or, Places Where You Can Get Tools for Hacking
GIM Computers
Friendly Mom-and-Pop PC store right off the Tech campus. Good for finding those extra parts when putting together a machine.
Fry’s Electronics (Gwinnett Place)
Biggest-box discount computer hardware. Wonderland.
Apple Store Lenox
The Atlanta center of Mac geekery.
Places where you can Do Your Thing. Hunt down the ones that interest you, or start your own!
Defense and Public Safety
Georgia Tech Research Inst. (GTRI)
Applied research in computing, signals, and many forms of engineering.
Digital Media
Interactive Media Technology Center
Formed during the campaign to bring the 1996 Olympics, they created a 3D multimedia presentation that positively conveyed the Atlanta’s vision in the quest to be host. They continue to do multimedia and research presentations, as well as architecture and standards work.
We listen to the best of the synthetic, music born of equally of circuits, wires, catchy hooks, cheesy lyrics, and the odd guitar riff. A Continental accent is not required but it may push you up in the ranks—the best of Synthpop.
Which is the best hacking tool?
Choices:
Discuss, or add your own.
We joined atlhack to discuss and collaborate on creative code projects. Many interesting projects follow!
Based the influence of:
Zils and Pachet – Musaicing (DAFX 01) (results)
Tristan Jehan – Creating Music by Listening (PhD thesis)
Make a better tool for editing recorded music.
Incorporating more of the musical structure will benefit both novices and experts at making collage and adding samples to works. For example, when "mashing up" existing recordings, one must first establish a tempo grid (source: Boot Camp – Mashing for Beginners). Since many people are working on Machine Listening problems now, we should be able to find a few algorithms good enough to establish a decent tempo grid.
Our overall strategy is to apply the positive results found in machine listening (note segmentation, beat segmentation, timbre similarity, rhythm similarity) in a way that presents a rich but facile interface for making new music out of old music.
We can find additional sources of expertise to apply to our editor. For instance, we can frame our problem of finding a sample out of a huge library as an information visualization problem.