teropa
@teropa.bsky.social
One half of Counterpoint. Interests: software, music, mind.
A re-release of Music Mouse, the intelligent instrument, is being worked on by Laurie Spiegel & Eventide. This one's special.
www.eventideaudio.com/software/mus...
www.eventideaudio.com/software/mus...
January 24, 2026 at 8:24 PM
A re-release of Music Mouse, the intelligent instrument, is being worked on by Laurie Spiegel & Eventide. This one's special.
www.eventideaudio.com/software/mus...
www.eventideaudio.com/software/mus...
This is such a titillating way to think about how you move your body.
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023...
January 18, 2026 at 5:26 PM
This is such a titillating way to think about how you move your body.
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023...
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023...
On transcribing Autechre
January 14, 2026 at 9:17 AM
On transcribing Autechre
What differentiates agentive organisms from behaving machines: the flexible fusion of perception and goal-driven actions.
January 11, 2026 at 7:11 PM
What differentiates agentive organisms from behaving machines: the flexible fusion of perception and goal-driven actions.
Chimps sample their action space with a higher temperature than bonobos.
Michael Tomasello: "The Evolution of Agency"
Michael Tomasello: "The Evolution of Agency"
January 8, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Chimps sample their action space with a higher temperature than bonobos.
Michael Tomasello: "The Evolution of Agency"
Michael Tomasello: "The Evolution of Agency"
Technology is autopoietic
January 1, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Technology is autopoietic
Bring recitals of sorting algorithms to Carnegie Hall!
W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology
W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology
December 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Bring recitals of sorting algorithms to Carnegie Hall!
W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology
W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology
The agentic arms of the octopus
December 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The agentic arms of the octopus
Dolphins form multimodal representations of the objects they echolocate.
December 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Dolphins form multimodal representations of the objects they echolocate.
Zebra finches only listen to the fine detail in each other's song, disregarding sequence.
December 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Zebra finches only listen to the fine detail in each other's song, disregarding sequence.
The curse of dimensionality, as coined by Richard Bellman in "Dynamic Programming" (1957)
December 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The curse of dimensionality, as coined by Richard Bellman in "Dynamic Programming" (1957)
"Guided by evolution, eyes are living paintbrushes."
Ed Yong: An Immense World
Ed Yong: An Immense World
December 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"Guided by evolution, eyes are living paintbrushes."
Ed Yong: An Immense World
Ed Yong: An Immense World
I've just shipped Aeriform, an interactive ambient techno experiment built with Google DeepMind's Lyria RealTime model.
aeriform.ctpt.co
aeriform.ctpt.co
December 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I've just shipped Aeriform, an interactive ambient techno experiment built with Google DeepMind's Lyria RealTime model.
aeriform.ctpt.co
aeriform.ctpt.co
"Drone-ambient-noise synthesizer in Javascript: when instability is a feature, not a bug"
bs.stranno.su/drone-ambien...
bs.stranno.su/drone-ambien...
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"Drone-ambient-noise synthesizer in Javascript: when instability is a feature, not a bug"
bs.stranno.su/drone-ambien...
bs.stranno.su/drone-ambien...
I computed Stable Audio Open latent space embeddings for my Bandcamp music collection.
A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.
A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.
October 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I computed Stable Audio Open latent space embeddings for my Bandcamp music collection.
A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.
A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.
Jim O’Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi
October 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Jim O’Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi
Visualising principal components of Stable Audio Open latents over time.
0.8s hann window, 0.03s hop (latent rate ≈21.5 Hz)
0.8s hann window, 0.03s hop (latent rate ≈21.5 Hz)
October 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Visualising principal components of Stable Audio Open latents over time.
0.8s hann window, 0.03s hop (latent rate ≈21.5 Hz)
0.8s hann window, 0.03s hop (latent rate ≈21.5 Hz)
sonnet 4.5 seems to respond quite well to explicit "give me some chain-of-thought on this" requests. self-corrected nicely with this slightly delicate bit of logic.
October 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
sonnet 4.5 seems to respond quite well to explicit "give me some chain-of-thought on this" requests. self-corrected nicely with this slightly delicate bit of logic.
sonifying the wind on a great circle journey around the globe
October 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
sonifying the wind on a great circle journey around the globe
putting sonnet 4.5 through its paces as an ambient melody composer
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
putting sonnet 4.5 through its paces as an ambient melody composer
"Big Tech treats its techies better than its artists because it has to: there are far more tech jobs than there are qualified technologists to fill them. The instant that changes, those engineers are toast."
Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism (2022)
Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism (2022)
August 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Big Tech treats its techies better than its artists because it has to: there are far more tech jobs than there are qualified technologists to fill them. The instant that changes, those engineers are toast."
Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism (2022)
Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism (2022)