music

smush: see if you can find all the songs i'm featured on!

has anyone ever told you: record label from austin. home to the bellakun and egon, among others.

hush records: record label from portland. too many great bands to name-- just go listen.

puredata: redesign of max/msp. it's free software, and you want it.

ardour: gpl daw for linux, solaris, and macosx. download it free, and then give them your money anyways.

kvraudio: news and info on pretty much every audio plugin ever, free and otherwise.

psycle: open-source buzz-esque modular softsynth/vst-host/tracker.

coding/dsp

csound: music/dsp programming language. good times all around.

musicdsp: all sorts of dsp code examples. some more useful than others, but the comments tend to even things out.

dspguide: a complete copy of a full-fledged dsp textbook, available online free of charge.

filter explorer: great tool for filter design, created by tobybear.

dafx: access to all papers from the dafx conferences, 1998-2006. there's a lot of great stuff here.

alice mic: schematics and building instructions for scott helmke's 'alice' mic. the only mic i use these days.

micbuilders group at yahoo: great community for anyone looking to design or build a microphone.

transsound capsules at jli: great mic capsules for crazy cheap. best source for the TSB-165A capsules used by the alice.

gyraf audio: more diy stuff. scroll the left frame all the way down and click on 'DIY-projects'.

contact mics: building piezo contact mics. simplest project ever, for around $3 in parts.

dennis havlena: lots of interesting diy instruments. try to ignore the crappy page design.

goombas.org: jim's page. chock-full of all sorts of wonders.

celebrities in prison: celebrities! ...in prison!

dw is on myspace: please don't tell anybody.

the straight dope: fighting ignorance since 1973! plus, the only general-topic message boards i bother with anymore.

language log: gradually becoming one of my favorite blogs.

common errors in english: this is meant to be a reference, but you should just read it straight through.