Middle Path is sold out! Thank you @jamesglohe and @unknowncollector for securing the last two editions. It means to world to me that you enjoy our work. More to come. objkt.com/tokens/KT1JE...

A new single music video from the new album just announced🦖🦕 lol

Currently listening to this electroacoustic album: ‘Flowers Are Blooming In Antarctica’ by Italian composer and saxophonist Laura Agnusdei

Loving this album so far. Really cool extended techniques performed by Mivos Quartet. newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lei-li... "From under impenetrable ice, only the lone and disoriented Beluga whale’s distress call, pervading the cycle’s harrowingly sparse coda, compels all the more to render ... Show more

Sláinte🍻

Enjoying this new album of vocal music by one of my favorite composers, Nico Muhly. Check out his write-up: nicomuhly.substack.com/p/album-no-r...

Oil on panvas

'The Hand is an Ear' by Timothy McCormack, performed by JACK Quartet "The performer and their instrument form a single body. Attention is drawn to the positioning and proximity of the appendages of this body, as well as their effortful and glacial movements; the body in acute proprioceptive relation to itself. This bo... Show more

Instead of playing by the rules play WITH the rules. Change the game.

Well that was easy. Lol My lady’s Scentr.app prompt to find the right perfume from her collection today: “What would be good for a cozy Sunday morning?”

A punchy little weekend read. lol lonewick.substack.com/p/oh-its-alr...

Dark mode.

I built an app for fragrance lovers. lonewick.substack.com/p/i-built-an...

Gm I love the composition, colors, texture, slight imbalance, and expansiveness of this piece. 'items' by @santiagoney

Gm🤌 'T.Red_02' by @Olga_f2727

Absolutely loving Pat Metheny's new album 'Side-Eye III+'. I also appreciate that he vets young promising musicians for his new projects to help propel their careers.

What's the best tool to make a demo video for an app landing page? Anything better than a standard editor like CapCut?

For something less dissonant than I usually post and more traditional “beautiful”, the piano trio piece ‘Pietà’ is gorgeous.

Really digging the first track release from this Shutterspeed Duo album. “Erich Barganier (electric guitar/electronics) and Ford Fourqurean (clarinets/electronics) are Shutterspeed Duo, a composer/performer ensemble combining contemporary classical composition, DIY aesthetics, multimedia electronics, and video art.”

'O_D_cogged' by @draincain Open edition live now. objkt.com/tokens/KT1XF...

'Vuoi che perduti (2018)' by Marco Momi For saxophone, percussion and piano

‘Appearance and Being’ by @pixelsymphony on @fxhash

Thank you to @lucclop and @arttseng for collecting!❤️‍🔥 2 editions left

'Middle Path' Visual Art by @ArtWojak Music by me Only 4 editions left objkt.com/tokens/KT1JE...

New Fossilization

Gm🚢 Ship Now, or Keep Perfecting? Cover art: 'Letting Be' by @hopi.base.eth lonewick.substack.com/p/ship-now-o...

Saw some whales a couple days ago🐋

Finally secured a brand new copy of Peter Sloterdijk’s Globes. The second and longest book in his magnum opus trilogy, Spheres🤌 It was the only copy available at a random art gallery storefront. The only other ones I could find were bad used copies for over $200. Got this for $40. I don’t think they realized what they had.

‘Poison #20’ by @unitedfxh

Behemoth's first full-length album is gorgeous.

Current listening. More Colin Stetson. This album is insane. "The music on New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges was captured entirely live in single takes with no overdubs or looping (except for the French horn section on "All the days I've missed you", and guest vocals on various other tracks), using over 20 mics posit... Show more

New Colin Stetson track. He’s the crazy sax player that did the soundtracks for Hereditary, Mayday, Among the Stars, the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Menu, Uzumaki, etc.

Gm🤖🎶 Here’s an opinion piece on AI in music. lonewick.substack.com/p/a-new-gene...

Gm👨‍🎨💬 A new Artist Spotlight is out! Read about the life and art of a brilliant digital artist and a great friend, @evelyn0. lonewick.substack.com/p/an-empty-m...

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I love the changes and listening to Wes' comping under another soloist. It's like subtle paint strokes in real time under the surface. Tasty.

Gm☕️ ❌Take on the world’s problems as an excuse to do nothing. 😎Make today’s small iteration on something that makes life easier or more fun for at least one other person.

I've posted a bit less in the past few weeks, just deep into building and creating. Feels good. I'm still around though and there will be bursts of activity. Two things to look forward to: 👨‍🎨 A new Artist Spotlight coming out. Read all previous ones here (so much creative gold!): lonewick.substack.com/s/art... Show more

'Composer and pianist Richard Carrick's recent work fuses his penchant for long form composition, fluency in extended techniques, versatile performance practice, and interest in structured improvisation. This newest album-length work, l’Algérie is the second part of a trilogy of large-scale works inspired in part by th... Show more

'With the battle of Pavia in 1525 a long period of Spanish domination began for Milan. Under the reign of Charles V the arts and music flourished. Antonio de Cabezón travelled across Europe visiting Milan in 1548 and his music influenced the great European composers. Contrary to keyboard instruments, lute and vihuela ... Show more

Chill Sunday vibes.

New release I’m listening to: ‘India’ by Swedish classical guitarist Johannes Möller

I’m constantly surprised and excited by how much I discover about the work, myself, and broader philosophical understandings when consistently working with a limited tool set on a narrowly scoped project. It turns out that narrow goes wide and deep.

‘Watching Man’ by @indi

Current listening: Bach, Telemann and Weiss: Baroque Lute Music | Xavier Díaz-Latorre · Mar...

Unbelievable.

B&W oil on panvas

What a GM🤩 Started the day off by unwrapping this gorgeous physical of ‘The Shape of Time’ from my good friend @pixelsymphony. Thank you❤️‍🔥

Loving my mint from @pixelsymphony’s ‘The Shape of Time’. Some of these outputs have a really cool optical mixing effect on the zoom out🤌 #42

UNRISEN | recording + score By Marco Momi

Harry Partch (1901–1974) was an American composer, instrument builder, and theorist who rejected the standard Western tuning system and built his own musical world from scratch. Dissatisfied with equal temperament, he developed a microtonal system of 43 notes per octave based on just intonation, believing music should ... Show more

I want you to want me.

‘Machine Spectre’ (2024) by Ess Whiteley

‘Images from a Closed Ward’ by Michael Hersch

‘wip #16112025’ by @olgaf

I absorbed a bunch of Bartok last night. I woke up and wrote music today, and after a while, some magic formed. Now I’m absorbing a bunch of cheese.

A composition grows from a single motivic germ. Everything in the piece is a developing variation of that germ.

Right now I’m thinking about: 1. Various layers of dynamic dimension 2. Imitation among those layers 3. Cadence of each layer 4. Cadence of aggregates of layers

Gm💬 Thanks to One of One for the opportunity to write a lot of words about some of my perspectives and creative process. I hope you enjoy it.

Today’s latte under the light of an overcast sky.

Gaahl

‘Hold Me Forever’ (2022) by @evelyn0 Digital painting + AI

Hail nature.

‘interruption #3’ by @evelyn0

Currently listening to this new release of music by Georg Friedrich Haas, known for his micro-tonal and spectral techniques. Violin Concerto No. 2 and de terrae fine Read the write-up here:

'FSP records 10F' by @v4w-enko 🔊

Getting green lights today. That sweet fruit of progress finally in reach🫴🟢

Wiegenmusik (1963) is a solo piano piece by German composer Helmut Lachenmann. The title translates to "Cradle-Music" or "Lullaby," but the composition abstractly depicts the act of falling asleep, moving from intense activity towards a state of complete rest.

A collection of three posts you've seen here (with revisions) and an artwork by the great @evelyn0. lonewick.substack.com/p/3-short-ob...

All the words I hear, They don't mean a thing, All drenched in fear and the hate you bring. - In Flames

I identify as a composer but the reality is that the majority of my time is not spent composing. I believe the work of great composers/artists comes from the opposite work, the living of a life. The lived life doesn’t have to be a balanced one. It can literally be anything except for the music/art. The art is the outl... Show more

We're passing through a dream. That's all it is. The whole thing is a dream and you get to paint it however you want. You can take it super seriously and get caught up in others' interpretation of it, or you can make it up and make it as magical as you want. Most of us aren't lucid and most never get a chance to be ... Show more

Gm☕️ 'Brutal Infection #39' by @distcollective on @fxhash

“Communities are formed through shared immunological fictions.” - Sloterdijk

I like working very small, very local, for the biggest impact. Serve one or two people beyond their expectations. Actually care. Service is extremely underrated nowadays, especially when it comes to something seemingly detached like an app or online business, or in the arts where often the creator is doing something ... Show more

A lot of people ask, “Are we in a simulation?” The answer is an easy “Yes.” As long as you are not actively doing or creating, your mind is simulating. As long as you are passively seeing and hearing things in the world, as soon as you open a form of media/social media, you are stimulating what’s in front of you and... Show more

The Art of Panvas Omelette on plate

Currently listening to New York black metal, Yellow Eyes.

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I have to remind myself to stop worrying about timelines.

I like when I become consciously aware that I’m pushing far past my skill level or understanding, then make the decision to look back at an earlier point of clearer understanding, then restart from there. It initially feels like taking a step back (because it literally is) but it’s a step further/faster than if I woul... Show more

Gm from seasoned panvas🍳🖼️

Currently listening to Helmut Lachenmann's 'String Trio'

Gn🎨✈️

The collector is always right. The collector is also malleable. The artist is right if they use the right frame. The artist isn’t free if they require a sale. The artist is honest if they are free.

I’m an adjective pretending to be a verb.

Great work. Firecracker, reaching gesture, seasonal gourds. ‘Kagusutchi Bones’ by Evelyn O.

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New Marco Momi work.

Just received this 3-disc vinyl set of Bartok’s string quartets in near mint condition🤌 These works have been a major source of inspiration and analysis for me. Can’t wait to sit back and listen with my old book of the scores.

A new album of beautiful piano music by various contemporary composers who are often labeled as "Indie Classical".

Yesss. I can't wait for this new Michael Hersch album to come out. Check out the first piece released so far.

"Since 2023, REALITY has explored two parallel creative channels: the ecstatic drone, minimalism, and meditative repetition of one world, and the pulverising breakdowns of hardcore, metal, and powerviolence of another. For Clift, these opposing forces form a cathartic, near-spiritual continuum driven by repetition, ecs... Show more

The combo of daily light savings ending and the transitional effect of November skies creates a cool surreal feeling that is great for creating.

There’s a chef and there are cooks in all industries. Both important. I like to approach music as a chef.

Just a verbose rant on a principle. I hope you get something out of it🐒❤️‍🔥

“Somebody went and freed some chickens in the grave yard. Weird flex, but I like a weird flex. I like an odd duck who adheres to a spirit quest, per se.” -Aesop Rock

Oil on panvas

'silver bullet shades of layers domino reacts as the sunset melts core of earth' by @blanqspacer x @santiagoney on @objktcom

Love seeing this piece continuing to be collected❤️‍🔥 4 editions remaining 'Middle Path' An audiovisual collab with @ArtWojak (art) and myself (music)

This is one of the pieces that made me want to learn more about blanq. It feels like something I would make. It has a similar visual aesthetic to how I imagine some of my music. Learn how a piece like this comes to life in our chat.

I have just collected "nft vacation" by @santiagoney on @objktcom

Blanq’s work is alive, vibrant, visceral. Read his Artist Spotlight to discover how and why. “Resistance to everything mundane and conventional that’s always trying, one way or another, to subjugate us.” - blanq

Gm☕️ The new Artist Spotlight is out🤘 It was an absolute pleasure to dig into the mind of an artist whose inner world and processes burn with the same vitality that comes through in his work. Meet @blanqspacer

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Enjoying the soft touch of this John Cage piece while putting the finishing touches on an Artist Spotlight post in the Artletter.

Hahaha. Reading this in the cold embrace of my Darkthrone shirt.

1. Learn techniques. 2. Setup up mental environment with rich source material (a subject that contains emotion and logic). Sit with it. Internalize it. 3. Elevate the techniques with the indescribable magic that forms as a result of internalizing the rich source material.

‘221121q01vNp19001900’ by qubibi on @objktcom

A few Artletter posts coinciding. Quite exciting. One of which is an Artist Spotlight with a person who thinks deeply, feels deeply, and is no stranger to chaos🤘 Subscribe to have it delivered the moment is comes out.

It’s taken me a lifetime to learn this lesson: In so many ways, Smart is dumb. Dumb is smart.

It’s collab season👀

Row and gestures inspired by Webern. But of course, the gestures will explode LoneWick-style💥

12-tone ~serialism underway.

New panvas seasoning coming along nicely.

Michael Hersch is one of my biggest composer influences. I can’t get enough.

On Substack. Pretty cool to be ranking at all🙌

This one tickles the ears a bit. I love the general sound and vibe. Very local and tender.

2008

Fewer distractions, richer focus. Less noise, more creation. Less proving, more becoming. Less broadcasting, more building.

Allegri’s ‘Miserere mei Deus’ is one of the coolest pieces I’ve ever heard and it was composed in the 1630’s. Damn.

The highest status flex in my mind (the game I’m playing) looks something like this: ☑️ Financially independent through own business/service (even if it means working more hours than a 9-5) and living well below means. ☑️ Spends the rest of the time making art/music.

If you find that someone is in competition with you at a game you’re not even playing, just give them the win. Don’t try to prove anything. If it’s not a game you’re trying to play, don’t get caught playing it.

I have this painting of Tom Waits on my office wall with a phrase from one of his songs at the bottom: “What’s he building in there?” It’s never not appropriate.

'QUATTRO NUDI' by Marco Momi

Current listening while working on a non-music project.

Art lives beneath the crust. New Artletter post👇 lonewick.substack.com/p/first-prin...

If you’re not sympathetic to the killer at least a little, there’s no story.

I keep finding that mirror images and perfect symmetry make me feel a little sick.