Upcoming Events
Animal Collective performing at Club Firestone on June 10th, 2009. Show is now listed as “sold out”. Guess I should have bought tickets in advance.
Ableton Live @ Full Sail University
June 3, 2009: Special Ableton Live event at Full Sail University
“Come to a very special presentation of Live 8 at Full Sail University by Ableton's lead clinician and US product specialist, Huston Singletary. Huston will be presenting Ableton Live 8 at Full Sail University on June 3, 2009. Apart from giving those in attendance an overview of Ableton Live's unique creative workflow, he will introduce Live 8's exciting new features, including its new elastic audio and warp marker enhancements, the Live 8 groove pool, Ableton's new devices, and Ableton Suite 8's new instruments. Huston will also be talking about Ableton's new online collaboration feature and demo a prototype of the highly anticipated built-for-Live controller, the Akai Professional APC40.”
When:
June 3rd, 2009, 6:00 PM
Where:
Full Sail University
3300 University Boulevard
Winter Park, FL 32792
Cost:
Free!
RSVP: Please send an e-mail to workshops@ableton.com with the subject: "Full Sail Workshop on June 3, 2009"
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ableton.com/fullsail-university?i=nl267
Lost Designs
Upcoming Events
At The Social
(Orlando, Florida USA)May 25, 2009
Isis plus guests Pelican, Tombs
Doors at 8:00PM, $12.00 advance / $14.00 day of show, 18 and up.
“The music of ISIS is a suitable metaphor for their 12-year career: patient, meticulous, fraught with tensionand gradually building towards an apex of seismic proportions. From the hypnotically bludgeoning down-tuned riffs of their early years to the gracefully sprawling passages on their pivotal sophomore album Oceanic and continuing through the intricate rhythmic textures and increased melody of 2006's In The Absence of Truth, ISIS have successfully navigated the process of growing and evolving without disavowing their initial vision.” -- www.thesocial.org
May 26, 2009
Phat N’ Jazzy Presents Mr. Lif plus guest Metro(Of SA Smash) Statik, Grieves - plus guests.
Doors at 9:00PM, $12.00, 18 and up.
May 27, 2009
RECess(ion)
A Second Subject Recordings Label Showcase and CD Release Party with AmIAm, Kaleigh Baker, Beef Wellington & DiViNCi, S.K.I.P., Adeem
Doors at 9:00PM, $7.00, 18 and up.
New Music
Seefeel remixes “Chain”, as “Face To Face On High Places” gets the remix by Jesu.
PASSION PIT “Manners” [Frenchkiss Records]
Michael Angelakos releases his the first album for Frenchkiss Records. Passion Pit are off to a good start with Chris Zane (Les Savy Fav, Walkmen) as Producer. Visit the Frenchkiss site to read the bio.
GRIZZLY BEAR “Two Weeks” [Warp]
Veckatimest (LP), will be released on May 24, 2009. The songs, Two Weeks and Cheerleader has me convinced it was worth pre-ordering from iTunes. Peep the cover art >
Wolfram|Alpha
“As of now, Wolfram|Alpha contains 10+ trillion of pieces of data, 50,000+ types of algorithms and models, and linguistic capabilities for 1000+ domains. Built with Mathematica—which is itself the result of more than 20 years of development at Wolfram Research—Wolfram|Alpha's core code base now exceeds 5 million lines of symbolic Mathematica code. Running on supercomputer-class compute clusters, Wolfram|Alpha makes extensive use of the latest generation of web and parallel computing technologies, including webMathematica and gridMathematica.” -- Wolfram|Alpha website.
I ran a few of the samples and created my own searches (after reading the FAQs). In my example, I typed in the search box, “internet users in USA”. Within a second, the knowledge engine returned results. See figure below.
United States had 223 million Internet users (2008 estimate). United Kingdom had 40.2 million (2007) and Japan had 88.11 million people. Wolfram|Alpha provides downloadable PDFs (but most of the time I use ‘Save As PDF’ in Safari’s Print command).
Here’s another Wolfram|Alpha example. Type musical notes in the search box; I typed, “CEGBbDF#A”. WolframAlpha interpreted my input as musical notes. Notation with a link to play the audio was provided and a keyboard image with tone distances was displayed.
Type, “time in Tokyo” into the search box and press Enter key. Wolfram figured out my location and showed the time differences (Tokyo vs Orlando). Try typing “On The Road, Naked Lunch” in the search box. You can find out the publishing date and publisher name for both, simultaneously.
Very cool. My one suggestion so far: design the site to not appear like other ‘familiar’ search engines, but ensure that it retains the usability.
Wired Magazine’s EPICENTER article by Ryan Singel claims, “Wolfram|Alpha Fails the Cool Test”. In his example Singel inputs “swiss beatz”. Was that the best he could come up with? Mr. Singel continues, “Wolfram|Alpha doesn’t do a single one of those better than Google does. In fact, there’s not one on the top 100 it does better than Google. Granted this is a skewed sample of pop culture-driven searches, but as a search engine you have to at least try.”.
An online reader writes (in the voice of complainers), “my calculator can’t spell any of the most popular words in the dictionary”.
Wired’s EPICENTER - Comment Posts :
Posted by: CoachRey | 05/18/09 | 9:24 pm
I’m not impressed with Wolfram|Alpha, maybe we made too much hype. I Wolframmed my own name, Chuck Rey (doesn’t that sound a bit hedonistic?), and “Wolfram|Alpha isn’t sure what to do with your input.” Makes me feel special I’ll stick with Google.
Posted by: Tareq | 05/19/09 | 1:35 am
Wolfram|Alpha failed in the very beginning. it does not know about ASIF ALI ZARDARI (or Zardari only),president of Pakistan,(husband of Benazir Bhutto).Wolfram|Alpha has no knowledge about world famous Cricketers.Indian opposition party BJP is not its cup of tea. it is not sure what to do with search term JANG,the Urdu language top newspaper. Sorry dave i am going back to google.
Posted by: papadoc80 | 05/18/09 | 9:34 pm
I do not think Wolfram is promoting it as search engine, its more of a “knowledge engine”. I am sure it will be of immense use to educators. Its financial search for example is amazing, much more detailed than what you would find on google and yahoo finance. Of course it has its drawbacks on it being “cool” but I think its a different direction.
Posted by: Tueksta | 05/19/09 | 6:45 am
worst wired-article in a long time. stop thinking of wolfram alpha as a search engine, stop comparing an alpha product at its first day with a product has been dominating its market for years, and stop having completely wrong expectations, only because it looks like a search engine.
Posted by: quailburger | 05/19/09 | 10:30 am
Isn’t saying
“if you look at the top 100 rising searches on Google via Google Trends…Wolfram|Alpha doesn’t do a single one of those better than Google does”
a bit like saying
“my calculator cant spell any of the most popular words in the dictionary”
Surely you’re comparing different things. Personally I’m impressed with what Wolfram|Alpha can do at such an early stage of development.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/05/wolframalpha-fails-the-cool-test/
Handmade Electronic Music
Handmade Electronic Music
The Art of Hardware Hacking
By Nicolas Collins
ISBN: 978-0-415-99873-4
Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
Published by: Routledge
Publication Date: 13th April 2009
Pages: 360
May Playlist
Melodium "Cerebro Spin"
Fleet Foxes "Mykonos"
O.Lamm "Open Malice"
Passion Pit "Manners"
Grizzly Bear “Two Weeks”
Deerhunter “Rainwater Cassette Exchange”
Icy Demons "Miami Ice"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Zero (RAC Remix)"
Ape School "Wail to God"
Voices of Conquest "O Yes My Lord"
Ben Benjamin "Vol 1.5"
Prefuse 73 "Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian"
Diamond Watch Wrists "Ice Capped At Both Ends"
Sparklehorse & Danger Mouse "Dark Night of the Soul"
The Decemberists "The Hazards of Love"
TV On The Radio “Dancing Choose (Prefuse 73 Remix)”
Liquid Liquid “Push”
Minotaur Shock “Zookeeper”
*Note: listed in no particular order
Dark Night of the Soul
“An unnamed spokesperson for Danger Mouse says that "due to an ongoing dispute with EMI "the book of photographs will "now come with a blank, recordable CD-R. All copies will be clearly labeled: 'For legal reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.” ”
Diamond Watch Wrists
Prefuse 73 releases his third album this year under the collaborative name, Diamond Watch Wrists. 
First Sale
President Obama reportedly gave an iPod, loaded with 40 show tunes, to England's Queen Elizabeth II as a gift. Did he violate the law when he did so?You know your copyright laws are broken when there is no easy answer to this question.Traditionally, it has been the job of the "first sale" doctrine to enable gift giving -- that's the provision of copyright law that entitles the owner of a CD, book, or other copyrighted work, to give it away (or resell it, for that matter), notwithstanding the copyright owner's exclusive right of distribution.In the digital era, however, first sale has been under siege, with copyright owners (and even the Copyright Office) arguing that it has no place in a world where "ownership" has been replaced by "licenses" and hand-to-hand exchanges have been replaced by computer-mediated exchanges that necessarily make copies. But it's precisely because first sale is central to everyday activities like giving an iPod to a friend, selling a used CD on eBay, or borrowing a DVD from a library, that EFF and others have been fighting for it in case after case.
The President sides with the RIAA on file sharing lawsuits which allows fines to range from $750 to $150,000 per song. Read article: Threat Level. In a related report, President Obama continues to fill the Justice Department with lawyers from the RIAA. Read article: Threat Level.
Search Help
ChairmanHao.com Search Help:
Pressing the search-icon a second-time will close search box. Using the x - button inside the text-box will clear text, and does not close search box. Press ENTER key, after typing a keyword search for Web-site.
Remix (Free)
Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig is available for download at Bloomsbury Academic. http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/remix.htm
The “copyright wars” have lead many to believe that the choice we face is all or nothing. Either Hollywood will win or “the Net” will win. Either we’re about to lose something important that we’ve been, or we’re going to kill something valuable that we could be. Whoever wins, the other must lose.This simple framing creates a profound confusion. For there to need be no trade-off between the past and the future. Instead, all the evidence promises an extraordinary synthesis of the past and the present to create a phenomenally more prosperous future. This future need not be either less RO (read-only) or more RW (read-write): it could be both. And much more interesting (to those focused on the economy, at least), this future could see the emergence of a form of economic enterprise that has been relatively rare in our past, but that promises extraordinary economic opportunity: what I call the “hybrid.” -- Lawrence Lessig (Chapter 2 “Cultures Of Our Future”).