"Defining and re-imagining performance with computers and technology is an ongoing theme of this site. In a special guest column, artist Primus Luta goes deeper into that question with some of our favorite artists to look at practical and philosophical dimensions of playing electronics. Today, the fruits of electronic musical labor can be heard in every corner of culture, from academic to niche to popular. Still, there remains a perceptual disconnect between traditional and electronic music, especially in the context of performance. With traditional instruments, performance proficiency can be measured as a physical accomplishment. Electronic performance, on the other hand, is generally understood as music made by computers. That poses a question: if the music is being made by the machines, what exactly does the musician do? To find out, I talked with some of the best electronic performers on the road, and got a glimpse of what exactly is going on behind the screen."
- m.0
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Impressive! Now you can save real time searches as embeddable widgets. That's just awesome! This is a massively POWERFUL feature. Thank you FF team!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Lol, you flipped the switch before the post came out as far as I can tell. I was searching for it and I couldn't see it.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Yowsa. Makes quick easy work out of social media monitoring, don't it?
- Ian Wilker
Congrats Paul to you and your team! Another one bites the dust!
- Jorge Escobar
WAAAAAAAAA.. meta real time search.. love the concept of embed a real-time search !! Way to Team FF -- luv u guys !! :)-
- Peter Dawson
Do you guys sleep? Honestly, love the constant output and attention you guys pay to user feedback. I know this highly requested and probably not easy to implement.
- Frankie Warren
@Jesse: It's a dead twitter command "track keyword" sends you realtime updates whenever the word is used. Think of it like realtime google alerts for friendfeed.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I'm pretty sure Gillmor et al kept calling it "track" because that's what Twitter called it back when they had it for a week.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
On a related note, live embeddable searches mean that I can hack together my own FF embeds for the pages that don't have them yet, like say "comment:dpritchett" http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel, Twitter never had this - this isn't "track"
- Jesse Stay
The blogpost said they're working to implement "keyword notifications" Jesse, that will be "track"
- Frankie Warren
Twitter's brought back track, it's just no one cares. You can now have updates by keyword on Twitter pushed to you, via XMPP, just like track used to. Gillmor says that's not track.
- Jesse Stay
That's why I hate the term "track" - no one knows what it is. The way Paul is explaining it, as real-time search, is a much better way of explaining it.
- Jesse Stay
I guess we're still missing the realtime notifications piece that folks want. You can shape the firehose to watch terms in realtime but you can't yet get it pushed outside of FF via email or IM?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel, Twitter has that right now, but Gillmor says that's not track
- Jesse Stay
/me prints up a few hundred "That's not track!" t-shirts
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Killer feature. I'm watching news about Honduras scrolling by. Very useful.
- Chris Baskind
Jesse: Oh, i'm with you... Real-Time Search is a better term :)
- Frankie Warren
BTW, integrating this into my blog right now
- Jesse Stay
Me too Jesse. Making a new static page for that comment:dpritchett search I mentioned
- Daniel J. Pritchett
this is definitely cool and all, but what about API? We are falling way behind on feature sets :)
- Tim Hoeck
It's like an alternative to watching TV, in a literary sort of way.
- Ted Gilchrist
Yay! This is the killer feature (once it's in the API, of course ;)
- Brandon Titus
I'd love to see a blog post about how this is implemented. Real-time search has some interesting problems.
- Chris Lamprecht
I take it back - I can't integrate this into my blog until I can filter it to a single list. I really need an embed for "comment:dpritchett list:e20" except lists are still virtual in that no one other than me can see them unless I use the atom export.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I am sloooooooooooow. But what/where is the template to make the embeddable widget. please?
- Marg Uerite
You're right Jesse - it's not exactly Track but it's getting a lot closer. The old Twitter Track allowed you to set up multiple search terms (e.g. track iphone) and get those delivered to your IM with zero time lag. At any time you could type "track" to see what you're currently tracking and "untrack" to untrack something - e.g. "untrack iphone". There are some third party tools that...
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- Mike Doeff
Paul, is there a way to change the title of the embed? The long search string looks kinda bad.
- Jesse Stay
Mike, Twitter offers that today. Gillmor says it's not Track.
- Jesse Stay
Marg, after you do a search, click the "Share / embed search" link to get the embed code.
- Dan Hsiao
Jesse, are you sure? Can you provide a URL describing this feature? I think you're referring to Twitter Search (and saved searches) which is totally different.
- Mike Doeff
Jesse, when / where did Gillmor say that isn't track? I'm pretty sure that Steve just wants the old track brought back, with some filtering capabilities added (the old Track didn't filter out blocked accounts).
- Mike Doeff
Yay! Have been eagerly awaiting this. :)
- Rick Turoczy
Mike, he's said in various comments. Looks like Track to me... Heck, it's even called "track".
- Jesse Stay
I want to 'Like' this *twice*! many thanks!
- topo
The first step in a storystreaming platform!
- Kevin Sablan
Whoa. Wow. And Yes! Fantastic work, FF team.
- Micah Wittman
Good stuff although should support negative operators such as I should able to search my name in the all posts NOT coming from me. I've tried "from:-username" but it doesn't seem to work.
- Ferruh Mavituna
OK, you guys are wicked talented! It's kind of scary, but I love it. So what's next? Just kidding:)
- Michael Fidler
Ferruh: you just have it a bit backwards... try -from:username instead :)
- Ross Miller
WOOOOOOOOOOW. Friendfeed is really pushing some cool features out :). Friendfeed is the best :)
- alfred westerveld
Highly addictive--great stuff! I did notice that if you do a search like [google] you'll see dupe stories streaming by quite a bit (e.g. the TechCrunch story about Google Voice shows up over and over right now). Not sure if it's possible to de-dupe based on destination url a little bit more?
- Matt Cutts
two months after redesign, we have access to real-time search. good news bc my preferred search engine is friendfeed. ;)
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
We are there, in the battle against Twitter
- Michael_techie
I can't say enough how amazing this is. So, I ordered a bottle of real-time translation to go with this magnificent feast of real-time search :D http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Micah Wittman
Just to show what is possible now with this feature, I've built SteroidFeed: Go here to see it as well as download the files: http://friendfeed.com/lph... Latest version is 1.01.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
"Actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies, has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok. A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide. A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, confirmed the death of the 72-year-old actor. He said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday, but he could not provide further details out of consideration for his family."
- Thomas Hawk
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His five wives: Donna Lee Becht (1960–1968) Linda Gilbert (1977–1983) Gail Jensen (1988–1997) Marina Anderson (1998–2001) Annie Bierman (2004–2009
- Thomas Hawk
I wonder what could have caused him to commit suicide.
- Thomas Hawk
From the article in the www.thesun.co.uk http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol... "The actor was discovered with a cord around his neck and other parts of his naked body, said cops. A police officer said: "A rope was attached to his neck and also to his penis". His personal manager Chuck Binder described the hanging as "accidental". "
- Rodzilla
The BBC ran those details too at first, then edited the story to eliminate the autoerotic aspects (and making it seem intentional). Here's a snapshot of the article before it was revised: http://fury.com/mirror...
- Kevin Fox
hmmm so maybe it was erotic asphyxiation rather than suicide?
- Thomas Hawk
Sounds like he was trying to "Kill 'little' Bill"
- Rodzilla
man, i was a big fan of 'kung fu' when i was a kid, and i was psyched when he was in the 'kill bill' movies, but... he hung himself? wtf?
- docrivs
In refraining from revealing embarrassing details, the CNN article really insinuates that it was a suicide: http://www.cnn.com/2009...
- Kevin Fox
To quote a thread from a friend: "To David Carradine, he died as he lived, well hung!" Awful, I know. This is the same group that came up with one for Steve Irwin: "To Steve Irwin, he died as he lived, with animals in his heart!"
- Neal Krummell
ha! i guess i should have read the comments! holy crap. i still haven't seen anything in the news that gave a clue about that, apart from 'further details of the death will not be released until family is notified' or something similar. what the hell, mang? i guess if you need to get off... go for the most dangerous way! hell, i'd rather jump out of a plane, jerkin, than try to cut off my own air supply. 'i'm all outta love...'
- docrivs
Moog Music has announced that the Minimoog Voyager Old School synth’s days are numbered. According to the company, only 40 more Old Schools will be built.
- m.0
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that's what happens when you don't have MIDI!
- Catherine
Many tech prognosticators predict that “cloud computing”—where applications reside on a central server that you access through the Web—is the wave of the future. Instead of having your own software locally on your computer, you’ll get all your apps online. There are some examples of that already, such as the many online apps that Google offers. However, Indaba Music, an online collaboration Web site, is taking cloud computing to the recording space with the announcement today of a browser-based DAW, tentatively called Session Console 2.0, which is built on the Sun Microsystems Java/FX platform.
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Tad, because, well he's having MAC issues and I am on my 3rd power adapter for mine, so I gotta give him something positive (plus he's pretty awesome).
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Anthony Citrano, for being intelegent and having good taste in pictures and music (I know it's relative, but I think so anyways).
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Erica Toelle, because she's smart, amazing (if shy) and an incredible female powerhouse, if a bit hooked on share point ;-P
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Tina Tina Tina, WHAT ELSE CAN I SAY? Oh was I yelling? Well you are just wonderful.... and awesome.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
And every FFing body, because my fingers are getting tired, and my son want's to play "upside-down baby..." Love to you all- Gina
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
"Novation’s Automap is coming to the iPhone - meaning a handheld device can provide interactive visual and textual feedback about what you’re manipulating in, say, an Ableton Live set."
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“I originally thought that ‘Go’ would sell around 3000 copies and maybe get played at the Limelilght,” says Moby. Back then, Peter Gatien’s Manhatten club was so hardcore that Moby later likened the experience of spinning for the crowd to “playing in a penitentiary”. But what got kids off in New York, also worked on the other side of the pond, where ‘Go’ made it into the Top 10 of the UK singles chart.
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"Zachary Boyd, 19, was asleep when enemy fighters attacked his base in the Korengal Valley in Kunar province. He had enough time to put on is helmet and body armour but had to dispense with his uniform before joining his comrades in manning their bunker."
- m.0
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"HOUSTON (AP) — Spacewalkers' specially designed tools couldn't dislodge a balky bolt interfering with repairs Sunday at the Hubble Space Telescope, so they took an approach more familiar to people puttering around down on Earth: use brute force. And it worked."
- m.0
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"SINCE the automobile got its first taste of gasoline, drivers’ need for speed has often trumped other considerations, including money, safety and common sense. Over just five years from 1895 to 1900, ingenious racecar builders tripled top speeds from 15 miles an hour to a maniacal 50 m.p.h."
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