I fixed my now-year-long semi-intermittent sound problem, & the explanation is compellingly stupid: sometimes when ubuntu upgrades sound driver modules it doesn’t make the /dev/snd tree user-writable, & pulse runs as the logged-in user.

Recording of David Bowie and Brian Eno’s jam session with Devo has been found by Mark Mothersbaugh | Consequence of Sound https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/12/recording-of-david-bowie-and-brian-enos-jam-session-with-devo-has-been-found-by-mark-mothersbaugh/

Responses to my essay ‘Tech’s Masturbatory Historiography’ make me think that most people reading it don’t know what ‘historiography’ means. (It’s exactly what it sounds like…)

Band name of the day: penetrating sounds

Band name of the day: modern sound synthesis

“Eco Grime” Artists Blend Natural Sounds & Electronics to Depict a Polluted World « Bandcamp Daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/11/13/eco-grime-music-history/

A Big Archive of Occult Recordings: Historic Audio Lets You Hear Trances, Paranormal Music, Glossolalia & Other Strange Sounds (1905-2007) | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2018/02/a-big-archive-of-occult-recordings.html

Bad idea of the day: Rather than having a ‘madness’ mechanic, have a ‘stress’ mechanic that causes perceptual distortion (tunnel vision, increased color contrast, blurred vision, louder environmental sounds) & motor distortion (worse aim, movement delays)

For #NaNoGenMo I converted two of Stravinsky’s ballets to tone-poems by converting note frequencies to word frequencies. I dare somebody to do a dramatic reading of these; it’ll sound like an Underworld track: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky.md https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky_pg.md

Slate is complaining that the witches in Suspiria (2018) aren’t scary. Has the author seen Suspiria (1977)? It’s a wonderful film but the scariest thing about it is the sound track.

Andrew W.K.: Investigating The Mystery Of Steev Mike - Stereogum https://www.stereogum.com/2015589/andrew-wk-steev-mike/franchises/sounding-board/

In case you were wondering, indeed, Female Prisoner Scorpion is a MUCH better movie than the title makes it sound like. (It is exploitation, but it is ALSO surreal impressionistic gothic horror. Also, every frame of this damn movie is gorgeous.)

Need some relaxing dubstep sounds on your ears? Try this: rtmp://codevoid.de/radio #PlayingWithRTMP #NowAACPowered

@kas@enotty.dk Thanks for #hugo awards. All books for best novel were really good this year, but I somehow missed Six Wakes … sound great!

Also pulse randomly decided that I didn’t get to have a driver for my (extremely common) sound card anymore. Jesus, systemd – you’re pushing linux on the desktop back to 1998 levels of bullshit.

Sound Design: How Movie-Makers Create The Sound of Violence https://tedium.co/2018/07/31/indiana-jones-sound-design-history/

It seems like every time I reboot, Ubuntu manages to forget about another piece of hardware I have. First it was the USB controller, then the wifi (still not fixed), and now it’s my sound card.

How Sound Effects For Horror Movies Are Made - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcpfwIkcoM

Lazyweb: are there good horror movies about sound engineering / foley other than LFO and Berberian Sound Studio?

Why Foley Artists Use Cabbage and Celery to Create Hollywood’s Distinctive Sounds - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-are-film-sound-effects-made

Sound Blaster: How Sound Cards Took Over Computing https://tedium.co/2018/05/10/sound-blaster-history/

Impact Is Now Free & Open Source
My HTML5 Game Engine Impact launched almost 8 years ago. The last update was published in 2014. While Impact still works nicely in modern browsers, it lacks support for better graphic and sound APIs that are now available. I felt increasingly bad for selling a product that is hardly maintained or improved.

So as of today Impact will be available completely for free, published under the permissive MIT License.

Impact’s source is available on [gith … ⌘ Read more

BBC - Capital - These fake start-ups highlight tech firms’ silly name trends http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180425-why-do-startup-company-names-all-sound-alike

BBC Sound Effects Archive Resource • Research & Education Space http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/

Listen to the Sick Beats of Rhubarb Growing in the Dark - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/forced-rhubarb-makes-sound

The Sound and the Fury: Inside the Mystery of the Havana… — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/diplomats-in-cuba

The Deep Roots of an … https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/deep-roots-italian-song-sounds-like-english-american-medieval-comedy-nonsense

sound_of_space-filling_curves [Herman Haverkort] http://www.win.tue.nl/~hermanh/doku.php?id=sound_of_space-filling_curves

Just bought me a Kala Walnut Tenor Ukulele as late christmas present, i’m thrilled how nice it sounds!

The Secret Chord That Makes Pop Music Sound Happy - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/seventh-chord-happy-pop-song-music-notes

In Conversation with Mark Blyth: George Bernard Shaw - Theater, Economics and… - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu5tOTcrlwQ&feature=youtu.be

Brown Acid: the sound that rock forgot | Music | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/31/brown-acid-rock-lance-barresi

The Scary Sound Machine That Is ‘Trying To Set People A Little Bit Off-Kilter’ : NPR http://www.npr.org/2017/10/29/560181981/the-scary-sound-machine-that-is-trying-to-set-people-a-little-bit-off-kilter

How 1977 Broke All the Rules and Changed Music Forever | Consequence of Sound https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/10/how-1977-broke-all-the-rules-and-changed-music-forever/?curator=MusicREDEF

UbuWeb Sound - Sound Experiments in The Russian Avant-Garde (1908-1942) http://www.ubu.com/sound/russian_avant.html

Dangerous sound? What Americans heard in Cuba attacks https://apnews.com/88bb914f8b284088bce48e54f6736d84?utm_source=nextdraft

Failed Histories of Electronic Music https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/failed-histories-of-electronic-music/1B1F7D957FAFF355B5CD797185F4EEFD/core-reader

The Sound of Cybernetics: Roland Kayn And the Voice of Electricity | Village Voice https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/09/21/the-sound-of-cybernetics-roland-kayn-and-the-voice-of-electricity/

@benaiah@benaiah.me sounds a lot like why many years ago, I went with Drupal for a simple Blogging site vs Wordpress. WP was easier but Drupal allowed me as an admin to not have any filters. Which allowed me to put raw HTML in the posts to control certian that I was doing at the time

Sounds bad: Researchers demonstrate “sonic gun” threat against smart devices | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/07/sounds-bad-researchers-demonstrate-sonic-gun-threat-against-smart-devices/

@kas@enotty.dk that sounds fair to me.

@kas@enotty.dk Fermented slimy soybeans sounds like a hard sell. Maybe something you have to taste? :)

@kas@enotty.dk Heh, cool video but it sounds like a bug? https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/5yeefj/alexa_are_you_connected_to_the_cia/depeufn/

And a spa hub sounds even more awesome! :)

@kas@enotty.dk aura akua sound a lot like a sentence from toki pona.

@dracoblue@dracoblue.net Sorry, but what tweet are you referring to? I have no idea what sounds great… We need a way to reference tweets!

We would have to write a new plugin for that. Which sounds fun… Do you have a have a receiver we can play with?