exploring the mysteries of the spoken word. Niiiice. Nice.

New Musical Instruments Hackathon

New Musical Instruments Hackathon

July 24-25, 2015 Spotify NYC 45 W 18th St, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10011 Free. All are welcome. RSVP

Talks by Instrument Inventors & Builders

Friday, July 24th, 2015 8:00 PM

Adelle LinMusical GamesAndy CavatortaMusic, Machines and Lessons LearnedJed MinerSynthesizer SculpturesScott Barton & Steven KemperRobotic Instruments & Human-Robot InteractionBrenden HusseyDomestic RepurposingThessia MachadoHarvested ElectronicsThor KellAutomatic iOS InstrumentsJeff SnyderManta ControllerBrian CrabtreeMonome Grid Controller Hackathon

Make anything you want related to music! Saturday, July 25th, 2015

10:00amDoor Open & Hacking Starts! We have coffee.10:30amBrainstorming / Collaborator-finding session12:00pmLunch provided5:00pmDinner on your own6:30pmSubmit your hacks to this form7:00pmSoundcheck8:00pm Epic Jefferson, Signal Project, Free-Hand Gesture-Based Synth 8:00pmDemo or perform your hack! Hack Demos & Performances

Hear about all the musical hacks made today! Saturday, July 25th, 2015 8:00 PM

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Coming up:

Music Games, August 29, 2015, Spotify NYC, Registration open now! Music Education, September 26, 2015, Spotify NYC Haunted Sound Art Installations, October 31, 2015, Spotify NYC Sound Visualization & Data Sonification, December 12, 2015, Spotify NYC

FOREMOST & FAIR out today

Heyyy, after a bunch of boring delays (none the fault of RR//TT) the new Home Blitz album FOREMOST & FAIR is out today on Richie Records. Get a copy from one of the links below, in a store, or contact [email protected] to buy one of the artist copies. Thank you.

testostertunes.bigcartel.com/product/home-blitz-foremost-fair

midheaven.com/item/foremost-fair-by-home-blitz-lp

This is NOT Moon Duo. The song should sound like this:

http://open.spotify.com/track/6iXeUCEebJvyIJtixh2B5M

Youtube's music automaton got it totally wrong.

Meara O'Reilly - What Crystallography and Radio Astronomy can teach us about Musical Rhythm

at Galerie Mark Hachem

http://davidbyrne.com/archive/art/guitar_pedals/

La tristeza - invitando a Salvadora by Meridian Brothers

QuickType Poems

I got a new iphone and for every word I type, it suggests three words that I can choose next. Eventually, QuickType will learn my texting patterns, and, for every situation, it will suggest words that I have used in similar contexts.

So if I'm not careful, I will become a caricature of myself.

For now, I think, I'm a blank slate.

And yet, even before I had finished typing a single word into my new phone, QuickType was already trying to put words in my virtual mouth.

Where does QuickType get its initial corpus? From people's texts, I assumed. But Apple's privacy policy states that my corpus will remain private. So maybe it is a more generic source. Was it the Cambridge English Corpus? No, too formal. The Enron Email Corpus? 

Maybe it's based on everything that Apple already knows about me from whatever corpus they already have of my text.

I want to write more this year. I enjoy writing. I thought I might be an English major in college. The compositional process helps me get to the bottom of my thoughts, and express my ideas to the world.

What happens when we hand over part of this process to predictive text analysis—a machine's interpretation of our voice?

I'm about to find out. But for now, I like to imagine that QuickType's initial corpus based on some authoritative analysis of SMS etiquette. Imagine what a great resource that would be: take a snapshot of contemporary text-based communication, and return the lowest common denominator.

Here are some examples from my initial exploration of an untrained QuickType:

I'm so excited for this year and I don't know how much I love it when people don't like the new version of this year and the rest of the day before the end of the year before the update is a very nice but it would mean the world is not the same thing over and over again

Sorry, no matter what you think you should have been the same thing as the most recent update it crashes and freezes and crashes and freezes up on me and I don't think that it was the first time since the update it crashes every time we talk about it and it will not let me know what to say it is not the same thing as the first time since it is not the same thing as the first time since the update

Ok so I can see it as a result of the best thing ever is when I get to see the same thing as the most recent update has been the most beautiful girl in the morning and I'm not going to the gym and then you can get it together and make me laugh so hard for you guys should have been the same thing as the most beautiful girl in the world is full of it

I'm not sure what the heck is going on with my friends and I don't know what to say I don't think I might be the same thing as the first time I see you

Favorite Music of 2014

Turns out I love year-end list-making time! It inspired me to revisit some of my favorite albums of 2014. Meanwhile, the past month of reading other people's lists has tipped me off to tons of amazing music that I might otherwise have missed. I still have a lot that I haven't even listened to. It'll take at least another couple days to get through it all. What else am I missing?

I don't know if 2014 was a good year for music. But it was a great year to be a music listener. Most of these releases are at your fingertips on various websites where they can also be purchased in physical formats.

7 FAVORITES

The Shivvers - The Shivvers (Sing Sing Records) - originally recorded in 1980, never released!

Satanicpornocultshop - AtoZ!!!2 (nunulaxnulan)

Francis Bebey - Psychedelic Sanza 1982-1984 (Born Bad)

The Moles - Flashbacks and Dream Sequences: The Story of the Moles (Fire Records)

Container - Adhesive EP (Liberation Technologies)

Ben Vida - Slipping Control (Shelter Press)

Sheer Mag 7” (Wilsuns RC)

17 MORE

Karol Conka - Batuk Freak (Mr Bongo) Ed Schrader’s Music Beat - Party Jail (Infinity Cat) Ben Frost - A U R O R A (Mute / Bedroom Community) The Soundcarriers - Entropicalia (Ghost Box) Family Fodder - Monkey Banana Kitchen (Staubgold) (Reissue) The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band - 21st Century Molam (Studio Lam ) Kemialliset Ystävät - Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa (Dekorder) Goat - Commune (Sub Pop) V/A - Warfaring Strangers: Darkscortch Canticles (Numero Group) Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata / Piñata Beats (Madlib Invazion) Cabaret Voltaire - #7885 Electropunk to Technopop 1978-1985 (Mute) Doug Gillard - Parade On (Nine Mile Records) V/A - Serious Rockers: An Unblinking Ear Mixtape (Unblinking Ear) (*I'm biased!) electric eels - Die Electric Eels (Superior Viaduct) Pregnant - John Raw (Crash Symbols) Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman 2 (Planet Mu) OOIOO - Gamel (Thrill Jockey)

ALSO ENJOYED

Timmy Vulgar - Genetic Armageddon (American Tapes) Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty (Sub Pop) Xray Pop - Ding Dong Songs (Cache Cache / Finders Keepers) The Stevens - A History of Hygiene (Chapter Music) Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Chambers (Captcha) Ex Hex - Rips (Merge) Ought - More Than Any Other Day (Constellation) Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar) Khun Narin - Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band (Innovative Leisure) Angkanang Kunchai with Ubon-Pattana Band - Isan Lam Plearn (EM Records) Machinedrum - Vapor City Archives (Ninja Tune) Caetano Veloso - Abraçaço (Nonesuch) Todd Terje - It’s Album Time (Olsen Records) The Paperhead - Africa Avenue (Trouble In Mind) Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (What’s Your Rupture) The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian) Caribou - Our Love (Merge) Inga Copeland - Because I’m Worth It (self release) Brian Eno & Karl Hyde - High Life (Warp) Godflesh - Decline and Fall EP (Avalanche Recordings) Chancha Via Circuito - Amansara (Wonderwheel Recordings) Clark - Clark (Warp) FKA twigs - LP1 (Young Turks) Ariel Pink - Pom Pom (4AD) Gipsy Rhumba: The Original Rhythm of Gipsy Rhumba in Spain 1965-74 (Soul Jazz) Nevermores - Lock Your Doors... (Magnetic South) Apache Dropout "Heavy Window" (Magnetic South) Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit (Harbinger Sound) Ninos Du Brasil - Novos Mistérios (Hospital Productions) V/A - Sawtuha: Nine Women From Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and a bonus song from Syria (Jakarta) Quantic - Magnetica (Tru Thoughts) Stas - Tales From Liasufam Desert (Babylon Records) Beatelephant - Beatelephant (bandcamp) V/A - Beyond Addis: Contemporary Jazz & Funk Inspired By Ethiopian Sounds from the 70's (Trikont) X_X - X Sticky Fingers X (Smog Veil) Ausmuteants - Order of Operation (Goner / Aarght)

MISSED / NEED TO HEAR MORE

Swans - To Be Kind Aphex Twin - Syro Total Control - Typical System Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers Mordecai - Neil's Generator Ngozi Family - Day of Judgement Burnt Skull - Sewer Birth Hank Wood and the Hammerheads - Stay Home!! Straight Arrows - R I S I N G

Initial Design Concepts

Please let us know which one you like best

"Songs from beyond the id. Hear this, pay attention to the rest of the St. Valentine stable, and for God’s sake, don’t turn your back on Cleveland. This time they mean it.”

AWAY FROM THE PULSEBEAT Winter 1987 Issue: Experienced? 

DEATH OF SAMANTHA review by rockscissorsgun's favorite zine writer, Art Black (Editor)

Didja heard? Death of Samantha are playing their first NYC in over 103 years tomorrow 5/29/14 at Baby’s All Right in everyone’s favorite part of town, South Williamsburg, with LAME DRIVERS and DAVE HILL!! 

Things younger than Death Of Samantha’s last live show in NYC (actually in 1991):  the internet (commercial version), Bosnia & Herzogovinia, Eritrea, Czech Republic, Slovakia (you get the idea), all five members of One Direction, 7 of the 9 current U.S. Supreme Court Justices’ first day of service on the High Court (only Scalia and Kennedy served earlier than ‘91), the last print issue of Forced Exposure, the last print issue of Damp, all members of the very fine LAME DRIVERS (okay, maybe just Joe) Aging Baldini’s hairline…   

Speaking of Damp, we’re almost certain that its Editor-in-Chief-in-Exile Kevin Kraynick will bear witness to the DoS resurrection show, so if you’ve ever wanted to punch him in response to that swipe he took at the Chills, tomorrow night would a good opportunity. 

lacienegasmiled:

Youtube mix of Ethiopian Orthodox music performed on the begena, a buzzing lyre. Totally mezmur-izing. Found this searching for Zerfu Demissie