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As a little experiment of mine, Using LibreOffice as a Tracker/Sequencer got mentioned on Create Digital Music here are some updates on recent projects: If you want to follow me: Do it on Twitter, cappelnord. I do a lot of live coding at the moment. Most of it as part of the laptop band Benoît [...]

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SoundCloud wouldn’t be that popular if the player didn’t show the waveform image. The HTML5 audio element makes it possible to realize such a player without Flash. As browser support varies at the moment (Firefox seems to lack the JavaScript interface to access how much of the file is already seekable; also most browsers either [...]

waveformgen is a little tool to generate simple waveform images out of an audio file. It’s very basic and nothing special. I needed a tool to generate waveform images for a web application, so I thought i might write it myself as a little C exercise. The source code is released under GPL. http://github.com/cappelnord/waveformgen

I’m not that much into blogging at the moment, but here are some quick updates: Grainface disbanded some months ago but I now play in the laptop band Benoît and the Mandelbrots which could be described as “Post-Grainface” :-) We have a nice video on Vimeo. I did some music in pure C and it [...]

For anybody who looks for the MPHP3 PHP class I wrote several years ago when i was still in school (and had time to do such stuff): I put it offline, because it had several issues and I’m not into PHP anymore. I think it’s fascinating how much it got used, but I also think [...]

A first version of the Processing library for the Public Pixel Matrix is now available on GitHub. It is in a very early stage. Many features and other fixes to come. http://github.com/cappelnord/PublicPixelMatrix/ I also posted the results of a first experiment on YouTube. I started to move some other stuff to my GitHub Account too. [...]

Mein neues Projekt Public Pixel Matrix ist ein Versuch einfache kreative Entscheidungen von Internetuser aufzuzeichnen, um sie dann später in andere Bilder, Videos, Sounds oder Musikstücke nutzbar zu machen. Alles was auf der Internetseite aufgezeichnet wird steht unter einer Creative Commons Lizens. http://matrix.cappel-nord.de For english information head directly to the page.

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