Newsletter 4

What I'm listening to, Cirklon, Counting Goats, Bitwig, Affinity vs Adobe, Gurgle.

Listening

Andy Jarema's "songs (not) about climate change" available on youtube, bandcamp, and an interesting text-based video game version on itch.

Ghost Time Games' "The First Eurorack Tape of 2025" on youtube.

Sandi Toksvig's talk on "Eve's Byte of the Apple" with a wonderful talk on "who decides what is in our marvelous portable library".

McFabulous Zag Tape and Zag Tape 2.

Farzané's set featuring Bjarni Gunnarsson on Behrang Najafi's Kudos to Living Artists show.

Akula Owu Onyeara by The Funkees

Looking

The Cirklon Sequencer is now available without the much-loved 12-24 month waitlist, which begs the question - why?

GoatCounter > Google Analytics.

The Cardinal Bin.

Bitwig's Connect 4/12 has launched with 4 in, 12 out, CV, Midi, and a big dial.

Affinity's Designer, Photo, and Publisher programs are so powerful and well designed, and available to buy outright without a subscription; Adobe sucks.

Google (Chrome) Is Bad for a variety of reasons.

Little Snitch review.

Bogdan Raczyński and Charles Hascoët In A Rave