internet theory
Mark Leckey's The Long Tail and Generative AI – for Do Not Research
Mark Leckey's 2009 thesis on the revolutionary potential of the internet as a vehicle for artists to meaningfully shape culture has been realised. But 17 years on, the rise of generative AI threatens to corrupt it all.
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poetry
Pixel Affection readline poem – for Going Down Swinging
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music interviews
"Let's just lean into the broken glass of it" - Too Birds feature for fbi.radio
Halfway through the fourth track on Soul of Too Birds, the lumbering, industrial hip hop production and bitcrushed semi-screamed verses abruptly fade out. A despondent minor-key string part takes their place. A guest feature from local multi-instrumentalist Nikodimos comes in and, like the backing track to a neo-noir film, the song turns sombre and self-reflective...
One year on, Caroline Polachek reflects on Desire, I Want To Turn Into You – feature for fbi.radio
Announced almost exactly a year ago, and released three months later (on Valentine’s Day), what hasn’t been said about Caroline Polachek’s Desire, I Want to Turn Into You?...
The "sentient sound" of CORIN's Lux Aeterna - CORIN feature for fbi.radio
Melbourne producer CORIN's second album Lux Aeterna is made of musical lightbeams...
Collarbones forever - feature for fbi.radio
“Don’t forget I’m nothing. Don’t forget / I’m nothing but a moment passing by” laments Marcus Whale over a bed of fuzzy guitar and stomping drums. The track is ‘Ripe for Filth’ and the mood is dirty, eternal passion (of the nu metal variety)...
A year in review and a look to the future with 1300 - feature for fbi.radio
“It can sometimes feel like this isn’t something we’re supposed to do, but we’re doing it anyway. So it’s good that it’s working.”