listening richard devine’s new album sort/lave today. of course the sounds are top notch, but I really am enjoying how ‘composed’ it all feels. it really demonstrates true mastery of modular environments.

postcard sized art is such a lovely scale for the visual medium. attempting to imagine the sound/temporal version of that

@tux0r@rosaelefanten.org “best viewed in a rusty nail” just sounds weird to me, though.

Apparently the Peterson/Zizek debate went about as I expected: Peterson said nothing interesting, and Zizek said nothing on-topic. I’ll have to watch it later, because it sounds entertaining. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/04/live-commentary-on-the-zizek-peterson-debate

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

Don’t Be Afraid is a fantastic album, & it’s not hurt by the fact that every track other than Ozar Midrashim & The White Roses sounds the same – instead this is thematically appropriate.

The most effective april fool’s day joke is now to say things you mean without sounding sarcastic.

Analogue Mega Sg Review: Sounds Like a Winner https://tedium.co/2019/03/26/analogue-mega-sg-review/

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

KEYBOARDS FOUND IN DUMPSTERS:↵2: great to type on. return randomizes the keyboard layout.↵4: black and white keys in weird arrangement. produces sound but no letters. may not be a keyboard.↵7: has a ticklish ‘a’ key and tries to edge away when I come near it↵10: enochian alphabet

“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/

Only the best illusionists can cast illusions that fool themselves. Sounds academic but makes them highly sought-after - True Resurrection is expensive and settled inside a zombie brain, such an illusion is as good as any soul.

house where you can extend flaps so that it makes more rain sounds

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

one neat application of mind-reading tech is that you can finally sound out how people’s text sounds in your head

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

certain step sequences recreate popular melodies and wear visible paths into the floor, sometimes groups will try dances so their bodies modulate the ambient sound; the temple as musical instrument

A temple that does the same thing with sound that cathedrals do with light: Different notes wherever you go, entire spaces audible if you’re in the right place, a whirligig in the form of a boiling rose sounding like wind in the leaves of a brass tree

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

I then passed an empty bus. Even its display said empty. I was too tired but I feel like if I had boarded it, it would’ve taken me to those quarters where they don’t render the matrix and it would’ve been just me, gray nothingness, and the sound of my footsteps on default texture

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

and if you take someone out with a headbutt, the map plays a cheering football stadium sound and you get the Zidane achievement

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

ok I’ve come to terms with not having a soul, but why is it that every time we kill a zombie, a heavenly chorus sounds and it ascends

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!

music beamed directly into the auditory cortex, freed from sound waves the way electronic music frees it from instruments

@imariari The Sound of everything https://t.co/a1X2Wy81m4 Good for every season

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