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^ In the past - maybe even today - PAL converted films are also sped up by 4% (that's the 1 fps difference between film and PAL), but this is another reason :D

rhowaldt wrote:@ivo: isn't the distortion you are hearing simply the result of insanely overdone compression etc? at least that is what i understood it to be.

That is what I meant.

^ okay, i wasn't sure from the way you phrased it :)

Definitely the most beautiful and interesting interview with a musician I've ever read: here.

On controlling and surrendering: https://medium.com/@geetadayal/on-john- ... .exu17swur

thanks gekko, nice read :)

I'll just leave this here...
manual organ grinder tracker with lego and ball bearings:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/201 ... hine-video

^ oh wow.... genius stuff

That is awesome and as Frank said, genius, to be able to conceive such a machine let alone use it to make music. I like the pachinko concept of moving and dispersing the balls.

yeah I thought it worth a share. At first I thought the balls played at random, but no - there looks like a lego track which is the 'punch-card' (piano-roll) of the glockenspiel, with the balls being dropped on the notes, as does the bass, but I think he plays the fretboard.