2026

Antifascista – background and context

Antifascista is an experimental music piece rooted in a concrete real-world incident in Salem, Sweden, in December. The background is video footage from a 2025 attempt to restart the Salem march – a neo-Nazi demonstration that previously took place between...

25 January 2026

Andras fri- och rättigheter – Ett snårigt näste när man bara bryr sig om sig själv

I dagens digitala debattklimat hör man ofta människor utropa: “Jag får faktiskt säga vad jag vill – vi har yttrandefrihet!” Detta sker inte sällan i samband med att någon fått sin kommentar raderad eller blivit blockerad på en privat plattform....

7 January 2026

2025

People are predicting Suno’s death – how likely is it?

Not long ago, Udio effectively took the “fine, we’ll license it” route: it reached a strategic agreement with Universal Music Group around a new licensed AI music platform planned for 2026. That came after the 2024 lawsuits became the main...

29 December 2025

The Struggle: Transcribe stuff for free with Whisper and WSL/Linux – With a GTX 1060

I’ve been struggling with transcription issues for quite some time, for a variety of reasons. Examples: I need a text transcribed to be pasted into Suno, that only exists as a m4a-file (i.e. music, that sometimes has hardcoded subtitles that...

23 December 2025

The main purpose of the tech house track “Magdalena”

The lyrics for “Magdalena” are intentionally written in another language to mask the literal meaning and shift focus away from local political rhetoric. This choice also supports the musical direction of the track, giving it a more exotic Latin tech house character and allowing the vocal elements to function as texture and energy rather than explicit messaging.

13 December 2025

Things “Prompt Pushers” Thought They Understood About DAWs – But Are Completely, Utterly Wrong About

Every now and then, especially in groups where “AI-generated music” is the hot topic, I encounter a parade of self-declared “AI creators” who seem absolutely convinced they understand how AI, DAWs, plugins, audio engines and production workflows operate. Spoiler: they...

5 December 2025

FWSC FastTracker Music – Personal History

The musical side of FWSC was probably never planned, structured or even meant to become a “project”. It was very much about learning applications. The name grew naturally out of the same world as FreeWare Data and FreeWare Data/2 (FidoNet...

30 November 2025

FWSC – The mid 90s developer project

During the mid 1990s, roughly between 1994 and 1999, I ran a bulletin board system called FreeWare Data. I got into the BBS world during my upper secondary school years (Swedish “gymnasium”) through new friends who introduced me to FidoNet,...

30 November 2025