MachineMachine /stream - tagged with audio http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Quality music/cinema receiver driving at least 130w for cheap? http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/214782 I need a new amplifier/receiver for music and TV/home-cinema. I've looked at the Onkyo "network" range, especially entry level around £350-£400, but I am sure I could get my hands on an amp from a few years ago with all the features I desire, and save a bundle. I'd really appreciate your advice. I have a pair of Polk Audio RT 400 speakers (8 ohms, 20-150W). Ideally, I'd like an amp/receiver that drove these at close to full potential, around 130w would do.

Absolutely minimum features I require of an amp/receiver:

- around 130-150w for first pair… ]]> Tue, 08 May 2012 06:15:09 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/214782 The Sound of the Internet http://www.themorningnews.org/article/the-sound-of-the-internet?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20TheMorningNews/features%20(The%20Morning%20News) If the internet makes a sound (and it does), are you listening? Our correspondent uses software to transform the digital ephemera of web browsing—from network traffic to JavaScript, browser histories to JPGs—into music. ]]> Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:44:48 -0700 http://www.themorningnews.org/article/the-sound-of-the-internet?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20TheMorningNews/features%20(The%20Morning%20News) Philip K. Dick : To the best of our KNOWLEDGE http://ttbook.org/book/philip-k-dick/philip-k-dick-to-the-best-of-our-knowledge “I wanted to write books exactly like the ones he didn't live long enough to write.” Lethem on Philip K Dick http://t.co/m3Y9WkpT ]]> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 02:35:20 -0700 http://ttbook.org/book/philip-k-dick/philip-k-dick-to-the-best-of-our-knowledge The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis http://tumblr.hrmtc.com/post/18676799423/the-exegesis-of-philip-k-dick-with-erik-davis/the-hermetic-library-tumblr-the-exegesis-of-philip-k-dick-with-erik-davis The Exegesis of Philip K Dick with Erik Davis - You might be interested in the episode “The Exegesis of... http://t.co/Uc7VEs5f ]]> Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:05:19 -0700 http://tumblr.hrmtc.com/post/18676799423/the-exegesis-of-philip-k-dick-with-erik-davis/the-hermetic-library-tumblr-the-exegesis-of-philip-k-dick-with-erik-davis GlitchWiki http://gli.tc/h/wiki/index.php/Main_Page This is the research wiki-webring for Glitch and other glitch/noise related content GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago & Amsterdam from September 29 thru October 03, 2010! GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists, hackers, moshers, dirty mediators, noise makers, circuit benders, p/h/i/l/o/s/o/p/h/e/r/s, and those who find wonder in that which others call broken.
GLI.TC/H seeks: Realtime + time-based performances (audio/video), utilizing broken/bent technologies/strategies. Workshops, sharing knowledge of hardware/software hacking, cracking, breaking, kludging, piracy, & tool building. Artworks and Projects, artware, videos, games, films, tapes, code, interventions, screen-captures, systems, websites… ]]> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:59:07 -0700 http://gli.tc/h/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Jon Ronson On… Voices in the Head http://huffduffer.com/jshield/40206 Eleanor Longden started to hear voices in her head when she was at university and was diagnosed as a schizophrenic - a label she totally rejects. Now she is a high achieving academic. What started the voices and how did she get to a point where she not only lives happily with the voices that still exist but also works with others who have the same experience? With contributions from writer Graham Linehan and comedian Josie Long. ]]> Sun, 01 May 2011 11:43:38 -0700 http://huffduffer.com/jshield/40206 Analogue artists defying the digital age http://guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/apr/24/mavericks-defying-digital-age Dusty vinyl records, vintage film cameras, rickety typewriters and antiquated recording equipment … these are the creative tools being used by some emerging artists. Pure nostalgia? Or a laudable refusal to escape the speed and sanitised perfection of contemporary digital culture? ]]> Sun, 24 Apr 2011 06:39:12 -0700 http://guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/apr/24/mavericks-defying-digital-age Connecting Science and Art: A Conversation http://www.npr.org/2011/04/08/135241869/connecting-science-and-art?sc=emaf Science and art often seem to develop in separate silos, but many thinkers are inspired by both. Novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration for art and Herzog's new film on the earliest known cave paintings. ]]> Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:31:07 -0700 http://www.npr.org/2011/04/08/135241869/connecting-science-and-art?sc=emaf Errors in Things and “The Friendly Medium” http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/errors-in-things-and-the-friendly-medium

What is it about a particular media that makes it successful? Drawing a mini history from printing-press smudges to digital compression artefacts this lecture considers the value of error, chance and adaptation in contemporary media. Biological evolution unfolds through error, noise and mistake. Perhaps if we want to maximise the potential of media, of digital text and compressed file formats, we first need to determine their inherent redundancy. Or, more profoundly, to… ]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:39:59 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/errors-in-things-and-the-friendly-medium Open Media (lecture series schedule) http://coventryopenmedia.wordpress.com/schedule/ The concept of openness is often employed as part of a radical critique of the closed-off worlds of what might be called ‘traditional media’. It is variously used to urge for the right to transparency, the ethics of sharing, the value of re-use and the benefits of connecting.

This series of research seminars will explore various aspects of openness. Special attention will be given to the benefits and drawbacks of openness, and to the many possibilities openness offers for the future of media production, use and critique. ]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:54:36 -0700 http://coventryopenmedia.wordpress.com/schedule/ Alvin Lucier: I am Sitting in a Room http://www.ubu.com/sound/lucier.html "I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any sem- blance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physi- cal fact, but more as a way to smooth… ]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:48:11 -0700 http://www.ubu.com/sound/lucier.html UBUWeb Sound - DJ Food: Raiding the 20th Century http://ubu.clc.wvu.edu/sound/dj_food.html "On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original 'Raiding The 20th Century' on XFM's 'The Remix' show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of cut up music - be it avant garde tape manipulation, turntable megamixes or bastard pop mash ups. It rapidly spread throughout the web and managed to cause a full scale server crash on boomselection.info when they hosted it due to the volume of net traffic.

Shortly afterwards he read Paul Morley's recently published book 'Words & Music' and was amazed that certain chapters mirrored parts of… ]]> Sat, 06 Nov 2010 18:07:00 -0700 http://ubu.clc.wvu.edu/sound/dj_food.html The Endpoint of All Gravity Is the Grave (Triple Canopy podcast) http://canopycanopycanopy.com/static/0000/2985/The_Endpoint_of_All_Gravity_Is_the_Grave.mp3 On July 29, as part of its Sender, Carrier, Receiver program, Triple Canopy presented a briefing on the activities of the International Necronautical Society's Berlin Inspectorate at Program. As heard in this unofficial recording, Provan, Triple Canopy's editor, and Yamamoto-Masson disputed the INS's claim that Berlin is the World Capital of Death, and discussed attempts by its members—chief among them writer Tom McCarthy, artist Anthony Auerbach, and philosopher Simon Critchley—to surreptitiously recruit agents and take over major cultural landmarks. Click here to read the draft copy of their internal report, and here to listen to a file of covert INS… ]]> Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:35:00 -0700 http://canopycanopycanopy.com/static/0000/2985/The_Endpoint_of_All_Gravity_Is_the_Grave.mp3 Porn for the Blind http://pornfortheblind.org/ Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge. ]]> Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:27:00 -0700 http://pornfortheblind.org/ Radio Open Source » The Ecstasy of Influence http://www.radioopensource.org/the-ecstasy-of-influence/ We can’t stop talking about Jonathan Lethem’s essay in this month’s Harper’s. If you haven’t read it, you really should. Nothing that follows in this post will be nearly as interesting. Go ahead. And this post will still be here when you return. You know you want to.
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Nearly every word of this essay about cultural borrowing and reworking was stolen — er, appropriated — from some other source and then cobbled together with a big dose of Lethem magic to form a cohesive whole. Even the “I”s… ]]> Sat, 29 May 2010 02:01:00 -0700 http://www.radioopensource.org/the-ecstasy-of-influence/ On The Media: Transcript of "Panoramic View" http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/04/16/07 Writer Dave Eggers’ publishing house, McSweeney’s, recently released a one-off newspaper called Panorama. The 328-page paper was meant as a celebration of the print form and a demonstration of why newspapers are still uniquely relevant in the digital era. Brooke interviewed Dave live onstage in Washington DC, and asked him about the future of print. ]]> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:42:00 -0700 http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/04/16/07 'It's time to let you hear the song which earned me a juvenile restraining order' http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/apr/07/andrew-wk-juvenile-restraining-order Aged 17, I set about writing a song for a girl I was obsessed with. When she heard it, she called the police. Have a listen – you'll understand why.

I've never let anyone hear this song before. I'm deeply humiliated and embarrassed at the thought of anyone hearing it. This is probably the most intense and personal song I've ever recorded – it's called My Destiny and it was written and recorded when I was 17. I shouldn't do this.

I was in high school in the 1990s, in a town called… ]]> Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:34:00 -0700 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/apr/07/andrew-wk-juvenile-restraining-order "the peace tape" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLHOeCK3QBI&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:55:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLHOeCK3QBI&feature=youtube_gdata Acoustic Prosthesis http://www.flickr.com/photos/huge-entity/4193989886/

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Acoustic Prosthesis

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Acoustic Prosthesis

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