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…

turning off the faucet

As you may have seen on the internet, we’re shutting down Drip, as of March 18th. I’ll write more about things that I did and…

week 141

The more things change. – Audio feature extraction in JavaScript.  The JavaScript-only world continues to arrive. – Iffy branding aside, it looks like Serato Pyro…

week 140

New York City remains too too warm. – A video game character is modelling for Louis Vuitton.  Of course. – Pauline Oliveros has a Second…

week 139

– The complete works of Walter Benjamin are available as PDFs.  Here’s the big one – thanks to Sam Valenti for the tipoff. – James…

here come the sun

Happy solstice, team.  Oh, let’s go around one more time.

2015: shows of the year

Four Tet x Floating Points @ Sugar Hill Disco The best reasons to live in the UK came to NYC, played two shows, and I…