Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
@sethcooke.bsky.social
filling noise with space
https://sethcooke.bandcamp.com
https://everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
speculation mine
Bristol, UK
https://sethcooke.bandcamp.com
https://everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
speculation mine
Bristol, UK
Pinned
COLDSTREAM EMPIRE - my new album, out today.
One 12'42" recording, subject to classifiers and erasure, repeated five times.
everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
One 12'42" recording, subject to classifiers and erasure, repeated five times.
everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com
I converted a swing bridge into poetry as a metaphor for poison-pilling knowledge graph extraction in tribute to the founder of Lettrism. Imagine finding a few thousand odd nerds who like the same weird thing.
This is something I keep telling creative friends. Make the thing that is most *you*, not the thing tailored to what people say the market wants. The gatekeepers won't pay you anyway, but a few thousand odd nerds who like the same weird thing you do might.
"I think the best strategy in the age of AI is: bet on yourself… unique work made well with huge amounts of love is actually going to become more valuable in the AI era." A very heartening story about the brilliant Naomi Alderman buying back “Zombies, Run!” www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I converted a swing bridge into poetry as a metaphor for poison-pilling knowledge graph extraction in tribute to the founder of Lettrism. Imagine finding a few thousand odd nerds who like the same weird thing.
You've been kidnapped! The characters from the last TV show you watched are your only hope for rescue. Who's coming to save you?
Sadly Gui didn't guest in the last episode, and hasn't for a while, so I guess I'm either lumbered with simulated rescue or meta-commentary on my non-rescue.
Sadly Gui didn't guest in the last episode, and hasn't for a while, so I guess I'm either lumbered with simulated rescue or meta-commentary on my non-rescue.
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
You've been kidnapped! The characters from the last TV show you watched are your only hope for rescue. Who's coming to save you?
Sadly Gui didn't guest in the last episode, and hasn't for a while, so I guess I'm either lumbered with simulated rescue or meta-commentary on my non-rescue.
Sadly Gui didn't guest in the last episode, and hasn't for a while, so I guess I'm either lumbered with simulated rescue or meta-commentary on my non-rescue.
AI content on Facebook is just hilarious. Who is asking for LLM-driven Alexei Sayle content? Who is reading this? I don't want to click on it to find out for fear of telling this weird monster that I'm into it.
I like Sayle. Just not like this.
I like Sayle. Just not like this.
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 AM
AI content on Facebook is just hilarious. Who is asking for LLM-driven Alexei Sayle content? Who is reading this? I don't want to click on it to find out for fear of telling this weird monster that I'm into it.
I like Sayle. Just not like this.
I like Sayle. Just not like this.
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
She owns the Bryson book
She owns the Shakespeare book
She owns the combination Bryson book and Shakespeare book
She owns the Shakespeare book
She owns the combination Bryson book and Shakespeare book
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
She owns the Bryson book
She owns the Shakespeare book
She owns the combination Bryson book and Shakespeare book
She owns the Shakespeare book
She owns the combination Bryson book and Shakespeare book
Looks like Bastl is releasing the Kastle 2 synth firmware and faceplate tomorrow.
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Looks like Bastl is releasing the Kastle 2 synth firmware and faceplate tomorrow.
Not enough people talking about John Glacier at year-end. She's terrific, this is absolutely one of the albums of the year.
johnglacier.bandcamp.com/album/like-a...
johnglacier.bandcamp.com/album/like-a...
Like A Ribbon, by John Glacier
11 track album
johnglacier.bandcamp.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Not enough people talking about John Glacier at year-end. She's terrific, this is absolutely one of the albums of the year.
johnglacier.bandcamp.com/album/like-a...
johnglacier.bandcamp.com/album/like-a...
My thirteen year-old daughter refuses to watch "AI slop".
My nine year-old daughter's sick burn against a boy in her class: "You get all your insults from ChatGPT."
The kids are alright.
My nine year-old daughter's sick burn against a boy in her class: "You get all your insults from ChatGPT."
The kids are alright.
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
My thirteen year-old daughter refuses to watch "AI slop".
My nine year-old daughter's sick burn against a boy in her class: "You get all your insults from ChatGPT."
The kids are alright.
My nine year-old daughter's sick burn against a boy in her class: "You get all your insults from ChatGPT."
The kids are alright.
Memories that feel like a weird dream. Did they actually set up an oil rig in Weston-Super-Mare? I seem to have photos, but it can't have actually happened.
November 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Memories that feel like a weird dream. Did they actually set up an oil rig in Weston-Super-Mare? I seem to have photos, but it can't have actually happened.
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
I released my new album, COLDSTREAM EMPIRE, two weeks ago.
Rather than reveal the secrets of that release, here are short unrelated videos that give parallel examples.
In this video, audio was processed by Google Pixel Audio Eraser. The classifier identified music, which I isolated and boosted.
Rather than reveal the secrets of that release, here are short unrelated videos that give parallel examples.
In this video, audio was processed by Google Pixel Audio Eraser. The classifier identified music, which I isolated and boosted.
November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I released my new album, COLDSTREAM EMPIRE, two weeks ago.
Rather than reveal the secrets of that release, here are short unrelated videos that give parallel examples.
In this video, audio was processed by Google Pixel Audio Eraser. The classifier identified music, which I isolated and boosted.
Rather than reveal the secrets of that release, here are short unrelated videos that give parallel examples.
In this video, audio was processed by Google Pixel Audio Eraser. The classifier identified music, which I isolated and boosted.
I released my new album, COLDSTREAM EMPIRE, two weeks ago.
Rather than reveal the secrets of that release, here are short unrelated videos that give parallel examples.
In this video, audio was processed by Google Pixel Audio Eraser. The classifier identified music, which I isolated and boosted.
Rather than reveal the secrets of that release, here are short unrelated videos that give parallel examples.
In this video, audio was processed by Google Pixel Audio Eraser. The classifier identified music, which I isolated and boosted.
November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I released my new album, COLDSTREAM EMPIRE, two weeks ago.
Rather than reveal the secrets of that release, here are short unrelated videos that give parallel examples.
In this video, audio was processed by Google Pixel Audio Eraser. The classifier identified music, which I isolated and boosted.
Rather than reveal the secrets of that release, here are short unrelated videos that give parallel examples.
In this video, audio was processed by Google Pixel Audio Eraser. The classifier identified music, which I isolated and boosted.
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
godfather of german synth music, DIY synthesist, instrument builder and pharmacist - Rüdiger Lorenz gets his flowers with a first reissue of rare works, 1981-1983, newly restocked
boomkat.com/products/syn...
boomkat.com/products/syn...
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
godfather of german synth music, DIY synthesist, instrument builder and pharmacist - Rüdiger Lorenz gets his flowers with a first reissue of rare works, 1981-1983, newly restocked
boomkat.com/products/syn...
boomkat.com/products/syn...
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
November 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
AI processing also incorporates the biometric & special category data inscribed in the art, so copyright law alone doesn't cover it. And AI is just people + maths at industrial scale via an obfuscation layer black box around lineage. There's no parallel when the tech hides who is doing what to who.
People in AI often justify the exploitation of creatives' work for AI training with versions of: 'If people can learn from your work, why can't AI?'
But this totally ignores the social contract under which people create and share their work.
🧵 1/14
But this totally ignores the social contract under which people create and share their work.
🧵 1/14
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
AI processing also incorporates the biometric & special category data inscribed in the art, so copyright law alone doesn't cover it. And AI is just people + maths at industrial scale via an obfuscation layer black box around lineage. There's no parallel when the tech hides who is doing what to who.
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
My keen knowledge of statistics tells me these feet are merely suffering from survivorship bias.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
My keen knowledge of statistics tells me these feet are merely suffering from survivorship bias.
Timely update to a classic.
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Timely update to a classic.
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
Zr + 4HC1 → ZrC14 + 2H2U + 3F2 → UF6
Roberto Altmann
Excerpt from his Geste Hypergraphique. There's a copy at Southeran's going for £700.
sotherans.co.uk/products/alt...
Which is also where Frédéric Acquaviva is curating a rare Lettrist UK exhibition.
www.cassiusandco.com/poet-artists...
Roberto Altmann
Excerpt from his Geste Hypergraphique. There's a copy at Southeran's going for £700.
sotherans.co.uk/products/alt...
Which is also where Frédéric Acquaviva is curating a rare Lettrist UK exhibition.
www.cassiusandco.com/poet-artists...
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Zr + 4HC1 → ZrC14 + 2H2U + 3F2 → UF6
Roberto Altmann
Excerpt from his Geste Hypergraphique. There's a copy at Southeran's going for £700.
sotherans.co.uk/products/alt...
Which is also where Frédéric Acquaviva is curating a rare Lettrist UK exhibition.
www.cassiusandco.com/poet-artists...
Roberto Altmann
Excerpt from his Geste Hypergraphique. There's a copy at Southeran's going for £700.
sotherans.co.uk/products/alt...
Which is also where Frédéric Acquaviva is curating a rare Lettrist UK exhibition.
www.cassiusandco.com/poet-artists...
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
Reading this while thinking of Herzog's Heart of Glass, about a hypnotised community sleepwalking to oblivion when their local knowledge succession fails. LLMs represent an opposite hypnotic trajectory towards oblivion via digital colonialism, exploitation and homogenisation.
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Reading this while thinking of Herzog's Heart of Glass, about a hypnotised community sleepwalking to oblivion when their local knowledge succession fails. LLMs represent an opposite hypnotic trajectory towards oblivion via digital colonialism, exploitation and homogenisation.
Pretty much everything I want from an album on Monday 17th November 2025.
NP | THE SPIRITUAL SOUND - AGRICULTURE
@comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social heads up
NP | THE SPIRITUAL SOUND - AGRICULTURE
@comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social heads up
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Pretty much everything I want from an album on Monday 17th November 2025.
NP | THE SPIRITUAL SOUND - AGRICULTURE
@comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social heads up
NP | THE SPIRITUAL SOUND - AGRICULTURE
@comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social heads up
As a composer of tedious basic loops, I need to hide my complex patch behind my complex patch so that I cannot see my complex patch because of my complex patch.
#shituserstories
#shituserstories
What affordance does the spatial component afford us more than a screen when making music?
It's essentially a drum machine that snakes around space.
x.com/fun_and_awe...
It's essentially a drum machine that snakes around space.
x.com/fun_and_awe...
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
As a composer of tedious basic loops, I need to hide my complex patch behind my complex patch so that I cannot see my complex patch because of my complex patch.
#shituserstories
#shituserstories
my children cannot handle referring to pistachio butter as pisbutt
November 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
my children cannot handle referring to pistachio butter as pisbutt
Public service announcement - if you're yet to see today's batch of new Another Timbre releases, do yourself a favour. I think this is the strongest batch of releases I've ever seen from any label - glorious work.
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Public service announcement - if you're yet to see today's batch of new Another Timbre releases, do yourself a favour. I think this is the strongest batch of releases I've ever seen from any label - glorious work.
Thiel just sold all his Nvidia shares; SoftBank did the same last week; while Burry has disclosed a short position.
Nvidia make the GPUs that are used for training AI, particularly large language and generative models, and are generally considered the canary in the coalmine for the AI bubble burst.
Nvidia make the GPUs that are used for training AI, particularly large language and generative models, and are generally considered the canary in the coalmine for the AI bubble burst.
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Thiel just sold all his Nvidia shares; SoftBank did the same last week; while Burry has disclosed a short position.
Nvidia make the GPUs that are used for training AI, particularly large language and generative models, and are generally considered the canary in the coalmine for the AI bubble burst.
Nvidia make the GPUs that are used for training AI, particularly large language and generative models, and are generally considered the canary in the coalmine for the AI bubble burst.