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Apparently that 5.1-magnitude earthquake in California this morning was a foreshock. Mike Davis has died. latimes.com/obituaries/sto…

“Deepfake Birds" & “Oenesthesia” on This Week in Sound thisweekinsound.substack.com/p/deepfake-bir…

Important life update: I have stopped having 8 browser tabs open with different Gmail accounts and now use the Mail app on my Mac.

"Spreading Deadly Pathogens Under the Disguise of Popular Music" The authors designed music to trick the sensors in a biolab to leak hazards. The music triggers resonant-frequency thresholds used in the safety system. (My poor paraphrase.) tl;dr Weaponized Rickrolling

Every Tuesday I send out my ThisWeekInSound.substack.com email newsletter. Every Wednesday I wake up wondering if I'll have enough material for the following Tuesday. I rarely make it to the end of Wednesday without enough new topics. Which is why there's now also a Friday edition.

Core material from yesterday's issue of This Week in Sound: ▰ Brian Eno's fake birds ▰ evolutionary legacy of cilia ▰ Tostitos' sound brand ▰ sound in casual games ▰ "oenesthesia" (pairing of wine and sound) ▰ voice privacy disquiet.com/2022/10/26/thi…

Either the electric car near me is in the process of dying, or the sound it normally makes when backing up has been replaced with a low fidelity MP3 titled “the sound of a dying electric car”

Your desk-bound workday sonic input?

My laptop is Maas Biolabs. My iPad is The Peripheral. My phone is Count Zero. I need a fourth device name, fellow William Gibson readers.

I own thousands upon thousands of CDs, upward of 8,000, maybe more, having purchased my first discs (Remain in Light, Discipline, Violent Femmes, Thursday Afternoon) in 1985/86. Not one has ever been put in my CD player and failed to play. cc Bruce Levenstein leerosevere.bsky.social 🐔

This is my “keeping this account alive” tweet.

This is my “keeping this account alive” tweet.