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Max/MSP Live Coding
Read more . . . →A realtime performance of creating a Max-patch, starting from zero. This is a lot like the final project in third year computer music at Carleton University. The only difference is we had all semester to make something that complex. The other minor difference was that we had to make a midi note engine rather than an audio engine, but I'm sure this would pass as acceptable. The Rules: You have 6 minutes to build a Max-patch and do a performance with it. Start with an empty patch. Only use the standard objects that are part of Max/MSP/Jitter. Don’t use externals,...
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Anatomy of a Remix - Feel It by Tiesto feat Three Six Mafia
Read more . . . →Here is a quick screen capture of where I'm at so far in this remix. The first stage involved setting up all my samples in time. The vocal was really tricky on this one, and took a lot of playing around with to get it timed properly but perhaps you won't have trouble with it. Next I was trying to replace the first synth which, as it turns out, is very complex. There are many effects on Tiesto's final version. The files in the remix pack already have been processed with reverb, delays and (too much) side-chain compression by Tiesto...
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Three 6 Mafia feat. Tiësto - Feel It (Official Music Video)
Read more . . . →Now for the official video: Feel free to check out the later videos that break down my remix of Feel It.
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Class 6: Privacy and Technology
Read more . . . →Watch: Enemy of the State (Scott, 1998) Reading: Munster, Anna. "Welcome to Google Earth." Critical Digital Studies: A Reader. Toronto: University of Toronto Printing Press, 2008. Print. As I began shifting into my units about copyright infringement I wanted to look at some of the good and bad aspects of technology’s infringement on our privacy. While a decade ago Enemy of the State (1998) seemed a like a bit of a conspiracy theory movie, the digital mapping technology that was imagined ten years ago is now a reality with Google Earth and even Google Street View within its Maps application....
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Coldplay Sucks, But Lady Gaga doesn't - Lady Gaga - Viva la Vida
Read more . . . →Coldplaysucks, but this cover of their songs is fantastic.
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Strategies to Live to be 100
Read more . . . →Incredible study into Blue Zones, areas where people live to be over 100.
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Brittany Murphy Faster Kill Pussycat by Paul Oakenfold
Read more . . . →Brittany Murphy will best be remembered for her role in movies such as Happy Feet, and (especially for me) for her role in this Paul Oakenfold club killer. Download "Kill Pussycat by Paul Oakenfold" on Megaupload now!
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Class 5: Alternative microcosms
Watch: Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman, 2008) My next screening has less to do with technology and more to do with alternative realities and ties up my unit on simulated realities, and representations. I felt that during later parts of Synecdoche, New York (2008) the multitude of actors existing in the same space, but playing people that are in the same room was a good representation of the avatars created in Surrogates and A.I.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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Happy New Year
Awesome graphics courtesy of our friend Phil Retrospector Happy New Year Kitteh Wishes you Happy New Year!Read more . . . →
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