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February 27 2010
February 26 2010
On the Media's Future Shock, Past and Present
Just about every week, a TV news segment or magazine cover scares us with the prospect that new media technology is damaging our brains, our social skills and our culture. But, says neuropsychologist Dr. Vaughn Bell, take a long look back and you’ll see that every new development – from the printing press to radio to Facebook – has been regarded with suspicion.February 20 2010
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February 17 2010
How To Send A Tweet From Max/MSP { sound + tutorial }
how to send a tweet directly from Max/MSP I used the Ruby programming language to access Twitter’s API. To use Ruby within Max/MSP you need to download the [ajm.ruby] external by Adam Murray. After downloading, follow the “INSTALL.txt” instructions to correctly install it. This is not necessary, but if you want to count the remaining characters you need to download the [strlen] external by Jasch and put it in Max’s search path. Finally, download the MaxToTwitter patch. That should be it, enjoy sending tweets from Max!Introducing the Wrongamin, wrong sound generator.
‘The Wrongamin is an easy and cheap to build sound maker that I designed to create a range of wrong sounds. From dusty old record crackles to a deep hungry animal growl heard through several out of tune AM radios. ’February 15 2010
Flavorwire » The RZA’s Newest Project: Historical Art
Wu-Tang fans might be surprised to hear that the RZA’s latest work of art isn’t a piece of music. Victory or Death is a limited-edition set of canvas prints that samples and remixes Emanuel Leutze’s 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. In his version, the RZA replaces George Washington, and he’s proudly flying he flag of Wu. “It didn’t begin 20 years ago… more like 200 years ago. And when you see the piece we’re making right here, you’re going to know what I’m talking about,” RZA has explained. “We’re about to rewrite and change history.”February 14 2010
February 13 2010
Necrosonics and Aural Smoke | Vague Terrain
In March of 2008 researchers presented a new “oldest recording” at Stanford University - a 10 second clip of a woman singing, recorded in 1860. The song was captured by a “phonautograph,” a device that etched graphic representations of sound waves onto paper covered in soot from a burning lamp. Using a “virtual stylus” and compensating for the hand-cranked speed variations of the original, scientists were able to resurrect this 150 year old voice. Audio historian David Giovannoni, who found the recording, said "The fact is it's recorded in smoke. The voice is coming out from behind this screen of aural smoke."February 11 2010
Synthism.com - Collaborative Synthesizer Creation
an online tool used to collaboratively construct synthesizers. It can be seen as a software based modular synthesizer where you not only can change the connections between the modules, but also the the modules themselves. Everything on synthism.com is editable by the user. Synthism.com also gives you the ability to easily integrate modules that other people have built into your own synthesizer. Everything that is built becomes a part of a common module database to be used by anyone, just as articles on wikipedia.org. Technology: Synthism.com our frontend to the powerful BrainBeat compiler, which is also built by the synthism.com team. This gives you the possibility to export synthesizers from synthism.com to different platforms, e.g. as a VST instrument. The flexibility of the BrainBeat compiler allows us to add support for exotic hardware such as FPGAs or special purpose built DSPs found in different hardware synthesizers, making export to such platforms available.AMIE - All music is equal
Take any piece of music and turn it into a "music pupil plays church organ, using a slightly stumbling metronome" version!alonetone, a damn fine home for musicians - alonetone
alonetone gives musicians a home for their music unlimited distribution, sharing tools & warm fuzziesHolodeckapp
Holodeck Create your own site with music from SoundCloud, gigs from Songkick or Last.fm, news/posts from Tumblr. Easy, elegantly and quick.February 10 2010
sleepapp | android audio demo from hackday
Do you like to listen to tv/radio shows when going to bed but find it a time consuming process? This application will let you listen to the best humour radio shows in Sweden through Sveriges Radio without any setup. The application will stop playing automatically after a certain time period. The application is hosted here: https://code.google.com/p/sleepapp/ Installation file can be downloaded here: http://sleepapp.googlecode.com/files/SleepWithSwedishHumour.apkFebruary 05 2010
“Ultimate Mashup” a Glimpse into the Future
The founders call their application the ultimate mashup, because it currently uses 35-40 APIs to provide the best reply it can. Queries are spoken in simple English, such as “book me a taxi” and “what’s the weather forecast in Boulder this weekend?” Even the speech-to-text translation is an API... Siri’s secret sauce is in its artificial intelligence that determines which APIs it needs to invoke. That’s where the R&D budget went, when it was still a Stanford University project. Of course, Siri still has some problems interpretting what humans consider basic questions. What impressed me is how many of its deficiencies Siri is itself aware of... The company plans to add more APIs every month.February 03 2010
Edge was in Munich for DLD 2010 and an Edge/DLD event. The event, entitled "Informavore", is a discussion featuring Frank Schirrmacher, Editor of the Feuilleton and Co-Publisher of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Andrian Kreye, Feuilleton Editor of Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Munich; and Yale computer science visionary David Gelernter, who, in his 1991 book Mirror Worlds presented what's now called "cloud computing".
Gelernter's June, 2000 manifesto, published by both Edge and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, was at the time widely read and debated. In it, he famously wrote: "Everything is up for grabs. Everything will change. There is a magnificent sweep of intellectual landscape right in front of us."
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"Killer Paragraphs" and Other Reflections of PBS's Digital Nation | Confessions of an Aca/Fan
This week, PBS stations around the United States are airing Digital Nation, a documentary which claims to offer us insights into life in the digital age. I was happy to participate in this important production, though, I must confess, more than a little disappointed in the finished product. It raises important issues, to be sure, but does so often in a one-sided manner which panders to the biases of public television viewers rather than challenging them to look at the potentials of digital media in education through new lens.Digital Nation
FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin (Growing up Online) teams up with one of the leading thinkers of the digital age, Douglas Rushkoff (The Persuaders, Merchants of Cool), to continue to explore life on the virtual frontier.February 02 2010
Great Map
"This is a rough sketch of a more advanced knowledge map that has never been drawn." - R.B.Wild ("Non-Geo" Graphical Information Systems, with a particular focus on Mapping Knowledge Domains.I'm interested in creating visualizations of 'ideas' that do not necessarily have a geo basis to them).
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