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Musician, programmer, vertebrate. snwv, CMB Cold Spot, solo instrumentals. Mostly ambient guitar. microtonal/just intonation dabbler. Pittsburgh. He/him/his.

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onezero@onezero· 26d

If you're subject to imposter syndrome, check out Nashville guitar legend Charlie McCoy on playing with Dylan: (From www.uncut.co.uk/features/he-...)

“I took a taxi to Columbia Studio, walked in and he introduced me to Dylan, who said, ‘We’re getting ready to record a song – why doncha grab that guitar over there and play along?’ It was just me, Dylan, and the bass player, and the song was ‘Desolation Row’.

“We only did two takes, because the bass player had to leave to go on to another session. When I was playing, I was thinking, ‘Man. This is a poor excuse.’ It was like my worst try. I kept thinking, ‘What would Grady Martin do?’ But ever since, people come up to me and say, ‘Oh my God, what you did on “Desolation Row” was brilliant!’ I’m still thinking, ‘Well, it didn’t sound brilliant to me…’

Charlie McCoy, from an interview in Uncut Magazine: https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/he-was-in-a-strange-place-with-strange-musicians-the-inside-story-of-bob-dylans-landmark-blonde-on-blonde-sessions-154944/?ref=thetonearm.com

onezero@onezero· 29d

Someone’s committed name erasure against my entity Larv!

A photo of a large caterpillar-like entity, depicted vertically in black spray paint on a light-colored brick building. Originally spray-painted text above read LARV, but this has been painted over with stylized blue and white text. I’m offended on behalf of Larv.

onezero@onezero· Jul 6

The eBow lives:

A desk-level photo of an old, black plastic eBow, its red LED lit up. Behind it are a spool of solder, a metal plate with magnetic multi-hand alligator clips, and a soldering iron.

onezero@onezero· Jul 2

I too have played this club.

A screenshot from Werner Herzog's film Fata Morgana. A European man in tan clothing and goggles is holding a monitor lizard up to the camera. The caption says "For days you have to march through the dunes and the wind..."

A frame from Herzog's Fata Morgana, a few seconds later. The man completes his statement, so the full statement is "For days you have to march through the dunes and the wind to find the monitors."

onezero@onezero· Jun 9

What happens when you send a text-overture spam to a programmer.

Image of a text conversation in which someone asks "Hi, (zipped-lips emoji) can I text you now?" and the recipient replies "You just did."

onezero@onezero· Jun 8

"Inbox zero"? No thank you.

Screenshot of an Apple Mail icon, with a red overlay showing 11,111 unread emails.

onezero@onezero· May 5

They're in your food now.

onezero@onezero· May 1

Happy May Day, everyone!

The cover of the Pere Ubu album The Modern Dance. A black and white ink drawing of a factory worker in work clothes and ballet shoes, pirouetting as he holds behind him a banner showing the album title. In the far background are various industrial buildings.

onezero@onezero· Apr 17

onezero@onezero· Apr 13

Please see one of our customer service representatives for more information.

Black and white photo of the band The Sun City Girls. Left to right, Richard Bishop, his face covered by a woven fabric with long tassels. Charles Gocher, wearing a vest, tie, and demon mask. Alan bishop, wearing a fabric mask with blank expression and prominently outlined eyes.

onezero@onezero· Apr 1

Komatsu was the go-to excavator for Yamantaka Eye at that legendary Hanatarash gig:

Black and white photo of Hanatarash vocalist Yamantaka Eye behind the controls of a Komatsu excavator, leaning out over the arm, mouth open, possibly screaming. The excavator is onstage, having been brought in through a wall of the club. More information at https://disciplinemag.com/features/hanatarash-bulldozer-gig-photo-gallery/

onezero@onezero· Mar 27

Kudos to the Angine de Poitrine street team for getting one of their silhouettes on a Spanish road sign. These guys are everywhere!

onezero@onezero· Mar 21

It's the red one, here; photo by Paula Court (I'm pretty sure).

The late composer Glenn Branca, looking into the distance. Behind him are three guitars, held at his head level: one red, with a metal pickguard, one off-white/yellow, also with a metal pickguard, and an off-white Telecaster-adjacent guitar with lipstick pickups. This was taken at Montclair (NJ) State University in early February 2006, before the performance of the second version of Branca's 13th symphony for 100 guitars.

onezero@onezero· Mar 19

They seem to have experienced quite a lot over the years. loqueva.com/wp-content/u...

Two white-haired gentlemen of a certain age, standing with their arms crossed. The gentleman on the left is heavily tattooed.

onezero@onezero· Mar 7

Monk always seemed to have the most fun with a band, but there's nothing like hearing him stretch out to fill space on his own.

Cover of the LP Thelonious Himself, an album of solo Thelonious Monk performances. On the cover, an African American man in cap and glasses sits at the right of the frame, his right elbow resting on the end cushion of a recording console. His left arm rests on his right bicep, and he's looking toward something out of frame to the left.

onezero@onezero· Feb 26

(quietly) Let's gooooooo...

Terminal output text saying "built in 4 minutes 33 seconds."

onezero@onezero· Feb 26

Damn. OK, bud.

Simulated headline from The Telegraph, with an Allister Heath byline. The headline: "The relentless push for drone music is a catastrophic assault on our liberty."

Headline generator hosted at https://tinyurl.com/tnw-heath

onezero@onezero· Jan 6

onezero@onezero· Dec 15

"I'm a heat-seeking beetle with a heart full of napalm..."

Black and white photo of Iggy Pop, shirtless, singing into a microphone.

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onezero@onezero· Dec 14

You will be visited by three spirits

onezero@onezero· Dec 10

One-sentence horror:

Screenshot of an email preview from LinkedIn: “A recruiter looked at you…”

onezero@onezero· Nov 25

Motivational text of the day

Windows update screen saying “You’re 7% there. Please keep your computer on.”

onezero@onezero· Nov 24

Peak firing-on-all-cylinders Yes.

onezero@onezero· Nov 24

While Harry Partch would definitely be a microtonalist, he has some admirably cranky takes in Genesis of a Music, like the assertion that music really started going to hell with Bach:

Text from page 384 of Harry Partch’s Genesis of a Music:

Halberstadt Gains Its Soul (via Hamburg)

Forty years after the death of Mersenne, in 1688, the first organ was tuned in accordance with his formula for Equal Temperament by Art Schnitger at Hamburg," thus setting the clavier stool for three-year-old Johann S. (for Sempervirens!) Bach, the Western stage for nearly three hundred years of music's "golden age," the classroom for the complete divorcement of the science of music from music theory, the concert hall for the benevolent fraud of equally-tempered modulation, the radios of x million American homes for a twenty-five-year siege by the industrialized harmony-armies of mediocrity, and else we know not what.

It is perhaps inevitable that anything of real cultural significance to the Western world must somehow be dragged through the house of Hebraic theology. Andreas Werckmeister (1645-1706), who is popularly regarded as
the idea as follows. 66 A
the first champion of Equal Temperament, mentions his acquaintance with…

onezero@onezero· Nov 1

Your rhymes, I say, are quite a hook. Sad that they are not in this book.

The cover of the book Quantum Criminals, a collection of essays by fans of Steely Dan.

onezero@onezero· Oct 26

A spooky portent

Dried foam on the inside of a glass mug in the shape of a cartoon ghost, complete with eye-holes. Its head is tilted to the side and its arms are upraised. Foam Ghost © 2025 by Maurice Rickard is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

onezero@onezero· Sep 30

"Weird stuff." Like building a skyscraper out of whipped cream? Copying the text of an encyclopedia in chalk, all over city sidewalks? Lecturing the birds in the park? Leaving little piles of dirt in front of everyone's door? Heck, do it! You don't need my permission.

Screenshot of the beginning of a spam email saying "Hi, I'm Amelia, I'm 27 years old and I really want to do weird stuff."

onezero@onezero· Sep 25

I think it’s important for people to know about Larv.

The side of a brick building in Chicago, behind 33 W. Jackson Blvd. Someone has spray painted a vertically aligned portrait of a caterpillar with a happily contented expression. Above the caterpillar is the text “Larv,” presumably our pleasant caterpillar’s name. I like Larv. Larv is good.

onezero@onezero· Sep 25

Yes, Silkworm in their quartet manifestation:

The band Silkworm, performing onstage. Joel RL Phelps stands straight, singing a microphone, playing a carved-top Les Paul double cut. Tim Midyett is slightly bent over a Travis Bean wedge bass. Drummer Jeff Panall is slightly visible behind Michael Dahlquist’s drums. Andy Cohen is playing a Les Paul, and leaning toward the center of the stage. The club is dark, and the band is lit mostly in red. A row of audience members’ heads is visible at the bottom of the frame.

onezero@onezero· Sep 17

I can't stop looking at the back of this Bartell bass. I like this character. reverb.com/item/9173512...