Xeeban’s Musings

Okay all you coffee buffs out there. Want to try one of the rarest and most expensive coffee in the world? Then you might want to check out Kopi Luwak. This is basically ferret poop roasted and brewed up real nice. Seriously!

Check it out.

The animal responsible is the Common Palm Civit, a marsupial found in Indonesia, where the coffee comes from.

If anyone has tried this coffee, let me know how it was!

Chorale #3 is online and ready for your ejnoyment! You can listen to it here:

http://www.xeeban.com/resources/chorales2.html

The first week of school has passed and I am starting to shake off the summer vacation and get back into study mode once again. This semester has pretty much the same classes as last time, Music 1 has become Music 2 and Piano 1 is now Piano 2.

I’ve just put up a new page in the resources area for the new chorales and solfege for the new class here: http://www.xeeban.com/resources/chorales2.html

Enjoy!

I’ve been using and supporting Trillian on the PC for some time now and I love it, all my IM in one client. So I wanted something on the Mac that did the same thing and ran across Fire. While its nice and does all the basics, it was kind of bland.

Today I found Adium X which is also a multi-client IM client. But, wow, its totally themeable and skinable and looks great!

I’ve been loving OS X and Expos?. Now I can’t live without its functionality. Happily, I’ve found some solutions for when I have to dabble back in XP land.

Entbl?? from Nipaco Enterprises
Aqua-Soft’s free solution

There is a new claim for the location of the Lost City: Spain. Check it out:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3766863.stm

The alarm went off at 6am and I jumped into the shower and ran out the door to meet fellow cohorts Karl and Mark at the parking lot of our office so we could embark on our yearly homage to the great gods of consumerism. Today was the great yearly Memorial Day sale at Guitar Center.

And today was the day I brought home my Yamaha 01X!

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Oh. My. God. This dude is my new hero: G?nther!

Crazy mullet, creepy mustache… and the perfect euro song… “Ohhh, you touch my tra la la.” LOL.

The four main things in G?nther’s life are Chanpagne, Glamour, Sex and Respect…

Here are four last progressions for your study.

Progression 1
Progression 2
Progression 3
Progression 4

Good luck on finals =) Summer vacation is just around the bend!

This is a very cool article about cellular automata and music.

Take computers, mathematics, and the Java Sound API, add in some Java code, and you’ve got a recipe for creating some uniquely fascinating music. IBM Staff Software Engineer Paul Reiners demonstrates how to implement some basic concepts of algorithmic music composition in the Java language. He presents code examples and resulting MIDI files generated by the Automatous Monk program, which uses the open source jMusic framework to compose music based on mathematical structures called cellular automata.

Facinating stuff!