thesundancekid » Uncategorized http://thesundancekid.net/blog Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:41:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 1-bit flash code for LEDs http://thesundancekid.net/blog/2009/05/1-bit-flash-code-for-leds/ http://thesundancekid.net/blog/2009/05/1-bit-flash-code-for-leds/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 19:45:52 +0000 flat20 http://thesundancekid.net/blog/?p=214 I’m waiting for my girlfriend’s brother’s wonderful LED device to arrive but in the meantime I’ve prepared myself for it by creating some tiny 16×24 Flash effects which I hope can be reproduced with LEDs. I coded the classic demo rotozoom and fire effects with 2 colours and some cheap dithering added on top.



Added a new fire with proper Floyd-Steinberg dithering. Now I just need to fix the OpenGL code for FingerPlay.

Oh, and I need to update the blog with Mandy’s new design. Too much to do but not enough minerals..

]]> http://thesundancekid.net/blog/2009/05/1-bit-flash-code-for-leds/feed/ 2 A 45 minute mix http://thesundancekid.net/blog/2009/03/a-45-minute-mix/ http://thesundancekid.net/blog/2009/03/a-45-minute-mix/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:45:43 +0000 flat20 http://thesundancekid.net/blog/?p=186 When the cat’s away the mice run all over the decks and record a mix. My housemate was gone for a few days so I used his computer to record a mix in the front room. Please excuse the static noise in the beginning of it, but running a long cable from a rubbish mixer all the way through the house up to my friend’s computer has its downsides. Two actually, one being the static noise and the other being trying to rush to the toilet in the middle of the night without tripping on the cable and pissing yourself.

Tracks include:
Thomas Schumacher – Picanha
Nari & Milano feat Max C – Disco Nuff (Flow Mix)
Mowgli – Pa Pon Pon (Chris Keaser Mix)
Alucard – About Monster
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Check out the audio app towards the end of the video. I’ve had a lot of fun playing around with the Kaossilator but there would be so many more possibilities with the Siftables.

Update: Video of the music sequencer without the other stuff.


Siftables Music Sequencer from Jeevan Kalanithi on Vimeo.

]]> http://thesundancekid.net/blog/2009/02/siftables/feed/ 0 The Bulgarian http://thesundancekid.net/blog/2009/01/the-bulgarian/ http://thesundancekid.net/blog/2009/01/the-bulgarian/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:51:02 +0000 flat20 http://thesundancekid.net/blog/?p=91 Christmas and new years is over and I just came back from a crazy week in Sweden with nothing to show for it apart from a three day fever I came down with as soon as I got back to London. Three days in bed means three days wasted if you ask me, but at least I kept my head clear enough to crawl to the laptop, push play on winamp and make it back to bed again. What I’m trying to say is that I’m sorry for the lack of updates and I haven’t given up listening to music!

So, here’s one of my favorite producers, The Bulgarian. He’s got a quite identifiable crazy fidgety house sound, yet every one of his tracks seems so different from each other. Not sure how that works really, you better just listen for yourselves. Disfunktional Caterpillar is an all time favorite and the first of his tracks I heard. The bassline kills it!


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Larry Tee – I Love U (The Bulgarian Remix) [via FuckBadMusic.com]

Urban Monkeys – Disfunktional Caterpillar (The Bulgarian Remix)

the bug – run the place red (KiNK vs the bulgarian rerub)

konflict – messiah (le castle vania remix – the bulgarian 127 re-beat)

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http://myspace.com/thebulgariantracks

http://soundcloud.com/thebulgarian

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They’re clearly aware of the challenges lying ahead of them and it’ll be interesting to see what the law the record labels has to say about this.

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What you may not have realized is that perceiving sarcasm, the smirking put-down that buries its barb by stating the opposite, requires a nifty mental trick that lies at the heart of social relations: figuring out what others are thinking. Those who lose the ability, whether through a head injury or the frontotemporal dementias afflicting the patients in Dr. Rankin’s study, just do not get it when someone says during a hurricane, “Nice weather we’re having.”

Do you have semantic dementia?

]]> http://thesundancekid.net/blog/2008/09/if-you-dont-get-sarcasm-you-might-have-braindamage/feed/ 2 George Carlin is dead http://thesundancekid.net/blog/2008/06/george-carlin-is-dead/ http://thesundancekid.net/blog/2008/06/george-carlin-is-dead/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:57:30 +0000 flat20 http://thesundancekid.net/blog/?p=17 George Carlin was one of those few stand-up comedians who actually had something interesting to say.

Geroge Carlin has died.

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