Lighting Up The Stars, ( 人生大事 ) (2022)
dir. Liu Jiang Jiang
“Each star that shines in the sky represents someone who has lived and loved.”
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Lighting Up The Stars, ( 人生大事 ) (2022)
dir. Liu Jiang Jiang
“Each star that shines in the sky represents someone who has lived and loved.”
Everywhere around us are things that serve functions. We live in houses, sit on chairs, drive in cars. But these things don’t only serve functions, they also come in particular forms, which may be emotionally or aesthetically pleasing as well as functional. The study of how form and function come together in things is what … Episode 26: Ge Wang on Artful Design, Computers, and Music Read More »
". . . Aesthetic & ethical considerations are kind-of built-in, from the get-go. Aesthetics is not sthg you can justslap on at the end. Nor is ethics some kind of module you can install into your system just to make it ethical."
"None of us know very much. & yet, we are non-zero. We exist."
"I think what is sublime, is that the natural world, is that*. It, it’s insane. The universe is preposterous. It is horrifying, Terrifying; yet in an exquisitely beautiful way."
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A great talk by Ge Wang around computer music.
THIS is computer #music: Ge Wang at #TEDx Stanford @gewang #Smule is making music social, interactive, and collaborative again. Ge Wang is an assistant professor at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
Stanford Laptop Orchestra: Excerpts 2009-2012
Go Go Gadget Practice
Go Go Gadget Practice
J. S. Bach (aged 61)
Do you think somebody who merely pushes a button to make music a musician? See the hilarious video below for a negative example, and the following one for a wonderfully positive example.
Bach once said of his prodigious keyboard skills something like, “There’s nothing to it; you just push the right key at the right time and the instrument plays itself.”
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Ge Wang: The DIY orchestra of the future
just installed ChucK on my computer. thankfully its somewhat related to my homework, otherwise this would be disastrous to my productivity.
also ge wang is the guy doing the demo in this video and he is a boss. got to see a live demo and get dinner with him #yalecompsciwin