Experimental music on children’s TV
found at kottke.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y819U6jBDog
“Stop the Experimental Music” http://emoctv.tumblr.com/post/77382092071/the-experimental-music-must-be-stopped-angelo
Hemingway
Searching by image
Using Google’s search by image feature to return similar images
http://images.google.com/imghp?hl=en
With Google you can search by image. But it gets really interesting when you upload an image that is not available on the internet and look at the set of similar images returned. Or if you use a common image but just view the visually similar results. For example, here is a protein molecule (http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/ferritin.jpg)
Here are similar image results returned by Google.
You can also restrict the results to faces:
A few internet images to try:
- http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/cancer-to-bone-featured.jpg
- http://alien-ufo-research.com/reptilians/picture-of-reptilian-alien.gif
Soundcloud to Echo Nest
Echonest analysis data for any Soundcloud track.
By Paul Lamere at musicmachinery.com
Note: 6/2021 – Since the API has moved to Spotify, analysis is only allowed on Spotify tracks.
http://musicmachinery.com/2013/11/15/soundcloud-echo-nest-bridge-service/
Demo: http://labs.echonest.com/SCAnalyzer/sample.html
MidiModulator
Frequency Modulation using an entire song.
By jganseman for Music Hackaday London 2013
https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/music-hack-day-london-2013/hacks/midimodulator
Location of midiStroke preset file
MidiStroke is a utility app that converts typewriter key strokes into Midi messages.
By Charlie Roberts
Configuration file (On a Macbook):
/Users/tkzic/Library/Application Support/midiStroke/midiStroke.cdcmidistroke
Helpful article at djtechtools.coml:
http://www.djtechtools.com/2010/06/18/using-multile-controllers-with-itch/
You can’t create multiple preset files within midiStroke – but you can work within the file system as they explain in the article above.
How to write an external for Puredata
For non-signal objects.
Very helpful reference.
By Johannes M. Zmolnig
http://pdstatic.iem.at/externals-HOWTO/HOWTO-externals-en.html
the speech accent archive
Recorded examples from around the world of people reading an identical paragraph.
By Steven H. Weinberger and friends at George Mason University
tapehead
Tape deck sample playback simulation
By Mark Durham at Sound Design with Max
http://sounddesignwithmax.blogspot.com/2013/04/tapehead-sample-playback-for-sound.html