! Free Max class!
https://www.kadenze.com/courses/programming-max-structuring-interactive-software-for-digital-arts/info
"The class will touch upon:
- sound and movie playback
- sound synthesis
- sound and video effects processing
- algorithmic composition
- cross-modal mappings (e.g., video affecting audio and vice versa)
- interactive control (e.g., from QWERTY keyboard, mouse, USB devices, Open Sound Control)"
later, on the plight of salmon/alewife/shad who've been blocked from their old rivers by dams and factories: "Armed with no sword, no electric shock, but mere Shad, armed only with innocence and a just cause, with tender dumb mouth only forward, and scales easy to be detached. I for one am with thee, and who knows what may avail a crow-bar against that Billerica dam?"
I've been keeping up with guitar and I'd like a place to share the music I've been learning/making that isn't a space to promote myself as an artist a la Bandcamp but rather an amateur music corner of sorts.
@m15o 's ichi seems like it'll be the perfect spot to share music in a delightfully idiosyncratic way.
cool short-term, paid, remote residency for grad students: Environmental Media Lab (@EnvMediaLab@twitter.com) seeking scholars with a degrowth computing practice https://environmentalmedialab.com/grad-scholar-in-residence
here's more than anyone should want to read about text editors.
https://akstuhl.net/blog/2022-07-16-text-editors.html
TLDR I think gedit is great.
here's the slightly longer single line tool I use to clean up and paste text from a PDF (this was an enormous time-saver for me in its atom package form):
xclip -o -selection clipboard | tr '[\n\r]' ' ' | sed -E -e "s/- //g" -e "s/[ \t]*$//" -e "s/[\"\“\”]|[\’\‘]+/\'/g"
text editor migration saga
Gnome seems to be switching from gedit to the new Gnome Text Editor. The former's future seems iffy. The latter looks beautiful and has great markdown support, but its devs are explicitly opposed to re-implementing external tools (https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/st4qi5/are_there_plans_to_have_something_like_the/). This is a bummer, as Gnome Builder (where they figure users wanting any advanced features will go) has far too much IDE stuff for a non-code writing workflow.
text editor migration saga
still not loving emacs. thought about going the opposite direction: less reliance on editor features and more on os/utilities. learned about gedit's external tools plugin, which lets you pin bash commands to keyboard shortcuts. this seems pretty ideal – I'd way rather re-implement my atom packages as bash scripts than as elisp (both for familiarity and portability). BUT...
A response to @steinea 's lovely collection of quotations on Compost Epistemology: https://blog.cjeller.site/communities-of-compost
(ps: it's great to be part a community that helps me change my mind for the better.)
A really great project focuses on intersectional feminist approaches to coding (w/ 24 recipes) edited by Xin Xin+Katherine Moriwaki. This reminds a poetry line: "When we hear “the singularity is near”, let us remember: the plurality is here." from Audrey Tang #codingotherwise
https://criticalcode.recipes/
logic magazine - new leadership
starting next year, Logic Magazine will be led by @xrw and J Khadijah Abdurahman, with a renewed focus on "marrying our thoughts to the poor" and increasing engagement with international issues, particularly in Africa and Asia.
I'm really excited about the new vision and folks leading! more about both here: https://logicmag.io/logics-the-next-chapter/
if you're interested in pitching for our PIVOT issue end of this year, check out the call for pitches: https://logicmag.io/pitch-us/
PhD candidate in communication studies, working on a cultural history of radio automation