Music, programming, boat-living, bees. You know.
None of the regulars I speak to at The Old Pump in Aldershot have a bad word to say about ‘hapless’ Sandra. She’s has been a well-liked member of the community since before it was known as The Old Pump, before when it was known as the Pumping Station and before that, when it actually was the pumping station for Aldershot’s sewage system. ‘Some things never change,’ they mutter into their pints.
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Standards are high at the annual Christmas lights event. It’s important that every entry is a strong in order to outperform the competition.
O Toaster! What the hell with thee is wrong? Thy kind hath served my kind for decades long. A bond hath formed between two nations great, That decades bond, though, weareth thin of late.
O Toaster! What the hell with thee is wrong?
Thy kind hath served my kind for decades long.
A bond hath formed between two nations great,
That decades bond, though, weareth thin of late.
A fascinating bug in Adobe Photoshop. Presented here as a photographic essay. Bug report as photojournalism. I only created one triangle and moved it around a bit.
H and I visit France, and les rencontres de luthiers et maître sonneurs.
An event to celebrate the second International Bagpipe Day! Held at the Pitt Rivers museum, Oxford.
OxLork, a band of musicians in possession of computers (and, I hope, an increasing knowledge of how to make new things with them) had a gig at the Ashmolean Museum on Friday. Very exciting. Not brilliant photos, but better than nothing.
Traditional tunes have a particular shape to them. Many, especially northern European, have two parts, each repeated, possibly with first and second time bars. Within this arching structure that spans the tune in a few leaps, there are smaller repeated phrases, callbacks and variations. I remembered a visualisation I saw a long time ago which took a MIDI file and visualised the structure. I wanted to do something for the tunes in FolkTuneFinder.
(punchline: give up it won’t work but it’s an interesting story)
This is number 4 in my series of lectures in music technology and ChucK to the Oxford Laptop Orchestra. Delivered on the 5th of November 2012 at the Faculty of Music. Give the first three a read before reading this.
The content is complete here (except for a bit about Nyquist) so feel free to read this. But I intend to do a bit of copy-editing, and include sound samples before I declare it complete.
This week we look at low frequency oscillators, using them to modulate other oscillators and in the process how to do more than thing at once.