Music – Page 3 – HELLO, I'M SETH WERKHEISER

DOWN BY THE RIVER (NOTHING HAPPENS)

My HUNTERTHEN track ‘More Immersive’ used in one of Noah Kalina’s new ambient videos. Here the full album below. Enjoy.

SOUNDCLOUD AND AI

New SoundCloud terms of service just dropped:

We will not use your content to train generative AI models that aim to replicate or synthesize your voice, music, or likeness without your explicit consent, which must be affirmatively provided through an opt-in mechanism.

What a wild time is for music right now.

HOW LONG CAN YOU KEEP UP A LIE?

Been listening to French radio a bit lately and this came on and holy shit, I love it so much. The line “this shit has nothing to do with you” takes the air out of my lungs.

SURFACE AREA

There’s the saying to increase the surface area for luck, but I’m telling you… meeting new folks increases the surface area for COOL STUFF.

I just got off a Zoom call with some great folks and met Andrew White and I want him to take photos of me running up the hills I try to run up (just kidding, I’d look awful), and also discovered Andrew(?) Byrd who is running an analog recording competition – making and recording music with no computers!

I know, I know… the surface area thing… for networking, for finding jobs, yes, sure. Of course. But wow, there are just so many amazing people out there doing great work.

MORE IMMERSIVE

My HUNTERTHEN music made an appearance in the latest Hotline Show by Noah Kalina.

The track ‘More Immersive’ is from my 2003 release ‘Wizard Box.’

I didn’t even recognize it at first (Noah had asked permission, of course), but when I did it really threw me for a loop, to hear my music matched with Noah’s stunning visuals.

JESSE WELLES RELEASES 63 SONG ALBUM

Make things, show it to your friends, like Rick Rubin says:

“Some have already criticized Jesse Welles’ output as being too much, and this batch of previously-releases songs won’t help his case. But what Jesse Welles is doing defies all conventional norms. No artist or songwriter has ever been responsible for such a voluminous amount of output that still resonates widely with the public like Welles does. It’s unprecedented territory that calls for extraordinary measures to chronicle it, like releasing a 63-song album.”

Via Saving Country Music, via Tedium.

HOW TO FALL OUT OF LOVE WITH MUSIC

I’m sad when I click to listen to someone’s latest offering and I’m left with a long narrow list of digital music streaming providers and download partners.

Now, a “landing page” with lyrics and photos and other “on brand” delights would be so appealing, and it’s not that hard in 2025.

But instead, a legion of talented music makers are content to do what everyone else is doing, sending their adoring fans to faceless corporate data collection services instead of pulling them further into their own creative world (and capturing a few email addresses in the process).

BACK UP THE DIGITAL WITH THE PHYSICAL

With all my digital dumping lately, been thinking a lot about digital media.

This from Patrick Rhone:

Here’s a (admittedly costly and privileged) thought: Instead of downloading your Kindle books and hacking the DRM from them, use the titles as a list to go buy from your local book store. Or, cheaper option, to keep an eye out for in a Little Free Library.

Back up the digital with the physical.

I’ve cancelled Disney+ because I watch the same old Star Wars movies, and the price keeps going up. I thought, gee, just buy those movies digitally via Apple or Amazon, so I can just stream them whenever I want, right?

But maybe I should just buy a blu-ray player and the actual discs. That way, if the internet goes down or I somehow lose access to my accounts or digital files, well, I can still watch those movies.

I thought this too with digital music – I was digging around for a media player that isn’t Apple Music, and oh my god, everything is atrocious.

But instead of re-building a system which keeps all my files inside my laptop, why not try to buy the CDs (and cassettes)? I can even burn digital files to a CD and play them on my CD player.

Save your 5,000 word essays about how Chappell Roan is wrong and buy a fucking album or a hoodie from a band you like.