Strange Textures

Vienna 1889

After I set my stall out as being non-judgemental, welcoming of mistake and failure with its essential humanity, unwilling to codify behaviour and trying to treat people and moments as individual instances deserving of care, compassion, and consideration it suddenly becomes really difficult to make big sweeping statements. So I become quieter.

It is Springtime here and the mountains are lovely.

Additional Notes for October 2025. Might be the only additional notes episode this season, I ramble on a bit about why, what next, and make some media recommendations.

I got another postcard:

Space, Worp 0.5

I prefer to not codify right and wrong. It seems like a difficult job to me although I can see the benefit in terms of making it easy to separate things, cut down on thinking, and boost your own ego.

It’s less easy, and I don’t always manage it but I try to only decide if I really have to, not judging seems better to me. So I try to apply Care, Compassion, and Consideration individually as appropriate.

And Airplane II is on.

Season 6 starts now, just about in time for the autumn equinox.

New England 1954.

If you don’t fit in. If you are always wrong. If you make mistakes.

Welcome.

We make mistakes. We fail. Because we try. We care. We aim to do good things, for ourselves, and for others. We have standards we sometimes fall short of.

But we celebrate the mistakes, the fails, because they are what makes us human.

It is raining.

Ssssshhhhhh! Don’t tell anyone but here is the only place to get the Secret Solstice episode! It’s also where I tell you that I did the thing and have some albums to release.

As loyal listeners, you get to know first. There will be a proper release plan and stuff going on at some point (probably), but for now, just for you, there are three new albums if you want to have a look. I’ve described the series as “Play” and they consist of

And you can get them - pay what/if you want from the website here.

Have a good solstice!

The last additional notes for season 5. Ebows, evolution, and excitement. Looking forward to Uncanny summer specials and catching up on Poker Face season 2.

This might be an odd way to do a 100th episode and final in the season, but I’m staying true to the intent - it’s been a mixed day and this is ambiguous, not simply happy or sad but a mixture of happy and frustrated and comforted and many other things all at the same time.

Additional Notes for 29/05/2025.

Other than talking a bit about space, playing less, and thinking about highlight albums, here are the links that I mention:

Bonkcast EP (my Bonk Wave/No Bonk Wave tracks)

Melondruie - Variations on Into the depthsan excellent album to get and listen to

This Occasional Society Newsletter Signup - worth getting this each month and the archive of past newsletter is linked so you can see

I mean it how it is, how it sounds. Sculptures made out of fractured breath. Whose breath? Ssshhh, that’s a secret.

Shorter this week (I hear sighs of relief)! Quick tech update on using a mixer more, musings about having a break and possibly having an idea for Season 6.

Completely forgot to say I’m also working out whether to do the highlight albums thing that I normally do. Ideas welcome!