Reading up on what is happening in Lebanon I found The Lebanese Bloggers and a Letter from Beirut that I think are a very good read in addition to following the news. These bloggers are there telling us their story ...

I'm quite used to transposing music to where it fits my instrument, even though I know some people don't approve of this. I think what is important to know when doing this is what character is implied by using a certain signature. Since I don't have a copy of Mattheson's Neueröffnetes Orchestre I looked for the quote and found this ...

I'm planning on getting a filter system for my lenses, and I'm investigating the Cokin P system. I found this article that is really nice with lots of images and explanations on how to use such a system.

From the website: mxdublin is a Java/Python framework that can be used to sequence generic events with pure-data or max. In short: very cool, an easier way of Max/MSP or PureData scripting for us who are more into lines of text than objects and lines. Basically they use Jython and ...

I found a very nice explanation of the tradeoffs when doing an FFT by Fred Marshall here. Look at the last post on the page.