wolog.netwolog.net - LiveJournal.comMusical tuning: visuals from the lecture.- May 24, 2008 The lecture went well! I had a good, engaged audience a little over a dozen people, i think and they put up with the multiple glitches in my presentation software. I wrote the software to do these animations using Pyglet, a multimedia library for Python. Here's a condensed version of the first part of the lecture. It isn't quite the same without the audio we could play the notes depicted on these slides, to hear the intervals we were talking about. But i'll try to explain the ideas in..http://zestyping.livejournal.com/240815.html Musical tuning: in the Kingman Lecture Series.- May 22, 2008 I'm giving a lecture at Kingman tonight at 8 pm on musical tuning systems. Ever wondered:...why there are 12 notes in an octave...why there are 7 notes in a major scale...why they have the pitches they have...what pitches the Ancient Greeks used...what notes make a scale in Arabic music...what music in a 13-note scale sounds likeCome and find out.http://zestyping.livejournal.com/240589.html Imitating greatness.- May 18, 2008 Consider this a sincere form of flattery, then. Conversations These Days (The backstory: a friend of mine complained to me about how her dad doesn't answer her questions anymore; when she asks him something, he just tells her to look it up on Wikipedia. The trueness of this comment as applied to life in general made me think, this is the perfect kind of thing for an xkcd... so i decided to draw one.)http://zestyping.livejournal.com/240252.html Thank you.- May 5, 2008 If you have ever loved or cared for me, i would like to say thank you. I realized i wanted to say this a little while ago, when i was cleaning up my room and came across some of the letters and notes i've received from people who were close to me. They reminded me how incredibly lucky i've been.You know who you are, and i'm grateful to you, even if we've fallen out of touch or out of favour with each other since then. Being cared for by you was and is a privilege. It has helped to make me...http://zestyping.livejournal.com/239879.html |