{"id":1497,"date":"2010-07-20T14:39:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T22:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2010-07-21T12:24:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T20:24:37","slug":"the-sound-of-software-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/20\/the-sound-of-software-not-working","title":{"rendered":"The Sound of Software Not Working"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I said something to Chris about the software I was currently working on being “obstreperous” without entirely remembering what that word actually means. As he observed, it’s actually a rather apt term for DSP code in development. From Webster’s<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Function: adjective<\/em><\/div>\n
Etymology: Latin obstreperus,<\/em> from obstrepere<\/em> to clamor against, from ob-<\/em> against + strepere<\/em> to make a noise<\/div>\n
Date: circa 1600<\/div>\n

1<\/strong> :<\/strong> marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness :<\/strong> clamorous <obstreperous merriment>
\n2<\/strong> :<\/strong> stubbornly resistant to control :<\/strong>unruly<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The word came to mind again when some new code I was working on was both marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness and stubbornly resistant to control. Here’s what it sounded like–be warned that it’s kind of loud in places:<\/p>\n

Obstreperous<\/a><\/p>\n

Usually when I play something like this for Chris he asks whether we can preserve it and add it as a feature to the product. Beauty is in the ear of the beholder, so to speak. This is why I don’t particularly enjoy most music classified as glitch and other genres that deliberately exploit DSP artifacts: it tends to all sound like a bad day at work to me.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Chris mentioned this post on his blog here<\/a>; some discussion has ensued. A couple of questions regarding reuse of this recording arose, so I hereby state that the above recording is made available under the Creative Commons license stated here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I said something to Chris about the software I was currently working on being “obstreperous” without entirely remembering what that word actually means. As he observed, it’s actually a rather apt term for DSP code in development. From Webster’s: Function: adjective Etymology: Latin obstreperus, from obstrepere to clamor against, from ob- against… Continue reading The Sound of Software Not Working<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-damage","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}