Fascinating how the eyes change, without changing…
▶ Also fascinating – Carney’s Checkmate: How Canada’s Quiet Bond Play Forced Trump to Drop Tariffs
Meanwhile… Drum Machine Price Before Tariffs: $399, After Tariffs: $977
▶ How an unused nuclear power plant became home to a world-class acoustics lab <- love to record IRs there!
▶ DinSync are showing their new NC-V8 Acoustic Lathe at SuperBooth ’25 – it uses a “gantry” design that sits across an existing high torque turntable, apparently “many so-called “superOEM” turntables with high torque Hanpin designed motors already exist in the market today.”
▶ This AudioX: Diffusion Transformer for Anything-to-Audio Generation is interesting only because the examples & demoes are so bad. One – genmerating music for a video, is kind of hilarious. Its pounding generic happy techno, as the onscreen text describes the protagonist witnessing his father “getting butchered… by the mob” lol. And the examples on audio in=painting with the start & end of a retro sounding siren slowly rising & then falling being infill painted with 2 or 3 completely different era tonally random sirens… One last bogus example – one of the nature videos with generated soundtrack had wind-on-mic noise! I had to stop there. Interest terminated.
▶ the genius
▶ bleak stuff: America used to fire the world’s imagination – but now the cultural conversation is being silenced
▶ NHK measuring the speed of sound, using a cymbal & people with flags!
▶ Interesting project to See the sound! and more here
▶ I’d love to see the full doco… It had some Kickstarter funding but got shut down during Covid…
▶ How brilliant – a web based patch editor for ASM Hydrasynth!
“Could you turn up the unagi please?”
▶ an interview with two fans of Steve Reich!
