Recent Posts Tagged With 'beethoven'

• Ranking Beethoven

  Posted on Thursday July 23rd, 2009 at 22:49 in youtube, classical music, popular, beethoven, symphonies

  Remember that post from Monday where I kindly provided you with a crap-load of Beethoven videos on YouTube? Well since all those videos were posted at around the same time — two years ago, yeah it took naive little ol’ me that long to fin...

• Unbrokenup Beethoven

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 22:35 in youtube, classical music, beethoven, symphonies

  Now I’m not *exactly* the first to find these — 870,083 happy campers got their noses in before I did — but the novelty of full-length classical music vids has yet to wear thin. Here’s symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’: A...

• Crisper Unmolding

  Posted on Wednesday July 1st, 2009 at 23:23 in youtube, cleaning, classical music, bleach, beethoven

  OMG. WTF. ETC. When one doesn’t move apartments for five years, one forgets all the crap one has to deal with. Like the horrors lurking within a refrigerator that the ex-residents left closed, with a nutritious pool of liquid food fermenting be...

• Scandalous

  Posted on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 22:39 in technology, youtube, classical music, beethoven, scanner, ode to joy, hp scanjet

  I think — (hope) — the scanner we have in lab is one of these bad boys: The instructions, for the lucky scanjet owners: 1. Turn off scanner 2. Set SCSI ID to 0 (using dial on back of scanner) 3. Hold down green button 4. Turn scanner on...

• Beet Farming

  Posted on Tuesday February 24th, 2009 at 23:13 in classical music, beethoven, liszt, symphony

  I’ve been craving, CRAVING, the Liszt piano orchestrations (isn’t that backward? De-orchestration?).  Unfortunately they were left standing, wailing at the altar of my other computer: the old, crummy, dusty leviathan of a desktop hiding ...

• Score Processing, Part III

  Posted on Wednesday December 3rd, 2008 at 16:12 in classical music, visualization, beethoven, score analysis

  Here is the latest product of my epic battle to nicely animate a score to music: (widescreen here) The motivation here was to get a program to work out when notes were being hit, just by looking at the volume. The idea is that when the volume sudden...

• Score Processing, Part II

  Posted on Saturday November 29th, 2008 at 21:50 in animation, classical music, visualization, beethoven, score analysis

  No-one exists here. We are still within the midst (or midsts? Which is it? Well, given that it is from the 15th century I guess I can get away with either. That’s how they used to roll.) of thanksgiving. No-one is here. Except me. I think my su...

• Awesome Beethoven Transcriptions

  Posted on Wednesday July 2nd, 2008 at 22:37 in piano, classical music, beethoven, liszt, transcriptions, symphonies

  Guys! After all of the mentions of transcriptions in the last week, and JonJ and Yvonne commenting that there is a well established history of transcripting stuff, I got off my internet arse and discovered several very joyous things. Firstly, the cla...

• Windows Hearts Beethoven

  Posted on Friday May 9th, 2008 at 07:18 in classical music, composers, beethoven, windows sp3

  The latest Windows update refuses to install if it senses a lack of Beethoven’s 9th: Thank you Microsoft for insisting that Beethoven’s MOTHER ********** NUMBER 9 NEEDS TO BE INSTALLED ON MY MOTHER ********** COMPUTER before Service MOTHE...

• Picking up the pieces

  Posted on Sunday May 4th, 2008 at 19:50 in classical music, beethoven, understanding music

  In my last post I wanted to see if anybody could guess a particular classical piece from hearing a single note, the single note in question being: Two listeners (Miss M. and ACD) impressively pinned this down to Beethoven almost immediately. Given j...

• Thoughts From Last Nights Concert

  Posted on Thursday February 21st, 2008 at 19:32 in berg, classical music, concert, beethoven, cornell, haydn, string quartet, alban berg quartet

  Last night, total lunar eclipse night 2008, at a concert by the Alban Berg quartet: Pre-concert: Are these chairs made from wood or cunningly crafted plastic? They’re too precisely curved to be wood I think but.. OW. The lamps under the soffit ...

• Taxation

  Posted on Monday February 18th, 2008 at 22:34 in museum, classical music, classical, taxes, beethoven

  Taxes, taxes, my room is covered in bloody taxes. At least they’re all done, if slightly incorrectly. The online tax software I was using wasn’t quite advanced enough to correctly work out when my estimated payments were and… this i...