Software over the rainbow

desearch and revelopment

Month: November, 2006

When was the last time that you had to stop programming and stand up to dance because of a song?

Mine was just half an hour ago, listening to daedelus live on the wonderful dublab podcast. At around minute 43 of the session, if you ask… Yes, you should check it out

Sharing is for oneself: Bookmarks

Some days ago, I added a list with my last bookmarks in delicious to the sidebar. As soon as it began to work, I realised something: as in most cases I didn’t change the bookmark’s title and I usually left the extended description empty (trusting heavily in tags as a retreival tool), most of the [...]

Algorithmic hymn of the week

bubble sort by x3j11, something like alvin lucier‘s I am sitting in a room but backwards and with a sorting algorithm instead of feedback. Genius.

Software politics: Itunes

I don’t mind listening to Steve Reich after Stereolab. Ornette Coleman is not bad after Odd Nosdam. Beans and Beastie Boys are a good couple too… but I can’t stand Daft punk after Daedelus, nor Dizzee Rascal after Dinosaur Jr; and I just hate listening to Cat Power everytime I finish listening to Caribou. Definitely, [...]

More branches, objects, sounds and empty rooms.

Chelpa ferro is a brazillian collective of visual, video and audio artists. As with Jessica Rylan, I don’t really know how their installations sound like, but I love them. More chelpa ferro via

On ChucK, Terry Riley, Jim Bumgardner and emulating old masters through code

So this morning I found that someone had already done an idea which I had been thinking of for some time (probably since I did the Steve Reich’s Clapping Music version in ChucK): Source code for “In C” by Terry Riley in ChucK No problem. With the amount of information we have a few clicks [...]