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Recap:
ABBA and I took a hit in the first round (that was for you, MBG), but you guys stuck around. In my remaining two rounds, I played the music that I needed most to share with you--a synthesizer / mashup cover of a classical piece, and a mouse-strumming instrumental that was a bit formless and not quite technically ready. Here are my tracks, ( Read more... )

Tonight! Here's a bit of music to tide you over until then. ( performer links).

Laptop Battle Finals
Tonight, Sat October 14th, 2006, 9PM - $5
the new Lenny's
486 Decatur Street

It should be awesome.

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Laptop Battle Finals are this Friday! I'll be competing against seven formidable local musicians for the title (and gear, and finals in Seattle). It's friend vs. friend--most of these people I know from Tech CS or the other battles. My performance will involve a plucked string algorithm many times; and chuck, of course ( Read more... )

Wielding my trusty BeeThree => NRev => pan2 => dac and i++, along with a dash of sc.maj and tg.beat => now, I served up two worthy tracks (one cheesy pop and the other one more squeaky and tg.beat/10 * dur[i%7] => now), garnished with crowd response ("where's the beat?") and "{kick,hat,cougar}.wav" => sndbuf.read. In the third round, I fell ( Read more... )

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