hapticity » CCRMA http://hapticity.net Wed, 16 May 2012 14:41:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 #/?v=3.5.1 “He imagined and created his own magical world and first built the essential concepts and tools that allowed us all to do the same.” /2011/05/11/he-imagined-and-created-his-own-magical-world-and-first-built-the-essential-concepts-and-tools-that-allowed-us-all-to-do-the-same/ /2011/05/11/he-imagined-and-created-his-own-magical-world-and-first-built-the-essential-concepts-and-tools-that-allowed-us-all-to-do-the-same/#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 02:07:57 +0000 Dave /?p=4214 Max Mathews, electronic music pioneer, has died.

Though computer music is at the edge of the avant-garde today, its roots go back to 1957, when Mathews wrote the first version of “Music,” a program that allowed an IBM 704 mainframe computer to play a 17-second composition. He quickly realized, as he put it in a 1963 article in Science, “There are no theoretical limits to the performance of the computer as a source of musical sounds.”

Rest in peace, Max.

UPDATE: I haven’t updated this blog in a while, and I realized after posting this that my previous post was about the 2010 Modulations concert. Max Mathews played at Modulations too, and that was the last time I saw him.

]]> /2011/05/11/he-imagined-and-created-his-own-magical-world-and-first-built-the-essential-concepts-and-tools-that-allowed-us-all-to-do-the-same/feed/ 0 Modulations 2010 mix now online /2010/08/27/modulations-2010-mix-now-online/ /2010/08/27/modulations-2010-mix-now-online/#comments Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:33:18 +0000 Dave /?p=4131 I finally got around to recording and mastering the set I played at the CCRMA Modulations show a few months back. Though I’ve been a drum and bass fan for many years, this year’s Modulations was the first time I’d mixed it for others. Hope you like it!

Modulations 2010
Drum & Bass | 40:00 | May 2010
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Download (mp3, 82.7 MB)


1. Excision — System Check
2. Randomer — Synth Geek
3. Noisia — Deception
4. Bassnectar — Teleport Massive (Bassnectar Remix)
5. Moving Fusion, Shimon, Ant Miles — Underbelly
6. Brookes Brothers — Crackdown
7. The Ian Carey Project — Get Shaky (Matrix & Futurebound’s Nip & Tuck Mix)
8. Netsky — Eyes Closed
9. Camo & Krooked — Time Is Ticking Away feat. Shaz Sparks

]]> /2010/08/27/modulations-2010-mix-now-online/feed/ 0 The Rulers @ NextFest /2007/09/14/the-rulers-nextfest/ /2007/09/14/the-rulers-nextfest/#comments Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:44:50 +0000 David Birnbaum http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~birnbaum/blog/?p=38 Rulers (played)

I’m excited to announce that, as I write this post, a musical instrument that I designed and built is being shown at WIRED magazine’s NextFest conference and trade show in Los Angeles. The first version of the Rulers came out of a physical interaction design workshop hosted by Stanford University’s CCRMA music technology program. Later I gave it a full version upgrade and it was purchased by the Digital Orchestra at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music. Since the Digital Orchestra is at NextFest, so are the Rulers. Here’s the press release for the exhibition.

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