Basing music on the golden proportion, lots of examples from zelda video games.
http://www.thetanooki.com/2007/03/03/zelda-music-of-golden-proportions/
Searching for the simplest
Posted by clint
Sometimes it’s amazing how obvious the “right” solution to a problem is. It’s also amazing how hard it can be to arrive at that solution. Anyone who writes any software has felt that particular light-bulb on top of their head at least once. The common thread: looking back you can’t imagine that you hadn’t thought of it that way to begin with.
I play in a band. I more or less play rhythm mandolin. There is a lead guitarist (Travis). Travis and I have this problem: we can’t ever hear each other play. Stage sound is tough. There are lots of variables, but what it boils down to for Travis and me is that it makes both of our jobs easier when we can hear each other above the rest of the “stuff” that is going on.
Travis and I have talked about our problem lots of times. 10 at least. We’re always trying to adjust the stage monitors on the soundboard—more of Travis over here, more of me over there, jeezus! less piano!
At this point I should mention that from left to right the band setup usually looks like this:
Piano – Me – Drums – Bass – Travis
Hal plays bass. Now, I’m not saying that he hasn’t had many great ideas in his life, but last night was hands down one of Hal’s most brilliant: “Why don’t you guys just set up next to each other?”. Huh. Good idea.
If we set up next to each other our amps will be right behind us—and right beside each other.
Did we all have some preconception that Travis and I needed to be on different sides of the drums? I have no idea. One thing is certain: no one in the band had even considered Hal’s solution. Makes me wonder how often I’m blinded to the right solution by some sort of crazy brain block.
Aside from being by FAR the simplest solution, Travis and I setting up next to each other worked magically.
Backing up your iTunes Library
Posted by clint
I keep my itunes library on an external, bus powered hard drive. I want to keep a backup of my music. Nothing fancy, I just want to copy the files to another external drive.
The easiest way to do it is w/ the copy command. Mine looks like this:
cp -Rnv "/Volumes/tre/iTunes Music" "/Volumes/gigante/tre_backup"
R: recursive
n: copy only when the SOURCE file is newer than the destination file or when the destination file is missing
v: verbose
