The following problem is considered by Bjorklund, in connection with the operation of certain components (such as high voltage power supplies) of spallation neutron source (SNS) accelerators used in nuclear physics.
Construct a binary sequence of n bits with k one’s, such that the k one’s are distributed as evenly as possible among the zero’s. For [...]
Last year I asked Metafilter where I could find more music like Doctor P’s Sweet Shop, a rave nostalgia track that seemed to be mandatory play during the months I’d been going to shows in England. Empath came through with this seemingly canonical but in any case brilliant playlist of early 90’s rave tunes with [...]
A stream of the Los Angeles police scanner feed and dramatic ambient music, via Metafilter Projects.
Reminds me of this KLF track. I’m impressed and confused by how evocative even prosaic spoken word recordings can sound with some music behind them.
Artist Golan Levin maintains “An Informal Catalogue of Slit-Scan Video Artworks and Research”.
Popular uses of the effect include the stargate sequence at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey and (if you’re British) these Dr. Who titles. In many CMOS image sensors, the diachronic polling of pixels is considered a bug, leading smartphone owners to [...]
After two or three years of halfheartedly playing with SuperCollider every now and then, I finally bothered to read the documentation for it’s language-side (as oppose to server-side) sequencing features. This is what most SC users are, for good reason, most enthusiastic about. It’s a very flexible and (as far as I know) unusual approach [...]
Davidope produces animated gifs, often with an op-art feel, and curates pretty sweet examples of the same.
An implementation of an idea of Nam Jun Paik’s. If you’re in DC, you should really see the installations of his work at the American Art Museum. They’re intense.
Youtube user smalin posts these great animations, the result of several decades of experimentation, that portray the structure western art music tunes. It’s hard to say what makes a mapping from one sense to another successful, but these are some of the best attempts I’ve seen. I wonder if someone with a better ear might [...]