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Generative Aphex Twin

Alex Bainter has a good explainer post on Medium about how he used Markov Chains to generate a much longer version of Aphex Twin's aisatasana. Using a JSON representation of a MIDI file of the track, he built a Markov Chain system to generate over four million unique phrases which can play for over 451 days without repetition of a phrase. The result is available to listen to on generative.fm.

Innovation

Music

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Historic Naval Sounds

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The San Francisco Maritime National Park Association have published a collection of historic naval sounds and video on their website. The collection includes audio of navy attacks during World War II, sonar training audio and various audio of sea creatures.

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History

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Accessible Brand Colours

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L.A. based design studio Use All Five have a great online accessibility colour picking tool which shows whether the colours pass the different levels of WCAG accessibility compliance.

Design

Web Dev

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Wia Dot One

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Dublin IoT company Wia have released their first physical product, the Dot One. The IoT maker board is designed to help people discover the world of electronics and engineering using plug and play modules like buttons and sensors, without needing any programming experience. The Dot One board has built in WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.2 and a dual core 32-bit processor. It is available to pre-order at €24.99 on the Wia website.

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NAWR #34 - Ode To Joy - NAWR Ensemble

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This week we had an amazing NAWR concert featuring the first NAWR Ensemble. The Ode To Joy concert saw a range of musicians play and interpret Beethoven's Ode to Joy, the anthem of Europe, on a range of instruments from timpani, tenor horn, violins, theremin, banjo, electric harp and even a nose flute! Check out the photos from the concert here.

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Podcast Of The Week: The Blindboy Podcast Live with Ellie Kisyombe & Michelle Darmody

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In the second half of this podcast episode, Blindboy plays an excellent and important live interview with Ellie Kisyombe abd Michelle Darmody, the founders of Our Table. Our Table is a non-profit organisation that "aims to build an awareness of food in multicultural Ireland and to highlight that the current system of Direct Provision is deeply flawed".

Life

Podcast

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Cool Thing Of The Week: Cork House of Cards

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Check out this great timelapse of Cork in the style of the House of Cards opening sequence by Karl Kachmarsky.

Video

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Accessibility Tools

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Ben Robertson has put together a handy list of 5 automated tools to use to test your website for accessibility issues.

Web Dev

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Critical Reasoning For Beginners

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The University of Oxford has published 6 lectures from its Critical Thinking For Beginners course, which are available in audio format and on YouTube.

Life

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Escape With Cheap Flights

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Find the cheapest flights from a starting point on any given day with greatescape.co. The flight search engine plots the options on a world map very nicely.

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Life

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