Ask HN: How do Hackers kill time when bored on weekend?

Re:Ask HN: How do Hackers kill time when bored on weekend? by travisjeffery on Sunday October 03, 2010 @08:21PM (#1754082)

I make electronic music: http://soundcloud.com/gau5/spotlight, and the usual stuff like hang out with friends, I love watching movies, doing mathematics and watching videos on creating music and other forms of art.

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Re:Ask HN: How do Hackers kill time when bored on weekend? by Dornkirk on Sunday October 03, 2010 @08:39PM (#1754111)

Curious if you had a music background or if, like the rest of us here, you're an engineer of some type (not sound engineer though) who got into music in spare time?

Just wondering because I'm a programmer who doesn't know anything about musical production or theory but has always entertained the idea of making ambient-style electronic music.

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Re:Ask HN: How do Hackers kill time when bored on weekend? by kroger on Sunday October 03, 2010 @10:04PM (#1754294)

You should go for it. Check out things like csound [1], puredata [2], chuck [3], and supercollider [4]. "Computer Music" by Charles Dodge is a classic book on computer music [5] (oldie but goodie)

[1] http://www.csounds.com

[2] http://puredata.info

[3] http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu

[4] http://supercollider.sourceforge.net

[5] http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Music-Synthesis-Composition-P...

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Re:Ask HN: How do Hackers kill time when bored on weekend? by travisjeffery on Sunday October 03, 2010 @10:09PM (#1754311)

My musical background before 5 months ago consisted of one lesson each of piano and guitar over 10 years ago and that's it, so basically nothing.

But I don't think people give enough credit to listening music a lot to develop your ears.

But in terms of your typical musical background, about 5 months ago I threw myself into reading music theory and sound engineering books like crazy whenever I could and have been hooked ever since.

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