Aug 7, 2026 · 3 hr · 21 segments
Themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air, consisting of found sound of many kinds and from many sources, old and new, put together on the run as the continuous audio collage continues…
Jon LeideckerHostI've learned a lot.
I've learned a lot about music, actually, since starting this company.
Really, really eye-opening.
It's not really enjoyable to make music now.
It's not really enjoyable to make music now.
It takes a lot of time.
It takes a lot of practice.
You need to get really good at an instrument and really good at a piece of production software.
I think the majority of people don't enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.
As you said, the thing that matters is how it makes you feel.
giving everybody the joys of creating music.

Not really enjoyable is this week's show, and there are at least four or five different ideas.

There might be some elements that aren't going to make the final cut worth playing tonight.

But it's two weeks away no matter what because it's got to come out later this year on Illegal Art.

I spent the last two days rendering lots of audio in Sacramento with the DataBots.

We trained a neural net on the first 10 minutes of the track of Big Tenate Place Part 1, and it did a pretty good job of turning out things that actually Well Ask yourself if that's what you're listening to later because that's the only hint you're going to get.

There are also quite a few bonus tracks that we went through for the upcoming re-release of Negativeland's first album, which will soon be available again on vinyl for the first time in decades.
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