Creative geek: maker of music and synths, casual artist, programmer/analyst, wrangler of foundations of physics, fiction writer.
Not related to my day job (tech writer, content strategist, software developer).
| My website | https://johnvalentine.co.uk |
I edited the paper. It's clearer in a few ways.
If there's anything that can be taken away from this, it's a prediction:
"However, we do not claim a unified field, only a unified mechanism, and that the unification energy is at whatever radius
the fermion can collapse, which is any length above Planck-length * (0.25 − 4e-18)"
Preprint is up: Foundations of Physicality with Deterministic Modified Qubit Mechanics.
I reach through information theory to create physical networks which give rise to the Standard Model featuers.
It's unlikely to gain any traction, but I wanted to write this to provide useful justification for what would otherwise seem arbitrary methodology.
Here's a logo I made for an open source team a few years ago.
This orange is the signaure colour of the default theme of our first product, Surge, now Surge XT. Around it are the diversity of contributors. We're inclusive.
We were building out the website to showcase our growing portfolio of projects, when someone made the call for a logo. Having past pro graphic design experience, I offered to draft some ideas, and this was my best.
Sometimes logos have meaning. I didn't want to 'swoosh'.
I've documented my published Surge XT synth patches to varying degrees, and they're all listed here.
They're free, CC0 licensed, and included in the synth which is free and open source. If you have a computer, this is accessible and affordable.
Some items link to external demo sites, some to pages with more details on my site.
Some are only available in full releases of Surge XT, others in the nightly build, or the upcoming 1.4 version.
Another music experiment, mixing my Surge trumpet, horns, cymbal, and some cello dynamics, on top of Berlin Free Orchestra. A quick cover of "Best Endeavours" by Alan Hawkshaw, from around 1983.
UK folks might know it as a TV news theme.
Link to original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pElUYwphrAY&list=RDpElUYwphrAY&start_radio=1
> You have three minutes from the moment I close this door.
This is my first draft of "Force Field" (used as the Crystal Maze theme), which came together fairly quickly here.
Any MIDIs I found were very wrong, so I mostly cut my own here. Sound design was fun, except for the hits, which I'm still trying to decode.
My version comes out clearer, just because of the tech uplift since the original. I've yet to mix it.
Woodwind! Oboe does most of the legwork here. +Clarinet, bassoon, timpani.
It's the start of Beethoven 61 Violin Concerto, using my instruments*. But there's no violin for a couple of minutes, and this is only the first few seconds.
It takes far too long for me to put expression into each of these, so anything bigger than proof-of-concept snippets like this are too much for the time I have.
*This is a generic synthesizer that I persuaded to make these traditional modified duck noises.
My paper was refereed, and accepted 'as is'. I've just submitted the final version to the organizer.
"Vacuum, Gravitation, and Standard Model Structure from
Deterministic Mechanics"
I feel the slow speed of conventional publishing, it being 18 months since I presented the work. This is why preprints exist! (which reminds me, I'll update my website soon, with my latest editorial fixes)
