i love pinkpantheress so much she’s so cute and fun and tapped into every aesthetic and dance music sound i love. if you like house and garage and D&B music, check her out!!!! she absolutely knows her shit too btw she’s sampled basement jaxx and adam F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo_lPnBlfto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFWXqLSr4ZM

I’m playing with ratterplatter again: It’s a toy that watches disk I/O and emulates the noise of a real hard disk. (Linux only.) It uses sound samples from one of my older disks.

I tried a different approach at estimating the disk activity and I think I finally got it right (after almost 10 years … 🤦).

Demo, booting a Windows 2000 VM: https://movq.de/v/1400544cc6/2kboot-ratterplatter-2.mp4

(For this purpose alone, I put a couple of mini speakers into my PC case, so that the noise comes from the right place: https://movq.de/v/a3b2dc0932/speakers.jpg)

The results aren’t too bad, but this thing can’t be super accurate due to the huge I/O caches that we have these days. For the video, I dropped the caches before booting Windows, otherwise you would have heard almost nothing.

FWIW, if you don’t know it yet, this is the equivalent for proper keyboard sound: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring

Chapter 1:
Chapter 2:

if you want a different voice let me know which to use: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/

O álbum, ou neste caso banda sonora, que mais fez por definir o meu gosto musical foi a BSO do Sonic CD (1993), e quero estrear-me na nova cardiqueta musical da Ciberlândia – #musicol – para vos descrever brevemente a paixão que lhe tenho.

Ainda me lembro muito bem do momento em que, em casa de um amigo que tinha Mega CD, fui arrebatadíssimo por aquele “wuu” do início do jogo (dá pra ouvir na faixa anexa). Até à altura, a música dos videojogos era na base de chips áudio com pouca capacidade pra samples. De repente aparece-nos áudio qualidade CD, vozes, samples longos, que magia que foi.

E não era só a qualidade do som. As malhas soavam tão à frente, techno nipónico a ir buscar ligações a beats latinos, jazz, pop, synthwave, sci-fi, rave e sei lá mais o quê, de acordo com o ambiente do nível.

Outro pormenor inédito (?) era haver vários remixes do mesmo tema de acordo com o período no tempo em que estamos (presente, passado ameno, futuro distópico).

E era quê, 1994-5? Só muitos anos mais tarde consegui obter a colectânea no Soulseek, e ainda hoje me enche de ouvir estas vibes. Alguém por cá também já regalou os ouvidos com isto?

(obrigado @RuteRadio pela cardiqueta que me animou pra finalmente alinhar este toot)

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introducing: the !trikuf. code samples included. #halfbakedideas

@adi@twtxt.net “I usually seen the opposite. Women are more interested in longevity and happy that studies show that they live more than men.” -> I probably could have been clearer: It seems to me that women are on average much less interested in life-extension (methods beyond usual health advice such as the old “exercise, eat vegetables”) than men. This might just be founder/sampling bias (life extension comes out of the relatively male dominated libertarian/techno-optimist cluster). Actually, maybe there’s just a variance thing here: median man cares less about his longevity than the median woman, but the variance for men is higher.

rounded rectangle recipe in #cairo [[https://www.cairographics.org/samples/rounded_rectangle/]] #links #vector #graphics

Just copied over more samples today from my sample collection from one drive to another. Things are in more than one place for the first time in a long time, maybe ever in some cases? Feels nice.

I’ve already implemented like 4 new features today just out of necessity with my !sample_curation project.

to start my sample !zettelkasten, I imported some waveform collections I had nearby: AKWF, Architecture Waveforms 2010, and WaveEdit #samples #curation #zet

a collection of high-res wavetables with a !CC0 license: [[https://waveeditonline.com/]] #links #samples

implemented initial crate import in !weewiki. one step closer towards !sample_curation

I’ve recently been reading up on zettelkastens again, since it is very closely related to the ethos of a personal wiki system like !weewiki. The thing that interests me is the emergent patterns that come from linking things to things. Which is exactly the sort of solution I’m looking for !sample_curation. #halfbakedideas

saw this great writeup once on how somebody visualized data by drawing faces with them, and letting our brain’s natural face feature-extraction algorithms interpret the data. Kinda want to try to do that with some of these samples and waveforms I’m curating. #halfbakedideas

more attempts at articulating the !sample_curation problem space today. #updates

updating my wiki index, so some pages are not going to be featured there anymore: !MIDI_sucks !sample_curation !howyousay !sixtycolumnrule