Who doesn't like patterns? After all, what is life if not an ongoing, desperate effort to sculpt vague shapes of understanding out of the howling chaos that is being alive and being aware of it? And what is peace if not the feeling of clinging with all our hearts to| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
I can't remember exactly how long ago I wrote this, but I do remember it is the result of a coffee-fuelled expression of exasperation after reading yet another article about some kind of A.I.-driven startup tech bro claiming to 'solve' music. I enjoy writing manifestos because, just for| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
I did my Wreckage Systems talk at Soundtrack Cologne the other day. I'm not sure if there will be any opportunity for me to do this talk again, so thought I'd share a few of the slides here. First I introduced 65LABS for anybody who didn&| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
Last week I received an invitation from a research group that is being funded by the UK government to the tune of several tens of millions of pounds. It has been put together to look at how AI and other 'emerging technologies' might be responsibly applied to the UK's live| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
A short note to mention that next week on Wednesday 26th March I am doing a short demonstration of 65LABS' Wreckage Systems project at a conference called Composing (with) Systems at the University of Sheffield. I only have half an hour so it is not going to be in any| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
As I came back to this post to check it for typos before publishing it, I wanted to edit the opening line which read 'Wreckage Systems V2 launched roughly three years ago' to be a bit more specific. I went back to see if I could find out| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
In Utopia as Replication, Fredric Jameson makes a spicy argument for looking at Walmart as a utopia. It is a pretty readable essay as far as Jameson goes. He of course isn't suggesting that Walmart as it actually exists is any kind of utopia, but uses it as an example| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
Last week I smashed through a really dumb crime thriller. It didn't look promising from the moment I spotted it, but it was just sitting there on a stack of books, looking at me with its generic cover art, and without really understanding why I picked it up. I am| The Komoy Noise Research Unit