- ARCHIVE / June, 2011
- Event: Digital Humanities conference 2011
Last week I went to Stanford for the Digital Humanities 2011 international conference. This is arguably the most important event for researchers and academics who employ digital methods to tackle questions and problems normally associated to ‘humanities’ disciplines. In this blog post I will start by summarising the things I was invited to talk about; […]
- Livecoding is like gardening
Just ran into this interesting article by Brian Eno. It struck me as quite a fair representation of what livecoders do most of the time, when they create (maybe I should say ‘sculpt’) musical structures that evolve in time, as part of their performance: It’s intuitive to think that anything complex has to be made […]
- Bjork redefines the musician’s product with ‘Biophilia’ album/app
I found out here and there on the web that Islandic artist Bjork is once again pushing the boundaries of experimental music by relasing a new album, Biophilia, which will be composed by both music and interactive media, in the form of an iPad app: Biophilia for iPad will include around 10 separate apps, all […]
- Enabling web-audio in Chrome
I haven’t realized that Chrome has a whole bunch of invisible experimental settings that you can turn on just by going to “about:flags“. Some of them will open up the musical capabilities of html5, which are pretty cool. Example, once you switch on the ‘web-audio‘ setting on Chrome, if you use a suitable […]
- DJFacet: a faceted browser for Django
DJFacet is a pluggable module for the Django web application framework that allows you to navigate the data in your webapp using an approach based on ‘facets’. DJFacet relies entirely on the django models you’ve already defined within your project and on a configuration file where you can create the facets and assign them behaviour. […]