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andrewducker) wrote2011-11-21 11:00 am
andrewducker) wrote2011-11-21 11:00 am
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Interesting Links for 21-11-2011
- OWS in an alternate universe
- The co-op business model: share whatever you've got
- A very nice visualisation of a Bach cello piece. Click the "?" in the corner for an explanation
- Oddly, Texas can teach the UK a thing or two on criminal justice
- Go on tour? How old fashioned! Mariah Carey broadcasts holograms instead.
- It looks like setting targets for schools and hospitals is actually a good thing
- What happens when you crack an egg 100ft under water?
- The longest, strangest forgery spree the American art world has known
- Walking through doorways causes forgetting
- Self-Help for Nerds. (Cue numerous disagreeing comments over the definitions of "nerd", "geek" and "dork")
- Amazon leaves girl gamers out in the cold. (Message to marketing departments - please _think_)
- Brent Spiner on perceptions of Star Trek
- Interesting stuff on The Great Dying, when volcanos nearly wiped out all life on Earth.
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It also sounds wrong to me because the strings are plucked, whereas the piece as written is bowed. It sounds more like it's being played on a harpsichord that a cello.
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Could a Markov model be used for a computer musician with an initial seed value to make the variations in duration, pitch etc., variable but also consistent in their variations?
It's a long time since I've used sequencers, but they used to have humanize and quantize functions, the former making the machine more human and the latter making the human more machine like.