Lewis tipped me about a brilliant computer program the other day; SPEAR. Brilliant! What it does is, basically, that it analyses any soundfile you care to give it and finds a way to represent it as a set of sine tones - partials. The result can be played back in the program and it will sound impressingly close to the original file. (I was particularily baffled by the percussive parts of pieces.) Since the sound is deconstructed, so to speak, in this way, we can do many very interesting things to the sound, like removing any partials below a threshold dB-level (to get the "main" tones), or selecting partials using a lasso tool and playing only "parts" of the full sound. You can also slow down, speed up - and even pause the reading of the sound while the playback is in perfect tune. Great fun!
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Gratulerer Johannes!
Today I finally got inspired to look more into a formal language that always has been there, but I’ve never bothered to look into it before; Regular Expressions. Oh; joyfull bliss and blissfull joy! Although I’ve programmed my share of parsers, designed my “toy” languages and my favourite text editors (Kate and TextPad) always have teased me with it, I’ve never felt the need (or urge) to look into this matter before. Silly me.
Continue reading ‘The joy of learning new programming languages’
A quick link to the best java-applett/open-ended game 
I’ve seen so far this year.
Continue reading ‘Physics!’
My good friend, and composer of contemporary music; Lewis said when I showed him Electroplankton on my DS: “This is the future of music - if we are lucky.” A very fitting reaction indeed. This title by Toshio Iwai is neither a “game” that is not a game, nor an “instrument” that is not a instrument and not really a “music composing tool” that’s not a music composing tool. It’s more in the lines of a composition - an interactive composition. An interactive composition inspired by video games as well as music software and musical instruments.
Being a strong beliver in both Linux, video games and the power of the homebrew scene, I liked Sony’s statement yesterday about actively incouriging hackers around the world to program for their upcoming Linux based monster machine. Yay!
Continue reading ‘PlayStation3 and Linux’
I was sent this link today, and felt it was worth a mention here in my gglob. Who would have thought that one of my favourite browsers would become available for my prefered gadget for gaming? Well apearently someone. Five seconds separating wandering internetless around outside a McDo and being online in all Opera’s userfriendly glory I won’t mind at all. Let’s hope that it will be available here in the west as well - at a reasonable price… (Sources say 30$… Hmmm…) At least this opens for more non-game-projects like Voice-over-IP and we can always wait for this to mature instead…
When Google launched (the beta version of) their instant messaging program; Google Talk some weeks ago I though; “Æsj; yet another one?”, but underneath the newfangled exterior hides a familiar open protocol; Jabber. Good news!
Continue reading ‘Google and Jabber’
In January or so I discovered a fine internet-service called AudioScrobbler. This is a database of peoples “music taste” and theinterconnectednes of these. A great tool to discover new music in one’s or others’ preferred genres. The beta version metamorphosed into Last.FM some months ago.
Continue reading ‘Last.FM’
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