http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair/content/ 2012-06-04T12:45:37-04:00 http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair/content/ http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair/content/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-06-03T12:09:54-04:00 Stephen Sinclair http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair/content/blog/crowdfunding_vinyl_record_production Crowdfunding vinyl record production Discuss this article on reddit. An idea occurred to me a few weeks ago and it has been stirring in the back of my head for a while. Let me explain. I recently watched a friend go through the process of producing a vinyl record, a great little electronic music compilation with some very nice tracks from people he knows as well as internet friends. text/html 2011-05-21T14:47:04-04:00 Stephen Sinclair http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair/content/blog/comparing_c_0x_lambdas_with_scheme_an_object_with_mutable_state_no_classes_involved text/html 2011-02-19T18:48:15-04:00 Stephen Sinclair http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair/content/blog/libmapper_is_the_unix_utilities_of_mapping libmapper is the unix utilities of mapping I've been trying to put into more concrete terms why I think libmapper is a useful development. After all, there are plenty of systems that allow connecting boxes to each other and describing how data should flow and be transformed, which effectively is what libmapper provides. text/html 2010-12-15T11:16:04-04:00 Stephen Sinclair http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair/content/blog/liquid_simulator_ported_to_canvas I ported to JavaScript/Canvas the Flash version of this liquid simulator that has popped up on Reddit lately. The original Java version can be found here. My JavaScript source can be found here. text/html 2010-12-15T11:12:56-04:00 Stephen Sinclair http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair/content/blog/the_clay_programming_language_seems_pretty_nice Always after doing a certain amount of C programming I get the itch that it would be great if only it were a little nicer. I'm actually pretty comfortable with pointers and strings and nulls, and all the dangers that come with this stuff. But what I'd really like are more ways to take advantage of strong typing, and ways to avoid code duplication without resorting the void*, i.e., losing all typing just to do some generic programming. Due to the need for void*, generic programming in C tends … text/html 2010-03-29T13:00:23-04:00 Stephen Sinclair http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair/content/blog/using_markdown_for_beamer_presentations I've recently had to make another presentation, and since I'm now fully into a LaTeX-oriented workflow when it comes to documents, Beamer is my choice. However, one thing I hate is the verbosity of the markup. Fortunately there are a bunch of “minimalized” markup languages that can help resolve this problem. One is the well-known Markdown. I actually think it's one of the less powerful textual markup languages, but it's somehow one of the most popular. text/html 2010-03-14T21:21:57-04:00 Stephen Sinclair http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair/content/blog/caprica_is_actually_pretty_awesome * Warning: Don't read this if you haven't watched the finale of Battlestar. I'd also recommend watching at least the pilot of Caprica before reading. So I finally decided to sit down and check out Caprica. I had put it off because I fall into the camp of those who were a little disapointed by the finale of Battlestar Galactica and didn't particularly want to give the writers another chance. text/html 2009-12-08T00:20:13-04:00 Stephen Sinclair http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair/content/blog/calling_haskell_from_a_pure_data_external [Screenshot of the Pd external object featuring Haskell function calls. ] I've been playing lately with an idea for a Pure Data external that involves a certain amount of structured data manipulation, and started to wonder if it might be easier to use a higher level language than C. I don't really want to make this a massive external with huge crazy dependencies though, so I started looking at very small Lisps that I could embed or that compile to C. I had a certain amount of success with Gam…