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applications
PHP script to create a playlist of free online mp3s
2007-06-01 12:00:00
This is a tool to crawl a free online dataminig service and automaticly build a playlist for XMMS or winamp of free mp3s.
Simply supply index.php with a urlescaped band name. For example I put this in an index.php file in a directory on my webserver, and then go to http://myserver.com/directory/?band=my%20band%name and the script crawls the datamining service, finds mp3 links, tests to see if thoes links are still there, and then builds a playlist.
<?php include("functions.php"); $request=parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); parse_str($request['query']); $playlist=array(); if (!isset($type)) $type="m3u"; if (!isset($band)) { print "<html><body><b>You must specify a bandname</b></body></html>"; exit(-1); } if (!isset($pages)) $pages=10; for($page=0;$page<$pages;$page++) { $files=fetch($band,$page); foreach($files as $name=>$url) $playlist[$name]=$url; } if (strcmp($type,"b4s")==0) { //this is not the correct headder header('Content-type: winamp-playlist/b4s'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="aproximation.b4s"'); print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding='UTF-8' standalone=\"yes\">\r\n"; print " <WinampXML>\r\n"; print " <playlist num_entries=\"".count($playlist)."\" label=\"aproximation\">\r\n"; while($name=array_pop($names)) { $url=$playlist[$name]; print " <entry Playstring=\"$url\">\r\n"; print " <Name>$name</Name>\r\n"; print " </entry>\r\n"; } print " </playlist>\r\n"; print " </WinampXML>\r\n"; } else { header('Content-type: winamp-playlist/m3u'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$band.'.m3u"'); $names=array_keys($playlist); shuffle($names); while($name=array_pop($names)) { $url=$playlist[$name]; print "$url\r\n"; } } ?>
AMD64 Laptop Linux Setup
2004-09-21 17:35:01
size: 18Kbmedium: HTML document
I put this togeather to help others get their machines working on non windows platforms. The payment for openSource tools is to help out whenever one can. This is the extent to which I can return the favor.
Thanks Linux community!
what
2003-02-10 22:17:24
size: 253 kbmedium: Flash 5 and web based PHP CVS 4.4
this is not really an application or net.art (no bidirectional flow of information) but it is an interesting piece I think and worth looking at. Made in the throws of darkeddy...
maggie2
2003-02-06 12:17:52
size: 2.4 Mbmedium: Flash 5 and web based PHP script interacting with /usr/share/dict/words
This piece is part 2 in response to that powerfull voicemail message I recieved from Maggie mAYhEm. This piece is more application like but I still don't care about that for this project.
maggie
2003-01-30 01:12:00
size: 1.5 Mbmedium: Flash 5 and web based PHP script interacting with /usr/share/dict/words
This piece is a late night response to a voicemail message I recieved from Maggie Mayhem, a message that moved me. It also spawned the notion of doing a digital tryptic in honor of the person who left the message and the spirit in which and toward which it was recieved. This piece is not really an application, but I dont care about that for this project.
rephrase
2003-01-27 11:41:29
size: 1.9 kbmedium: Web based php CVS 4.4
This piece is intended as a response to an email I recieved from Maggie Mayhem. The text on white background is from her and the piece is an intrepretation and translation into a kind of visual language. This again is not really an application but a study...
lost
2003-01-26 21:49:34
size: 836 bmedium: Web based php CVS 4.4
This is not really an application per se, but I felt it was worth putting up as a study or or something along thoes lines...
Aproximate mongrel
2002-11-19 08:52:11
size: 4.2 kbmedium: Web based php CVS 4.4 and gd 2.0.7
Though the finish date on this web based peice is november 2002, the peice was for the most part done in 2001 as a response to studies in Mark Amerika's class.
New Directions Projects
2002-10-04 12:00:00
The NewDirections site is actualy composed of flash movies created over a span of time streching three months, from October to December of 2003. The pieces contained therein are submissions for project assignments, as you will likely deduce. The class was Mark Amerika's New Directions class, fall 2003 at CU Boulder.
Card Project
2002-09-01 12:00:00
size: 1.6Mbmedium: Flash MX
I made this piece in conjunction with Chris Lavery and some of the other grad students in the CU art building.
Expandable Javascript Menu
2002-06-26 18:19:00
size: 10 kbmedium: Textual tutorial for a web based expandable javascript menuing system
This is really a tutorial and sample code for expandable menus and is released free for anybody to use.
UfieldDemo
2002-03-28 00:00:00
size: 3.0 Mbmedium: WinZip archive of a stand alone openGL application and mp3 soundtrack
This is a pre-beta stand alone application proof of concept and exploration of openGL programming. I hope to evolve this application along with my openGL programming skills (which are less than minimal at this point
lead
2002-03-25 00:00:00
size: 403.1 kbmedium: Perl and a web based PHP script interacting with /usr/share/dict/words
lead is a web based application that represents the "problem space" of the dictionary py imposing a ruleset based off of spelling structure. The result is a kind of generative poem, algorithmic art in a nutshell. Be warned though, the load time is around three minutes, so hang in there...
audio
June 10, 2007 (untitled - in progress)
2007-06-10 02:02:48
This is just a short clip of little pieces I was transferring to another machine. This will certainly appear in another form in the future, provided I can get my shit together and get back into audio.
My artistic life is at a standstill because I have no art friends out here to get my moving and I apparently have no masturbatory desire to make art simply for my own amusement anymore. I am posting this worthless snippet in the hopes that it will help me to get motivated.
omnious
2007-03-04 14:29:00
I was killing time and made this clip using some vocals I had brought with me from Boulder. A dancer there wanted me to do some audio work with these vocals for a piece of hers but we never ironed out the details.
I called this "omnious" because the female voice in my life is always a harbinger of internal strife for me.
Twang
2006-07-27 20:40:01
I made this just for kicks partly, and partly to avoid the sadness. I had recently seen the Pirates of the Caribbean and my love of musicbox's was renewed by that heart-shaped music box Davy Jones had. The other parts just kind of came from me wandering around sonicly.
I had/have no real direction...
looper
2006-06-03 22:30:00
Another experiment with audio. It didn't work the way I wanted it to.
Meant to be heard at high volume
dizzy
2006-05-06 22:10:14
This is just a little track I made one night just to be minimal. I was really sleep and I was feeling empty in a confused and directionless way. I hadn't really gotten anywhere with a track I was working on earlier (yet abother sob story for mAYhEm) and so I just set up some oscillators. BOORING! Story of my life.
doodoo
2006-05-06
This is a piece I made from a poem I wrote for Maggie mAYhEm about the relationship we once had.
Dreaming of you
2006-03-05 14:35:00
Perhaps one of the tracks for the Famished CD5 based on the first track of HasDreams entitled "hungry-awake"
hungry zombie attack
2006-02-25 07:49:00
The second track from the Famished CD5 based on the first track from HasDreams entitled "hungry-awake"
sumer
2006-02-25 07:39:02
Some silly song I wrote on mAYhEm. I recorded the guitar mic'd through the amp I built into my guitar case.
sin-star (2.1)
2006-02-25 07:39:01
I also made this: a little variation of effects of the Sin Star song
sin-star (1.2)
2006-02-25 07:39:00
I don't remember why I made this, but I did.
And it was good.
I think I was learning to use Ardour in Linux
blues aught not
2006-01-07 12:10:00
I made this using mAYhEm (I am just going to call the guitar that from now on).
warmpth.wav
2005-12-31 20:02:00
An especially fun time - the aniversary of mAYhEm and I's first kiss: new years eve. So I made this track for the Famished CD5
weeeee
guitar lesson
2005-12-31 14:12:10
Its short. And lame. But I cant play the guitar so gimmie a break.
The lyrics:
I am trying to learn to play your guitar
unsatisified I pluck at the strings
all the notes are broken and fall out of key
perhaps they only sound beautiful to me
I pluck away, its all sounding worse
I fall out of rhythm, I dont know the scale
perhaps there is sucuess where I see only failure
this song is starting to sound a lot like me
rocer crapattack
2005-12-20 14:28:00
Just more of me screwing around on the broken guiter and the laptop
warmpth.wav
2005-11-28 11:08:00
size: 5.5 MbMade with mAYhEm's broken guitar, that I fixed, and for use on the CD5 I plan to make using the hungry-awake samples. A kind of HasDreams companion.
voiceA
2005-09-15 17:26:00
size: 3.7 MbI asked a girl who shal heretoforth be know as CranyAngel to send me some vocals for me to play with and send back to her. I met her on the SG blog community. There were two songs I made with her vocals and this is one of them.
vix 0.1
2005-09-05 20:35:12
An especially ambient piece - I think I was playing with a granular synthesis tool I wrote.
busted
2005-03-19 12:00:00
I don't remember what this is all about. I am somewhat sure I made this during a rather rough spot socio-chemicaly
decypher
2004-12-01 22:57:00
size: 1.6 MbTrack from HasDreams
The transcript:
A strife exists between things percieved of as seperate
Body, mind, inside, outside; to name some of the major players
Once, and still today, these obsticals become transparent and comprise in a synthetic fashion life and experience
When muddied, these layers comprise the larger machine; the system, comprised of each little element working in synchronicity like neurons in the brain
When taken individualy, these lements fall out of step but a greater understanding of the system can be reached
When submerged within the throws of joy there is no understanding, only participation within the system
When standing on the shore, or on a boat, the ocean dynamics are easy to percieve
Is it vanity that makes us believe that we are bigger then the system, or do we construct the cage within which we live?
Where do we place ourselves
MaySong
2004-11-01 00:00:17
size: 8.3 Mblength: 6:02
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Simple
2004-11-01 00:00:16
size: 3.5 Mblength: 2:30
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Hoop Jump
2004-11-01 00:00:15
size: 7.3 Mblength: 5:18
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BlaBla(temp)
2004-11-01 00:00:14
size: 1.8 Mblength: 1:18
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Life In A Latex Glove
2004-11-01 00:00:13
size: 6.4 Mblength: 4:37
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Plasmak(v1)
2004-11-01 00:00:12
size: 8.5Mlength: 6:10
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SubSongA
2004-11-01 00:00:11
size: 5.2 Mblength: 3:45
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gentle
2004-11-01 00:00:10
size: 2 Mblength: 1:26
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TrialPreTrip
2004-11-01 00:00:09
size: 3.0 Mblength: 2:10
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Trinatron
2004-11-01 00:00:08
size: 9.6 Mblength: 7:00
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Krintkle
2004-11-01 00:00:07
size: 5.6 Mblength: 4:02
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TrialPreTrip2
2004-11-01 00:00:06
size: 4.0 Mblength: 2:55
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Zhal
2004-11-01 00:00:05
size: 6.0 Mblength: 4:22
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Plakor
2004-11-01 00:00:04
size: 6.0 Mblength: 4:22
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Beatnik
2004-11-01 00:00:03
size: 2.5 Mblength: 1:50
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Hae
2004-11-01 00:00:02
size: 1.8 Mblength: 1:18
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Crae
2004-11-01 00:00:01
size: 2.6 Mblength: 1:52
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sonig(v2)
2003-08-01 15:00:00
size: 2.7 Mblength: 2:57
For this track I recorded Maggie Mayhem's sister, Leslie, playing the violin. I then used synthsis techniques not unlike violin playing to move back and forth across the sample to make a signal. I used PD 0.36, a magnificent little program. Meta-violin.
hungry-awake
2003-06-30 15:59:56
size: 834 kblength: 0:53
I made this in the vein that seems to be my current trend - pirate poignant audio from messages left by friends and put them into music. I thought these vocals contained some kernal of deeper meaning, phenomology driving the awakening of minds...
(We know who is full of hot air here, don't we?)
Justin
2003-04-20 14:32:00
size: 1.9 Mblength: 2:05
This peice was composed by me for Justin Cooper. It was composed with PD and a voice message left by him for me.
I like it.
Not So Crunchy Anymore
2003-02-27 11:04:00
size: 2.1 Mblength: 2:05
This piece was constructed in response to the request of Napalm REX to bring a song to "Meathooks of Freedom" practice. Its a csound piece.
Not So Crunchy Anymore (vocals)
2003-02-26 11:15:00
size: 2.1 Mblength: 2:05
This piece was constructed in response to the request of Napalm REX to bring a song to "Meathooks of Freedom" practice. Its a csound piece. This piece has PD filtered vocals.
NoisDay (Vocals)
2003-02-20 16:24:00
size: 1.8 Mblength: 1:45
This piece is a conjunction between csound instrumentation and pd vocal filters mixed down in sonar XL. It was begun on Noise Day, an event held by me, Napalm REX, Maggie Mayhem (with guest gutarist Evan) in the instalation room in the art building. This version has vocals.
NoisDay
2003-02-20 16:23:00
size: 1.8 Mblength: 1:45
This piece is a conjunction between csound instrumentation and pd vocal filters mixed down in sonar XL. This version has no vocals. It was begun on Noise Day, an event held by me, Napalm REX, Maggie Mayhem (with guest gutarist Evan) in the instalation room in the art building.
diffusion
2002-05-23 12:24:02
size: 4.01 Mblength: 4:22
Made this cause I was feelin dejected at an event at the university called "diffusion". I didnt do it to honor the event, but more to remember it. . .
its proabably not finished
plop(v2)
2002-05-15 16:16:28
size: 3.18 Mblength: 3:29
I made this just cause, but then decided it corresponded to the Ufield imagery so the finished version of Ufield will have a Plop(v2) like soundtrack.
Tekno
2001-12-12 09:13:06
size: 3.75 Mblength: 4:06
I dont remember the idea behind this one. It might not even be finished either.
Tekno2
2001-12-10 17:44:10
size: 2.35 Mblength: 2:37
I dont remember the idea behind this one. It might not even be finished.
asmp
2001-07-29 21:24:10
size: 2.86 Mblength: 3:07
I dont remember the idea behind this one. It might not even be finished either.
Tabl,e
2001-04-28 10:49:22
size: 3.7 Mblength: 4:03
I made this peice to interact with water in another "fine art" sculptural peice.
sng
2001-04-14 17:48:12
size: 780 kblength: 0:49
I dont remember the idea behind this one. It might not even be finished either.
BassClass
2001-03-29 20:45:26
size: 500 kblength: 0:32
This peice was created for function in a "fine art" sculptural peice
images
Flip
2005-07-15 12:00:00
unprintedI shot these images before going out one night, and later I played around with attaching them. Actually when I shot them I had that idea too. What was I thinking?
sidelook
2005-07-03 12:00:00
unprintedI felt like letting photo have another shot at capturing my attention. I think I would like it more if I wasn't taking pictures of myself.
nohead
2005-07-02 12:00:00
unprintedI felt like letting photo have another shot at capturing my attention. I think I would like it more if I wasn't taking pictures of myself.
Ear
2005-07-01 12:00:00
unprintedI felt like letting photo have another shot at capturing my attention. I think I would like it more if I wasn't taking pictures of myself.
nothing without
2005-05-01 12:00:00
unprintedMaggie mAYhEm as making some really cool images around this time (actually I have never seen her make an uncool or uninteresting image), and so I tried to emulate her with this image. I am curious how the heavy compression I applied would look when printed.
Message Board (02)
2005-04-01 12:00:00
unprintedFurther documentation of my visit to the 2005 BFA show at CU. As I said before I get bored easily at openings so I decided to make a piece of it. I put three safty pins through my lip and went shirtless, first to the opening where only a few people wrote on me, then to the bars where more did.
Message Board (03)
2005-04-01 11:00:00
unprintedFurther documentation of my visit to the 2005 BFA show at CU. As I said before I get bored easily at openings so I decided to make a piece of it. I put three safty pins through my lip and went shirtless, first to the opening where only a few people wrote on me, then to the bars where more did.
More Reasons
2005-03-28 12:00:00
Size: dimensions variableMedium: color photo paper
Notes: The product of another chemicaly confused night, I made this piece with the help of a roomate to write the texts on my head.
First Try
2005-03-15 12:00:00
Size: 4 inches wide by 8 inches high by 4 inches deepMedium: glass quart jar, metal lid, red stage make-up, blood water solution
Notes: Its what you think.
Mirror (now)
2005-03-07 12:00:00
Size: dimensions variableMedium: color photo paper
Notes: A piece (both actual mirror and photo) were made one mind-addled night. The left side of the mirror was done first. When I awoke the next day I did the second side and later that day I took the shot.
Monkey (back)
2005-03-01 12:01:00
Size: 42 inches high by 42 inches wideMedium: wood, canvas, acrylic paint, joint compound, string
Notes: This is the flip side of the Monkey. I like this side best.
Monkey (front)
2005-03-01 12:00:00
42 inches high by 42 inches wideMedium: wood, canvas, acrylic paint, joint compound, string
Notes: I was thinking of getting a monkey tattoo and so I made this piece of crap. It just got out of control but I kept going anyway.
Painting is so dead.
CA Experiment 01
2005-02-11 10:00:00
unprintedI made the CA Experiment images around the time I made the fbk image. I wanted to play around with cellular automata on images as I have goten tired with the 3D stuff I have done. I need a new medium of sorts and I am trying 2D
Cell
2005-01-10 01:23:42
Size: 34 inches wide by 25 inches high by 2 inches deepMedium:Wood, Latex paint
Notes: This is an image I painted. Not really a finished project, but what is really?
Dust Fetish 03
2004-11-01 12:00:02
Size: 1 foot high by 1 foot wide by 1 foot deepMedium: Wood, Paint, Plaster, Plastic Computer Processor Guard
Notes: I made these out of earlier sculptures. Kind of vingettes that are time dependant and auto-generating from a seed, like digital work except in the real world.
