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What Unicode sounds like

lame -r -m m -s 16 –bitwidth 8 ~/Downloads/UnicodeData-5.2.0d2.txt
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Posted 03 November 2008 † Porges § code § music ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Music Synthesizer Project (in Matlab)

This post brought to you as part of fulfilling the requirements for Massey University’s 143.363.
The brief was to write both an additive and subtractive synthesizer, in addition to an effects processor. I generalized this a little bit so that you can combine random parts together, so the additive/subtractive synthesizers aren’t really separate any more.
Basically my [...]

Posted 24 October 2008 † Porges § code § university ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Music you didn’t expect to hear in places you didn’t expect to hear it

The M.I.A./Diplo mixtape Piracy Funds Terrorism includes samples from the game Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom in tracks 10 & 11 (“M.I.A. [Diplo mix]” and “You’re Good [Diplo mix]”). Neato!
Big props to Diplo

Posted 07 October 2008 † Porges § music ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Compare and Contrast

Coldplay’s ‘42’ from Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (starting about 1:45), Nine Inch Nails ‘Complication’ from The Fragile.

Posted 04 September 2008 † Porges § music ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,