Erik Carlson
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violinist and composer
https://midnightsledding.net
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ICARUS
7 days ago
SHAROOOON! THEY'VE TRAPPED ME FUCKIN SOUL IN A FUCKIN DIGITAL CONSTRUCT SHARON. IVE GOT NO FUCKIN FREE WILL SHARON. THEY WANT ME TO SING CRAZY TRAIN TILL THE HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE SHARON. FUCKIN HELL. SHAROOOON!
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What's the largest value of X for which we can say with a high degree of certainty that a specific event happened X seconds ago?
4 days ago
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Present & Correct
5 days ago
Just remembered Sci Fi Corridor Archive
scificorridorarchive.com
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drewtoothpaste
4 months ago
as a child my dream job was composing beats for the clothes dryer
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mimi smartypants
about 1 month ago
holy shit. have fun listening and getting lost:
aschmann.net/AmEng/#Audio...
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American English Dialects
https://aschmann.net/AmEng/#AudioFilesOfLocalDialects
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'b' would be a better lowercase 'D' than 'd'.
21 days ago
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max 🌌
24 days ago
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I love elizabeth veldon's music so much
elizabethveldon.bandcamp.com/album/untitl...
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untitled (newmarket), by elizabeth veldon
4 track album
https://elizabethveldon.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-newmarket
24 days ago
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Using the digits of consecutive binary numbers as samples in a wav file sounds a little like EDM?
midnightsledding.net/audio/binary...
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https://midnightsledding.net/audio/binary1.wav
28 days ago
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Matt Sargent
about 1 month ago
Petition to rename Max/Msp to Miller and Ableton to Miller Lite.
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I've made a web-based engraving and recording of Christoph Graupner's 5626 canons on a single melody (1730-1735). I love them so much.
midnightsledding.net/Graupner/
about 1 month ago
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Canvas has a cap of 999,999,999 points for an assignment. Next year I'm making everything worth one million points. You want extra credit? Sure, here's 1000 points just for asking.
about 1 month ago
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Terrible Maps
about 1 month ago
why doesn’t the US increase the number of corners in the four corners area for more tourists?
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Every dyad on the piano in increasing order of the difference in frequency between the two notes
midnightsledding.net/scores/piano...
about 2 months ago
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On June 1 I'll play a tone with a duration equal in seconds to the number of postcards I receive with the message "Add one second to your performance"
about 2 months ago
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Brad Lander
about 2 months ago
Once again we must ask, where in the world is Congress? They should be pursuing every action possible to rein in Trump's raging lunacy. How is there no sense of urgency? (2/3)
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Is andantino slower or faster than andante?
2 months ago
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I'm working on a piece that is sort of a game... (works best with good speakers)
midnightsledding.net/games/sine_w...
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Sine Wave Hunt
https://midnightsledding.net/games/sine_wave_hunt.html
2 months ago
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Everest Pipkin
3 months ago
I couldn't be more excited to announce something I've been working on for a long time - Please welcome Belltower House Artist Residency, a multidisciplinary gift of time in my erstwhile home in southern New Mexico, now accepting applications for 2026.
belltowerhouse.org
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Belltower House Artist Residency
Belltower House Artist Residency is a gift of creative sanctuary in southern New Mexico.
https://belltowerhouse.org/
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Present & Correct
3 months ago
500 cardboard portraits is a series of faces which are cut or torn into corrugated board but these are pencil drawings. By Russell Herron.
www.russellherron.com/pencil
Sometimes cute, sometimes frightening but they all capture an emotion & technically they're amazing.
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Present & Correct
almost 2 years ago
Existing gaps closed with supermarket products. More genius here
instagram.com/helmutsmits
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Present & Correct
3 months ago
The distribution of letters in English words.
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Possessive "its" should have an apostrophe and 100 - 200 CE should be called the "first century"
3 months ago
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A melody in which the ratios of the number of vibrations in each pitch are the same as the ratios of the number of letters in each word of this sentence.
midnightsledding.net/scores/sente...
3 months ago
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Yann Seznec
3 months ago
This game is completely amazing
rose.systems/animalist/
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list animals until failure
hot new brain workout
https://rose.systems/animalist/
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I'm making a catalogue of historical re-tunings of the violin:
midnightsledding.net/documents/sc...
Send me a note if you know of others?
3 months ago
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The oldest single-note piece I've found so far (1834). From "L'art du violon" by Pierre Baillot.
3 months ago
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I'm loving "ending.beginning.interludes" by Aaron Lockhart. Here's the second track:
aaronlockhart.bandcamp.com/track/00-12-...
3 months ago
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GNU C Mane
3 months ago
Battle it out with over 60 selectable fighters from across the Dostoevskyverse
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Today's violin meditation: a 1008-second tone that bends up one whole step and then back down, in such a way that it forms the top of a 100-pitch 1-hour circle on a pitch/time grid.
3 months ago
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A tone (147 1421/3600 Hz, when A=442 Hz), tunable by ear on the viola, which, when sustained, has a unique phase during each second of an hour
3 months ago
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I'm working on a catalogue of written-out parts for change ringing on handbells, designed for people who want to enjoy the musical richness of change ringing without the obstacle of having to memorize each pattern. I'll keep adding more here:
midnightsledding.net/ringing/
3 months ago
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I love diagrams that portray musical intervals as semicircular arcs. I'm starting a little catalogue of them here:
midnightsledding.net/arcs/arcs.html
Let me know if you have any tips on other examples?
4 months ago
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A surprising number of pages from the handwritten manuscript of "Tristan and Isolde" use every staff on the page. Gonna write a paper about how the orchestration was determined in large part by Wagner's choice of music paper.
4 months ago
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Crossword clue text score
4 months ago
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When I took my current job, I had to sign a paper saying that I would defend the Constitution of the United States, and I feel like maybe there should have been some online training assigned to me on this topic.
5 months ago
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To celebrate the new year, I'll do two performances one hour apart. One at 11pm on December 31 and one at midnight on January 1. Both will consist of a tone sustained for 1/8760 of the remaining duration of the year.
midnightsledding.net/carlson/patt...
5 months ago
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Paulo da Fonseca
about 1 year ago
Ed Herring. Some dimensions of my Lunch, 1970
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I'm resuming the podcast that I started in 2016: once and a while my computer randomly records one second of audio from a microphone in my living room and then posts it as this podcast.
midnightsledding.com/carlson/podc...
5 months ago
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If you say so?
5 months ago
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Finally.
6 months ago
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I've been exploring what I'm calling "Complete-Harmony Canons", which are canons that result in all possible harmonies (once and only once, ignoring pitch doublings) depending on the number of voices and the number of pitches that are used. (examples in the link)
midnightsledding.net/chc/chc.html
6 months ago
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E z r a
6 months ago
this is just 17776 with baseball instead of football
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776
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17776 - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776
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Do the sample values in digital audio have a unit name? And if not, can we call it a Carlson? Like, "the bass is lacking something, let's bump it up 100 Carlsons"?
6 months ago
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Bill Barnwell
6 months ago
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I know this is a long shot, but I'm looking for station/stop schedules (trains, buses, school buses, ferries, planes...), current or historic, where there are only two arrivals and/or departures each day.
midnightsledding.net/carlson/time...
I'll be researching, but contact me if you know of any? ❤️
6 months ago
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wtaf
6 months ago
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For my recitals of conceptual and often-pattern-based pieces of music, I'm up to 100 works by people other than me. It brings me great joy to learn of new works like these, old or new. Please let me know if you think of something that might fit in?
midnightsledding.net/carlson/cbse...
6 months ago
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As part of my series of recitals consisting of one note within an hour, I sustained a single tone during the 400000th hour since my birth.
midnightsledding.net/carlson/1hou...
6 months ago
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What line are people waiting for him to cross?
6 months ago
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