I think one of the least-appreciated features of the new generation of smartphones is the voice recorder. We’re all taking more photos than ever, yet forgetting to capture a significant part of our everyday experience: sound. Lately I’ve made it a point to record interesting sounds I encounter as I go about my day. Interestingly, [...]

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A system for imprecise, ephemeral transmission of sound data

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How Puredata can be used to translate sound to a restricted sequence of discrete notes.

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It’s that time of year again. Christmas is coming, snow is falling outside my window, and the wind is whistling.  Maybe it’s late, or my mind is playing tricks on me, but the wind seems a bit more coherent than usual… Musical, even. Creepy.

This is how I’d like to imagine the first Christmas–even the wind [...]

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After a weekend workshop (thanks to Hans-Christoph Steiner and Eyebeam) on Pure Data, I’ve been tinkering with it quite a bit lately and geeking out on old signal processing stuff I haven’t touched since college.
Over the years I’ve played with a number of tools for audio processing: Matlab, jMusic, a Java library for algorithmic composition, Nyquist, a [...]

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