riffusion: stable diffusion for audio, creates eigen-music by synthesising spectrograms based on specific genre or description cues.
riffusion.com/about
particularly nice is the ability to navigate between styles in latent space.
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It's the final weekend of Maelstrom at Science Gallery Melbourne this weekend, part of SWARM. Free entry, open Saturday 11am-5pm. melbourne.sciencegallery.com/swarm
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Different technologies for recording music, paper with pencil, paper with ink, notation software, using a microphone or MIDI recorder - different technologies give us different ratios of time when we are capturing data and time when we are thinking of what that data will be.
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mindblowing new discovery in Conway's Game of Life: any buildable pattern in Life can be constructed from the collision of 15 gliders. the key principle: "Distance itself encodes information". btm.qva.mybluehost.me/building-arbit (via )
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quite enjoying settling into mastodon
→ assemblag.es/@ideoforms
you can also find me at:
→ github.com/ideoforms
→ instagram.com/ideoforms
transcending the chaos with this sublime selection of latin american ambient + environmental sound artists from :
twitter's data exporter is great, for as long as it works, but note that it doesn't actually export the usernames of people you follow, just their numeric IDs — useless in the face of potential implosion
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updated this old repo of python twitter scripts to include:
- downloading a full list of people you follow
- downloading an archive of a specific user's tweets
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cat lovers sought to participate in new work by , at the intersection of art, technology, and ... cats
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LAST CHANCE TO APPLY: Do you love cats, technology or both? Wherever you are in the UK we want to hear from you!
We're looking for 15 people to form the Cat Royale Audience Advisory Panel and join us on the journey of making Cat Royale.
More info: bit.ly/catroyalepanel
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Derek Jarman left his warehouse studio / home at 13 Bankside in 1971 as the building was set for demolition. He filmed the melancholic 'One last walk / One last look / Bankside 1971' on Super8 film. Here are some scenic shots of old wharfside Southwark for you sleuths:
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RNBO from looks like a gamechanger: create Max-style patches that can be exported to web, C++ code, executable, or VST/AU.
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New video for our song “Samba on Sama” is out. Tis’ the season, Happy Halloween 🎃
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congrats to for 20 years of making excellent + essential audio tools for macOS. 🙏 all their stuff is currently 20% off:
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beyond excited to discover that a new monkey island game has been created by the original team of writers and composers, and that it is coming out TODAY. returntomonkeyisland.com #returntomonkeyisland
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Maelstrom (2022) opens this week at Science Gallery Melbourne as part of SWARM, a multidisciplinary exhibition exploring collective social behaviours (until 3 December).
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this is shaping up to be a vintage edition of Late Junction: , , and “tropical chamber jazz […] played on the leaves of a ficus tree.” (26 august, )
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Just recorded a half hour People Like Us summer mix for BBC Radio 3 Late Junction for broadcast later this month: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00 @reducedlisten
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so many fascinating questions (and answers) 🦉🔊
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Bioacoustics Stack Exchange is now live - a brand-new forum to answer all your questions about the study of animal sound! bioacoustics.stackexchange.com #bioacoustics
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.: “Years ago a friend was DJing in a club and a woman came into the DJ booth and asked ‘is it going to get any deeper than this?’ and the phrase became a kind of mantra for us. What did she really want?"
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favourite new newsletter: Medieval Monday, a weekly bulletin from which combines weird medieval manuscript guys with a charming and funny dispatch of historical trivia 📜 ko-fi.com/weirdmedievalg
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beautiful Yamaha Design Lab prototypes for hybrid digital/physical music devices, featuring a wooden wind-up smartphone music player and a tiny ensemble of play-along robot percussionists yamaha.com/en/about/desig
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I would pay good money to see this ensemble play live.
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Possibly your last chance to see this wonderful 2 ton double-eded bell before it leaves for the US this summer. If listening to its microtones isn't enough, you can also participate (in lots of different forms) in the performance with a workshop led by Dominic Murcott beforehand!
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Join us at @uoggalleries to celebrate the release of The Harmonic Canon Remixes with a meditative immersive event exploring resonance and electronics 
Sat 2 July, more info + tickets 
bit.ly/39eP4vI
Sat 2 July, more info + tickets bit.ly/39eP4vI2
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excited to have a new installation at this weekend. Aerials (2022) decodes and sonifies the wireless signals broadcast by nearby mobile devices, together forming an interlocking, emergent composition portraying the digital interactions that we unwittingly take part in.
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If you don't want "music to be a pursuit only of the wealthy" ('s article: bit.ly/3x24pJv) then do:
- sign this petition to Stop the PRS Foundation Cuts chng.it/7rKFkXQg - and read FAC's view:
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sad news for the uk music landscape. support is vital to so many early-career artists, and made many of ’s installations possible.
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I’ve written about the unnecessary and wrong-headed funding cuts to the excellent @PRSFoundation announced this week - a subject which everyone who cares about grassroots UK music should be extremely angry about.
theguardian.com/music/2022/may
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"trumpets that required multiple hands to play, drum kits with 300 interconnected" parts.
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subbest bass
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“With a period of oscillation of 10 million years, the sound waves were acoustically equivalent to a B-flat 57 octaves below middle C, a tone that the black hole has apparently been holding for the last two billion years.” nytimes.com/2022/05/07/sci
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why is there a 2m high structure in my garden endlessly reciting the mac address of the nearest BLE device? because it’s season, of course! new sound installation in the works, appearing at the festival in a few weeks >>> emfcamp.org
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starting now >>> youtube.com/watch?v=K-2x3I
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looking forward to this free @medialab talk with acoustic ecologist David Dunn, hosted by @gershonatron and Joseph Paradiso (14 april): media.mit.edu/events/channel
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terry jennings (1940-1981) was a lost visionary of minimalism, who died far too young w/ only a handful of recordings available. i can’t overstate my excitement at this new release on , a previously unrecorded piece from 1960 saltern.bandcamp.com/album/piece-fo #BandcampFriday
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looking forward to this free talk with acoustic ecologist David Dunn, hosted by and Joseph Paradiso (14 april):
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minutiae is a delightful piece of instruction art in the lineage of fluxus: receive a prompt to photograph whatever is in front of you at a random moment each day, + become briefly twinned with a stranger to see mundane snippets of each other's lives.
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it's taken 10 years, but I am looking forward to performing at my first next week, alongside a stellar line-up:
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We'll be broadcasting a live hour-long binaural stream from Maelstrom on , starting 10:30am this morning. Info:
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beautiful photos by James Budgen of Maelstrom’s 96-channel spiral speaker system, at until 6th March southkiosk.com/maelstrom
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From Friday (25 Feb), we are delighted to be exhibiting a new work-in-progress edition of Maelstrom at , harnessing thousands of fragments of internet audio to create shifting landscapes of sound across a 96-channel spiral speaker system. southkiosk.com/Current
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new sound installation appearing in London this week!
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From Friday (25 Feb), we are delighted to be exhibiting a new work-in-progress edition of Maelstrom at @SouthKiosk, harnessing thousands of fragments of internet audio to create shifting landscapes of sound across a 96-channel spiral speaker system. southkiosk.com/Current
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