(Michael Chinen)

Author: mchinen

Workshop and Concert in the Netherlands

Last month I did a concert in Den Haag at Loos Foundation. This was part of a series organized by Marie Guileray. Last year I did a concert there as a part of the Wonderwerp series, and the energy there was amazing, giving me one of the best memories I have of a performance. (I […]

SMB filesharing on mac (works with windows clients)

I have an old powerbook g4 (2004,) which was my main computer until last year. Apple products are expensive but I think it was pretty worth it’s money. Now I have a Core Duo (2006) macbook and a sweet homebrew core 2 quad pc whose main purpose in life is to fix audacity bugs on […]

Listen to your computer: lstn

Lstn is another project I’ve been working on with Institute for Algorhythmics. It is a program that sonifies real-time debugging data of other programs. If you were interested in the FuckingAudacity or FuckingWebBrowser demos you’ll probably like this one. Those were sonification from the inside out, and lstn is about external sonification: We sonify opcodes, […]

sizeof dynamically allocated arrays in c

The MAX(a,b) macro bug I posted last was something I had done before. Today and Yesterday I spent a good few hours running over my old mistakes. What’s a difference between: unsigned char *dynArray = malloc(500); unsigned char trueArray[500]; well, Today’s arrrrrrg is that sizeof (dynArray) is just the size of a pointer, not the […]

Tatsumi Ryusui and Starcraft II and emacs

Over the last year in Berlin I worked on five collaborative music/performance/art projects that I’ve been meaning to post. In the summer as a part of 48 Stunden Neukölln I did a collaboration with Tatsumi Ryusui (myspace). Normally Tatsumi does experimental electronics improvisation and I do computer music or sonification stuff, but we were asked […]

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