#halim el-dabh

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another composer from sunday*s concert. this is the first piece of "tape music" he actually used a wire recorder. read more at youtube or wikipedia  worth your time.  ps i*m really old and I*ve never seen a wire recorder in action so this was very old tech indeed

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Halim El-Dabh (*1921) Michael and the Dragon

Crossing Into the Electric Magnetic This recording spans the history of legendary composer Halim El-Dabh, from his early work with manipulated wire recorders, through his work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Studio, to his sound sculpture work. Compared with the works other electronic music composers from that period, El-Dabh’s work is unusually organic and emotive – devoid of much of the futuristic-sounding oscillations and bleeps often associated with the genre. Included in this recording is a work recorded in 1944 using manipulated wire recorders, which predates Pierre Schaeffer’s musique concrète by nearly four years

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whatever generative ai is up to now -- week 1

i cloned the ml5.js repository (git clone https://github.com/ml5js/ml5-library.git) to understand how a machine learning library designed for creative coding is structured under the hood. ml5 sits on top of TensorFlow.js but wraps complex machine learning workflows into simpler JavaScript functions that artists and designers can use in the browser. looking through the repo, the src/ folder contains the core library code, where different model interfaces are defined, while dist/ contains the compiled version that people actually load in their sketches. the examples/ folder was especially helpful because it shows how models like image classifiers or pose detection are typically used in practice with p5.js. one thing that became clear while exploring the code is that most of the heavy computation is handled by pretrained TensorFlow models, while ml5 focuses on simplifying how those models are loaded and how predictions are returned to the user. using Claude to walk through the structure helped me trace how a model gets initialized, how input data is passed into it, and how results are returned to the sketch. this made the library feel less like a black box and more like a set of organized abstractions sitting on top of existing machine learning tools.

i used Claude to help map the structure of the repository and explain how the model-loading process works. the most useful prompts were ones that asked it to walk through the execution flow of the code rather than just summarize the project.

here are some writing samples: speech recognition piece, gaza interview reflection, halim el-dabh

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Decolonizing the Ear: Halem El-Dabh Captured the Homegrown Sounds of Egypt | Egyptian Streets

If only the present reality exists, and if we can only see and experience the present reality, then how is it possible that we can also be c

Decolonizing the Ear: Halem El-Dabh Captured the Homegrown Sounds of Egypt

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Halim El-Dabh - "Wire Recorder Piece" (1944)

This is the earliest recorded piece of electronic tape music, also known as "musique concrete" or "electroacoustic" tape music. Halim El-Dabh, then a student at Cairo, Egypt, produced this music piece using samples taken from an ancient Egyptian "Zar" ceremony. He edited, manipulated and arranged these sounds to create the earliest piece of electronic tape music. He first presented his piece at an art gallery event in 1944, predating Pierre Schaeffer's musique concrete recordings by four years.

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Halim El-Dabh - "Wire Recorder Piece" (1944)

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v/a “columbia-princeton electronic music center”