Author Archives: iriXx

pertin-nce 031 – things are bad in haiti

My track ‘enigmatic xii – beacons’ is included in the latest pertin-nce net label release ‘things are bad in haiti’. Label owner Maxime Tanguay’s family were directly affected by the earthquake:
Hey all!
As some of you know, our label has a special connection to the earthquake ravaged country of Haiti – so in the tradition of [...]

A redhead for my Zoom

Just got my Redhead windscreen in the post yesterday for my Zoom H4 which has made a vast improvement on the quality of my outdoors recordings.
I always liked the quality of sound from my H4, but was getting frustrated by mic bump due to the Zoom-supplied shield which was just a basic piece of [...]

New Music Haitian Relief

Glenn Weyant and composers from Net New Music and ImprovFriday have joined to donate works towards a CD of new compositions.
One hundred percent of the proceeds from the sale of these tracks will go
to support www.foodforthepoor.org, a 4 Star Charity which according to Charity Navigator has 96% of their funds going to directly to buying [...]

RadioPlateaux: Public and Private

As an ongoing investigation into the function and the practice of publicness radioplateaux asked artists to respond to the concept of publicness as art practice. In a broad paper composed in 2006/7 radioplateaux artists describe the practice of publicnes as one that may be “a revolutionary everyday practice”. We claimed that publicness may open ones [...]

eleison

“they promised liberty, they promised freedom, but they themselves are slaves”
My first piece in… too long. Available on sendspace for download – see my Music page.

Please don’t make me tweet!

I recently attended the annual conference of one of our major content management system vendors, which for the most part was very enjoyable and quite inspiring.
Until we were asked to contribute our questions by Twitter.
I took a look around the room. Very few people seemed to have brought a laptop or netbook, a few started [...]

Franck Vigroux – Live turntablism

Awesome. Really worth watching in HD.

My newest time-waster

I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time playing with the healthBase beta, which claims to be NetBase’s ‘research solution for healthcare’, since reading this forum entry on TheDailyWtf.com.
Described as ‘when semantic extraction goes horribly wrong’… these are the results of a disastrously untested search engine being let loose on the net… and screenshots of howlers [...]

Software patenting

Sometimes it actually works in favour of the good guys…
Just occasionally I come across a story that turns my world view upside down. We’ve become accustomed to the horror stories of large corporations using and misusing software patents to swallow up small business and buy out rights to alleged infringing programs.
Australian entrepreneur Ray Richardson’s [...]

Anti-Piracy FAIL

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