Submitted by Impertinent J:
Yes, I did say out loud and in public that one of my regrets this year was not doing full-blown deconstructions of "Mad Men," like I've done in the past with seasons of "The Sopranos" and "The Wire." The decision was purposeful - those things take a lot of work, after hours and in addition to all the other writing for the p (Read More)
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Submitted by Impertinent J:
Metallica has fans complaining about the extreme compression on their new record, which has destroyed any dynamic range it might have possessed and given it an overall distorted sound. Audio geeks . (Read More)
Submitted by Impertinent J:
Confession of faith and renunciation of evil - On February 1, 1996, I retired from the United States Army. I had served in the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam as an infantryman, the 82nd Airborne Division, the 4th Infantry Division, 2nd Ranger Battalion, the Jungle Operations Training Center, 1st Special Forces Operationa (Read More)
Submitted by Impertinent J:
Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file. The music, a 20-second clarinet solo, is encoded in less than a single kilobyte, and is made possible by two innovations: recreating in a computer both the real-world physics of a clarinet (Read More)
: The short version: A computer listens to an instrument being played, "infers" the human manipulations involved, and reproduces via software synthesis. Basically a much more sophisticated form of MIDI, no?
Submitted by Impertinent J:
Is this a new emerging genre -- spoofing holy roller church videos via inappropriate musical recontextualization?
Whatever the case, this one's hilarious.
Here's another example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pp7jnwtA9Q
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