Apr 30
Software
For a while now I have been interested in trying to create games that can be played in avatar images. People generally think of images as either static or animated, and I enjoy opening peoples eyes to the fact that images can be dynamically generated based on your interactions with it.
Refresh Hero is a play on Guitar Hero. You are asked to refresh the image after a specific number of seconds. The more accurate your timing, the more points you collect. If you miss the time mark wildly, you lose all your point. However, if you need to take a break, gaps longer than 20 seconds between refreshes will be interpreted as pausing the game. Hitting more than one in a row builds your chain, and you can collect chain bonuses for large chains.
To add to the fun, a high score leader-board is displayed at the bottom of the image so you can see your competition. If you want your name to be displayed on the leader-board instead of your ip address, you can simply enter your name (or nick) at the registration page.
So go ahead, refresh the page and clime the high score list!
Edit: I have added a top 50 high score list.
Apr 27
Music
Lotte Lehmann's illustration for Einsamkeit
For a while now I have been trying to learn everything I can about Franz Schubert’s Winterreise. In the course of my journey, I have found countless articles, essays, videos, recordings and scores. In the hopes that my research might be useful, or at least interesting, to someone else I have started the Winterreise blog. My goal is to have this be both the reference and news source for all things related to Winterreise. To that end, I intend to have a new post about every three days. So far I have five posts written and in the queue with about fifteen post ideas still to be written. So, subscribe to the rss feed and follow along!
Winterreise
Apr 17
Barbershop, Music
Several months ago, inspired by this youtube video, my friends Jared Emerson-Johnson, Joachim Luis and I collaborated on a multitracked barbershop tag. Jared and I live about an hour away from each other and Joachim lives all the way in Chicago, so this was a great way for the four of us to do some harmony singing with far away friends.
Joachim recorded the lead part and emailed it to the group, and then Jared added the baritone part. Finally I added the bass and tenor parts. For now we are calling ourselves “Removable Do.”
The tag is The Shadow of Your Smile from the Classic Tags book.
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Apr 2
Barbershop, Music
A few days ago, I wrote a barbershop tag for my girlfriend Chelsea.
My multitrack of the tag (sung a half step lower than written):
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My goal was to write a “bloom” type tag where all voices More
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