I hated to say it, but I was thinking the last episode of the season was a bit over the top/hokey. What put me over was the "all along the watchtower" gimmick (made me cringe, the way and timing of the revelation and the characters.
They tried to jam too much in at once. The Baltar thing was enough.
Though I've immensely enjoyed the show up to this point, they better do some good 'splainin for me to reconsider my judgment of their current plot integrity.
And eff watching tv. I just DL the episodes right after they air.
Barf. Corporate catchphrases. So comically transparent in their "go team" psychologically manipulative intent. I roll my eyes in a similar fashion to when I hear a 40 year old white dude say "da bomb".
Nifty! Don't suppose you've got any errr... neato Reaktor 5 ensembles you're interested in sharing (yeah I've played with the one that's already out there).:)
Speaking of non-traditional music making, been appreciating some righteous work has been done years back in the BBC radiophonic workshop.
As opposed to just playback from a laptop with little to no real-time modulation...
http://www.nativeinstruments.de/index.php?id=timex ile_us&flash=0
"Tim has spent the last year creating and perfecting a radical tool for live performance. Based entirely around Reaktor 5 and a set of customised faders and controllers, it allows him to manipulate samples and his own voice in real time. The unique Exile setup has been showcased at raves and gigs all over the UK and Europe. Native Instruments talked to Tim about his musical past, present and future, and got some very interesting answers. The interview was held at Fail Headquarters in London.
"
Also, can't get to it right now, but search him on youtube and you can find videos of him performing live.
Also see Scrambledhackz...
http://www.popmodernism.org/scrambledhackz/
Check the videos section...
"Technically my mind music machine was realized in form of a software, which basically consists of three modules: a pre-analyzer, a database and a synthesizer. Using the pre-analyzer it is possible to automatically split up an arbitrary amount of audio material into small musically and rhytmically meaningful snippets. For each of those snippets its sonic properties (sound signatures) are extracted by means of psychoacoustic techniques and saved in a database so that a soundpool of samples referenced by their sound signatures is becoming available.
The synthesizer analyzes an audio input stream and again splits it up into small snippets and calculates their sound signatures. For every input snippet (or actually its sound signature) the best match out of all the snippets in the database is found and each input snippet is continuously replaced by the best matching (most similar-sounding) snippet from the database.
The audio input, which can be other music or as I use it, just human voice, is virtually describing music to be automatically constructed out of samples found in the database."
Also see Merzbow...
Slashdot Mirror
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If I could just stop the US Postal Service from spamming me.
I hated to say it, but I was thinking the last episode of the season was a bit over the top/hokey. What put me over was the "all along the watchtower" gimmick (made me cringe, the way and timing of the revelation and the characters. They tried to jam too much in at once. The Baltar thing was enough. Though I've immensely enjoyed the show up to this point, they better do some good 'splainin for me to reconsider my judgment of their current plot integrity. And eff watching tv. I just DL the episodes right after they air.
Yawn. The black and white/"liberal"/"conservative"/with us or against us mentality is tres hackneyed. /another slash for good measure.
I will not buy this lumberjack, it is scratched.
Car drives you!
nt
Exactly.
I mean, GO USA #1!!!oneone11
Guess we wouldn't need an army then though.
of which companies are respecting our rights and which are trashing them?
I'd definintely use it as a guideline for future patronage.
Vote with your dollars folks.
Barf. Corporate catchphrases. So comically transparent in their "go team" psychologically manipulative intent. I roll my eyes in a similar fashion to when I hear a 40 year old white dude say "da bomb".
When things go right it isn't news.
And I don't mean that cynically.
It's also a function of having a historically unprecedented instantanneous access to global "news".
Imagine if we printed a story for every time a plane landed successfully, etc.
"Space, the final frontier..."
Nifty! :)
Don't suppose you've got any errr... neato Reaktor 5 ensembles you're interested in sharing (yeah I've played with the one that's already out there).
Speaking of non-traditional music making, been appreciating some righteous work has been done years back in the BBC radiophonic workshop.
As opposed to just playback from a laptop with little to no real-time modulation... http://www.nativeinstruments.de/index.php?id=timex ile_us&flash=0
"Tim has spent the last year creating and perfecting a radical tool for live performance. Based entirely around Reaktor 5 and a set of customised faders and controllers, it allows him to manipulate samples and his own voice in real time. The unique Exile setup has been showcased at raves and gigs all over the UK and Europe. Native Instruments talked to Tim about his musical past, present and future, and got some very interesting answers. The interview was held at Fail Headquarters in London.
"
Also, can't get to it right now, but search him on youtube and you can find videos of him performing live.
Also see Scrambledhackz...
http://www.popmodernism.org/scrambledhackz/
Check the videos section...
"Technically my mind music machine was realized in form of a software, which basically consists of three modules: a pre-analyzer, a database and a synthesizer. Using the pre-analyzer it is possible to automatically split up an arbitrary amount of audio material into small musically and rhytmically meaningful snippets. For each of those snippets its sonic properties (sound signatures) are extracted by means of psychoacoustic techniques and saved in a database so that a soundpool of samples referenced by their sound signatures is becoming available.
The synthesizer analyzes an audio input stream and again splits it up into small snippets and calculates their sound signatures. For every input snippet (or actually its sound signature) the best match out of all the snippets in the database is found and each input snippet is continuously replaced by the best matching (most similar-sounding) snippet from the database.
The audio input, which can be other music or as I use it, just human voice, is virtually describing music to be automatically constructed out of samples found in the database."
Also see Merzbow...
backup of that 2003 article?
I've been weeping since 2000... I mean go USA.
National Dairy Council.
So let me get this straight, are they playing before or after Puppet Show?
How long do you shovel sand into a bottomless pit? "What a great time to be alive and ignorant . . ."
You said it. :)