http://wyck.ca/blog http://wyck.caMovies, Music, Entertainment Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:39:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just completed a musical project with Muffy St. Bernard.  Muffy gave me a single track that was mostly ambient drones with some sampler stuff and some drum loops.  I layered over it with some electric guitars, cello and synth. I had quite a bit of fun with the vocoder too, ... /blog/?p=119 A friend and coworker of mine, Chris Mennie, was kind enough to lend me his new toy, the Korg Kaossilator. It's a nifty little synth and digital loop recorder with a rather unique interface. It has an X-Y touch sensitive pad, along with a twisty knob and a ... /blog/?p=118 Don’t you wish you could find a song by humming a few bars? You can’t remember the lyrics, but the tune is stuck in your head. Or maybe it’s an instrumental and there are just no lyrics to search for. Well, there is a website where you ... /blog/?p=113 Inspired by the video for Come Into My World, by Kylie Minogue, I tried to do a match-move effect. Normally this kind of effect is done with motion control cameras. In my case, I had no such equipment. But I did have a stopwatch, a mind for ... /blog/?p=110 It's a wonderful day! I got a new tripod for my birthday! It's a Manfrotto 351MVCF with 519 Fluid Head, plus a super cool carrying bag! Definitely worth all the exclamation marks! I actually wanted to get a tripod last year for my birthday, but decided at the ... /blog/?p=109 Things to do on a lazy afternoon: Work? Nah. Clean? Nah. Strap a camera to a remote control car and shoot some video? Sure! Now that I have a real video camera, I feel less protective of my other one. So much, that I ... /blog/?p=104 This is not going to have global appeal, but I find it pretty darn funny. And since I've been distracted by work this month, working late preparing for our big trade show in Las Vegas, I thought I'd share something my manager at work showed me to ... /blog/?p=103 Something I always wanted to do was to write a program that took a MIDI file and output an audio file. This is obviously a massive undertaking to do well, but I wanted to see how far I could get in a few days. I downloaded the MIDI ... /blog/?p=100 It was a long wait, but it finally arrived. World of WarCraft: The Burning Crusade arrived right around the time I wrote my last blog. Right around that time, my dad, by "coincidence" dropped in for the weekend. We ran the Boys from Stormwind around Azeroth for ... /blog/?p=97 I figure I'm going to start using Google Video. The annoying part was that I had to write a WordPress plug-in to accomplish this. I was forced to learn a bunch of php stuff that I didn't want to, but what's done is done. Here are some teasers to ... /blog/?p=94