• Archive for July, 2006

    BEAM Foundation

    by  • Tuesday 11 July 2006 • Music • 0 Comments

    In a discussion of “the most complex Max patch“, Barry Threw pointed to the patch used by TrioMetrik, the ensemble of the BEAM Foundation. There’s also a video with shots of musicians and patches.

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    Computers getting slower…

    by  • Friday 7 July 2006 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    Gordon Moore, founder of Intel, observed that computer processor complexity approximately doubled every eighteen months. This observation has become famous as “Moore’s Law” and predicts that computer performance grows exponentially. Thus we expect a fairly new (circa 2005/06) computer running modern software to perform a simple task like word processing much more quickly than...

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