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Jason Castonguay
@jcast432
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I'm a musician, tech-enthusiast, & also enjoy good people & good food. Nature, reading, meditation/spiritual growth, cooking, laughing, & savoring life & the connections I have with others are among those things I hold dear. Started playing the piano at age 3 & vocal later (harp even later). Computers came along at age 6; went from Apple, to DOS, to Windows, around to Linux, & back to Apple (primarily). Love checking out all tech (access tech, too).
Ha! National Braille Press has a new print/braille magnet which reads: May your coffee be strong and your Monday be short. It tickled me. – https://shop.nbp.org/products/magnet-may-your-coffee-be-strong-and-your-monday-be-short
#ArtFelt will just have to wait. – Hello, friends. I am so sorry that ArtFelt won’t be happening tonight. I have a headache that just won’t let up and I’m not willing to diminish the quality of the show by broadcasting under these circumstances. If there is time, I may do a special edition later this week and will let you know. Otherwise, I’ll check in with you next week.
Thank you for your patience and support.
Oh, what a neat thing with which to play, courtesy of @freakyfwoof! – https://onj.me/nc/
Okay. So this post should make @FreakyFwoof and @batworx either very happy, very pissed, or something. They should at least be amused.
Early this morning I decided to give Claude a crack at figuring out what was wrong with an Apple II program from 1978. The program is called Appleodion, and the file I sent Claude plays three Bach fugues. Part of the third fugue is corrupted. Amazingly, Claude was able to deduce the entirely undocumented (except in the Integer BASIC composer program which I hadn't yet sent it) format of the music data. It correctly identified the problem and recovered what it could.
Then I got to thinking it'd be cool to be able to convert between Appleodion and MIDI. So I sent it the BASIC source code for the composer program, and it wrote a few scripts for me. There are a few things wrong, but it basically works.
I took the #NVDAComposer version of "Bouncing Round the Classroom" and converted it to Appleodion music data. Before you play this, please be aware that the whole thing is just a bit flat (this program from 1978 isn't exactly concert pitch!) and a few notes are wrong, most noticeably with the highest notes. This ancient program has an approx. four-octave range, so any notes outside of this range are clamped to the nearest allowable note. Also the tempo is much, much slower than it should be. But for a program from 1978 to be able to play this song at all is something else. So, here we go with…Calmly Walking Around the Classroom? You decide.
Early this morning I decided to give Claude a crack at figuring out what was wrong with an Apple II program from 1978. The program is called Appleodion, and the file I sent Claude plays three Bach fugues. Part of the third fugue is corrupted. Amazingly, Claude was able to deduce the entirely undocumented (except in the Integer BASIC composer program which I hadn't yet sent it) format of the music data. It correctly identified the problem and recovered what it could.
Then I got to thinking it'd be cool to be able to convert between Appleodion and MIDI. So I sent it the BASIC source code for the composer program, and it wrote a few scripts for me. There are a few things wrong, but it basically works.
I took the #NVDAComposer version of "Bouncing Round the Classroom" and converted it to Appleodion music data. Before you play this, please be aware that the whole thing is just a bit flat (this program from 1978 isn't exactly concert pitch!) and a few notes are wrong, most noticeably with the highest notes. This ancient program has an approx. four-octave range, so any notes outside of this range are clamped to the nearest allowable note. Also the tempo is much, much slower than it should be. But for a program from 1978 to be able to play this song at all is something else. So, here we go with…Calmly Walking Around the Classroom? You decide.
#ArtFelt will have to wait until next week.
Hello, friends! I'm sorry I have no show for you tonight. However, I want to remind you that if you'd like to browse the archives, you can do so by going to https://www.mixcloud.com/artfeltlive. Have a great week and I will be with you next time!
#ArtFelt is on tonight! – 8PM ET on ACB Media 4 – https://www.acbmedia.org/4 – or on Mixcloud – https://www.mixcloud.com/live/artfeltlive
Hello, friends!
I am very glad to be back on the mic this evening and hope you can join me! The usual variety of live performing and other picks from my library will be heard, as well as anything else I feel inspired to say or play. 😊 See you there!
It is phenomenally gorgeous outside! Unfortunately, this means no #ArtFelt tonight. I have a lovely back yard I haven't been able to enjoy all winter. On this warm, sunny day, I'm busy taking it all in! If you'd like, I invite you to visit the ArtFelt archives at https://www.mixcloud.com/artfeltlive. Thank you, and I'll be back next week (weather permitting?). 🤣
#ArtFelt will resume next week! – Hi, eveyrone! There won’t be a show tonight, but I plan on being on the air next week. In the meantime, if you’d like to browse any of the available archives, go to
https://www.mixcloud.com/artfeltlive
and enjoy! Shows are sorted from newest to oldest.
Thank you so much and looking forward to next week’s show!