i want a thread for Holly Herndon

was also there. fckn incredible show, thought aya was really great as well.

pal i was with (who maybe lurks here, hi!) goes to london sacred harp occasionally but hadn't been in a couple of months so missed out on being one of those audience singers

really loved how much all the choral singers were just cutting lose

loose*

because i am so woke i was worried their peasant/traditional headscarves & other gear might be appropriation, lol. but yep, amazing. first song was *massive*, is it on the album (which i haven't listened to enough and can't listen to right now)?

nice, wish I could have seen this!

Saw the projections adapted to the Hexadome when it was presented as part of the Gray Area festival a couple months ago. It was fucking riveting and one of my favorite things shown.

This was one of the shows I most regretted missing out on while I was out of town in May. Very jealous of all of you.

the projections were kind of washed out by stage lighting, but I saw this show at unsound festival last week and it was great

I've seen Herndon before live and something left me a little cold, but I was in the balcony and viewing this one as a complete stage production really made it click.

New tune

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— Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) November 4, 2020

excellent

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— Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) February 13, 2021

i have no idea what any of this shit is

https://xlr8r.com/news/web3-weekly-wrap-holly-herndons-holly-fwb-gatekeeper-nft-takeover-of-times-square-and-more/

lol i knew when i clicked on this that she and her cornball charlatan partner would be on some nft shit

I've been pretty disappointed with her embracing of NFTs - in general I've always liked her takes on futurism and the potential of AI etc but the NFT thing is slowly eroding my respect.

her cornball charlatan partner

??

Mat Dryhurst. He's def a tech nerd who has been heavily involved in that side of her music. They do a podcast together (https://interdependence.fm/) that I enjoyed early on, but he's gone all in on web3/NFT stuff, I had to bail.

I still don't have an opinion about NFTs because the whole thing confuses me. So does crypto.

i assure you its bad

I always hear that thing about all the energy that's used to store NFTs and I shut down fully at that point.

Mat Dryhurst. He's def a tech nerd who has been heavily involved in that side of her music. They do a podcast together (https://interdependence.fm/) that I enjoyed early on, but he's gone all in on web3/NFT stuff, I had to bail.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 November 2021

Inevitable. he went on a huge diatribe the other year about piracy, and when someone pulled him up, he was like I grew up in the middle east, I was pirating video games long before they were available to the Western public - hmmm what was someone named Dryhurst('s) family doing in the middle east in the 80s-90s?

gave a lecture at Strelka - for what it's worth. Some kind of philosopher not being able to google their relationship to the russian govt...