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Simon Lysander Overstall www.simonlysander.net Composer, artist, generative music, Max/Jitter, embodied cognition PhD at School for Contemporary Arts, SFU on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ (he/him)

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slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· 1h

The contextual menu search opens in a different browser for me, but changing the setting doesn't immediately impact the contextual menu it seems. Maybe it requires a restart? Changing the setting does switch which browser links from other apps open.

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· 4d

Got myself a copy of this new book by Michael Rancic. I'm looking forward to digging in! "A Nation of Tinkerers: A History of Electronic Music in Canada From 1945 to 1985" @therewasnosound.bsky.social

A photo of a green book on a white windowsill. The book is titled A Nation of Tinkerers: A History of Electronic Music in Canada From 1945 to 1985. The author is Macheal Rancic. A receipt protrudes from the top of the book. Some leafy oregano stems make an entrance in the foreground from the lower right side.

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· May 14

Pic retrieved from an account offering thesis advising for a fee on insta

An image with a black circle inside a white square. Inside the black circle white text asks “But would your thesis defend you?”

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· May 8

A small section from a larger picture of a mall. This image shows just the left foot and lower leg of a statue, which is the only part of the statue visible through the window and stairs inside the mall. The leg is at an angle and the sole of the foot is visible. Perhaps the statue is in action, not just standing.

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· Feb 5

“There are even those who believe that, since each performance is at best only an imperfect and approximate representation of the work itself, it follows that music's inner meanings can never be properly yielded up in performance. They can be discovered only by those who can read and study the score, like Johannes Brahms, who once refused an invitation to attend a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, saying he would sooner stay home and read it. What Mozart, the supreme practical musician, would have had to say about that one can only imagine. We note the corollary to that idea, which is seriously held by many musical scholars and even musicians: only those who can read a score have access to the inner meanings of music. One wonders, in that case, why we should bother performing musical works at all, when we could just sit at home, like Brahms, and read them as if they were novels.”

Christopher Small, Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening, 1998

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· Jan 24

Mount Baker afar, from Mayne Island

A snapshot of Mount Baker from Mayne Island. Bottom third steel blue ocean, top third fluffy clouds and blue skies. Craggy and snow covered mountain is barely visible on the horizon

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· Nov 12

Whittling, sans knife

A screen capture of a CBC story about Carney’s nation building projects with an amended headline that now reads: New nation-building projects to include ideas that were not even good 30 years ago: sources

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· Nov 10

A close up of a koi fish face, giving a bit of a doleful side-eye

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· Oct 22

I grew up in this house beside Eddy Park

A faded old colour photo of a small red house and garage with green roofs across a road, and in front of a river. However the house is flooded, surrounded by water. Image from the Bulkley Valley Museum

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· Sep 10

I let them be after taking the short video, but later gently shifted each to the lawn from the dirty and dusty concrete steps.

Two intertwined mating slugs. They are hanging from grey concrete. The genitalia are extended and intertwined also.

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· Sep 10

The other night I found a couple slugs mating on my stoop. “Slugs are hermaphrodites, having both female and male reproductive organs. Once a slug has located a mate, they encircle each other and sperm is exchanged through their protruded genitalia.” -Wikipedia #slug #gasropods #reproduction

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· Jul 10

Installation installed at SMC 2025, IEM Graz, Austria. The piece, Coming Together:CityScapes, is a collaboration with Arne Eigenfeldt, who coded the audio and agent behaviour. I did the video component and effects.

Image shows a large TV screen in a white room, surrounded by many loudspeakers and a smaller computer screen. The screens show custom processed video in 5 vertical strips.

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· May 29

I reworked an old piece made from contact mic recordings of the Ironworkers' Memorial Bridge across Burrard Inlet in Vancouver, BC. Listen to Contacts/Resonances at the Bandcamp link below: sloslo.bandcamp.com/track/contac...

A photo of the underside of a steel bridge. The underside of a girder dominates the top half of the photo and extends away from the viewpoint, curving, arcing down to the first pile. The girder was painted yellow, now covered in graffiti. There is a round hole cut in the girder. There are deciduous trees under the bridge, with the water seen behind.

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· Feb 26

I see your posts in the feed

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· Feb 19

As found in my yard after the snow melted

This is a picture of a snapshot size, developed photograph leaning against a painted white wall. The photograph is of a snowcapped mountain range with blue sky and lots of puffy white clouds. The photograph is wet and muddy, bent and crinkled. There is glare from the overhead light in a couple spots.

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· Nov 23

I've been working on some custom video effects for a collaborative work in progress project. #MaxMspJitter #Cycling74

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· Nov 20

Here's another field recording pic... That's me with a Røde NT-SF1 and a MixPre6. Elk River, Strathcona Park, Vancouver Island

Man in an orange T-shirt sitting on a large rock in the middle of a fast flowing creek or small river. He has some sound recording equipment. A beach of small rocks in the foreground, trees on either side, a bit of blue sky and white clouds behind.

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· Nov 20

Buttle Lake, Strathcona Park

A landscape photo looking down a long lake with mountains on either side. Green marsh grass in the fire ground. A triangle of very blue sky due to the mountains.

slo ~|•@slo-slo-slo· Nov 17

I'll post a few old field recording pics so things don't look so empty around here... Here's one of a mic (Røde NT-SF1) all cozy wearing fake fur inside a steel box girder. The bridge is the Ironworker’s Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, Vancouver, BC