2014: sets of the year

Jam City – EARTHLY III Because it has such a sense of itself, of chromed-out Ballardian futures. Daniele Baldelli – Beats in Space, August 2014….

week 106

I also have lots of catching up to do, to say nothing of 2014 year-ends. – The bar optimizer:  Graph theory meets drink mixing. –…

there’s that sun again

Happy solstice, one and all.

week 105

– I got a paper about Xenakis accepted by CIM 2014, which is happening right now!  Thanks to the musicologists for trusting a programmer to know…

week 104

– E-Stonia, of course.  Anyone one who wants to predict the future should visit Estonia at least as much as they visit, say, San Francisco….

week 102

It has been a heavy few days.  Let’s talk about about what is good.  The Meet The Composer podcast series, by the seemingly tireless Nadia Sirota,…

week 101

The week where you encounter your worst fear. Secret codes embedded into Google Translate. US Central Command twitter posts videos of airstrikes. Cars that people owe…

week 99

So it turns out that when you finish your thesis and don’t have money to do anything exciting, your life becomes very boring. With that…

You Can’t Go Home Again: Hush, 2000 – 2014

It turns out that you really can’t: Hush, the nightclub, is closed, and I am sad to say I missed their closing party, as I…

week 94

Basically writing to shout out Myriam Bleau and her excellent piece Soft Revolvers, which involves four giant, bespoke rotating tops, with LEDs built in.  As she sets…