Kourosh Dini's Blog, page 33

Grouping Tasks by Session – Using OmniFocus

We can easily be overwhelmed by looking at even a realistic list of things we’d like to do today. This is particularly the case if there are many small tasks. A good list is one we can easily review in a short period of time so that we can make a clear decision about what to do next. For this to be the case, we generally need a short list.

Check out the rest of the post at UsingOmniFocus.com.

Mountain Range – Synthesizer sketch

Mountain Range

by Kourosh Dini | Single

http://www.kouroshdini.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mountain-Range-Synthesizer-Improvisation.mp3

An improvisational sketch from the weekend.

Go – Human vs Computer

Woot! The next round of Go – human vs a computer is this week. Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo.

Go is infamously known as the only game that a computer has yet to beat a human masterin.I have played go on several occasions throughout my life, and knowenough that if I were to get any good at it, I would need to dedicate serious time and attention to it.

Though, I do not spend much time with it now, I can also say there is averydeep beauty to it. If I had another life, I would love to just spend it playi...

Dew

from the album Sun & Earth

On Cal Newport’s Deep Work

Introduction

A few months ago, a reader had written asking how to integrate my own writings with those of Cal Newport’s. I’d read Newport’s So Good They Can’t Ignore You when I was originally introduced by Mikes Schechter and Vardy. That book was and is excellent, describing how passion is not found so much as it is developed in time.

More recently, Newport had been writing on his blog in the vein of his new book, Deep Work: Rules for Success in a Distracted World. Here, Newport focuses on i...

Words & Thought

Words shape thought.
Words are vessels for thought.
But words are never the entirety of thought.

Visualization – C Minor Piano Improvisation

So I did another visualization thingy, this time with a piano improvisation and iZotope’s Insight. Enjoy:

Synthesizer Experiment – Halion 5 and RC48

This weekend, I had fun experimenting with Native Instrument’s RC48 Reverb plugin. The synthesizer is one I built up using Steinberg’s Halion 5.

The RC48 has a neat visualization function that looked like it should be blown up and put on full screen. The following is an improvisation I did to mess around with staccato, legato, and distorted sounds in the context of heavy reverb:

Test post – please ignore

This is a test post. As excellently crafted as it is, it is also designed to be ignored. But as value is co-created, I cannot make claims as to its value to the individual reader.

However, to add value, I will now swear for the first time on this blog. Ready? …

Poop.

Grunge Bonobo (Synthesizer)

Here’s a track I created a while back, but am only now releasing. In fact, I’ve entered it as part of the International Songwriting Competition (ISC), because why not?

Enjoy Grunge Bonobo: