Category Archives: English

Processing VJ application

I wanted to have some sort of visuals going on for my next gig (which will be detroit-like techno improvisation and maybe chillout-dub stuff at this party), searched a bit on the net and found all those beautiful processing sketches, … Continue reading →

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CDR release: felinophoria

. I put my first CDR online at wesen.saugt.net. It’s called felinophoria and features tracks I’ve made over the past six months, though most are from the last 3 weeks. You can also send me an email to order the … Continue reading →

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Building OpenLaszlo applications using Common Lisp

I have to gotten myself a small university job where I have to build a web application using OpenLaszlo (http://openlaszlo.org/). OpenLaszlo is a programming language / development framework to build web applications based on javascript and XML. Actually it is … Continue reading →

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USB MIDI Controller

I use Ableton live a lot to jam and to DJ, and using the mouse to control all the parameters got in the way quite often. You can’t select a scene and turn a knob at the same time, switching … Continue reading →

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Schluerf – Mixit40 Breakfast Song

After trying for two or three days to produce a nice dnb track using the mixit40 samples, I noticed I didn’t really get anywhere. I had some nice breaks, but somehow I couldn’t manage to produce some nice nasty bass … Continue reading →

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Acryl – Mixit 40 entry on em411.com

While surfing the web to find electronic music producing related websites, I stumbled upon em411.com, which is an extremely cool website for producers. The websites hosts a web forum, as well as user pages with their releases. Every month, a … Continue reading →

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The Web – Malen nach Zahlen Dub

I wonder if there is a blog somewhere which analyzes electronic music in the same way that classical music gets analyzed. Taking the track apart, naming the effects used, analyzing the structure, the way the tension is built up, questioning … Continue reading →

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Algorithmic movie editing in Lisp

Algorithmic art While composing music for a movie by a friend, I took a closer look at how he was editing the raw movie material. He was working with what I’ll be calling “effects”, for example movie fluttering, where a … Continue reading →

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iPod-surgery

I was a pretty early user of the ipod, and have used a first-generation ipod for quite a long while. As I am pretty rough when it comes to hardware, I had to change my first model eight times (!), … Continue reading →

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RFSID – play C64 SIDs with an RFID reader

Dividuum, my flat-mate, has built a very cool RFID application. He stores SID-files (SID is the music format for the C64) on RFID tags. When you put such a tag near to the reader, the music is played on the … Continue reading →

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