Skipping Coachella b/c I’m too busy. :/

Anyway, linkdump:

Skipping Coachella b/c I’m too busy. :/

Anyway, linkdump:

  • WaveSurfer – an open source sound visualization and manipulation tool. The voice analysis views are great.
  • VoiceSync – a research initiative that uses voice, sound, music, shape and color to improve our vibrational perception. some of neat cheap visualization/feedback tools for the PC (also some granola crunchiness)
  • Brain opera
  • Voice AnalysisThe voice analysis algorithms used in the Singing Tree measure pitch, noisiness (ambiguity), brightness, energy, and vowel formant. These algorithms were written by Eric Metois, four of which were part of his DSP toolkit used in several other projects and his Ph.D. thesis [30]. In this section, I will describe how these algorithms work and the information they send to the Singing Tree. I will also discuss alternatives where applicable.
  • Ph.D. Thesis: Singing Voice Analysis/Synthesis
  • SONIA V2.6 for Java and Processing 0068Sonia is an external Library (API) for the Processing platform. It may also be included in any Java project. The Sonia Library provides advanced audio capabilities such as multiple sample playback, realtime sound synthesis, realtime FFT (frequency) analysis of the microphone input, and writing .wav files from samples.
  • Aglaophone – A system for real-time analysis and processing of sound

Thoughts for challenges in designing DHTML web apps, frameworks:

  • at what point should client-session state be recorded on the server (ie, if someone leaves the ‘site’ and comes back
  • related: for public sites, making sure that URLs continue to work
  • cleanly separating behavior at each level so that crawlers and other dumb clients function (progressive enhancement, graceful degradation)

God, what is it with Xanga users and their desire to embed MP3s from my server on every pageload? I wrote a mod_rewrite rule when I first spotted this a while back (suckas!) — it only works when an external referer is detected, which embeds often don’t pass. For now it’s just a principal thing, but if gets more annoying I’ll probably have to take more extreme measures (referral/ip/user whitelist).