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Timeless works of art The efficient arts hypothesis, artbitrage, arts and crafts in mass production 2015-01-12 – 2021-09-18

Fonts Typefaces I need, which is to say, for web pages and scientific papers 2016-01-11 – 2021-09-18

DIY Artisanal poverty, expressive incompetence, contrarianism on a budget 2018-03-26 – 2021-09-18

Free content Raiding history for clip art 2014-08-31 – 2021-09-16

Audio sample management 2021-09-14 – 2021-09-14

Synchrony between things, especially organisms Entrainment, synchronisation, dancing together 2014-11-03 – 2021-09-08

Software audio routers Patch cables for the cable-shy 2017-06-03 – 2021-09-08

Software video routers 2017-06-03 – 2021-09-08

Recurrent neural networks 2016-06-16 – 2021-09-06

Neural music synthesis 2016-01-15 – 2021-08-17

Playing music on the computer Continuing difficulty thereof 2014-11-26 – 2021-08-16

Editing images Chinks in my armour of learned Photoshop helplessness 2018-10-16 – 2021-08-12

Design grammars 2011-05-30 – 2021-08-09

PDF, Portable Document Format How we may use a thousand dollar computer to simulate a one cent piece of paper with zero day exploits 2018-06-03 – 2021-08-02

Image search 2021-08-02

Organising a photo collection 2020-01-03 – 2021-08-02

Printing Offline backups that do not need batteries 2018-10-03 – 2021-08-02

Music gear Digital amps and mics for the prissy yet broke 2014-08-26 – 2021-07-30

Spatial data in R 2021-03-21 – 2021-07-29

Here’s how I would do art with machine learning if I had to 2016-06-06 – 2021-07-26

Sydney food suppliers Practical bulk budget Sydney gourmet 2016-10-15 – 2021-07-25

Monetizing my music 2015-05-03 – 2021-07-07

Visualising geospatial data Geographic information systems 2016-07-04 – 2021-07-05

Organising a music collection Also guessing missing metadata 2020-01-03 – 2021-06-14

DJing On encouraging people to listen to your living room playlist by demanding that they pay for it 2015-02-02 – 2021-06-14

The property market is pollution Or: hunting endangered big game in dwindling habitat 2021-05-26 – 2021-05-27

Where next Sydney freaks? 2021-04-11 – 2021-05-26

What is your Sydney housing endgame? 2021-04-11 – 2021-05-26

Hedonism, practising The Good Life as far as I recognise it 2020-06-23 – 2021-05-21

Video editing 2020-04-23 – 2021-05-18

Stylus input 2017-04-17 – 2021-05-07

Queerness 2021-05-06

Curators of the internet 2021-05-03 – 2021-05-03

Digital nostalgia Pixel art, geocities chic, cyberpunk retrofuturism 2020-05-15 – 2021-05-03

Transcoding and playing audio/video 2020-04-23 – 2021-04-23

Arpeggiate by numbers Workaday automatic composition and sequencing 2015-01-07 – 2021-04-22

Open Source (mostly software) On published schematics for cheap objects 2017-03-31 – 2021-04-09

Scientific writing In which style tips are given for the projection of status through nominal phrases and passive voice 2014-12-31 – 2021-03-30

Colour 2015-04-07 – 2021-03-24

Technopoetics 2016-07-26 – 2021-03-12

Auditory features descriptors, maps, representations for audio 2019-11-13 – 2021-01-14

Data dashboards On assuring the client that you are doing something data-sciency because it looks like in the movies 2020-03-12 – 2020-11-18

Audiovisuals Synesthetic and other cross-media audio stunts 2020-10-26

Politics of play also, playful politics 2014-10-29 – 2020-09-08

Music software 2014-11-11 – 2020-09-07

Visual node based programming a.k.a. dataflow graphs, patchers, visual coding, flow-based programming 2020-06-13 – 2020-09-03

Contemporary ethnomusicology Global bass, World Music 2.0 etc 2015-04-02 – 2020-08-22

Bookkeeping 2019-03-14 – 2020-08-20

Outsourcing, applied 0001-01-01 – 2020-08-20

Website cheat codes CSS, SCSS, SASS, HTML, UX, Web 2.0, RFC, Yeah you know me 2014-12-23 – 2020-07-02

Audiobooks Long form podcasts 2014-11-11 – 2020-05-27

Screen capture and screen casting 2016-10-20 – 2020-05-19

New-wave jigsaw puzzles 2018-12-14 – 2020-05-13

AV controller interfaces 2019-12-10 – 2020-05-11

Linux audio Making sound by banging rocks together 44 thousand times per second 2018-04-23 – 2020-05-01

Supercollider 2011-06-20 – 2020-04-10

Analysis/resynthesis of audio 2016-01-15 – 2020-04-09

Teaching computers to write music 2016-06-06 – 2020-03-25

Graphic design for the vexed 2018-10-16 – 2020-03-23

Visualising data 2016-07-04 – 2020-03-19

Stickers Printouts that you do not lose 2020-01-31 – 2020-03-03

HTML for haters Plus also CSS. 2016-01-04 – 2020-02-24

Psychoacoustics 2016-08-15 – 2020-01-28

Media metadata management and editing 2014-11-27 – 2020-01-03

Controllerism Making thing happen by waving your arms about on stage 2014-11-17 – 2019-12-10

Audio source separation 2019-11-04 – 2019-11-26

Tunings 2015-10-29 – 2019-11-18

Machine listening Statistical models for audio 2014-10-10 – 2019-11-12

ISMIR 2019 Music Nerds in Delft 2019-11-04 – 2019-11-09

Music software frameworks and programming languages, for music 2016-08-22 – 2019-11-04

Generative art, creative coding, procedural design Teaching my computer to make prettier mistakes than me 2014-09-08 – 2019-10-31

Narrative 2019-10-27

Rhythm Especially for generative music 2014-11-03 – 2019-10-23

Differentiable learning of automata 2016-10-14 – 2019-09-11

Installations (in galleries etc) 2016-08-21 – 2019-07-13

Weaponised design 2014-10-10 – 2019-03-11

Csound a less irritating audio programming language 2017-03-06 – 2019-03-07

Gesture recognition 2014-10-17 – 2018-11-12

The right words That which I substitute with the long words 2017-06-15 – 2018-11-07

10 years of the Living Thing! 2018-10-03

Faust, the DSP language 2016-08-22 – 2017-10-31

In Wild Air 2017-07-02

Musical metrics and manifolds 2014-09-26 – 2017-03-27

Synestizer 2014-11-04 – 2017-01-18

Concatenative synthesis 2015-12-13 – 2017-01-16

Greatest hits 2016-11-19 – 2016-12-12

Iterated function systems 2014-08-14 – 2016-06-06

Art LISP 2015-01-13 – 2015-12-20

Parking sun 2015-11-24 – 2015-11-24

Pattern machine 2011-06-27 – 2015-11-24

Ensemble Tikoro collaboration 2015-11-12

Hiteklotek and Lotekno Sundanese remixes I’m involved in 2015-11-05 – 2015-11-07

New media art 2015-01-12 – 2015-01-12

Time machine 2012 2012-09-09

Dorkbot group show 2012 2012-03-10

Morandini and Blamey 2011-08-27

Dorkbot group show 2011 2011-04-15

Feral 2010-12-02

The after party for the American Century 2010-06-17

SXSW from the gutter 2010-03-17

Transmediale 2010 2010-03-15

Mellifera a show about VR bees I reviewed 2009-04-28

The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie robot 2009-03-21

Jakarta Biennale 2009 (Realtime Magazine) 2009-02-28

Jakarta Biennale 2009 (Sentap! Magazine) 2009-02-05

Dancing machine 2008-09-30