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Category Archives: music

Croud clapping

If you want to get a ‘croud clap’ effect then you not only need to multilpy a clap, but also make a Gaussian distribution of timing and loudness variation. The tighter the distribution, the more ‘organised’ will the clapping be. With a very wide deviations you will get a natural white noise clapping.

Censorship is unacceptable

UK ISPs erect “Great Firewall of Britain” to censor Wikipedia I used to use Eclipse in UK and recommended it to others, but they are now involved in this censorship scandal. Unacceptable.

iPhone review from a free software guy

I got an iPhone on the very first day it was available officially in my country. I have used it every day since then and am now ready to decide how good it really is. Summary: it is a great piece of technology and the only tradeback is the locked down platform. I have abandoned [...]

Better now!

As soon as my laptop came back from repairs, I started to feel better – being back with 1920×1200 resolution is great! NVidia is much more stable than ATi and Intel wireless is just great! And then last weekend I was in Berlin for the FFII board meeting and used the opportunity to see the [...]

Vanessa Mae in Riga

On Monday I was at a Vanessa Mae concert in arena “Riga” in Riga, Latvia. The concert was almost an hour late due to flight delay. It would have been fine if the organisers would let us into the hall or at least informed the several thousand people about the delay and its reason and [...]

I’m blue!

In the last day of Lastguru’s visit, I convinced him to go to The Blue Man group performance in the New London Theatre. The performance was just great – a combination of rhythmic music, dramatic light and a hilarious comedy show. Just wonderful! There was a lot of classic Blue Man moments – weird looks, [...]

Pandora music stream

I just discovered Pandora. It is a online flash streaming music player that plays the music that you like much like last.fm radio, just simpler and with instant feedback. You simply go to the site and tell them what artist or track do you like and the music starts playing in a Flash applet. Then [...]

5nizza & Cosmos

My Azureus just gave me something else to blog about: two wonderful new musical groups that I started to like recently – 5nizza and Cosmos.Cosmos is a latvian project – five guys singing good old songs without music creating the melody by intermixing their voices. Imagine five beautiful voices singing together everyone of them having [...]

Start with a killer

To start the blog not with an obligatory ‘Let’s start this’ post, but with something worth reading, I want to present the mighty nildience (null audience) the best Linux audio playing app: Amarok. Collection of your music based on the top directory – i.e. you just say ‘my music is in /home/aigarius/mp3′ and it rebrowses [...]