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And this is my jam.
Thanks everyone for sticking with me this year, it’s been fun. Please check out THE JINGLER for your jingling needs this holiday season.
Crunch time at the Apollo — if you make pretty things on a computer, can fight for a font, love watching particle generators for hours, and have a strange pull towards things that make music, you really should talk to me. My company, The Echo Nest, is in heavy hire mode for a design lead, […]
Seven years ago Noah Vawter and I finished up “Pushpin,” a Gameboy Color MIDI adapter. Pushpin allowed you to compose music on a computer or sequencer and use the GBC as an instrument. You didn’t touch the GBC while it was playing other than to admire the fancy boot screen. It turned your $80 toy […]
I’ll be on the music recommendation panel at Pop Montreal along with (so far) Paul Lamere, Doug Eck, and Sandy Pearlman next week, Saturday Oct 6. I know it may amaze you to consider, but I have a job that does not involve writing messages to solr - user nor staring at ARM disassembly in […]
This is a continuation of a previous iPhone audio post.
I saw that the Truphone guys did a live VoIP iPhone show at DEMO.. here’s some sketchy video. If this is true (I have no real reason to doubt it) it represents the first example of using the audio input on the phone. By the […]
[This post might be inane if you don’t use Solr or Nutch, I am sorry, more iPhone and Music of the Future posts soon]
Back in early 07 Sami Siren posted an excellent Nutch->Solr Indexer. Anyway, it hasn’t been maintained much due to the forthcoming NUTCH-442. But for simplicity’s sake, I like the SolrIndexer, and here’s […]
This is a continuation of a previous iPhone audio post.
I’ve had success playing back synthesized audio out the headphone jack and/or speakers of Apple’s iPhone without killing the sound daemon. I’ve also had modest success getting audio in to work but we’re not 100% there yet. Very close.
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I’ve been experimenting with sound synthesis on the iPhone using CoreAudio and music playback using the higher level Celestial framework.
There’s this outgrowth of music retrieval types that love to do summarization — they take in a four minute pop song and find the “optimal” summary– maybe it’s 10 seconds long. Of course, with nothing but the signal to lead you, all the summarization algorithms read like pulpy redactions from a Pierce/Shannon appendix: the maximal […]
Congrats to Shifty on being a best idea of 2006 with a stunner illo to boot! I distinctly remember Noah lying on my couch in NYC sometime mid-2000 at 3a telling me that he wanted to put ADI dspConverters (I believe they never really took off) into a pair of Grados. Of course, the […]
I was attempting to keep my personal life separate from my work life but as anyone who has stock certificates stored in a lawyer’s safe downtown or a PO Box in Delaware will tell you, the two stop being separate notions after some time.
The Echo Nest has begun sneaking out of the basement a bit, […]
I had written a lengthy backgrounder for A Singular Christmas, and like most things I do, around revision 150 of the ASC website I deleted it from the page, leaving only the suspicious two liner at the top.
Jason Freeman asked if he could put it in some kiosk for an art show he curated, so […]
I don’t run ever since I had that job where I had to wait in Penn Station every morning for five or ten minutes and I would slide down against the wall between the Sock Store and the Place With The Good Hazelnut Coffee and watch people sprint for their train. You get the impression […]
I defended myself in a new shirt April 14 2005, over one year ago. The open nature of science has been known to excuse itself from the room under certain circumstances, and as such I was not allowed to distribute my dissertation, Learning the meaning of music, for one full year after that public disclosure. […]
When I am not found continuing my anthropological study of underprivileged CoreAudio bugs or pacing slowly in front of the office window, I can be found cradling another passion– image analysis, causing the square amount of BUS ERRORS. So much more responsibility!
Each sample now has two more friends to worry about.
Update: Xcode 2.3, which […]
The original “Web2.0 AJAX Popup” was the amazing Rainer Buchty’s Create your own customized SQ80 OS V1.8 version (CYOCSOV), online since at least 1998. Those were heady times, when a reluctant genius could release a Web Application that provided a real value-add for Ensoniq SQ80, ESQ-1, or ESQ-M (NOT SQ1) owners. CYOCSOV (too many letters– […]
… Christiana was in town, having sublet her place near mine and electing instead to stay at the 104th Y down and across from me as a youth counselor in a tiny room she populated with a subset of her extensive Limoges collection and an AM transistor radio. … The only station she listened to […]