Difference between revisions of "User:Zed"

Latest revision as of 10:20, 18 November 2011

Hello, I'm Ziad. Call me Zed it's easier to remember. By day I'm the CTO of a software company writing distributed trading systems for financial markets. By night I'm playing around doing all sorts of music related things.

My Music Software

A bunch of stuff, but my favs are:

Ableton Live
Trackers
C

My Music Hardware

Fender Strat guitar
Ibanez Artcore guitar
Cheapo fretless bass
WHD512 electronic drums
Roland MC-303 Groovebox
AKG C1000 mic
M-audio Keystation 61e controller
Korg microKontrol controller
Tapco usb soundcard
Phonic AM240D mixer
Boss Me-50 multi-effects pedal

My Programming Languages

C/C++ mainly
Java and clones
A ton of scripting languages (do they count?)

Music Hackspace Projects I Participate In

Soooooon

I'd like to Collaborate/Give a hand with...

User interfaces for musical instruments
Algorithmic composition
Visualisation
Music theory and craftsmanship
Playing instruments traditional or otherwise. Lets jam!

My Traditional Instruments

I play these:

Guitar (Jazz, Funk, Folk, Rock)
Piano
Drums (beginner)
Do a lot of singer/songwriter and improv stuff

My Websites/Projects

Last thing I released before getting sucked into my day job:

http://www.sonicspot.com/zs1amen/zs1amen.html.

Recently started uploading audio here:

http://www.facebook.com/ZedAudio

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-Hello, I work as the template for the Music Hackspace's User Pages. My name is Dent, Arthur Dent, I'm the guy with the striped t-shirts and the purple headphones. I'm into post-colonial minimalist punk reggae and soldering. I think the [http://youtu.be/0h-RhyopUmc Reactable] is the best thing since sliced bread. In fact, I've actually sliced bread on it.
+Hello, I'm Ziad. Call me Zed it's easier to remember. By day I'm the CTO of a software company writing distributed trading systems for financial markets. By night I'm playing around doing all sorts of music related things.
 ==My Music Software==
-I love using these:
+A bunch of stuff, but my favs are:
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_(software) Max MSP]
+* Ableton Live
-I can make patches that process microphone input! And I'm figuring out how to trigger a synthethiser with them.
+* Trackers
-* [http://www.ableton.com/live Ableton Live]
+* C
-I do all my MIDI stuff here, and always welcome creative suggestions as to how to use it.
 ==My Music Hardware==
-* Accelerometers
+* Fender Strat guitar
-I have been wiring [http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Arduino-ADXL345-Triple-Axis-Accelerometer-Breakout-Module-/270813689450?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f0dc0f66a these] to my congas, violin, and garden table. They're good to determine something's inclination, they make good controllers. I have a bunch left and will swap them for piezoelectric microphones, a yamaha preamp, or tortilla chips.
+* Ibanez Artcore guitar
-* BeagleBoard
+* Cheapo fretless bass
-This is effectively a powerful little computer that can do the kind of Digital Signal Processing that a musician would dig, and there's some awesome people who distribute open-source software that makes it easy to build musical stuff on it! It's the [https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~eberdahl/Satellite/ Satellite CCRMA]!
+* WHD512 electronic drums
+* Roland MC-303 Groovebox
+* AKG C1000 mic
+* M-audio Keystation 61e controller
+* Korg microKontrol controller
+* Tapco usb soundcard
+* Phonic AM240D mixer
+* Boss Me-50 multi-effects pedal
 ==My Programming Languages==
-* [http://processing.org/ Processing] (fluent. Spielberg asked me to do the audio-triggered visual effects for Star Wars)
+* C/C++ mainly
-* [http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/software Arduino] (beginner. My code heats the chip so much that I've fried eggs on it, but I still haven't managed to get a sound out of it.)
+* Java and clones
-* Java (including the javax.sound.midi API) (beginner. I've made an online multiuser synthethiser but it only works in particular time zones. I've no clue why. Help)
+* A ton of scripting languages (do they count?)
-* C++ (disastrous. I posted my code on stackoverflow and Linus Torvalds insulted me over the phone. He probably got my number because of a security hole in that freaking online synthethiser... I want to learn more!)
 ==Music Hackspace Projects I Participate In==
-* [[Embedded Audio]]
+* Soooooon
-* [[Hack traditional instruments]]
 ==I'd like to Collaborate/Give a hand with...==
-* Music software workshops (e.g. Pure Data, Ableton Live, etc.)
+* User interfaces for musical instruments
-* General audio hardware tinkering
+* Algorithmic composition
-* Audio programming for congas
+* Visualisation
-* Sharing production tools and techniques for congas
+* Music theory and craftsmanship
-* Practicing congas
+* Playing instruments traditional or otherwise. Lets jam!
-[[File:Saxoface.jpg|200px|thumb|left|this is a cool image of a project I made! You can upload and display yours by clicking [[Special:Upload|here]]]]
 ==My Traditional Instruments==
 I play these:
-* Violin
+* Guitar (Jazz, Funk, Folk, Rock)
-* Conga
+* Piano
-* Bass guitar
+* Drums (beginner)
-'''Go congas!!'''
+* Do a lot of singer/songwriter and improv stuff
-==Things that inspire me==
+==My Websites/Projects==
-* [http://www.reactable.com/ The Reactable] Because it's so shiny and it doesn't wobble. Well... it does if you put the right LFO in.
+* Last thing I released before getting sucked into my day job:
-* [http://youtu.be/UGT1tZT9C1o Tim Exile] I love his experiments.
-* [http://youtu.be/QAvS0pc9NIw Kutiman] He's shown we're all (or can be) beautifully connected.
+http://www.sonicspot.com/zs1amen/zs1amen.html.
+copyright 1998! niiice
+* Recently started uploading audio here:
-==My Websites/Projects==
+http://www.facebook.com/ZedAudio
-* http://www.soundcloud.com/arthurdentsoundcloud/
-This is my soundcloud! You better leave positive comments on my tracks or I'll solder my congas up your laptop.
-* http://www.arthursreallycoolblog.com/
-My blog gets updated once every two months if there's a full moon on that tuesday. But there's tons of cool pictures of my dog eating the arduino and getting punished with a conga.
-==To create your user page==
-# Click on this page's "Edit" tab (at the very top).
-# Select all the text in the text box and copy it.
-# If you don't already have an account in London Hackspace's wiki, create one by clicking on the "Log in / create account" link on the top right of the page.
-# Once your account is created and you're logged in, go to your user page by clicking on your username on the top right of the page.
-# Click on the "Edit" tab.
-# Paste.
-# Edit, add and remove stuff if your name's not Arthur Dent.
-# To insert links: <code><nowiki>[http://www.soundcloud.com/my_soundcloud_page|my soundcloud page]</nowiki></code>, don't forget to include the "http://" at the start.
-# To insert a link within the Hackspace wiki, get the last bit of the page's URL and type it as such: <code><nowiki>[[Hack_traditional_instruments|the hacking traditional instruments project]]</nowiki></code>.
-# To display an image [[Special:Upload|upload it]] and follow the instructions.
-# [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting Decorate!]
-# Add your name to the [[Music_Hack_Space#People|Music Hack Space's list of people]]
---[[User:Ariel|Ariel]] 04:00, 28 October 2011 (UTC)