Saturday, October 29, 2011
BBC News - Beard for Belgium: Your photos
BBC News - Beard for Belgium: Your photos: "A Belgian actor has urged fellow citizens not to shave until the country forms a government. Joren Six says he stopped shaving on the day of the last federal election 13 June 2010. He said: "This makes my beard as long as the political negotiations.""
tarsos.0110.be - Home
tarsos.0110.be - Home: "We want to provide the community with user friendly software that provides culture independent views on MIR-features.
For the moment we are focusing on pitch related information such as tone scales."
For the moment we are focusing on pitch related information such as tone scales."
Web Audio
Web Audio: "Granular Effects is another example of "scheduled playback" like Drum Machine. Here, the sound samples are small pieces (called "grains") taken from a larger sound buffer of a woman speaking. These small grains are then composited in various time sequences controllable by the sliders to achieve a crude but interesting time-stretching effect. Each of the grains may be changed in pitch, time, diffusion, and panning (positioning)."
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AYMERIC MANSOUX
AYMERIC MANSOUX: "
My Lawyer is an Artist: Free Culture Licenses as Art Manifestos
Aymeric Mansoux
Originally published in ISEA2011 proceedings
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My Lawyer is an Artist: Free Culture Licenses as Art Manifestos
Aymeric Mansoux
Originally published in ISEA2011 proceedings
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Mighty Dub T-shirt - the-affair.com
Mighty Dub T-shirt - the-affair.com: ""We monitor many frequencies. We listen
always. Came a voice, out of the babel of
tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty
dub… Call ‘em Winter Mute."
Neuromancer
William Gibson, 1984"
always. Came a voice, out of the babel of
tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty
dub… Call ‘em Winter Mute."
Neuromancer
William Gibson, 1984"
JavaScriptMVC
JavaScriptMVC: "jQueryMX also puts the MVC in JavaScript with $.Model, $.View, and $.Controller. Models connect to your server over a RESTful JSON interface. Views are super-charged client side templates. Controllers prevent memory leaks with declarative event handling."
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Native Client SDK - Google Code
Native Client SDK - Google Code: "Graphics, audio, and much more
Run native code modules that render 2D and 3D graphics, play audio, respond to mouse and keyboard events, run on multiple threads, and access memory directly—all without requiring the user to install a plugin."
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Run native code modules that render 2D and 3D graphics, play audio, respond to mouse and keyboard events, run on multiple threads, and access memory directly—all without requiring the user to install a plugin."
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A List Apart: Articles: JavaScript MVC
A List Apart: Articles: JavaScript MVC: "Once a bit player, JavaScript increasingly takes center stage. Its footprint—the space it takes up on our servers and in our development schedules—continues to grow. So how can we make our JavaScript more reusable and easier to maintain? Perhaps MVC will offer some clues."
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
FFT of a Zero-Padded Sinusoid
FFT of a Zero-Padded Sinusoid: "Looking back at Fig.8.2c, we see there are no negative dB values. Could this be right? Could the spectral magnitude at all frequencies be 1 or greater? The answer is no. To better see the true spectrum, let's use zero padding in the time domain (§7.2.7) to give ideal interpolation (§7.4.12) in the frequency domain:
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Matlab - FFT and Zero Padding | blinkdagger
Matlab - FFT and Zero Padding | blinkdagger: "Conclusion
It is a common misconception that zero-padding adds more information. Zero padding adds NO NEW information. The perceived benefit of zero-padding is increased spectral resolution. You are getting better resolution, but the key is to realize that there is NO NEW information added from the zero-padding. Zero-padding is useful, but it should not be a substitute for taking larger data samples. If you had to choose between taking twice as much data, or to zero pad your data, the answer is to ALWAYS take more data.
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It is a common misconception that zero-padding adds more information. Zero padding adds NO NEW information. The perceived benefit of zero-padding is increased spectral resolution. You are getting better resolution, but the key is to realize that there is NO NEW information added from the zero-padding. Zero-padding is useful, but it should not be a substitute for taking larger data samples. If you had to choose between taking twice as much data, or to zero pad your data, the answer is to ALWAYS take more data.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Tara
Tara: "Green Tara is typically pictured as a dark green-skinned girl of 16. She wears striped leggings, but only her shoulders are covered above. She wears the many characteristic ornaments of the samboghakaya.
Green Tara has her right foot extended as if about to rise. Her left hand, in the gesture of granting refuge holds the stem of a blue water lily or utpala that waves over her left shoulder while her right hand also holding a flower, offers that which we desire, a boon."
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Green Tara has her right foot extended as if about to rise. Her left hand, in the gesture of granting refuge holds the stem of a blue water lily or utpala that waves over her left shoulder while her right hand also holding a flower, offers that which we desire, a boon."
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Tara (Buddhism) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tara (Buddhism) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Applied to Tārā one could say that her playful mind can relieve ordinary minds which become rigidly serious or tightly gripped by dualistic distinctions. She takes delight in an open mind and a receptive heart then. For in this openness and receptivity her blessings can naturally unfold and her energies can quicken the aspirants spiritual development."
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Grant Criteria and Application Instructions — Black Rock Arts Foundation
Grant Criteria and Application Instructions — Black Rock Arts Foundation: "What kind of art does BRAF fund?
We prioritize funding highly interactive, community-driven, collaborative works of art that are accessible to the public and civic in scope.
We suggest you browse our website and look at the past grant recipients to get an idea of what we’ve funded in the past.
What is ‘interactive’ art?
Art that requires human interaction to complete the piece.
Art that involves the community and the audience in its creation, presentation and display.
Art that prompts the viewer to act.
Art that can be experienced in more ways than visually. We are fans of art that is can be approached, touched, heard or experienced, as well as viewed.
Art that prompts people to interact with one another.
Art that responds to participants and to its environment.
Art that causes people to reflect on the larger community.
Art that challenges the viewers’ traditional perspective on art.
Art that belongs to the public and exists for the benefit of all."
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We prioritize funding highly interactive, community-driven, collaborative works of art that are accessible to the public and civic in scope.
We suggest you browse our website and look at the past grant recipients to get an idea of what we’ve funded in the past.
What is ‘interactive’ art?
Art that requires human interaction to complete the piece.
Art that involves the community and the audience in its creation, presentation and display.
Art that prompts the viewer to act.
Art that can be experienced in more ways than visually. We are fans of art that is can be approached, touched, heard or experienced, as well as viewed.
Art that prompts people to interact with one another.
Art that responds to participants and to its environment.
Art that causes people to reflect on the larger community.
Art that challenges the viewers’ traditional perspective on art.
Art that belongs to the public and exists for the benefit of all."
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Linked Data | Linked Data - Connect Distributed Data across the Web
Linked Data | Linked Data - Connect Distributed Data across the Web: "Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods. More specifically, Wikipedia defines Linked Data as "a term used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF.""
Dave De Roure — OeRC
Dave De Roure — OeRC: "David De Roure is Professor of e-Research in the Oxford e-Research Centre and the National Strategic Director for Digital Social Research. He focuses on the co-evolution of digital technologies and research methods in and between multiple disciplines. These include digital humanities (computational musicology), social sciences (social statistics), chemistry (smart labs), bioinformatics (in silico experimentation) and environmental science (sensor networks). Many of his projects involve the intersection of the physical world with the digital world, development of datascopes to take researchers from real-world 'signal' to understanding, and ramps to support incremental engagement with new computational capabilities and thinking."
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SAWA (Sonic Annotator Web Application)
SAWA (Sonic Annotator Web Application): "SAWA demonstrates audio feature extraction technology developed at the Center for Digital Music, our standard plugin API for audio analysis and a Semantic Web ontology based representation for returning the results of the analysis. It is primarily aimed at researchers who wish to become familiar with these technologies. SAWA may be used as a batch feature extractor, for example, for automatically generating a small reference data set in RDF format. The resulting files can be loaded in a suitable RDF database and queried over, they may be browsed using a Semantic Web browser (e.g. the OpenLink RDF browser) or loaded and visualised with Sonic Visualiser a tool for studying the content of audio files. [For the more Semantic Web savvy: a suitable machine interface (SPARQL endpoint) for retrieving past result automatically is currently under testing but it is not yet available in this public release...]
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Sonic Annotator Web Application
Sonic Annotator Web Application: "SAWA is developed and maintained by George Fazekas"
Juhan Nam | CCRMA
Juhan Nam | CCRMA: "Juhan Nam
CCRMA Role: Doctoral Student
Years Attended: 09/2006 - 06/2012
Preferred Email (public): juhan@ccrma.stanford.edu
URL: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~juhan
Current Employer: Stanford University"
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CCRMA Role: Doctoral Student
Years Attended: 09/2006 - 06/2012
Preferred Email (public): juhan@ccrma.stanford.edu
URL: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~juhan
Current Employer: Stanford University"
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SPARQL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SPARQL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "SPARQL allows users to write globally unambiguous queries. For example, the following query returns names and emails of every person in the world:
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PREFIX foaf:
SELECT ?name ?email
WHERE {
?person a foaf:Person.
?person foaf:name ?name.
?person foaf:mbox ?email.
}
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SPARQL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SPARQL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle"[1]) is an RDF query language; its name is an acronym that stands for Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language.[2] It was standardized by the RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG) of the World Wide Web Consortium, and is considered a key semantic web technology. On 15 January 2008, SPARQL became an official W3C Recommendation.[3]
SPARQL allows for a query to consist of triple patterns, conjunctions, disjunctions, and optional patterns.[4]"
SPARQL allows for a query to consist of triple patterns, conjunctions, disjunctions, and optional patterns.[4]"
Music Ontology Specification
Music Ontology Specification: "The Music Ontology Specification provides main concepts and properties fo describing music (i.e. artists, albums, tracks, but also performances, arrangements, etc.) on the Semantic Web. This document contains a detailed description of the Music Ontology.
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Home
Sound and Music Engineering is a new track of the Master's Degree in Computer Engineering - Politecnico di Milano - aiming at creating professionals in the following areas:
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Wget and Post Data « An Open World
Wget and Post Data « An Open World: "wget –keep-session-cookies –save-cookies cookies.txt –post-data ‘username=pobega&password=PASSWORD’ –keep-session-cookies http://awbw.amarriner.com/login.php
wget –load-cookies cookies.txt
http://awbw.amarriner.com/yourturn.php
"
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wget –load-cookies cookies.txt
http://awbw.amarriner.com/yourturn.php
"
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Robot Exclusion - GNU Wget 1.13.4 Manual
Robot Exclusion - GNU Wget 1.13.4 Manual: "If you know what you are doing and really really wish to turn off the robot exclusion, set the robots variable to ‘off’ in your .wgetrc. You can achieve the same effect from the command line using the -e switch, e.g. ‘wget -e robots=off url...’."
Friday, October 14, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
20mm Clear Digital RGB LED Pixels (Strand of 20) [LPD6803] ID: 307 - $45.00 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits
20mm Clear Digital RGB LED Pixels (Strand of 20) [LPD6803] ID: 307 - $45.00 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits: "RGB Pixels are digitally-controllable lights you can set to any color, or animate. Each RGB LED and controller chip is molded into a 'dot' of silicone. The dots are waterproof and rugged. There are four flanges molded in so that you can 'push' them into a 20mm drill hole in any material up to 2mm/0.08" thick. They're typically used to make outdoor signs. Compared to our '12mm' dots, these are clear-coated and brighter.
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TipsAndTricks/TextBasedLinuxInstall - Dropbox Wiki
TipsAndTricks/TextBasedLinuxInstall - Dropbox Wiki: "Setup process
Short version
Get the latest release tar from the download page:
x86
x86_64
forum testing build
Files are extracted to .dropbox-dist.
Run dropboxd."
Short version
Get the latest release tar from the download page:
x86
x86_64
forum testing build
Files are extracted to .dropbox-dist.
Run dropboxd."
JAZARI
JAZARI: "Patrick Flanagan serves as the token human in cyborg percussion ensemble Jazari, which fuses African rhythms, algorithmic composition, sound synthesis, and electro-mechanics into beat-driven steamfunk. Besides percussion music, Jazari is influenced by funk, house, drum n bass, jazz, academic computer music, and spectral composition. Equally influential is the technology itself. Much of what Flanagan does in Jazari arises from explorations of what is possible and idiomatic with the machines and software that he has created. Jazari has been featured on numerous tech blogs, has played at tech conferences, and has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered. Before diving into the robot band business, Flanagan studied composition and computer music and played jazz guitar."
Composer Uses WiiMotes and AI To Form Robot Band | Singularity Hub
Composer Uses WiiMotes and AI To Form Robot Band | Singularity Hub: "Patrick Flanagan’s not in your typical band. Rather than long haired hippies, his drum circle is staffed by solenoids, actuators, and a couple of controllers from the Nintendo Wii. The system, known as Jazari Music, lets Flanagan control a suite of djembe drums, bongos, and other percussion instruments by pressing buttons and tilting the angle of the Wiimotes. He can even create complex rhythms and loop them on the fly – sort of like a good DJ. More impressively, Flanagan has created a series of algorithms that allow him to play one drum and have another automatically generate a response. This is the improvisational version of machine made music and it’s really sweet to watch in action. We’ve got a video of a full length performance by Flanagan and Jazari below. Gotta love the cowbell."
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Contact Us - Zap Copy Centre - University of Victoria
Contact Us - Zap Copy Centre - University of Victoria: "Phone: (250) 721-8805
Fax: (250) 721-8728
Business Email: zapcopy@uvss.ca
Printing Email: dezine@uvss.ca
Location: Room A108, Student Union Building
3800 Finnerty Rd.
University of Victoria
Mailing Address:
Zap Copy!
University of Victoria,
PO BOX 3035
Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada V8W-3P3"
Fax: (250) 721-8728
Business Email: zapcopy@uvss.ca
Printing Email: dezine@uvss.ca
Location: Room A108, Student Union Building
3800 Finnerty Rd.
University of Victoria
Mailing Address:
Zap Copy!
University of Victoria,
PO BOX 3035
Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada V8W-3P3"
Node.js: N00b Installation Questions - Michael Joseph Kramer
Node.js: N00b Installation Questions - Michael Joseph Kramer: "Should I compile Node.js myself, or use a package manager?
It won’t matter that much once you install a version manager.
I’ve done both, and compiling Node.js yourself isn’t as hard as it sounds, even if you’re not familiar with make, etc. Installing it from a package manager, however, is even easier. While a new Node.js release comes every couple of weeks, and you’ll see plenty of recommendations to compile it yourself so you can just git pull it, you can quickly install newer versions and switch between them using a version manager like n, npm, or nave.
For example, to install the latest version of Node.js and switch to it with n, it’s just:"
It won’t matter that much once you install a version manager.
I’ve done both, and compiling Node.js yourself isn’t as hard as it sounds, even if you’re not familiar with make, etc. Installing it from a package manager, however, is even easier. While a new Node.js release comes every couple of weeks, and you’ll see plenty of recommendations to compile it yourself so you can just git pull it, you can quickly install newer versions and switch between them using a version manager like n, npm, or nave.
For example, to install the latest version of Node.js and switch to it with n, it’s just:"
How to speed up the Android Emulator by up to 400%, Nuxeo Developers Blog
How to speed up the Android Emulator by up to 400%, Nuxeo Developers Blog: "First of all it is slow to boot, but even if you use Snapshot to speed up the start, the execution is also very slow, especially when using the debug mode.
Tweaking Qemu parameters did not help significantly, the emulator remains too slow, that's probably why most Android developers seem to use a real device attached via USB.
Anyway, I wanted to find a solution, also because I want to be able to do a demonstration of an application via a beamer and don't want to do the demonstration of a slow application."
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Tweaking Qemu parameters did not help significantly, the emulator remains too slow, that's probably why most Android developers seem to use a real device attached via USB.
Anyway, I wanted to find a solution, also because I want to be able to do a demonstration of an application via a beamer and don't want to do the demonstration of a slow application."
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Constant Q transform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Constant Q transform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "In mathematics and signal processing, the Constant Q Transform transforms a data series to the frequency domain, and is related to the Fourier Transform [1].
The transform can be thought of as a series of logarithmically spaced filters, with the k-th filter having a spectral width some multiple of the previous filter's width"
The transform can be thought of as a series of logarithmically spaced filters, with the k-th filter having a spectral width some multiple of the previous filter's width"
Friday, October 07, 2011
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Babaji.net Events
Babaji.net Events: "Navaratri Seven: Kalaratri - Kali Night of no MoonKalaratri is the one who destroys ignorance and removes darkness. She is also known as Shubhamkari.
In this form she is believed to have licked the blood of demon Rakta Beeja who had the capacity to bring out thousand demons from a drop of blood spilt from his body.
This is the most violent form of Durga. This form primarily depicts that life also has dark side – the violent Mother Nature-- and creates havoc and removes all dirt."
In this form she is believed to have licked the blood of demon Rakta Beeja who had the capacity to bring out thousand demons from a drop of blood spilt from his body.
This is the most violent form of Durga. This form primarily depicts that life also has dark side – the violent Mother Nature-- and creates havoc and removes all dirt."
Monday, October 03, 2011
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