Detritus 46

> I needed this recently when working out how to shoot stop motion to a tempo – an online calculator for Time, Midi and Sample Delay! I’ve also been trying this free Music Maths app

 

> Merging your iPad and your typewriter (thanks Tom!) – I would have laughed this off but I recently saw some great archival footage of one of New Zealands great (sadly deceased) historians, writing using a typewriter and I was transfixed watching & hearing the rhythm of his thoughts being converted to words via his typewriter…

 

> I’ve always been a chronic pen-tapper – its where some of my best beats come from – but I caught myself the other day thinking: ‘what tempo am I tapping at?” Lo & behold, there’s an iPhone app for that! Beat Detektor listens & tells you (works great on iPad – I was just tapping now at 141bpm!)

 

> Ah so! Solar powered sound art – what a truly lovely idea! via @disquiet

 

 

> Music on the Mind – Psychology Today

 

NKD: Are sound patterns recognized innately, or are they learned?

NMW: Neurons learn to prioritize some sounds. When a tone becomes important–because it signals food, for instance–the cells’ response to that tone increases. This finding revolutionized thinking about brain organization by showing that learning is not a “higher” brain function but rather one that occurs in the sensory systems themselves.

 

> assembling the tools for LIB 4 at HISSandaROAR – my first polyphonic library!

 

 

> Also HISSandaROAR related: two weeks until THE DOORS upload deadline!