Today is about music, and Mac. Now we know.

Everything starts in a garage… the history of Macs, pretty much, with music.

🙌 Liked: Jett: The Far Shore’s fictional language started life as gibberish choral music | Rock Paper Shotgun ⌘ Read more

astrolody: music of the stars↵theolody: divine melody (or god’s earworms)↵topolody: resonance in shapes↵etymolody: singsong of words↵horolody: rhythms intertwined, the song of time advancing↵mytholody: plucked plot threads↵psycholody: that which an EEG should pick up

#event Upcoming Workshop / algolab: Music and Live Coding @ CPH Music Maker Space / facebook event

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halp i want to listen to music but my ears are tired what do

play/pause/stop is not a great interaction, but it does count. thinking of interactive music as a gradient rather than a dichotomy (interactive vs non-interactive) seems like a healthier way to think about things. #halfbakedideas

musical experience that involve harvesting, farming, growth, and caretaking of virtual musical creatures with personality. creatures would socialize with eachother and their interactions would change the overall musical sounds implicitely. #halfbakedideas

implicit music, or the idea that music naturally exudes from everything. composition is not the act of making music, but of starting with music and working backwards. #halfbakedideas

#event Upcoming Workshop / algolab: Visuals and Live Coding @ CPH Music Maker Space / facebook event

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“You’ll hear irrelevant, personalized music…” wait, what?

Been playing Trials of Mana on the weekend, but for some reason I’ve been humming music from Secret of Mana during the rest of the week.

Current earworms: Secret of Evermore music

1bitr is a one-bit text-based music tracker [[https://github.com/zserge/1bitr]]. #links

ECHO: the music of harold budd and brian eno [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Dm-ne-iSY]] #links

Playing sone Elton John classics from my childhood, Gretatest Hits (1974) was the first rock music vinyl LP that I bought on my own

Playing sone Elton John classics from my childhood, Gretatest Hits (1974) was the first rock music vinyl LP that I bought on my own

I want to listen to music, but quite honestly the silence sounds better.

Rafa & Timo - “Hello, off-world!” #livecoding #music

On a related note, ‘hopwag’ sounds like a music genre

#Funkwhale is looking for new maintainers ⋅ #Music #selfhosted #activitypub ⌘ https://blog.funkwhale.audio/~/Announcements/funkwhale-is-looking-for-new-maintainers

This morning I had this really weird notion of building a generative podcast complete with musical interludes and asemic speech using a speech synthesizer. It’d be interesting to have “interviews” with two distinct vocal characters. #halfbakedideas

James Tenney’s Meta Hodos and Meta Meta Hodos are an attempt to derive music theory from first principles: [[https://monoskop.org/images/1/13/Tenney_James_Meta-Hodos_and_Meta_Meta-Hodos.pdf]] #links #composition #musictheory

LC is a new music programming language that is prototype-based, strongly timed, and designed with microsound synthesis in mind: [[https://www.hnishino.com/2019/05/09/lc-a-new-computer-music-programming-language-with-three-core-features/]] #links #composition

also hoping to bring bits of #sndkit into #9front and #neindaw. maybe build a whole professional-quality music production platform around plan9 concepts instead of the tired cliche of emulating analog workflows? #halfbakedideas

a western music theory textbook, but reimagined to actually make sense for computers instead of humans. #halfbakedideas

made a page for !1bit music and stuff

listening to some of Tim Follin’s 1-bit work on the ZX Spectrum makes we want to try do make 1-bit music on the !arduboy #halfbakedideas

On the blog: Developer Journal, International Strange Music Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/08/24/music.html

Getting around my current phone’s lack of a 3.5mm jack by…listening to music on my SIMless old phone. I feel like I’m cheating somehow.

penning out the structure of my current !music_software_ecosystem

a music sequencer, but for producing continuous gestures instead of discrete steps. have it be clocked with an external source so it can play well with others. perhaps build a notation system around it. #halfbakedideas

the idea would be to build and share tiny 6.5 bit programs encoded as printable ascii characters. this could then in turn be read by a virtual computer to do things like paint a picture or compose a piece of music. #halfbakedideas

How to Add an Audio or Music File to a Web Page with BlueGriffon ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/insert-audio-music-file.shtml

I’m enjoying listening to music on my re-discovered #MiniDisc players. Pop in the disc, press play and listen to about 150 minutes of your own music in clear digital quality.

Retro-fitting my music collection and music players with early 20s digital stereo MiniDisc technology.

When the emotion becomes too strong for speech, you sing; when it becomes too strong for song, you dance.” PBS: Think Tank: Transcript for “The American Musical, Part 2”

@mox@tilde.town I don’t really get the point of being in bandcamp while removing the tools bandcamp provides. Too bad I won’t add it to my library then :/

Welcome to MailTape - A place for music lovers by music lovers ⌘ https://www.mailta.pe/

I don’t wanna work today, I just wanna listen to music all day…

Now Playing ∴ Handpicked Albums by the Glitch Family ⌘ https://music.glitch.family/

thank you sean costello for teaching me how to make planetarium music

even though I have these nice hs7 studio monitors on my desk right now, most of my monitoring has been done using my minirig mini. There is just something so irresistable about writing music for something so cute and tiny.

i really like the music that comes thru on bandcamp daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/07/01/best-new-ambient-on-bandcamp-june-2019/

Decent music.

The music of all time is a duet between order and disorder | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-music-of-all-time-is-a-duet-between-order-and-disorder

King Crimson to Stream All Studio Albums on Spotify – Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/king-crimson-albums-streaming-spotify-818686/

Brutalism And Music - Exploring Brutalist Architecture & Sound https://thespoonsterspouts.com/music/brutalism-and-music/

Moondog History: Part Viking, All Musical Icon https://tedium.co/2019/03/28/moondog-musician-history/

I’m more and more into funk music :)

A Beginner’s Guide to Music Theory - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2z02J4fJwg

Weezer’s Black Album Won’t Make It Easier for Them - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/2/26/18240667/weezer-black-album-review-rivers-cuomo

Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing https://longreads.com/2019/02/19/three-decades-of-cross-cultural-utopianism-in-british-music-writing/

’60s Children’s Music: The Appeal for Early Electronic Musicians https://tedium.co/2019/02/05/60s-electronic-music-childrens-music-history/

Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/roomful-of-teeth-is-revolutionizing-choral-music

Is Spotify’s Model Wiping Out Music’s Middle Class? - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/16/18184314/spotify-music-streaming-service-royalty-payout-model

Beat Godfather Meets Glitter Mainman: William Burroughs Interviews David Bowie – Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beat-godfather-meets-glitter-mainman-william-burroughs-interviews-david-bowie-92508/

The YouTube Algorithm’s Strange, Soothing Power | SPIN https://www.spin.com/featured/youtube-algorithm-music-essay-ambient-hiroshi-yoshimura-midori-takada/

Genesis P-Orridge: fantastic transgressor or sadistic aggressor? | Music | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/10/genesis-p-orridge-throbbing-gristle

Some seasonal music to get you all in the spirit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hvgZmAygX4

Some seasonal music to get you all in the spirit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hvgZmAygX4

Luigi Russolo: How The Art of Noise Revolutionized 20th Century Music | hydramag https://hydramag.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/luigi-russolo-how-the-art-of-noise-revolutionized-20th-century-music/

“Eco Grime” Artists Blend Natural Sounds & Electronics to Depict a Polluted World « Bandcamp Daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/11/13/eco-grime-music-history/

A Big Archive of Occult Recordings: Historic Audio Lets You Hear Trances, Paranormal Music, Glossolalia & Other Strange Sounds (1905-2007) | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2018/02/a-big-archive-of-occult-recordings.html

Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) “ ~ajroach42.com ” I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. … http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/

Download Music From the Free Music Archive Before It Shuts Down https://lifehacker.com/download-the-music-you-want-from-the-free-music-archive-1830320515

The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | Music For Algorithms: In Search Of Eno’s Ambient Vision In A Spotify Era http://thequietus.com/articles/25532-brian-eno-ambient-music

• gears that revolve and levers that shift, concepts rotated and slotted into each other↵- brute force pattern matching: anything as metaphor for anything, the music you’re listening to as body or story or building

The Quietus | Opinion | The Quietus Essay | Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Musical Challenges to Copyright(ed) Culture http://thequietus.com/articles/25494-music-copyright-jamaica-dub

“Musical Steganography: Hiding Things in Music” by Scott Fradkin - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLXqZVHrFa4

Meet Bill Wurtz, the Internet Musical Genius You’ve Never Heard Of - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/meet-bill-wurtz-the-internet-musical-genius-youve-never-heard-of?curator=MusicREDEF

Bad idea of the day: turn music into text by substituting note frequency with word frequency

Bad idea of the day: A video game adaptation of Lethem’s Gun With Occasional Music in the style of the Monkey Island series, with a mechanic involving mixing custom blends of forgetol/regretol/etc & replacing people’s stashes with them.

“Generating Music From Emotion (and other experiments)” by Hannah Davis - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpiN2DZxU_4

You’d think that somebody writing for NME would know that ‘Daddy’s Car’ isn’t the first AI-written song. (Even if the earliest example they can think of is from Songsmith & they don’t recognize that Bach was doing generative music.)

They used Saint Pepsi as hold music, not Macintosh Plus. No one noticed.

Neoliberalism, World Music and Corporate Aesthetics - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sCRcfYRslg

GitHub - flipcoder/textbeat: text music sequencer and midi shell with vim playback https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat

Bad idea of the day: a movie musical called Greece, for extra confusion

DJ-SDKs Programming Music - rtmp://codevoid.de/live

The Dying Art of Anime Music Videos - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qcuJM1H_lQ

📚 Finished reading Great Music of the 20th Century by Robert Greenberg

📚 Finished reading Great Music of the 20th Century by Robert Greenberg

Inside Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases - Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/vaporwave-floppy-disk-trend-w521790

Inside the calming communities of YouTube’s lo-fi hip hop scene | Dazed http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/40366/1/youtube-lo-fi-hip-hop-study-relax-24-7-livestream-scene

‘Sci-Fi Music Felt Like a Vast, Interconnected Mythology’: An Interview with Jason Heller | Hazlitt https://hazlitt.net/feature/sci-fi-music-felt-vast-interconnected-mythology-interview-jason-heller

Inside the Songs of Our Lives: ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ http://www.realclearlife.com/music/video-killed-the-radio-star/

Band name of the day: functional music

Kevin’s Meandering Mind | A Whale’s Lantern: The Oral History of a Musical Collaboration (part two) http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2018/04/15/a-whales-lantern-the-oral-history-of-a-musical-collaboration-part-two/

Kevin’s Meandering Mind | A Whale’s Lantern: The Oral History of a Musical Collaboration (part one) http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2018/04/14/a-whales-lantern-the-oral-history-of-a-musical-collaboration-part-one/

The constant freezing gale from the night side forces most life on the edge into well-lit wind shadows, but also powers mills, musical instruments, even computers based on Kármán vortex logic

DadaBots: Socially Automated Dadaist Music Remix Bots on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/72277348

Bad idea of the day: use those ear-mounted accelerometers that normally wake people who are dozing off at the wheel to instead redden the display, replace desktop background with surreal and dreamlike images, fade in quiet calming ambient music, raise the thermostat

Nintendo Music Scene: Chiptune and Game-Rock Heavyweights https://tedium.co/2018/05/17/nintendo-nes-chiptune-music-scene/

certain step sequences recreate popular melodies and wear visible paths into the floor, sometimes groups will try dances so their bodies modulate the ambient sound; the temple as musical instrument

The protest songs that drove the Wobblies a century ago are still lighting fires | Music Feature | Chicago Reader https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/little-red-songbook-iww-wobblies-joe-hill-may-day/Content?oid=46456670

Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. This… http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/

I wonder if the recent Charlie Wartzel-spawned increase in the use of the term ‘infocalypse’ will affect the popularity of the music I’ve been releasing under that name for the past eleven years…

With Musical Cryptography, Composers Can Hide Messages in Their Melodies - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/musical-cryptography-codes

Band name of the day: multiple music