Yann Novak

@yannnovak

└ Queer Artist, Composer & Technologist └ Housefather at @dragonseyerecordings.com └ Preservationist at @substratum.digital └ Developer at @3n.design └ 💍 to @robert.takahashinovak.com 📍Los Angeles, CA 🏳️‍🌈

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Yann Novak@yannnovak· 5d

I am excited to announce my new release, 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮, featuring remixes by @room40.bsky.social, @timothyfairless.bsky.social, @millihertz.bsky.social, @geneeves.bsky.social, Jonathan Snipes, @ianwellman.bsky.social, and myself, out on Room40. 📌 PRE-ORDER → yannnovak.bandcamp.com/album/discon...

The album cover for 'Continuity' by Yann Novak, made to look 3D with shadows on a light grey background. The cover is a light grey photo background of a busy Tokyo intersection in Shinjuku. Over top is 49 lines of black text that are as wide as they are tall, its encrypted text so its gibberish all the way until the end where there are is an = and then a few spaces and the word Discontinuity.

Yann Novak@yannnovak· 9d

Screenshot from Arrested Development with caption “those are balls”

Yann Novak@yannnovak· 26d

A new episode of 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙏𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘼 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖 airs today on @campradio.bsky.social at 9am PDT / 6pm CEST, this month I was focused on heavy instead of dark, with some contrasting light moments throughout... 📻 LISTEN → www.listen.camp

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Jun 28

@reckless.bsky.social Before there were party speakers...

Large speaker on the floor with a huge square cone on top. There are blue curtains behind it and a dresser with a lamp without a shade next to it.

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Jun 21

If you are curious if your music is being used to train AI, @theatlantic.com made 4 of the datasets these companies are using searchable. One dataset contains a whole album of mine, yay! Originally found this on @theverge.com from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

screens shot of search results from The Atlantics AI Watchdog dataset search. It shows 4 of my songs in one dataset and 3 in another.

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Jun 5

Next weekend I off to New Mexico for Legacy Lab NM at the Albuquerque Museum. I will be on a panel on Saturday and leading a Workshop on Sunday, both about artist websites and how to preserve them. It's sold out, but they have a waiting list if you are interested in attending. www.legacylabnm.org

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Jun 3

For the last 10 or so years I have been pretty lazy about who I say yes to connecting with on LinkedIn. I am trying to clean up the account today and discovering that A LOT of the people I connected with are wearing this hat in their profile pic. I don't know what it means, but I am uncomfortable.

Klair from Schitt's Creek wearing a floppy girl hat.

Yann Novak@yannnovak· May 22

A new episode of 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙏𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘼 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖 airs today on @campradio.bsky.social at 9am PDT / 6pm CEST, this month I was really focused on tracks with compositional peaks and valleys, so don't turn it up when it gets quiet... 📻 LISTEN → www.listen.camp

Yann Novak@yannnovak· May 15

I also launched my new artist website this week, the concept and design actually started here and then got inverted for the design portfolio. Its my way of acknowledging that they relate to one another. Check out the site → www.yannnovak.com

Screenshot of the website yannnovak.com. Near black background, 2 column grid with 2 fully visible cards and 1 full width card half visible.

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Apr 26

I may stay on Reddit for a few days, my feed is dialed in for times like these…

Screenshot of a Reddit comment that reads “wtf is even substack” with 3 crying emojis

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Apr 21

Headphone Commute just published a sample of the interviews I have been doing on their Patron as the Featured Artist. There are 5x more Q&A with me on the Patron! Read the interview → headphonecommute.com/2026/04/21/i... Subscribe to gain access → www.patreon.com/cw/Headphone...

Photo of Yann Novak in black and white with his patches of bright read hair in color. He is wearing glasses, looking down, and wearing a black shirt. The background is a white corner of a room with dirty pipes in the upper right corner. There is text overtop that reads: Artist Interview, Interview with Yann Novak.

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Apr 16

I did a really personal interview with @foxydigitalis.bsky.social about my new album 𝙈𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙩 (𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙭), out tomorrow on @dragonseyerecordings.com. 📖 READ → foxydigitalis.zone/2026/04/15/h...

A photo of Ingrid Buslee with her hair pulled back and wearing a long sleeve v-neck shirt with plants all around her and holding a red flower the size of her face just to the left of her face. A very young Yann Novak is peaking his head into frame on the right and Ingrid is looking at him. In the bottom left it read 'Foxy Digitalis.'

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Apr 8

My wonderful husband @robert.takahashinovak.com caught video of the end of Eusexua into Perfectly, two of my favorites! I can’t choose where to edit so here is most of it lol. He did it because he knew I was to mesmerized and would forgot.

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Apr 8

FKA twigs was soooo good in San Francisco tonight that I forgot to take any photos or video after this shot of the crowd post opener. SF brought the queerness in the best possible way, so glad we came up for the show here!

Black and white photo of the crowd at FKA twigs in San Francisco in between sets with the lights up

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Apr 1

This month I am the featured artist on Headphone Commute's Patreon! There will be exclusive tracks, interviews, tons of download codes, and much more! Subscribe to gain access → www.patreon.com/cw/Headphone... Learn More → headphonecommute.com/2026/04/01/f...

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Mar 27

A new episode of 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙏𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘼 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖 airs today on @campradio.bsky.social at 9am PDT / 6pm CEST, I hope this one provides some solace in these dark times... 📻 LISTEN → www.listen.camp

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Mar 6

My husband @robert.takahashinovak.com is performing alongside Sarah Davachi at @thebroadmuseum.bsky.social this Saturday! www.thebroad.org/sarah-davach...

A black and white photo of a bench with glasses, a program and an employee badge

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Feb 25

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Yann Novak@yannnovak· Jan 30

A new episode of 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙏𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘼 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖 airs today on @campradio.bsky.social at 9am PDT / 6pm CEST, I hope it serves as a good soundtrack to stay home during the nationwide shutdown. ICE OUT! 📻 LISTEN → www.listen.camp

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Dec 8

Not sure why I leave my music on Spotify? This is just from the music I control 100%, not from other labels, and its only $166 total, so I am not retiring any time soon. But: $16 ⚖️ Ethics Is a fairly easy choice I think...

Chart showing net revenue for a year with 73% coming from Apple Music and only 10% from Spotify, 7% from Qobuz, 3% from Soundcloud, 2% from Freegal Music, and 5% from other

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Dec 5

A new episode of 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙏𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘼 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖 airs today on @campradio.bsky.social at 9am PDT / 6pm CEST, with this one I just tried to close out a really tough year in the best way I could. 📻 LISTEN → www.listen.camp

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Dec 5

Gives new meaning to End-to-End Encryption. @404media.co @signal.org

Pink background with white text that reads: ))<>(( forever.

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Nov 23

Date night with @robert.takahashinovak.com !

An orchestra on stage with a projection above that reads Death Stranding strands of Harmony

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Nov 22

I am gallery sitting at @fulcrumarts.org today until 5pm in Pasadena. Come see Sam Shoemaker’s Mushroom Boat. And in the process visit me!

Photo of a gallery with 2 projections on the left wall and 1 projection on the right. In the center is a boat made from mushrooms softly lit and on a wooden kayak stand.

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Nov 5

If we see people wearing Meta glasses, we need to start calling them Gargoyles, it’s only fitting to help Z*ck fully realize his complete misunderstanding of the book Snow Crash.

Screenshot with white background and text that reads: “Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time.”
— SNOW CRASH

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Nov 3

"Con l'esponenziale crescita del flusso di dati, vuoi vedere che la vera disto-pia si nasconde nella lentezza?" Another great review of my recent album 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮 in Italian magazine BLOW UP. 🎧 LISTEN/PURCHASE → yannnovak.bandcamp.com/album/contin...

Scan of a review and the cover of Plow Up Magazine, the review reads: FIELD RECORDINGS DISTOPICI; Yann Novak; Continuity • DL Room40 • 3t-31:12; Partendo da 28 loop di registrazioni ambientali e suoni sintetici Novak costruisce 3 pezzi che vogliono essere una riflessione sulla manipolazione delle informazioni, soprattutto quando i mezzi tecnici a disposizioni sono molto potenti e raf-finati. Sullo sfondo ci stanno le questioni dell'uso dell'Al come strumento di controllo sociale visto come eterogenesi dei fini (William Gibson docet). Musicalmente ne esce una ambient pa-cata, vagamente inquietante, come una specie di colonna sonora per "2001 Odissea nello spa-zio" al rallentatore. Con l'esponenziale crescita del flusso di dati, vuoi vedere che la vera disto-pia si nasconde nella lentezza? [7.5] Girolamo Dal Maso

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Oct 23

I recently did an interview for EX! Magazine, published by Adventurous Music. I talk about art, music, tech, and privacy/security in the age of authoritarianism. It's packaged with some great music by great artists too! 📖 PRE-ORDER → adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ex-zin...

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Oct 10

A new episode of 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙏𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝘼 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖 airs today on @campradio.bsky.social at 9am PDT / 6pm CEST, I have way to much going on right now, so I did something a little different, an unreleased redux and samples from a talk relevant to 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮. 📻 LISTEN → www.listen.camp

Yann Novak@yannnovak· Oct 2

"Un lavoro che affascina, inquieta e obbliga a riascoltare il modo in cui siamo stati abituati a vedere o peggio, a sorvegliare, IL REALE." From a great review of my recent album 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙮 in Italian magazine Rockerilla.