Music Leadsheet: Heavy on the F’s
Wrote out this groove. Please jam responsibly. Enjoy. PDF Version in concert pitch here: Heavy_on_the_F’s_(Groove) Concert PDF Version in Eb pitch here: Heavy_on_the_F’s_(Groove)_Eb_Version PNGs Below.
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The most feared song in Jazz should be…
#Thoughtoftheday – The new most feared song in Jazz should be Giant Steps with 12 choruses of solos ascending a semitone or going down a perfect 5th after each chorus. Congrats to Vox on this video. I think the best explanation yet, without 20,000 hours of practice.
Design: One possible definition
Engineering is the application of science to solve problems; Design is using art to do the same thing. You heard it here first friends ;) -Alwin
Updated: New Photo of the Village Vanguard (2018) on Wikipedia
My apologies for the slow uptake on writing, it has been forever and much has changed. Nearing the end of the work-to-live ‘day job epoch’ and hopefully will enter the ‘creative freedom epoch’ within the next couple years. Uploaded another pic of the Village Vanguard to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Vanguard. Enjoy!
Loose Meta: Butterflies and Quantum
-Card games are interesting versions of Wolfram’s cellular automata. Creating complexity from simple rules. -Watching a nova doc about the monarch butterfly / (also reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Einstein)…. Metamixer. It could be that the observed ‘break’ between quantum and relativistic worlds is similar to the insect versus larger species world. The insects don’t … Read more
Picnic Rhythm Poem
Poem by yours truly – appears as part of Helena Zhang’s A Similar But Different Quality collection of poems. PICNIC RHYTHM public class picnic_rhythm extends c#rhythm { static void Main(string[] args) { danger danger danger danger cup! danger cup! danger danger danger cup! danger cup! danger (>) danger (>) danger (>) danger (>) cup (mf) … Read more
Clever: iPhone Applications: Heads Up Display
A clever iPhone application.
Upcoming in Interactive
Hello All, I ‘ve just published an article called “Upcoming in Interactive” which details 7 disruptive trends and technologies at Bloor Media Group. the website is site www.bloormedia.com , the article post is here. Thanks! http://bloormedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/bloor_media_upcoming_in_interactive_report_6-17-09.pdf
Building Public Space Under the Gardiner Express
Here was my letter to Toronto Mayor David Miller in response to Les Klein’s idea to build a green roof over top of the Gardiner: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/putting-the-garden-back-in-the-gardiner/article1188258/ Dear Mayor David Miller, I am a great fan of yours and love our city very much. I think you have done an excellent job. Thank you so much … Read more
Using vectors to measure organization’s efficacy
Why are some organizations efficient and others not? It occurred that possibly the best way of analyzing and finding inefficiencies in an organization is to use vectors. Like electricity, macro-economics and swimming, aggregate/net action is really the most important thing. Measurement of energy versus application is easily seen with vector relationships. If bureacracy brings you … Read more
A view of the future, from August 2006. Jeff Han discusses Multi-touch Interactions
A view of the future, from August 2006. Jeff Han discusses multi-touch. I’m sure you’ve all seen this, and I’m making my case from the back of the pack; I’m making a case in my bloor media article that multi-touch interaction libraries have reached a downstream point, such that they will become ubiquitous, just like … Read more
China’s Central Bank: correlation between energy usage and GDP diverge in latest numbers.
Interesting to note Paul Krugman’s point on recent Chinese central bank figures (if you follow this sort of stuff). Excerpted verbatim from here his blog at the New York Times online. May 29, 2009 What you don’t know … The focus these days is on the mismatch between China’s electricity consumption and a key measure … Read more
Why investing in wine is a good idea
More polemnical investing advice here. …Because of the zero rate interest policy of ‘the modern world’, if you are looking for the security of bonds, but not in this economic climate. I would highly recommend purchasing rare and expensive wines. (seriously). The reasons are several fold. A. Wines are commodities which hedge against inflation, hyperinflation … Read more
Wolfram-Turing Connection
This one-off may not make sense, without knowing who these people are, but here goes… It occurred that Wolfram cellular automata have within their domain, all Turing Machines, and is a more vivid representation of them outside of binary rules. Wolfram’s work is an extension of Turing’s, which is not something that i think is … Read more
Book Recommend – Pinball Effect: James Burke
If you have not read any of his work, James Burke is a historian, who mostly writes about the history of science and innovation. He is known for his Connections 1 / 2 / 3 series on BBC. His work is always web-like and built off tangents. In this book Pinball Effect, he writes about … Read more
World’s Most Advanced Straw
Not sure why I like this so much, but I do. The world’s most advanced straw. enjoy.
NiemansLand – from 2006-2009
Way Back Machine: Some Older Composition-Sketches from 2007, to be used in the film NiemansLand. Cello and computer arrangements mostly. 5’30 has a nice moment that is worth remembering.
Ravi and Alwin play at the apt.
Here Ravi and I are playing at the apartment. We debated messing around with post, to put in a floating translucent movie screen of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis in the middle, but decided against in the end. It should be edited to start 15 sec. in later and 15 sec, which you can do on youtube, … Read more
partial dimensionality in number sequences?
Are repeating numbers symptomatic of partial dimensionality?? Like in flatland, when something is at right angles to your dimension, are you unaware of it (or there is no apparent pattern to it?).
The path to AI. Comparing Pigs to Computers.
I’m reading about Mandelbrot right now, which is making me think about a lot about high frequency feedback loops right now. They abound in nature, and no one really wanted to look at them until Mandelbrot came along. He is this kind of anti-clean, anti-ascetic temperment personality which i really enjoy, the more i get … Read more
Welcome to the new Alwinian site 2009 and beyond.
R.I.P. – Old site 2006 -2009. Hello and welcome to the new Alwinian Site. You can still access the old site, which I keep here at: http://www.alwinian.net/alwinian-2006-2009/ Thanks for reading. – A