November 2009
5 posts
A Singular Christmas (2004)
Five years ago today I released “A Singular Christmas,” the rendered output of a piece of software that listened to hundreds of Christmas songs and tried to compose its own new holiday standards. It ended up as my most successful thing ever by a few orders of magnitude: 600,000 people downloaded it over the space of three weeks. I was on BBC Radio on Christmas Eve; Wired Magazine...
Music Hack Day Boston
Last weekend I was happy to be a part of Music Hack Day Boston. The Echo Nest co-organized it and sponsored it; I sat on a panel, helped with some “local coordination,” put up some awesome people at my place nearby, and generally did everything but make a hack myself. (I tried, really.)
Below is an unordered list of “things I learned” last weekend.
Elissa is a...
“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t...”
– my man cormac in this excellent interview
(although i would assert that writing short stories can also take years of your life / drive you insane)
KFW @ On Land, Sep 19 2009
Live Generator (1) @ On Land by kfw
