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Survey of rollback-recovery protocols in message-based systems

Niklas Kl�gel — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:50:07 GMT

Presentation I gave some time ago...
Survey of rollback-recovery protocols in message-based systems

vinylcontrol~

Niklas Kl�gel — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:41:26 GMT

vinylcontrol~
quick hack. control your pd patches with serato vinyl. works. contains 100% fat.

kARHu - Sinfonia For The Blunt Sword RELEASED

Niklas Kl�gel — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:39:07 GMT

hah... karhumusic
check! 4 years worth of work. 19 tracks. pure awesomeness, punks!

www.karhumusic.org & promo seven/sixteen online!

Niklas Kl�gel — Mon, 14 May 2007 03:10:19 GMT

Hey!

we finally released an ep featuring 7 tracks from our album "sinfonia for the blunt sword" here: http://www.jamendo.com/de/album/5529/
in the meantime you can also visit our ... official ... *applause* website: www.karhumusic.org

spread the word!

on the current album

Niklas Kl�gel — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:32:24 GMT

ok, so... i am always fancy about bragging on the facts surrounding the work on our album. as you might know i teamed up with Haris Durakovic, who wasted his childhood recording several albums for his
metal/rock/emo band-projects. we have both been involved in the album for 2.4 years. and since we both put our whole spare-time into it, we
have now more material than for a single cd-album. 40GiB of _recorded_ material, lot's of fancy synth patches and shit like that.
each song has -in average- taken 52 hours of work.
now, we came to the conclusion, that'd be better to strip parts of the extravaganza and make a 74 mins (hah) 16 track album.

the name: "karhu - sinfonia for the blunt sword". i know i have given some of my friends a "teaser" of the album - based on the material we had in the beginning of 2006 - but the new and rearranged old shit simply kicks that stuff in the strotum. all in all the whole album is less moody, really has some kind of pop-hymns and is way more accurately arranged. it's like listening to orchestral harmony, spiced up with canorous insanity being cut up by mad, staggering, noisy beats while a M1 tank makes a backflip-roll and lands on your neighbor's SUV.

so when will it be done? i know duke nukem forever hasn't been released yet - but we will manage to have our part of work finished by end of august 2007.

stay tuned, so we can crush your stereo.

wow, i didnt know ...

Niklas Kl�gel — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:29:41 GMT

that someone made desperate efforts on creating a wikipedia article about the project i wasted my eternal youth on (yes, everybody has a history of being a friggin nerd psycho) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unununium_ ... ng_system)
...

Kranhalle 27th of january, 22:00

Niklas Kl�gel — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:27:23 GMT

5 Years Spurensuche. lodsb teams up with 2 other techno/breakbeat producers to create a 6 hour live show full of dance-music between old-skool techno-kitsch, warped breakbeat sickness, ambient and funkadelic movie mashups. This is ain't no part of the karhu-project!

comments...

Niklas Kl�gel — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:37:59 GMT

...should work again.

uhh... that dusty file made me smile

Niklas Kl�gel — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:08:52 GMT

just found an old piece i wrote for two pianos (i just found it perticularily interesting now). i think i never finished it, it has some glitches at the ending. however, for you millions of piano players who are out there, daily visiting this glorious page, eagerly waiting for old lodsb-san to drop some shit...here it is. if anyone wants the midi file, just contact me.
do whatever you want, but msg me if you have made something more interesting out of it.

cheers...

working busily on the album

Niklas Kl�gel — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 23:59:46 GMT

meep is dead! finally!

Niklas Kl�gel — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:55:18 GMT

who killed that motherfriggah?! due to lameness and lack of time/motivation, i decided to kick that project. i am working on Tim Blechmann's PNPD/PD-clone instead. Mostly because he has already written the audio-core related code. the old meep code is in "The trunk".

*poof*

sometimes toys are more complicated than women...

Niklas Kl�gel — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:26:41 GMT

Currently working on a PD-patch for a live set on January the 27th@Kranhalle. I hope I have it finished by then... hr hr!

The phat ACID-Box 3000

Niklas Kl�gel — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 21:56:05 GMT

again, it�s birthday-time. a friend of mine wanted a synth for his ever-growing studio. so i built one: THE PHAT ACID-BOX 3000!!!!!!1
check the link-section for some pics.
cheers!

added new paper to the trunk

Niklas Kl�gel — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:26:36 GMT

it's entitled: "Erkennung von Sinn und Unsinn in der Semantik - ein numerischer Ansatz" - sadly it is written in german ;)

aye aye! the trunk... full of...

Niklas Kl�gel — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:48:52 GMT

added a half-assed section for useless and/or outdated stuff -> the trunk.

album snippets on myspace.com

Niklas Kl�gel — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:39:13 GMT

Hey!
we�ve decided to put some tracks from the album as a preview version on myspace.com. remember that the material isnt finished, yet.
that�s all folks!

myspace.com/karhumusic

Free Culture-Book/AudioBook

Niklas Kl�gel — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:26:03 GMT

ok, i might be some years off, but I just started reading this awesome book; to get a picture of it, I am going to quote a part of it's introductory description of its contents:
"Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can�t do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What�s at stake is our freedom�freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine."

"FREE CULTURE is an entertaining and important look at the past and future of the cold war between the media industry and new technologies."
-- Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape

"The twenty-first century could be the century of unprecedented creativity, but only if we embrace the brilliantly articulated messages in Lawrence Lessig's FREE CULTURE. This book is beautifully written, crisply argued, and deeply provocative. Please read it!"
-- John Seely Brown, coauthor of THE SOCIAL LIFE OF INFORMATION and former Chief Scientist, Xerox PARC

The Book: Free Culture
Link to the Audio-Book: Free Culture Audio Book

album collaboration... maybe...

Niklas Kl�gel — Tue, 16 May 2006 02:33:52 GMT

seems like the album is going into the right direction. with some luck and some more spirit, the list of guest-musicians will increase.
hint: two mc's and one dj^H^Hcello. more details when they have been settled...

UPDATE: just finished producing the track "vakuum" with Audio88 for the album.

meep under active development again... really!

Niklas Kl�gel — Tue, 16 May 2006 02:26:17 GMT

...the most advanced software synth and sequencing engine... of is just getting a sane userinterface
(qt/c++) and a temporary core (python - to prove the internals of the signal and event handling). one of my old fellow-os-developers is helping me out with the latter. yay! enjoy the silence.

Working on an album.. still

Niklas Kl�gel — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:22:57 GMT

Already 1.25 years of work has been put into that project. I guess it is time to release it in the next months (probably around summer); however, the whole project involves alot of sound-fiddling and composing and my partner and I have not finished the recording-sessions, yet. All in all we got extremly positive feedback
on the short snippets we showed to several people. The style is a mixed bag between sing and songwriting, electronica, hip-hop, orchestra/sinfony and psychedelic idm. the whole album is arranged in
a way that there is no destinction between song/songparts/interludes,
it's just one organic flow. It also features some guest musicians.
Expect to see some snippets here, soon.

The only internet radio station you need...

Niklas Kl�gel — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:55:22 GMT

XLTronics.com
a radiostation entirely dedicated to IDM, breakcore, noisecore and electronica. they also breoadcast live gigs of AFX, Squarepusher, Autechre, Plaid, ... quite some rare stuff.

Faster Math Functions

Niklas Kl�gel — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:48:06 GMT

Intersting paper about implementing fast math functions on the example of the implementation of e.g. sin and cos. it covers also polynomial approximation vs. table lookups.
http://www.research.scea.com/research/p ... _GDC02.pdf

Tarwater - The Needle Was Traveling

Niklas Kl�gel — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:13:30 GMT

Oh... I've been looking for a birthday present. I thought about buying a CD of Funkst�rung, 13&God or Jimi Tenor. Well, Funkst�rung - "Disconnected" was sold out. 13&God - "13&God" was evilishly good but way too depressing and the Jimi Tenor albums they had sucked big times ( I guess I just like "out of nowhere" ). However, I found
this Tarwater album somehwere in the store. I first heard about them when I was skipping through some Goldfrapp - "Utopia" remixes and they did one of them. So how does it sound? Somewhere between Kraut-Rock and playful electronic arrangements like on the new Goldfrapp album.
deep, gloomy and sometimes cryptic but not depressing in any way. the whole album just flows in a leaned back story-telling style which is entertaining and fascinating but it does not require too much attention to enjoy it. Tarwater Website

Mmmm ... Venetian Snares

Niklas Kl�gel — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:06:43 GMT

orchestra arrangements, noise, sick synth programming, cut up breakbeats... do I need to say more? check him (Aaron Funk aka Venetian Snares) out:
Venetian Snares (live)
Venetian Snares - Szamar Madar (Video) . Actually, this one is pretty impressive. Professional work done by a fan.