Peter Saint-Andre: Meditations on Bach #9: Musical Monadology
In meditation #7 of this series, I took note of some similarities between the aesthetics of Aristotle and the music of Bach. Another intriguing influence might be the monadology of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), who directly influenced philosophers and musical theorists in the Bach’s orbit: for instance, Bach’s student Lorenz Mizler (1711-1778) was a follower of the Leibniz scholar Christian Wolff (1679-1754). In chapter 5 of his book Music in the Culture of th … ⌘ Read more

Article on designing 21st century instruments for teaching music theory (aka ditch the piano): [[https://historyofmusictheory.wordpress.com/2021/11/01/should-we-burn-the-pianos-introducing-a-collaborative-project-focused-on-building-new-instruments-for-theory/]] #links

First experience with my new unlimited mobile phone contract while traveling: The phone hotspot works much better than the ICE (German high speed train) WiFi usually does. At most, there are small interruptions in tunnels, but otherwise surfing, writing e-mails, and listening to music work perfectly. Even remote programming works. It was worth it… ⌘ Read more

been thinking way too much about a musical morse code system over the past 24 hours: !musigram

Dug out my old usb audio device and now my Plan 9 raspberry pi can play music. 💯

Prof. Jellywhipple’s Ultra-Fantastic Computer Music Time Loop #halfbakedideas

New subscription plan for Apple Music: Voice Plan. Available for many countries. Using Siri to access songs. Meh.

Talking about Apple Music and Siri.

Today is about music, and Mac. Now we know.

Everything starts in a garage… the history of Macs, pretty much, with music.

🙌 Liked: Jett: The Far Shore’s fictional language started life as gibberish choral music | Rock Paper Shotgun ⌘ Read more

#event Upcoming Workshop / algolab: Music and Live Coding @ CPH Music Maker Space / facebook event

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play/pause/stop is not a great interaction, but it does count. thinking of interactive music as a gradient rather than a dichotomy (interactive vs non-interactive) seems like a healthier way to think about things. #halfbakedideas

musical experience that involve harvesting, farming, growth, and caretaking of virtual musical creatures with personality. creatures would socialize with eachother and their interactions would change the overall musical sounds implicitely. #halfbakedideas

implicit music, or the idea that music naturally exudes from everything. composition is not the act of making music, but of starting with music and working backwards. #halfbakedideas

#event Upcoming Workshop / algolab: Visuals and Live Coding @ CPH Music Maker Space / facebook event

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1bitr is a one-bit text-based music tracker [[https://github.com/zserge/1bitr]]. #links

ECHO: the music of harold budd and brian eno [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Dm-ne-iSY]] #links

Playing sone Elton John classics from my childhood, Gretatest Hits (1974) was the first rock music vinyl LP that I bought on my own

Playing sone Elton John classics from my childhood, Gretatest Hits (1974) was the first rock music vinyl LP that I bought on my own

Rafa & Timo - “Hello, off-world!” #livecoding #music

On a related note, ‘hopwag’ sounds like a music genre

#Funkwhale is looking for new maintainers ⋅ #Music #selfhosted #activitypub ⌘ https://blog.funkwhale.audio/~/Announcements/funkwhale-is-looking-for-new-maintainers

This morning I had this really weird notion of building a generative podcast complete with musical interludes and asemic speech using a speech synthesizer. It’d be interesting to have “interviews” with two distinct vocal characters. #halfbakedideas

James Tenney’s Meta Hodos and Meta Meta Hodos are an attempt to derive music theory from first principles: [[https://monoskop.org/images/1/13/Tenney_James_Meta-Hodos_and_Meta_Meta-Hodos.pdf]] #links #composition #musictheory

LC is a new music programming language that is prototype-based, strongly timed, and designed with microsound synthesis in mind: [[https://www.hnishino.com/2019/05/09/lc-a-new-computer-music-programming-language-with-three-core-features/]] #links #composition

also hoping to bring bits of #sndkit into #9front and #neindaw. maybe build a whole professional-quality music production platform around plan9 concepts instead of the tired cliche of emulating analog workflows? #halfbakedideas

a western music theory textbook, but reimagined to actually make sense for computers instead of humans. #halfbakedideas

made a page for !1bit music and stuff

listening to some of Tim Follin’s 1-bit work on the ZX Spectrum makes we want to try do make 1-bit music on the !arduboy #halfbakedideas

On the blog: Developer Journal, International Strange Music Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/08/24/music.html

penning out the structure of my current !music_software_ecosystem

a music sequencer, but for producing continuous gestures instead of discrete steps. have it be clocked with an external source so it can play well with others. perhaps build a notation system around it. #halfbakedideas

the idea would be to build and share tiny 6.5 bit programs encoded as printable ascii characters. this could then in turn be read by a virtual computer to do things like paint a picture or compose a piece of music. #halfbakedideas

How to Add an Audio or Music File to a Web Page with BlueGriffon ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/insert-audio-music-file.shtml

I’m enjoying listening to music on my re-discovered #MiniDisc players. Pop in the disc, press play and listen to about 150 minutes of your own music in clear digital quality.

Retro-fitting my music collection and music players with early 20s digital stereo MiniDisc technology.

@mox@tilde.town I don’t really get the point of being in bandcamp while removing the tools bandcamp provides. Too bad I won’t add it to my library then :/

Welcome to MailTape - A place for music lovers by music lovers ⌘ https://www.mailta.pe/

I don’t wanna work today, I just wanna listen to music all day…

Now Playing ∴ Handpicked Albums by the Glitch Family ⌘ https://music.glitch.family/

thank you sean costello for teaching me how to make planetarium music

even though I have these nice hs7 studio monitors on my desk right now, most of my monitoring has been done using my minirig mini. There is just something so irresistable about writing music for something so cute and tiny.

i really like the music that comes thru on bandcamp daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/07/01/best-new-ambient-on-bandcamp-june-2019/

The music of all time is a duet between order and disorder | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-music-of-all-time-is-a-duet-between-order-and-disorder

King Crimson to Stream All Studio Albums on Spotify – Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/king-crimson-albums-streaming-spotify-818686/

Brutalism And Music - Exploring Brutalist Architecture & Sound https://thespoonsterspouts.com/music/brutalism-and-music/

Moondog History: Part Viking, All Musical Icon https://tedium.co/2019/03/28/moondog-musician-history/

I’m more and more into funk music :)

A Beginner’s Guide to Music Theory - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2z02J4fJwg