Did you ever want to see what music came out of London in 1970, vs. 1982? We can do that for you. Powered by the Echo Nest and Google Maps, hacked together by me, totally in beta.
things keep happening
I go to New York, and look: the blog doesn’t get touched. Tsk tsk.
In two weeks and a day, I leave Boston for Montreal, Edmonton, Nelson, and then home. Before then, I need to:
– finish the third movement of TH TMPST, which is slowly coming along, thank you for asking.
– Notate REISLING, a jam for Bassoon and electronics
– Organizing the first UVic Music Hack Day.
– Debug WHERE AND WHEN, an in-progress hack. (Specifically, I don’t think that multiple clicks work without re-loading the damn page.)
– Go to the beach!
slow piano music: get it here
Does exactly what it says on the tin – listen in a quiet place.
slow piano music
…a forty minute acci-chill jam from myself, recorded on the 90 year old piano in the 115 year old house in the 380 year old city that I live in. Available soon.
max is dead: long live max
“Many exciting pieces are now performed digitally.” – Max Mathews, 1997.
Max, I suspect you never knew that half of it. Max Mathews literally invented computer music: He wrote a program called Music I which played 17 seconds of a composition of his own devising, in 1957. Where were you in 1957? Probably not changing the world, I bet. (He also made the rightful iconic verison of “Daisy Bell” that HAL sings in 2001. Legend. )
More importantly, he created a world in which the idea of making music with digital devices was possible. Think about the scope of that statement: everything from the CD to Ableton Live owes its creation to him. Every adult job I have had, bar one, has depended on his work, to say nothing of how I spend my leisure time. We’ll miss you, Max.
counting to 33.3
I am finished version 0.2 of SeratoStats! It gives data on BPM, play time, mix time, key, artist, and folder structure, from a nice, shiny command line interface. I think I’m going to leave it here for the summer, and build a web version at the tentative UVic Music Hackday in the fall.
half simpleton, half god
^^ Mahler on Bruncker. Dude didn’t mess around.
required listening
How good is that Africa Hitech stuff? SO GOOD.
the hotttness
I can’t say enough about these cats.