Communicating in a networked world
Soundcloud has easy ways to embed music players in a web site, especially WordPress sites. However, these players can use up a lot of screen space on a page, especially the players for "sets" (several tracks per set). So here are two special … [Continue reading]
Preparing for a three-week composition marathon writing "dance" and performance music. I have put up a lot of new composition work on SoundCloud. See "Strings" "Classical Guitar" and "Dakini Dances" for the new material. As always, it's still drafty, … [Continue reading]
I have not written on this subject because I just see everyone else is banging on Congress about how stupid it would be to install "backdoors" in commercial email and software services. But honestly, I'm a bit concerned right now because government … [Continue reading]
"Max/MSP" is a computer app that implements an on-screen visual programming environment in which you can "wire" together components that make and process sound or logic. You could think of it as programming, but it's unlike the old procedural … [Continue reading]
Well I don't have a photo, but my first computer was an IBM 709. My next computer, for a very short time, was a CDC 3400, which was soon after replaced by the CDC 6400 that served for roughly 7 years as "my" mainframe. Me and many other researchers, … [Continue reading]