Author: Jarlath

Prague to Vienna by the Greenways route

This is the main route of the Prague-Vienna Greenways, a network of trails through Southern Bohemia, Moravia and Austria. It’s not all dedicated cycle path, but mostly backroads and dirt tracks winding through the countryside, taking-in dainty villages, national parks, and UNESCO heritage sites. April is perhaps a tad too early to witness the countryside…

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Vulfpeck Live

Brussels Sept 15 2017. IMO the best funk band around at the moment. Fabulous stuff! Check out their Youtube Channel…

The BikeHobo Manifesto

Hobo (noun) ho·​bo | \ ˈhō-(ˌ)bō  1: a migratory worker 2: a homeless and usually penniless vagabond After years of having my face buried in a computer screen I decided that I need to get out more. My job used to be involve travelling around, interacting face-to-face with real people, making friends and feeling of some practical help. But my line…

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The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms

‘What do African rhythms, spallation neutron source (SNS) accelerators in nuclear physics, string theory (stringology) in computer science, and an ancient algorithm described by Euclid have in common? The short answer is: patterns distributed as evenly as possible. For the long answer please read on…‘ http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff.pdf

New Baby: PreenFM

I built my first synthesizer today. Yay! Constructed from the PreenFM kit, it’s a 6-OP, 4 voice FM module with 2 step sequencers and a 12 slot mod matrix. Need to re-solder some joints but she’s alive. Alive I tells ya! 🙂 Here is the First Note.

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/35533656″ params=”auto_play=false&show_artwork=true&color=0006ff” width=”100%” height=”81″ iframe=”true” /] Raw and unpolished. Straight from the stereo outputs, using a small amount of onboard compressor. Decent basis for a track I think, and it took <5 minutes from switch-on to finish.

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