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Aligning a synth's partials with a non-12 equal temperament increases the consonance of chords in that tuning

All-pass filters provide delay without altering the spectrum but with frequency-dependent phase response

Ambisonic A-format (tetrahedral microphone raw output) is converted to B-format via a matrix transcoder with correct orientation

An algorave's minimal technical setup is full-range speakers plus a high-contrast projector in a dark room

An atomic patch achieves a specific function using as few Serge modules as possible

An overdriven DFM1 filter self-oscillates into a warm drone that layers across the harmonic series

Apoliteic music normalises fascist aesthetics without explicit political advocacy, making it more culturally insidious than overtly fascist music

appLeft/appRight/appBoth choose which pattern donates structure when a pattern of functions meets a pattern of values

Artistic process and scaffolding do not guarantee quality — only the final product can be judged

Assigning a conceptual framework to a record series gives listeners a dimension of engagement beyond the music alone

Assigning each piece of gear one or two focused roles and finding its sweet spot produces a more coherent live rig than using every feature

Automating master tempo in a DAW removes the fixed rhythmic grid, creating felt compression and expansion rather than locked-in groove

BPM- and pitch-aligned stem cross-mixing creates more realistic training data than random remixing

Bridging a genetic-algorithm simulator to TouchDesigner via Python enables real-time visualisation of evolutionary computation

Building constrained sub-languages inside SuperCollider creates composition environments with intentional expressive limits

Cascaded diffusion chains models at increasing resolutions, using noise-conditioning augmentation between stages

Choose musical collaborators for professional compatibility and complementary skills, not friendship

Choosing accessible, available gear over complex modular rigs lowers performance barriers without sacrificing quality

Close agreement between integrated LUFS and RMS suggests good spectral balance in a mix

Clubs allow direct performer-audience energy exchange that large festival stages make structurally harder

Comparing a track's tonal-balance curve against genre references gives a direction, not a destination

Computer improvisers produce 'virtual sociality' that reveals as much about human interaction as about machines

Consistency models map any point on a diffusion trajectory directly to the trajectory origin, enabling single-step generation

Constant-rate ADSR release keeps the fall rate fixed, so releasing from a lower sustain takes less time

Correct Ambisonic format conversion requires matching four parameters: order, component ordering, normalization, and reference radius

Coupled strings interact through a shared non-rigid bridge modeled as a single shared loss filter

Crashes and errors in live coding are perceived as humanizing and authentic by audiences, making risk integral to the aesthetic

Creative flow is rare and always preceded by sustained, ordinary work

Custom separation model bags let you combine multiple checkpoints with per-source weights

Cutting the bass out of a track and dropping it back in is a DJ tension-and-release technique

Daily live coding practice builds a fluent repertoire of low-level activities that frees attention for structural thinking during performance

DDPM trains a network to predict the added noise epsilon rather than the clean sample or the reverse mean

DDSP's inverse synthesis approach detects pitch without pitch labels by reconstructing synthetic audio

Debord's spectacle is the collective mediated perception of reality that masquerades as 'the way things are'

Decorrelating a limiter's left and right sidechains preserves stereo width at the cost of center-channel density

Deep functional playlist organization by genre, mood, intensity, and tempo enables instinctive in-set navigation

Delayed fill speakers must be time-aligned electronically so their sound arrives no earlier than the main cluster's sound

Dérive is a Situationist drift that exposes an environment's hidden influences by responding to it instinctually

Designing a scale for an inharmonic instrument requires FFT analysis followed by computing dissonance curve minima

Developing technical DSP literacy transfers directly to more analytical and intentional sound design and production

Dictionary-based pursuit decomposes any sound into grains, enabling analysis-driven transformations

Diffusion Transformers replace the U-Net backbone with a Vision Transformer operating on patchified latents

Dissecting expert patches with the designer's commentary transfers the tacit 'why' that copying a sound does not

Diverse algorave lineups across gender, ethnicity, and class build diverse audiences and communities

Dora manages ML experiment configurations via content-addressed signatures rather than manual naming

Drawing a projection-mapping mesh by hand in software removes the dependency on an accurate 3D model

Dropping per-timestep loss weights and training with uniform MSE on noise prediction improves DDPM in practice

Each NodeProxy can act as a module patched into others at audio (.ar) or control (.kr) rate

EBU R 128 sets -23 LUFS as the broadcast target for integrated programme loudness

Economy of selection — picking the salient few from a vast field — is the irreducibly human element in generative composition

Elegant formal rules do not guarantee compelling music because music works through perception, not logical consistency

Encoding a source at a small radius adds proximity bass boost but distorts dangerously near zero, so clamp the radius and high-pass first

Entering a mastering session with a listening-informed idea produces better decisions than starting as a blank slate

Ergodynamics is an instrument's latent expressive potential and discoverability

Estuary is a zero-install browser platform for collaborative live coding in networked ensembles

Estuary maintains a single shared tempo (CPS/BPM) that all languages and ensemble members follow

Estuary's Timer widget structures live-coding sets into named timed sections visible to the whole ensemble

Estuary's view DSL lets performers define and share named workspace layouts via terminal commands

Every KL term in the diffusion VLB compares two Gaussians and is therefore analytically tractable

Exposing the underlying algorithm of canonical 20th-century artworks reveals shared generative logic across art history