Archive for July, 2009

Recording a harp.

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

I’ve been listening to Joanna Newsom’s “The Milk-Eyed Mender” (amazon) and was curious about how the harp was recorded. I did a little research and found that the engineer/producer was Noah Georgeson, and that he’s also done a couple Devendra Banhardt albums and a solo album. I was not so much impressed with the sound, [...]

Part of why the Internet is so great.

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

I’m trying very hard to keep myself from making every post YouTube fodder. But my post today is actually based on YouTube, so I figured it would be okay to include some videos. I pride myself on being a self-taught individual, especially in the realm of digital audio. The concepts were introduced to me as [...]

Playing around with Jitter, part 1

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

My professor Michael Theodore is currently playing around with controlling physical objects with computers (using control voltages and micro controllers) and he sent me a video of an Arduino microcontroller affecting the playback speed of a tape player. This was awesome. So I looked at some of the other videos posted by this guy littlescale [...]

When to work? When to play?

Monday, July 13th, 2009

I suppose the issue at hand is not motivation, but organization.

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