I was reading Mary Beard’s Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old (Profile Books, London, 2026) through curiosity about why learn the classics and as an exercise in reading. I did Latin at school many years ago and have forgotten a fair amount. However, she discusses the use of diacritics in the production of Greek […]
I recently read a couple of books that have links to sound and audio in different domains. Keza Macdonald’s Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun (Guardian Faber, London, 2026). It is a journalistic run over the history of secretive company through their games and systems. My previous 1980s experience of […]
I recently read Marion Coutts’s What Did the Deep Sea Say? (Fern Press, 2026), after seeing a piece in the Observer a little while ago. The book is a meditation on grief that uses the natural world as a mirror and highly worth reading for that alone. However, I am more interested in the pages […]
Came across this via other social media, but this video of a synth powered by plane traffic caught my ears. https://youtu.be/hYLcwwlLMU8?si=iT20b1BZASfIGnWQ
I am attending the Digital Music Research Network (DMRN) workshop on Tuesday to present a poster, Digging into Atlas: Engaging with Archived Code and Sound. This is initial work on the Eric Sunderland archive at Manchester, which has become a larger project than intended. I will be running an initial tool to begin mapping the […]
The Resonant Computing Manifesto has been launched and has five principles: Private, Dedicated, Plural, Adaptable, and Prosocial The scale of software is a core concern , where the rough edges of a being a human can be sanded off with a tendency to the average. The manifesto suggests that AI might help in responding to […]
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 […]
