Fedback Feedback

A week or so ago on the very awesome AudioCookbook blog, there was a post about Old Amplifier Abuse that reminded me of an experiment from a few years back conducted by Arthur, Micah and I using an old Crate amp head with a spring reverb. As luck would have it not two days later [...]

Java Midi Reference Class

Lately I have been doing some work with Processing to create visuals from music. One of the concepts I’m working with is live visuals based on video feeds from cameras that are tracking the show, or band, or whatever. This alone would be enormously boring, so to heighten the experience, I thought of using the [...]

2008: A Year Off

Well, as far as athletic competition goes. Anyone paying attention probably noticed that I added nothing to my race schedule after The ING Atlanta Marathon in March, whereas usually I have at least 3 or 4 races in the Summer, and some runs in the Fall. What happened? Not sure. I forgot to sign up [...]

Jamie Dupree is the best political journalist you don’t know about

It’s Sunday afternoon and a “Bailout Bill” is imminent. Having listened to this nonsense without explanation all weekend a journalist with trust enough in the beholder has posted and impartial, full text bill proposal as of this afternoon: http://wsbradio.com/blogs/jamie_dupree/2008/09/text-of-the-wall-street-bailou.html He has also posted his analysis, which those who have listened to Dupree in the past [...]

Sound Memory

It’s pretty common to create mnemonic devices to help remember things. Indeed, I can think of at least a dozen acronyms, sing-a-longs and rhymes that I’ve used in the past (thanks to Fields, I’ll never forget my Latin Declensions). Apparently the sense of smell creates the strongest memory bonds in most folks, but for me, [...]