Here’s a new coverpop I just made of 1512 of the most popular (according to various criteria) videos on YouTube™. The videos are arranged horizontally by the date they were uploaded, and vertically by the color of the thumbnail. Mouse over a thumbnail to see more info about the video. Click to play the video […]

This weekend, after adding stereo support to my software synthesizer, JSyd, I added three new stereo variations to the Whitney Music Box. These are fun to watch and listen to with headphones. Variation 14 Variation 15 Variation 16

You may have noticed that I haven’t been blogging much the past few weeks. This is because I’ve been furiously working on a rewrite of my software synthesizer, Syd, originally written nearly 10 years ago. Syd is a digital music program that is designed for teaching basic computer music and synthesis concepts. I used Syd […]

Wheel Music is another music visualization, using similar techniques to those I used in my Whitney Music Box. Each dot in the animation represents an individual note you are hearing. The notes are slowly traveling around in a circle. Each square represents a different tone cluster, or chord. Colors represent note values, and the radius […]

What are Tag Clouds, you ask? Here’s a sample. I’ve provided some tips for building Tag Clouds at O’Reilly’s ONLamp website. This is an excerpt from my longer article, Building Tag Clouds with Perl and PHP.

I’m currently working on a series of mosaics using landscape and animal photos. Here’s a sample. UPDATE: I received a letter about this image. Here it is. I love the work that you do, and I have a question about what an algorithm is. Is it math that you can Javascript, taken from an abstraction […]

While on a morning coffee run with a coworker, we chanced on the subject of religious experience, and I mentioned that exploring mathematics is the closest I’ve come to a religious epiphany. Although this notion is probably familiar to folks versed in the physical sciences, my friend was surprised to hear it. I brought up […]

When I told my family I wrote an article about tag clouds for O’Reilly, they went “Huh? What’s that?” But then again, these are the same folks that thought I was writing an article for this guy, instead of these guys. Anyway, this is a tag cloud: 2d algorithmic ALSA audio automatic bison blog book […]

Welcome, visitors from digg. Here are some recent music-related posts from KrazyDad: About the Whitney Music Box A φ fractal Organum Mathematicum Text to Song More fun stuff in the links on the upper right… Enjoy! UPDATE: Welcome also, visitors from flabber.nl. My favorite comment on your site was this one, which needs no translation: […]

Here’s a new coverpop featuring the works of my favorite sf author of his generation, Philip K. Dick. The covers were provided by the Philip K. Dick cover gallery, courtesy of Jason Koornick.