Re: [fonc] One more year?!

2012-01-22 Thread Casey Ransberger
Below. On Jan 21, 2012, at 6:26 PM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote: like, for example, if a musician wanted to pursue various musical forms. say, for example: a dubstep backbeat combined with rap-style lyrics sung using a death-metal voice or similar, without the man (producers, ...)

Re: [fonc] One more year?!

2012-01-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 22 January 2012 21:26, Casey Ransberger casey.obrie...@gmail.com wrote: Below. On Jan 21, 2012, at 6:26 PM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote: like, for example, if a musician wanted to pursue various musical forms. say, for example: a dubstep backbeat combined with rap-style lyrics sung using

[fonc] Maru FFT demo

2012-01-22 Thread Alexis Read
I thought I'd have a play with Maru by trying to rerun the FFT example mentioned in the NSF report. I seem to be having a parsing problem when trying to eval the listed code. I'm running in the whole of boot.l before the FFT example ie. ./eval boot.l smallMaru.l The error is: eval.k: missing

Re: [fonc] One more year?!

2012-01-22 Thread Dion Stewart
Is there a hard line between science and art? I lean towards Richard Gabriel's and Kevin Sullivan's views on this one. How do artists and scientist work? The same. http://dreamsongs.com/Files/BetterScienceThroughArt.pdf How do artists and scientists work? The same On Jan 22, 2012, at 3:51

[fonc] misc: bytecode and level of abstraction

2012-01-22 Thread BGB
I don't know if this topic has probably been already beat to death, or is otherwise not very interesting or relevant here, but alas... it is a question though what is the ideal level of abstraction (and generality) in a VM. for example, LLVM is fairly low level (using a statically-typed

Re: [fonc] One more year?!

2012-01-22 Thread BGB
On 1/22/2012 5:30 PM, Dion Stewart wrote: Is there a hard line between science and art? I lean towards Richard Gabriel's and Kevin Sullivan's views on this one. How do artists and scientist work? The same. http://dreamsongs.com/Files/BetterScienceThroughArt.pdf I was actually going to

Re: [fonc] One more year?!

2012-01-22 Thread BGB
On 1/22/2012 5:11 PM, Julian Leviston wrote: On 23/01/2012, at 8:26 AM, Casey Ransberger wrote: Below. On Jan 21, 2012, at 6:26 PM, BGBcr88...@gmail.com wrote: like, for example, if a musician wanted to pursue various musical forms. say, for example: a dubstep backbeat combined with

Re: [fonc] One more year?!

2012-01-22 Thread Julian Leviston
On 23/01/2012, at 12:34 PM, BGB wrote: I was more giving it as an example of basically wanting to do one thing while being obligated (due to prior work) to do something very different. Yeah, sorry for diverging :) I actually realised that. say, if a musician (or scientist/programmer/...)

Re: [fonc] One more year?!

2012-01-22 Thread BGB
On 1/22/2012 7:16 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote: Below and mile off-topic... On Jan 22, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Julian Levistonjul...@leviston.net wrote: On 23/01/2012, at 8:26 AM, Casey Ransberger wrote: Below. On Jan 21, 2012, at 6:26 PM, BGBcr88...@gmail.com wrote: like, for example, if a

Re: [fonc] One more year?!

2012-01-22 Thread Julian Leviston
On 23/01/2012, at 2:30 PM, BGB wrote: little if anything in that area that generally makes me think dubstep though... (taken loosely enough, most gangsta-rap could be called dubstep if one turns the sub-woofer loud enough, but this is rather missing the point...). Listen to this song.

Re: [fonc] One more year?!

2012-01-22 Thread BGB
On 1/22/2012 8:57 PM, Julian Leviston wrote: On 23/01/2012, at 2:30 PM, BGB wrote: little if anything in that area that generally makes me think dubstep though... (taken loosely enough, most gangsta-rap could be called dubstep if one turns the sub-woofer loud enough, but this is rather

Re: [fonc] One more year?!

2012-01-22 Thread Julian Leviston
On 23/01/2012, at 4:17 PM, BGB wrote: as opposed to either manually placing samples on a timeline (like in Audacity or similar), or the stream of note-on/note-off pulses and delays used by MIDI, an alternate idea comes up: one has a number of delayed relative events, which are in-turn