Show Notes
A freewheeling conversation about nearly everything with the fantastically interesting Tom Whitwell.
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LINKS TO STUFF WE DISCUSS Tom’s Residential Workshop in April 2024 he’s doing: https://dyski.co/Tom-Whitwell-Sound-Maps 52 things Tom Learned in 2023: https://medium.com/magnetic/52-things-i-learned-in-2023-a3bbb9f9323d An interesting book about being interesting that Tom is in: https://thedobook.co/products/do-interesting-notice-collect-share The book drawing on the right side of the brain: https://www.drawright.com/ The David Tudor book he loves: http://remindedbytheinstruments.info/phone/index.html The Centimental Noise Book: https://cementimental.com/noisebook/ Tom’s Move module: https://www.thonk.co.uk/music-thing-modular-move/ Tom’s 8MU controller: https://www.thonk.co.uk/shop/music-thing-8mu/ Teenage Engineering KO II: https://teenage.engineering/store/ep-133/ My Panda Shall Fly: https://www.instagram.com/mypandashallfly/?hl=en-gb The episode of Why We Bleep with Sunroof: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/why-we-bleep-032-daniel-miller-gareth-jones-sunroof/id1338201154?i=1000532055425 An app can be a home cooked meal: https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/ Matt Webb’s AI Clock: https://www.theverge.com/23669343/ai-clock-chatgpt-poems-rhymes-diy-project Tom’s Mikrophone MK3 Module: https://www.thonk.co.uk/shop/mtm-mikrophonie-with-mic/ Tom Whitwell’s original ‘Where Daft Punk Got Their Samples From’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJPdVVOmbz4 Tape Notes with James Blake: https://tapenotes.co.uk/project/tn122-james-blake ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/ The service Mylar uses that AI transcribes: https://www.descript.com/ The Rabbit R1 pocket companion: https://www.rabbit.tech/
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