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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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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On this day in 2020, my first album “A Forgotten Tape” was released on all music streaming platforms. Today is an important day to mark in my opinion, since the concept of the album was followed by two more albums and the last one, “The Blissful Dawn”, was released this year, marking the end of …
Oftentimes when we listen to music, we hear some sounds that have this kind of “echo” effect in our ears, like a sound made in a large and empty hall. The sound echoes and decays, and feeds us with some sort of angelic vibe. To achieve this dreamy wet sound, musicians and producers use an …
Imagine you wake up to an ordinary day, get prepared and start working on your responsibilities, whether it is work or school or anything else… Then you reach the end of the afternoon and your most responsible work ends around that time as well. You are exhausted after all the work pressure you may have …
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 …
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 …
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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Hello world! My name is Efe, and welcome to my website. I’m currently an undergraduate computer science student at the University of Edinburgh, and I opened this website to share my thoughts and experiences on things that are related to my interests like computer science, music and the entertainment industry, as well as to promote …