Music, Illustrated
Art, analysis, audio.
podcast:
last recorded 10 Jul 2011
14 Dec 2011
 My friend Sandy used nedwaves graphics
for the opening and closing
credits on his documentary for Brookline Access Television, Never
2
Late
2 Play.
The film follows a group of jazz musicians at the John Payne Music School, many of whom started (or re-started) playing music as adults. |
28 Sep 2011
 Pure tones are an abstraction-- all real-world sounds have bandwidth. Bells make nearly-pure narrow sounds; drums make wide ones. How do we measure interval ratios of notes with width? |
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26 Sep 2011
New WorkI managed to put a couple of pieces together for this year's Punto y Raya festival, and they took this one:  |
23 Jan 2011
Frequency Range This is a vertical
number line, labelled in seconds, showing event
durations. At the bottom are long-lasting musical patterns (sets,
concerts); at the top are quick events-- also called notes.Formally, the chart title is "Duration of events which, if repeated, humans can distinguish". We're aware of lots of repeating patterns: with 100s of repeats per second as notes; 100s per minute as rhythm; 100s per hours as verse. The leftmost column is octaves (frequency doublings) away from 1 second. I suppose it could be extended for ultra-long pattern repetitions, like "the radio played this song yesterday" or "this restaurant hasn't changed the soundtrack in months!". Fun fact: the range shown is almost the same as the Richter scale, since 33 octaves=10 Richters. (10 octaves = 2^10 = 1024 ~= 1000 = 10^3 = 3 Richters) Also: this chart covers the range (10^-5) seconds to (10^4)s. A 2nd page would cover 10^4 to 10^13. A year is 32x10^6 seconds. A 3rd page would cover 10^13 to 10^22. The age of the universe is 400x10^15 seconds. 8.5x11 72dpi version-- slightly better looking. |
16 Nov 2010
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The iTunes podcast doesn't seem to work for everyone. Here are
bundled downloads. These are collections of the recordings I've liked best; the sets are under 10 minutes each. 2010 Ned5 A | 2010 Ned5 B |
09 Nov 2010
 I got tired of tangling with my jamman loops, so I reworked the editor program to do it for me. The result: a new & improved audio library program, NWEd. This has been holding things up-- more music soon. |
18 Oct 2010
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Another hack I did for musichackday
Boston 2010: demo of a service I'd like to see exist. "Lix" is twitter for music; a platform for basement tapes. |
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