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There's something eerily perfect about my recording of Dies Irae as arranged by Antoine Brumel (circa 16th century). The piece consists of a similar four-part arrangement of the ecclesiastical chant handed off between a small horn choir and a small human choir. The polyphony is mostly sparse enough to keep intact the emotional simplicity of the ( Read more... )

defined by slate as "The emotional hangover resulting from repeatedly watching 'Yes We Can' montages." Watching that shit once was plenty for me, and as such it wasn't really all that bad. However, there's another, far more powerful front on which people (or at least I) may be getting tired of Obama.

The dude really got my hopes up for a "new kind ( Read more... )

working on some math stuff. in it i made use of a couple of reasonable assumptions, mainly:

for every integer k there is a fibonacci number that is a multiple of k.

for all integers a,b>0, if a and b are relatively prime, then there's an integer m>0 such that a^m = 1 (mod b).

first seems reasonable, right? I'm having the devil of a time proving it ( Read more... )

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Music: Metallica, "Sanitarium"

Whitest music ever.

Is it just me or is that hilariously funny?

Yeah.

At some point last month (January), I resolved to make a piece of recorded music on my computer by the end of the month (by January 31st, now a week past). I failed pretty miserably. I'm gearing up to try again, though, maybe with the help of Koby since he's got the fortunate combination of a bitching Logic setup and a burning desire to do ( Read more... )

and incoherent ( Read more... )

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/11/news/profile.php

not exactly that this is surprising, everybody knows putin is going to be prime minister eventually, but yet inexplicably this makes me angry. maybe i'm just racist.

Saw two movies on friday:

No Country For Old ( Read more... )

"There There" from Hail to the Thief by Radiohead is one of the most beautiful songs ever. For a while I was avoiding listening to that album, afraid it wouldn't pass muster compared with Kid A and OK Computer, but it totally does. Unfortunately I can't bring myself to enjoy In Rainbows quite as much - I'd like to blame it on the poor sound quality ( Read more... )

Riding on the subway earlier with a male friend of mine and a really pretty quiet girl I don't talk to much. Me and the dude are talking our college-guy talk, laced with references and wit and cynicism, leaving her a little out of the loop. Eventually she manages to join the conversation, and it turns toward pictures for some reason, the compulsive ( Read more... )