Listening to Pan-American – "Cloud Room, Glass Room"

2019-06-23 AM

This artist is consistent in delivering music for thought and concentration. Really enjoying the latest album.

URLs "p1" 20190622 – scientific papers, podcasts, tube channels, etc.

2019-06-23 AM

I am an avid WWW surfer, with hundreds of websites visited each month, sometimes daily. I bookmark them all, at least for logging purposes. These posts having the "urls" category, capture what was on my browser on a specific date. I hope you enjoy some of these shared resources.

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Listening to Rafael Anton Irisarri – "Decay Waves"

2019-06-23 AM

Audio landscapes. Relaxing. Ample immersion. Near minimal, but would benefit from even less on stage, at times.

urls, wordpresser

URLs "p1" 20190617 : 72 resources, including papers, articles, videos, etc.

2019-06-18 AM

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RF2: Racing Alain Prost’s 1990 Ferrari around Le Mans, France (1991 layout)

2019-06-17 AM

On the weekend of 2019-06-15+2019-06-16, there was yet another 24h Le Mans event. Curious about the circuit, using rFactor 2, I decide to run Alain Prost’s 1990 Ferrari (the famous “duck nose” car) around the 1991 layout of the circuit. Unfortunately, the 1990 mod I use only features the 1990 Ferrari cars (Prost and Mansell), so I injected the 1999 bolides (from a different mod) as the competition, in what became a very interesting racing spaghetti.
Long story short: I am 3 seconds slower than the fastest of the 1999 cars, which seems quite good to me 🙂

Here is a video of a 03:14:7xx lap around Le Mans. First, the outside camera, then the inside camera.

A warning: rFactor 2 seems to have a technical limit of 3 minutes per outside camera replay. This means that I cannot capture a full “Le Mans” lap with outside camera. For that reason the outside camera in this video not only skips 14+ seconds of action but also – and more relevant to the interested viewer – is actually the joining of the first ~14 seconds of a second lap the replay system managed to capture with the true footage of the inside camera.

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Listening to Cucina Povera – "Hilja"

2019-06-17 AM

This 2018 album is something very different. How can I appreciate music that vocalizes in an invented language, or even in no language at all, just playing with phonetics? I do not know. The brain does work in mysterious ways. Still, this is strangely relaxing.

Here is a Spotify playlist:

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Listening to "Age of" – "Oneohtrix Point Never"

2019-06-16 AM

Listening to “Age of” – “Oneohtrix Point Never”.
At times, refreshing and unusual mix of instruments (namely what sounds like harps and tubes), interesting pitch plays (mainly fluctuations) and album tracks that can feel totally unrelated. There seems to be an investment in contrasts. Frequency contrasts as in having acute moments with a grave background, and acoustic contrasts, as in having simple instruments (e.g. guitar) mixed with complex and artificial audio (e.g. voice transcripts). Nice!