I came across an Arduino being used to control sound using a Passive Infra Red Sensor and a Douk Audio to play the instrument that was picked up from an old barn. More information on Daric Gill‘s blog about building it and the challenges.
As I may have mentioned, I have been working to extract a sound from the old printouts. I spent some time using OpenCV to convert some low quality images into grey scale so that I could use Tesseract on them. It did need hand correction – but I think I can see some ways of […]
I have recently come back to text and audio generation using a Hugging Face account with a Gradio interface. I’m not sold on Gradio, but right now it seems sane. My first use is with Stability Audio where I’ve been usng both the toolkit and the diffusion options. Last time that I used the toolkit […]
I have gone back to work on the Eric Sunderland archive. I also sent in a poster abstract to DMRN + 20 (Digital Music Research Network) with initial comments. It will become part of a talk to be given next year. A focus for this trip was to take some more photos of the printouts […]
A while ago, I was chatting to Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru about converting data. Jonathan was interested in tiny tools that I understood as a software that does one or a very few things and I was thinking about lightweight ways of converting data from Zeeschuimer into a CSV file for students. There are […]
Deadlines are finally over. Well for a bit. Two fellowships have been submitted and the one thing that links them is the challenge of communicating technical aspects of research. As a tldr; I began to really appreciate trying to find a narrative for technical research. One focussed on community and the second on a research […]
I thought that the Early Days of Agile Development GoTo podcast with James Lewis and Martin Fowler might be interesting. Indeed it was. One of the things that I really thought interesting was the breakdown of “Cubicle Land”. Recently, I have been put into an office without much contact with other colleagues, apart from the […]
I have recently been writing and updating various bits of code recently. Through working on a Google Summer of Code project as a mentor, I have found that I am updating how I use repositories. Like many developers, I use varying git repositories such as Gitlab and Github among others. My first year on the […]
A few posts ago, I wrote about sketching out some ideas for an ontology to work through programming languages and their interaction with sound. I hacked up some ideas from the diagrams to test some initial ideas and queries so that I can develop the ontology and test the ideas within it. From this, I […]
The ACM had an article on one of its feeds regarding an autonomous car, The Hearing Car, that is beginning to listen to avoid obstacles and navigate. It is being developed by the Fraunhofer Institute.
