the city, she don’t like you

I finished China Mieville’s THE CITY AND THE CITY recently: it’s kind of like Borges meets…well, Borges, really, but slightly less elegant and much more…

the second derivative

Many thanks to Sunset and Hush for having me out last weekend – both gigs were fun and gave me a chance to push wildly…

wind me up

Books again: Paolo Bacigalupi’s THE WIND UP GIRL is fascinating. The plot, in this case, is a vaguely Frank Herbert-esq tale of conspiracy, people submitting…

read me, baby

Been reading. We’ll start with William Gibson’s ZERO HISTORY: it’s somewhere between SPOOK COUNTRY and PATTERN RECOGNITION. It’s not as breathless as PATTERN, but not…

linknessless

– There is now tech to pick voices out of crowds, using arrays of microphones. – Bacteria are serious business. – SPIKE Magazine is giving…

listen, please

We were discussing MP3 compression in my (amazing) recording class, and I got to thinking: has anyone ever made custom perceptual coding models? As in,…

linkness

– The trailer for the new Bioshock is astonishing. – Some madman built a 16-bit ALU…in Minecraft. – Patrick Stewart & Ian McKellan on Waiting…

the hush top 50

The secret project I’ve been working since January is ready! Meet the Hush Top 50. Since you asked, it’s a compilation of the fifty tracks…

lesson zero

I’m giving two people DJ lessons this week, which got me thinking about ways to teach the craft outside of endless beatmatching practice: – Mix…

i came to dance: track lengths part 2

In my previous post, I talked about track lengths from 1970 to 1990. Now let’s look at 1995 to the present, in a few different…