Waiting for my book to recharge so I can continue reading.
Category: Blog
Quote: Hamlet, lines 1354-5
I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a
king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
Verizon so upset at Net Neutrality they publish statement in Morse Code
Verizon is so pissed at today’s vote by the Federal Communications Commission to pass strong net neutrality rules that they tried mocking the decision, by calling it a throwback to 1930’s style regulation. As if the New Deal were a pejorative, not an amazing legacy.
Status: Reading Echopraxia
Reading Echopraxia by Peter Watts.
Musique concrète
- Musique concrète
- a genre of electroacoustic music that is made in part from acousmatic sound. It can feature sounds derived from recordings of musical instruments, voice, and the natural environment as well as those created using synthesizers and computer-based digital signal processing. Also, compositions in this idiom are not restricted to the normal musical rules of melody, harmony, rhythm, metre, and so on. Originally contrasted with “pure” elektronische Musik (based solely on the production and manipulation of electronically produced sounds rather than recorded sounds), the theoretical basis of musique concrète as a compositional practice was developed by Pierre Schaeffer, beginning in the early 1940s.