Boards of Canada: The Past Inside The Present (Part 2)

Check out the first part of the article here if you haven’t yet. Today is the 10th of June, 2023. Today we are celebrating Boards of Canada’s second major anniversary of 2023, which is the 10th anniversary of their latest album “Tomorrow’s Harvest”. Before diving into this album though, I want to continue from where …

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Boards of Canada: The Past Inside The Present (Part 1)

This year, we will see two milestones achieved for probably my favourite musical act of all time: Boards of Canada. A very influential act in electronic music since the 90s, Boards of Canada has maintained a perfect album discography on Warp Records throughout the years, starting from their debut album on the label “Music Has …

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Minecraft is a Turing complete video game

This post is a follow up to the previous article about Turing machines and Turing computability. While I was researching about Turing machines for the article mentioned above, I stumbled upon some interesting facts: there are video games that can be considered Turing complete! This post will look at how the popular video game Minecraft …

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Turing machines and Turing computability

In 1936, Alan Turing, the father of computer science, proposed a hypothetical machine which is capable of implementing any computer algorithm that exists (Clark and Steadman, 2017). Despite the fact that it is a hypothetical machine in its core, it was the first proposed machine which store functions in its memory rather than modifying its …

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Trip hop: one of the influential electronic music genres of the 1990s and its legacy

Writing about this topic came immediately into my mind after listening to Portishead’s legendary “Dummy” album, released in 1994. Yes, I know one of their band members dislike the term ‘trip hop’ (Portishead on avoiding the media, 2008), but I’ll still continue using the term. The sound design and manipulation in this album is just …

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