By the way, sonification has a small but positive impact on error class separability for chip-level audio transport signals. Paper at the link. Will present findings for the internet of sounds symposium next month. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16498

Sonifying I2S Transport Signals to Detect Transmission Faults

This paper outlines a sonification design to support fault detection in the transmission of I2S transport signals. I2S is a protocol for communicating real-time digital audio between integrated circui...

arxiv.org

The 6G spec is out. I'm working through it this afternoon and it looks BETTER than we had hoped for music. It's almost like they were keeping up with the internet of sounds research ?!? Challenge now is ensuring that this isn't co-opted into surveillance infrastructure. Much work need there now.

Thanks. That’s just put me right off my lunch.

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 3d ago

You don't win a conflict for the heart of civilization with war, you win by making the other guys want to be you. We didn't win the Cold War with fighter jets and missiles, we won it with rock and roll and blue jeans.

Excellent album, or well.. collection of previously released EPs anyway. All tracks recorded with only a Synthi but managed to conjure a huge sense of scale and variation.

Secret Ambient Club@secretambientclub.bsky.social · 2d ago

Album of the Day ✢ Memorie — Alessandro Cortini (2020, 2026) Label: Katalog ✢ Listen + support the artist squigly.link/album/alessa... #ambient #ambientmusic

RP with your home river

Dr Mary McAuliffe@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d ago

RP with your home river

So this happened, and now there’s some mad stuff going on in the other place:

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social · 3d ago

Google mapped the entire connectome of a fly brain and made it available for download research.google/blog/a-conne...

The free online version of my ‘Listening in the Shadow of Palantir’ piece for the @thewiremagazine.bsky.social is live today. You can read it here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...

Against The Grain: Listening after Palantir - The Wire

Machine listening is transforming environmental sound into data points that support surveillance infrastructure, changing what it means to hear, argues Stephen Roddy in The Wire 512

thewire.co.uk

Very nice editorial from @sonicfield.bsky.social on my interview with @spectrum.ieee.org

Sonic Field@sonicfield.bsky.social · 6d ago

Sonification maps data to pitch, rhythm, timbre, loudness, and space. Stephen Roddy explains how this audible grammar can reveal patterns in complex data, including EEG activity associated with silent seizures. sonicfield.org/sonification...

Essential reading here.

Stephen Roddy@stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 2w ago

Great to see my piece “Listening in the Shadow of Palantir” in the October issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social's Against The Grain series. It examines how machine listening techniques turn sound into data for contemporary infrastructures of surveillance with increasingly troubling results.

I was recently interviewed by Dina at @spectrum.ieee.org about the potential role of sonification in making sense of the coming 6G data explosion, why our ears can reveal patterns our eyes miss, and what this could mean for the Internet of Sounds. spectrum.ieee.org/data-sonific...

Can Your Ears Catch Data Patterns Your Eyes Miss?

Sonification may become more important with the advent of 6G

spectrum.ieee.org

Some thoughtful Sunday afternoon listening for you before the chaos of a new term. Nice to have my work in such good sonic company for Jules Hildebrand’s Zaduma series on Radio Kapital today: radiokapital.pl/shows/zaduma...

Zaduma: 17 | Radio Kapitał

A quiet hour of ambient music and field recordings, inviting stillness and attentive listening

radiokapital.pl

Funding my retirement plan one reclaimed RAM card at a time.

Please allow me to apologise most sincerely to you, my respected rival in business, for the heartless, even heinous actions of my Tamagotchi who, it would seem, has reduced your premises and holdings to so much smoldering ash. I will endeavor to better train future Tamagotchi, but make no promises.

Gizmodo@gizmodo.com · last wk.

Another Rogue OpenAI Agent Swarm Went Undisclosed. We Have No Idea How Many More Are Out There https://gizmodo.com/another-rogue-openai-agent-swarm-went-undisclosed-we-have-no-idea-how-many-more-are-out-there-2000807447

Fascinating talk on Computing in Irish Literature from @claireconnolly.bsky.social for Artificial Intelligence at 70 – Ireland’s AI Heritage. Encouraging to see such technically grounded but critically minded work across the sessions I managed to catch.

Conputer. Is Ray Kurzweil still at it?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

It’s something of a curse to be able to parse headlines in 2026.

Great to see my piece “Listening in the Shadow of Palantir” in the October issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social's Against The Grain series. It examines how machine listening techniques turn sound into data for contemporary infrastructures of surveillance with increasingly troubling results.

The Wire Magazine@thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Wire 512 is out now! Featuring Mike Watt on the cover, plus an Aphex Twin primer, Kaja Draksler, a You and Me Festival report, Truck Violence, Finn Loxbo, Pamela Z’s Invisible Jukebox, and much more. Order your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

Finishing music composition work and sliding back into engineering research as the summer ends. The now comforting grids of logic, maths and code will slowly become oppressive over the next few months and I'll have to immerse myself in composition and performance again. But for now, I'm an engineer.

Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of the Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator. [defrag98.com]

Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator

A free, browser-based simulator of the classic Microsoft Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter. Pick a drive, cue the HDD sounds, and relive the nostalgia of 1998.

defrag98.com

I sometimes laugh with the bitter irony of the far right claim the university sector is filled with left wing ideologies when you see letters like this to the paper of record. Begrudging a messily €4m to assist students from Gaza.

Godspeed www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq...

Tim Curry is escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.

YouTube video by geoff EXE

youtube.com

Ain't too proud to snap to grid.

What are you talking about apple music?

I don't know if "I need another banger of a joke for the conclusion of this article" is how I should approach writing articles but here we are.

I'll be saying a few words to open Barbara Diener's new exhibition The Rocket's Red Glare this Thursday at 5pm at Sample-Studios. I strongly advise you to drop in for the launch if you're nearby. sample-studios.com/exhibitions/...

The Rocket's Red Glare - Sample-Studios

The Rocket’s Red Glare is a new Solo Exhibition by visual artist Barbara Diener. It explores the life and legacy of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun,

sample-studios.com

Cool thing about creative arts research is that people will rephrase well known ideas and call them their own. Haven't caught anyone doing it to me but I watch these people do it to each other all day long. A key driver of the collapse towards imprecise research language I'd wager.

🫪 I would assume that this probably worked because the web audio API is so awkward and confusing that it took security people a ling while to figure out what was going on

Polymarket@polymarket.extwitter.link · 3w ago

JUST IN: AliExpress reportedly caught using hidden Web Audio signals to track and identify users’ devices.

Do not enjoy music biopics, or biopics in general, but Everybody Digs Bill Evans looks excellent.

Delighted to have my work programmed at Radiophrenia 2026 alongside Hildegard Westerkamp, Katalin Ladik, and Félicia Atkinson. Broadcast on Sept 18th at 1:30pm & 19th at 5:30am. 21, 7 & 3 features Jean-Luc Nancy and expands on his 58 indices on the body. radiophrenia.scot