"Rompbox"

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"Rompbox" [mp3 removed]

8-bit-ish song with more Mutator filtering of Electribes. The low end is a bit rumbly at high volume so this is a "pre-master." This isn't as tight in the pop song sense as "Acid Mutation" but the timbres are getting more interesting (to me), particularly in the chorus. The DSP oscillators on the Korg are in "sync" mode and the Mutator is working like a wah-wah pedal more aggressively. This song and "Acid Mutation" involve actual knob twiddling as opposed to virtual knob twiddling. They are experiments with micro alterations of settings to get larger changes.

"Lunar Harmonics"

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"Lunar Harmonics" [mp3 removed]

One Korg Electribe (rhythm) filtered through the Mutator filter bank. MIDI note-on commands from another Electribe (synth) cause the bell-like harmonics in the filter. The bass at 1:08 was unexpectedly loud so the whole song was run through the Reaktor Flatblaster compressor/limiter (the "cassette dub" preset). Thus is the output of a cheap digital synth warmed up with mellifluous analog gear only to be ultimately reclaimed for the digital realm.

Indian Moon Shot

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From the front page of Wikipedia we learned today that

Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 successfully lands the Moon Impact Probe on the lunar south pole.

This is major news. India is now the 4th country to put a spacecraft on the lunar surface (after the Soviet Union, US, and Japan).
Searched the front page of the New York Times online for this story and it's not there. Great paper: the Iraq War, Tom Friedman... Let's repeat: Wikipedia had this story and the Times didn't.

Update: My sources saw this item in one or more of the financial papers and in the science trades. I've seen no mention of it in the NY Times online edition on Nov 14-15 (haven't looked at the print editions for those days). Possibly the Times has a bias against stories that go against the grain of the "American exceptionalism narrative." Anyway, congratulations to India, that's an impressive achievement.

Update 2: On Nov. 16 the Times ran a one-paragraph AP story, dated Nov 14, about the landing. The headline was several stories down in the Science section. Way to cover 'em, Gray Lady!