Turns out I really shouldn't have been messing with ARel: this seems more sane.

Some sensible Ansible suggestions here.

I think the point where Brian revealed that all the various pages – pitch, gate, CV – can all be running at different lengths, leading to wonderful polyrhythms and modulation… was the bit where my head fell off a bit. I find the work monome are doing around blurring the boundry between composition and playing an instrument really interesting.

"Welcome to part one of a series taking you down the rabbit hole of DIY electronic synthesizers based on (largely) CMOS logic chips." Looks good, especially the stuff on counters and shift registers.

Seems like the best GPIO library in JS I can find, simply because it actually supports hardware interrupts.

"This is the moment at which our ideas of technology as a series of waymarks on the universal march of human progress falter and fall apart. A single technology – the vacuum-deposition of metal vapour onto a thin film substrate – makes its consecutive and multiple appearances at times of stress and trial: at the dawn of the space age, in orbit and on other planets, at the scene of athletic feats of endurance, in defence and offence in the mountains of the Hindu Kush, on the beaches of the European archipelago. These are moments of hope as well as failure; moments when, properly utilised, technological progress enables us to achieve something which was beyond our capabilities before. And yet: we are still pulling bodies from the water wrapped in material which was meant to send us into space."

Merged together in the way that makes most coherent sense: using the start/end of the longest track as the markers to stretch the others to; turning rubato in performance into what sounds like granular synthesis, almost. Good write-up, too: the more I listen to this, the more thoughtful it gets.

Normalizing the exceptional; the way the "control room" in films mirrors attitudes towards the control of technology – and control in its more general senses. This was good.

Interesting article on sync / music for TV and film from RA.

This was a good alternative to activerecord-import for me, so noting it down.