20100913 Misclinklanea, 3

Solar powered hotspots. Beautiful and exciting story. More like these, please –these projects fascinate me! ~ The Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino (Spain’s equivalent to DEFRA) doesn’t get it: the new version of its own cartographic and satellite maps viewer (SIGPAC) will use Silverlight. Yet another failed opportunity to jump onto [...]

20100408 On executable music compos

As I wrote before, there were a couple of thoughts I had regarding the executable music compo at Breakpoint, although as a matter of fact, these thoughts can easily apply to any competition which introduces the “executable” bit into the rules. I’ll go straight to the point: What are we judging in these compos? Are [...]

20100407 Sorollet V2, out NOW!

Your wishes have been fulfilled – Sorollet V2 it’s finally out, for you to enjoy (or suffer, depends on your tastes, but hopefully you’ll like it). The project comes with the song that I released for the Breakpoint’s 2010 newschool exe music compo, Bizarría sorollosa – which can be listened to here too: Bizarría sorollosa [...]

20100331 Breakpoint demolog, days 56-57: wrapping up

I managed to make a bit of sense out of the little mess my song was initially. It’s still rather unconventional, and it happened to me that the first time you listen to it, it sounds very weird. The second time you begin to like its oddities, the third time you love them. And so [...]

20100330 Breakpoint demolog, days 51-55: fixing framework bugs, and composing a song too

Thanks to a series of very fortunate findings, I happened to fix the two bugs that made my synths sound horrible when running on top of iq’s 64k framework, and even worse, in Release mode. There were two problems, firstly with the noise functions and second with the rounding to integer functions. The framework has [...]