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edit from the performance piece "Ransom of Mercury"

Behold my wrath

An Xbox Killed My Dog

Twice Wilted - Confidence at #Denver #Colorado

#Twice Wilted #7South at #Denver #Colorado

Debbie Millman talks to Rob Walker about the Sunggie and his fantasy branding project.

Design Matters From The Archive: Rob Walker

with apologies to Kurt Ottaway, I really really felt like I had to share how much I love this song with people.
I will take it down if it's not okay.


Twice Wilted - Square (Hex Mix)

Debbie talks to Massimo Vignelli about his favorite typeface, his fight against vulgarity in his design, and what he means by forceful design.

Design Matters From The Archive: Massimo Vignelli.mp3

Mr. Machine

On Powdered Ground (Mixed Lines) [feat. Agnes Obel]

Disquiet Junto 0236: Hello Jun(t)o

Junotes [disquiet 0236]

I decided my only “note” would be a 2-second sine tone of 440hz generated in Audacity. Yeah, I know, same thing I did last week…

I laid out my six notes with a 1 second break between each and a 2 second break between the 4th and 5th.

I used pitch shift on each to make a little ‘tune’. 

I messed around with cloned versions of the tune using Audacity effects and a couple of vst effects like Bluecat – delay, tempo and pich shifting, reverb and echo. 

The first result sounded horrible. This is the second one. There are some glitches and pops. I blame cosmic radiation.

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The Assignment: Say hi to the Juno Spacecraft by embedding Morse code in an original composition.

In this project we’re going to send a friendly signal to the NASA probe, the Juno spacecraft, that just entered orbit around Jupiter. Well, we’re going to compose such signals. Sending them is a separate endeavor. We’re going to build on the “Say ‘Hi’ to Juno” endeavor, which had thousands of ham operators sending a message to Juno during its five-year voyage. The “Say ‘Hi’ to Juno” message was Morse code for “Hi” — that is, four dots followed by two dots (…. ..).

Step 1: Listen to the Morse code for “hi” (four dots followed by two dots) on repeat for a short time.

Step 2: Create an original musical composition that in one or more ways interpolates that Morse code.

More on this 236th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Say hi to the Juno Spacecraft by embedding Morse code in an original composition” — at:

http://disquiet.com/0236/ 


Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/    



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