"TAL-Vocoder is a vintage vocoder emulation with 11 bands that emulates the sound of vocoders from the early 80’s. It includes analog modeled components in combination with digital algorithms such as the SFFT (Short-Time Fast Fourier Transform)."

"To celebrate his 100th birthday we bring you a little clip from the “Eight Forty-Eight” show on Chicago public radio station WBEZ, with a listener calling in from his car to play a reading by Terkel of a poem written by Pete Seeger and Jim Musselman called “Blessed be the Nation.” It’s from the 1998 tribute album Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger. The brief clip reveals something of Terkel’s values, and of the esteem in which he is still held in the Windy City."

"Like most literary geeks, I’ve read a lot of Jorge Luis Borges. If you haven’t, look into the influences of your favorite writers, and you may find the Argentine short-story craftsman appearing with Beatles-like frequency. Indeed, Borges’ body of work radiates inspiration far beyond the realm of the short story, and even beyond literature as commonly practiced. Creators from David Foster Wallace to Alex Cox to W.G. Sebald to the Firesign Theater have all, from their various places on the cultural landscape, freely admitted their Borgesian leanings. That Borges’ stories — or, in the more-encompassing term adherents prefer to use, his “fictions” — continue to provide so much fuel to so many imaginations outside his time and tradition speaks to their simultaneous intellectual richness and basic, precognitive impact. Perhaps “The Garden of Forking Paths” or “The Aleph” haven’t had that impact on you, but they’ve surely had it on an artist you enjoy."

"Bruce Guenther curated the present show of Mark Rothko at the Portland Art Museum. We talk about this show, Rothko's history and his place in Modern art."

"Conducted by comedian Adam Cayton-Holland (who was an open micer at the time), this nearly 20-minute interview went down only five months before Hedberg died. The comic was on tour at the time, driving his RV — with wife, comedian Lynn Shawcroft — from town to town. “It’s 10 percent away from being a bus,” he proudly says about his new mode of transport."

This six-part series examines abstract art over a period of fifty years, beginning with a crucial juncture in modern art in the mid-1950s, and builds a compelling argument for a history and evaluation of late twentieth-century art that challenges the distinctions between abstraction and representation, modernism and postmodernism, minimalism and pop. The accompanying publication, Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, is available for purchase from the Gallery Shops.

Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast #4: Maggie Nelson and Arne de Boever.

Artist Robert Rauschenberg and author and critic Dave Hickey spend an afternoon together reflecting on the artist’s tremendous influence on art and culture since the 1950s. As a conversational instigation Hickey posed the following: Imagine the world without artist Robert Rauschenberg, “Who, in his absence, will work that woozy territory between painting, dance, sculpture, theater, drawing, music, printmaking, assemblage, and design? Who will chart the space between art and life…?”

In this special edition of the Macworld Podcast, recorded on the Macworld | iWorld show floor, I'm joined by a pair of Mac luminaries—Daring Fireball's John Gruber and Chicago Sun-Times columnist Andy Ihnatko. Our topic: The State of Apple.

Mike and Katie sit down with John Gruber himself and discuss the trouble with “booth babes,” conferences, and iconic jerseys from the biggest asshole teams in the USA.

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