Living Room Music

Two years ago, a genre arrived in a dream. Drew Daniel woke up from a rave that didn't exist, where the music was called "Hit 'EM" — 212 bpm, 5/4 time, crunchy — and posted it, and for one beautiful week producers everywhere raced to make a dreamed genre real. Episode 116 was my entry. Episode 183 is the return: two years later, I wanted to know if the dream was still open. It is. The crunch is li...

Episode 182 is the sound of a week I spent building a world. The backstage of it, really — the thinking that runs underneath while the hands are busy, all of it equal parts science fiction and fantasy: a desktop that's actually a living map, a spaceship you fly across it, my whole machine reimagined as a place you travel through instead of a screen you stare at. This is the music that came out of...

Episode 181 is the first one from the rebuilt room. I spent the day moving furniture, hauling the Mac Studio back downstairs, setting the keyboards and the edrums and the mics back where they belong, putting the whole studio back together after letting it sit fallow. And the moment it was standing again, I couldn't not play. This one got made in the small hours, composed and mixed and bounced whil...

This week’s episode of Living Room Music began earlier than expected. Morning pages turned into system architecture, which turned into opening Logic Pro X and chasing whatever sounds felt alive in the moment. Starting inside Apple’s new Afrobeat sound pack, the journey unfolded into warmer downtempo passages before accelerating into festival-scale energy, distorted textures, dubstep pressure, and...

Diving through the crates to pull out samples, I came across as bunch of interesting sonic backdrops to layer into the journey through a drifting meander through the Deep House sonic palette.

I always imagine my podcast is best listened to in a car going somewhere.

I have been thinking about space a lot lately, and especially since the Artemis II rocket took off, but for years. I have also been thinking about philosophies about the many potential universes which are out there. So this week's episode, I present some psychedelic sounds which feel very spacey to me.

Thirty minutes of handmade electronic music in 7/4 time at 150 BPM — a time signature that shouldn't work at this tempo, and that's exactly why it does. This session pulls from dubstep's weight, drum & bass wubs, and psytrance's hypnotic acid layering, but refuses the drop. Every transition is gradual, earned over bars rather than announced with a snare fill. The drums are hand-programmed with rid...

Listening to music in the car on the way to work, sometimes, just sometimes I have to make an episode of my own driving music. I like the flow, the boom, and the bang. I like the mixed of textures and tones that feels like nothing I have every heard but at the same time like it fits in any set that I could hear at a Summer Dance Festival. So this week, I indulged and mixed of a treat for my eardru...

This week things ran behind because I was doing lots of watching old versions of Ghosts in the Shell. Then reading philosophy about the Noosphere and writing other things. But I have these thoughts about Memory and Meaning and Identity. I will have more verbose things to say about that in other places. But this is an entry point sonically into that space.

If I have one idea in each episode that is a good thing. If I do anything new or different, that is a good thing. If I make changes that do no bore me, but everything has a very continuous feeling to it, that is also a good thing. I think that this one is a good thing. This weeks' technical specs: 130 bpm multiple textures and tones B minor

This week's episode was completed several days ago, knowing that I had obligations away from the studio which would interfere with my completing it last minute. However I forgot to schedule it when I was done. So here we are 18 hours late.

Today I woke up and realized it was Friday and I owe you guys a new episode. Since I had not done anything towards this all week, I started arranging sounds with synths and making beats. After I had gotta pretty far along, I realized that I wanted piano in it. Then when I started with piano, I realized I wanted piano all the way through, so I extended the beats and synths and textures further and...

Coming out of a tough spot psychologically feels like going through a cold spell in Florida. Like a literal cold spell that is the result of an Arctic blast that covers the whole continent and we experience real winter coat level cold. So this week's episode is the actual result a of couple weeks of sitting on tracks and then finally thawing myself out to get them completed.

In this episode, we pose a question that emerged from the creative depths of the studio: when robots write symphonies, will we even be the audience for these sounds? As artificial intelligence increasingly participates in creative work—from generating images to composing music—we find ourselves contemplating not just what machines can create, but whether those creations are meant for human ears at...

I started this episode off thinking that I would play around with this chord progression. Do some rock and roll writing, but then I drifted into much more electronic experimentations. As things went along, I realized that I had just gone on a musical journey and while we dipped through samples and fragments from the originalk chord progressions, it morphed thematically into a bizarre little journe...

I spent the day yesterday, the whole day on this project. First I made the music, all thirty minutes of it in one sitting at the console. There was heaps of mixing and editing, recording, performing. Building beats, laying down harmonies, and ripping out melodic lines on piano, synth, and guitar. Then. Then. I drew the title card by hand in my black book. I also recorded this process on video wear...

For months now, I have been consumed with some worldbuilding ideas and concepts that I have been exploring in a textual context. This is beginning to leak into my podcast here as I try to make my creative methodology more concrete across all the media that I regularly interact with. This was not apparent when I started this episode. In fact, I was on a different angle when I started this episode,...

Do you like Trip Hop? Do you like your Trip Hop beats with some weirdness mixed in? Well you are in luck. Here you go a half hour episode of Trying Everything Heart of Stars Let Me Love You Such is the Life The Pivot Take Down I had fun making this. Can't say I will do it again, but you never know.

Just me and an instrument.

In my studio, I'm actively experimenting with several overlapping workflows that blend a wide spectrum of creative disciplines. Rather than focusing on a single medium, I find myself drawn to a dynamic interplay between music composition, visual arts, software development, and narrative creation. Each of these areas offers its own unique challenges and demands, from the tactile energy of sculpting...

In this episode, N8K99 reflects on the relationship between music, technology, and creativity while sharing thoughts on his ongoing musical projects with Radio Poets. He explores how technology has always been intertwined with music creation - from ancient bone flutes to modern electronic instruments - and discusses his fascination with AI as a "cognitive space" for exploring ideas. The episode ta...

I was lost but I found myself again and here is new episode.

Like sliding puzzle pieces around on the table and finding the order required to create an aestheically pleasing picture that matches the one on the box, except in this case there is no image on the box, it is just what is in my head. So these musical patterns, form an expression of the ideas which I have no words for, so they have to come out in some manner. ease into it Classic Smoove When you W...

Sigh. Last night, I worked on this episode, well the music for it. It is essentially four tracks. Orchestral strings, French Horns, a woodwinds section and the Grand Piano. It is dynamic, dissonant and boisterous punctuated by moments of calm clarity where everything comes together. I am not proud not ashamed, nor any other feeling about his other than, I have it complete and ready to push into th...