Author: P. Ruston

UrMusic engages in a philosophy and science of music that considers style and genre a compounding of evolutionary, environmental, and cultural patterns of observation, evaluation, and imitation that obscure the dynamic, emergent properties of interactive gesture (body), acoustical space (environment), and neural entrainment (ear/mind).

Thousands of everyday sounds, organized using machine learning.
By Manny Tan & Kyle McDonald

Infinite Drum Machine

Infinite Drum Machine

Sounds are complex and vary widely. This experiment uses machine learning to organize thousands of everyday sounds. The computer wasn’t given any descriptions or tags – only the audio. Using a technique called t-SNE, the computer placed similar sounds closer together. You can use the map to explore neighborhoods of similar sounds and even make beats using the drum sequencer.

Built by Kyle McDonald, Manny Tan, Yotam Mann, and friends at Google Creative Lab. Thanks to the London Philharmonia for contributing some sounds to this project.

 

The Infinite Drum Machine

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Ahnert Festal Media Group (AFMG) real-time acoustic analysis and simulation

Ahnert Festal Media Group, Berlin, Germany (efmg.eu)

In cooperation with our partner company SDA Software Design Ahnert GmbH we develop and distribute software for

  • Electro-acoustic and room-acoustic modeling
  • Electronic and acoustic measurements
  • RF and infrared simulation
  • Event technology
  • Applications in engineering and physics
  • Software development and maintenance

Located in Berlin, Germany, AFMG is a worldwide leader in software for the pro-audio industry and has created the industry standards EASE and EASERA software for acoustic simulation and measurement as well as their related products EASE Focus, EASERA SysTune, EASE Address and EASE SpeakerLab.

from: http://www.afmg.eu/index.php/company.html (accessed 23 Nov 2016)

EASERA Software (pc)

Electronic and Acoustic System Evaluation and Response Analysis

EASERA is the unrivaled solution for electronic and acoustic analysis with industry standard quality and incredible flexibility and power.

EASERA consists of four logical parts:

  • Signal generator
  • Measurement
  • Real time analyser
  • Post processing

EASERA provides both data acquisition with a variety of stimulus signals including Time Delay Spectrometry, sweeps MLS or noise excitation signals and a post processing engine to calculate all acoustic functions or measures according to ISO Standard 3382 and higher.

The real time analyser provides multiple ways to perform a fast onsite analysis or to obtain a precise view of the surrounding acoustic environment.

Although many of these tools are available in one form or another in several products, EASERA is the first to bring them all together in one unified measuring package.

EASERA can be run on Microsoft Windows XP or higher and in conjunction with nearly every modern measurement interface.

from: http://www.afmg.eu/index.php/company.html (accessed 23 Nov 2016)

Source: Products – AFMG – Ahnert Feistel Media Group

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Richard Rorty, writing in the middle of the End of History, in ’98 already

From Samuel Vriezen Facebook post 14 Nov 2016.

Surprising bit that I saw quoted in a comment stream, by none other than postmodern pragmatist liberal philosopher Richard Rorty, writing in the middle of the End of History, in ’98 already:

“The old industrialized democracies…are heading into a Weimar-like period. Many members of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white-collar workers—themselves desperately afraid of being downsized—are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else.

At that point, something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for—someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots….
One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past forty years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion…. All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet.” [my emphasis].

(Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America, Harvard University Press, 1998)

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