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The main obstacles to getting good are habits and mindset, not the code itself
The official Processing tutorials split into video links and leveled text lessons across four sibling platforms
The TB-303 failed commercially because its pattern sequencer was hard to program compared to bass guitar
The term 'nu skool breaks' was coined by Rennie Pilgrem and Adam Freeland at their Friction club night in 1996
The term 'nu-disco' first appeared in print in a 1996 XLR8R interview with Chicago house artist Cajmere
The TOPLAP manifesto demands code visibility, algorithmic insight, and rejects obscurantism — and was always intended as a draft
The TOPLAP manifesto demands transparency — 'show us your screens' and 'obscurantism is dangerous'
The Warp Artificial Intelligence albums (1993-5) reframed rave-derived electronics as 'listening music' while keeping rave roots
The word 'dubstep' was coined informally in an office conversation about the dub influence on 2-step
There is no universal language or method for live coding — the practice is inherently pluriversal and resists easy classification
TidalCycles is split across two repos: the Tidal pattern language (Codeberg) and SuperDirt sound engine (GitHub)
TidalCycles learners use Tidal Club (forum), Discord, and the Codeberg repository as distinct support layers
TOPLAP is the informal global organisation connecting live coding communities worldwide
TOPLAP is the international live coding arts organisation, founded in 2004, with local nodes and shared community channels
TOPLAP was founded at the 2004 Changing Grammars symposium in Hamburg, giving live coding a name and community
TOPLAP's core demand is screen transparency: the audience must see the code being written, not just hear its output
TouchDesigner is a node-based visual platform for real-time interactive multimedia
Trance emerged from the German (Frankfurt) techno/EBM underground in the late 1980s, adding melody and psychedelic atmosphere to techno
Trance music is defined by hypnotic rhythms, soaring melodies, and a 126–140 BPM tempo range
Trip-hop is a psychedelic fusion of hip-hop and electronica with slow tempos and an atmospheric sound
Two women were structurally essential to dubstep: Sarah Lockhart organized the scene and Mary Anne Hobbs broadcast it globally
UK garage began by pitching US garage records up on the decks and adding British grit
UK garage broke into UK mainstream charts from 1999 with 2-step tracks reaching number one
UK garage established itself in the marginal 'Sunday Scene' slot because jungle/DnB dominated prime weekend nights
UK garage fused imported US garage house with jungle, ragga/dancehall, and R&B into a hybrid style
UK garage has undergone multiple revival cycles showing the genre's structural durability beyond its 1999–2002 commercial peak
UK garage's heyday was defined by an aspirational dress culture that later became a class-based fault line as the scene fragmented
UK garage's Sunday-morning pub and club culture filled the gap left by post-rave licensing hours
UK illegal raves in 1988-89 used phone-chain systems to direct attendees to locations announced only on the day
UK Sound System culture from Jamaican Windrush families is the direct ancestor of both UK garage and Grime's DIY production ethos
Unlicensed pirate FM radio was the pre-internet distribution and community infrastructure of UK dance genres
VJing is real-time selection and manipulation of visuals, the visual counterpart of DJing
VJing originated in 1970s New York club culture, predating MTV's adoption of the term
Wonky emerged in 2006 as a colourful reaction to the austerity of concurrent UK dubstep and grime
Writing custom software enables artistic expression that commercial tools structurally prevent
Writing your own tools in free software reframes music-making as refusal of proprietary control
'Club music' names a branching Baltimore-Philly-Jersey lineage, each city mutating its predecessor
'Electronic body music' was coined by Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter in 1977 but only became a genre label in the 1980s
'Industrial dance' is a North American umbrella term covering both EBM and electro-industrial, not a synonym for EBM
'Nada Brahma' equates sound with the divine, grounding the Indian classical drone as spiritual, not just acoustic
'We Have Arrived' by Marc Acardipane is regarded as the first hardcore track and the blueprint the Dutch turned into gabber
1970s German Krautrock generated electronic organ and synth drones as an alternative to Anglo-American pop
1980s EBM hybridizing with acid house and new wave laid the foundation for hardcore techno
1980s Japanese ambient (Kankyō Ongaku) applied environmental aesthetics to commercial and retail contexts
2-step garage removes kicks from a four-on-the-floor pattern to create a skipping, syncopated groove
4x4 garage evolved from a stylistic alternative to 2-step into bassline, a distinct Northern subgenre with heavy modulated sub-bass
70% of noise-induced hearing loss cases show no tinnitus warning before damage occurs
A 'burden tone' is a static sustained note used as harmonic backbone in pre-functional-harmony folk traditions
A 15 dB shift in hearing threshold at any frequency constitutes a Significant Threshold Shift requiring follow-up
A 4/4 bar divided into 16 sixteenth-notes is the working canvas for drum programming in most electronic genres
A 7th chord adds the 7th scale degree to a triad — major7 chords include the natural 7th, minor7 chords include the flattened 7th
A basic house track is built by starting from a strong kick and bassline and layering percussion on top
A bassline serves a harmonic role and a rhythmic role at the same time
A blend mode is a per-pixel formula that determines how two image layers combine into a composite result
A BY-NC source sound cannot be re-released under CC0 or CC-BY — only BY-NC output is permitted
A CC license is a floor, not a ceiling — the original creator can always grant additional permissions beyond it
A cheap "grotbox" speaker previews worst-case consumer playback
A cheap AM radio and inductive coil can eavesdrop on hidden electromagnetic signals in everyday electronics
A cheap electret condenser element plus a bias resistor and blocking capacitor makes a studio-quality air microphone
A chord is multiple pitches sounded at the same time