WHY WE BLEEP 042: MUSIC THING MK VI

A freewheeling conversation about nearly everything with the fantastically interesting Tom Whitwell.

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• BUY TOMS MODULES: https://musicthing.co.uk/

• THANKS TO SPONSORS:  http://signalsounds.com & https://www.thonk.co.uk/

Links to Some Things We Discuss

• Tom’s Residential Workshop in April 2024 he’s doing: https://dyski.co/Tom-Whitwell-Sound-Maps 

• 52 things Tom Learned in 2023: https://medium.com/magnetic/52-things-i-learned-in-2023-a3bbb9f9323d 

• An interesting book about being interesting that Tom is in: https://thedobook.co/products/do-interesting-notice-collect-share 

• The book drawing on the right side of the brain: https://www.drawright.com/ 

• 10 rules for students and teachers by John Cage: https://www.openculture.com/2018/07/10-rules-for-students-and-teachers.html 

• The David Tudor book he loves: http://remindedbytheinstruments.info/phone/index.html 

• The Centimental Noise Book: https://cementimental.com/noisebook/ 

• Poems generated by Tom’s poetry Machine: https://tomwhitwell.github.io/dad_poems/archive_news.html 

• Tom’s Move module: https://www.thonk.co.uk/music-thing-modular-move/ 

• Tom’s 8MU controller: https://www.thonk.co.uk/shop/music-thing-8mu/ 

• Teenage Engineering KO II: https://teenage.engineering/store/ep-133/ 

• My Panda Shall Fly: https://www.instagram.com/mypandashallfly/?hl=en-gb 

• The episode of Why We Bleep with Sunroof: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/why-we-bleep-032-daniel-miller-gareth-jones-sunroof/id1338201154?i=1000532055425 

• An app can be a home cooked meal: https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/  

• Matt Webb’s AI Clock: https://www.theverge.com/23669343/ai-clock-chatgpt-poems-rhymes-diy-project 

• Tom’s Mikrophone MK3 Module: https://www.thonk.co.uk/shop/mtm-mikrophonie-with-mic/ 

• Tom Whitwell’s original ‘Where Daft Punk Got Their Samples From’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJPdVVOmbz4 

• Tape Notes with James Blake: https://tapenotes.co.uk/project/tn122-james-blake 

• ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/ 

• The service Mylar uses that AI transcribes: https://www.descript.com/

• The Rabbit R1 pocket companion: https://www.rabbit.tech/ 

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