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How can a man every concentrate on studying filters and digital signal processing when every Google search on the matter eventually leads him to a vortex of inproductivity ?

I bought the slightly brilliant documentary A Skin, A Night by Vincent Moon last week. It’s about The National, a Brooklyn-based rock band which have been making their way to the spotlights slowly in the last few years. Their latest album, Boxer, got some great media coverage in Europe last …

Sex, Drugs and Video Games

Okay, you can stop the giggling now. This is a lecture by Daniel Floyd (Savannah College of Art & Design) on the subject of sex in videogames, and why it is a necessary step to accept intimacy in videogames in much the same way we accept it in movies: a …

The Biggest Narcist in the World

Today I read about Erik Nordenankar, who did a pretty cool thing: he developed a GPS transmitter with elongated battery life, put it in a shock-proof closed case, printed out very detailed instructions (places and coordinates) and handed the lot to the world-wide delivery company DHL. By using the acquired …

Beats it

Since I moved my audio mixer to my student room in Leuven, mixing attempts have become more frequent. I’m not a professional DJ, I just like to recycle the tunes I love in a new way. Recording and after-editing was done using Audacity. Any help at identifying that unknown Tiga …

Towel Day

Thanks to fellow blogger Pelle at Blikkendoos.be, I will never forget that the 25th of may is from now on Towel Day. In order to celebrate the festivities, I went for a Vogon-green one. Don’t hesitate to post your pictures of Towel Day madness, but make sure to cut off …

So long, and thanks for all the fish

And then, on one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been …

Plain Talking

I will go to hell for this. Especially for the over-use of the vocoder / beatslicer. Whoops ! Most of the effects were done in Audacity with the help of the ZynAddSubFX software synthesizer. Both are freely available open-source products. Elements you might recognize: (vocals / synth) Moby – Lift …

Steamworks

Steamworks went live today. I’ve requested my API key, have you ? On a lighter note, here are some interesting articles I’ve stumbled upon during the last few weeks. Cracked compiled a list of 7 commandments all video games should obey. (#3 is my favorite). Another – more serious – …

Smashing Mashups

If there’s one thing that can drive traditional music lovers crazy, it’s mashups. Take the vocals from song A, the bass-line from song B and that funky synth sound from track C, and put them together so it sounds like something new. Blasphemy, you say ? I don’t think so. …