20 cool Clojure functions
One of my favorite things about Clojure is that there are just so many really neat, useful functions and macros built into the language, and I’m constantly learning about new ones that I didn’t know...
View Article_why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby in Clojure: Part 6
Parts 1 through 5 of this series can be found here, here, here, here and here.OK, to be honest I almost forgot that I was doing this! We’re in the home stretch now. It’s a little hard to follow the...
View ArticleAntibubbles - Live @ the Layabout (8/5/11)
I was going through my computer and found this old Antibubbles live set – thought I’d share it. It’s from a fun house show we played at the Layabout in Durham on August 5, 2011.Antibubbles was a band...
View ArticleIntroducing Riffmuse
I’ve written a simple command line app in Clojure that will take a musical scale as a command line argument and algorithmically generate a short musical idea or “riff” using the notes in that scale. I...
View ArticleRIP, iPod Classic :(
I read some interesting news this week about the iPod Classic… if you haven’t heard, Apple has killed off the iPod Classic.For me, personally, this is devastating news. I’ve used a 160 GB iPod Classic...
View ArticleA character utility library for Clojure
(Note: some of the supplementary Unicode characters on this page may not display properly if you don’t have CJK fonts installed.)So, I’ve been kicking this idea around for a while, and I’ve finally...
View Article_why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby in Clojure: Part 7
Parts 1 through 6 of this series can be found here, here, here, here, here and here.Alright, so I kind of just remembered that there was still one chapter left to go – so here it is! Until _why decides...
View ArticleAntibubbles - 'Cactus'
Here’s an unreleased Antibubbles song – it was part of a small batch of songs we were working on right before we broke up. This is a rehearsal recording from December 8, 2012, about a month before our...
View ArticleClojure character utilities, now available as a clojar!
A couple months ago I posted about a character utility library I whipped up for Clojure. It’s still a work-in-progress, but I think it’s in good enough shape for general use. I decided to make a clojar...
View ArticlePixel Rain
Here’s a little blast from the past – I just realized that I composed and programmed this “NES classical” piece for a composition class almost exactly 10 years ago. I had recently discovered MML, a...
View ArticleNo Love @ WKNC
A couple weeks ago, WKNC invited my band No Love to play a set in their studio. Much fun was had.In about a week (February 7) we’ll be playing at the Lincoln Theater as part of the Double Barrel...
View ArticleI put some S-expressions in your Ruby
I just rediscovered Rubeque, a set of short problems/koans to solve using Ruby, ranging in difficulty from “What does true equal?” to writing simple AIs and solving logic puzzles. The web UI provides...
View ArticleSusanne
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, so here’s another laptop recording from the vault. It’s a cover of one of the best Weezer B-sides, “Susanne.” I recorded it in my dorm room during my last...
View ArticleMaking MIDI Sound Awesome in Your JVM
You might be surprised to learn that your Java Virtual Machine is a capable musician. A MIDI soft synthesizer has actually been built into the JVM for years and years, and starting with Java 7, it’s...
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Vignettes: Vim, Fish Shell, Amethyst
I’ve been exploring all sorts of awesome things lately. I feel compelled to share the magic™ of these things with you, but to be fair, there are already a ton of great blog posts and tutorials out...
View ArticleMaking MIDI Sound Awesome in a Clojure Program
I wrote a couple months ago about MIDI and the JVM. I explained that Gervill has been the JVM’s built-in soft synth since Java 7, and I mentioned that there are two ways that Gervill allows you to load...
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Alda: A Manifesto and Gentle Introduction
What is Alda?Alda’s ambition is to be a powerful and flexible music programming language that can be used to create music in a variety of genres by typing some code into a text editor and running a...
View ArticleSomething Cool That Happened Every Month of My Life: 2010
Quite often, I think about what I was doing exactly 5 or 10 years ago. I think about what bands I was playing in, where I was living, what my interests were then, how I felt, which people I spent the...
View ArticleGetting Your First Programming Job: Not as Hard as You Think
Today marks my one-year anniversary of working at Adzerk, which also means I have now been working professionally as a software developer for one year. I could not be happier to be programming for a...
View ArticleAlda Has a Bunch of New Features
Three months ago, I wrote a blog post introducing the music programming language Alda and walking through the basics of using it to write a musical score.To my amazement and delight, my blog post went...
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