I had seen this dude before, because he's a megafauna in a very specific context, and I never saw a rabbit hole I didn't want to inhabit for a while. But Morak had mentioned that whenever they turned the camera back on this guy, he was holding some crazy, borderline imaginary geometry to his lips and blowing through it. It's not something you have to imagine - you can literally see it here:

My eldest has described to me the concept of an Ascended Glitch, where something that is ostensibly a glitch becomes recognized by the developer as an "unintended virtue" and canonized mechanically. I mentioned that Skiing in Tribes probably fit the bill as an early version of this, and they suggested that this was in fact enter'd into the holy scrollz. I've long thought of the instruments we have today as ascended glitches - a collapsing of the broadest potential into cloisters of clannish mystery. I don't even mean that as an insult! Having grown up in one, I'm (broadly speaking) pro-cult.

For my part I've always been a little obsessed with instruments not as sacred but as a subclass of inventions, and modernity lays all of this pretty bare. I've always loved this Shawn Wasabi track, not just because it's dope as fuck but also because it shows how a lot of people make music now - on infinitely mutable pads:

Someday I'll put the stuff I do with things like this on the site. Not tomorrow, probably. But someday, for sure.

(CW)TB out.