Yves Guiard and bimanual action

Yves Guiard should have held a lecture at McGill last week, but unfortunately could not make it. Reading on his web page and looking up some of the references, I found some interesting comments about bimanual control. He writes: During the nineteen eighties, I spent a lot of time trying to understand the logic of [...]

WFS in electronic music

Today I went to a guest lecture by Marije Baalman on WaveFieldSynthesis (a spatial sound reproduction principle based on the Huygens principle) over at Concordia. I heard a demonstration of WFS at IRCAM a couple of years back, and it was good to (finally) get a good theoretical introduction to the field. They are usually [...]

Art of Cobra

I went to see the McGill improv ensemble perform Art of Cobra by John Zorn. Usually, I find it more interesting to play free improvisation than listening to it, but this time it was quite entertaining. Cobra is a rule game, explained by Zorn as “I’m going to hold up some cards and they’re going [...]

A Tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab

A Tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab with pictures of the hundreds of macs they have running, plus descriptions of how they have automated the testing process.