The Open Goldberg Variations by Kimiko Ishizaka are free to download and share. They are governed by the Creative Commons Zero license, which means that they are a part of the public domain.

About this score
This new edition of Bach's Goldberg Variations is created by MuseScore lead developer Werner Schweer. The funds to create this work raised via the crowd funding site Kickstarter. The edition has been refined through an open process of peer review and careful scrutiny from pianist Kimiko Ishizaka. You can listen and download her recording on http://opengoldbergvariations.org

Caten . 2012
Kinetic sound installation by David Letellier
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Created for the Saint Sauveur chapel in Caen, Caten is a levitating sculpture, determined by gravity and guiding the evolution of a sound composition.
300 fine wires suspended from two ropes, connected themselves at each end to a slowly rotating arm, form an evanescent surface which interacts with the architecture.

Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the traditional building blocks of music—notes and their intervals—into a more fluid and supple medium. The sensations of point, pulse (series of points), line (tone), and surface (texture) emerge as particle density increases. Sounds coalesce, evaporate, and mutate into other sounds.

Ubuntu Studio is a variant of Ubuntu aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional. The distribution provides a collection of open-source applications available for multimedia creation.

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Tales of music and my travels as Ubuntu Studio Project Lead or giving back to the community one pixel at a time

Ubuntu Studio's lead developer, ScottL (who's blog can be found here) made the following announcement today:

The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce Dick MacInnis as Ubuntu Studio's new Art Lead.  We are very excited to have him as part of the team.

Dream Studio contains all the apps you need to create stunning graphics, captivating videos, inspiring music, and professional websites. Available as a free download, Dream Studio can be run directly from DVD, installed to your hard-drive, or even installed onto a USB Flash drive, for the ultimate in portability!

Not just another Shell Scripting book, the first half explains the features of the shell; the second half provides real-world shell scripts, organised by topic, with detailed discussion of each script.

LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts. LilyPond is free software and part of the GNU Project.

Audio PlugIn Category – Free VST, AU PlugIns

Various free VST and AudioUnit plugins by Voxengo, with direct download links.

A Sound Map of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
With Notes on Sound’s Relationship to Space, Collection and Experience
Two channel stereo soundscape composition
Duration: 60:00

During a five-week stay in Egypt in April and May 2010, I devoted four days to recording the sounds present inside and outside the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, resulting in the eight hours of material from which this composition has been created. As a cultural institution, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo represents one of the foundations of human history; as a soundscape, it represents an unexpectedly rich sonic experience with its own place in the history of a country now in transition.

The MaxLink java libraries enable communication between Processing and Max/MSP 4.5+ on both Mac and Windows.

COS Pivot Tutorials

We want to make a better game, a role-playing game where the notion of “role” is taken seriously, where the stories that are made in the game can be (and are) re-told.

We want to open the way for heroes. Heroes that sacrifice, heroes that are forged from members of a culture, a society, and a family and who matter more because of it.

We want to make something more than an mercenary’s amusement park, something more deep and more unexpected.

We want craftsmanship to matter. And teaching, and statesmanship, and leadership, and exploration, and guile, and creative problem-solving, and the patient study of the arcane. We want them to matter like they do in all the best stories, the ones that we’re still telling hundreds, even thousands of years later.

# A little script for adding TextMate2 Favorites via the command line.

Pumilio is a free and open source PHP/MySQL application for the management of sound archives and the visualization and manipulation of sound files. The system allows the user to load sound files in many formats, see the spectrogram of the sound, select regions of the sound for further analysis and insertion in a database, filtering, and many other manipulations.

jHepWork (jWork) is an environment for scientific computation

Measuring Software Code Quality
TIOBE checks more than 202 million lines of software code for its customers world-wide, real-time, each day.

We have combined the best-in-class code quality checking tools into one framework. Via a single web interface you can consult all important software defects and metrics information for all your software projects. We provide the facts and figures, you take the decisions

THE story of Michael Hersch is one of the most amazing you’ll ever hear — in music or out. He is an American composer, born in 1971. He is one of the most honored and lauded composers before the public today. He deserves this recognition too (say I, as a critic who has covered him for years). Why is his story so amazing? First, there is his extraordinary talent. Second, there is the fact that he started in music at a late age — and rapidly soared to something like the top

This java applet demonstrates Fourier series, which is a method of expressing an arbitrary periodic function as a sum of cosine terms. In other words, Fourier series can be used to express a function in terms of the frequencies (harmonics) it is composed of.

rt_lpc is a light-weight application that performs real-time LPC analysis and synthesis.

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George Tzanetakis (MARSYAS)

We're building the next-generation technology for analyzing audio and other digital signals. Our novel approach is designed to simulate the functions of the human auditory system, going beyond what can be accomplished with conventional methods.

Sublime Text 2 may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation.

Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.

Simple OpenSoundControl module in Pure Python. Replaces the 'SimpleOSC' module.
This implementation is intended to still be 'Simple' to the user, but much more complete (with OSCServer & OSCClient classes) and much more powerful (the OSCMultiClient supports subscriptions & message-filtering, OSCMessage & OSCBundle are now proper container-types)
This is a 'Pure Python' implementation, intended to be simple and transparent.
If you ar looking for a FAST OSC-implementaion, try the 'pyliblo' package

Pragmatic Programmers Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas talk with Bill Venners about software craftsmanship and the importance of fixing the small problems in your code, the "broken windows," so they don't grow into large problems.

What's the difference between a programming language and a scripting language? Is there even a difference at all? Larry Wall's epic Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting attempts to survey the scripting landscape and identify commonalities.

Tsering Wangmo is a second-generation exile Tibetan and was born in a refugee camp in southern India. Educated in a local Tibetan school, she studied traditional Tibetan music, dance and opera for seven years from 1982 to 1989 in the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts in Dharamsala in northern India. The institute was set up by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, shortly after China's occupation of Tibet in 1959, to facilitate the preservation of Tibet's unique cultural heritage in exile.

The IMTR Team conducts research and development on interactive music systems, gesture and sound modeling, interactive music synthesis, gesture capture systems and interfaces. The applications cover music performance and more generally all the performing arts. The use of digital techniques can be seen as augmenting or creating new performer’s instruments – transforming sound, voice, gestures, memory - creating dialogues between artists and digital media.

FTM is a shared library for Max/MSP providing a small and simple real-time object system and a set of optimized services to be used within Max/MSP externals.

FTM = data structures
+ visualization/editors
+ file import/export (SDIF, MIDI, ...)
+ operators (expressions and externals)
The basic idea of FTM is to extend the data types exchanged between the objects in a Max/MSP patch by complex data structures such as sequences, matrices, dictionaries, break point functions, tuples and whatever might seem helpful for the processing of music, sound and motion capture data.

The FTM library and its Java editors are based on the jMax project and distributed under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL). The sources of FTM are available via CVS at SourceForge.net

In this multipart series, I cover how to engineer an OpenLDAP directory service to create a unified login for heterogeneous environments. With current software and a modern approach to server design, the aim is to reduce the number of single points of failure for the directory.

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When the authorities send a subpoena to Facebook for your account information, what do they receive? Here is a document showing the pages and pages of data Facebook hands over.

Researchers at the MRC have developed a variety of bespoke software that facilitates the work that goes on in the centre, some of which is in the public domain. Notably there is a collection of Max MSP and puredata externals for dealing with ambisonics, and these algorithms are also available as VST and Audiounit plugins. The centre also produces commercial software including the MRC meter - a highly accurate audio metering plugin

Baudline is a scientific visualization tool that uses DSP for exploring the spectral domain. Explore, Analyze, and Discover.

Cecilia is an audio signal processing environment. Cecilia lets you create your own GUI (grapher, sliders, toggles, popup menus) using a simple syntax. Cecilia comes with many original builtin modules for sound effects and synthesis.

Previously written in tcl/tk, Cecilia (version 4, deprecated) was entirely rewritten in Python/wxPython and uses the Csound API for communicating between the interface and the audio engine. Version 4.2 is the final release of version 4.

Cecilia5 now uses the pyo audio engine created for the Python programming language. pyo allows a much more powerfull integration of the audio engine to the graphical interface. Since it's a standard python module, there is no need to use an API to communicate with the interface.

I'm going to make a bold claim: The future of tools isn't in a better Eclipse or Visual Studio, it's in easily created domain specific experiences.

ref: Jaixi, Craig

Use FileMerge, part of Xcode, to compare two folders’ contents.

Platypus is a developer tool for the Mac OS X operating system. It can be used to create native, flawlessly integrated Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts such as shell scripts or Perl, Ruby and Python programs. This is done by wrapping the script in an application bundle along with a native executable binary that runs the script.

Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites

Mozilla Developer Central has long been a go to source for for technical documentation of web-standards based development. Now this excellent resource for info on HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the DOM has been organized with a nice clean UI.

Use the new and shiny responsibly.
Look up HTML5, CSS3, etc features, know if they are ready for use, and if so find out how you should use them – with polyfills, fallbacks or as they are

When Can I Use tells you the browser support story, while Modernizr gives you the power of feature detection. HTML5 Please helps you out with recommendations for polyfills and implementation so you can decide if and how to put each of these features to use.

The recommendations below represent the collective knowledge of developers who have been deep in the HTML5 trenches. We hope they serve you well.

SW_Gui is a tabbed GUI interface that keeps the most useful tools at your fingertips in a single window and has a customizable launcher so you can access anything else you may need.

Wide Angle Youth Media is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides Baltimore youth with media education to tell their own stories and become engaged in their communities. Through quality after-school programming, in-school opportunities, summer workshops, community events, and an annual Youth Media Festival, Wide Angle supports young people making a difference through media.

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We are a hosting company, and offer shared hosting, but also managed dedicated hosting. Above all, we are a team with a passion for our work.

Welcome to Smart Teacher, a free online data base of dynamic question and answers for Elementary, Middle and High School.

At the moment, Smart Teacher is more a proof of concept and you can follow the development in this page and at github.

You can see a quickly example with SAT questions and are invited to explore Smart Teacher.

The Intel Computer Clubhouse Network is an international community of 100 Computer Clubhouses located in 20 different countries around the world. The Computer Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities work with adult mentors to explore their own ideas, develop skills, and build confidence in themselves through the use of technology.

Learning to Program with Python.
"Snake Wrangling for Kids" is a printable electronic book, for children 8 years and older, who would like to learn computer programming. It covers the very basics of programming, and uses the Python 3 programming language to teach the concepts.

Co-author of Perl Cookbook, chair of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, co-chair of the O'Reilly European Open Source Convention, chair of the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, co-chair of the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference, creator of the Odious business plan, board member of The Perl Foundation, former editor for O'Reilly and Associates, former project manager for Perl 6, former co-chair of the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Conference, banjo player, Mac OS X user.

Shrook is a full-featured RSS reader that's completely free - no ads, no spyware. And if you want to access your feeds on another Mac, iPhone, iPad or any web-connected PC, just get a shrook.com account for painless synchronization.

Recording Tips is full of suggestions for getting started with Royer ribbons, pictures of many different mic positions, MP-3's, comments on which mics we suggest for different recording tasks, and other ribbon microphone tips that could be helpful to you in your quest for great recorded sounds.

The Secure Socket Layer, SSL for short, is a protocol by which many services that communicate over the Internet can do so in a secure fashion.

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MacTeX is a product produced by the MacTeX TeXnical working group of the TeX Users Group (TUG). It is the Macintosh component of the TeX Collection DVD, the reference edition of TeX distributed by TeX User Groups across the world. The reference edition runs on Mac OS X, Windows, GNU/Linux, various BSD Unix systems, and most other computer architectures.

MacTeX consists of two pieces: MacTeX-2011 and MacTeXtras. MacTeX-2011 is an install package which installs everything needed to run TeX on Mac OS X. The package uses Apple's standard installer; installation takes four to eight minutes and is automatic. MacTeXtras is a collection of optional extras: Additional Front Ends, Spell Checkers, Documentation, and Showcase items.

LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG).

Pharo's goal is to deliver a clean, innovative, free open-source Smalltalk environment. By providing a stable and small core system, excellent developer tools, and maintained releases, Pharo is an attractive platform to build and deploy mission critical Smalltalk applications. Pharo is MIT licensed and is steered by a board of benevolent dictators

Python is a mature dynamic language whose interpreters can interact with all major computing platforms today.

execnet provides a share-nothing model with channel-send/receive communication for distributing execution across many Python interpreters across version, platform and network barriers. It has a minimal and fast API targetting the following uses:

distribute tasks to (many) local or remote CPUs
write and deploy hybrid multi-process applications
write scripts to administer multiple environments

"Ephestos" is a visual programming environmet for python similar to an IDE but with some fundamental diffirences. Ephestos uses its own GUI called "Morpheas" a very modular gui that not only is capable of offering a graphical user interface to the user, that interface is easily customisable by the user , made solely from small blocks called "morphs", with no required coding. Also the code is edited visually using morphs again to further help the user. For now the project is still in its infancy with many feature to implement , but is however a usable Blender addon that is constantly developed. Using any of the above button you can download the source or visit the repository at github.

Albert Sweigart (but you can call him Al), is a software developer in San Francisco, California who enjoys bicycling, reading, volunteering, computer security, haunting coffee shops, and making useful software.

He is originally from Houston, Texas. He finally put his University of Texas at Austin computer science degree in a frame. He laughs out loud when watching park squirrels, and people think he's a simpleton.

Al has written two books, "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python" and "Making Games with Python & Pygame".

His web site and blog are located at http://coffeeghost.net

If you are searching for a reliable (show) control network solution,
the Kiss-Box line of data communication products is the answer.
Why should one bother to connect different appliances each on its
own infrastucture, when there is an easy solution?

Connect it all to one structure: the network.