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Re: A Distributed Music Synthesizer Using WiFi

lauriespiegel — Wed, 20 May 2020 15:16:03 -0000

The 1977 original Hal Alles digital synthesizer was more flexible than your description says. Additive synthesis was only one of the ways it could be configured. In this video I programmed it to do (pre-Yamaha) FM synthesis. It could also reproduce formants for voice synthesis. It was a general purpose audio generating and processing instrument.

Re: Sculptor Richard Serra drops $7M on Tribeca loft, now owns entire building

lauriespiegel — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:25:31 -0000

To correct the errors in your piece on 173-5 Duane here, Richard Serra does not have the entire building. He does, as of this purchase, have all other units except my floor of our building, and there are no plans to change this. He and I have booth lived and worked in this building since 1976, not 1990 for Richard as you wrote. Additionally, the ground floor was never a residence. During the period that both Richard and I have lived and worked here, the ground floor was an elevator repair company, then used for food warehousing then a private art gallery and now studio space.

Back when we each moved here, this block was still very much Washington Market, the street busy with wholesale food shipments, trucks, forklifts and active warehouse workers. We in the arts who rented a few of the empty unused spaces, lofts increasingly left vacant and unrentable by the decline of the produce industry here and the lack of small industrial tenants for "sweatshop-sized spaces"– we artists were also small independent businesses. This was very much a working person's area back then, both warehouse and arts workers, not at all residential. There were no schools, no grocery stores and no retail was allowed on the cross streets. It was another world.

Re: Greening Your Tea Brewing in Five Easy Steps!

lauriespiegel — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 20:10:25 -0000

For efficiency and energy conservation, brew multiple cups at a time and use a thermos so as not to have to reheat.

Re: It isn’t easy to sever a human spine. Here’s why

lauriespiegel — Sun, 03 May 2015 02:17:19 -0000

There will, I hope, eventually be testimony from the others who were riding in back of the van after the first stops. He may have told them what happened and they certainly observed the degree to which he'd have been tossed around during the ride and what state he was already in.

Re: It isn’t easy to sever a human spine. Here’s why

lauriespiegel — Sat, 02 May 2015 20:23:16 -0000

At this point I suspect the name-withheld person"Hominid" is just being a complete contrarian in order to be the center of attention and distract everyone else from the topic at hand. Best to just ignore this poster called "Hominid" from now on. Pointless to interact.

Re: It isn’t easy to sever a human spine. Here’s why

lauriespiegel — Sat, 02 May 2015 16:53:22 -0000

Hominid, you can't really be doubting the established fact of human-caused climate change this late in the process??? You don't believe in evidence-based science or scientific method? Then why would you be posting in a discussion that's trying to analyze causality?

Re: It isn’t easy to sever a human spine. Here’s why

lauriespiegel — Sat, 02 May 2015 16:48:19 -0000

My vision is fine, Hominid. He is not walking to the van. They are propping him up on both sides and his legs are dragging behind. It's not clear in the vid exactly what happened while he was down on the ground with the cops all over him holding him down but I think that's when his neck was injured - by the cops.

Re: It isn’t easy to sever a human spine. Here’s why

lauriespiegel — Sat, 02 May 2015 01:47:44 -0000

From the brief video clips shown in PBS Newshour today (May 1) of the cops dragging him before he was put in the van (despite his having voluntarily surrendered), the cops are holding him upright and dragging him. He appears to already not able to stand or walk. I think his neck was already broken or severely damaged by his captors at that point, before he ever gets to the van.

Why is everyone assuming his neck was injured during the ride? Look at the videos again.

Re: bozuk plak - Laurie Spiegel - “Improvisations on a ‘Concerto...

lauriespiegel — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:01:40 -0000

A slight correction. My reason for withdrawing was not a shift away from artistic process toward product but the opposite: a shift away from artistic content and emotive-aesthetic purpose toward over-concern with process, including technology at the expense of content and quality of the artistic experience being produced (which could be called "product" though I would not use that word).

The exact quote from Gann's bio states the reason this way:

"the new music scene's general direction was toward an "expansion of the collection of tools and techniques available to make music (useful, but not as the central content of a work)"".