May 2011
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May 31st
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May 27th
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“My boss John Pierce also played the piano and loved music. We were going to a...”
– Geeta Dayal interviewed Max Mathews, the ‘father of computer music’, just a few weeks before he passed away last month. The whole piece, at Frieze Magazine, is long and fascinating. 
May 25th
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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May 19th
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May 18th
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Whale 'Pop Songs' Spread Across the Ocean →
Absolutely fascinating article about how the songs of humpback whales in the South Pacific evolve and spread. It turns out that specific themes in songs change astonishingly quickly, every 2 to 3 months, and new songs travel westwards from the east coast of Australia to French Polynesia. But the best part? “Sometimes the “hit song” contained snippets from previous...
May 17th
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May 16th
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May 13th
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May 12th
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May 12th
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May 10th
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May 9th
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May 6th
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May 5th
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Kicking it old-school: luggable computer, playing an 8-bit version of “Satisfaction” via a program called “Jukebox.” (thanks for the vid, John!)
May 4th
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The Music Genome Splicer →
I love this—Greg Sabo has made a delightful little application that tosses up random quintets of Pandora descriptives. He wrote it as sort of an Oblique Strategies for musicians, to foster exploration. I cordially dislike Pandora, because I think their approach to music recommendation is limited and autistic. (Also, it’s not a “Music Genome Project” if you’re...
May 3rd
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The inverse of what normally gets spotted at z=z: the Illucia is a modular patch console that controls code (‘codebending,’ rather than ‘circuitbending’). Read more about the project at MATRIXSYNTH.
May 2nd
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