MAKING MUSIC WITH CHARLES BUKOWSKI

I've published my first piece of original music under my MachinesMachines moniker. It's a short, plunderphonic-inspired track called Ancient, Modern. It's part of an EP I'm working on separate to all the games stuff which is inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin's unrivalled fantasy series, Earthsea. This track, however, isn't so much about wizards and dragons and the Old Speech, rather, it's a meditation on making art for an asynchronous and disparate audience. I saw a webcomic the other day which compared the feeling of '20 views' on a piece of art to 20 people being in a room and enjoying it together. And while these aren't exactly comparable (especially on an internet that has devolved into a velodrome for data-scraping bots), the idea of setting expectations for work outside of the online creator economy really resonated with me. Twenty people[image or embed]— Xiaoyi (@cleefouti.bsky.social) 9 May 2026 at 00:15 The kind of music I want to make is the kind of music that will not find a…