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Are you a designer, do you love music etc

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

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, […]

Pushpin is Real

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

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 […]