2016: albums of the year

Yep, fuck this year.  Albums: Roomful of Teeth – Partita for 8 Voices Caroline Shaw.  What the hell.  I don’t want to say that this piece…

2016: sets of the year

Still fuck this year.  Moving on.. Sadar Bahar – Resident Advisor 507 Another one of those diggers comes through in a big way – and…

2016: concerts of the year

Fuck this year.  With that said … Radiohead at Secret Solstice Woooooosh.  There were lots of other amazing bands at Secret Solstice, but the best…

agape

Here we are, once again. I did the first one of these in 2009, while doing my undergrad at UVic.  Seven years later, Agape is a…

week 150

– The Fluid Piano is the best thing you’ll see all week, month, and maybe year. – I finished a small set of experiments using…

week 149

For, as ever, certain values of weeks. Ada Palmer’s TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING is dazzling – so dazzling, in fact, that I don’t know if…

week 148

The Zont is a very neat synth concept – a cartridge-based sort of thing, which makes it both sort of modular, but not really Resonate.is has…

week 147

– In the middle of The End of The West, I went to Iceland!  I can recommend it. – Some fine Canadians are working on…

remix is gone, but amen is here

On May 31st, 2016 the track/upload endpoint will be removed from the public API of Spotify / The Echo Nest, ending an era. I don’t want…

week 146

– Another month, another amazing Monthly Music Hackathon. – Game Boy Phase. – Web Audio gets rewritten and looks ‘way better. – If you go…