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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Panning for Nuggets in the Digital Lint
Last night I fell to musing about a program called the Programmable Variations Generator. It was a module for Dr. T’s Keyboard Controlled Sequencer, a MIDI sequencer for the late, lamented Atari ST computer. The Programmable Variations Generator (PVG) was … Continue reading
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Music Page Updated
If you haven’t visited the “My Music” page of this blog in a while (or ever), I hope you’ll do so. I’ve just updated it with a whole bunch of tracks, new and old. They’re all nice hi-quality mp3s. It … Continue reading
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Pottery
I’ve been doing a little reading in archaeology. Learning a bit about how people may have lived 5,000 years ago in one part of Europe or another is fascinating. Not quite so fascinating, but difficult to avoid, is the intellectual … Continue reading
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Why I Don’t Use a Screen Saver
Today I spent about an hour staring at my computer screen, unable to tear myself away. Not all at once, you understand — five minutes or so at a time. Or maybe it was longer. I’ve been doing a little … Continue reading
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Digging It (Up)
I’ve never taken a college-level course in world history. What I remember from high school (which was so long ago it practically counts as history itself) amounted to, “The Greeks invented philosophy, and then the Romans conquered everything. Oh, and … Continue reading
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Csound Doodle
Sometimes I feel a bit useless or demented, so I poke around in Csound. Last night I did a doodle … it didn’t even qualify as a sketch. But this morning I worked on it a little more, and now … Continue reading
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Take 20
Here’s a more developed version of a sketch I uploaded a few weeks ago: It uses a 20-note-per-octave equal-tempered scale. Actually, a lot of it uses the five-equal subset of the tuning, but there are a few passing tones and … Continue reading
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Jim Aikin's Oblong Blob 