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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. |
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| ==My Music Software== | | ==My Music Software== |
| I love using these:
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| * [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.
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| * [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.
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| ==My Music Hardware== | | ==My Music Hardware== |
| * Accelerometers | | * Pretty basic home studio setup |
| 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.
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| * BeagleBoard
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| 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]!
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| ==My Programming Languages== | | ==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!) | |
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| ==Music Hackspace Projects I Participate In== | | ==Music Hackspace Projects I Participate In== |
| * [[Embedded Audio]] | | * Soooooon |
| * [[Hack traditional instruments]]
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| ==I'd like to Collaborate/Give a hand with...== | | ==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 | | * Music theory and craftsmanship |
| * Sharing production tools and techniques for congas
| | * Playing instruments traditional or otherwise. Lets jam! |
| * Practicing congas | | |
| [[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]]]]
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| ==My Traditional Instruments== | | ==My Traditional Instruments== |
| I play these: | | 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 |
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| ==Things that inspire me==
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| * [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. | |
| * [http://youtu.be/UGT1tZT9C1o Tim Exile] I love his experiments.
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| * [http://youtu.be/QAvS0pc9NIw Kutiman] He's shown we're all (or can be) beautifully connected.
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| ==My Websites/Projects== | | ==My Websites/Projects== |
| * http://www.soundcloud.com/arthurdentsoundcloud/ | | * Last thing I released before getting sucked into my day job: |
| This is my soundcloud! You better leave positive comments on my tracks or I'll solder my congas up your laptop.
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| * http://www.arthursreallycoolblog.com/
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| 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.
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| ==To create your user page==
| | http://www.sonicspot.com/zs1amen/zs1amen.html. |
| # Click on this page's "Edit" tab (at the very top).
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| # Select all the text in the text box and copy it.
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| # 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.
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| # 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.
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| # Click on the "Edit" tab.
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| # Paste.
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| # Edit, add and remove stuff if your name's not Arthur Dent.
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| # 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.
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| # 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>.
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| # To display an image [[Special:Upload|upload it]] and follow the instructions.
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| # [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting Decorate!]
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| # Add your name to the [[Music_Hack_Space#People|Music Hack Space's list of people]]
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| --[[User:Ariel|Ariel]] 04:00, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
| | copyright 1998! niiice |
