week 122 / postmodern internet music

Went to a Monthly Music Hack Day, reinstalled Ubuntu, worked on The Future of Music.  Also learned about Hip Hop Transcriptions, which made my day….

co.re.echo.es

I have a sort of casual fascination with infrastructure – factories, power stations, spillways, and so on.  This extends to the internet:  data centres, underwater cables,…

week 119

– Glenn McDonald knocks it out of the park again with the words for each genre, and vice versa. – “Just” being a DJ is…

week 118

Early, but. – Reynald Drouhin is a new favorite thing. – Modular synths meet robotic instruments.  Having seen a bunch of this in academic settings,…

week 117

So many things! – StaffPad actually has potential to drastically change how most composers write music.  It, of course, needs to get off the Surface, and…

week 116

Let’s talk about NI’s STEMS. This is super interesting, not least because it is an open, backwards-compatible format.  It’s also worth noting that this idea…

week 106

Augmented Hands.  I repeat my prediction that all human senses will eventually be mediated by computers. The Turing Complete User.  This is a thing that…

brahms it up

Two years after I had the idea of blowing up Brahms scores by modifying the .jpg files, I finally have a done thing: Details and link to…

2014: tracks of the year

As you can see by the lack of shows, I barely went out this past year.  But, there were still some tunes that did serious…

2014: concerts of the year

As ever with concerts, the ‘honorable mentions’ should really get as much love as those mentioned in more detail… Erin Gee – Swarming Emotional Pianos I…