A few more messages surface …

I was able to dig a few more random messages out of Google’s Usenet archive by hand-crawling through the earliest archives. A few more messages showed up; unfortunately EMUSIC-D doesn’t seem to have been archived. Pity. Anyway, a few more scraps of volumes 25 and 26 are now available, including one quite thoughtful one from [...]

GarageBand

Apple has added a new iApp, GarageBand, to iLife ‘04. For $49, Mac OS X users can have a decent multi-track recorder and loop compositor. Looks great!

Other lists to consider

Like many, I still like mailing lists for getting a real exchange of ideas, or for at least getting to watch the exchange go by. EMUSIC-L was unique in its time in having a large number of music theorists and academics along with any number of different orientations toward “popular” electronic music.

I haven’t found any [...]

Long Now Chimes.app I

I’ve been working on an OS X application to play the Long Now Chimes. If you’ve visited the previous link, you’ve gotten to hear MIDI versions of the chimes.
The MIDI version’s quite cool, and gives nearly anyone a chance to hear the chimes, but I wanted really chimey chime sounds, and I wanted them to [...]