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magnus

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I am a PhD candidate working on the history of digital signal processing in oil prospecting and communications between the early 1950s and the late 1960s. #DSP
#SoundSynthesis #STS #FeministSTS #DisabilityStudies #CochlearImplants #psychoacoustics #infrastructure #epistemology #simulation #models #testing #OperationalImages #ExperimentalMusic #SuperCollider
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lesondouble, to random
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for those who fancy slow organ music with a pinch of analogue circuit feedback. luv.

magnus,
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@lesondouble I’ve been listening to this a lot these past couple of weeks

magnus, to random
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Everything you need to know about John Tukey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9AXgvx4VIU (extra credits for the cute dog around 1:20)

hugo, to random
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any recommendations for interesting recent speculative fiction? short stories are good, ideally from traditionally underrepresented perspectives, but open to suggestions.

turns out after an office tidy I have about five years' worth of partially completed loyalty cards from the local sci fi and fantasy bookshop. adds up to a couple of free books, which is an unexpected treat I thought I'd crowdsource.

magnus,
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@hugo Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell; Everything for Everyone by M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi. I’m always looking for recommendations along these lines, so I’ll be curious to hear what you end up reading

magnus,
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@hugo nice! I added this one to my list

magnus, to MaxMSP
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In this early 1970s documentary on MIT's electronic music studio Barry Vercroe demonstrates a GUI for what is probably a version of the MUSIC language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge6SxOmX5Xw This is the earliest instance of a visual programming language for music that I have come across so far , , , ,

magnus, to random
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Auto-generated captions are turning Fourier series into four-year series and euphoria series

lukiss, to random
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What are You all up to? I am still after all these years trying to learn . Still stoked about how it is possible to in a few lines of code generate something like this..... (This might end up as a later if i land on something worth tooting) ..... Working with a way to grab determenistic rhythms from anything listed by ChaosGen.subclasses in a vanilla installation with no extra sugar.

<3 <3 <3 …

magnus,
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@lukiss would love to see the code for this! And seconding your amazement about what is possible with a few lines of code

magnus,
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@lukiss both :) but synthesis more than rhythm

magnus,
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@lukiss Nice one! Thanks for sharing. Simple but efficient

magnus, to random
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In 1943, the Nazis started a program for training high-school students in radar. Several of these students later worked on signal processing in the US, including Manfred Schroeder and Carl Kurth, both at Bell Labs (https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Alfred_Fettweis)

magnus, (edited )
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@nnirror Schroeder talks about working with radar during WW II in this interview: https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Manfred_Schroeder#Germany_in_the_1930s_and_1940s. The German artist K.O. Goetz, who, in the 1950s, made some paintings and films drawing on information theory and the stochastic distribution of binary values also traces his interest in digital methodologies to his wartime experiences operating radar equipment as a Wehrmacht soldier

magnus, to random
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Among the search results for a query related to Geoffrey Bowker is a G**gle-hosted site with a thumbnail of Bowker's book Science on the Run and a URL that suggests a marketplace for used restaurant equipment, which lists prices for mining equipment. What happened here? (I am afraid to click to find out more)

magnus,
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@ezra ha, good luck!

magnus, (edited ) to DSP
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The professional culture of mid-twentieth century communications engineering. According to John Pierce, Richard Hamming (of Hamming window fame) used to have a "great collection of dirty limericks," which he eventually destroyed. Pierce himself made a collage with images of breasts from Playboy taking the place of teeth in a smiling mouth (from Wood's 1991 CMJ interview w Pierce)

jakobschillinger, to random German

Excited to begin my new job as director of the Menzel-Dach for artistic practice at Berlin's Humboldt University. Located at HU's main building on Unter den Linden, the Menzel-Dach will open in 2024. Stay tuned for talks, events, and research …

magnus,
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@jakobschillinger congrats, Jakob!!

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magnus,
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@ezra very helpful, thank you!

magnus, to ExperimentalMusic
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An extended conversation between John Wall and Sunik Kim on noise, computer music, politics, etc., accompanied by vegetarian meals: https://toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-100-john-wall

magnus, to random
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I’m happy and a little amused that my post that has gotten the most attention here so far was the one below about Diana Deutsch’s musical illusions. So here’s what happens when you mesh recordings by Deutsch and psychoacoustics researcher Albert S. Bregman: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/interruptions-4-bregman-deutsch-chimaera-47-minutes-bifurcated-attention @Radio_Web_MACBA

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magnus, to random
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Some truly calming music, Tortoise remixed by Bundy K. Brown: https://youtu.be/AHESApeuq7M

magnus, (edited ) to random
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TIL that the name name of the venerable avant-garde music label Wergo is another one of those company names based on the name of the founder: WERner GOldschmidt

magnus, (edited ) to random
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Were polyphonic filters common in the 1960s? I've discussed this with @ezra and we think the answer is no, but I wanted to ask around here too. I am aware of only one example of a customized band pass filter from c. 1966, which could be played with a keyboard, allowing for polyphony, i.e., (I think) playing the input through several separate passbands simultaneously, where the width of each passband would be (up to?) a terce or octave.

magnus,
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@pzriddle @ezra I might be misunderstanding something. The filter was at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales in Buenos Aires. You can probably hear it on pieces composed by fellows working there at the time, e.g. César Bolaños or Jacqueline Nova, but I can't point to any specific recordings. 1/2

magnus,
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@pzriddle @ezra Ferdinand von Reichenbach, the studio's technical director, describes it like this: "Otro de los aparatos que diseñé es el filtro por terceras y octavas. Lo hicimos polifónico gracias a que un conocido nos regaló un teclado." 2/2

t36s, to random
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I think this is starting to move in the right direction:

magnus,
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@t36s it’s beautiful!

magnus, (edited ) to sts
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I am looking for historical accounts of geophysical exploration and oil prospecting in the 1950s in the US. Can you recommend anything? @sts, @histodons, @inquiline

magnus,
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@ccmmody @inquiline Thank you, this looks excellent! Also, reading your article was helpful and encouraging

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