aaaah, every day simply has to start with a good refreshing paroxysm of laughter.
today’s thanks for causing it go out to danny rampling and his book
this is exactly what i was looking for. i’m so glad i found it.
strictly binary punk! the blip festival is exactly our cup of tea, i suggest checking a few videos to start the week:
klonk
i’m really interested in the “reformat the planet” documentary, i hope it will fall out of one of my machines, soon.
bonus video @pitchfork.tv
should’nt be online too long from now…
everybody can be punk: http://www.kongregate.com/games/EvilDog/punk-o-matic
Exactly since 60mins.
If there’s an application the binary punks both love to death than it surely has to be this little beast.
Get it while it’s fresh…
need more education?
anyone?
anyone?
bueller?
ok, stumbled over two interesting papers written by Hans T. Zeiner-Henriksen, PhD-student at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo:
the most significant beat is taking a deeper look into the history and the development of the bass drum sound in dance tracks during the last decades from 70s disco till now.
chicago House and the “democratization” of music production is about how house evolved from disco music when DJs started to produce dance tracks using the first available sequencer controlled and pattern based boxes as e.g. the Roland TR series.
it shows the role drum computers and sequenced synthesizers played those days and goes into detail about how they influenced the approach of creating dance music and grooves by programming and laying out patterns in order to create arrangements, instead of actually playing and recording acoustical instruments - in a pretty scientific manner!
i loved the read, thanks Hans!
hey kids,in case you’re not as old and grumpy as the binary punks you may missed the early years and the weird story of the little plastic silverbox that changed not only my life, but was responsible for the birth of acid house.no problem, already 2 years old but still nice to watch:Bassline Baselinethanks nate harrison, keep on filtering.
but also lots of fun: skip checker
thou shalt praise reverse engineering (and ableton for providing their permission and assistance).
“LiveAPI.org is an independent open-source software development project with the aim of providing cutting-edge tools for manipulation of the Live Python API. Through reverse engineering and network programming techniques LiveAPI.org has created an SDK that will change the way you use of Ableton Live. “
spread the word, hack your Live!
matching style and ergonomics:
2. http://gravitonus.com/ergonomics/
6. http://www.officeorganix.com/Eropod500.htm
interresting additional products:
http://easychairworkstation.com/products2.htm
http://raremonoshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=91
http://raremonoshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=90
any diy proects out there? i mean besides http://www.robotics.com/chair/
unfortunately a litte too expensive, but it could be lots of fun: http://www.mawzer.com/
great covers for your most important toys – at least they have them all all my most important toys. and now for the best part: you can submit your own design!
While reading “it seems the slightest bit unfair that you are allowed to use a program to write music that has had everyone heralding you an original on “Idol.”" on Foxnews regarding Blake’s Ableton Live enthusiasm yesterday (8.000.000 people watching) i really wonder what they think SHOULD be used to write music. Pencil and paper? Tape machines? Wax rolls?
Anyway, thanks to Blake for promoting our beloved tool (and therefore flooding several inboxes)!
Youtube snippet available here.
no matter how large your current harddisk is, it is **always** almost full. whenever you need some free space immediately and don’t know for sure where to get it from, you need a tiny little tool, that tells you where all the space on your drive(s) is consumed for. instead of paying fifteen bucks too make omni disk sweeper usable, you should take a look at grand perspective, which does the same and gives you a graphical view too.
the guys at microsoft made my day once again. i’m really looking forward to hearing more… this one is almost better than monty pythons’s “killing joke”.
“no, i’m not checking my email. i’m playing tetris.”
nice remote control running on a psp for our funky little green app: ableton live wireless control