But First, Some News!

I had the pleasure of meeting Wendell Davis, the CEO of Splice Music a few weeks back and he showed me the preview of the new SpliceMusic.com, which has since been quietly pushed live for all to see. When writing my thesis, I thought it would be amazing to create a synthesizer, sequencer, and DSP effects within a Flash site (a la Garageband) although I knew that something like this would take me years to do on my own...

Wendell had a similar thought and brought together the reigning geniuses of Flash and audio coding, Andre Michelle and Bram Cohen, respectively, to create the next generation of Splice. Well, they hit this one so far out of the park it’s ridiculous. The new Splice has a gorgeous interface, an audio engine that performs as well as any desktop based audio app, a synthesizer, some DSP effects that are cooler than some desktop plug-ins I've seen, and of course features the web 2.0 ability to share and collaborate. I was also told that they have an API to allow others to create their own effects, etc. and add them to the site – I can’t wait to get my hands on it.

In very related news, Andre Michelle and Joa Ebert generously released the source code to their AS3 audio library on code.google.com/p/popforge. Once I get through my current wave of busyness I am going to sit down and dissect the code to learn from the Great Master and of course see all the things I could have done better in my thesis...

¿Donde Estoy?

It’s been, well, a few weeks since I started this site and made my first few posts. Since then, I’ve been busy finishing grad school at NYU, doing a bunch of freelance jobs, moving out to LA, working on a book about corn, and doing tons of miscellaneous other things...

But I’m back! And inspired by the fact that I’ve been selected to give a lecture about my thesis at the 123rd annual Audio Engineers’ Society (AES) convention (at the Javits Center in NYC in October), it’s time to make some updates and drop some wisdom! If you're in NYC and feel like being a massive nerd from October 5-8th, let me know! (or just heckle me)