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Generative Music: an example and introduction from Alex Bainter
Creating systems to generate music is not new. Brian Eno created several such systems and coined the term “generative music” to describe their output. He was inspired by composers like Steve Reich, who had also experimented with generative music systems. You can find an unbelievably fantastic overview of generative music by Tero Parviainen at teropa.info/loop. […]
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Roland TR-909 – A personal introduction
By the time I’d left for college I was familiar with the sounds of the Roland TR-909 drum machine. Daft Punk’s Homework (which had been only recently introduced to me) and it’s overt ode to the machine, Revolution 909, were on regular rotation. I could play reasonable emulations of the classic drums through my ROMpler. […]
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Primitive Technology: Forge Blower
I invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to construct from commonly occurring natural materials using only primitive technology. I began by fanning a fire with a piece of bark to increase its temperature. It […]
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Record Making: Stoned Mode
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What The Hell Was Megadeth, Arizona? — Cuepoint — Medium
This is the story of how an unlikely threesome—a girl, a heavy metal band and their fans — pioneered the web at its infancy, bucked the status quo and proved that the Internet wasn’t a fad. It’s 1994. I’m working at Capitol Records in Hollywood, California. via What The Hell Was Megadeth, Arizona? — Cuepoint — Medium.
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Work Habits at Apple – Ole Begemann
Melton: Oh, Christ! Yeah, exactly, I couldn’t do that. I had to do something right away. I said in the article that I wrote for The Loop magazine, when Steve asked you a question you didn’t ramble and whatever you did, you didn’t make up an answer. And if you didn’t know, you said that […]
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Spark | Open source IoT toolkit
Spark | Open source IoT toolkit.
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Nest: Just another big data source for the all-seeing, all-knowing future Google | VentureBeat | Business | by Ricardo Bilton
At any given time Google, through its various services and devices, knows, well, a lot: What you’re searching for What you are talking about when you email friends (and, through Google+, who those friends are) Where you live, and work, how long you stay at either location each day What you’re watching on your phone, […]
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Cassette Film
Cassette Film.
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Netflix is Sabotaging Itself – on Purpose
This is beautiful: SAN FRANCISCO — What does not kill me, makes me stronger. So said Nietzsche, Conan the Barbarian, and Kelly Clarkson. Now Netflix cloud director Ariel Tseitlin is taking that philosophy to its natural limit in the world of the cloud. Every day, he unleashes an army of virtual monkeys on his company’s […]