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Re:Max/MSP: A visual programming language for music and multimedia on Monday February 17, 2020 @01:39PM (#22349548)

If you're in SF in march and interested in Max/MSP, my conf/music festival, Algorithmic Art Assembly, has a workshop on Creating Digital Instruments with Max/MSP - https://aaassembly.org/workshops/ (conf also features Miller Puckette, Curtis Roads and many more!)

Algorithic Art Assembly, 2020, San Francisco, March 27/28th

Posted by sideb0ard on Saturday January 11, 2020 @01:59PM
from the self-post dept.

putting on a second edition of Algorithmic Art Assembly https://grayarea.org/event/algorithmic-art-assembly-2020/which will feature amongst others:Ross Goodwin, behind the machine learning generated script for the short film Sunspring - "filmmaker Oscar Sharp turned to his technologist collaborator Ross Goodwin to build a machine that could write screenplays. They created "Jetson" and fueled...

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Re:Ask HN: What are more books like “Masters of Doom” or “Showstoppers”? on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @11:07AM (#21981247)

All good recs so far. Here's a few I haven't seen mentioned yet -

Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983 - Severo Ornstein

Early British Computers - Simon Lavington

Geeks Bearing Gifts - Ted Nelson (and also Computer Lib/Dream Machines)

more recently - UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan

Re:Australians making music with computer code on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:34PM (#20502065)

Here's a couple I'd recommend from AAAssembly -

Kindohm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiEq_h5UQJM Renick Bell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pks_BSqHB0 Algobabez - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GTN8ELL75g Sebastian Camens - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu4dHW04W9Y

Re:Australians making music with computer code on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:31PM (#20502042)

Charlie Roberts live at Algorithmic Art Assembly - super good stuff! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnqS8hQVhXA&t=7s

Re:The Monkey Programming Language on Monday June 03, 2019 @04:56PM (#20088659)

currently working my way through this book, and implementing it in C++ - very good book! I'm really enjoying it.

Re:Widening Russia Money Laundering Scandal Hits European Banks on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @10:36AM (#19311170)

Brian Michael Bendis already did - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheUnitedSt...

Re:Hydra – Live Coding Networked Visuals on Monday February 25, 2019 @03:09PM (#19248933)

Olivia Jack will be presenting a talk on Hydra and doing live coded visuals at https://aaassembly.org/ in San Francisco, March 22nd

Re:Show HN: Algorithmic Art Assembly, San Francisco March 22-23rd 2019 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:42PM (#18985264)

Yeah, the Friday workshop is women and non-binary only. TidalCycles, the Saturday workshop, actually uses SuperCollider as the sound synthesis engine however.

Show HN: Algorithmic Art Assembly, San Francisco March 22-23rd 2019

Posted by sideb0ard on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:28PM
from the show-hn dept.

Very much inspired by the Algorave scene, and after taking part in a live coding conference in the UK last year, I'm hosting a two day conference and music festival in San Francisco called 'Algorithmic Art Assembly'https://aaassembly.org/Algorithmic Art Assembly is a brand new two day conference and music festival, showcasing a diverse range of artists who are using algorithmic tools and...

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Re:The Roots of Techno (1994) on Sunday September 23, 2018 @11:53AM (#18051610)

the Juan Atkins album from that piece is still sounding super fresh - https://randsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-sunset

Re:Making Audio Plugins (2015) on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @06:02PM (#14852282)

great, thanks! I've been using Will Pirkle's books, which are really good, to learn how to build a synth and make audio effects (http://www.willpirkle.com/). Nice to have a second resource to compare against.

Re:C++ confessions of a C developer on Saturday December 03, 2016 @10:39PM (#13098682)

They have a channel here, looks like they're still in the process of uploading the talks - https://www.youtube.com/user/MeetingCPP/videos

Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk? on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @04:44PM (#12639308)

I love the Ted Nelson "Computers For Cynics" series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk

He is kinda awesome in Herzog's recent 'Lo and Behold' too.

Re:Ask PG/HN: Recommended reading on the history of technology on Sunday December 29, 2013 @11:52AM (#6980155)

Howard Rheingold's 'Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology' - covers George Boole, Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, John Von Neumann

Jon Gernter's 'The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation' - very cool story about the formation of Bell Labs and covers the Transistor, Satellite comms, the laser, and a ton of other stuff up till, but not disappointingly not including Unix.

John Markoff's 'What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry' - what is says!

Ted Nelson's 'Geeks Bearing Gifts' (or any of his YouTube Computers For Cynics videos) - awesome, curmudgeonly alternative (but accurate) version of computer history.

Michael A. Hiltzik's 'Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age' - as someone else mentioned, really great history