▶ Imaginary Landscapes: The turntable as instrument
▶ What a great project: Tubechopper lets you chop up youtube videos on the fly, using a MIDI controller… examples on their insta account
▶ so… DJs be streaming now?
▶ managed to score an Analogue Systems FB3 Filterbank rack unit for very little, and found this Sound-on-Sound article about how Analogue Systems was started – I have a few of their modules in my modular synth too, including two of their RS-500E Synthi Filter clones, an RS-310 (nice ringy Reverb/Chorus) and an RS35 External Processor… But their actual providence was a mystery until that article, and this is fascinating – parallel histories: “Unbeknown to Bob Williams and Steve Gay (Analogue Systems) Dieter Döpfer had been thinking along the same lines as them in the early ’90s and, shortly before the AS Integrator, the Doepfer A100 appeared. Williams has been asked on numerous occasions whether a collaboration would have been sensible but, since neither party knew what the other was doing, the question didn’t arise” – hence the different psu and hole spacing….
▶ I thought I had a filter addiction, not compared to this collection
▶ Critical Making is a handmade book project by Garnet Hertz that explores how hands-on productive work ‐ making ‐ can supplement and extend critical reflection on technology and society…. Due to the large demand for this content, the entire collection is scanned and released here
via Monoskop
▶ When did apps become toxic weaponised evil?
Former Rackspace manager Rob La Gesse mentioned today:
“To make FaceApp actually work, you have to give it permissions to access your photos – ALL of them. But it also gains access to Siri and Search …. Oh, and it has access to refreshing in the background – so even when you are not using it, it is using you.”
so that FaceApp thing… now owns access to more than 150 million people’s faces and names!!
Their terms of use: “You grant FaceApp a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly HUMILIATE perform and display your User Content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your User Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed, without compensation to you.”
▶ Raymond Scotts iconic music machine re-imagined by Yuri Suzuki: Electronium Project
(for touchscreens?)