notes, links from my twits

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Derrida's Wikipedia entry has a section called "Honorary degrees and attacks."

comment on YouTube home hardware synth-sequencer demo: "ah, the sound of hot masturbation"

Tea Partiers Yearn for Days of Republican Corruption, Fear

"CERN’s engineers decided this week to play it safe and operate the collider at only 3.5 trillion electron volts"

Don DeLillo does not use email but likes 24 Hour Psycho ("and likes"?)

i don't want a computer to be creative, i just want it to work

if the computer's future is tv set tops and a balkanized web then it doesn't really matter if Microsoft "missed" it

"'avatar' and 'the hurt locker,' two widescreen responses to the theme of war, are..." "oh, shut up"

petra cortright's is the best so far of vvork's recent "ab ex with virtual brushes" run

richard ford "the lay of the land": detailed-to-Borges-level observations of life on Jersey shore punctuated by hostile physical encounters

good sex in lit discussion notes

dreamed was making music w touchscreen gps utility that mashed up songs currently playing on us radio stations (by touching map locations)

high speed birds-on-ground

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Time lapse vimeo of bird flock meandering around unopened Brooklyn park, by Dathan Manning. I watched with the sound off (don't really need beats for everything). (via Curbed)

Even the calm areas of the city can be made to look frenetic with a technical assist.

"Fuchsia Refraction"

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"Fuchsia Refraction" [mp3 removed]

Was admiring a minimal techno piece by Alessandro Crimi posted on Disquiet. I seem to be constitutionally incapable of doing anything like Crimi's--sexy, ponderous, deep, long. Every time I try, something silly happens like the slightly out of tune self-oscillating filter in this one. Then all the points seem to be made and the piece ends at 1:39.

"Audrey the King"

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"Audrey the King" [mp3 removed -- a revised version is on Bandcamp]

Fished this electric piano chord sample out of the bowels of a Reaktor sample map about five years ago--it's intended to be "mangled," as the beatmongers love to say, but I unmangled it.

It was added to the minimal beats two posts back, necessitating adding tons of other stuff to solve the resulting compositional Rubik's cube (it's not that complicated a song but the writing was slow, e.g. the bass/piano counterpoint at the end).

Earlier "the sample" was used in a tune I've been continuously massaging; see "Audrey Zapp (Light Industrial Remix)." It's a very "happy" sample.