brainstorms

Monday September 12, 2005

wolfram tones [bingley bingley beep]

ah, those splendid yet boring sounds of cellular automata. wolframtones is an experiment in a supposed new kind of music. pretty interface, but i do not know what to make of the results; thus far everything that has been generated for me from wolfram's computational universe [tm] sounds remarkably similar to the music i had heard during mid-eighties from various energetic computer music experiments at york university and ryerson. [i spent quite a bit of time listening to those experiments in stochastic music - i was in computer science and also an electronic music dj for radio york] so far as i can tell, the only thing that is different from what i heard in the past is the level of aggrandizement. [this is new kind of science and new kind of music. see faqs]

related listening: oscar sala, elektronische impressionen [i do not know if any of sala's works have been issued in cd form. i have this as an lp]

[wolframtones noise and this new kind of science stuff reminds me of the great mark twain quote: Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.]

adobe and nikon, wink wink, nudge, nudge.

just noticed that old bit of news about adobe and nikon agreeing to work together. there is the nikon press release quoting adobe:

Adobe is committed to working with Nikon to ensure that our common customers have an excellent experience when using Nikon cameras with Adobe software, and the company is disappointed that there has been confusion about this in the market.

showel, showel...

confusion in the market? really. there has been no confusion in the market about nikon's myopic move, and adobe's situation. there was no illusion in the market about what adobe really wanted; a photographer revolt against nikon's white balance has only helped strenghten its hand. now that it made nice with nikon, it can legally use nikon WB information for its raw converter, while a part of the photography community is still stuck with a retarded raw file format that illegally hides protographer's own creation from her.

i am a programmer, and a photographer. i want to be able to legally take apart and process my own raw images with tools i develop. this is non-negotiable.

[installed bibble labs bibble 4.3 for processing my images. this is one of the best tools in the industry for professional digital workflow.]