chip the glasses » noise http://chiptheglasses.com a garden of forking libraries of babel Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:58:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 no hugs for infinity http://chiptheglasses.com/2010/01/no-hugs-for-infinity/ http://chiptheglasses.com/2010/01/no-hugs-for-infinity/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:03:27 +0000 nathanielksmith http://chiptheglasses.com/?p=78 “In its turn every philosophy will suffer a deposition.”
– alfred north whitehead, process and reality

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]]> http://chiptheglasses.com/2010/01/no-hugs-for-infinity/feed/ 1 automated cut-up poetry from large corpora http://chiptheglasses.com/2010/01/automated-cut-up-poetry-from-large-corpora/ http://chiptheglasses.com/2010/01/automated-cut-up-poetry-from-large-corpora/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:37:00 +0000 nathanielksmith http://chiptheglasses.com/?p=71 I have completed my senior thesis project at earlham college.

It is stored in its entirety (code+paper) at github; although if you’d prefer a PDF over tex source there’s that too.

Here’s the video of my presentation (accompanying slides):

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I took this as an opportunity to practice with some new stuff. First, I ran my pdrss program through the great jack rack for two minutes, recording into Rosegarden. Next, I just programmed some oscillators in pure data, put them through jack rack, and recorded another two minutes.

It’s late, and since someone else is going to be hacking these up anyway, I didn’t strive for perfection. I only did two or three takes for each track. They don’t match up all that great and their sluggish changes represent my still-neophyte computer music skillz (computer mice are different than mixer knobs).

I had a lot of fun, and since these tracks are for collaboration (and fairly large…nay, extremely large) I put them up here instead of gmailing them.

Enjoy, and please, take them and destroy them.

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I wrote a very very simple perl script to destroy a string over time. I find the end result to be pretty aesthetically pleasing, so I use it to make fliers for my radio show:

dead air flier

I used a quote from Borges’s Library of Babel as input. The code that does the string decay is up on github.

If you feel like advertising for me, here’s a larger printable version.

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