In The Shallows Back At The Tuning Fork On 01 Nov, After Tragic July Cancellation

Following a spellbinding hometown show at St Peter’s Hall, Paekākāriki, filmed for a special upcoming concert release for ...
IEEE

A 12-bit Multi-Channel R-R DAC Using a Shared Resistor String Scheme for Area-Efficient Display Source Driver

Abstract: This paper presents a 12-bit multi-channel resistor- resistor-string digital-to-analog converter (RRDAC) using a shared R-string scheme for an area efficient display source driver. The ...
The Austin Chronicle

Rilo Kiley, Sam Barber, MJ Lenderman, and More Reviews From Friday at ACL Weekend Two

Welcome back to the dustbowl! Weekend Two of ACL Fest kicked off with returning players King Princess, MJ Lenderman, and Dylan Gossett, and added new acts including locals Farmer’s Wife, precocious ...
UNCUT

The Making Of “Question” by The Moody Blues

Their dual-speed No 2 hit thrilled festival crowds and then calmed them down. “It was like the waves on the beach...” ...
IEEE

Enhancing Acoustic Scene Classification with Layer-wise Fine-Tuning on the SSAST Model

Abstract: We introduce a novel approach to Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) using the Self-Supervised Audio Spectrogram Transformer (SSAST) sophisticated with a focus on layerwise fine-tuning.

“That’s a terrible idea for a song!” “Margaritaville” writer Jimmy Buffett didn’t listen to his critics. Here’s how a bad day, a traffic jam and a rejection from ...

After years of struggling in Nashville, Buffett turned his musical ambitions south, to the Gulf Coast, and created a ...

“It sounds like 50 Marshall stacks!” Pete Townshend’s guitar secrets revealed by the Who’s substitute guitarist

Steve Bolton said the Who guitarist taught him the power of using just one guitar for some of his most bombastic tracks ...
Electronic Design

Acoustic Metasurface, IDT Modulates Light at Gigahertz Rates

How a Stanford University research team used acoustic waves to manipulate light. Device implementation involving gold nanoparticles placed in a particle-on-mirror configuration with a compressible ...