Dendriet, Haags netwerk voor electronische muziek

Here's a story of a guy who was afraid someone was really willing to commit a murder for an iPod... The point of the story is, that you 'need' to ditch the white iPod headphones, or you will be robbed. And it goes even futher, by stating you shouldn't stand out from the crowd at all and you are a dumbass if you do. Well, you'd also miss out on enjoying the best in earbuds around. And, you will also miss out on a nice gesture that is in use in .nl as well: That of exchanging a listening experience with other iPods users you randomly run into.
I can't help standing out from the crowd anyways. I can't hide in a crowd. The reason why I do not use earbuds is that they do not fit in my ears. I use headphones the size of ghettoblasters. If the iPods become a regular thing to have, there are still hundreds of things about me to make me stand out for. Go ahead, be regular, buy dull consumer earbuds, go deaf, fade out, dress up for your funeral. Just don't tell me to blur into your grey world.

"All of the great technologies coming out now are technologies that will allow people to do stuff with your stuff," Lessig said. "That's an extraordinary opportunity that we should allow our culture to take. We wouldn't produce the same laws had we known about the technological advances." Here's an audiorecording of a debate at stanford university. Listening to debates like these doen't occupy my mind enough, so I advice listening to the discussion while soldering. At 50minutes is a peak: It illustrates the absurdism of making coveralbums and how the music industry defended the right to make copy-cat music!

Update:
Even the FBI has become involved. It says music piracy has become its third priority behind terrorism and counter-intelligence. "Filesharing kills record sales" is a HOAX!

2002 and 2003. Updated links. These are funny bits of music, though they are not exactly masterpieces. But why's that?

Thijs and me spend some time in the funny Haight-Ashbury area in San Fransisco yesterday. A must see there is the amoeba music record store. Amazing, the biggest record store I ever visited. We managed to lose three hours in there. The best thing I found was the epic master piece 'visions of the dream and death' by Ákos Rózmann...for seven dollars!! The worst thing i got there: an evan parker& the electro-acoustic ensemble cd that contains German Traditional music!!! AAAAAHHH, the horror... a clear misprint.... have to take that back to the store....
We are staying in Berkeley, which is in the east of the bay-area... student town with a big music department.
Also has a lot of record stores the best ones: Amoeba music and Rasputin music... wish my suitcase was bigger...

Thanks a lot to Thijs for all the pre-work...

I overlooked this last week, but the new dutch laws are even stricter then the american laws. I read the news on the BoF site. Brein, the dutch strong arm of the RIAA equivalent is allowed to do house searches with a "deurwaarder". They do not need the police to get access to your house!
Brein, however, denies this: They say they do need to ask permission from a judge, still. How can these two readings differ so much?
Close reading Brein's article unveils why they need permission from a judge: ISP's have stated in their regulations that they won't share the data they have about you, unless a judge forces them to. So the ISP is protecting the internetter from the house searches, not the dutch law. Not suprisingly, Brein argues that the ISP's should open up about their 'criminal' customers.

What strikes me, is that it isn't exactly clear what laws I break, should I download something that is copyrighted through RIAA or Buma/Stemra, nor to what extend I break them. It's clear that they do not want me to copy, but there are many cases in which it is perfectly legal to download music, like ours. Also, the term copyrighted isn't clear to me anymore. As an example, our music IS copyrighted. Even politicians differ in the way they read the law on music-copyrights. It's borders are unclear.
Currently, Brein's focus is on the uploaders, not on the downloaders. Also, thay say they will warn first. But these are policies, not rules, nor a laws. Can they change this over night? And what about the fact that p2p traffic isn't one-way traffic like a www download?
How do I trigger a house search? What is a "reasonable suspicion"? Do they look for Kazaa upload? (I do not do kazaa, anyway) or is the sheer fact that I have a certain amount of data current enough to make them suspicious?

It is time that Brein publishes very very clear rules and a very clear description of their methods. It is not clear now, because they only discuss the cases in which it is clear. Also, mp3 files should have a tag that explains under what license they it is distributed, or it's original was distributed.

If you have been following this weblog, you know it has filesharing and the absurd respons of the RIAA and Brein to that as a regular topic. Our suspicion that those organisations and the record companies shouldn't complain, was proven true. (via retecool (grin:-))

When (a really long time ago ;) ) I was still studying sonology we had music psychology classes. One of the subject touched was rhythm perception. At that time (and still am) I was interested in what makes music become noise. So I had the hypothesis that the chaos, or rather the irregularity of rhythm, in 'avant-garde / experimental' music is between bounderies to keep it from becoming just another noise.
The timing of events has to be between bounderies of a, perhaps a nice bell shaped, curve in order to be perceived as part of the musical structure.

Well, what do you think?

I have trashed bittorrented files that I assumed were 'broken'. They were not. Stuffit is way to optimistic about being able to expand .rar files. Now I found Unrax. Those days aren't such a problem anymore, and I dare wearing that white pants again, eventhough I have a heavy flowtype.

There is a concept that is called anti-sound. The idea is to produce the exact opposite airpressure of the sound source that you do not want to hear. There are two problems with it that are hard to solve by definition. The first is that your anti-sound speaker can't be in the exact same position as your original soundsource. And since soundwaves travel fairly slowly through the air, this means that cancellation only works in specific angles from the two (anti)sound sources to the listener.
The other, in this case more interesting one, is that you need to predict the noise you want to cancel. This is easy if you want to predict something tonal. You can safely bet what the next move of a periodic sound is, based on it's repetative behaviour in the past.
But with noise, it's different. You could define the next moment in a dark coloured noise source as "a bit different from what you'd expect". In a white noise source, this would simply be "most likely something completely different from what you would expect" or "other" (although it illegally suggests that the predicting matters).
It's hard to cancel out something that has "forgetfullness" as it's main quality.

Furgedda stupit games. Go furza episudes.

There's a lot of bad stuff to be said about the US. But in some things they do have a good thing going on. I'm writing this post from a starbucks coffee shop (not a dutch coffee shop!). All the Starbucks are hooked up with a wireless network powered by T-Mobile. You can get an account really simple (if you have a credit card that is..) on the spot. Just walk in with your airport equipped powerbook/iBook....
You pay 6 dollars per hour. The speed is amazing !! I was downloading some stuff at 160kb/sec with my airport extreme card....
more info

Listen to a sound recorded by the SETI project. It is noisy, has drop-outs, and has suffered from endless useless fileformat conversions: bit crushing, in and out of mp3, etc. In other words, it's real. Note that the SETI (.gov!!!) homepage does not mention it, which is even more prooove. So let's analyse the sound. Aliens do make sine tones. They do use cheesy LFO's. Aliens do go "u-u-u-u-u-u-u" after all. We were right all along.
With remote viewing we can understand the sound. It appears to be incomplete. It says "well, to us, you are the a..."

fgr15.gif (in it's open dir)

Grant Richter commented on the sdiy list on this:
Everything that we do to make electronics easier for humans, actually makes it harder for ELECTRONS. Neat looking circuit boards with 90 degree angles and neatly placed components are great for humans, but electrons don't like it. Electrons want to run in straight lines or smooth curves across the shortest possible wire length. Very hard for humans to make that look tidy.
Bob Pease's books on analog trouble shooting have photos of the kind of circuits electrons like. A complete 3D mess to us, but with happy high speed little electrons...

Hey well, just after this thing about life-loggers...
Greetings anyway, Found a great cd/record store.. othermusic.com.
Location: on the corner on Broadway and 8th street there is a Tower Records--- Ignore THAT.
walk into 8th street past tower records and cross the street...
If you like to have some second hand electronic stuff for 8/9 dollars.. Or a cd of Dick Raaijmakers or maybe even an Arne Nordheim CD..
Or some Rune records.... ETC.

Also in that neighborhood (bit more downtown) THE APPLE STORE in Prince street... niccccceeeeeee.

Bye,

Ernst

I knew the route to OSX 10.4 (tiger) was winding, but not that it had that many side ways. Here is a comprehensible story about it.

The M$ sensecam is a camara that dangles on your neck. It triggers on changes in light and rising hartrates to make sure it looks exactly the worng way on the most thrilling moments of your life. A security patch (which fixes a issue where pictures with over 50% of skincolored pixels were put online automatically) can be downloaded at microsoft

David Kendall, lawyer for 321 Studios said: "The law simply doesn't allow one to do indirectly what can't be done directly....."

Read all about it.

OK it's about time to update the instrument section of this website to something that actually explains something about the instruments.
Dave and me were thinking of a couple of sections:
Instruments from scratch;
Instruments from altered stuff;
Instruments from software;
Instruments from instruments;

So take some pictures & write some text...

www.datasheetcatalog.com lets you search on funtionality as well as on part#!

Scientists drilled a hole in Siberia to place a microphone for earthquake detection. They found Hell. Here's a recording. A few souls escaped. So Hell is a very real place, and it did freeze over.

BOF, de luis in de pels van Donner. Newsletter in Dutch.
About BOF in English.

As a response to the new cybercrime laws (that can basically send to jail for a year for clicking a link that says don't click) the site of the dutch ministry of justice has been ddosed again. I think this is the exact thing to not do. Our minister Donner allowed stupid new copyright laws, and allows spam, except when the mails were send to drown a server. I think it's better to forward your spam to him, along with a question why he allows such spam to be sent. According to the dutch law, he sould answer that question, if I was informed correctly.

It's been a while since Dave posted here for the last time. Yeah... eversince he is logging at retecool.com he's nowhere near posting on this humble log....
Retecool is one of Holland's biggest weblogs. Mostly famous for the always (?) funny "photofuck friday", which was recently imitated by some lowlife weblog.
Dave posts under the name 'Behanger', don't ask, it's Dave's humour again.... :-)

This picture is from the booklet that came with a 3cd box I bought yesterday: 'Bits and Pieces/ems 30 years' (caprice CAP21471). It's a collection of pieces by various composers that have been working in the ems studios in Stockholm, Sweden. Some of it isn't very good, other stuff is amazing !!! Highly recommended: Ákos Rózmann's 'crypt with table and chairs' from 1990.
More about the EMS studios here.

Building on the past continues the discusion on sharing music sonographically. More here.