Thor Magnusson

Thor Magnusson

@thormagnusson.bsky.social

A worker in rhythm, frequencies and intensities. Research and development in the areas of music, mind and technology. ** Intelligent Instruments Lab (www.iil.is) ** ** Experimental Music Technologies Lab (www.emutelab.org) **

518 Followers 623 Following 21 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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Sound Work The potential for critical technical practice in the creation of music

Yes, a very nice text by Agre. There was a conference and a book publication at the Orpheus Institute a few years ago. I like the book:

orpheusinstituut.be/en/publicati...

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ADHD. Is that a short for Attention Dispersion Hyperfocus Discipline?

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AI to revolutionise fundamental physics and ‘could show how universe will end’ Exclusive: Cern’s next director general Mark Thomson says AI is paving the way for huge advances in particle physics

"It [the proposed new SuperCollider] could also reveal whether the Higgs field has reached a final, stable resting state or whether another drastic transition could occur in future, a scenario that would see the universe as we know it evaporate almost instantaneously."

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ADHD - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

How about some nice ADHD music on this sunny beautiful day?

youtu.be/K5VItQCiTHo?...

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1 year ago

Any plans of making the video synth as part of sapf?

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1 year ago

He's been making art. This language is very pure, very beautiful, very expressive. I'm having fun already.

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GitHub - lfnoise/sapf: Sound As Pure Form - a Forth-like language for audio synthesis using lazy lists and APL-like auto-mapping. Sound As Pure Form - a Forth-like language for audio synthesis using lazy lists and APL-like auto-mapping. - lfnoise/sapf

James McCartney (@asynth.bsky.social), author of SuperCollider, a language that changed the landscape of computer music, has just released a new audio programming system called sapf or, "sound as pure form". I am looking forward to this weekend!

github.com/lfnoise/sapf?

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1 year ago

I checked and I can see that Tau supports Lua - great! I love that language.

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Why do some British people not like Donald Trump? This blog entry is entirely attributed to Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England who apparently wrote the following response (below) to the question in the headline: “Why do …

How did a man lacking all the desired qualities of a good human become so powerful? This is the question media and political analysts, psychologists and sociologists, are pondering right now. From the British perspective, it's even weirder:

thenewgeneration.blog/2025/01/25/w...?

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During the Cold War, digital art was politicised to the degree that many had a distaste for it - naturally. The political moves of recent years have hijacked artificial intelligence. I wonder if cognitive science will survive this?

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Fascism - Michael Rosen For Adults YouTube video by Michael Rosen For Adults

A poem by Michael Rosen.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_J1...

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David Lynch - "Crazy Clown Time" (Official Video) YouTube video by Noisey

RIP David Lynch. A very unique person.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QJp...

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Reykjavik sunset

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Elon Musk’s Move Into Politics: Yanis Varoufakis and Cory Doctorow on Fighting Billionaire Control YouTube video by DiEM25

Tech billionaires "who who read our dystopias and have mistaken them for business plans". (Cory Doctorow)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0kv...

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2025: Keep democracy alive. FrameLab New Year's resolutions Advice for defeating the authoritarian threat

Good New Year’s resolutions from the FrameLab.

www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...

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n.b.k. – Oral History: Steina Vasulka im Gespräch mit Arnold Dreyblatt Der Neue Berliner Kunstverein ist ein 1969 in Berlin gegründeter Kunstverein, der sich der Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst widmet. Der Verein hat feste Ausstellungsräume in der Chausseestraße in Berl...

Steina Vasulka - Oral history:

www.nbk.org/en/diskurs/o...?

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Call: Embedding Algorithms in Music and Sound Art Welcome to Cambridge Core

Excited to announce I am co-editing with @thormagnusson.bsky.social a thematic issue of Organised Sound on the topic of Embedding Algorithms in Music and Sound Art! Here is the call, please share. We look forward to receiving your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Merzbow-Silent Night YouTube video by LillyClouds

It's the time of the year where we play Christmas songs for the children. Here is Merzbow:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBOa...

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Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences Scientists shocked as “blue-sky” Marsden Fund has half its budget shifted to research focused on helping economy

Very sorry for New Zealand research. It will become a very poor country in the coming years if this goes through:

www.science.org/content/arti...?

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Grindavik - Mosaic YouTube video by RÚV

I think I'll just watch this tonight:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXD4...

#Iceland #volcano

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1 year ago

Thanks Óscar. I hope this can be a good platform for discussions. Still checking the waters, but the platform is promising. I wasn't jelling that well with Mastodon as I felt it was too much of a FB copy and the server instances felt somehow like bubbles.

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1 year ago

Always looking for an open, decentralised, town square style place for discussions and new music. Wondering if Bluesky could be such a place?

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