Low frequency illusion-Water & Sound

Ye may have seen this elsewhere but it was new to me! A low frequency sine wave synced to the frame rate of the camera recording causes the illusion of water 'freezing' in place or even flowing backwards!

Stop SOPA Ireland!

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Am I legally allowed repost this image? I have no idea. I wonder if Sean Sherlock (Labour), the Junior Minister in charge of bringing in the Irish version of the SOPA act, has thought about it much. No public vote, no oireachtas vote, no mention on IMRO website and an almost deathly media silence - Irish SOPA is planned to be whispered into law before the end of January. Only for this Wired post today I would never have heard about it.

Read this blog by T J McIntyre, an Irish legal expert and lecturer for a better explanation of what Irish SOPA is and how it could negatively affect technical and creative arts in Ireland.

Porky Prime Cuts - George Peckham

Vinyl junkies of a certain age are probably familiar with the 'A Porky Prime Cut' slogan etched into the runout groove of many a record...and here's a little interview with George 'Porky' Peckham himself (talking to Nico of No U-Turn Records). Not too many tips given away but the guy's a living legend (to some).

Bonus: cool record pix from Schallplatten

Alfred 4 Music

A slightly odd one today. Not so much about sound but definitely useful when working with sound. In the video I show off a free app (mac only) called Alfred and how I use it to help me do the daily things I do with music on and offline. Alfred is generic and will do whatever you want but I made a video showing it off in an audio context. I love it and hopefully it is of some interest to you.

AudioLemon - Dub Siren

A Dub Siren built in Max4Live inspired by the one found on Dub Scrolls. A Square wave controlled by 2 independent LFO's (a rectified sine and a pulse) both with retriggered phase, and a chopper section. There are 20 MIDI CC accessible internal presets and new ones can be saved as a seperate instance or with your track. It was designed to be used Live so it is very simple, very user friendly and sounds just about right I think. For more information just open it up and have a look inside.

You can download it from http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device.php?id=712

I hope you like it!

1950s serial music with the Buchla

"Incontri di fasce sonore is one of Franco Evangelisti masterpieces.
Recorded in 1957 at WDR, Cologne, it is one of the classic scores of the integral serial music era.

This is a preliminary study to investigate the possibility of playing 1950s serial music with the Buchla synthesizer and Max/MSP.

I've programmed 315 mixtures of 7 sinusoidal tones in Max/MSP
carefully following the score's instructions,
then I've played them freely in the Buchla, creating a variation piece.

• Sound generation: MAX/MSP

• Music interface, amplification, spatialization, ring modulation, frequency shifting: Buchla 200e

• Reverb: Jomox T-Resonator

• Reverse mixtures & reverb: EHX2880

all realtime, no edits."

A Day Of Beautiful Synthesizers

A MuffWiggler meet-up for Irish modulators. A small friendly affair with some beautiful instruments. If only everyday could be like that :)

Thanks to Sandy for hosting it.

For those that might be wondering the small wooden wonder machine is the Ciat-Lombarde Tetrazzzi Organus.