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…
Many thanks to Sunset and Hush for having me out last weekend – both gigs were fun and gave me a chance to push wildly…
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…
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…
– There is now tech to pick voices out of crowds, using arrays of microphones. – Bacteria are serious business. – SPIKE Magazine is giving…
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,…
– The trailer for the new Bioshock is astonishing. – Some madman built a 16-bit ALU…in Minecraft. – Patrick Stewart & Ian McKellan on Waiting…
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…
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…
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…