Kaleidic

@kaleidic

Music (electronic, harsh, dark, drone, odd, industrial, noise rock, gothic, shoegaze, ambient, pop); synthesizers.

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Kaleidic@kaleidic· Jul 8

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Screenshot of everynoise dot com after attempt to search for Decree, reporting no such artist has been mapped.

Kaleidic@kaleidic· Jul 6

stupor-intelligence

Kaleidic@kaleidic· Jun 30

Let me guess: It’s a lot like being skinned after dying, except much more painful.

YouTube promo blurb “What Being Skinned Alive Was Really Like”

Kaleidic@kaleidic· Jun 28

Received text message:

Anyway if I had a nickel for for every strugatsky book that was adapted into both a janky game and a cult classic art film , I'd have 2 nickels , which isn't a lot but its weird it happened twice .

Kaleidic@kaleidic· Jun 26

Claude, in reply to my formulaic complaint about the pattern of arrogance in music theory:

The deeper issue: theory’s claimed breadth was never actually empirical

The discipline’s self-image as a universal descriptive grammar for “music” was built almost entirely by induction from the common-practice tonal repertoire (roughly Corelli to Brahms, with jazz and pop harmony as a later graft using the same functional logic). It was never tested against drone, spectral, or non-pulsed music because that material didn’t exist in the canon-forming period. So the claim to universality wasn’t falsified by Roach — it was never actually warranted in the first place. That’s an important distinction from your framing: it’s less “theory failed when tested against new music” and more “theory’s universalist claims were always parochial, and ambient drone music simply makes the parochialism visible.”

Kaleidic@kaleidic· Jun 22

Ready to start wiring together my next Krell patch, yessiree…

Contradicting the post’s text suggesting this is a modular synthesizer, the picture is of the flight deck of a Concorde supersonic airliner.

Kaleidic@kaleidic· Jun 19

Exquisite photo composition:

Still photo from The Prisoner with the central character looking warily at the enforcement sphere, framing a helicopter behind them. The sea forms the far background.

Kaleidic@kaleidic· Jun 1

Found photograph.

Kaleidic@kaleidic· May 30

My rig today:

Synthesizer setup including original Grendel Drone Commander, GDC2, C4RBN, Mercury7, Timeslip, and several mixers.

Kaleidic@kaleidic· May 30

I figure the video will come out before long.

Kaleidic@kaleidic· May 8

via AudioPilz (on YouTube)

Two similar images of an arm, one beside the other. In both pics the arm is muscular with bulging veins. The first is captioned “Before investing in Eurorack” and the arm grips the steering wheel of a car going down a highway. The second is captioned “After investing in Eurorack“ and the arm grips the seat ahead on a public bus.

Kaleidic@kaleidic· May 6

Feedback was your late choice to defend the claim that “Popular electronic music was invented by the Beatles.” The main contestable ideas there are “popular” and “electronic.” I say Paul’s manipulations win both.

Kaleidic@kaleidic· May 4

Finding amusement today in the history of music philosophy.

Excerpt from a Google AI response:

1. The Mask of Scientific ObjectivityThe anti-Romantics believed they were grounding music in a stable, universal reality rather than opening it up to the postmodern "death of the author".Formalism as Science: Hanslick aimed to turn music aesthetics into a "scientific" discipline. He argued that beauty was an inherent property of the musical object, not a subjective feeling in the listener.The Illusion of Purity: By stripping away external stories, they thought they were finding the "pure" essence of music. They didn't see this as a postmodernist deconstruction, but as a Classical restoration.

Kaleidic@kaleidic· May 1

Rust Never Sleeps had a huge impact on me. I didn’t have any inkling that its bookend songs were so closely entangled with DEVO, another band that hit me super hard in 1979.

Kaleidic@kaleidic· Apr 28

Kaleidic@kaleidic· Apr 12

Roger Arrick formed synthesizers.com with the aim of making modular more affordable. It was definitely an alternative in the early days of Doepfer and, with effort, one could find other budget options in that period.

Kaleidic@kaleidic· Apr 10

How does @AudioPilz have a telepathic window into my life

Screenshot from extreme corner of chart labeled HOW USELESS IS YOUR GEAR? showing two categories, “spends more time browsing reverb.com than making music” and “stuck on a GAS treadmill”

Kaleidic@kaleidic· Apr 4

via audioPilz YouTube channel

Faked still from sensationalist TV show titled “MY SON WANTS TO BE A DAWLESS JAMMER”
A DEVASTATING FAMILY DRAMA
with a worried mother’s face.

Kaleidic@kaleidic· Apr 3

Comparing Operation Hail Mary with films I watched in 2025 I found I did like it better than about a third of what I saw that year. Being surprised at how high it ranks isn’t exactly a gold star, tho.