Noise Control

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RIAA's noise-spoofs turned into
noise-rock

RIAA's noise-spoofs turned into
noise-rock 04/26/2004 10:07 AM
Claire Chanel, the person behind the Jay-Z Construction Set, has decided to net.judo-ify the RIAA's spoof tracks, random noise disguised as top-40 singles which it promulgates on the P2P netowrks.

As a follow-up to our last project, the Jay-Z Construction Set, Scary Sherman and I decided to take a fair & balanced route by highlighting one of the positive moves made recently by music industry leaders.

The RIAA-Mix Vol.1 is a compilation of the hottest underground remixes of top40 hit tracks produced by the upcoming talent at Overpeer. These homages to 20th century noise artists and avant composers pull a frightening bait and switch on listeners veering wildly from recognizable pop hooks to jarring digital distortion.

Available at riaamix.com as downloadable mp3s, streaming flash audio, or on a compact disc, we're hoping our compilation can help support the arrival of challenging new music to mainstream exposure.

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To Quiet a Whirring Computer, Fight
Noise With Noise

To Quiet a Whirring Computer, Fight
Noise With Noise 05/26/2004 09:23 PM
The constant drone of a computer cooling fan can be annoying. But tiny microphones and loudspeakers point the way toward quieter computers.

You Control: iTunes puts control in OS X
menu bar (MacCentral)

You Control: iTunes puts control in OS X
menu bar (MacCentral) 08/31/2004 07:26 PM
MacCentral - You Software Inc. announced on Tuesday the availability of You Control: iTunes, a free download that places iTunes controls in the Mac OS X menu bar. Without leaving the current application, you can pause, play, rewind or skip songs, as well as control iTunes' volume and even browse your entire music library by album, artist or genre. Each time a new song plays, You Control: iTunes also pops up a window that displays the artist and song name and the album artwork, if it's in the library. System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.2.6 and 10MB free hard drive space. ...

Photonics Control Announces Optical
Control Breakthrough

Photonics Control Announces Optical
Control Breakthrough 06/26/2004 02:40 AM
Intelligent Photonics Control Corp. (Photonics Control), the world leader in providing embedded control solutions for optical devices, announced today that it has reached a significant milestone. The Company has integrated its solutions into 50 different customer platforms including Optical Amplifiers, VMUXes, OPMs, DGEs, and Tunable Lasers. [PRWEB Jun 26, 2004]

You Control: iTunes puts control in OS X
menu bar

You Control: iTunes puts control in OS X
menu bar 08/31/2004 01:50 PM
You Software Inc. announced on Tuesday the availability of You Control: iTunes, a free download that places iTunes controls in the Mac OS X menu bar. Without leaving the current application, you can pause, play, rewind or skip songs, as well as control iTunes' volume and even browse your entire music library by album, artist or genre. Each time a new song plays, You Control: iTunes also pops up a window that displays the artist and song name and the album artwork, if it's in the library. System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.2.6 and 10MB free hard drive space.

Silence and Noise

Silence and Noise 08/12/2004 12:57 PM
Garaging the road show gave me time to consider what was worth talking about. The mainstreaming of web standards should have freed us to focus on content, design, and usability -- but arguments about minutia prevent us from seeing our work whole.

The Noise Machine

The Noise Machine 09/06/2004 03:43 AM
The Republican propaganda mill, a brief history It's bigger than Bush vs. Kerry. It's about billionaire funded thinktanks (AEI, Heritage) paying columnists to sit around and make stuff up or legitimize crackpot theories (blacks are genetically stupid, japanese internment was okay). Furthermore its about radio, internet, blogs, tv news and publishing houses working in concert to pummel memes onto the American public. When this stuff infects your culture and is no longer the domain of the loons but now as mainstream as apple pie and Wal-Mart, what do you do?

"A Response to the Noise"

"A Response to the Noise" 04/01/2005 10:26 PM

Random Noise

Random Noise 12/31/2004 01:24 AM

SonicMood might not be everyone's cup of tea, but surely I can't be the only person in the world who occasionally wants this sort of sound to emanate from the computer, and in any case it has certainly been helpful to me in my work. By Matt Neuburg, TidBITS

No Noise PC Reviewed

No Noise PC Reviewed 08/14/2004 11:49 AM

The rest is noise

The rest is noise 07/05/2004 10:45 PM
The Rest is Noise : New Yorker music critic Alex Ross' blog.
Also: A C Douglas. Jessica Duchen. Greg Sandow. Michael Brooke. The Rambler.

Noise Synthesizer

Noise Synthesizer 11/03/2003 03:39 PM
Project creation

Noise Pop mix tapes

Noise Pop mix tapes 05/10/2004 10:17 AM
Noise Pop, San Francisco's gem of an indy music festival, and KQED are streaming various underground musicians' playlists-du-jour. The latest selections come from Greg Ashley, a Bay Area psych-folk artist whose exquisite taste ranges from Leonard Cohen to Os Mutantes. Link (Thanks, Birdman!)

Fear the Noise

Fear the Noise 06/17/2005 04:53 PM
Steve Rubel points to the noise on blogging from a UPS marketing executive: ...What concerns me about blogs is the signal to noise ratio -- do we really need all these niche, special-interest blogs, or will it become increasingly...

Digital Cameras and their noise

Digital Cameras and their noise 11/02/2003 06:32 PM
This excellent overview of pixel noise in digital images also offers up some plugins to help make your photos look better and print cleaner. I'd noticed the effects and noise in much of my digital photos, but had no idea how to remove it -- until now.

Nintendo DS Leaks UHF Noise

Nintendo DS Leaks UHF Noise 12/22/2004 01:36 AM

Nintendo's new DS handheld gaming system (which I've been told is pretty much out of stock everywhere, although Nintendo is supposed to drop another shipment on the 22nd) apparently dumps out video noise that can be picked up by some older, presumably unshielded televisions. That probably wouldn't necessitate an entire post, but Jim Younkin busted out his old Sony Watchman to test it, which is one of my favorite gadgets ever (I had a later model that I would often impress nerdy girls with on field trips for the 10 to 15 minutes that the batteries would last).

DS on TV Experiments [Mac]

"Rondayview: Da Funk and Da Noise"

"Rondayview: Da Funk and Da Noise" 11/05/2003 04:10 AM

Keep Out The Noise, Stay Sane

Keep Out The Noise, Stay Sane 12/08/2003 12:58 PM
Noise pollution is a topic that you don't hear all that much about. However, over in Europe they've decided it's time to start tracking information on noisy urban areas, and soon, there will be noise pollution maps of most major urban areas in Europe. Some of them are already up on the web (here's Paris and London). The World Health Organization is worried that too many people are suffering from living under conditions with too much noise - and many don't realize the damage they're doing to their ears. They even claim that being subject to such noise constantly can "contribute to hypertension and heart disease, and may impair mental health." That's right. Your sanity may depend on how quiet your surroundings are. Now, the question is how to quiet the noise down. Not everyone agrees, but having the maps to indicate where the problem areas are could certainly help. Some people are talking about adjusting traffic patterns to try to help with the noise, but a more reasonable solution might be focusing on adding soundproofing to noisy areas where people live or work.

Robots that Hear Through Noise

Robots that Hear Through Noise 06/24/2005 09:05 PM
Roland Piquepaille writes, "The Japanese Humanoid Robotics Project has produced the HRP-2 robot, which is known for dancing and preserving Japanese culture. But now, the HRP-2, which is about 1.6 meter high and weighs about 60 kilograms, can hear humans and understand them with its sophisticated software and hearing equipment. It uses an array of microphones consisting of eight omnidirectional microphones mounted around the robot's head. Stable speech recognition is obtained by combining information from the microphone array and a camera also mounted on its head, and by isolating and eliminating noises, even from your TV. These hearing capabilities are essential "for helping humans to communicate with robots in real environments by 2025." For more details and photos see Roland's blog. Also, see our previous story on the HRP-2 robot's dancing abilities.

Visual Noise Reduction

Visual Noise Reduction 06/26/2002 01:02 PM
If it were possible, I would reduce every page down to the content, 1-3 direct links to related content, and one link back to root for a maximum of 5 links on a page. Unfortunatly, pages like that rarely work in the real world.

Keep It Down! Euro Noise Assault

Keep It Down! Euro Noise Assault 12/08/2003 05:50 AM
A new European program is mounting a fight against noise pollution. The first step is to map noise levels in cities in 25 nations, followed by plans to dampen the din and quiet public grumbling about the non-stop rumble.

- Fast but not noise-free

- Fast but not noise-free 05/18/2004 10:36 PM
Computer Times Asia May 19 2004 2:47AM GMT

Make a Not-So-Joyful Noise

Make a Not-So-Joyful Noise 03/06/2004 01:56 AM

Troops get high-tech noisemaker : I need this to fend off my cat.

Dubbed "The Sound of Force Protection" in a company brochure, the devices can broadcast sound files containing warning messages. Or they can be used with electronic translating devices for what amounts to "narrowcasting."

If crowds or potential foes don't respond to the verbal messages, the sonic weapon, which measures 33 inches in diameter, can direct a high-pitched, piercing tone with a tight beam. Neither the LRAD's operators or others in the immediate area are affected.

If it can broadcast the soundtrack to my daughter's Barney video, then it may exceed its non-lethal status.

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Other News: Big Noise Music

Other News: Big Noise Music 05/25/2004 10:09 AM
Oxfam prepares to launch Big Noise Music, a download service that will contribute to Oxfam's aid programs.

Grokker Makes Some Noise

Grokker Makes Some Noise 01/07/2004 02:50 PM
An engine we first talked about last summer has received some recent press.

Apple Makes Noise

Apple Makes Noise 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
Music store and iPods help boost stock, but how long will it last? By Mike Musgrove, Washington Post (via MyAppleMenu)

Fast but not noise-free

Fast but not noise-free 06/01/2004 09:47 PM
Computer Times Asia Jun 2 2004 2:31AM GMT

"theBoom noise cancelling headset "

"theBoom noise cancelling headset " 04/29/2004 04:26 PM

Helicopter versus airplane noise

Helicopter versus airplane noise 12/17/2004 06:36 PM

Helicopters that are descending with a fair amount of power produce an annoying sound called "blade slap".  Beginners are cautioned to avoid this condition because it leads to people on the ground complaining to the FAA about "those damned helicopters."  (One can avoid blade slap by lower the collective to descend more positively rather than drifting slightly down.)  A big turbine-powered helicopter flew over Harvard Square the other day, slapping away.  I was with a friend, call her "K", who hasn't spent much time in the work force.  I asked her whether she found the sound annoying.

"Helicopter noise doesn't bother me," K responded.  "I assume that it is a traffic helicopter or some sort of medical emergency.  What I really hate is airplane noise."

Why?

"Whenever I hear a big commercial jet overhead I think about companies sending their employees out for ridiculous meetings with each other where they will show vacuous PowerPoint presentations and have meaningless conversations."

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 1.2

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 1.2 07/26/2004 10:38 AM
An implementation of the Bayesian Noise Reduction algorithm.

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 1.0.0

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 1.0.0 07/22/2004 12:49 PM
An implementation of the Bayesian Noise Reduction algorithm.

Korean cameraphones will need to make
some noise

Korean cameraphones will need to make
some noise 11/11/2003 04:33 PM
In a classic case of overreaction, the South Korean government is going to require cameraphones to emit a loud shutter-type noise whenever a photograph is taken. The idea being to make it more difficulty to surreptitously snap pictures while in public. Read [Via TechDirt]...

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 2.0.2

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 2.0.2 01/02/2005 04:17 AM
An implementation of the Bayesian Noise Reduction algorithm.

Lou Dolinar: If there's too much noise
coming from the bedroom, it may be the
PC

Lou Dolinar: If there's too much noise
coming from the bedroom, it may be the
PC 05/09/2004 11:22 AM
Newsday May 9 2004 3:38PM GMT

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 2.0.0

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 2.0.0 12/28/2004 11:39 PM
An implementation of the Bayesian Noise Reduction algorithm.

Photos: Making noise at P2P hearings

Photos: Making noise at P2P hearings 03/29/2005 08:51 PM
Supporters of both the music industry and file swappers demonstrated their causes before the Supreme Court hearings.

WordPress: Noise Response Loopback

WordPress: Noise Response Loopback 04/02/2005 10:51 PM

Matt finally responded with a post titled A Response to the Noise.  Noise?  I think this incident is a great example of how easily we can be blinded by the people we surround ourselves with.

Frankly, I now regret having wasted words.

Berkman Signal to Noise conference

Berkman Signal to Noise conference 04/05/2005 12:23 PM
This one looks different — Fan fiction, dance, machinima, deviant art, remixing, mashups, On Friday. Open to all ($20 admission fee) but you need to register ahead of time because the space is not infinite. [Technorati tags: berkman s2n]...

* Makes TARDIS noise, dematerializes*

* Makes TARDIS noise, dematerializes* 03/30/2005 11:46 PM
Christopher Eccleston, the new Doctor Who, has tendered his resignation. Geez, his first episode wasn't that bad.
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