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GuyBirkin

@GuyBirkin@post.lurk.org

art : complexity : music : nature : science

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Made a set of arrows (29.5", 50/55 spine, 150gn points) for my new bow (Mandarin Duck Devourer, 60" reflex/ deflex 2-piece takedown, 50lb @ 28"). Haven't shot it yet; will try it out next weekend.

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Music for the last hour of work before the weekend starts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x63RJ3MnG4o

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My first experiment since I decided to never ask a computer to run an algorithm that I'm not prepared to run myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYXXF6nkPR0

GuyBirkin,
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@yaxu Cool. Is this a Carnatic taala rhythm that you're also vocalising with Konakkol?
What kind of algorithm would be excluded if using the constraint 'prepared to run yourself'?

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oerra, oawn and blubb is a long-lost album by cd_slopper (Florian Hecker & Oswald Berthold @x7557x) from 1998 that was originally hosted on their website. It was re-discovered and retrieved around a year ago by @joegilmore then re-released yesterday by @HelloSpiral on the Memory Glands label. It's an important archive of early glitch computer music, and it still sounds fresh.
https://memoryglands.bandcamp.com/album/oerra-oawn-and-blubb

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What are some nice tracks that have everything hard panned either left or right? Particularly tracks beyond the early stereo era when crazy panning was the default. Orbital's input out is one example but there must be more examples.. People should do this more

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@yaxu Every AC/DC album & gig has Malcom on the left, Angus on the right. This BBC session was originally uploaded the wrong way round but someone corrected it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_kr2c7UtQs

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@yaxu A couple of tracks where the stereo field suddenly widens to great effect:
Beastie Boys - Hey Ladies (on the intro riff, 0:10)
Autechre - corc (around 3:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRyS56Iqx9A

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A new podcast from @Radio_Web_MACBA talking with Iranian artist @pantearm about study, research, listening and community.
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-396-pantea

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#Spectrogram of a 1-minute section of Glissandi by György Ligeti.

GuyBirkin, to random
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Sigma by Colin Drake @cfd90 - a very small, free computer music improvisation system based on SuperCollider
https://colindrake.me/software/sigma/

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Quite wet down the woods this morning, but the rain stopped after a while and it wasn't cold. Lots of moss.

Moss on a fallen branch with lots of tiny spindly white stalks protruding from it with brown or black blobs at their ends, which could be either moss sporophytes or some kind of fungus or slime mould
A clump of moss on a tree stump with black fingers of candlesnuff fungus growing out of the top
A large patch of moss on a log with a gradient of varying hues from brown to yellowish to green

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Feels like spring this morning.

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Some mosses down the woods this morning

Small clump of feather moss on a stick, lit from behind by the sun
Moss growing on the base of a a large tree trunk
Tiny sprouts of haircap moss on a small fallen branch

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Very cool new album by @nnirror, where each track is made by synthesizing audio to image (spectrogram) and then resynthesizing into audio using Facet. Flatland Casts is name your price.
https://nnirror.bandcamp.com/album/flatland-casts

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Learn a bit about the evolution, biology, ecology and uses of fungi in Rupert Sheldrake's talk to the Science and Technology Committee https://youtu.be/84oZ1O2rsJ0?si=PBQJRCXQ-ANDRYu2

GuyBirkin,
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@yaxu d'oh! Will edit, thanks.

GuyBirkin, to random
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Tokinogake films#03 is out.
Sounds and images from the collective, including @emenel @nnirror @funcgen @ayrtbh @onokio @t36s
@billygomberg @peeq @CasualObserver
Edited by @a0n0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-8YRMA1D5U

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My end-of-year list of things I liked in 2023. Including: @a0n0 @sean_ae @frozenreeds @ho @t36s
@tommudd @benpeers @sdem
xxx

https://aestheticcomplexity.wordpress.com/2023/12/31/2023/

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To celebrate a productive, creative and collaborative year with the Tokinogake crew, we put together a compilation of 23 tracks. There's 4 versions of the mix made in different ways. My mix is made by cutting up the tracks at transients and sorting them in order of complexity as measured by the average bit rate of lossless compressed files.

https://www.mixcloud.com/tokinogake/tokinogake-2023-mix-sorted-by-bit-rate-guy-birkin/

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Guitar and Serge improvisations - Remembrance Agent by New Tendencies @emenel, just released via Tokinogake
https://newtendencies.bandcamp.com/album/remembrance-agent

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RIP Vera Molnár, pioneer of generative computer art

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Some slime mould spotted in the woods this morning

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Spectrogram of the first 35 seconds of 'PATCH malone' by @kindohm from the album GET
https://kindohm.bandcamp.com/album/get

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Nice autumnal sunny day down the woods. Went round the first half of the course with two other archers. Scored OK - no arrows lost or broken, but had to stop after pulling a muscle in my shoulder when pulling out arrows from a target. After the recent torrential rains there are masses of everywhere, and the ever-present abundant . Could smell lots of stinkhorn fungi but couldn't always see them.

Small pale jelly-like blobs of fungus growing on a living branch covered in lichen and young mosses
A medium sized pale funnel-shaped fungus among leaf litter on the woodland floor, with pine trees out of focus in the background with a bit of sky between them
Clusters of buff coloured mushrooms with darker orange centres of the caps growing out of a dead but still standing tree, with a few green bramble leaves alongside

GuyBirkin,
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A few more photos

A dead bracken frond lit to a glowing orange by the low sun in the background between trees. A cobweb hangs on the bracken, and the sun makes a lens flare effect
Two small pale mushrooms with thin stalks among pine needles and dead leaves

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GuyBirkin,
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@gimulnautti thanks! It's based on a 2D block cellular automaton, a CA that considers two cells at a time instead of one at a time, then converted to 3D voxels, re- coloured and re-shaped

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