Archive for December, 2008

I’ve had Christmas surprises in the past, but my wife pulled a fast one this year that is particularly noteworthy.
As many of you know, I’ve been taking tabla lessons for the last few months, and having a lot of fun at it. I had been borrowing a pair of my teacher’s [...]

Saturday, December 27th, 2008 at 22:00 | 0 comments
Categories: drums, music
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Since the last post I’ve had to make far more changes than I expected. If you looked at the previous examples, there was using a loop to create the hex buttons, making translations to relative to other translations on the screen. In the process I completely lost track of the absolute position of the button, [...]

Saturday, December 20th, 2008 at 11:13 | 2 comments
Categories: code, java, music, processing

Earlier this year while reading Harmonic Experience by W. A. Mathieu, I was introduced to the concept of lattices to represent tones, chords and keys. These lattices can be used to represent the basics of music composition in a visual way that makes more sense than standard scales on staffs. Here is an example:

The lattice [...]

Friday, December 12th, 2008 at 10:25 | 0 comments
Categories: code, java, music, processing

Most of the things I do are completely pointless. For instance, rather than adding content the my Lolight Records site, I instead redesigned it as a Wordpress site. Why? It gave me a chance to screw around with a new technology, and implementing PDO for PHP was an unhappy prospect (long story). So check out [...]

Sunday, December 7th, 2008 at 01:20 | 0 comments
Categories: code
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