It has definitely been one of those weeks. I won’t bore you (myself) with the details, but it has included, inter alia, binaural recording with a wooden head and handwaving about aliasing and IIR filters. Also lunch with an old complexer I haven’t seen since before the pandemic, which was lovely but also evidence of the complete atrophy of my social skills.
I’m really not sure I know how to live in this world. (No, I have no intention of stopping.)
Sometimes it’s necessary to go back and look at — or listen to — stuff I’ve made or written or whatever in the past. Sometimes it’s not necessary but I do it anyway. It’s almost always a weird and disorienting experience. In two ways, sometimes both at once.
Of course there’s the “JFC I was so embarrassing” aspect. That’s just inevitable.
But all too often there’s also “how the hell did I do that?” Which is partly about knowledge and skills I’ve forgotten. But I think some of it is more about courage, or nerve, or just plain ignorance. Like, how did I dare attempt that, let alone pull it off?
I might be able to remember or relearn those skills. Ignorance and courage? Not so much.
Among the topics for tomorrow’s Auditory Computing tutorial: “Why are decibels so damned confusing?”
In case you’re wondering:
It’s a rare non-micro post! Though the text content is still going to be pretty skimpy.
Yesterday’s burbling in video form. As usual my lecturing style is frantic and slapdash and I mostly sound like the coked up techbros from the cocktail party example.
Also as usual, this is unlisted, available only to the actual students on Moodle and the non-existent readers of this blog. I hope you feel suitably privileged.
Floundered through Visual Perception again. Seems like only two years ago I was blogging it chapter by chapter — a serialisation that remains unfinished, overtaken by events.
I think it went okay but it’s hard to tell. The students seem less responsive than they used to, maybe I’m atrophying. But two hours is a long haul for everyone.