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Site Credits

This site is hosted with the Joomla Content Management System. The hosting provider is Nearly Free Speach (.Net).

The illustrations were created with a variety of tools, including Rosegarden, SAGE, gnofract4d, and Context Free. Image manipulation was performed with the Gimp.

Text was created in VIM. The music player on the site is JPlayer.

Music Credits

The original music on this site was created with a several tools, some of which may have included: Timidity (a wavetable synthesizer), Fluidsynth (ditto), Rosegarden (a MIDI sequencer), Audacity (audio recording software), and Zynaddsubfx (a soft-synth). Custom software was written in Guido van Rossum's fine language, Python. MIDI sequencing for the update recording was done with Qtractor.

Over:unitY was made with a slightly different stack, but again it was made entirely with open-source software. The DAW used was Ardour; Yoshimi
(a fork of Zynaddsubsynth) was used as a soft-synth; CSound (along with the Cabbage wrapper) was also used for sound generation; Calf studio gear
were used for effects and sonic processing. Drums were done in Hydrogen.

Instrument tuning tables were created with an open-source project I created specifically for examining microtonal music, PyTuning.

About the Artist

Mark Conway Wirt was born and raised in rural Western Maryland.

At 16 he began matriculation at the University of Delaware, where he received a degree in physics. After graduation he moved to the Washington DC metropolitan area, where he was employed for a decade researching strategic defense concepts.

In the Decade of Irrational Exuberance he co-founded two successful high-tech start-ups, focusing on networking and communications technologies.

He is currently employed as a technologist for a large university, and lives with his wife, children, and a brace of hounds in the Shenandoah Valley.

Contact

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Note that while this email account is still active, I actually haven't been reading email for a few years (I needed a break). There isn't a paticularly good way of contacting me right now.

Website (Personal): www.pataphysical.info

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