Archive for July, 2006
Thursday, July 20th, 2006
A recent post on Gizmodo (commenting on a story in Wired Blogs) reports on how Verizon blocks the ability to transfer files into the audio folders of Verizon-purchased RAZR phones. The net effect is to restrict subscribers' abilities to use whatever ringtones they want - whether they were lifted, modded, ...
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
This blog has been fallow for a little while, but this isn't a post about this blog - it's about what it means to be fallow, or infrequent. More precisely, it's about frequency. And amplitude. And timbre. Acoustics. Sound.
It's occurred to me recently that much can be learned by ...
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Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
I'm working on drafts of a couple of longer pieces - one about compression in frequency, amplitude, timbre, and culture in contemporary Western media, and another tangentially related piece about the implications of thinking about video games as art. Drab mainstream opinions on these topics diverge from mine, and there ...
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