Once again I’m revisiting the @Pinboard bookmarks I’ve collected during the course of the year, and picking out 24 of them as a kind of advent calendar – one for each two week period, starting in January.
Here’s the first for 2018: rudigermeyer.com/notes/2018-12-01-22-24-38
1/ Robin Sloan: Making the Music of the Mazg
www.mcdbooks.com/features/sourdough
24/ The Values of Money: Bitcoin, Money, and Datalove, Part One
medium.com/quinn-norton/the-values-of-money-f3db7e13e6e3
23/ Rashad Becker: Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II
rashadbecker.bandcamp.com/
22/ Kevin Kelly, photographing and backpacking through Asia in the 1970s
craigmod.com/onmargins/003/
21/ A partial emulation by Tero Parviainen of Laurie Spiegel’s “Music Mouse – An Intelligent Instrument”
teropa.info/musicmouse/
20/ @cathyvaneck: Loudspeakeroperas by Huba de Graaff
microphonesandloudspeakers.com/2017/11/24/loudspeakeroperas-huba-de-graaff/
19/ Peter Hoffmann: Music Out of Nothing? A Rigorous Approach to Algorithmic Composition by Iannis Xenakis (2009)
monoskop.org/log/?p=7325
18/ The Snail: Absolute Tuning
www.ircamlab.com/products/p2242-The-Snail/
17/ David Hockney, Contrarian, Shifts Perspectives
www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/arts/design/david-hockney-los-angeles-metropolitan-museum-of-art-reverse-perspective.html