#Experimental

Gonna drop these as I feel like it
One of my top #experimental #synthpop albums of 2025: #SaekoKilly's Dream In Dream
saekokilly.bandcamp.com/album/

The title track is a bit more laid back, but check out Next Time or Melancholy for a hint of #postpunk + beat, even a hint of #krautrock. Album wanders styles and languages - English, Japanese, and German. Found her through the experimental/electronic label Bureau B #music

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2025-12-24

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danila kozyrev - saelo

"A classical album experimenting with sonic textures and interesting compositions"

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My Zines on Itch are free, you just grab them if you feel like having some free #zines

pestojaguar.itch.io/perhapsyou "Perhaps you might try the soup" is sci-fi adjacent comedy type experimental

pestojaguar.itch.io/swimming-t
"Swimming In Treacle" is less funny and more experimental images and texty

Every download makes me happy, because someone might enjoy my art. But you know, no pressure friends!

#ZineLibraries please feel free to, (print out these zines and), add them to your collection

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#Zine #scifi #Comic #Experimental #Comics #ScienceFiction #Poetry #Creator #Art #MastoArt #DigitalZine #Free #sci-fiArt #Sci-Fi

2025-12-24

Inspired by Antonin Artaud, this poem-sequence album explores language, memory, rhythm, and timbre, channeling humor, horror, regret, and joy.

The Wow: poems by Lewis LaCook
lewislacook.bandcamp.com/album

#poetry
#spokenword
#electronica
#experimental

2025-12-24
David Bowie - Stage
1978 UK RCA #vinyl #music
#ArtRock #Glam #Experimental
This live album features Adrian Belew on guitar and contains songs from "Low", "Heroes", "Station to Station" and "Ziggy Stardust"
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2025-12-24

David Bowie - Stage
1978 UK RCA #vinyl #music
#ArtRock #Glam #Experimental
This live album features Adrian Belew on guitar and contains songs from "Low", "Heroes", "Station to Station" and "Ziggy Stardust"

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Filling The Gaps: The Kodak Charmera, A Keychain Digital Camera

It’s the ‘must have’ camera of late 2025, so of course, I must have one. The Kodak Charmera is a small ‘keychain’ camera. As many have observed,  it’s small. Just a few cm long and maybe 15mm wide, the Charmera has a 1.6MP sensor and a tiny little screen. The controls are minimal, an on/off button, which also doubles as a menu button, the shutter button, and three buttons on the back. One for playback/select items and two toggle buttons that cycle through the different filters.

There’s no shutter speed selection, which is fixed at around 1/30s, and pressing the shutter makes a synthesised shutter sound that’s not all that loud, so sometimes you’re not actually sure if an image has been taken. Images are stored on a microSD card (not included), and apparently it’ll accept cards up to 32GB. Since file sizes are relatively small, I’m running my Charmera off a 1GB microSD card filched from the cheap Photo Creator MiniCam. That’s enough room for thousands of images, although I tend to download mine after each outing with the camera.

The appeal of the Charmera is it’s lo-fi aesthetic, although the Shitty Camera Challenge community have pounced on it as a ‘normal’ Shitty-compliant camera, to great effect. Other in the US, everyone seemed to be getting them, but over here in Europe they’re much hard to get. Also, there’s a premium, the $30 Charmera is more like 40—50€, depending on where you shop. They also run out really quickly. Fortunately,  I managed to nab two from the second run in November, and have a third on order at the moment.

There are six different designs of the Charmera, with a seventh transparent design as a ‘special’, and they’re sold in ‘blind’ boxes, so you don’t actually know which one you’ve got until you open the box. This is kind of half the fun, the rest is fiddling around with the camera. On the bottom of the device, next to the microSD card slot, is a USB-C socket for charging the camera or transferring files. I have a recent Android phone and it’s easy to transfer files from the Charmera to my phone, though apparently with some older phones this is not that straightforward.

So how does it perform? Not too shabbily really. It’s definitely better than the Photo Creator MiniCam, another keychain camera that I picked up recently, although actually taking a photo takes practise. Instead of pushing the shutter firmly, you just need to tap the button to take an image. Colour images came out nicely, though there’s nothing too exciting about them, but a lot more fun can be had with the filters. Like a lot of users, I’ve settled with the ‘grey’ filter, which is a two-tone grey and black image. There are a number of these, red, blue, and yellow, but I like the grey one.

One thing I did wonder, as I do with all my cameras, is what it’s infrared sensitivity is like. The Charmera is a cheap camera, and I hoped that this cheapness extended to the IR cut filter used on this little camera. I set the camera to black and white, held a 720nm infrared filter over the lens (and covered the’flash’ LED to prevent any light interference), and took a snap. It was great! At the same time I took black and white images with red, green, and blue filters, to make digital aerochromes and trichromes. These came out pretty darned good, too.

So what next for the Charmera? I bought two when I could get my hands on them, and have just added a third. My original Charmera I’m going to keep in its natural state, aside from covering the flash. The second I’m hoping to open up and remove the IR cut filter to make it truly full-spectrum. All being well that’ll be the subject of a future post. The third, still in its box, is hopefully to be used for a ‘thing’ that I have in mind that I’m not going to talk about yet in case it doesn’t happen.  

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#Abstract #Charmera #Experimental #Infrared #Kodak #KodakCharmera #LoFi #Retro #Shittycamerachallenge #ToyCamera #VintageVibes

A stitched panorama of a sunrise taken with the Kodak Charmera.
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subespai - Saints

"Field recordings and drones intermingle evoke emotional resonance and drift through memory and place."

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2025-12-24
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A dive into my old vaults remastered: from IDM to ambient, from techno to illbient, the progression to my modern day vibe can be heard ----> links for release: cygnusmusic.link/0qarwop
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#idm #ukmusic #deepmusic #experimental

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2025-12-24

MORTON SUBOTNICK
The Wild Bull
1968 U.S. pressing

THIS was the follow-up to Subotnick’s groundbreaking and influential Silver Apples Of The Moon record, an album so far ahead of its time and innovative, that people are still baffled by it.

For me, The Wild Bull is equally as impressive, and pushes the mysterious sounds and tones of the Buchla synth out even FURTHER.

Subotnick read the ancient Sumerian poem of the same name, and felt that its subject of loss and grief correlated with these compositions he was working on.

Printed on the back of the album jacket, it’s an incredibly beautiful and moving poem, and it’s easy to see why Subotnick was so inspired by it.

Clocking in at just under 28 minutes, it’s a challenging but very rewarding listen as long as you approach it with the right set of ears, just like Silver Apples Of The Moon.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #electronic #abstract #experimental #artrock #mortonsubotnick

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