Little bit loud

While eating breakfast a chopper flew over my house, but it kept getting louder & louder… So I went out to investigate and it was scoping out a landing spot… Then flew away and came back..

That Norfolk Pine is right in front of my house…
Excellent skills by the pilot – there wasn’t much wind but a few gusts came through & you could see the heli react. A neighbour shared a video from where they were unloading, and amazing to see the pilot manoeuvre the load into position, before landing it. The sound is so impressive – when it first flew over it shook my house!

The work they are doing is flood mitigation. There is a stream that runs down through the Bush Reserve which is usually a trickle. But in heavy rain it turns into a torrent as the catchment area is quite large and thats the only route for water. Twice in the past it has flooded, and downstream has flooded low lying houses. So they are first building three large debris nets, and then are rebuilding the path the stream follows, so it can cope without causing so much damage.

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New Project – Bamboo Forest

Might not look much at the moment… but about 5 years from now, these should be 3m tall and perfect for recording an ambience library called Bamboo Forest! I did the same with a crop of corn a year or two ago, although that was faster & tasty! Playing the long game… Also to add, these are ‘Wang Tsai’ species bamboo which is clumping and non-invasive.

 

 

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Baschet Book

This is a book that I have seen mentioned many times, but when I first went searching for a copy the only available copies were heinously expensive, like over US$200. Then I stumbled across this tri-language extended edition on Amazon (US$40 paperback and Kindle US$15) and ordered a copy, which arrived while I was away down South…

Table of contents screenshot from Amazon:

 

 

 

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Prop Shopping

Visited Overflow in Mayfield, my favourite junk store and scored some great sonic props!!

The biggest spring I’ve ever seen!! Would be 300mm diameter, 2 metres long & does laser klangs like a mofo!

35mm platter from a projector

70mm platter from a projector!

A couple of very large very resonant pots

A resonant tray, 2 egg cup springs and a big heavy old cowbell!

Good shopping!!

 

 

UPDATE:
Me & my Dad went for drive on Sunday, and we managed to call past Overflow for a quick second visit… And guess what? I bought a second large spring/auger! I thought buying the first one was already nuts as it is so large Its quite hard to fit in the car! But after playing with it a bit & thinking about its potential (bass shaker/contact mic effected loop with feedback) I just had to go back & get the second one…. They are both similar length – about 2 metres = 6.5 x 12″ vinyl/feet – a GIANT stereo spring reverb with cross feedback loops seems in my future!

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Detritus 705

 

 


▶ cued for the bang – 3000 Amp fuse pop = weird 80s snare verb IR?

 

 

▶ pffft foveated rendering

 

 

▶ Eastern philosophy says there is no “self.” Science agrees!?

 

 

▶ 20th Anniversary Processing Community Catalog

 

 

▶ Great to see some of the entries to Ars Electronica

▶ Rhizomatiks x ELEVENPLAY Multiplex
MIKIKO (JP), Daito Manabe (JP), Motoi Ishibashi (JP), Satoshi Horii (JP), Yuya Hanai (JP), ELEVENPLAY (JP), Rhizomatiks (JP)

 

 

▶ The AI feedback loop – “learning from data produced by other models causes model collapse — a degenerative process whereby, over time, models forget the true underlying data distribution … this process is inevitable, even for cases with almost ideal conditions for long-term learning.”

Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University and the University of Edinburgh, wrote in a blog post discussing the paper: “Just as we’ve strewn the oceans with plastic trash and filled the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, so we’re about to fill the Internet with blah. This will make it harder to train newer models by scraping the web, giving an advantage to firms which already did that, or which control access to human interfaces at scale. Indeed, we already see AI startups hammering the Internet Archive for training data.”

 

 

Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros – official trailer 2 from Capone Productions on Vimeo.

▶ Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros doco

 

 

▶ John Chowning podcast interview

 

 

 

 


▶ new Aphex Twin release inadvertently reminds us why #Spotifysucks

 

 

 

 

 

 

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