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Posted
14 June 2010 @ 4pm

Decimator Wobble Bass

In the first of what I hope will be many Supercollider posts, I’m dissecting a fairly straightforward wobble bass snippet.
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var trig, numSmp, rate, freq, wobble,out,note,mod;
freq = (140/60)/3; // It’s not dubstep if it’s not at an integer multiple of 140bpm.
trig = Impulse.kr(freq); // Main tempo pulse
note = Demand.kr(trig, 0, Dseq([40, 43, 47, 47, 40, 49-12, [...]

Posted
12 August 2009 @ 12am

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Keeping a Diary

Through this post on MetaFilter Music I discovered the tale of Reverend Robert Shields, which seems too perfectly allegorical to have actually happened. Here is an interview with the man and his NYT Obituary.
He kept a written log of his life broken up into five minute intervals. He claimed his diary was complete, that every [...]

Posted
20 November 2008 @ 4pm

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Pop Music

The KLF were two British chaps who exposed the mass sphexishness of the music world, fired machine gun blanks at award show audiences, made and set alight a million quid, and wrote a wonderful book to help you follow in their footsteps.

Posted
17 May 2008 @ 2am

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Ideas

Electronic Goban

Went to HacDC and became a charter member tonight. Looks like a pretty groovy group and a very nice space with the requisite piles of technological ephemera.
I’m pitching the idea of developing an electronic goban, which I’ve described on the HacDC wiki.

Posted
6 May 2008 @ 1am

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Projects, Vast VU Meter

Blink Test

So there isn’t much I can do on the VU meter project until I get a hold of an oscilloscope. The next logical step would be to design the envelope follower that the comparator will receive input from, but doing this “blind” would be difficult. In the mean time I thought I’d check that the [...]

Posted
2 May 2008 @ 12am

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Projects, Vast VU Meter

A Vast VU Meter

This is Patterson Office Tower (POT) on The University of Kentucky campus. It’s home to a small cafe/mezzanine, an obscure mathematics library, and the offices of all the professors and bureaucrats who don’t fit in the endearingly inefficient buildings elsewhere on campus. If, as civil engineers like to say, architecture is the art of wasting [...]