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!

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?

Just remembered Sci Fi Corridor Archive scificorridorarchive.com

as a child my dream job was composing beats for the clothes dryer

holy shit. have fun listening and getting lost: aschmann.net/AmEng/#Audio...

'b' would be a better lowercase 'D' than 'd'.

I love elizabeth veldon's music so much elizabethveldon.bandcamp.com/album/untitl...

Using the digits of consecutive binary numbers as samples in a wav file sounds a little like EDM? midnightsledding.net/audio/binary...

Petition to rename Max/Msp to Miller and Ableton to Miller Lite.

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/

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.

why doesn’t the US increase the number of corners in the four corners area for more tourists?

Every dyad on the piano in increasing order of the difference in frequency between the two notes midnightsledding.net/scores/piano...

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"

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)

Is andantino slower or faster than andante?

I'm working on a piece that is sort of a game... (works best with good speakers) midnightsledding.net/games/sine_w...

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

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.

Existing gaps closed with supermarket products. More genius here instagram.com/helmutsmits

The distribution of letters in English words.

Possessive "its" should have an apostrophe and 100 - 200 CE should be called the "first century"

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...

This game is completely amazing rose.systems/animalist/

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?

The oldest single-note piece I've found so far (1834). From "L'art du violon" by Pierre Baillot.

I'm loving "ending.beginning.interludes" by Aaron Lockhart. Here's the second track: aaronlockhart.bandcamp.com/track/00-12-...

Battle it out with over 60 selectable fighters from across the Dostoevskyverse

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.

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

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/

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?

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.

Crossword clue text score

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.

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...

Ed Herring. Some dimensions of my Lunch, 1970

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...

If you say so?

Finally.

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

this is just 17776 with baseball instead of football en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776

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"?

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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? ❤️

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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...

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...

What line are people waiting for him to cross?