I Wonder What It Was
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
It's Happening Again - Music From Broken Realities Leaking Through
It's happening again.
There is no explanation.
The inexplicable music of alternate broken realities began breaking through into our shared collective audio reality in the mid-2020s.
Nobody could stop it.
Some did not want to stop it. They revelled in its captivating chaos, new sounds and freaked up rhythms.
Some like me.
We can only try to replicate and imitate the brief sonic glimpses we are granted in dreams and daytime hallucinations.
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Sunday, March 29, 2026
'Never Say Everything You Know'
'Never Say Everything You Know' by Darryl Mason
I made the below piece of generative music the old fashioned pre-A.I. and digital media way, by layering tape loops playing at different speeds. Some of the oldest samples and loops in this are from TV shows I recorded in the late 1970s by holding a tape recorder up to the TV's speaker. I have no idea which cartoons or TV shows or ads I sampled back then.
I always wondered why I'd held onto those audio cassettes for so long. I'm glad I did. You can't replicate the fuzzouts and random glitchery of ancient tape recordings, particularly ones exposed to direct sunlight sitting on a bookshelf for ten years (oops).
I have no problem discussing when or where I used Generative A.I. Music technology, but this noisefest is all mine. I am going to 'recast' this piece at some point with Gen A.I. to see what results and what new realms I can take it in, beyond my own synths and keyboards.
I used to tape record everything in my teens, when I had tapes. And a recorder. 'Never Say Everything You Know' includes the first time I ever picked up a guitar and tried to play a solo. I can't play now, so why would I care if anybody knows I couldn't play in my teens?
The most recent sample in there is a grab from the theme song of the U.S. Space Force agency. It's one of the worst theme songs for anything I've ever heard. So I had to include just a bit for the paranoia and authoritarian vibe.
Yeah, I think I am going to remix this with A.I.
Never Say Everything You Know on YouTube