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Had a software shop, called “Utopia Softworks.” I don’t think much came from it.
I think a lot of early electronic musicians were quite engineering-savvy, as their equipment was pretty intense.
Over 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. -- * Keyboard player of Stratovarious, formerly with Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Johansson
Which made me remember that Cuomo is also a pretty good guitar shredder, not long ago there was an interview with him shredding along his favorite lines from Malmsteen
I bet he made all of his commits in his garage.
Over 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. -- * Keyboard player of Stratovarious, formerly with Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Johansson
> formerly with Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force Which made me remember that Cuomo is also a pretty good guitar shredder, not long ago there was an interview with him shredding along his favorite lines from Malmsteen
He 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
https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/327/little-automation-to...
About a year ago, he played at a super intimate (and random) spot in LA. He pitched his GitHub during the show and I had a cool conversation with him about his code afterwards. Not a huge Weezer fan or anything (a friend invited me to the thing since she didn't want to go alone), but he seemed like a neat dude.