week 149

For, as ever, certain values of weeks. Ada Palmer’s TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING is dazzling – so dazzling, in fact, that I don’t know if…

week 148

The Zont is a very neat synth concept – a cartridge-based sort of thing, which makes it both sort of modular, but not really Resonate.is has…

week 147

– In the middle of The End of The West, I went to Iceland!  I can recommend it. – Some fine Canadians are working on…

remix is gone, but amen is here

On May 31st, 2016 the track/upload endpoint will be removed from the public API of Spotify / The Echo Nest, ending an era. I don’t want…

week 146

– Another month, another amazing Monthly Music Hackathon. – Game Boy Phase. – Web Audio gets rewritten and looks ‘way better. – If you go…

week 145

– Went to the always great Theorizing The Web, got to hear two of my internet heroes (Laurie Penny and Ingrid Burrington) speak. – Jawdropping…

week 144

– Google / Nest might just turn your house off, one day. – Verilog for cells is a thing.  I was talking to a neuroscientist friend…

week 143

– Systems thinking as LARP.  No, really. – At the last MMHD, Halley Young spoke about sonification of algorithms, and played a great example of running…

week 142

– Genetically modified mosquitoes are being released in Brazil. – I think I’ve mentioned Jukedeck, who algorithmically generate royalty-free music, before, but they’re worth talking…

comrade spotify, comrade apple

I went to a hack day, and finished a thing!  It is called Socialist Streaming, and it lets you see what would happen if streaming…