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I’m a big fan of fractals, starting with discovering Fractint while filecrawling on a BBS back in the day, then naming my online “geek boutique” after them, then creating a paper toy named “Mandlebot”. Here’s a cool documentary on fractals by Nova: “Hunting the Hidden Dimension.”
Money Money Money – “Gettin’ Money With a Mouse and a Wacom Pen (Fuck Comic Sans Fuck Papyrus, Too)” from Brad Chmielewski on Vimeo. Watch out, Nerdcore, Designcore is taking over the ‘trons.
Last.fm introduced a beta feature that can compare artists, genres and tags on a gender – age plot. Interesting. Here’s one that’s particularly interesting: Software, engineer, DJ, producer, and musician all skew male, while boyfriend, girl, email, outgoing, person, friends and love all skewed female. Thoughts? UPDATE: Here’s my plot compared among my friends.
Meiotic, In Your System, and Peoplemuver present the second in the EXPOSITION music and art series featuring a live performance from the highly acclaimed experimental electronic minimalist composer/producer THOMAS BRINKMANN. Famed for productions on his own Max Ernst and Suppose labels, Brinkmann gained a name in the experimental and techno community for his full-length remixes (or as he terms them, “variations”) of material by Richie Hawtin and Mike Ink. With recent releases on Curle, a…
I’ve put together an IDM compilation on my label, subVariant and I’ll be doing a virtual release party on Thursday. …Robohustlin, is a curated collection of melodic IDM, ambient and glitch tracks from Chicago and beyond… All thirteen tracks were chosen from an open call for songs in July-August of 2010, and represent the highest quality and most discernable sonic dedication that fit with the general theme that organically emerged over the course of weeding…
Here is a cool program I found to help with vocal practice, Tartini. Tartini is a program designed as a practical music analysis tool for singers and instrumentalists. Just plug in a microphone and instantly your computer will give real-time feedback including:- * Accurate pitch contours for visualising intonation, vibrato shape, tuning or just which note is being played * Loudness graphs, to help analyse dynamics * Harmonic structure of a note describing timbre The…
I love the a capella Pac Man theme music too! UPDATE: This is part of Guillaume Reymonds “Game Over” project, where he does live human stop-motion videos of many other vintage games. (Thanks, Le Singe)
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Pursuitist did a nice feature on my Zelle 1337 line. We’re a bit taken with Liz McLean Knight’s Zelle Jewelry. It’s a mixture of all things beautiful, techie and geeky — and highly original. That integration between technology and fashion is truly an embodiment of Liz and her Zelle creations. The jewelry is hand crafted in Chicago — watch the vid above to see the wine intoxicating process Liz McLean Knight’s Zelle Jewelry
So, following up on the previous idea I had, recruiting Phylum Sinter, Praveen, and I (er, as Quantazelle) to do a rotating remix using the online Monome / Tenori-On / APC-40 / Launchpad (ie matrix / grid-based sequencing, etc) flash clone, Nudge, I invited m50 to play with me. Nudge is a very simple sequencer with preset synths (harp, organ, fx, drum kit), and–as m50 discovered–the ability to create multiple patterns, meaning you’re not restricted…