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Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
An intact group of four residences designed by the architectural firm of Schneider & Herter and built by the firm of Schneider & Company as a speculative venture. 1 The rowhouse group is the sole surviving example of a type of site planning used on several comer plots along West End Avenue in the early 1890s where a group of houses facing the Avenue featured a prominent comer house and an additional house was built facing the side street behind the Avenue-facing houses. Treated as the centerpiece of the rehouse group, the comer house at No. 858 West End Avenue is representative of the many larger comer houses with side entrances and comer towers which once stood on West End Avenue.
The group of residences was built in 1892-93 during the first period of intense residential development for the comfortable professional class along the northern portion of West End Avenue where the suburban qualities of landscaped streets, the views of the Hudson River, and the amenities of nearby Riverside Park created a desirable residential area. The 858 West End Avenue House is distinguished by ornament characteristic of the mannerist aesthetic of the firm of Schneider & Herter, the juxtaposition of contrasting textures of rough, smooth-faced, and carved brownstone, and the emphasis on a lively roof line punctuated by a bell-shaped tower and chimneys. The quality and distinctiveness of the Queen Anne/Romanesque Revival style design of the 858 West End Avenue House reflects the desire for individuality in the appearance of houses within rowhouse groups and is representative of the eclectically-styled residential architecture of West End Avenue dating from the 1890s.
Development of the Upper West Side
Despite its long history beginning soon after the colonial Dutch settlement, the Upper West Side, known as Bloomingdale prior to its urbanization, remained largely undeveloped until the 1880s. In the early eighteenth century, Bloomingdale Road (later renamed the Boulevard and finally Broadway in 1898) was opened through rural Bloomingdale and provided the northern route out of the city which was then concentrated in the southern tip of Manhattan. The Upper West Side was included in the Randel Survey of 1811 (known as the Commissioners' Map) which established a uniform grid of avenues and cross streets in Manhattan as far north as 155th Street, although years elapsed before streets on the Upper West Side were actually laid out, some as late as the 1870s and 1880s, and the land was subdivided into building lots.
The city grew rapidly northward during the nineteenth century, but it was not until after Central Park (a designated New York City Scenic landmark) was laid out in 1857 that development began around the perimeter of the Park, setting off the first wave of real estate speculation on the Upper West Side.
Improved public transportation to the area contributed to the growth and sustained development of the Upper West Side. By 1880 the horse car line on Eighth Avenue had been replaced by street rail service up to 125th Street and the Elevated Railway on Ninth Avenue (renamed Columbus Avenue in 1890) had been completed. However, the biggest boost to the development of the West End (the area west of Broadway) was the creation, between 1876 and 1900, of Riverside Drive and Park (a designated New York City Scenic Landmark) located north of 72nd Street along the Hudson River. The presence of the park and drive, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, was an important factor in making this area desirable for high-quality residential development.
Development of the Wast End began slowly, due, to a large degree, to the hesitation of would-be residents, but by 1885 it had emerged as the area in the city experiencing the most intense real estate speculation. The expectation that the blocks along Riverside Drive and West End Avenue would be lined with mansions kept the value of these lots, as well as adjacent land, consistently higher and developers were willing to wait to realize profits from the potentially valuable sites. The real estate developers, including the West End Association, founded in 1884 by the prominent developer, W.E.D. Stokes, ultimately stimulated the demand for houses in the West End. Real estate brochures and the local press drew attention to the area, emphasizing the scenic quality of the setting, the nearness of parks, and the availability of public transportation.
West End Avenue (formerly Eleventh Avenue) was opened in 1880 from 72nd Street to 106th street and was paved with asphalt by 1893. West End Association members set twenty-year restrictive covenants governing West End Avenue which closed the avenue to commercial traffic and initially limited development to single-family houses, thus enhancing the desirability of the residential area. By 1890 the character of the avenue had emerged as completely residential and was promoted as a suburban-like setting with such amenities as grass plots and trees along the sidewalks. The absence of flats and apartment houses on the avenue provided the opportunity for various treatments of the comers with rowhouses and larger attached residences.
In the mid-1880s the most attractive areas for development along West End Avenue were located near the El stations and along the higher elevations of the hilly avenue. Construction of mid-size rowhouses, rather than the more grand type of mansions originally projected for West End Avenue, began in 1885 near 104th Street which was convenient to a Ninth Avenue El station and by 1895 the high plateau between West 99th and 104th Streets had been built up with three- and four-story rowhouses. The architectural tone of these private residences was set by the presence of costly mansions such as the W.F. Foster residence at 102th Street and Riverside Drive and the Bacon residence at 104th Street and Riverside Drive.
The Schneider & Company's Houses
The site at the northeast corner of West 102nd Street and West End Avenue appears to have been first sold for development purposes in 1881 and at that time an open-ended restrictive covenant was initiated which prevented the construction of a variety of commercial and industrial buildings. The property changed hands several times before Hannah O'Brien filed plans in 1890 to build five three-story limestone-fronted houses designed by Andrew Spence; within a year O'Brien lost control of the property and this project was abandoned.
Two New York architects, Ernest W. Schneider and Henry Herter, along with two partners — John Fish, a previous client, and Eugene Schultz— acquired the property and soon after filed plans for the construction of a group of four three-story residences with raised basements. Beside the comer house, facing West End Avenue, are two narrow houses, nearly identical in design. Situated across the rear of the three West End Avenue houses, facing West 102nd Street and enclosing the yard area, the fourth house has a freestanding side facade. The houses, built between May, 1892, and April, 1893, were appropriately finished on the interior with decorative mantels, hardwood trim, and horseshoe openings ornamented with fretwork dividing the music rooms from the parlors, as well as up-to-date plumbing and utility areas. The placement of the stairhall in the center of each house permitted large full-width front rooms on the upper floors.
The first house to be sold in the rowhouse group was No. 856 West End Avenue. In 1895 the remaining houses were divided among the investors and Schneider & Herter acquired title to No. 858 West End Avenue. The house was sold in 1897 but title reverted to Schneider & Herter in 1898; they soon resold the house. No. 854 West End Avenue had been sold in 1895 and the West 102nd Street House was sold in 1896.
The Schneider & Company development venture is the sole surviving example of a site development pattern that emerged on West End Avenue in which large comer parcels were purchased for the construction of rowhouse groups. By decreasing the depth of the avenue-facing houses, an additional house could be built on the plot facing the side street; the plan worked to the advantage of the developer who sought a maximum return on the expensive West End Avenue lots. Slightly larger and more prestigious comer houses, with highly visible design features such as comer towers, were characteristic of this site development plan. This scheme was particularly favored in the early 1890s when the area between 99th and 104th streets was developed. Rowhouse groups facing West End Avenue, with a side street-facing house (or houses) across the rear of these lots, were built at the southeast comers of West End Avenue and 99th, 100th, 102nd, and 103rd Streets; all of the groups except the Schneider & Company group have been demolished.
The rowhouse group at the southeast comer of 103rd Street and West End Avenue, designed by M.V.B. Ferdon in 1891, included five houses facing West End Avenue and one facing 103rd Street; only the house facing West 103rd Street remains standing. Another group of houses designed by M.V.B. Ferdon and built by Increase Grenell in 1892 at the northwest comer of West End Avenue and 104th Street (demolished) included a comer house very similar to the Schneider & Company house, featuring the entrance near the center of the 104th Street facade.
Picturesque Architecture on West End Avenue
Curing the intense period of rowhouse development on the Upper West Side, from 1885 to 1900, residential design was dominated by a reaction to the conformity and homogeneity of older Italianate style brownstone rowhouses found elsewhere in the city. The first wave of development along West End Avenue in the period between 1885 and 1895 produced a number of individually-designed houses and speculatively-built, yet distinctive, rowhouse groups which, along with houses in the West End as a whole, represent the culmination of single-family house construction in Manhattan. Many of the most prominent architects working in New York City designed these residences, often for speculative developers who invested in the area. The residences designed for West End Avenue were characteristic of the picturesque eclecticism of late-nineteenth-century architecture, drawing from a wide variety of stylistic sources and expressing the desire of architects and clients for originality, variety, and novelty in residential architecture.
There was a movement away from smooth brownstone as a facing material and a new emphasis on the sculptural and textural qualities of surfaces, as well as on the mixture of colors and materials.
Unusual, picturesque house design on West End Avenue had been initiated by the construction of two groups of houses with a "Dutch" flavor in 1885-86, designed by Frederick B. White and McKim, Mead & White. Clarence True and other architects continued to design residences for West End Avenue in unusual and picturesque revival styles which were executed with a high-degree of artistic experimentation. Strong rhythmic patterns, asymmetrical massing, and a lively streetscape were created by the profusion of bowfronts, bay and oriel windows, gables, turrets, chimneys, dormers, cornices, stoops, and ornamentation associated with the popular Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles as well as more exotic revival styles. These later rowhouses on West End Avenue, and throughout the Upper West Side, unlike their Italianate brownstone predecessors from earlier in the nineteenth century, were purposely designed to be distinguished from one another, while together forming visually coherent ensembles.
The houses designed by Schneider & Herter are representative of this picturesque design movement, and although based on the common hybrid of the Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles they are enlivened by unusual carved ornament. The treatment of each of the four houses individually within the easily recognizable group provided the architects with the opportunity to create variations on a theme. The high degree of modulation in the plane of the facades, through the use of recessed entrances as well as projecting bay windows and balconies (which afforded views of the river and park) adds depth and grandeur to the rowhouse designs. Schneider & Herter explored the range of surface effects achievable from smooth-faced and rough-cut brownstone, and incorporated both geometric and figural carving of the material.
The repetition of several ornamental elements unites the houses, including paired stringcourses, gridded panels of rough-faced stone, chamfered window surrounds in the smooth-faced facades, sheet-metal panels at the roofline, and elements of the carved stone program. The two smaller West End Avenue houses are identical except for the shape and detailing of the window openings. No. 858 West End Avenue has recessed balconies at the parlor and second stories that relate the comer house to the West End Avenue houses, while the longer West 102nd Street frontage is visually linked to the house at 254 West 102nd Street through the repetition of unusual columns flanking the entrances and the carved panels at the roofline. The round comer tower with a bell-shaped roof serves as the centerpiece of the group.
The design of picturesque rowhouses in New York was influenced by trends in the design of architectural ornament in the later nineteenth century, a time when ornament was treated by many architects as an opportunity for creative experimentation. European theorists such as Owen Jones, James K. Collings, and Christopher Dresser encouraged an abstract interpretation of vegetation executed with an emphasis on geometricized form and their publications influenced designers in the United States. At the same time, technological change also influenced the design of ornament. The availability of steam-powered tools encouraged the use of bold, machine-cut ornament while the growing use of terra cotta prompted the design of intricate ornament that could be easily reproduced.
The popularity of several revival styles, and the inventive blending of these styles, encouraged the architect/designer to adopt an individualized aesthetic in the design of architectural ornament. This trend can be seen in the abstracted naturalistic ornament developed by such recognized American innovators as Frank Fumess and Louis H. Sullivan, as well as in the pioneering work of architects like Henry Hobson Richardson, who developed a highly personal style drawing on Romanesque sources. Many architects working in New York City also developed identifiable personal styles, such as clarence True with his interpretation of the "Elizabethan Renaissance Revival" style.
Schneider & Herter developed a somewhat idiosyncratic and mannerist aesthetic characterized by a lack of reverence for the traditional placement of ornament, an unexpected combining of architectural styles, and asymmetry in the composition of facades and their detailing; these characteristics appear in the firm's early designs for tenements, rowhouses and synagogues. In the ornamental programs of several buildings, including the 858 West End Avenue House, Schneider & Herter combined incised, machine-cut ornament— recalling the earlier Neo-Grec style of incised ornament — with both abstracted naturalistic designs and romantic figurative carving. An uncommon approach to the composition and placement of ornament appears in the design of the entrance where the architects combined pilasters with the projecting balcony above to suggest an entrance portico.
Two flattened engaged baluster forms, with incised horizontal bands and necks at the bottom, are topped by capitals with carved shell forms above inscribed circles; animal masks extend from the upper portion of plain blocks above the capitals that support the projecting balcony. Framing the door to the east is a variation on this form, a cylindrical baluster with a capital, different from the flanking ones, of stalky acanthus leaves above which an elongated console bracket supports the balcony. A more subtle example of Schneider & Herter's unusual ornamental treatment appears in the placement of carved stones in the upper courses of the rusticated basement to cap undefined piers.
Schneider & Herter
Ernest W. Schneider and Henry Herter began an architectural partnership in New York City around 1887; within a very short time they had a thriving business designing tenements, flats, and industrial buildings, primarily on the Lower East Side. Schneider & Herter worked repeatedly for a group of German-Jewish clients with ethnic backgrounds similar to theirs, the most prominent of whom were the real estate developers Jonas Weil and Bernard Mayer for whom the architects designed a number of multiple dwellings. This association led to the firm's commission for the Park East Synagogue, 163 East 67th Street (1889-90, a designated New York City Landmark), which Weil financed and led as president of the congregation. Schneider & Herter also designed Congregation Kol Israel Arshi at 20-22 Forsyth Street (1892, now owned by the Hellenic Orthodox Community).
The firm of Schneider & Herter had acted as architect-developers prior to its venture on the Upper West Side as Schneider & Co., designing and building a pair of French flats at 731-735 East 5th Street in 1890-91 and a French flat at 233-35 Delancey Street in 1891-92; the firm began a warehouse project at 141 West Broadway in 1893. Schneider & Herter later erected a five-story apartment building at 79-81 Perry Street in 1895 (in addition to designing several other buildings now within the Greenwich Village Historic District) and a pair of flats buildings at 309 and 317 West 93rd Street in 1901-02 (within the Riverside-West End Historic District).
The West End Avenue-102nd Street project was a departure from Schneider & Herter's usual work designing multiple dwellings, and was among the firm's first projects on the Upper West Side. Many of the firm's more than 100 multiple dwellings in Manhattan no longer stand, but those remaining exhibit the firm's individualistic approach to the use of ornament and facade compositions often featuring round-arched windows characteristic of the Romanesque Revival style.
- From the 1990 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
Radio station play-sheet on the back cover of a copy of Led Zeppelin III from the late 70's. Read about the station history here!: www.hartfordradiohistory.com/WQUN__WDEE_.html
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ANTONIO BONET. In 1942, Bonet participates in the constitution of the Organization of the Integral House in the Argentine Republic. The idea of the formation of its work ties it with the ideas suggested by Him Corbusier throughout the process of preparation of the Plan of Buenos Aires. "the routine servitude of conception submissive the outsider does not exist any worthy of consideration argument seriously nor even in that some Argentineans live" So that the initial note of a universal modulation does not take place in our country, whose hope appears in the immediate perspective of the world: on the area in catastrophe of the cities martyred by the war, the genius of the man already begins to project the new forms of the human coexistence. On the contrary, the essential circumstance of our historical youth and the one of our adventurous peace, locate to us in the moral obligation to create new forms of life anticipating us to whatever of project and of dream it even subsists in a world of towns in flames and ruins. This thought of Bonet, is taken from the N° Notebook 1 of OVRA, titled Study of the Contemporary Problems for the organization of the integral house in the Argentine Republic. Without a doubt, the text gathers part of the optimism of the Austral Group. But while this one was directed to the architects and its problems, in the OVRA manifesto the horizon is ampler, next to certain discovered nonfree of messianism of the American, coincident with other similar initiatives in other places of the continent.
Reflections of Antonio Bonet on the architecture: "the architectonic elements that will form the new city will be formed by a series, numerous, of structures little systematized. Those structures will be able to arrive to the maximum from their aesthetic, technical perfection and economic, since besides to be placed in free lands, its study must be based on the progressive improvement of such types, so as it has become in the great architectures of the past. Within those structures, that will be the expression of the effort of the social man, to obtain the order and the harmony of its time, never will be obtained to a freedom reached after the development of the life of the man like individual, and the one of its institutions. It is well certain that we are even far from that stage, But does not fit doubt that once demonstrated that the modern buildings can be developed in simple structures, more and more seemed to each other, it will make the importance powerful of this system. Those buildings will be used and the equipped for but diverse uses, without aging with it, although they will have to work at a time whose social programs, industrial, etc., are in permanent evolution. I am going to finish with the confession of my conviction of which to group the programs for the unification of the structures, is something enormously difficult, but some is no doubt that it is the way that will take us forms to the true architectonic of our time. in that the diverse social programs will be developed freely, cultural hygienic, etc., that must form the structure of the new society.
I bought a soft heat electric mattress pad. It is supposed to be low voltage and DC. I brought out my portable oscilloscope to check their claims. The power supply says 16 volts on it, and it really is 16 volts. The waveform looked very clean throughout the timescale range of 1 second to 1 microsecond.
After preheat, the unit goes into a pulse width modulation mode of some sort. At a setting of 3, the waveform was high for about 1.3 seconds over a 3 second period.
The pad measured 3.8 ohms after the preheat.
Sunnyvale, CA
This article is a bit light on detail, but 1966 is intriguingly early to be talking about an electronic medium for still pictures.
The text seems to say that the normal sound signal is low-pass filtered; and all the higher groove frequencies hold screeching audio-frequency modulation of television scan lines—basically slow-scan television. (Soon to be taken up in the ham radio community.)
It seems maybe this system doesn't use separate left and right groove channels? Odd. Anyway six seconds of audio is enough to transmit one frame, of what was almost certainly a very mushy image. It's not clear to me that this system actually reached production—although a similar idea was used for the Voyager golden record.
This same concept did eventually come around to the camera market in the late 1980s in the form of pre-digital still-video cameras.
One of my facebook friends posted a status update observing that, if you go to Mitt Romney's facebook page, note the number of "likes", and then re-load, you can see the number of "likes" drop in real time!
This was a complete shock to me, that disappointed voters might express themselves by "unliking" their erstwhile favorite candidate after the election, and at a remarkably steady rate.
I wrote a stupid little shell script to periodically poll Facebook for the number of "likes" on Romney's page. The data from the last several days is plotted above. As you can see, Facebook users—presumably disappointed Republicans— are de-friending Mitt Romney at a consistent rate of around 10,000 defriendings per day.
There is also a clear daily modulation to the dislikification rate. I conclude that these fairweather friends do not defriend Mitt while they are sleeping, but once they wake up again in the morning, they get right back to pressing "unlike".
SMS303 Tantek Tanrak (8 module)
Modular FX:
- Comp-Lim2
- Parametric Equaliser
- Enhancer
- Modulation Oscillator
- Multi Delay
- Fader-Panner
- Dynamic Noise Filter 2
- Pro-Gate 2
- Power
Info:
Mid 1980's Tantek, Tanrak Studio Effects Rack which was available in kit form or ready built. Modules audio signals are linked internally with their own bus or Use the rear 1/4'' sockets as a patchbay in stand-alone mode. On the face of it, they're simple analogue effects - a bit old-fashioned, really - but that's the charm of them. They've perfectly useable and immediately accessible, so you'll have great fun fiddling with the settings - try sweeping the EQ frequency, or riding the delay time for on-the-fly munchkinisation, for instance.
Even better, you'll find new ways to patch the modules together. Everything - in, out and sidechain - is accessible from the rear panel (there's a default path from left to right across the rack if you don't want to use patch cords) so you can create LFO-modulated delay effects, frequency-sensitive compression ... you think of it, you can do it.
STEREO COMPRESSOR/LIMITER - A high quality stereo comp/limiter with variable input, slope, attack and release controls, and a switched 'key' input that can link both channels...handy for de-essing, ducking etc. It's pretty much 'invisible' when used as a limiter, only squeezing when the threshold is crossed (depending on the ratio setting). Great for laying vocal tracks, mix thickening, fattening up drums, percussions and bass. In fact, it can make anything sound 'phat' but still retains that important top-end clarity.
MULTI-DELAY - This exciting module opens the way to high quality time domain effects including ADT, chorus, echo, vibrato and reverb. It features a built-in limiter, auto-optimising bandwidth, true spatial stereo outputs and multi reflection reverberation.
MODULATION OSCILLATOR - A CV modulation source whose features include sinewave output, variable duty cycle, key or CV controlled depth, triggerable sweeps and two independently variable outputs. Used with the muli-dealy to create chorus, flanging etc.
DYNAMIC NOISE FILTER - An effective single ended, easy to use, stereo noise reducer which will be found invaluable in any home studio set up to enhance the signal to noise ratio of outboard effects including those which exhibit digital quantisation noise.
STEREO NOISE GATE – This is a pro noise gate. Variable threshold, attack, release controls, with a 'hold' timer control to keep the gate open for a predetermined time after triggering from the switched 'key' input on the back panel. Good sensitive threshold control, it really enables you to home in on that elusive area between the sounds you want and the sounds you don't, with the threshold setting staying put and not 'drifting'.
POWER SUPPLY MODULE – Supplies regulated 12v DC power to all of the above modules via the 240v mains lead. It's got an on/off switch and an LED. It sits at the end of the rack.
Delta Sigma Modulation sucks, primary current ripple is completely unexceptionable with a 5KHz ripple.
This is a device that mixes radio waves (~1 GHz) with light waves (~1 million GHz).
By applying a radio-frequency signal to the connector, one varies the voltage applied to a thin strip of LiNbO3 embedded beneath the three gold "clips" in the very middle of the device. This voltage in turn modulates the effective index of refraction of the material. Therefore, by focusing light (from the side, in this photo) into the fiber-like waveguide one can introduce phase or frequency modulation on the light beam at the applied radio-frequnecy.
Drone Ranger : 4 Oscillators, 2 white noise sources, 2 ring mod, 2 Fuzz, 2 resonant low pass filters with LFO modulation.
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
The PIC16F75X family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) featuring intelligent analog and core-independent peripherals, making them ideal for general-purpose applications, as well as power supplies, battery charging, LED lighting, power management and power control/smart energy applications. The new PIC16F753 MCU builds on the success of the popular PIC12F752. The PIC16F753 offers all the key features of the PIC12F752, such as the integrated Complementary Output Generator (COG) peripheral that provides non-overlapping, complementary waveforms for inputs such as comparators and Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) peripherals, while enabling dead-band control, auto shutdown, auto reset, phase control and blanking control. Additionally, the PIC16F753 offers an Op Amp with 3 MHz of Gain Bandwidth Product (GBWP), and a slope compensation circuit to help in Switch Mode Power Supply applications. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/UUTR
This is my favorite synthesizer. EVER.
First released as the Yamaha DX7, being one of the most popular synthesizer of the 1980s! This is the desktop version of the popular synth. It has the exact same sound engine as it's big brother, Frequency Modulation, or FM, for short.
It has been used by the likes of:
the Crystal Method, Kraftwerk, Underworld, Orbital, BT, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Tony Banks, Mike Lindup of Level 42, Jan Hammer, Roger Hodgson, Teddy Riley, Brian Eno, T Lavitz of the Dregs, Sir George Martin, Supertramp, Phil Collins, Stevie Wonder, Daryl Hall, Steve Winwood, Scritti Politti, Babyface, Peter-John Vettese, Depeche Mode, D:Ream, Les Rhytmes Digital, Front 242, U2, A-Ha, Enya, The Cure, Astral Projection, Fluke, Kitaro, Vangelis, Elton John, James Horner, Toto, Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald, Chick Corea, Level 42, Queen, Yes, Michael Boddicker, Julian Lennon, Jean-Michel Jarre, Sneaker Pimps, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Greg Phillanganes, Jerry Goldsmith, Jimmy Edgar, Beastie Boys, Stabbing Westward and Herbie Hancock. (taken from Vintagesynth.com)
And that's pretty impressive as it's just "a partial listing" as the Vintagesynth.com page says. (www.vintagesynth.com/yamaha/dx7.shtml)
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
A breadboard test of a DC motor controller. It works by PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation), using a TLC3704 comparator chip to generate a variable mark/space ratio square wave. This is then fed to a HUF75337 power MOSFET. There's a 5k pot in a box to control it.
The 1950s in general involved much more engagement and synthesis with historical form than is normally acknowledged in narratives that give the glory to postmodernism. The silhouette is not just generically historicist but quite specific to this place: compare it to the Sforza Castle we were so recently admiring. The modulation of the elevation (see closeup, image 4) is a bit more typical for the period; I see a Team X sensibility there more than anything.
The use of historical form was a shot across the bow of Modernism; the re-engagement with this particular history was, I think, something more specific to the Italian political scene. Ernesto Rogers was an anti-fascist who had lived in exile towards the end of the war years, and I would imagine at least one reason for the stylistic shift was a recognition that the International Style, in the hands of Terragni and the other Rationalists, had somehow become mingled with the totalizing ambitions of the Fascist state. Not that the fascists had ever 100% signed on with modernism, mind you - but the affiliation was there. Note that the history BBPR mine here is medieval, not Roman. For all its round-headed arches, the Sforza fortress calls to mind the era of independent Italian city-kingdoms, which isn't exactly the grand epoch of the Roman imperium enshrined by Mussolini.
The PIC16F75X family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) featuring intelligent analog and core-independent peripherals, making them ideal for general-purpose applications, as well as power supplies, battery charging, LED lighting, power management and power control/smart energy applications. The new PIC16F753 MCU builds on the success of the popular PIC12F752. The PIC16F753 offers all the key features of the PIC12F752, such as the integrated Complementary Output Generator (COG) peripheral that provides non-overlapping, complementary waveforms for inputs such as comparators and Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) peripherals, while enabling dead-band control, auto shutdown, auto reset, phase control and blanking control. Additionally, the PIC16F753 offers an Op Amp with 3 MHz of Gain Bandwidth Product (GBWP), and a slope compensation circuit to help in Switch Mode Power Supply applications. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/FL6L
Just about everything in place. I need some tidier patch cables and there might be another one or two the sneak in. Following the signal from the right: BOSS TU3 tuner, then grey home-made BYOC compressor, BOSS EQ, Visual Sound Double Trouble, EHX Electric Mistress chorus/flanger, home-made BYOC Tremelo. Top shelf from right: Proctavia (octaver) that I discovered needs its own isolated power, so I'll pop a battery in it, Love Pedal Pickle Vibe (lush throbbing Univibe), TC Electronic Nova Repeater (ace) delay, BOSS RC20 looper and finally a BOSS Fender Reverb pedal (for when I run into my old valve head). There's still room (and 'need' for a volume pedal (perhaps a Morley mini-wah/volume in one) and a boost or distortion. And with neater cabling, I can get at least one more pedal in the bottom row.
And I might pull the looper out as it's not part of my regular gigging setup - I can always run it last in the chain when needed. That'll give me room to put all my modulation/delay pedals up top and keep downstairs for boosts, EQs and overdrives.
Atmospheric optics expert James Bridge had this to say:
"I
don't know how many times this effect has been noticed but it must be
quite often because you are the second person to ask about it in the
last year, to my knowledge. I first noticed several years ago and
started to think about it. The striking thing is the way it encircles
your eye. Eventually I wrote a paper for Physics Education and you can
find a copy on my web site www.xmas.demon.co.uk/misty.html. So
far as I know it had not been written up before.
In outline, it is an interference effect due to light scattered by the
water drops, related to the rings seen on dusty mirrors and first
described by Newton. However, those rings don't centre on your eye and
do require a directional light source. The mist droplets scatter light
by refraction and act as tiny point sources; the mirror reflects their
light back towards you. As it passes the same drop, some of the light is
scattered again by diffraction and this scattered light interferes with
the light passing to the side of the drop. Because the second scattering
only affects about 10% of the light, the intensity modulation is not so
marked and the rings not so obvious. The paper gives a much fuller
account with diagrams."
One of the advantages using the Microchip PIC microcontroller Pulse Width Modulation or PWM for short is; this PWM peripheral circuit is designed to control the DC motor using the full bridge mode PWM feature. The PWM peripheral works by supplying the correct signal to the H-Bridge DC motor circuit such as speed controlling and changing the DC motor direction. For more information please visit www.ermicro.com/blog/?p=706
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
The long reach rear brake; this took some fiddling; the reach was almost not long enough to reach the 650b rim. I have to use v-brake pads because the threaded posts on these are slightly thinner than ones on the road-brake shoes; plenty of braking power and modulation, though; definitely an upgrade in those areas from the tektrok R-556 sidepulls
During Trans Am's encore at Santo's Party House, this dumbass got up and started headbanging to "I Want It All"... he then proceeded to fall over taking out Sebastian's ride cymbal and the ride's mic. The mic stand appeared to be broken as someone in the front row of the audience held it up for the rest of the song.
It was a good but weird show... someone had dropped the Nord keyboard that Nathan uses and was replaced by a Moog from another band. The trouble with that was that Nathan switches between vocal modulation with the keyboard and playing the keyboard, so he had to juggle cables all night long... not a lot of fun for him or the rest of us. Although it did sound good... with some missing lyrics in certain places and their new material off of "Thing" (Thrill Jockey) sounds great.
Specification
Coach Model MAN 18.350 HOCL/R
Chassis Length 11,850 mm
Chassis Width 2,526 mm
GVW 18,200 kg
Engine Type
Vertical, Water Cooled 6-cylinder 4-stroke Diesel Engine
With Common Rail Injection,
Exhaust Turbocharger and Intercooler
ECR, Replaceable Cylinders Liners
Engine Model MAN D2066 LUH13 Euro 4
Displacement 10,518 c.c
Maximum Output 257 kW (350 hp) @ 1,700 rpm
Maximum Torque 1,750 Nm @ 1,000-1,400 rpm
Bore 120 mm
Stroke 155 mm
Fuel Capacity 300 dm³
Transmission ZF 6S 1900 BO 6-speed Synchromesh Manual Transmission
ZF 6 HP 504C 6-speed Automatic Transmission
Voith D864.5 4-speed Automatic Transmission
Drive Axle MAN HY-1336-B
Suspension Capacity 13,000 kg
Front Axle MAN V9-82 SL
Suspension Capacity 8,200 kg
Brake
Dual Circuit Air Brake System to ADR Directives by Wabco
Front and Rear Axle Disc Brakes
Electronic brake system EBS (ABS, TCS)
Auxiliary Brake Manual Transmission: Engine Brake Valve (EBV)
Automatic Transmission: Integrated Retarder and
Water Cooled with Electric Pressure Modulation
Suspension
Air suspension with 6 identical rolling seals
With Integrated Elastic Stroke Limiter
Electronically Controlled Constant Entrance Height
Suspension Characteristics Under All Load Conditions
Front Suspension 2 x Air Bellows
2 x Shock Absorbers
1 x Level Control Values
1 x Stabilizers
Rear Suspension 4 x Air Bellows
4 x Shock Absorbers
2 x Level Control Values
1 x Stabilizers
The amplifier with elegance. Gracefully refined and dignified.
# Features: A solid state amplifier pre-tuned to sound similar to our ultra high-end Musee acoustic amplifier series.
# Individual input level control with allows each channel to be independently controlled for multi-channel system, or 5.1 channel system.
# Pulse width modulation power supply built with toroidal core transformer for great response to high frequency and current capacity. Power supply keeps steady voltage and provides wider dynamic range.
# Powerful output final stage driven by Pc=100W 1c=10A bipolar power transistor in a single push-pull. This provides a simple and uniformed output sound.
# Blue glass epoxy circuit board for durability, reliability and endurance. 70um thick copper foil is also used for all wiring.
# High density aluminum chassis with real wood ornaments provides the elegant look and the luxury satisfaction as well as the functionality as a heat sink.
# Cooper plate backing.
# Specification: Rated Power: 70W x 4ch (4Ω) (210W x 2ch(4ΩBridged))
# Maximum Output Power: 140W x 4 (4Ω)
# Load Impedance: 2Ω - 8Ω/4Ω - 8Ω(Bridged)
# Input Sensitivity: 0.2-5V (Each channel can be individually controlled)
# Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.01% (1KHz/4Ω)
# Frequency Response: 5Hz - 100kHz (+0,-1.5dB)
# Signal-to-Noise Ratio: 100dB (1KHz/IHF-A)
# Standby Time: Short Circuit/Over Voltage/Over Load/Thermal
# Input Voltage: DC12-16V
# Current Consumption: 1.2A (Idle) /40A (Rated Power)
# Dimensions: 431(W ) x210(D) x 55(H)mm
# Weight: 5.0Kg
Preview 01 here
Preview 02 here
Preview 04 here
The Arabic featured here has a fluid beauty to it resonant and respectful to the centuries of character development and handwriting systems developed through the many lifetimes of Master Khattats (calligraphers) around the world.
I am currently in the process of developing a matching Latin with the help of Swiss typographer, Bruno Maag, and his associates at the infamous type house, Dalton Maag, in London.
More will be revealed very soon :)
Edison was a pioneer of sound recording and reproduction. He founded the Edison Phonograph Company in 1888 and began the production of the first phonograph cylinders.
The first mass-produced cylinders were made of brown wax. They wore out very quickly—often after being played only a few dozen times. Over time, the materials were improved: brown wax was replaced by hard black wax, which could withstand several hundred plays, and this was later replaced by Blue Amberol material.
- Edison Blank Record (1888 - 1906) - an unrecorded brown wax cylinder. Sound could be recorded directly using a phonograph, and after re-shaving the surface of the cylinder with an Edison Shaving Machine, it could be reused for recording multiple times.
- Edison Gold-Moulded Record (1902 - 1912) - a cylinder made of hard black wax, produced using a gold-coated master cylinder, with a playing time of about 2 minutes.
- Edison Amberol Record (1908 - 1912) - an improved technology with more grooves per inch and a playing time of approximately 4 minutes.
- Edison Blue Amberol Record (1912 - 1929) - offering the same playing time, but made of reinforced celluloid, which was significantly more durable.
- Edison Diamond Disc Record (1912 - 1929) - a 10-inch disc with approximately 5 minutes of playing time per side. Instead of the side-to-side movement used by modern records, these discs employed vertical (up-and-down) groove modulation and rotated at a speed of 80 RPM.
Drone Ranger : 4 Oscillators, 2 white noise sources, 2 ring mod, 2 Fuzz, 2 resonant low pass filters with LFO modulation.
Minus Mixers and the Combinator.. this is pretty much all the instruments and effects that come with Reason...
Thor is an amazing Synth.. everyone likes working with Rex files.. and blah blah blah.
I feel like Reasons needs a little more.. I really think they ought to work out some sort of effects plug in system.. or a rewire system that allows you to feed audio in and out of Reason.. because.. well the power of Reason is it's simplicity.. but a lot of times you'd like to have more power.. you'd like to work with convolution reverb, lets say, or a better distortion unit.. or other types of modulation effects..
Pituitary gland in the brain. Computer artwork of a person's head showing the left hemisphere of the brain inside. The highlighted area (centre) shows the pituitary gland. The pituitary gland is a small endocrine gland about the size of a pea protruding off the bottom of the hypothalamus at the base of the brain. It secretes hormones regulating homoeostasis, including trophic hormones that stimulate other endocrine glands. It is functionally connected to and influenced by the hypothalamus.
25th (or rather early hours of 26th January 2014 at the Piping Centre, Glasgow.
The Effects Box is a table top unit which modifies the sound of a musical instrument such as an Electric Guitar by means of changes like distortion, modulation, and feedback. Unlike Pedalboards on the ground which are operated with the feet, musicians need to take their hands of their instrument to operate the effects.
Lang’s effects include a Boss FV-50 Volume Pedal and a Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive, and a Pro Harmonic Mixer.
Krishna And His Leela Director Got Suddenly Married: Ravikanth Perepu, the happening director in lockdown times with his film Krishna And His Leela has got hitched.
He was shot to fame with Adivi Sesh's Kshanam in 2016 and freshly he is in buzz for his talent in making Krishna and his Leela.
He married his girl girlfriend cum colleague. He took this news on to his Facebook wall and posted the details surrounding his decision.
He wrote "Ending the Krishna and his Leela posts with the most important person of my life . During the making of this film,Veena Ghantasala and I decided to take our relationship a step forward and we got married. I was two timing with her and the film.
The film got stalled and I wasn’t in the best of my energies. It isn’t easy to live with someone when they touch their rock bottom. I can only imagine what my girl has gone through. She was expecting a beautiful kick start to her new life and Boom,she got me! But She’s a fighter too.
There were a lot of hiccups through the way but she never gave up. 5 years of togetherness and I found a great friend in her. She’s become my go to person no matter how screwed up the situation is. It’s crazy to have that one person to share your moments with.
She taught me when to be a boy and when to be a man! And as an individual, oh boy what a talent! I worked with her for #Kshanam and she’s a terrific voice actress. Veena and I come up with some never heard before modulations working together. www.ismarttalkies.com/krishna-and-his-leela-director-got-...
Old Fuzzy.
Pen and ink on paper.
Copyright © 2012 by Ian J MacDonald. Permission required for any use. All rights reserved
Once the life of the party and the center of attention, he played all the greats: the big bands, the stars and so many radio shows. He consoled the family during the war and celebrated triumphantly at the dance when it ended. But time went by and technology and music changed. A guy with the gyrating hips and new loud instruments and bands without horns!
The phonograph never was any real competition, but the coming of the transistor signaled the beginning of the end for old fuzzy. The Hi Fi set gradually replaced Old Fuzzy's fine "Golden-Throated Monaural" technology. Solid state circuitry came home and it could play that raucous Rock and Roll music much louder and clearer and in stereo too. The new set had frequency modulation and clearer sound than ever before - although FM couldn't bounce off the ionosphere and deliver live music from around the world!
Then the tube tester was removed from the corner drug store and the radio store stopped carrying vacuum tubes. Now they could only be gotten from old Russian military surplus - the enemy that Old Fuzzy used to play civil defense drill warnings for, and now he was using their tubes. For a while he made a interesting plant stand but eventually was relegated to the basement where he has sat ever since miserably pondering how it all came to this. once he was swinging on top of the world and now a moldy relic too interesting to throw away but too old to be in the living room anymore.
Fuzzy's small consolation is that the record 8-track and cassette players have all found their way to the county electronics recycling day. His fancy mahogany and maple veneer, Bakelite and mother of pearl details make him too handsome for that. So he sits and hopes that maybe some day someone will haul him out again. After all fads come and go, but back in the good old days there was true style and true style never goes out of fashion!
See the others here: www.flickr.com/photos/ianmacdonald/sets/72157629372584685...
The Tektronix Type 191 Constant Amplitude Signal Generator. It's an RF signal generator but it does not have any modulation input.
Georges Seurat（1859 - 1891）
Oil on canvas
79.5 x 95.5 cm
This painting is a striking demonstration of Seurat’s pointillist technique. The modulation of light and shadow on the wall is achieved with the use of small dots of pure colour juxtaposed in varying concentrations and intensity.
The young model depicted by Seurat was his mistress, Madeleine Knobloch, who bore him two sons. This painting thus takes on a very personal meaning.
Samuel Courtauld Trust : Courtauld Gift, 1932
The Courtauld Gallery, London
Various outputs from a C++/OpenGL custom software i'm working on.
Demo here: vimeo.com/user18035206/sound-sculptures
National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen: This depiction of the artist's wife, Amelie, is one of Matisse's most famous paintings and a masterpiece within 20th century portraiture. Much of its strength resides in its simple geometric structure and in the way in which the colors are combined. Spatial modulation is pared back to a minimum. Effects of light and shadow, which would have added depth to the image, have been translated into planes of color instead.
The painting was presumably painted in the autumn of 1905, when Matisse had returned to Paris after spending a summer in the fishing village of Collioure. Here, he and Andre Derain engaged in ever-wilder painterly experiments intended to release color from its descriptive function, allowing it to act as a force in its own right. With its unorthodox use of color, the painting is built on those experiments.
A Voltage-Controlled Amplifier (VCA) made from three BC549 NPN transistors and three BC214 PNP transistors. It's a Gm Cell with variable current followed by a simple op-amp.
The four traces shown on the Tek 5440 are the input (1kHz), the two intermediate signals and the output. The control or modulation voltage was a sinewave in this case.