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…

week 145

– Went to the always great Theorizing The Web, got to hear two of my internet heroes (Laurie Penny and Ingrid Burrington) speak. – Jawdropping…

week 144

– Google / Nest might just turn your house off, one day. – Verilog for cells is a thing.  I was talking to a neuroscientist friend…

under the water, carry the water

I’ve been trying to draft a “Things I Learned From Working At Drip” post that is useful, interesting and not fodder for Our Incredible Journey – which is…

week 143

– Systems thinking as LARP.  No, really. – At the last MMHD, Halley Young spoke about sonification of algorithms, and played a great example of running…