Stephen Roddy

The free online version of my ‘Listening in the Shadow of Palantir’ piece for the @thewiremagazine.bsky.social is live today. You can read it here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...

Oh ffs

View from the inside on how AI is impacting plugin developers.

Good to go for the IS2 performance on Wednesday night. 20 minute drone piece driven by virus data. Somewhat on theme for the week that’s in it.

... I did it... I bought the EP-35 and I added the EP–133 sampler. I feel slightly sick but also very happy.

I guess how everyone feels about AI in Literature and English now is how I felt learning just how much music was composed with sample libraries and MIDI programming as an undergrad. There are essentially no big scores in film that are not created this way in 2026.

Saw Jason Moran for the first time last night and it renewed my faith in jazz.

I cam here to make the Sally Rooney Samizdat tweet but I"m far too late. Loosing what ever social media mojo I ever had.

ROVER's 'mood' stations break down into Think, Feel and Move. I initially thought "Sure... But there's a lot more to music than that' As I continue listening however, I'm less certain: www.rovr.live/moods

See you in Cork this Thursday!

Terzij de Horde playing Dali this Thursday. Strong recommend ! @fiadh.bsky.social

Yeah. I’ve been using this too recently and found slime really excellent stuff.

Art Review quoting Žižek in a Camp Miasma review! This actually happened (N.B. link retroactively broken so they don't get the clicks): artreviewxyz.conm/teenage-sex-...

Won 50€ on an All Cash and looking to keep this hot streak going. Can someone please suggest a cryptocurrency?

I’m floating a bill myself. All pink wafer biscuits in the global north default to me. In cases where 50-ish people might be maimed for want of a pink wafer they can have ONE biscuit.

There's not been boomer accord like this since Brexit

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It’s my birthday and I’ll watch Hellraiser 3 (which is terrible) if I want to.

A great turnout and amazing public support for our strike action today at UCC! Strikers Abú!

If you told me I’d be redownloading Mapquest in 2026 to try to stay ahead of the surveillance state I wouldn’t have believed you

Spend a lot of time thinking about how audio technologies could do more than just music Recently designed a system to help monitor soil moisture during manual irrigation. It's a first small step towards addressing water scarcity challenges with the help of sound. doi.org/10.1017/wat....

Finally watching the Vourdalak. It’s essentially part 2 of Bava’s Black Sabbath stretched into a full film but it’s also very good.

I was YouTubing Ghosts cover of SMD's I Believe and got suggested one of my own tracks! An angsty Covid-Core piece form the middle of the pandemic when I was reading Voltaire and listening to doom metal 🤣 But you know what? It holds up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dPH...

I’ll never be able to hear Falco’s Rock me Amadeus without thinking of the Simpson’s Planet of the Apes the Musical.

Kind of crazy watching how sound studies and music technology are being completely subsumed into digital humanities in recent years. I’m seeing increasing numbers of colleagues re-emerge in DH depts. and contexts as these formations start to disappear from academia

Lanterns was really good actually.

New @thewiremagazine.bsky.social! I had the great pleasure of interviewing Bruno Silva, whose Ondness and Serpente records are some of my favourite music of recent years. I also wrote an essay on the metal subculture in 2026 and reviewed new albums by BBBBBBB 🥵 and Jesse Draxler 🖤.

Sometimes I think of the Guardian's review of SMD's ADSR and find myself sliding into a pit of despair. While SMD never made anything noteworthy again, ADSR did a lot to define the sound of pop over the last 20 years. Sources: www.theguardian.com/music/2007/j... www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF3U...

It is increasingly plausible that the Pope has read my work on AI art. There isn’t a huge number of us doing this stuff on the art front, even less on music and digital art. We may be mere weeks away from an in-text citation for Roddy 2026 from the Vatican. thenextweb.com/news/pope-ai...

Come on!

I mean…. Come on.

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

I complain far too much about the midlands when it looks like this.

I think the entire public sector slowly grinding to a halt because the minster for public expenditure wants to burnish his hard man credentials for an upcoming leadership bid should be more of a scandal/news story tbh #speirgorm

Face reading, folk statistics, facial recognition. 🧍 Discover the connection in the artist talk 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑒-𝑒𝑎𝑡-𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 by #SheungYiu on our Youtube 👁️ youtube.com/watch?v=oNnqaO2TyOA

My exhibition Matéria Escura Digital opens at gnration in Braga, Portugal at 16:00 on the 10th of October. The project is supported by DGArtes --- A recepção pública para a minha exposição Matéria Escura Digital está agendado para 16:00 no 10 otubro no gnration em Braga. Projeto apoiado pelo DGArtes

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Tried to explain the Irish reliance and infatuation with Teletext to a student lately and they thought I was making it up. Our ‘digital transition’ began with 90s granddads looking up dog racing results on page 686 hackaday.com/2023/10/13/t...

To run modern CAD on 1970s hardware would have required a data centers worth of 70s era computing power. We can run it on a phone now. Same will be true of current AI & LLMs IN 5 years. We do not need massive data center infrastructures. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-inference...

They’ve been aggressively uncool for a while now but the boomer-brain Jetsons-level AI discourse is undignified in the extreme.

Rather than being a tweet made by a machine and intended to sound human, this tweet was made by a human and intended to sound like a machine.

Finally going to try Soul tonight.

Lads. I told ye she’s gone off the deep end. Ive been writing about it for a while now. She went so far off the deep end it helped myself and some colleagues structure a beautifully elegant alternative. It started as a rebuttal but is a far more valuable than just more critique. Watch this space:

Stephen Roddy works on displaying #data as sound. This can help translate information when you can’t look at it or can’t use traditional graphic models. buff.ly/ga4OWAi

Worth following: publishers are incorrectly claiming payouts on the Anthropic lawsuit, like claiming 100%, or even claiming titles that are reverted/out of print. If you're an author, assuming you already made a claim (that deadline was March), check now -- there's still time to dispute this.

Wonderful evening celebrating six artist-in-residence programmes at University College Cork. Particularly pleasing to see @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com recap @alanbutler.info’s tenure as @ucc.ie’s first Digital Artist-in-Residence, generously supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social.