Interesting; thanks for the link. After 20 minutes with it I’d say it has a way to go yet. I haven’t tried the resynthesis of my own voice as the Privacy information is hopeless.
Right now, I’m deep into “It Ends with Us” by Colleen Hoover, and let me tell you, it’s been a whirlwind of emotions. I stumbled upon this treasure over at Bookworm Era, and it’s like I’ve been transported to a world of heart-wrenching storytelling. The characters, the plot twists, everything about it just hooks you right from the start. I’ve laughed, I’ve cried, and I’ve been on the edge of my seat, all within the same book. Colleen Hoover has this way of making you feel every emotion like you’re right there with the characters. But hey, I’m always on the lookout for my next literary adventure. Any book recommendations from your side?
Oramics: Precedents, Technology and Influence
Daphne Oram (1925-2003)
PhD Thesis 2018
Author: Tom Richards
Very nice, a great read thanks.
Thank you for the recommendation, this looks interesting!
Chapter 3 is Open Access.
reading 1984 for the first time (I got it for free through the… book exchange, I guess). Just started and it’s hilarious, cause it reminds me of USSR a looooooot as well as of other countries with dictatorship. Sometimes the parallels are a bit too obvious. Like I believe there was a conspiracy theory in USSR that the party is spying on you through “the radio spot”, it was a radio that everybody (not everybody, but most of the people) had and there was no antenna, you just plug it in, there was a dedicated socket for that. Oh, so it’s called a “Cable radio” in english. Here’s a wiki link. Funny enough there’s no USSR section even though it was big there. Almost everyone had it and I think most of the people had at least sockets for it.
(Another) interview with John Chowning.
i was looking for some info about old soviet semiconductors and found this (no info about what i was searching for haha) – Архив журнала «Радио» A cool archive of an old soviet magazine. It’s interesting to see how it morphed into its final form (they still publish it, but the archive goes to 2000 only). It started as a three-part thing: “Radio-enthusiast”, “Radio-front” and “Radio for everyone”. Then it was “Radio-front” until 1941, when the WWII came to Russia and then there was a 5 year hiatus, but then in 1946 they renamed the magazine to just “Radio”, I guess because in russian “front” also means “frontline”, so it has some connotations and it a bit too soon to play with words like this. Anyway, if you can’t read russian, it’s still a cool looking artifact, haha, especially the first articles (1924). Here’s a pic of how russian journalists in 1924 were scaring people with an american Robocop (it literally says Robo-policeman)
Also it really is… what you call it. Charged? There is an attempt to make people REALLY hate it. Well, journalism still works like that, I guess…
After Dark by Haruki Murakami, (© 2004, 208 pages).
One of the oddest elements is that it’s told from a disembodied first-person plural POV, like something out of a pulp fiction magazine.
It’s got a hint of David Lynch at times.
Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973).
I had read it in the late '70s, enjoyed it then, and have tried several times to re-read it but failed. One! More! Time!
I would say it is harder to read than The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) but easier than V (1963, nothing to do with that '80s TV series about an alien occupation)
[from wikipedia] The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military. In particular, it features the quest undertaken by several characters to uncover the secret of a mysterious device, the Schwarzgerät (“black device”), which is slated to be installed in a rocket with the serial number “00000”.
It gets pretty surreal at times.
I read that a while ago and i feel no desire to go back. Not that it’s bad but it took me a lot longer to read than i would normally expect.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14363/14363-h/14363-h.htm
I just started. Don’t know what it is yet, but I like this kind of stuff. Especially written by posh explorers with classical education and whatever. Just feels good reading stuff produced by people with better vocabulary than mine, which is to be fair, a pretty low bar… but still! Ah, I should add that I like this “posh” language in books, of course, and not online on social media sites… When people write like this on reddit or whatever, it makes me wanna puke
From the developer who released the first (?) Ursa Major Space Station plugin–sounds like they’re working on the 323 next! [edit: I remember finding out from @Jens.Peter.Nielsen on this very forum that there’s a 323 plugin already ( Greybox Audio ) but I don’t think it’s the same dev]