Misc Signals

String bending and visual navigation on the guitar Just realized that I want to try to think about the “destination” note of the string bend when playing it, rather than the starting note, which I usually do. What do I mean about “visualizing the destination” of the bend? Well, pretty much what I mean by visualizing any fret on the neck. But because I bend to the destination note and not fret it directly, I tend to focus on where my finger is at, instead of where the note is at.

This is absolute Misc stuff, just a bucket of paragraphs. Digital Fabrication A few days ago I listened to the Neil Gershenfeld episode of Lex’s podcast. It’s extremely inspiring! Highly recommend. A few highlights (please excuse the lack of details): Digital Fabrication, where “digital” is understood not as “binary” computer stuff, but by it’s deeper meaning. The concept is rooted in Vannevar Bush/Claude Shannon/Von Neumann Analog computer age and the transition to Digital as a way to get a grip on accumulated error.