於是
我還在這邊打轉
繼續在所有
我想做的我能做的我該做的
中間
選擇
看了一篇一篇的文章一本一本的書一個一個的影片
我都懂
但是對我來說還是不夠具體
我到底是要別人告訴我
我該怎麼做
還是我有一天會自己想出來
其實
我沒有害怕
只是有點焦慮
然後我越來越無言
不曉得要說什麼
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Nervous, Panic, Stressed out, Exciting
這禮拜阿德來
我們在Silicon Valley
每天行程都是滿的
阿德的networking沒話說
朋友幫忙介紹的朋友都給了我們很多的建議
這邊的環境很好
坐在餐廳裡面
隔壁桌在談論的事情都是startup
這裡很有冒險跟拓荒的精神
人人都相信
This is gonna work. We are gonna change the world.
我想這對我們很重要
--
看了很多前輩的文章
列舉了很多創業應該要注意的事情
恩 我懂
可是真的面臨的時候
我們會做出怎樣的決定?
其實我反而沒有很害怕做決定
因為我總覺得
不管怎樣
我們都會做出當下最好的決定
如果之後覺得不好了
always可以改變方向
對於這樣的態度
我個人是非常喜歡啦
畢竟我也是個變來變去的人...
--
我慢慢可以體會阿德的心情了
本來我一直都不理解為什麼他會每天都像坐雲霄飛車一樣
身為一個要做所有決定的人
真的沒有心臟夠大顆還沒有辦法
像我就沒辦法
我只是在旁邊給我的建議然後跟他討論
leave the decision part to him
--
大家一起期待有什麼事情會發生的感覺真有趣
我們可以建構我們理想的園地 的工作環境還有公司的文化
絕對長得跟別人的不一樣
這種一磚一瓦地蓋起來我們想要的地方的過程
真好玩
我可以想像為什麼有人欲罷不能了
我們會是一個很棒的公司!
我們在Silicon Valley
每天行程都是滿的
阿德的networking沒話說
朋友幫忙介紹的朋友都給了我們很多的建議
這邊的環境很好
坐在餐廳裡面
隔壁桌在談論的事情都是startup
這裡很有冒險跟拓荒的精神
人人都相信
This is gonna work. We are gonna change the world.
我想這對我們很重要
--
看了很多前輩的文章
列舉了很多創業應該要注意的事情
恩 我懂
可是真的面臨的時候
我們會做出怎樣的決定?
其實我反而沒有很害怕做決定
因為我總覺得
不管怎樣
我們都會做出當下最好的決定
如果之後覺得不好了
always可以改變方向
對於這樣的態度
我個人是非常喜歡啦
畢竟我也是個變來變去的人...
--
我慢慢可以體會阿德的心情了
本來我一直都不理解為什麼他會每天都像坐雲霄飛車一樣
身為一個要做所有決定的人
真的沒有心臟夠大顆還沒有辦法
像我就沒辦法
我只是在旁邊給我的建議然後跟他討論
leave the decision part to him
--
大家一起期待有什麼事情會發生的感覺真有趣
我們可以建構我們理想的園地 的工作環境還有公司的文化
絕對長得跟別人的不一樣
這種一磚一瓦地蓋起來我們想要的地方的過程
真好玩
我可以想像為什麼有人欲罷不能了
我們會是一個很棒的公司!
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Audio For Games
這學期陰錯陽差修了這個Audio for games的課
因為原本想修的課都被cancel了
所以就跟同學跑去修這個
整個課就是真的幫一個遊戲製作音效
我們得要去買Unreal Tournament 3
然後用裡面的map editor
抽換所有武器車輛以及背景音效之類的
我還不是很確定要怎麼用
剛好我這次從台灣帶回來一本算是杜篤之的傳記
杜篤之可以說是所有台灣電影的音效之父
幾乎所有台灣甚至香港大陸的電影
都是由他負責錄音以及音效的部份
看到他從到處去收集聲音的材料
然後在那個還沒有電腦的年代要如何配聲音
或是解決同步錄音的問題
這個聲音的東西真是學問很大
很羨慕他可以跟所有這些有名的導演合作 (王家衛 蔡明亮 侯孝賢)
就覺得如果可以透過這門課稍微一窺音效的世界
會很有趣
We will see.
因為原本想修的課都被cancel了
所以就跟同學跑去修這個
整個課就是真的幫一個遊戲製作音效
我們得要去買Unreal Tournament 3
然後用裡面的map editor
抽換所有武器車輛以及背景音效之類的
我還不是很確定要怎麼用
剛好我這次從台灣帶回來一本算是杜篤之的傳記
杜篤之可以說是所有台灣電影的音效之父
幾乎所有台灣甚至香港大陸的電影
都是由他負責錄音以及音效的部份
看到他從到處去收集聲音的材料
然後在那個還沒有電腦的年代要如何配聲音
或是解決同步錄音的問題
這個聲音的東西真是學問很大
很羨慕他可以跟所有這些有名的導演合作 (王家衛 蔡明亮 侯孝賢)
就覺得如果可以透過這門課稍微一窺音效的世界
會很有趣
We will see.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Music Hack Day at Boston
Last weekend I went to this music hack day in Boston locating in NERD (microsoft New England Research and Development center) close to MIT right across the Charles River. Absolutely beautiful place to work.
Attended several talks which the topics are basically those start-ups who would like people to use their APIs to build stuff. Anyway, pp and I tried Echonest's API's which have two major functions. One is to analyze music using signal processing and machine learning techniques (similar to what I am doing) and the other is text searching for all music related metadata including blogs, comments, etc.
What we did? We took pp's musicpainter which is a graphical collaborative composing interface and align the canvas grid with any music using Echonest's APIs to get tempo, beats and key. Then one can play or compose along with the music you like. (sort of) It is been great fun working with pp. I had a good time there. Lots of free food in the office and delicious home made dishes at pp's. So warm!
Attended several talks which the topics are basically those start-ups who would like people to use their APIs to build stuff. Anyway, pp and I tried Echonest's API's which have two major functions. One is to analyze music using signal processing and machine learning techniques (similar to what I am doing) and the other is text searching for all music related metadata including blogs, comments, etc.
What we did? We took pp's musicpainter which is a graphical collaborative composing interface and align the canvas grid with any music using Echonest's APIs to get tempo, beats and key. Then one can play or compose along with the music you like. (sort of) It is been great fun working with pp. I had a good time there. Lots of free food in the office and delicious home made dishes at pp's. So warm!
Monday, November 23, 2009
Hard to define
The definition or I should say the composition of music is the interaction between silence and sound, just like an image consists of light and shadow...
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Envisioning Information
Recently skimmed through this book "Envisioning Information" written by Edward R. Tufte. Though it is published in 1990, the concept of visualization is kinda useful.
I did not read closely page by page, basically I just look at the graphs and try to get the idea of what he is trying to explain. Not bad! Below I would like to list the chapter titles of this book, which are the main concept of thinking about visualization I think.
Micro/Macro Readings
Layering and Separation
Small Multiples
Color and Information
Narratives of Space and Time
Definitely I will come back and read through the whole book in detail. But for now I just wanna get some idea whirling in my head when I am searching for ideas.
I did not read closely page by page, basically I just look at the graphs and try to get the idea of what he is trying to explain. Not bad! Below I would like to list the chapter titles of this book, which are the main concept of thinking about visualization I think.
Micro/Macro Readings
Layering and Separation
Small Multiples
Color and Information
Narratives of Space and Time
Definitely I will come back and read through the whole book in detail. But for now I just wanna get some idea whirling in my head when I am searching for ideas.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Remembering names
I know that social ability is very crucial here and I am trying to develop is little by little. Recently I found that there are some name issues hard to deal with.
Of course you need to remember one's name before any social ability to be repeated. For me it is always the case: "Hey my name is xxx." "Nice to meet you!" This is usually the starting point and I usually do not get the name at the first place unless it is very common one (especially in US there are so many weird name including mine everywhere...). Rarely I asked again and try to write down and memorize but usually I just let it go and when the next time we met, it is a little bit embarrassing. I am pretty sure that the other guy feels the same because my name is definitely more difficult. This is the first and big obstacle to me then.
Anyway, trying to figure out a way to remember more names... Maybe just need to pay more attention when a name is presented...
Of course you need to remember one's name before any social ability to be repeated. For me it is always the case: "Hey my name is xxx." "Nice to meet you!" This is usually the starting point and I usually do not get the name at the first place unless it is very common one (especially in US there are so many weird name including mine everywhere...). Rarely I asked again and try to write down and memorize but usually I just let it go and when the next time we met, it is a little bit embarrassing. I am pretty sure that the other guy feels the same because my name is definitely more difficult. This is the first and big obstacle to me then.
Anyway, trying to figure out a way to remember more names... Maybe just need to pay more attention when a name is presented...
Thursday, November 12, 2009
IDEA: Music shaker
Just read a paper from ismir 2009 that several music snippets are remixed according to their tonal and tempo information. I mean, I have this idea very long time ago... But I did not do anything and now it is others' contribution. Though I am not saying I will be able to solve the question, I am just lazy and think way much more than work.
Anyway, if the technology is already there, what else can we do? Or can we go beyond this? Therefore the application idea pop out, simply an iphone app. If we can pick two songs and shake the iphone which indicates that blend/mix this two songs together in "a way". Can be if shake harder, they will blend better like phrase by phrase blend or something. And the technology required are tempo estimation as well as key detection with phase vocoder to synchronize these two attributes.
Anyway, if the technology is already there, what else can we do? Or can we go beyond this? Therefore the application idea pop out, simply an iphone app. If we can pick two songs and shake the iphone which indicates that blend/mix this two songs together in "a way". Can be if shake harder, they will blend better like phrase by phrase blend or something. And the technology required are tempo estimation as well as key detection with phase vocoder to synchronize these two attributes.
Arc diagram
This is a current project I have been working for a while. Check out Shape of Song, Martin Wattenberg created this way to visualize a song, but from midi data, which you know exactly the notes. What I did is using the similar arc diagram on real audio data, to be specific, on the feature extracted from real audio data.
From the plot, basically the structure of the song is described. The idea of this arc diagram is that when those two points are identical (highly similar) you draw an arc line to connect those two dots. So when there are repeated patterns, they will be displayed. I am still exploring different features to be used while the same time trying to figure out better way to put the information in this plot. BTW, this song is a classical piano song "Fur Elise" (aka the trash truck song in Taiwan if I did not mix match).
IDEA: Piano paint
Oh well, I know the name is kinda lame. Anyway, cause the idea is vague too. Just a quick note about an idea come up to my mind the other day.
What if we can paint by playing instrument? Try to narrow down, the first experiment will be build a system which takes the input of a keyboard as midi signal and then plot something on to the screen. I have a feeling that this is gonna be fun and a pretty cool interactive art. Though I have not put much thought to it yet.
Below are some quick memos:
Randomly pick the starting point for each music sentence. According to the note and harmony you played, different color can be chosen and the size of the stroke and touch can be related to how hard you play the keyboard (loudness). Like I can imagine that if some weird chord series are played loudly, there will be some explosive color objects appeared on the screen.
I am sure that this idea must be down by someone already. But I would love to build one too. Maybe when I have time, can start doing some literature search first (google...). And I am thinking about taking this as a chance to learn max/msp.
What if we can paint by playing instrument? Try to narrow down, the first experiment will be build a system which takes the input of a keyboard as midi signal and then plot something on to the screen. I have a feeling that this is gonna be fun and a pretty cool interactive art. Though I have not put much thought to it yet.
Below are some quick memos:
Randomly pick the starting point for each music sentence. According to the note and harmony you played, different color can be chosen and the size of the stroke and touch can be related to how hard you play the keyboard (loudness). Like I can imagine that if some weird chord series are played loudly, there will be some explosive color objects appeared on the screen.
I am sure that this idea must be down by someone already. But I would love to build one too. Maybe when I have time, can start doing some literature search first (google...). And I am thinking about taking this as a chance to learn max/msp.
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