teropa
@teropa.bsky.social
One half of Counterpoint. Building music systems for wellbeing and movement.
The sixth installment of "How The Heck" is live! This one is all about synths. perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...
How The Heck Do Synthesizers Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
An interactive exploration of how synthesizers work: from additive sine waves and ADSR envelopes to resonant filter sweeps.
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i think we can all agree the world needs more hurdy-gurdy and motorik www.youtube.com/watch?v=99NU...
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YouTube video by Geologist - Topic
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I built an interactive guide on how Shazam (the music identification app) works! This is the next installment in my newly coined "How The Heck?" series, where we explore everyday tech that can feel like magic (QR Codes, GPS, and now this one). Hope you enjoy it! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...
🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but VANISHING CULTURE—the new 📚 from Internet Archive—starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️ 📖 Read for free: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... ⬇️
We recently started putting out recordings of our Psykedeelit 2025 conference held last October in Turku. We've creted a playlist that currently contains seven lectures, and plan to keep putting them out at a pace of three recordings a week. 1/ www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Psykedeelit 2025 conference - YouTube
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Overfitting in humans Chen Qiufan: As Water Over Your Scattered Bodies
Love how deep Tyler Friedman and @philipsherburne.bsky.social get into tuning system nerdery here. Our Leimma/Apotome work with Khyam Allami also gets a quick nod. ❤️ futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-164-tyl...
They have discovered a planet. A thing lives there that's like a bear with infinite skin. We could fly there on a sunbeam. Can you go there with me?
Participating in the Pocket Scion distributed science experiment today, collecting resistance data from a few interventions on a Pothos plant
On Shaun Reynaldo’s newsletter, Spencer Doran talks about Christopher Alexander’s Nature of Order, and the idea of positive space in sound design. firstfloor.substack.com/p/visible-cl...
Got a pretty good setup going with Claude Remote Control, doing Windows builds and testing for our audio systems without having to suffer using a Windows machine. I talk to Claude from a browser on my Mac, it drives things on Windows for me.
Had a nice chat with Jordi Pons about music [as] software, music for wellbeing, Raymond Scott's Electronium, and much more! artintech.substack.com/p/music-as-s...
Music as Software
Tero Parviainen on the web as a medium for generative music.
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Interesting thoughts on architecture, and lack of it in agentic model outputs.
David W. Keith@dwk.io · 4mo agoIn agentic engineering the spec is the blueprint that call for specific libraries. At a certain level the AI may choose, no different than a construction framer picking 2x4s and fasteners. But it shouldn’t be milling lumber, that’s a “solved problem”. interconnected.org/home/2026/03...
slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time
AI Liker Georg@avengingfem.me · 5mo agoprobably orthogonal to your view of slop but: bsky.app/profile/aven...
"The Bayesian approach is this weird niche that only a few people seem reeeeally into. It’s the Haskell of statistics." nchagnet.pages.dev/blog/bayesia...
Bayesian statistics for confused data scientists
A gentle introduction to Bayesian statistics for data scientists who, like me, are confused by it.
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I've written a book! Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves is the story of procedural generation - the tech behind games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. It's about how it works, the games that use it, and the art and magic behind it. Out May 7th, in bookshops: linktr.ee/next_level 🎲🔮
