"Carbon Credits" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
A little music-box tune using Reaktor's Carbon 2 synth. The fuller-sounding part at :31 is a chord made with the Vermona Perfourmer (recently back from the shop) and some virtual FX-chain processing.
Originally the Carbon Credits theme was at the end of "Bass Transitions (Krypt)" -- now in an extended version minus that theme: [6.3 MB .mp3]
Update: Added a bassline and some beats and re-uploaded.
A disturbing wrinkle on the internet view from 2013:
Speculation about a Linux back door (note that Torvalds didn't actually answer the question).
Time to buy some envelopes and sealing wax.
Update: Torvalds swears it was a joke but again, please see (scary but unfortunately a bit light on sourcing).
Was trying to think of when you might want to watch a cursor moving through a sound file.
For any reason besides "we at Soundcloud needed a gimmick to keep your attention while you listen to music here."
Perhaps if the wave had an interesting shape and the sound was somewhat intriguing and there was some obvious, necessary correlation between the two.
So I made this [Vimeo] as an experiment. [Embedded version]
Had been wanting to post that bit of electronic music but it needed something more. This might be it.
The drift of current design is to rub out all traces of human agency in computer and web use ("here, let the machine do that for you") while at the same time dispensing endless hype encouraging people to express their individuality by sharing.
Olia Lialina thinks "user" is not a bad word, and posits a resourceful, skeptical (ideal) individual somewhere between the programmer/designer/hacker who sneers at "average" consumers and the imagined helpless n00b most "apps" are designed for. Joking on the "general purpose computer" and the "Turing test" for artificial intelligence, she posits the General Purpose User or Turing Complete User.
Fleshing out this conception further, this person:
Dislikes being infantilized by his internet service provider ("uh oh, you're not logged in")
Scorns URL shorteners that anonymize incoming links.
Offers cigars to people who quit Facebook (on Twitter but nobody's perfect).
Questions whether top level domains are the future of the internet.
Uses Raspberry Pi to block ads at the WiFi router level.
Asks why use "HTML5" when a GIF would work. (Prompting one genius to comment "Paddy, you really need to stop listening to Moody. He knows next to nothing about the web. Esp. its technologies.")
