Software tasks for this week have focused on a new project tracing AI in mobile applications. This is part of a fellowship project to develop a wider toolkit for app studies to run on High Performance Computers. While I have an existing toolkit, it is designed for laptops or High Throughput processes. The current project […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
