This is explained more fully in this 65daysofstatic post so I'll keep this short, but we have just announced a new No Man's Sky album! It is called No Man's Sky: Journeys and is by 65daysofstatic and Paul Weir (audio director at Hello Games). Nine years ago, shortly after the| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
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
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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
Plummeting into summer so fast that it feels like we've already come out the other side. Manchester's not great at warmth at the best of times, but even on days it succumbs to the sunshine it feels like there's still a chill in the air. OH NO WAIT that's nothing| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
Because I am currently listening to one of these (the first one), here is a short list of three fantastic albums from 2025 that I have been listening to recently. The first two of them might not have had the luck/infrastructure to reach a bigger audience. Not all of| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
Heady days here at Studio Komoy. The exciting, undisclosed and all-consuming project that I have mentioned here once or twice remains undisclosed and continues to consume. More on that some day. Combined with the glacial endurance test known as trying to make a new 65daysofstatic album, it doesn't leave much| 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
There are at least three abandoned K.N.R.U. blog posts that have tried to find a window into talking about the Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin's unfinished mega-work in which he uses the shopping arcades of early 20th century Paris as a jump-off point to try describing... something. The| 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
Well that was a weird year, huh? Thank you to all of you who signed up to The K.N.R.U. via email or RSS over the course 2024! Very happy you are here, cheers for being interested. These dispatches began back in February. The first few months followed| 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
I had known for a while that Spotify was slowly filling its playlists with music that was composed 'in-house', or commissioned in such a way that they could pay less royalties or even none at all. It looks like somebody finally brought the receipts about how all that works. And| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
This week, longtime 65 comrade and graphic artist Caspar Newbolt wrote a short thing about the artwork he made for my Telex From MIDI City album last year.[1] As Caspar points out, this was all pulled together during lockdown in Berlin. Caspar| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
Once upon a time I used to do quite a lot of interviews with music magazines or websites. An inevitable question early on would be about favourite bands/music, and I would sometimes get a surprised reaction when I'd reply saying Rocket From the Crypt are one of my favourite| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
Last week I read A Primer on Utopian Philosophy by Jon Greenaway. It’s a great, user-friendly introduction to philosopher Ernst Bloch's ideas about utopia that resonated with a lot of the work I've been doing and posting here recently. In particular, reading it right after putting out the Music| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
