Juppiemusic Post Archive

Fixing: Korg Toneworks AX1000G Guitar Pedal – Power Issues (Intermittent Connection) and Looper Button

The Korg AX1000G was a great bargain when it came to the novel all-in one DSP-based guitar effects boards back in the 90s. Reboots due to suboptimal power plug Disclaimer: This is a hobby article that describes what helped me … Continue reading

Fixing: Sustain Pedal Fail in Ableton Live – MIDI Synth sends All Notes OFF (CC123)

If you are using an old MIDI synth or keyboard with a MIDI-USB interface or an audio interface, you might have experienced this issue: When you lift the last key of a chord, or a single key, all sound dies … Continue reading

Phones and Microphones – A Piece for Smarthones and Dynamic Microphones or Magnetic Pick-ups. Score and Rollup

Phones and Microphones is a piece for Phones and Microphones in multichannel Diffusion. It also needs at least 2 laptops with ensemblists to play them. The piece was composed in 2015 by Daniel Wolff with the City University Experimental Ensemble … Continue reading

An sd-card logger monitoring 12V car battery voltage and temperature using the Arduino ProMini

More often than convenient I used to find my car battery drained and the car unable to start after a long period of disuse. In order to find out if there was a short circuit or power leak somewhere, if … Continue reading

Charging my camera battery with a smartphone – a dirty risky holiday hack

TL;DR: This small experiment shows how I used a smartphone to charge a camera battery. The method is not safe but It struck me as a great example to highlight the inaparrent compatibility between two seemingly unrelated devices. Most current … Continue reading

Beeps from Below: A late Summer Mystery

I found these sounds in a Catalan park sewer, on a very warm summer evening. The sun has just set and the park becomes quiet. Now this starts at several places. Download audio There are at least two sounds in … Continue reading

Paper(ISMIR2015): Comparative Music Similarity Modelling using Transfer Learning across User Groups

We presented “Comparative Music Similarity Modelling using Transfer Learning across User Groups“, as poster at IMSIR2015 in Malaga, Spain. This paper continues the similarity modelling methods described in my PhD thesis towards their intended use for modelling and comparing user … Continue reading

The DML Project

The Digital Music Lab is an AHRC project that researches and developes an infrastructure – both in methodology as in a technical framework – for musicological research on large datasets. It furthermore provides researchers and users with datasets and computational … Continue reading

Concert: CUEE with Dirty Electronics

We (the City University Experimental Ensemble) did a great Dirty Electronics workshop and concert at City with John Richards. I now call a great small op-amp instrument (Bed of Nails) my own, and will probably be hacking it a bit … Continue reading

Concert: Phones and Microphones at Kammerklang Café Oto

I am proud to announce that the City University Experimental Ensemble (CUEE) will be performing our piece “Phones and Microphones” at Café Oto, as part of the Kammer Klang series. We will be playing with the Exaudi Ensemble, Cevdet Erek … Continue reading