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Day 27: Skirting the Laconian Gulf

Sleep came easy and I was unconscious for a solid ten hours. Starting out groggy and unenthusiastic, I felt much better after a few kilometres, even without breakfast. My target for today would be Mavrovouni, 70km away, and my first stop on the Mani peninsula, the next ‘finger’ of the Peleponesse. I wasn’t going to…

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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 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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