Links

Last updated January 07, 2026

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About This Page

Ten years ago every web site had a section of external links because people felt it was their personal responsibility to configure the environment and build the infrastructure. The many-to-many principle showed itself in linking strategies as well. A site was not complete without links to other sites.

— Olia Lialina, A Vernacular Web (2005)

DSP

Blogs

absorptions
- windytan (Oona Räisänen) does writeups of projects using computers, sound, and signals.
Melatonin
- Sudara writes about C++/JUCE development, including linking to open-source code.
Nathan Ho
- Nathan Ho composes experimental electronic music, and discusses synthesis in SuperCollider.
Iain Explains
- Iain Collings is an IEEE Fellow and makes videos about math for signals and digital communications.
Valhalla DSP
- Audio plugin company run by Sean Costello, focusing on reverbs and delays. Blog includes article series “Getting Started With Reverb Design”:
WolfSound
- Jan Wilczek writes abound DSP, synthesis, and plugin development in various languages and frameworks.

Code

Web Textbooks and Reading

Robert Bristow-Johnson, Cookbook formulae for audio EQ biquad filter coefficients
- Text document: light on explanation, but with useful practical implementation details.
Julius O. Smith
Steven W. Smith, The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing
- An accessible introduction to those without a heavy math background, and available in both HTML and PDF forms. Book written 1997–1998, and uses BASIC and FORTRAN for examples.
Recommendation list by WolfSound blog

Media & Media Arts

Old Media

TWC Classics

TWC Classics is the oldest and largest website devoted to The Weather Channel. Created during the summer of 1997, TWC Classics has amassed a large collection of audio, video, images, and information. Over 8,000 files and counting! Join me in taking a nostalgic look back at The Weather Channel's first 28 years.

Trammell Starks / Information / TWC Classics
- Trammell Starks composed some of the most well-known music for The Weather Channel. I first learned about him when Angel Marcloid (of Fire-Toolz, Nonlocal Forecast, and more) shared his music as something that inspires her. She even did a cover of his song “Life”. Listening to Fire-Toolz, as well as composers like Alex Temple, I've come to appreciate “cheesy” music like this.

Transmission Arts

wavefarm.org

Wave Farm is an international transmission arts organization driven by experimentation with the electromagnetic spectrum. We cultivate creative practices in radio and support artists and nonprofit organizations in their cultural endeavors.

Music

Bytebeat

Tools
- Dollchan Bytebeat Generator
- bytetable
Formulas
- http://viznut.fi/demos/unix/bytebeat_formulas.txt
Resources
- Bytebeat Discord
Tutorials
- hello audio in c

Web

Curation

My blogroll — a list of many interesting blogs I follow, including IndieWeb people, fellow musicians and music academics, and experimental music publications
ribo.zone's links

Fun Sites

Indie rock band Enon include this link on the inside of the CD tray artwork for their album Hocus Pocus: <www.enon.tv/hocus/vt.none/pocus.html>. Try clicking around to see what you can find, and make sure you allow audio!
Rapper Kreayshawn has a personal site that's a riot of late-90s web design, and on both this and her smile.rip site, she expresses nostalgia for people going to and building websites. Smile.rip even includes a basic guide to making a website under “About,” and try looking at the site on a phone for a fun message!

Hypertext

Mike Caulfield, The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral

The Garden is an old metaphor associated with hypertext. Those familiar with the history will recognize this. The Garden of Forking Paths from the mid-20th century. The concept of the Wiki Gardener from the 1990s. Mark Bernstein’s 1998 essay Hypertext Gardens.

The Garden is the web as topology. The web as space. It’s the integrative web, the iterative web, the web as an arrangement and rearrangement of things to one another.