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feedback loops, the price of entry

August 31st, 2006 No Comments

When I was a kid, my older brother taught me a few blues chord progressions on the guitar so he could solo soulfully over me. I accepted this division of labor because my deficient sense of rhythm and pitch was immediately, painfully obvious.
I remembered this last week when I hooked up a USB keyboard to […]

Tags: sound · culture · body · learning

murmuring help

June 22nd, 2006 No Comments

Writing the last post (on audio help) dislodged an old memory of a TV on PBS, one where a calm man with frizzy hair painted and murmured about his process at the same time. At the end of each show, one painting was complete.
Now it strikes me that audio help might be bettered murmured than […]

Tags: glances · usability · learning

audio help, voice

June 22nd, 2006 No Comments

Last week I attended a projection of a Breezecast at the LA Flash factory. If you had overheard the sessions, you wouldn't have been impressed. Basically, this guy hemmed and hawed and digressed and clicked happily away as he wrote some Flex-related php code.
Strange thing is, it was the best presentation of code I'd ever […]

Tags: sound · usability · learning