Happy new year, everyone. I spent the last day of 2018 at the Musée Mécanique ([museemecaniquesf.com](http://museemecaniquesf.com/)) here in San Francisco, looking back toward various pasts of technology (sonic and adjacent) before we moved ahead. “Music Changed Weekly” — I especially appreciated the formulation of the text on this keyboard-less player piano. In its heyday, the phrase read like an assurance, a promise, whereas today it reads like a past-tense depiction of a distant era. All of which is to say, my extended [social-media](https://twitter.com/disquiet) break is over, and I’m looking forward to this new year.
