I'll go first with Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher because I'm listening to it now and OOF it is so good

My hand holding a copy of the CD album of Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher.

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I once read an interview with a game designer who said something like "player feedback on game design is useful 0% of the time". The argument was that the specific requests made by players were almost always bad, but their feelings were correct and should be addressed. Would love to find this again.

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

very long shot, if anyone has a recommendation for a swedish small-scale manufacturing-type place, please let me know! I've been trying to find a local place for getting custom drilled metal enclosures for my new instruments, it has been incredibly frustrating!

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

thinking about just one of the many ways that academia is broken today, and wondering: has anyone figured out an automatic way to identify fake AI-generated "hallucinated" references in a paper? like, a script that checks the bibliography of a PDF for fake refs?

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oliver @oliverbates.co.uk · 17/02/2026

📓 ICT4S Zine Jam @ ICT4S 2026 (Bern, Switzerland) We’re excited to host the ICT4S Zine Jam and invite you to explore different ways of doing research on ICT and sustainability. conf.researchr.org/track/ict4s-... We’d love to have you there. The ICT4S Zine Collective More info in thread ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

here's 15 plays of a Bach prelude, overlaid on top of each other simultaneously

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

looking into making another PCB, I am once again feeling like there is an enormous business opportunity for someone to start simple + low-cost PCB manufacturing in the EU. How hard could it be?! [narrator voice: it is extremely hard]

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Andrew McPherson @apmcpherson.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Bela Gem is here: the biggest upgrade to the Bela platform in a decade, with a quad-core processor (PocketBeagle 2), up to 10ch audio I/O, and a completely new IDE. We've delivered the boards to our Crowd Supply backers and it's now available on our shop: bela.io/products/bel...

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Bela Gem Stereo & Multi

Bela Gem systems are tiny, embeddable, yet very powerful Linux systems for creating applications with interactive sensors and sound. They have been designed for ultra-low latency audio and sensor proc...

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Trying to remember which magical realist type book I read that has a character who is trying to make a 1:1 map of the world, anyone able to help? or am I misremembering?

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Kickstarter pledges for my spoke board are now out in the wild and its both very very exciting and also a bit nerve wracking.

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

doing a lot of pondering these days about the feasibility of a project around making a new version of the gametrak string mechanism for the adafruit/sparkfun hacker-hobbyist market (spoiler alert: I think the feasibility is low, but the idea is tantalising)

Picture of the string mechanism from a Gametrak, hacked out of its original enclosure. The gametrak is a early-2000s era video game controller. It used a string on a coiled spring, attached to a potentiometer, and pulled through an X/Y joystick, to do surprisingly accurate motion capture of hands. You can hack it pretty easily to connect it to modern microcontrollers for fun analog gestural control. I use it a lot for making weirdo musical instruments.

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Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Made an "analog" YouTube book for my kid so she can choose what she wants (from pre-approved list) without being exposed to a thumbnail hellscape. Also automatically cuts her off after x scans

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Testing the new enclosure and PCB and stereo input/output on the STR-500 string sampler I've been working on

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I've been working away on my STR-500 string sampler and (a bit) on the Memory Cloud synth, with the idea of maybe making a few for sale along with DIY kits etc. I now have a mailing list you can join if you'd like updates on either of these instruments: www.yannseznec.com/docs/updates/

a poorly designed digital flyer reading "new mailing list for people who want to know when the Memory Cloud and/or STR-500 will be available for testing or purchase" along with screenshots from videos of the Memory Cloud ("The memory cloud is a cloud library synthesizer") and the STR-500 ("Spring sampler + filter")

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

this Allen Toussaint track is just everything oh my goodness be prepared for both the heaviest of grooves /and/ the most unexpected of chord changes www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zU1...

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Allen Toussaint - Louie

YouTube video by Selected Sounds

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

need some advice about internet things. What is a good way these days to offer people to sign up for updates about a thing, particularly from instagram? I've been out of this game for a while. Requirements: simple, ethical, free

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Andrew McPherson @apmcpherson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I'm recruiting a PhD student for autumn 2026 on a project on accessibility in musical instrument design, in partnership with disability arts charities OHMI and Drake Music. Application deadline 15 February 2026. More info and contact details: liss-dtp.ac.uk/project/inst...

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Instrument design by and for disabled musicians: the roles of technical discourse and vernacular creativity - LISS DTP

PhD project summary: An estimated 16 million people in the UK live with a disability (DWP statistics 2023), of which 48% have mobility impairments and 25% have impaired dexterity. Traditional […]

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

among the many interesting things about having a hardware project that's popular on the internet is people asking me to "share the schematics". I'm never sure how to respond to this, because it feel like it's a question that stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of the design

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I've made a PCB for my string sampler and it seems to work, which is both fun and a relief

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Yann Seznec @yann-seznec.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

say hi to the Memory Cloud: an ultra-personal cloud library granular synthesizer that turns your memories into musical material youtu.be/O04mHHChG2U

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Introduction to the Memory Cloud

YouTube video by Yann Seznec

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