As promised, my head is full of maths. Though not the kind you generally find in highschool physics. I've been developing algorothms for generating drum sounds using bandpass filtered white noise.
If anyone wants to know the details about frequency contours, resonance, gain etc, I'll post them. But it turns out to be a remarkably good way to make noises that sound real and physical, though often not the kind you'd expect to use as drums.
From the muffled tapping of a finger on a wooden casket, through slamming doors and submarine pings, to a metal garage door being hit with a sledgehammer. As well as classic cheesy synth swooshes and rumbles, and a host of the domestic knocks and clicks that The Beta Band (1, 2) use so distinctively.
Though they actually do bang broomhandles and plastic containers - I painstakingly synthesise them, which is possibly quite perverse.
I'm worried about CW. Food poisoning isn't supposed to last a month - not without multiple self reinfections. He says he's never been this ill for this long.
There's a big, important demo in Manchester on the 23rd. None of us are looking forward to spending 4 hours on a coach to get there (or another 4 hours coming back). But with Blair and everything he stands for being such a public fiasco, we need to be visible.
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Glad you're going to the demo. Sometimes just sheer numbers is what is needed to make a point.
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