Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂
Audio maker and journalist, sound designer, mix engineer.
https://haunted.audio
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Makes sense that the man who stole from Satoshi Kon's work multiple times would make an animated series with a plagiarism machine. (clip via @ani-obsessive.bsky.social )
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂What this would look like if 300+ human artists and engineers hadn’t made Breath of the Wild

- Google’s new world AI model tool let me generate a bunch of Nintendo-inspired games. Including one featuring Link with a paraglider! Gift link: www.theverge.com/news/869726/...
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂[This post could not be retrieved]
- And they all gathered round and listened with wonder
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Sorry to see Mark Tully has died - he was very much an old-school gentlemen reporter, immersed in the region he covered. His is a very 20th-century story that I suspect looks alien and in some ways troubling to modern eyes, but he was really devoted to his craft and to India
- Self-care is important thanks for your honesty
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Can you imagine just waking up and looking like this? With no effort whatsoever? He doesn’t even shower.
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Friedrich Nietzsche, 1875.
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂if you ever type the words "anti-nazi slop" a robot hand should come out of the computer and point a gun at you until you say "jk". and if you don't say jk something else happens
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Men are having a normal one I see
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Similarly, I’ve never asked my fucking dishwasher.
- never a truer word spoken
- this is magnificent. Do read the whole thread
- no context sound design/edit cues (an occasional series)
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Merry Christmas, little buddy. Sorry about everything
- no context sound design/edit cues (an occasional series)
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Never in my life have I had a dream as good as the one @blogmywiki.bsky.social dreamt last night.
- “I was talking about the Green Man, but he wasn’t having it. He said: ‘Well, it’s got horns and it’s demonic.’ My husband had to actually step in” The Piper at the Gates of the Abbey….. @helleborezine.bsky.social
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂The Ghibli offices right now.
- Honestly relieved to have this finally cleared up: the Denisovans - a group of ancient humans - are not the same as the maverick unshaven darts player nicknamed “The Heat”
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Somnambulant ~ Maximilian Pirner (1878)
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Seems kind of urgent
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Happy birthday to #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! 🧪🐡👩🏾🔬🧮⚒️ #histsci Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! Born to sharecropper parents🧵
- ‘Tis the season…
- "These yur ghosteses!" 🖤
- this should be a new option on every streaming service - and it could be magnificent choose programme >> choose subtitles from any other programme to run underneath >> start
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂My piece in the latest @newscientist.com about #psychedelics and science. You can listen to 'THE TRIP' podcast series now on BBC Sounds (or in other podcast places).
- ⚠️ CAUTION: GHOSTS CROSSING ⚠️ First sighting of the council's new signs in the wild...
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Publication day is October 2nd tomorrow. Launch tonight for the first day of the London Month of the Dead at Highgate Cemetery!
- interesting quote - well worth following the link to see the full statement. Also - Yamauchi was president of Nintendo from 1949-2002. That's... quite something
- It's Nintendo's 136th birthday today, so here's the oldest quote I've got: Yamauchi on the essence of amusement, 1984. #Nintendo #YamauchiQuote www.notion.so/902471fa6e62...
- wow
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂if audio wants to grow, it has to pivot to video also, if salads want to grow, they should pivot to pudding
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂🌿 New Podcast Alert: “The Trip” on BBC Radio 4 🎧 Dr. Osiris García Cerqueda is featured in episodes 9 & 10 of BBC Radio 4’s new podcast series “The Trip”, presented by @timhayward.bsky.social and produced by @haunted.audio and by @loftusmedia.bsky.social Link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂art by mariia lutsak
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂This amazing series by Tim Hayward and Richard Ward @haunted.audio (🙏🙏🙏) also featured renowned neuroscientists such as @christimmermann.bsky.social, @katrinpreller.bsky.social, Gul Dölen, as well as nurses, historians, philosophers, sociologists, etc. Enjoy! 🎧
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂🎙️ I am very proud to have participated (with a very strong French accent) to the BBC Radio 4 program Understand entitled "The Trip", about the science, culture, history and future of psychedelics 🌈 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- NEW TEN-PART AUDIO SERIES about #PSYCHEDELICS Out now on BBC Sounds - and other podcast spaces. Co-written & presented by the beautifully curious @timhayward.bsky.social Production, sound design and mix by me. It's been a fascinating and challenging process to get here... I do hope you'll listen.
- this incredible nebula image made me think of the cover of Meddle by Pink Floyd - despite that being a picture of an ear (though the original plan was for it to be…an image of a baboon’s anus) They are strikingly different images yet a connection was still made brains are unfathomable, I love that
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Timeline cleanse
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂now recording...
- NEW TEN-PART AUDIO SERIES about #PSYCHEDELICS Out now on BBC Sounds - and other podcast spaces. Co-written & presented by the beautifully curious @timhayward.bsky.social Production, sound design and mix by me. It's been a fascinating and challenging process to get here... I do hope you'll listen.
- Deeply grateful to all who shared insight, experiences and expertise @lucieberko.bsky.social @erikadyck.bsky.social @mikejay.bsky.social @drdluke.bsky.social @profjoneill.bsky.social @andrewpenn.bsky.social @katrinpreller.bsky.social @petersjostedth.bsky.social @christimmermann.bsky.social + others.
- Big thanks to the whole crew at @loftusmedia.bsky.social particularly Kirsten Lass and Rosamund Jones, and to Dan Clarke at Radio 4 for pressing the magic button. A short trailer: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Episode 1 is here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂- - T H U R S D A Y - -
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Really enjoying BBC Radio 4s series The Trip exploring the history of psychedelics. 🍄 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂New on Podcast Rex: Understand: The Trip podcastrex.com/reviews/understand-…
- “A man gave himself bromism, a psychiatric disorder that has not been common for many decades, after asking ChatGPT for advice and accidentally poisoning himself”
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂In a new ten-part series, Tim Hayward takes a mind-altering look at the science, culture, history - and future - of psychedelics. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Landing craft.
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Found it.
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂[This post could not be retrieved]
- probably just me but the first thing I think of here is Skyview Towers in #TOTK...
- Pre-ordered. One read of the synopsis is all it took. Excited to read this….
- I have an extra bit of good news about this: I will be signing ALL pre-orders that go through @blackwells.bsky.social. This applies worldwide. If you are overseas, you won't find a more inexpensive way to buy EWSY, as they do free international delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Get Ready for the world of HI RES ADVENTURE!
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂How your email found me
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Science fiction writers have warned us about so much we've ignored... and now this.
- "This is the business, Sarah. We’re proud of this," one of the top advertising executives told her at the time. "We shout this from the rooftops. This is what puts money in all our pockets.” futurism.com/facebook-bea...
- How's this for a Blue Plaque... Formerly hanging in Golden Square, Soho, London. (License CC 2.0//OpenPlaques)
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Grimes Poznikov, San Francisco's Automatic Human Juke Box. September, 1987. #Photography www.flickr.com/photos/frank...
- look at this expression…
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂I love the weird and wild versions of parrot mushrooms I've found, but I will never get tired of finding these near-perfect specimens of by-the-book Gliophorus psittacinus. Coming across a mushroom like this is like finding a shining emerald in the forest ✨️💎 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄🟫 📷 🍄
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂ALPS CP10SJ550A Kanji Keyboard. deskthority.net/viewtopic.ph... 480 keys.
- Was talking with a friend about this so thought I'd post here, simply because.. it's a gorgeous thing. ECHO CAT tape echo plugin by #Wavesfactory. Modelled on the Watkins Copicat with loads of other features like ducking... 🖤 www.wavesfactory.com/audio-plugin... #audioplugin #audioplugins #plugin
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂special forbidden meats
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
- Enjoyed sound designing and mixing trailers and several episodes of the new series of Red Bull's How to Be Superhuman. Humble, impressive humans doing incredible things. Series 3 Episode 1 (Abdullah Zeinab, endurance cyclist) out now podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂These people are your enemies
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂This, this, 100 times this. My job consists of battling to keep some time free for thinking - the entire system seems to be designed to stop me doing so. bsky.app/profile/rrit...
- unplugged from work. armchair in a strange and unfamiliar old building. owls, bats and a yawning dog nearby. fireplace and fuel. whisky, and a beautiful new book… Let’s go. 🙏 @tanyakirk.bsky.social
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Also a brutal year for most writers who aren’t big names or celebs. If you can’t afford a book, take one out of a library, leave a review, share a post, leave sacrificial offerings to the publishing gods etc
- Honoured that BACTERIA: THE TINY GIANTS was shortlisted in the AIBs 2024 @timhayward.bsky.social Huge thanks to Loftus media and the scientists and researchers who shared time/insights, incl. @audeber.bsky.social @frantecol.bsky.social @lhug.bsky.social @thecrobe.bsky.social @relenski.bsky.social
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂sleeping in
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂Wes Craven's analysis of America from this interview he did in 1988 feels like it could have been from yesterday
- how about a vst3 plugin that’s like izotope’s Dialogue Isolate, but for the mind
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂I don’t need to go on social media to have my worldview challenged I am in theoretical physics I have a new existential crisis daily
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂bird sounds
- Reposted by Richard 🎧 Ward 💀 🍂The Bureau of Small Regrets. The Office for Ordinary Loss. The Institute of Memory. bureauofsmallregrets.com