the background noise

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Dear World,

Let me present you with the second Aman Amun release. I call it Sandpaper.

With it I’ve stripped away all the polish applied while Waxing to expose the interesting raw texture hiding beneath the whole time.

Please download, enjoy, like, and share.

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the biggest top i’ve ever seen on Flickr.

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OSC on Web

This is a really useful tool.

It makes it possible to easily communicate between an instrument and the web, so you could make a website visualizing your music in realtime as you play it.

Or you could use web-based user actions like clicking or entering text from users all over the world as an input to a musical system realized in a real space.

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Another web-based music visualization. Way too well done.

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this basket is cool.. (Taken with instagram)

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rad nail art. looks like he used a pegboard so he wouldn’t have to drill pilot holes.

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Here’s a creepy video of me playing with frame-differencing and background subtraction in processing. Slight offsetting of the image and forced shadowing causes some interesting colorization…

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unexpectedtech:

New Discoveries in Brain Structure and Connectivity

The visualizations of the fiber-like processes of thoughts within the brain in this video are fantastic.

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here’s a video of a cover i did of nat king cole’s ‘nature boy’ pumped through a music visualization tool i developed in 2010.

some things must be shared. man can now flap its arms powering mechanical wings to fly. this goal has plagued inventors for centuries, i’m so psyched that someone finally made it happen. be sure to check out the development process.

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Bonobo - ‘Eyesdown’ ( Machinedrum Remix )

i find this video pretty inspiring. hand drawn animation just gets my goat.

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Overclock Your Brain

unexpectedtech:

It turns out that one of the ways you can speed up a microprocessor — shoving more current into it — also works on the human brain. The technique is called Transcranial Direct Stimulation, and while bioethicists are debating whether or not it’s ethical to use it to enhance learning in children, hobbyists have figure out how to try it out at home. Think of it as the new Adderrall — without, apparently, the side effects.

Now, the first thing I have to say in this post about how to overclock your brain with a straightforward 20 minute application of electrical current is DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. The long term effects of tCDS are unknown, and if you mess up and put orders of magnitude more current through your brain than is typically used in tCDS, obviously, you could kill yourself.

Now that we have that out of the way, here’s how to try it at home.

GoFlow is a startup planning to offer tDCS kits for as little as $99.

Today if you want to buy a tDCS machine it’s nearly impossible to find one for less than $600, and you are typically required to have a prescription to order one. We wanted a simpler cheaper option. So we made one.

GoFlow claims that their product can help speed up learning — an effect that’s already been demonstrated by the Air Force and in the lab.

I’m planning on combining this technique with nootropics to get an edge in the stock market. Limitless opportunity?

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Can you break a $100? (Taken with instagram)

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I started experimenting with use of the Rockband Drumset as a midi interface about a year ago. I just wanted to see if it could enable more natural sounding drum parts. Feel free to download and share at your whim, in the zip there’s a app version, but I recommend using the Max/Msp Runtime since I can be more sure that it’ll work.

Click Here To Download The Rockband Drum Controller Midi Interface