Seth

@selgart.bsky.social

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I play synthesizers. Occasional baking. Also, will boost terrible puns. From and still in New York City. He/Him.

Picked up my copy of Cloudy With a Chance of Starships at the Astoria Bookshop, my local indie bookstore
Akai MPC One Gen2, fresh out of the box. Light was odd so the color is odd, but the metallic blue is at least sort of close. Ish.
Goose performing at Summmerstage in Central Park in New York City
Me holding a slightly early arrived copy of the book Unhittable, by Rob Friedman
Old iPhone being repurposed as a DVR clock. An app called zen Flip Clock works well for this.
A screenshot of a series of consecutive skeets starting with Katie Mack saying she uses Fahrenheit in the summer and Celsius in the winter because F is good for distinguishing warm temps but in the cold above or below 0 in C is more useful. The skeets right above that is an example of Casey Liss’ “ongoing holy war” about why F is better, in reply to a “taps the sign” graphic showing 0 degrees to 100 degrees in Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. The F scale is labeled from from 0 degrees being really cold outside to 100 degrees being really hot outside, the C scale goes from 0 being fairly cold outside to 100 being dead, and the K scale goes from 0 being dead to 100 being dead as Casey Liss rides off into the sunset. That last bit isn’t in the image, it’s just something I added LOL
Ploughgate Creamery butter. 8 ounce blob of butter, kind of like if someone squished a baseball, wrapped in paper with a round sticker saying where it’s from (Vermont). Although I got mine in Brooklyn.
Homer Simpson, mouth open and head leaning waaaaay back, in approximately the same position as the Uffington White Horse’s head. Sorta.
The Waldorf Protein synthesizer, fresh out of the box. About the size of a trade paperback, or maybe a stack of four or five iPads.
Screenshot of a patch of mine in Absynth 6. Only had it about 20 minutes but was able to import one of my Absynth 5 patches and it totally worked.
Marquee of the Beacon Theater in New York City announcing tonight’s sold out Patti Smith show
A Sonicware ELZ_1 Play v2 on a desk, with a Waldorf Blofeld hovering above.
Apparently a now fully functioning Waldorf Iridium Desktop synthesizer with headphones attached as well as a CME Xkey Air 25 keyboard (via USB) along with a neon light sculpture next to it.
Outside view of the side of the Sky Bar factory/store.
Minimoog Voyager synthesizer with a Moog soft case upside down above the synth
Black sand beach on the east coast of Iceland, late November, in the grey-clouded cold. There’s a large monolithic rock tower just off the beach in the water on the left, and on the right there are numerous small runoff waterfalls flowing down from a small cliff separating the land from the beach. The largest of these is in the foreground, and the runoff has almost but not quite made it to the ocean. The beach, cliff, and ocean go off miles into the distance eventually fading into the distant fog. There’s not a human in sight, just mossy highland, short cliff, narrow black sand beach, monolith, ocean, and fog. For endless miles.
Screenshot of the online shopping cart of my local bookstore, Astoria Bookshop in NYC, with a pre-order of SideQuested in it, only to find I’d already pre-ordered it a couple of months ago LOL
The Light Brigade - Fight The Future magnet on my fridge, right under the Frigidaire emblem. Round and slightly smaller than palm-sized. Also, three magnetic control knobs (obviously required to operate the fridge LOL).
IQAir display saying breathing in my apartment is not a good idea at this time. “Your indoor air quality is unsuitable.”
Photo of a painting of Mars. Frame is made of wood about 6"/25cm across. Mars is painted on a disc that’s basically floating above a flat-black background.
Photo of three packs of Moog patch cables in several sizes, ordered from the Bob Moog Foundation
Ambient Ø connected via an MRCC MIDI interface to my Mac, about one third of the way through a firmware update
Aerial view of today's setup. CME Xkey Air keyboard connected via USB to the Conductive Labs MRCC MIDI router. From the MRCC to the DT1000 Programmer and then into the Roland D-05 synthesizer.
Photo of the Close to the Edge box set, showing the six discs in their slots in the gatefold album cover as well as the "suitable for framing" print of one of the Roger Dean paintings done for the album.
Photo of the Valles Marineris painting by Dr. Laci Brock. It’s a roughly palm-sized disc pretty realistically painted to look like Mars, mounted in a square wooden frame about the size of a fully outstretched large hand. The background is painted black, and the Mars disk is mounted on a small block that can’t be seen to look like it’s “floating” in space and centered in the frame. Also in the photo are some stickers that were included in the package and a certificate of authenticity.
Various toilet paper roll placements, in a grid shown with lawful/neutral/chaotic columns and good/neutral/evil rows. lawful good - full roll on holder with paper coming off from in front of the roll lawful neutral - same but half a roll lawful evil - full roll, paper hanging down from the back of the roll neutral good - half roll, hanging in front, full roll on cabinet true neutral - full roll, standing on end, resting on top of holder neutral evil - empty roll chaotic good - empty roll, three full rolls on cabinet chaotic neutral - empty roll, half roll on cabinet chaotic evil - empty roll, box of tissues on top of cabinet LOL
Black sand beach on the east coast of Iceland. In the foreground on the right is a low cliff, mossy grass on top, small waterfalls along the edge, and on the black sand below short “rivers” of water snaking towards the sea but none quite making it all the way there yet. A little ways off on the left there’s a square black monolith of eroded stone in the water but touching the shore, maybe twice as tall as the low cliff. The narrow beach stretches off into the distant fog, miles away down the coast. It is utterly silent except for the small waves reaching the shore, with no evidence of human presence anywhere in the universe.
The Eno stream end screen on my iPad. Just the word "Eno." in block letters in white on a black background, with the word "Bye!" in small block letters above and the same width as the period, with generative graphics flowing behind the text. Watched the first one on my iPad, then cast the two evening ones in my time zone to my TV, skipped the 1:30am one, alas, then watched the last two this morning on my iPad again, the first on in headphones, the second just over the speakers.
Watching the first showing of the Eno movie in the 24 hours of Eno stream on an iPad on my desk. Instead of working LOL
The Triboro Bridge in New York City, looking northeast, from the bridge walkway over Randall’s Island on the north side of the bridge
Wide photo of the 59th Street Bridge from a distance, taken near the bottom end of Roosevelt Island looking North-ish
Synclavier Regen synthesizer on an angled stand with a CME Xkey Air 25 Bluetooth keyboard (connected via USB at the moment) on the desk below
Marquee outside the SVA Theater on 23rd Street in New York City announcing the Eno movie
Black sand beach on the east coast of Iceland, late November, in the grey-clouded cold. There’s a large monolithic rock tower just off the beach in the water on the left, and on the right there are numerous small runoff waterfalls flowing down from a small cliff separating the land from the beach. The largest of these is in the foreground, and the runoff has almost but not quite made it to the ocean. The beach, cliff, and ocean go off miles into the distance eventually fading into the distant fog. There’s not a human in sight, just mossy highland, short cliff, narrow black sand beach, monolith, ocean, and fog. For endless miles.
Photo of the new CME USB Host MIDI interface, sitting on top of a MacBook Pro trackpad.
Overhead photo of a keyboard based modular synthesizer, set up with three lights and two cameras and ready to be filmed.
Album cover for Pink Floyd, Winterland Eclipse 1972. A futuristic cyborg-ish woman's head with dozens of wires for the neck, and the top of her skull being made of many separated metal plates revealing a nebula-like memory core (maybe) in her brain case. Sounds creepier than it actually is as she's definitely a cyborg as opposed to a human.
Photo of New York City from 101 floors above the ground, looking north-ish