en-us http://www.erase.net/weblog khankah http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-09/edinburgh-windup So, the Edinburgh micro-festival is over, and echoes of megaphones, filmreels, synthesizers and lasers are beginning to fade to half-real memories. We'll be collating the photographic highlights on... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:49:39 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-09/edinburgh-windup http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-08/what-they-could-do-they-did-edinburgh-2008 It's busy season again. The dead laptop has returned from its 5-week absence to be greeted with a nonstop influx of work: some for The Fragmented Orchestra, whose systems development is now well... Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:35:00 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-08/what-they-could-do-they-did-edinburgh-2008 http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-07/previews-of-the-glitch-a-sketch I've been tasked with curating and co-ordinating this Thursday's episode of the monthly What They Could Do: Escape! event series. It's billed as "an "incandescent spectacle of all things electric",... Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:28:48 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-07/previews-of-the-glitch-a-sketch http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-07/five-an-exercise-in-enumeration five takes a reductionist approach to the similarly obsessive practices of blogging and listmaking, presented as an open series of short and often playful lists. It's a project that I started in 2006... Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:26:42 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-07/five-an-exercise-in-enumeration http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-07/ghost-in-the-machine The unspoken reliance on being wired into the system only becomes visible when the wires are severed -- which is unfortunately my current situation, as I watch my laptop go through the latest of its... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:44:51 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-07/ghost-in-the-machine http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-06/gig-open-source-city I'm playing as Ad Hoc at this Saturday's Open Source City event in Liverpool, at the tail end of a diverse week of workshops and presentations. The set is going to be built around a glitchy live... Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:13:22 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-06/gig-open-source-city http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-06/herb-alpert-makes-summer It's times like this I ask myself, Why the hell did I skip past every herb alpert record I ever came across when rummaging through charity shop vinyl? He is in.cred.ible. The trumpet falling into the... Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:05:57 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-06/herb-alpert-makes-summer http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-06/new-on-the-web New stuff, and some old:erase labs are an ancient gathering ground for experiments and web doodles, defunct until recently when I was encouraged to revive them by the simple starfield CSS sketch. All... Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:32:25 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-06/new-on-the-web http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-05/platnik-fear-of-electrons-ep Platnik is the musical spawn of me and the endlessly skilled Mimi Leung. Though her current living situation (approximately 9,648km east of here) makes recording difficult at the moment, we've just... Fri, 30 May 2008 19:15:07 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-05/platnik-fear-of-electrons-ep http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-05/new-ad-hoc-live-mix-and-photographs I've been gigging around more as Ad Hoc over the past few weeks, from a warehouse party in the industrial hinterland surrounding the Blackwall Tunnel, to next Wednesday's Cybersonica Çonic... Fri, 30 May 2008 00:56:37 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-05/new-ad-hoc-live-mix-and-photographs http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-05/subtext Accompanying text and images are now available for Subtext, the major project that I've been working on over the past few months. It's the first time that I've been involved in creating real,... Tue, 27 May 2008 11:38:03 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-05/subtext http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-05/delicious-digest-1 There's been a veritable blizzard of bookmarks swarming through my browser tabs over the past few days — convenient, as I'm enjoying the relative lull after the hectic weeks around Futuresonic.... Wed, 14 May 2008 15:40:33 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-05/delicious-digest-1 http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-05/free-gig-this-thursday-wtcd-escape I won't repeat verbatim what I've just written on the Ad Hoc blog - but I'm playing in this guise, along with the Capsized Smiles, in Herne Hill this Friday. Should be a good'un, and, like the rest of... Wed, 07 May 2008 18:16:18 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-05/free-gig-this-thursday-wtcd-escape http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-05/shortcut-bluetooth-files-directly-from-finder Cmd-Shift-B.... Wed, 07 May 2008 14:01:29 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-05/shortcut-bluetooth-files-directly-from-finder http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-05/subtext-autonomous-village-at-futuresonic08 I'm writing this from the Contact Theatre in Manchester, one of the main venues of Futuresonic08, in the midst of last-minute preparation for an installation commissioned by the wonderful... Fri, 02 May 2008 19:58:51 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-05/subtext-autonomous-village-at-futuresonic08 http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-04/fragmented-orchestra-awarded-prs-new-music-prize I was delighted to discover that the Fragmented Orchestra won last night's annual PRS New Music award -- a thoroughly well-deserved accolade for this brilliant trio, who will be realizing the project... Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:14:31 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-04/fragmented-orchestra-awarded-prs-new-music-prize http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-04/ableton-live-pythonosc-api-available-for-os-x It's rare for me to envy Windows users, but I have a long-harboured jealousy of the unofficial Python API for Ableton Live that's been available for the past year or so -- as I'm sure the reader would... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:03:38 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-04/ableton-live-pythonosc-api-available-for-os-x http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-04/rate-of-change Things change fast in the hypersphere. I've been absent for a couple of weeks, first journeying around Napoli on a working trip to EvoWorkshops 2008, then beginning intensive work on an electronics... Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:32:10 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-04/rate-of-change http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-03/atomswarm-source-now-available After months of good intentions being ousted by other priorities, I'm pleased to have finally found the time to finish cleaning up and documenting the core classes of AtomSwarm, a Processing-based... Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:09:36 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-03/atomswarm-source-now-available http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-03/x-on-y-1 robert henke on laptop performance in the supercomputer age / björk on stockhausen and galaxy formation / kevin kelly on videogame ontogeny / alex galloway on network decentralization and control... Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:23:05 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-03/x-on-y-1 http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-03/diagram-fetishism-from-free-patents-online The ideal outlet for those who share my obsessive fascination with intricate schematics: Google Image search of freepatentsonline.com. On a related note, xkcd hits the paydirt as usual with its great... Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:47:30 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-03/diagram-fetishism-from-free-patents-online http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-03/from-albert-speer-to-david-lynch-the-strange-lineage-of-teufelsberg Going through old material to publish online, I happened upon the piece that I wrote to accompany Julia's article for They Did magazine. It describes the history of Teufelsberg ("Devil's Mountain"),... Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:12:12 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-03/from-albert-speer-to-david-lynch-the-strange-lineage-of-teufelsberg http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-03/garfield-minus-garfield Garfield Minus Garfield is a sublime take on the abject loneliness of American... Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:54:57 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-03/garfield-minus-garfield http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-03/your-collective-camberwell-arts-group-seeks-proposals Your Collective is a group of art students based at Camberwell College of Art (including What They Could Do's Josh Pollen) whose stated aim is to accept and execute proposals from the public realm.... Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:28:18 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-03/your-collective-camberwell-arts-group-seeks-proposals http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-02/toneshared-free-experimental-mp3-ringtones Almost certainly the first and last time I'll be linking to a ringtone website, Toneshared is the exception to the rule because a) it has high-quality mp3s from such electronic luminaries as Alva... Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:08:55 GMT http://www.erase.net/weblog/2008-02/toneshared-free-experimental-mp3-ringtones