Benny Woo

Top 50 Watched in 2025, a list of films by Benny Woo

Top 50 films watched in 2025.

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Have you seen Rod Stewart's model railway? It's a shame he's a cunt now but still... one hell of a model railway.

Fair. I always liked the thought that Eurorack is to music what golfing is to sport, i.e. prohibitively expensive and typically the preserve of affluent, middle-aged men.

Types of Fun. One hour of extreme electronic and electroacoustic music, hosted by me, tonight at 9PM BST on Circl8radio.com. Come.

Types of Fun, tonight from 8pm BST on circl8radio.com, I'll be hosting an hour of extreme electronic and electroacoustic music. #noise #noisemusic

Tonight from 20:00 BST. Extreme electronic and electroacoustic music, hosted by me at circl8radio.com

I think the funding for this has since been extended for another 11 months but your point still stands.

Devblog I've just started - mainly to chart the development of some of the tools I've been building between 2016 and today. Will probably, in the future, also feature reviews of relevant papers and some stuff on workflows relevant to experimental electronic music.

klinikaudio.github.io

Clip of Drop The New Physics (2023)

Why does that coffee grinder sound like it's soundtracking a trailer for an A24 horror film?

CS2 for life. (GIMP is really good these days though)

The video demonstrates what you can achieve in one click but there are a number of tools built in (control over image resynthesis parameters, polygon/rectangular selection) for further work.

The most obvious application here is audio repair (Steinberg SpectraLayers does something similar, I think). I'm more interested in its application in experimental electronic music ("filling in" sections of audio using texture transfer within spectrogram images leads to some weird effects).

GIMP's implementation of the latter (derived from Paul Harrison's 2005 thesis on image texture resynthesis) pre-dates Photoshop's tool and this is a direct implementation of Harrison's technique.

In the example video, I select and "heal" a sine sweep that has been imposed over a recording of speech

Work in progress tool for visual selection and "healing" of portions of audio. Takes inspiration from a couple of Photoshop features, "magic wand" and "content-aware fill".

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Rotation spell.

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Work in progress module. Takes an image (designed to take quick sketches of curves on my whiteboard). Attempts basic fitting and then more advanced fitting (symbolic regression) before generating an approximate control voltage signal that's spat out over a 12-bit DAC.

Klok (Euclidean sample sequencer/live coding environment) and Grain Surgeon (scriptable granular sampler), 2017. Currently doing a complete rewrite of Klok.

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Drop The New Physics - 2023

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#electronica #breaks

N-segment pendulum module for Klinik

Hypercube simulation module for my experimental DAW in progress, Klinik

See also The Exorcist and Exorcist II: The Heretic.

A ★ review of Little Lady Fauntleroy (2004) Good lord, what a fucking car crash. Full tilt tabloid tripe of the highest order here. Keith Allen meets the family of one-time child prodigy antiques expert James (now Lauren) Harries. Turns out you...

My ★ review of Little Lady Fauntleroy on Letterboxd boxd.it/8hM7xT

A ★★★ review of The Blob (1988) Fairly bland SFX extravaganza in which a parade of unsympathetic nitwits are liquidised for your amusement. Lacks the wit of Larry Cohen's The Stuff or the dizzying extremity of John Carpenter’s The T...

My ★★★ review of The Blob on Letterboxd boxd.it/8gFCvL

Top 20 movies watched this year.

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Karen Young, Handgun (1983) dir. Tony Garnett. Masterclass performance.

Never trust a guru. This looks interesting. Just to note, as you may already know, there are apparently significant differences between the version that is currently streaming and the theatrical release (including a different ending).

A ★★★★★ review of Bone (1972) Honestly incredible. I'd (wrongly) assumed that Larry Cohen's debut would be a little more... restrained than his later efforts but this is deranged in ways that still feel shocking today. Negative fu...

My ★★★★★ review of Bone on Letterboxd boxd.it/84H3d9

A ★★★½ review of King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2017) Fairly prosaic in formal terms but who's complaining when you've got a couple of hours of Larry Cohen and associates waxing lyrical about their experiences working on such gems as Q: The Winged Serpen...

My ★★★½ review of King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen on Letterboxd boxd.it/81yiRN

Jamming some improv acid last night for EMOM. Yamaha RM1X + TD-3.