Tags / 5 quotes from 4 sources
#sound
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Sampling and quantization: from analog to digital
Analog signals are known as “continuous” and digital signals are called “discrete.” This distinction simply means that analog signals vary continuously in time, while discrete signals are chopped up into separate units at each time point—which is otherwise known as the sample…
Bugged Out At 20: Electro-house, Minimal Techno, New Rave (john Burgess)
Minimal techno
By 2005, this was the sound that filled most clubs in London and across Europe. Minimal at its best was Latin-infused, hypnotic and seductive. But sometimes the tracks were so stripped back it sounded risible. I wondered what motivated a producer to go into a studio to produce…
Osx Dictionary
verb [ no obj.
verb [ no obj. ] (of food) make a hissing sound when frying or cooking: the bacon began to sizzle in the pan. • informal be very hot: we sizzled in blazing sunshine this week. • informal be very exciting or passionate, esp. sexually: they simply sizzle as their affair develops.
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The world as lila, meaningless play
in the Vedanta the whole world is seen as the lila and the maya of the Self, the first word meaning “play” and the second having the complex sense of illusion (from the Latin ludere, to play) magic, creative power, art, and measuring—as when one dances or draws a design to a…
Of what use is the universe?
Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use—which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist…