Son of Strelka, Son of God (Narrated by Obama)

ZAP Reader is a web based speed reading program that will change the way you read on your computer. Current beta testers report reading twice as much in half the time—that's a 300% increase in reading speed, without any loss in comprehension! There is nothing to install, it works with most popular browsers, and it's totally free!

SweetFM switches seamlessly between Last.fm and iTunes. Tune to any station and you can control Last.fm with SweetFM's interface - stop the stream and you can use it as an iTunes controller!

Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map, which makes it more cute. Makes me feel like a kid.

beautiful data visualization

Fluke is a small Mac OS X utility that lets you listen to your FLAC files right within iTunes without needing to convert anything. Simply feed your FLAC’s into it and watch the magic happen!

I Am Sitting in a Room (1970) is one of composer Alvin Lucier's best known works, featuring Lucier recording himself narrating a text, and then playing the recording back into the room, re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated. Since all rooms have characteristic resonance or formant frequencies (e.g. different between a large hall and a small room), the effect is that certain frequencies are emphasized as they resonate in the room, until eventually the words become unintelligible, replaced by the pure resonant harmonies and tones of the room itself. The recited text describes this process in action—it begins "I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice," and the rationale, concluding, "I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have," referring to his own stuttering

Software for live sampling and audio processing. Algorithmic composition and improvised audio manipulation in real time. The audio engine uses Csound, and the composition logic is built with Python.

Create & share an instant mixtape of your Pandora bookmarked songs or Last.fm loved tracks

Today I found an excellent hint about using sound files in Python scripts on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard without the need to install any 3rd party application.

Fucking brilliant. Full-length songs (at not the best quality, but bearable) targeted through some rather abstract metrics.

Why hardcore audiophiles are silly people.

The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on a luminous round table surfa

A two-thousand year history of medicine in a ton of audio programs.

A bunch of Dr. Kip Thorne's drawings in quantum physics and hyperspace.

Here’s a codec pack I made with just about all of the codecs you’ll need for your new shiny mac you might of been fortounate enough to unwrap over the holidays.

You simply plug in your git-fiddle and hook the other end up to a USB port and the cable lights up. Then you play until your fingers bleed and the built-in audio booster and 48 KHz sampling will amp up your audio. Coolness.

Just what the title says. A little program that makes use of some fairly common equiptment.

Vegas was truly a show for extremes. We covered the $400-450k Swedish Statement before here and here, but it was fun to finally see this system in the flesh.

Past Champions of the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship

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