I was fascinated by this once I learned how it worked. At the time I was learning php and wrote a script that would draw graphics based on the requesting ip address and return as gif, then used that as my avatar on a few phpbbs. Learned a lot.
Do you mean Reason? This was the first virtual synth with patching UI that Propellerhead released a bit after ReBirth.
ReBirth was amazing though and would love if someone brings it back. They had an iPad version that worked pretty well but apparently Roland forced them to take it down.
Pretty sure it was Nicholas Jitkoff[1] and his team. He had done Quicksilver[2] a few years back which popularized this single input interface for osx desktop.
Aleksi Perälä has been this for me the past few years and is the one pushing mystical electronic music forward that’s approachable in the way BoC and RDJ are.
I have limited exposure to Clojure transducers but I spend most of my time writing JS/TS and I've found thi.ng/transducers[0] a pleasure to work with and super elegant for constructing data processing workflows.
One of my favorite work of his was a poster[1] he did for a Darfur antiwar campaign, I still remember seeing this on streets in NYC. Super powerful and timeless image.
The operator overloading is potentially huge. Along with the BigInt/Float extensions, it makes it a great target for scientific computing applications.
Agreed. Techgnosis was a very influential read for me and Expanding Mind is still a very unique program.
A bit late probably, but for anyone reading this I highly recommend tracking down Davis’s interview with McKenna conducted shortly before he passed. It was probably one of the first things I heard from either and became interested for life in both.