Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
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Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#2It's fascinating to see how a prominent musician uses coding and custom software in their daily and professional life
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#3He was also on an episode [0] of the Song Exploder podcast where he talked about how he uses a spreadsheet to catalog all his song ideas, with columns for key, tempo, mood, etc. So when he has an idea for a song, he can search for riffs and phrases that might work together.
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#4I like the symmetry of Weezer's "Buddy Holly" being one of the first PC videos people ever saw by virtue of it being included on the Windows 95 installation CD, and 30 years later, Cuomo quietly carving out a little piece of the coding universe for themselves. Rock on!
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#5He was also on an episode [0] of the Song Exploder podcast where he talked about how he uses a spreadsheet to catalog all his song ideas, with columns for key, tempo, mood, etc. So when he has an idea for a song, he can search for riffs and phrases that might work together. 0: https://songexploder.net/weezer
[insert mild grumbling about his post-Pinkerton artistic risk aversion]
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#6I bet he made all of his commits in his garage.
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#7Over twenty years ago I discovered Jens Johannson's* site, where he revealed he was into programming.
He hacked on someone's Phase Vocoder code:
https://www.panix.com/~jens/pvoc.par
I built Jens' version and used it for cleanly slowing down some audio tracks.
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* Keyboard player of Stratovarious, formerly with Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Johansson
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#8Would be nice if Autechre open sourced all the crazy max/map stuff they worked on.
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#9I like the symmetry of Weezer's "Buddy Holly" being one of the first PC videos people ever saw by virtue of it being included on the Windows 95 installation CD, and 30 years later, Cuomo quietly carving out a little piece of the coding universe for themselves. Rock on!
You might be interested in this bit
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/18gtc7v/til_...
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#10For whatever it's worth, there was a recent submission on Marlon Brando being a crypto-techie too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39213150 https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/marlon-brando-was-a-secr...