Alan Jacobs: "The what-I’m-listening-to thing always strikes me as aspirational rather than documentary. It’s really not 'what I’m listening to' but rather 'what I would be listening to if I were actually as cool as I want you to think I am.' "
I'm listening to Tak, a band of Cambodian trans-gender goatherds. It's sort of like Bruce Lee meets Nine Inch Nails by way of Sufjan Stevens. Cambodia is the new Canada, you know. I mean, you did know that, right?
My brother, who lives in Tokyo, loves Japanese noise music (the most aggressive and unconventional noise rock, or so I'm told). One of his favorite bands recorded an album. They only, however, made on copy of the CD. Not one pressing-- a single CD. They then had that CD placed into the CD player of a new car, which was then wired shut, so you could never change the CD out. And the only way to get the album was to buy that individual car.
Yeah well, I liked Tak from before they transed genders.
The goats are transgendered too, you know. It lends a certain subtle ambiguity to the music, which only comes through on the early vinyl pressings.
I can beat y'all though, anyhow: My cell phone ring tone is a synthesized organ sound which I generated by calling the C standard library sin() function in a loop, scaling the values to sixteen bits, and stuffing the numbers in a .wav file.
I'm actually not making that up.
Kirk would whup Picard's ass, btw.
Reminds me of the joke...
Q: How many record store clerks/pitchfork record reviewers/music snobs etc... does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: What? You don't know?
I'm so hip, my favorite band hasn't even gotten together yet. In fact their drummer is only two and is still at the experimental pots-and-pans stage, but his talent is coming along nicely.
Something for everyone!
http://kennethwidmerpool.blogspot.com/2007/06/extm3u-country-bluegrasspam-tillispam.html
so anony_mouse is that more hip than the band that refuses to play? I am so tragically unhip, I'm the un-zaphodist...
The output of sin() wouldn't produce an organ sound so much as a pure tone. To produce a sound approximating an actual instrument you would have to add the harmonics at the appropriate intensity ratios. Since the data describing the ratios you need amounts to a power spectrum for the sound in question, it would probably be easier to take that data and perform an inverse DFT to get the wave form you want.
I mean, I'm just sayin'...