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💿 Experiments in Digital Music 💻 Open-Source Advocate https://johnoestmannmusic.com/ Also at https://mastodon.social/@johnoestmannmusic

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John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Feb 19

I've managed to essentially switch my entire workflow to Open-Source. Here's a page created to share the tools I use: johnoestmannmusic.com/tooling/

#opensource #gameaudio #gamedev

Open-Source Tooling - John Oestmann Music

I believe that Open-Source is one of the strongest cultural movements towards diffusing power structures. I use Open-Source tooling throughout the production of my works to show that it is not only po...

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John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · 2d

It may be unconventional, but this short album is probably the truest expression of myself so far. It means a lot to me, and I hope you can find a part or few to connect with. Thank you :)

johnoestmannmusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-...

#electronicmusic #experimental #opensource

a_new_day_in_the_workshop [ Vol II ], by John Oestmann

11 track album

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John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · 6d

Ah, *that's* what AI companies are doing. The business model is not geared towards making money from customers.
It's geared towards making money from investors.
That's why it's 80% hype-farming and only 20% building useful products.

pluralistic.net/2025/10/16/p...

#ai #latestagecapitalism

Pluralistic: The AI that we’ll have after AI (16 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · 12d

Realizing how much of my love for future tech growing up was actually just awesome music and aesthetic design of the 90s / early 2000s

It's was always just cool art from the present 🤩

John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · 14d

🎵 times
youtu.be/RW0CoTkCZmc?...

_software: Audible Planets, Audacity
_download: johnoestmannmusic.com/times/
_license: public-domain / cc0

#ambient #electronica #midwest

times

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John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · 20d

Well the idea is that with ATProto, Bluesky *can* screw up, and you *can* leave, without losing too much.

I hope this is the case. I still believe ActivityPub / Mastodon are far more proven in this capacity.

John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · 24d

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

www.theguardian.com

John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · 27d

🎵 Photographia Sunbox
youtu.be/XvSh_PIkdWo?...

Download: johnoestmannmusic.com/photographia...

#electronica #ambient #experimental

Photographia Sunbox

YouTube video by John Oestmann Music

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John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Sep 21

Trying to follow intuition as my artmaking process more:

youtu.be/iArfAiCX9bI?...

#electronicmusic #ambient #loops

Patchwork Transformations

YouTube video by John Oestmann Music

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John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Sep 17

It struck me last night that the internet actually isn't getting worse.

It is still far easier to find great and sustainable resources than it was even 5, 10, 20 years ago.

Just because the popular options are shitty, doesn't mean that there are less options.
It actually isn't a zero-sum game.

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John Oestmann Poetry @johnoestmannpoetry.com · Sep 15

#poetry #writing #poem

Geodesic

Flashstick worldlines sculpt new spaces
Twelve-armed blooms via coccoon-back contemplation
Geodesic Starsmash snap into framelessness
Echoed across spacetime maneuvering the reachout

High skies flow below widened glass floors
Whirlwind of soulspin trajectories zipline north
Where avalanche compasses fail each turnover
Welcome, welcome, little triangular-mind-ecology

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John Oestmann Poetry @johnoestmannpoetry.com · Sep 14

#poetry #writing

Kinaesthetic Dream

Archetypes spread like wings across shattered Maw
Velvet undergrounds come and go, fifteen minutes or more
Seldom do I ask who you are,
Even though mystique heights hung foggy breaths on our wedding night.

Rachel doesn't know how to peel oranges anymore,
I thought about that a lot.
Evergreen kids throat-singing around the corner -
It says a lot, huh? It says a lot.

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John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Sep 13

They exploit like empires, they're narcissitic self-declared emperors, and they will fall as such:

youtu.be/e70RT6c01M8?...

Will AI Take My Job? with Karen Hao

YouTube video by Hasan Minhaj

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John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Sep 9

Each Work a Pilgrimage

Listen + Download + Process Notes: johnoestmannmusic.com/each-work-a-...

#electronica #ambient

Each Work a Pilgrimage - John Oestmann Music

_software: OpenMPT, Audacity_download: 04-EachWorkAPilgrimage.wav_project / process notes: 04-EachWorkAPilgrimage-SOURCE.zip_samples-used: MechSounds, vhio_license: public-domain / cc0

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John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Aug 15

Well this is blowing my mind a little. The idea of objects are more a (helpful) asbtract framing than actual reality, but doing so also leads to many incorrect conclusions.

"Think of a leaf on a tree as a process, not an object."

Process philosophy - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Jul 19

"CYCLE-0x1C6" - Deconstructed [Vitalium + OpenMPT + Floral Sample Toolkit]
youtu.be/O8LOjUU3sqw?...

#electronicmusic #musicproduction #opensource

"CYCLE-0x1C6" - Deconstructed [Vitalium + OpenMPT + Floral Sample Toolkit]

YouTube video by John Oestmann Music

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John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Jul 16

www.agd.sa.gov.au/news/sas-wor...

#politics #capitalism #society

SA’s world leading political donations ban now in force

South Australia’s world-leading political donations ban is now in effect, marking a bold new era in the state’s democracy.

www.agd.sa.gov.au

John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Jul 13

🎵 CYCLE-0x1C6
johnoestmannmusic.com/cycle-0x1c6/

AND the Floral Sample Toolkit codebase is now publicly available: codeberg.org/johnoestmann...

#ambient #electronica #opensource

CYCLE-0x1C6 - John Oestmann Music

_software: OpenMPT, Floral Sample Toolkit_download: CYCLE-0x1C6.wav_project: CYCLE-0x1C6-SOURCE.zip_samples-used: MechSounds_license: public-domain / cc0

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John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Jul 12

Basically because it:
1. Incentivizes choices that are beneficial for society.

2. Incentivizes choices that are healthy for an individual.

3. Disincentivizes choices that are not a good balance of the above.

John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Jul 12

I feel like the best "self-help" question I've come across is "What example would this choice set for my kids?"

(Not that I have kids of my own yet, but I've found it a very helpful spin on Kant's Categorical Imperatives.)

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John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Jul 11

KXStudio doing the Lord's work of maintaining Linux builds of a number of FOSS audio plugins:
kx.studio/Repositories...

#opensource #audio #linux

KXStudio : Repositories : Plugins

kx.studio

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John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Jul 10

This is huge news - awesome work!

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · Jul 9

Introducing FlexOlmo, a new paradigm for language model training that enables the co-development of AI through data collaboration. 🧵

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John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Jul 5

ah so sorry - I wrongly assumed the different URL meant a different org! That's awesome

John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Jul 5

Essentially using it as a learning tool, not a content generation tool.

John 🎵 @johnoestmannmusic.com · Jul 5

I have found the healthy spot for GenAI in my own workflow:

1. Augments the learning of my Craft, not replaces it.

2. Is mindful of environmental cost, and whether the answer can come from a regular web search, or simply reflecting on the problem.

#ai #music #programming

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