Scratch Pad: Commas, Koyaanisqatsi, AFX

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I find knowing I’ll revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.

▰ I need to hack my TV to include serial commas in captions

▰ Sitting here in the mall by myself with my earbuds in noise cancellation mode, listening to abstract music, I can tell you that just about any track of abstract music would work as a music video if you just set up a camera in a mall and let the world saunter by. It’s like a minimalist-budget Koyaanisqatsi.

▰ My video playlist on YouTube of live performances of ambient music is up to 225 tracks. It is, apparently, 31 hours, 48 minutes, and 1 second in length. (Tracks come and go. I rarely if ever delete them from the playlist, but sometimes they do get removed from the overall service.)

▰ That’s pretty cool. I didn’t realize that the Spanish edition of my 33 1/3 book on Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II was the first book in the series of Spanish translations. Some background on the publisher here (in Spanish).

▰ Have a good weekend. Open a window as soon as you wake up. Search an ebook of your favorite novel from childhood for the words “sound” and “listen” and note the results. Play an album very loud from the next room over. See you Tuesday — or maybe Wednesday.

▰ Read a ton this week; finished nothing.