Software over the rainbow

desearch and revelopment

Category: Music

synesthesia

The books are to music what retrovisor is to design. And I love both

Music and memory: A small (frustrated) last.fm project

Antecedent: A couple of months ago, having a look at some old stats in my last.fm profile, I realised how much I could remember a given time by just seeing the music I used to listen to (that old (unfinished?) project by marcos weskamp and didier hilhorst came to mind inmediately). The source: Last.fm keeps [...]

wouldn’t it be nice if…

…you could take some notes about the songs you are listening directly on the last.fm player? Nothing too fancy. Something similar to the delicious notes would be ok. By now I’m using a tag (toresearch) for discovered artists, and sometimes I take notes on my helipad, but adding them right on the player would save [...]

Song tags in (and two slight disappointments with) last.fm

I’m always amazed at the use of tags in last.fm, specially for songs. Some random examples I’ve seen lately: Stereolab – Hallucinex: resistance is futile, electronic renaissance, sounds like sun, sigh and swoon in equal measure. Stereolab – Nothing to do with me: music to edit pictures to. Stereolab – Suggestion diabolique: take the bull [...]

Suggestive errors

Beans (the one i know) is a hip hop mc, formerly a member of the great Antipop Consortium. (The) Beans are a canadian post rock band, which I didn’t know before. They’re good if you’re into do make say think and bands like that. It seems like last.fm is not so sure about that difference, [...]

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

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.