paul
paul@post.lurk.org
<p>Sound artist exploring the human voice, simulacrum, and mechanisms for lyricism.</p><p>These are some of my favorite things: vocal synthesis, generative music, Palestrina, audio DSP, baking, croissants, tea, dogs, grids, retrogaming, computer graphics, powers of 2, 1-bit art/sound.</p><p>Over the years, I've developed several audio engines and music software ecosystems, and like to talk about them here. I also have a quieter account where I mainly talk about vocal synthesis: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://merveilles.town/@patchlore" class="u-url mention">@<span>patchlore</span></a></span></p>
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We made it to October people good job everyone. https://youtu.be/0tdyU_gW6WE
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Compose: To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. To construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture. https://www.websters1913.com/words/Compose
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David Herman does a great Robin Williams impersonation with &quot;Patchcord Adams&quot;. I&#39;m really appreciating all the robot gags on this show. Who knew there could be so many jokes involving robots?
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The latest BYOK firmware update seems to have finally added support for my MNT keyboard (I&#39;ve been checking up on this since I got it about a year ago). I think at this point I can now truly bring my own keyboard, any of them
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My brain does not seem to be able to understand left and right. It always takes me a extra moment to remember which is which. Up/down is fine. Cardinal east/west is fine. But not left or right. The sorts of things that trip me up the most in math seem to foundationally come back to getting left/right mixed up, or like some duality that has some kind of left/right direction implied with it. Number line operations, cartesian transformations, function composition, sine/cosine, domain/codomain, com...
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mathematicians sure do love a good &quot;such that&quot;
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I&#39;m so tired of finding typos in the math textbooks &quot;class notes&quot; I&#39;m reading. Especially when it&#39;s in the formulas. It comes off as sloppy.
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&quot;determinants and volumes&quot; has the same cadence as &quot;heffalumps and woozles&quot;
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The vintage pictures of the van de graff generator at the boston museum of science boston make it look like an actual doomsday device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Hill_generator
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There&#39;s an MIT music tech talk happening tomorrow with Andrew McPherson. Anyone going?