BOOK-PAPER-SCISSORS Nobuyoshi Kikuchi is a 75-year-old Japanese book maker, who devoted his life to the design of over 15,000 books. In this intimate documentary with 3 years in the making, director Nanako Hirose, who is an apprentice of a Japanese…

New HISSandaROAR library where I spent many hours destroying an old wardrobe with mics inside it! VERY cathartic! SD087 WARDROBE DESTRUCTION is now released The idea for this library dates back to a horror film I worked on back in…

Creator: Larry Cuba Year: 1982-1985 Medium: 16 mm film Software: Custom written in Z-Grass Programming Language Computer: Datamax UV-1    

    ▶ Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto – Conversation 1     ▶ Actress – Paris     ▶ FKA twigs : live at the Adidas Arena, Paris – ARTE Concert        

Had to do a sniper bid as the auction closed at 1.30am NZ time, but scored this mint 90mm macro lens for a measly NZ$300… Apart from being super well engineered metal 90mm macro lens with max aperture of F2.5…

    ▶ Moas x Cup Noodles!?     SLOP WARS 2026?   ▶ ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft   ▶ Someone showed how easy it is to hijack an…

▶ intrusion – 03 tswana dub -phase90 restructure- 12 -mix-     ▶ Sa Pa – Last Dance (Ballroom Dub) [DTL002]     ▶ Deadbeat – Primordia     ▶ The Specials – Racist Friend        

(wish we could have designed & mixed the trailer!)    

    ▶ Shabba Ranks + Bulby York – Champion love this, so hooky!!     ▶ Freddie McGregor – Come Now Sister [1979] bought a copy of this in FLAC so I can stem split     ▶ .Johnny…

Took the wee 1927 Chev out for a drive on a sunny Sunday and at last recorded its AHOOGA Horn! A free library coming next week for owners of HISSandaROAR VEH006 library! Drove right around Pauatahanui Inlet… The funniest thing…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLqycC2tVE ▶ Tōru Takemitsu – VOCALISM　A・I for magnetic tape     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqvnN7S1tLw ▶ ▶ Tōru Takemitsu – WATER MUSIC for magnetic tape     ▶ Bonobo : Distance in Static     ▶ cv313 – 08 lost sequence…

    ▶ Plastic Infinite 7″ animated vinyl record, by Sculpture bandcamp     ▶ Movie Location Map     ▶ Behind the scenes of Laika’s forthcoming film Wildwood #stopmotion     ▶ Deadpan Photography: Enjoying the Pretence    …

“We’re so excited that it’s been announced at last that BLACK SHEEPS will have its world premiere at the Sitges International Film Festival, the biggest genre festival in the world, in Spain in October!”    

Early access to KODA Sampler plugin is available! As a new sampler it seems very well thought out… Documentation available on the site   From their FAQ: What does early access actually mean? Anybody can get a licensed copy of…

    ▶ Conversation 6 – Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto nasty edit at 3.11 🙁     ▶ Bonobo – Talk to Me (feat. Nicole Miglis)     ▶ Andy Stott (feat Elaine Howley) – Something in mind new…

    ▶ Jacques – Against The Clock (& his razors batteries?) ymmv but gotta love the sonar pings!     ▶ Musical Instruments by Bart Hopkin     ▶ Having grown up next to the Rangitata, a massive braided…

      BEFORE and AFTER photos of todays #fieldrecording – very cathartic, smashing the shit out of an old wardobe! Sennheiser MKH8040/8050/8040 LCR plus MKH8020 x2 inside wardrobe…    

Wow its quite unbelievable how bad search is now with Google. Remember when it became a verb, “to google something…. Now Google doesn’t find anything obscure at all. Like not buried pages deep, it just simply fails & displays nothing.…

some relaxing listening for a Monday morning! “From 1968, Terry Riley’s trippy 20 minute re-arrangement of The Harvey Averne Dozen’s “You’re No Good”. Two reel to reel tape machines twisting in and out of sync amongst passages of heavy proto-synth…

HISSandaROAR Sale Ends Sept 1st! FFT of some of SD086 ROOF IRON Contact Mic recordings… Ehrlund EAP Contact Mics really do hear up to 100kHz!    

You’ll likely know of Zimouns work – I’ve shared on this blog before, and got to experience some with my own ears in Japan… A recent compilation video: But I’d never read an indepth interview with him… there is a…

thanks Kirke!    

    ▶ Floating Points – Mere Mortals it has its moments, YMMV     ▶ DJ Marky Live D&B Sessions – 25th August 2026        

    ▶ The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon     ▶ love this: old furniture brochures glitched out     ▶ Steve Reich’s Clapping Music is now a free rhythm action game     ▶ Smarter people are happier,…

new HISSandaROAR Library: SD086 ROOF IRON captured with Sanken CUX100K mics plus a pair of Ehrlund EAP 100K Contact Mics and a LOM Geofon! ALSO NOTE: 16th Birthday Sale Ends in 48 hours!! 50% off all libraries for another 48hours/Sept…

    ▶ Clark – Skein     ▶ Grace Jones – She’s Lost Control (Long Version)     ▶ Tenor Saw – Ring the Alarm     ▶ Beat Spacek – Ring Di Alarm        

    Resident Advisor · RA.1052 The Bug ▶ RA.1052 – The Bug     Oblique by Ghost Dubs ▶ new Ghost Dubs – Oblique        

    Wilfred’s *Lumia Suite, Opus 158*     Marcel Duchamp’s “Anémic cinéma” (1926)     Thomas Wilfred, “Luccata, Op. 162”     Thomas Wilfred – Master of light     Liliane Lijn – ‘I Want People to See Sound’…