Nope. Don’t mean to sound awkward, but I made the thread to share anything interesting. Feel free to edit the title, though.
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Nevermind, on a second thought maybe it was my request to be awkward! I also edited my post above to make it less confusing.
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if you always wondered how the Physically based rendering work
Take a look of this very interesting Lego material (ABS) study
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Useful to me:
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cool, thanks!
Currently working my way through these. Fascinating stuff to me.
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Inspirational to the nth degree. The book that lets us all know that “Hey, there’s hope for me too !”. 
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I finished the Inferno a while ago, decided to continue through the Purgatorio. Quite surprised that I didn’t encounter PDQ Bach in either location. Makes me wonder if it’s safe to proceed to the Paradiso.
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Just found this website with lots of stuff about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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Thirteen (so far) part introduction to modular. It’s focused on hardware but still useful.
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I’m fascinated by the prescience of musicians such as Busoni and Varese. Even in the very early 20th century they had the vision to see clearly what would happen - and what indeed has happened - to the world of music at the intersection of art and technology. Still worth reading. Makes me wonder: Who is our modern-day Busoni ?
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Good stuff on synthesis techniques and Casio CZ synths and phase distortion synthesis:
Rest in peace Ray 
This should be interesting.
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These articles cover a whole range of interesting modular stuff – randomness, noise, and so on. Talks about hardware more than software but still can be applied to techniques in Rack.
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Nice writeup by Dan Gillespie (ex-Eventide, now Newfangled Audio) on the development of his new DSP model of a Buchla 259-like wavefolder using an approach he calls “model bending.” Includes a high-level discussion and worked example of ADAA.
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The Kickstarter for the reprint of this went live today.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jasonnolan/allen-stranges-electronic-music
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A very weird and sometimes frustrating read. If you’re into the topic of AI in music you’ll know who’s David Cope. He’s certainly one of the most respected researchers in the domain, which is why this book is a bit of a puzzle to me. Parts of the book are quite clearly written, with insights to match, but others are just downright bizarre. It may be that some parts of the book were written by an AI-driven text composition program, one with a very poor sense of style. At any rate, thie book comes across as a hodge-podge of useful and useless information, opinions, lines of research, and recommended studies. It’s hard to say who the book is really for, but given Cope’s reputation it’s possible it could be widely read in certain circles. Nevertheless, I’m not sure how anyone can escape the impression that it’s truly a very strange work.
Incidentally, at the same time I also purchased Cope’s Musicianship Primer, a rock-solid little book, utterly different in tone and style from his Ethics tome. Very clear presentation of a path to one sort of “complete” musicianship, highly recommended to serious students.
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Great article.
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