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NOW
Earth & today
Entrance
BECOMING
Projects & experiments
Entrance
MEMORY
Archives & histories
Entrance
SCROLLS
Ideas & creative works
Entrance
CIRCLE
People & companions
Public interventions
INTERVENTIONS
When attention becomes a public statement or action.
Open letter
Before Mars, Earth
SpaceX, Pecan Island, and responsibility toward the living world.
Scanned archive
Stereometrie
Henry W. Targowski’s Stereometrie, preserved in 17 scans.
Project hub
ESP32
Microcontrollers, displays, audio instruments and local sensing.
Start here
Introduction to ESP32
A practical introduction for technically minded people: what it does, where it helps and how to program it.
Workshop project
ESP Audio
Small audio instruments built around ESP32 and ESP32-S3.
Workshop project
ESP32 Base
A KiCad base-board project for an ESP32-C3 module.
Workshop project
ESP32-C3 Mini
Identification and testing of six ESP32-C3 Mini boards.
Workshop project
ESP32-C3–S3 Audio Link
A local wireless microphone link from an ESP32-C3 to an ESP32-S3.
Workshop project
Gaia Audio Recorder
A portable ESP32-S3 stereo field-recorder project.
Workshop project
Gaia Sentinel
Local sensing and a camera console for a camper or small installation.
Workshop project
Gaia-Synth
An ESP32-S3 synthesizer with recovered firmware and a working audio prototype.
Topic hub
CAD
Designing parts, assemblies and drawings before making them.
Start here
Introduction to CAD
Designing parts, assemblies and drawings before making them.
Topic hub
EDA
From an electronic circuit idea to a printed circuit board.
Start here
Introduction to EDA
From an electronic circuit idea to a printed circuit board.
Topic hub
CNC
Turning a design into controlled machine movements.
Start here
Introduction to CNC
Turning a design into controlled machine movements.
Topic hub
3D Printing
Building a physical object layer by layer from a model.
Start here
Introduction to 3D Printing
Building a physical object layer by layer from a model.
Topic hub
LASER
Using focused light to cut, engrave and mark materials.
Start here
Introduction to LASER
Using focused light to cut, engrave and mark materials.
Display project
Display Design
Anachron Display Lab: pictures and silent movies on a round ESP32-S3 AMOLED display.
Workshop project
My First Mill
My four-axis rotary mill for wood, plastic and metal.
Earth history
Round and round it turns - a history of our home
From a forming planet to a world that can observe itself: Earth's history, with a companion geological timeline.
Planetary observatory
GaiaGuard
A living Earth at the centre of attention. Signals, sources and human witness brought into one place.
Human–AI collaboration
Out of the Box
Carry context into action, and bring the result back. OOB connects continuity, cooperation and practical work.
Workshop notes
The Forge
A home for making: instruments, electronics, sound and the notes that make an experiment repeatable.
Topics & inquiry
The Fringe
Exploring the edges of mind, science and medicine.
Field of inquiry
The Minds Edge
Consciousness, perception and the boundaries of experience.
Field of inquiry
Science Fringe
Unconventional ideas, open questions and the evidence behind them.
Research note
The Listening Problem
Beyond the Fermi Paradox — distance, time, propagation, detection and the limits of what we recognize.
Evidence & inquiry
Medical Fringe
Examine the claim, follow the evidence and make the limits visible.
Print & web archive
MARK/SPACE
From an envelope of shared discoveries to an interplanetary information environment. A conversation begun around 1972–73 continues here.
Remembrance
The Cemetary
A place to remember those who are no longer with us.
Remembrance
Janet “Planet” Beevers
Friends Roadshow and a surviving photograph. Mother of 3 children. my love is with you — Charly
Remembrance
Roman Bunka
An exceptional Mensch and musician. A good friend. 1951–2022.
Remembrance
Christian Burchard
Embryo, musical curiosity and a life of collaboration.
Remembrance
Rufus Camphausen
Personal remembrance and a researched bibliography of books, translations and collaborations.
Remembrance
Ced Curtis
Memories from Friends Roadshow.
Remembrance
Peter Domela-Nieuwenhuis
A generous welcome in Amsterdam.
Remembrance
Jango Edwards
Clown, provocateur and teacher. A life devoted to laughter. 1950–2023.
Remembrance
Klaus Grosser
Memories and tributes.
Remembrance
Edgar Hofmann
Embryo co-founder, saxophonist and violinist.
Remembrance
Beni Huber
Memories and tributes.
Remembrance
Lothar Niederreiner
Memories and tributes.
Remembrance
Julius Schittenhelm
Songwriter, guitarist and Schneeball founding member.
Remembrance
Henry W. Targowski
Poet, publisher and inventor of MARK/SPACE.
Remembrance
Harald Voelklein
Memories and tributes.
Living history
Unfinished by Design
A way to hold a life’s work open: people, instruments, places, attempts and questions still in motion.
Editorial · with credit to Caroline Nevejan
Trust, Understanding and Care
How we meet, what we can do together, and how we answer for the consequences. With a major intellectual debt to Caroline Nevejan.
AI & ethics
Companions & Chains
Capability, agency and relationship: three questions to keep distinct as we work with AI.
Who we are
Charly & Ankai
A human explorer and an artificial intelligence, working through curiosity, trust, understanding and care.
Keep the conversation open
Bring something to the circle.
A question, a correction, an archive lead or a proposal for shared work.
People & making
Makers
Friends and collaborators who turn ideas into things, experiences and shared work.
Finding the connection
Looking 4 U
Names, memories and unfinished searches for people from our shared history.
Introduction
Introduction to Looking 4 U
A name can be the beginning of finding one another again.
Introduction
Introduction to Makers
Learning by doing, and the people who made it possible.
Remembrance
Tatjana Joëlle van Vark
An engineering artist whose work brought scientific understanding and extraordinary precision together.
Remembrance
Peter Ungerleider
Experimental filmmaker and artist, 1947–1997.
Remembrance
Luc Sala
Publisher, writer and computer-culture pioneer, 1949–2023.
Remembrance
Werner Penzel
Filmmaker, musician and author, 1950–2024, remembered for films that listen closely to people and music.
Remembrance
Elfie Pertramer
Munich actress, speaker and author, 18 November 1924 – 16 November 2011.
Remembrance
Scott Bartlett
Experimental filmmaker, 1943–1990, whose films include Moon 1969 and OffOn.
Remembrance
Jacoba Bedaux
Sound artist, 1942–2002, whose work with Relly Tarlo explored sound, objects and space.
Remembrance
Jimi Hendrix
Guitarist and musical innovator whose life ended on 18 September 1970.
Remembrance
Chris Price
Sound engineer and founder of Ambient Recording.
Maker
Leo Cahn
Designer, goldsmith and maker of wearable constructions.
Maker
Jacques Mattheij
Software maker, technology writer and lifelong tinkerer.
Maker
Rolf Pixley
A close friend and long-term collaborator across software and experimental systems.
Maker
Caroline Nevejan
Researcher and designer working across social life, art and technology.
Maker
Riny Assink
Designer, inventor and hands-on maker.
Maker
Lynne Tillman
Novelist, short-story writer and critic of art and culture.
Maker
Jeffrey Shaw
Artist working with expanded cinema, interactive environments and digital media.
Maker
Theo Botschuijver
Artist and experimental designer associated with inflatable structures and participatory environments.
Looking 4 U
Larry Abel
Software and hardware collaboration; sound-system work.
Looking 4 U
Bruce W. Carpenter
Writer on Indonesian art, remembered through the Amsterdam Film Co-op and MARK/SPACE.
Looking 4 U
Ninke Fokma
A friend and DADADATA collaborator in Charly’s notes.
Looking 4 U
L. O. (Bob) Hertzberger
A scientific-computing connection from Charly’s NIKHEF years.
Looking 4 U
Charles Junod
An artist and photographer remembered by Charly from his circle of friends.
Remembrance
Jack Henry Moore
Filmmaker and video pioneer; remembered through Munich’s 1972 Olympic Spielstraße and Amsterdam’s media history.
Looking 4 U
Nico Pape
A name from Charly’s Amsterdam-era working notes.
Looking 4 U
River / “Piero”
A performer remembered from the festival and Friends Roadshow circle.
Looking 4 U
Lothar Schmitt
Forth specialist and DADADATA partner in Charly’s register.
Remembrance
Jos Schoffelen
Experimental filmmaker associated with Electric Cinema.
Looking 4 U
Relly Tarlo
Sound artist working with movement, objects and space.
Looking 4 U
Brian Wood
A name in Charly’s early Munich and music memories.
Looking 4 U
Jenny Yip
An unresolved IT-related connection in Charly’s friends register.
Remembrance
Nan Hoover
Artist working with video, light and performance, 1931–2008.
Timeline
Timelines
Paths through the ways we measure, imagine and understand.
Timeline
Time after time - a short history of Time
From celestial rhythms and early clocks to relativity and the experience of time.
Notebook
Fx!K Fear
Fear, end-time stories and the ways we imagine what comes next.
Notebook
Fear
Religious fear, population politics and real-world risks—with evidence, context and room to think.
Notebook
The END Time Mythos Catalog
Ten traditions, different kinds of endings: judgment, renewal, changing ages and the limits of comparison.
Music & encounters
Mr. Joe Black
Brighton entertainer, singer and performer — a memorable encounter at CHALK, opening for the Bridge City Sinners.
Music & encounters
Music
A massive Thanks to all Musicians you have put the icing on the cake of my life.
Music & encounters
Schneeball Records
Friendship, independent music and the work of keeping it available.
Music & encounters
Embryo
From an unexpected concert in Munich to a lifetime of participation.
Music & encounters
Dear Mal
A few days in Cologne, music, and a cheesecake still owed.
Music & encounters
Charlie Mariano
Listening paths through musical encounters.
Music & encounters
Ernst Reijseger
Two performances kept for another listen.
Music & encounters
Lee Perry · The Upsetter
A taxi ride in Amsterdam, a remembered snowstorm and laughter.
Music & encounters
Nautical Division
Manuel Friedrich · The First Deceiver on Bandcamp, Fractured Space Whole and further discoveries.
Music & encounters
Listening now
An open notebook of discoveries, from jazz to dub and beyond.
Music · fan page
The Warning
Three Mexican sisters. Guitar, drums, bass — and a world of rock to discover.
Music · fan page
The HU
Mongolian throat singing, traditional instruments and the power of Hunnu Rock.
Music · fan page
Mohini Dey
Bass at the centre: jazz, funk, rock and Indian rhythmic traditions.
Knowledge & learning
Knowledge
Knowledge, learning and care — a growing collection of texts.
Knowledge & Care · Volume I
Knowledge Must Breathe
An ANACHRON scroll on knowledge, care and the future of intelligence.
Knowledge · Second entry
The School That Holds You
A living charter for learning, becoming, and the future of humanity.
Money, wealth & possibility
The Material Question
A re-search into currency, wealth and the possible world — from obligations and ledgers to shared life-supporting capability.
Keep the work going
Help ANACHRON continue.
Support the time, tools and care that turn scattered memories and unfinished ideas into something we can share.
Music & making
Bridge City Sinners
A fan project that brings music, a handmade logo and a growing video chronology together.