Comments on: Meditations (after Aurelius) http://www.petehindle.com/2009/10/07/meditations-after-aurelius/ Reads a lot. Likes coffee. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:19:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Pete Hindle http://www.petehindle.com/2009/10/07/meditations-after-aurelius/comment-page-1/#comment-3029 Pete Hindle Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:41:30 +0000 http://www.petehindle.com/?p=315#comment-3029 I'm not planning to do anything at Dorkbot, but I might present something at Datarama on Friday night, at the Tyneside Cinema. There's probably a link to it on the website for http://ptechnic.org/. I got interested in the Longplayer project as part of the reading of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1843549158?ie=UTF8&tag=pethin-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=1843549158" rel="nofollow">Anathem</a> I was doing at the time. Since then I've read up on the <a href="http://www.longnow.org/" rel="nofollow">Long Now Foundation</a> and I understand a little more, even if they do come across as batshit crazy. I’m not planning to do anything at Dorkbot, but I might present something at Datarama on Friday night, at the Tyneside Cinema. There’s probably a link to it on the website for http://ptechnic.org/.

I got interested in the Longplayer project as part of the reading of Anathem I was doing at the time. Since then I’ve read up on the Long Now Foundation and I understand a little more, even if they do come across as batshit crazy.

]]> By: Kerrin http://www.petehindle.com/2009/10/07/meditations-after-aurelius/comment-page-1/#comment-3022 Kerrin Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:14:16 +0000 http://www.petehindle.com/?p=315#comment-3022 I left quickly, too, so unless you're the guy who struggled a bit to get out of the door as I was walking down the stairs, I definitely didn't see you :-) Not sure how they're generating the singing bowl voices - sampled, modelled sines, a combination - but it's there, continuously, as potential. It's quite something to be able to just drop in at any point and listen or meditate. It's at physical locations around the world, too, one being a lighthouse down south somewhere. I'd love to visit and experience that. I didn't know the guy is ex-Pogues! Well, how interesting. Cool! Thank you for that :-) Are you planning to present any projects at Dorkbot? I have a few but it will probably take another visit or two to kill my nerves! I left quickly, too, so unless you’re the guy who struggled a bit to get out of the door as I was walking down the stairs, I definitely didn’t see you :-)

Not sure how they’re generating the singing bowl voices – sampled, modelled sines, a combination – but it’s there, continuously, as potential. It’s quite something to be able to just drop in at any point and listen or meditate. It’s at physical locations around the world, too, one being a lighthouse down south somewhere. I’d love to visit and experience that.

I didn’t know the guy is ex-Pogues! Well, how interesting. Cool! Thank you for that :-)

Are you planning to present any projects at Dorkbot? I have a few but it will probably take another visit or two to kill my nerves!

]]> By: Pete Hindle http://www.petehindle.com/2009/10/07/meditations-after-aurelius/comment-page-1/#comment-3021 Pete Hindle Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:25:21 +0000 http://www.petehindle.com/?p=315#comment-3021 Hey Kerrin - thanks for leaving a comment. I did make it to Dorkbot Newcastle but left pretty quickly afterwards, so you might not have seen me around. As for Longplayer, I had heard of it, but I didn't know that it used singing bowls. However, did you know that it was created by somebody who used to be in the Pogues? That's my obscure fact for the day. Hey Kerrin – thanks for leaving a comment. I did make it to Dorkbot Newcastle but left pretty quickly afterwards, so you might not have seen me around.

As for Longplayer, I had heard of it, but I didn’t know that it used singing bowls. However, did you know that it was created by somebody who used to be in the Pogues? That’s my obscure fact for the day.

]]> By: Kerrin http://www.petehindle.com/2009/10/07/meditations-after-aurelius/comment-page-1/#comment-3020 Kerrin Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:36:29 +0000 http://www.petehindle.com/?p=315#comment-3020 This was wonderful to listen to. Do you know about Longplayer? Based around the concept of, and written for, singing bowls, it's been playing for almost ten years now and has another 990 or so to go before full circle. http://longplayer.org/ :-) I found your blog while reading about Dorkbot Newcastle, which I attended the other night. Did you make it there? This was wonderful to listen to. Do you know about Longplayer? Based around the concept of, and written for, singing bowls, it’s been playing for almost ten years now and has another 990 or so to go before full circle. http://longplayer.org/ :-)

I found your blog while reading about Dorkbot Newcastle, which I attended the other night. Did you make it there?

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