A collection of links compiled during the week: Liquid Resize — Content-aware image resizing as developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. Watch a video detailing how it works. Also available as a GIMP plug-in. Deputydog — A captivating blog “mainly interesting architecture, clever design, geographical oddities and so on.” de la Mancha — Developer of numerous unique VST plug-ins.
The Avant Garde Project, à bastion for out of print and pioneering electro-acoustic and electronic music has just released their 75th release: François Bayle’s Erospère. Not only does AGP offer astounding music that does not violate copyrights (releasing “only recordings that are long out of print and therefore show no signs of being capitalized upon”, […]
New Scientist Space just posted an article about the detection of a bizarre extragalactic radio burst that seems to have originated around 1.6 billion light years away. The leading theories as to the cause involve colliding neutron stars or even an evaporating black hole. In any case, I’d like to get a recording!
Just released on Treetrunk Records: The Jade Furnace II. This is the second in The Jade Furnace series of albums. Like the first, the name is derived from a Taoist alchemical metaphor that denotes the space in which the great work of alchemical transformation takes place. I have always felt a very strong resonance between […]