Republic of Nynex

Sorry for this horrible thing

mkb — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:01:27 +0000

This will be available as a website once I make it not awful in terms of performance. You’re welcome.

A product of the Rethink Music Hackers’ Weekend

Disquiet Junto 10 Entry – Anaphase

mkb — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:10:54 +0000

The Disquiet Junto is a weekly music challenge. The organizer gives out a small choice of samples which must be the only sound source for a composition on Thursday. By Monday local time, you must have your composition recorded and uploaded to SoundCloud.

Here’s my entry for this week’s competition:

iTunes Scores

mkb — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:17:09 +0000

I got an old iPhone to replace my lost iPod nano. I traded homebrew for it! Little did I know that iPhones can’t shuffle by album, which is my preferred way to listen to music. So, I decided to finally write this dumb little Perl script to make one giant playlist that only contains whole albums, sorted roughly in order of least recently played, with albums of higher rating moving up to the top more quickly. You need the Mac::iTunes::Library module from CPAN. The script actually writes out an AppleScript that you can put into a file and run, or pipe to osascript, or just stare at confusedly.

There is also a script to locate likely compilations that don’t have the compilation flag or album artist set, which confuses the scoring and scatters a compilation’s tracks all over the place.

The “mixes” part is very specific to my library, but it won’t hurt anything.

Anyway, here it is on github.

Music Hack Day

mkb — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:37:41 +0000

This weekend I took part in Boston Music Hack Day and helped create this. It will only work in Chrome or nightly builds of Safari. Bring an umbrella.

Project intro – mkfseq

mkb — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:42:26 +0000

The Yamaha FS1r was a little known synthesizer based on the technique of formant-shaping. This little thing suffered a lack of attention paid to its interface: a tiny LCD panel makes it really hard to tweak the very large number of parameters in a program, and the software editors have never really been up to snuff.

A huge oversight was the lack of any capacity whatsoever to edit formant sequences, which are the fancy filters that make the FS1r “talk”. Several enterprising individuals have tried to remedy this. Zach Archer wrote a Flash application that will analyze an audio file and create a formant sequence based on it. On a lark I have decided to port this application to Go. This project in fact was what spawned gosndfile.

Project GitHub. mkfseq will eventually be part of my master plan to use a genetic algorithm to make weird FS1r programs.

Project Intro – gosndfile

mkb — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:17:34 +0000

I’m retooling this site because I botched my Chyrp install and honestly I didn’t like it that much.

gosndfile is a libsndfile binding for go. It supports nearly every command in the library. You may clone the git repository and build it from GitHub.