Some interests of mine
Books
The Computer Music Tutorial — Curtis Roads
An encyclopedic guide to computer music, covering digital audio, synthesis, signal processing, MIDI, algorithmic composition, psychoacoustics, and related tools. The linked MIT Press page is for the substantially updated second edition.
On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music — Hermann von Helmholtz
A foundational 1863 study connecting acoustics, anatomy, hearing, consonance, and musical scales. Helmholtz’s work helped establish the scientific study of musical perception.
Electronic Projects for Musicians — Craig Anderton
A practical introduction to building musician-oriented electronic devices such as effects and audio utilities. This author-maintained page adds guidance for substituting modern parts in the book’s vintage circuits.
The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music — Miller S. Puckette
A free online textbook that combines the mathematics of digital sound with hands-on synthesis and signal-processing examples in Pure Data. Topics include oscillators, sampling, filters, modulation, spectra, and spatialization.
The Cuckoo’s Egg — Clifford Stoll
Stoll’s first-person account of tracing a 75-cent accounting discrepancy to an international computer-espionage operation. It reads like a detective story while documenting an early landmark in network security.
Masters of Deception — Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner
A nonfiction history of New York hacker culture and the conflict between the Masters of Deception and Legion of Doom. It follows teenage hackers, telephone networks, law enforcement, and the early social world of cyberspace.
Movies
Metropolis
Fritz Lang’s 1927 German Expressionist science-fiction epic imagines a spectacular city divided between an elite above and exploited workers below. Its cityscapes, robot, and political allegory became foundational images of cinematic dystopia.
The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 surveillance thriller stars Gene Hackman as a wiretapper who suspects that his latest recording may lead to murder. The film is a tense study of privacy, guilt, interpretation, and paranoia.
Sneakers
A 1992 caper-thriller about a team of security specialists forced to recover a device capable of breaking modern encryption. Its ensemble cast and playful tone frame serious questions about cryptography, surveillance, and institutional power.
North by Northwest
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 mistaken-identity thriller sends an advertising executive across the United States while spies pursue him. It is celebrated for its wit, romance, visual precision, and set pieces such as the crop-duster attack and Mount Rushmore climax.
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s novel follows a violent youth subjected to state aversion therapy. Its stylized dystopia examines violence, punishment, conditioning, and the meaning of free will.
They Live
John Carpenter’s 1988 science-fiction satire follows a drifter who discovers that aliens hide behind mass media and consumer culture. The film mixes action and horror with a blunt critique of class domination and manufactured consent.
12 Monkeys
Terry Gilliam’s 1995 time-travel thriller follows a prisoner sent into the past to investigate a civilization-ending pandemic. Inspired by Chris Marker’s La Jetée, it circles around memory, fate, trauma, and uncertainty.
San Soleil
Blade Runner
Brainstorm
Silent Running
Dark Star
Minority Report
Screamers
Solaris
Dollars Trilogy
Django (1966)
THX-1138
Brazil
Jean de Florette / Manon des Sources
Lawn Mower Man
Running Man
Short Circuit
The Fifth Element
Repo Man
Space Odyssey
Die Hard
Wall-E
Idiocracy
Stranger than Fiction
Amelie
Delicatesson
The City of the Lost Children
The Fly
Ghost in the Shell
Star Trek
Star Wars
Hunt for the Wildepeople
Total Recall
Raising Cane
Blowout
Videodrome
Television
Mr. Robot
Sam Esmail’s psychological techno-thriller centers on cybersecurity engineer Elliot Alderson and the hacktivist group fsociety. The series pairs unusually credible hacking details with themes of alienation, corporate power, identity, and unreliable perception.
Max Headroom
A satirical cyberpunk television property built around reporter Edison Carter and his stuttering digital alter ego, Max. The 1987–88 drama imagines a near future dominated by television networks, ratings, advertising, and corporate rule.
The IT Crowd
A British workplace sitcom about technicians Roy and Moss and their nontechnical manager Jen, exiled to the basement of Reynholm Industries. The show turns support-desk frustrations, office hierarchy, and social awkwardness into absurd comedy.
Westworld
HBO’s science-fiction drama begins in a technologically advanced theme park populated by lifelike android “hosts.” As the hosts diverge from their scripts, the series explores consciousness, exploitation, memory, free will, and the ethics of artificial life.
The Devs
Severance
Tales from the Loop
Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories - The Mission (Season 1, Episode 5)
The Twilight Zone (1985-1989) - To See the Invisible Man (Season 1, Episode 16)
Dr. Who
Knight Rider
Our Flag Means Death
Love, Death and Robots
Software
Pure Data
An open-source visual programming environment created by Miller Puckette for real-time audio, synthesis, signal processing, and multimedia. Programs are built as interactive graphical “patches” by connecting objects together.
tmux
A terminal multiplexer that lets users create, organize, detach, and later reattach multiple terminal sessions inside one screen. It is especially useful for remote work, persistent shell processes, and keyboard-driven workflows.
ImageMagick
An open-source suite and library for creating, converting, inspecting, and transforming raster images. Its magick command supports resizing, cropping, compositing, drawing, filtering, format conversion, and batch automation.
VNC - Olivetti & Oracle Research Labs - https://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/vnc/download.htm
QDOS II - Gazelle Systems
Edlin
Obsidian
hyprland
Hardware / software projects
BatAndCat Sound Labs
A Palo Alto hearing-technology research company working on modern hearing aids and scientific instruments. Its projects include the Portable Hearing Laboratory, a wearable platform for developing and testing new hearing-aid processing techniques.
openMHA
The Open Master Hearing Aid is an AGPL-licensed platform for real-time, low-latency audio processing and hearing-aid research. Its modular framework and plugins let researchers implement, evaluate, and reproduce hearing algorithms on standard hardware.
Graphic design / Visual Artists
Peter Saville
An English graphic designer and art director closely associated with Factory Records. His influential sleeves for Joy Division and New Order combined modernist typography, coded systems, and art-historical imagery to give post-punk a distinctive visual language.
deFharo
The independent foundry and studio of Spanish designer Fernando Haro. deFharo creates retail and custom typefaces alongside identity, editorial, packaging, and web-design work.
Jakub Różalski
simon stålenhag
Musicians / composers
Edward Ka-Spel
An English singer, songwriter, keyboardist, and co-founder of the Legendary Pink Dots. His prolific work blends psychedelic, experimental, electronic, industrial, and gothic elements, and also includes the Tear Garden collaboration with cEvin Key.
Conrad Schnitzler
A German electronic-music pioneer, sound artist, and early participant in Tangerine Dream and Kluster. His large solo catalog favored synthesizers, tape, performance, and independently distributed experiments over conventional rock forms.
Terre Thaemlitz
An electronic musician, DJ, writer, educator, and founder of Comatonse Recordings, also known as DJ Sprinkles. Thaemlitz connects ambient, house, electroacoustic work, and digital jazz with critiques of gender, sexuality, class, identity, and media economics.
Wendy Carlos
An American composer, synthesist, performer, recording engineer, and electronic-music pioneer. Her landmark 1968 album Switched-On Bach brought the Moog synthesizer to a mass audience; she also created influential music for A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Tron and explored alternate tunings, sound design, and surround sound.
David Tudor
An American pianist and experimental composer who premiered major works by John Cage, Pierre Boulez, Morton Feldman, and others. He later made pioneering live-electronic works in which circuits and performance systems became the composition.
Steve Reich
An American composer whose pulse-based processes, phasing techniques, repetition, and gradual transformation helped define musical minimalism. Major works include It’s Gonna Rain, Drumming, Music for 18 Musicians, and Different Trains.
Brian Eno
An English musician, producer, visual artist, and theorist whose work helped define ambient music. Beyond his own recordings, he has shaped albums by artists including David Bowie, Talking Heads, U2, and Coldplay and developed influential ideas about generative art and studio practice.
David Bowie
An English singer, songwriter, actor, and visual innovator known for repeatedly reinventing his sound and public identity. His career moved through glam rock, soul, electronic experimentation, art rock, pop, and late-career avant-garde work.
- Vangelis
Authors / writers
Jaron Lanier
A computer scientist, virtual-reality pioneer, composer, artist, and author. His books critique dehumanizing technology, platform economics, and digital groupthink while arguing for human agency and dignity online.
Philip K. Dick
An American science-fiction writer whose novels and stories repeatedly question reality, identity, memory, authority, and what it means to be human. His work inspired films including Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report.
Steven Levy
A longtime technology journalist and WIRED editor at large. His books—including Hackers, Crypto, In the Plex, and Facebook: The Inside Story—chronicle computing culture and the people and institutions behind the digital revolution.
Richard Stallman
A programmer and activist who launched the GNU Project and Free Software Movement and founded the Free Software Foundation. He developed GNU Emacs and articulated the ethical case for users’ freedom to run, study, modify, and share software.
John Perry Barlow
An essayist, Grateful Dead lyricist, cattle rancher, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His writing helped frame early debates about freedom, community, government, and civil liberties in cyberspace.
Bruce Sterling
An American science-fiction writer, critic, and futurist central to the cyberpunk movement. He edited the defining Mirrorshades anthology and wrote novels and nonfiction about technology, design, surveillance, politics, and social change.
William Gibson
An American-Canadian speculative-fiction writer widely associated with the emergence of cyberpunk. Neuromancer and his later novels examine networks, corporate power, mediated identity, design, and the uneven arrival of the future.
Alvin Toffler
An American writer and futurist known for Future Shock, The Third Wave, and Powershift. He analyzed how accelerating technological and social change reshape institutions, work, family life, and political power.
David Bohm
A theoretical physicist and philosopher whose work included plasma physics, the Aharonov–Bohm effect, and a causal interpretation of quantum mechanics. His later writing explored wholeness, consciousness, creativity, and dialogue.
Richard Dawkins
Filmmakers
Iara Lee
A Brazilian-born filmmaker, producer, activist, and founder of the Cultures of Resistance Network. Her documentaries include Synthetic Pleasures and Modulations, which investigate technology, electronic music, globalization, and cultural resistance.
Terry Gilliam
An American-born British filmmaker, animator, and member of Monty Python. His visually extravagant, darkly comic films—including Brazil, Time Bandits, The Fisher King, and 12 Monkeys—often pit imagination against bureaucracy and control.
Michael Snow
John Carpenter
Alex Cox
Sergio Leone
Stephen Chow
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors
Harry Dean Stanton
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Rachel House
Clint Eastwood
Lee Van Cleef
Jackie Chan
Record labels
4AD
A British independent label founded in 1980 by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent. Its adventurous roster and the distinctive graphic identity created by Vaughan Oliver made 4AD a defining home for post-punk, dream pop, alternative rock, and experimental music.
Corporations and industrial technology
Bunker Ramo
An American electronics company formed in 1964 that built military systems, computers, and financial-market display terminals. It created the first version of NASDAQ’s automated quotation system and later became part of AlliedSignal and Honeywell.
Olivetti
An Italian company founded in 1908 and celebrated for typewriters, calculators, computers, office systems, architecture, and industrial design. Its human-centered corporate culture and work by designers such as Ettore Sottsass made it unusually influential beyond technology.
Burroughs Corporation
An American business-machine company that evolved from mechanical adding machines into a major mainframe manufacturer. Its technically distinctive computer systems became part of Unisys after Burroughs merged with Sperry in 1986.
Sun Microsystems
A Silicon Valley computer company known for Unix workstations and servers, the SPARC architecture, Solaris, Java, and major contributions to networked computing. Founded in 1982, Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2010.
Sundstrand Corporation
A Rockford, Illinois manufacturer of machine tools and later aerospace and industrial systems. Sundstrand developed the Omnimill line, then became part of Hamilton Sundstrand after its 1999 acquisition by United Technologies.
Sundstrand OM-3 five-axis Omnimill
An early numerically controlled milling machine designed to cut complex surfaces along five axes. The first OM-3 shipped to Douglas Aircraft in 1957, and Sundstrand demonstrated a continuously controlled five-axis version in 1959—an important step in modern aerospace machining.
Laws / regulations
FCC Computer Inquiries I, II, and III
A series of U.S. Federal Communications Commission proceedings that drew and revised the boundary between regulated communications services and comparatively unregulated data-processing or “enhanced” services. Their framework helped shape competition, network access, and later internet policy.
Chef’s / Food & Travel Youtubes
Mark Weins
Uncle Roger
Francis Mallmann
Food
Hominy
Dried maize treated with alkali through nixtamalization, which softens the kernels, improves flavor and nutrition, and makes the grain easier to process. Hominy is eaten whole or ground into masa and grits.
Pozole
A traditional Mexican soup or stew built around nixtamalized hominy, usually with meat or vegetables and garnishes such as cabbage, radish, onion, chile, and lime. Major regional styles include red, green, and white pozole.