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I think OpenVis Conf is coming up too, and they just exclusively deal with this kind of stuff. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Also CSV Conf is coming up. We were talking about Dat and visualizations, and that's actually a nice intersection. CSV is also a bunch of cool visualizations, like OpenVis Conf, but it's also about small data, basically. |
**Rachel White:** Yeah, I think CSV Conf is 2nd to 3rd May, and OpenVis Conf is April 24th and 25th. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Sweet. On that note, we'll leave it there. Rate us on iTunes... Thank you, everybody. |
• Introduction of Myles Borins and his role as a developer advocate for Google Cloud and Node.js |
• Discussion of Rachel's music background, including her experience with web development and interviewing musicians |
• Myles' work on Web Audio API and his creation of an accessible keyboard project called The AutoMagic Music Maker |
• Conversation about the tuning of Prince's guitar and the significance of middle A being 440 or 432 Hz |
• Discussion of Canada and its connection to JavaScript, including a lighthearted exchange about Myles' Canadian heritage |
• Debate over pronunciation of "Babel" (as Bae-bull or Bah-bel) |
• Discussion of spatial audio and Web Audio API, including HRTFs and tuning |
• Explanation of room acoustics and early reflections in recording studios |
• Philosophical discussion on the decay of sound and its implications |
• Practical applications of Web Audio API, including AR/VR and interactive installations |
• Examples of real-world use cases for Web Audio API, such as music apps and interactive demos |
• Discussion of Web Audio API and its capabilities for audio processing |
• Overview of the Web Audio API's unit generators and audio graph approach |
• Potential uses of Web Audio API in generating sound and applying effects to external audio inputs |
• Limitations of current implementation, including latency issues with ScriptProcessorNode |
• Future prospects for improvement through new APIs, such as AudioWorkerNode |
• Discussion of Turing completeness in programming languages and its relation to CSS games |
• Explanation of how CSS can be used to create simple programs or games without JavaScript |
• Debate on the importance of Turing completeness in a language |
• TypeScript type-checking complexity and its potential for creating entire programming languages |
• Exploration of language limits and edge cases in JavaScript (e.g. JSFuck, Brainfuck) |
• Combinatorial complexity in algorithmic composition and generative environments |
• Artistic and creative use of coding and edge case situations (e.g. A Single Div project) |
• Online code editors and development tools (e.g. StackBlitz) |
• Omnitone is a library from the Google Chrome Org for spatialized audio. |
• It allows for playing and rotating spatialized media on virtual or physical speakers. |
• It can be used in conjunction with Web VR to move spatialized audio with viewer movement. |
**Alex Sexton:** Alright, welcome to JS Party, where it's occasionally a party with JavaScript. I refuse to say weekly, since it's been a few weeks... But nonetheless, we're here ready to party. So this week we have a special guest filling in for Mikeal - Myles Borins. Introduce yourself, Myles. |
**Myles Borins:** Hi, I'm Myles. I'm a developer advocate-- |
**Alex Sexton:** Yeah, that's enough... \[laughter\] Rachel is also here with us, and this is Alex. Myles, you work on Google Cloud and Node and a bunch of stuff - actually introduce yourself now. |
**Myles Borins:** I'm Myles... I going to take long pauses, to make sure that I don't get stopped. I work on Node, I'm on the CTC and TSC. |
**Alex Sexton:** What are those? |
**Myles Borins:** That is the Core Technical Committee and The Technical Steering Committee. I have a SlideDeck that you can look at if you're interested in learning more about how the governance model in Node works. That means I'm involved in some of the higher level technical decisions and architecture of the project... |
In a past life I was an artist and a musician and I'm hoping to find time to do that again in the future. |
**Rachel White:** Yay!!! |
**Alex Sexton:** Yeah, that segues well into what we wanted to talk about today, which is some music. I think between the three of us, we either have dabbled in web audio or are musicians... Rachel, what's your music story, what's your music history? You definitely have at least like a lot of cred in old indie bands. |
**Rachel White:** Yeah, so I started out as a web person because I did a website for an online music magazine for teens, so my first concert was Warp Tour 2001 to go and interview bands like Good Charlotte. |
**Alex Sexton:** NOFX? |
**Rachel White:** No, I've never interviewed NOFX, but I definitely -- |
**Myles Borins:** What about Goldfinger? |
**Rachel White:** I have not interviewed any ska bands, actually... Which, Goldfinger is questionably ska, I guess. But I've interviewed a lot of pop/punk bands. I interviewed New Found Glory, and 311... \[laughs\] |
**Alex Sexton:** Hey, 311 was my favorite band for a long time. The drummer's name is Chad Sexton - unrelated, but I'm also a drummer, so... |
**Rachel White:** Ooooh...! \[laughter\] |
**Alex Sexton:** \[04:07\] It's not that big of a deal, he's good. \[laughter\] |
**Rachel White:** Hold on, sorry... My cat... \[laughter\] |
**Myles Borins:** I'll translate - her cat, her cat. \[laughter\] |
**Alex Sexton:** I think I understand. \[laughter\] Rachel, do you wanna mute and we can keep going? |
**Rachel White:** I'm sorry, my cat was on my lap, and he jumped off and his foot got caught on my headphone. Yeah, we're okay. Go ahead. |
**Alex Sexton:** Okay, speaking of NOFX, there used to be no way to do music sound effects on the internet, but -- sorry about this segue, in retrospect... Myles, have you done some audio API stuff? Is that what you were interested in talking about it, or did you just wanna talk about music? |
**Myles Borins:** Yeah, my first larger web app that I ever wrote was actually an accessible keyboard. I've been hacking around with Web Audio API for I guess going on five years now. That's how long it's been since I first started hacking on it though, not like a measure of the total amount of time that I devoted to i... |
**Alex Sexton:** Sure, a solid, unrelapsed five years of pure time. So is that your only project? So you have a keyboard, I assume, on your keyboard. You pretend like you're playing a piano, and then it makes the sounds in the browser? |
**Myles Borins:** Exactly. The thing that was neat about it was that it was built with this JavaScript framework that was all accessibility first. The website actually had no instructions on how to use it unless you were using a screen reader, and if you were using a screen reader, it had a full in-depth tutorial on ho... |
**Alex Sexton:** I see... In case you were a 432-er. |
**Myles Borins:** Yeah, and it also allowed you to change how many steps you wanted to break the octave into, and then it would distribute keys appropriately. You could set up patterns and start arpeggiating, and then start playing the musical canon instead of the notes, which was a fun little hack. |
**Alex Sexton:** Yeah, that's great. That's pretty cool. I'd be actually really interested in seeing that. Does it still exist online? |
**Myles Borins:** Yeah, it's on GitHub; I have no idea if it still works, but it's called The AutoMagic Music Maker. |
**Alex Sexton:** Yeah, that's cool. There's a fun story about prints -- there's like a whole cult of people who think that middle A shouldn't be 440, it should be 432. And they'll show you all these cardioid graphs that look way prettier than the ones at 440 and they're like "See? The math works out to be more beautifu... |
But a lot of people thought for a long time that Prince detuned his guitar to E flat instead of E, but it's actually not quite E flat, it's E, but in the tuning of where middle A is 432 instead of 440. Just some fun Prince facts. |
**Myles Borins:** Yeah, that's amazing. |
**Alex Sexton:** A lot of his better tone -- a lot of people tune down to E flat just to get... You can play thicker strings because they're a little looser, so you can have kind of a fatter tone, so a lot Prince's well-known guitar tone comes from the fact that he detuned his guitar, essentially, and then was able to ... |
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