February 2010
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Feb 28th
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Feb 27th
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Top Ten Glissandos →
Sorry about the couple photo-less posts in a row, but you have to hear this: Alex Ross’s “Top Ten Glissandos.” For maximum effect, press all the buttons in quick succession. (via Unquiet Thoughts)
Feb 26th
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Smounds!
I have long said that the next sense-related subfield to get big should be “smell studies.” Maybe this is why: Ever wonder why buffalo wings always smell so awesome when a football game is blaring in the room? Scientists have proposed that the way food smells could possibly be related to the sounds we hear when we consume them. They note that there could be a connection between smell...
Feb 26th
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Listen This is the sound of a Mars rover, sort of....
Feb 24th
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Feb 24th
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 19th
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WatchWatch
Very pretty. A pianist’s soul: Amazing composition between the pianist and the visualization of his way of playing, ‘the more different tonalities a piece has, the more colorful the visualization will be’, and since everyone plays different even the same song will result in a different visualization. The performance generates a three-dimensional image which appears to surrounds the performer and...
Feb 18th
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WatchWatch
This video shows some live music programming by Alex McLean in Haskell. It’s worth watching full screen if you can’t read the words: by using cycling patterns instead of fixed time signatures, McLean has created a pretty versatile setup for polyrhythmic live computer jams. You can read about some of the background voodoo here. ( via jesusgollonet)
Feb 17th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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WatchWatch
This nice-looking little documentary shows the vinyl record manufacturing process at Gotta Groove Records. I love factory tours, and it’s interesting to see a company that was founded only recently getting into the LP business (after all, vinyl is coming back, you know?). I wish they could make one of these for MP3s. (via acriacao)
Feb 11th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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Pianistic Translations
In doing research on the player piano, a certain temptation has come up many times. Given the popularity of the phonograph as an object of academic inquiry (and the persistence of its basic working principles), it is basically mandatory that I compare the pianistic reproduction I’m looking at to phonographic reproduction. So first, there is a question: What kinds of things am I comparing?...
Feb 7th
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Feb 1st
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