Dave Pentecost

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YouTube video by Alpha Chrome Yayo The minichord (and why I love it)

A pleasant stop on my Teensy 4 journey - this cheerful demo of the minichord. By @alphachromeyayo.com

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

Interior with Mirrored Wall by Roy Lichtenstein, 1991
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137308

Onward! Are you in New York State yet? If I were in NYC now I'd come to see your talk. Say Hi to Micah (OpenSpace) for me.

The rest of it is even funnier

Honeyguide birds learn local human dialects In northern Mozambique, local honey-hunters use vocal signals to communicate with wild honeyguide birds to locate and harvest honey. New research finds that human calls used across the region vary,…

In northern Mozambique, honey-hunters use vocal calls to work with wild honeyguide birds — and the birds learn local “dialects.”

New research shows calls vary by village, but honeyguides adapt, keeping this rare human-animal partnership alive across generations.

Jobim with his arms behind his back, walking on the beach at Ipanema

Remembering Antonio Carlos Jobim on his birthday 🎂
My favourite Tom Jobim portrait is this one by Otto Stupakoff, taken at Ipanema Beach in 1964.

Heitor Villa-Lobos (his hero) once said to him:
"My son, the outer ear has nothing to do with the inner ear."

I’m beginning to like my own simple writing.

This is appalling. I can say with certainty that Steve Jobs would be ashamed of Tim Cook at this terrible moment, one of many these days, and he has sullied the last year of his tenure and the Apple brand by his craven need to please shareholders over holding onto some basic values of decency.

Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.

— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939

Django plays his guitar & smokes a cigarette

Remembering Django Reinhardt on his birthday 🎂
📷 William P. Gottlieb, 1946

"He was the first great European jazz musician. Really, music was it — that was him. He and music were synonymous."
- John Lewis

YouTube video by Sesiones En Vivo Chokolate - KaKao | Dr. Nativo | Sesión acústica| Guatemala

Listening

m.youtube.com/watch?v=RwE3...

Octavia Butler described it well.

Chuntas, Chiapa de Corzo, Fiesta de San Sebastián

Parachicos, Chiapa de Corzo, Fiesta de San Sebastián.

Lobby of the Hotel Lenin, Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas

Great suggestions here. I am 2/3 through Cory Doctorow’s Marty Hench series. Updated noir detective tales.

“Look: Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”

When he’s lost the under-educated…

Painting of two heads in red/orange, with superimposed stems & leaves

Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction

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Seven technologies to watch in 2026 Nature’s round-up of innovations that are poised to make a splash in the year ahead.

Xenotransplantation, mRNA therapeutics and #AI powered meteorology -- @eisensteinium.bsky.social rounds up these techs & more in @nature.com's annual roundup of technologies to watch in the year ahead. Out today! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When a container of mixed nuts is shaken, the largest nuts rise to the top.

This phenomenon is known as the ‘Brazil nut effect,’ and there are a couple of mechanisms at play.

Or: “Making physics fun with snacks.” 🧵⬇️

YouTube video by silesius Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind (Blood On The Tracks NYC Session - 1974) (Lyrics)

Via @gregmitch.bsky.social
The NYC version of this song that I'd never heard.
Bob re-recorded the album in Minneapolis.

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I had no idea Johnson had his scripts up on his site. I will be *studying* these, especially Knives Out, which I have watched about twenty times as an absolute Watchmen-level masterclass in storytelling structure.

A David Tudor day (see below). I asked Claude to help make an instrument emulating Pulsers. An hour later we had something which, while not Tudor, was too much. Polyrhythmic recursive noise percussion. 30 sliders of interaction. Teensy 4.1 to Logic, Processing for controls.

Great thread. I saw Tudor perform Pulsers at the Kitchen in 1976. As a percussionist starting to move into electronics, it was incredibly inspiring.
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YouTube video by PaulStoffregen Teensy Audio Tutorial & Workshop

Continuing down the Teensy audio rabbit hole
This looks like the OG Paul and Alysia tutorial (2015) and a great place to start.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqt5...

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

Or as my grandmother feared it was called, when we kids wanted to see it, “101 Damnations”

Audio Output on Teensy 4.x Boards I remember learning about Teensy for the first time several years ago from a colleague. He was using Google WALT device for measuring audio...

My last post showed a tutorial based on Teensy 3.x
This has a detailed look at audio on Teensy 4.x
melp242.blogspot.com/2020/10/audi....