The actual musical phrase consists of two short repeated elements: first played by one instrument (black), then a second instrument (red). There is also a third instrument whose pitch direction is going up throughout the phrase (blue arrow). Therefore, the symbol on the right would be correct. If the pitch direction of the third instrument were downwards, then the symbol on the left would be correct.
Give it a try yourself, and of course I welcome your feedback.

You can find the test here. 

Lesion Localizer is a flash-based interactive environment to integrate MRI anatomy with the clinical presentation of classic neurological syndromes. At the heart of the project is an MRI atlas in which structures are highlighted and labeled as the mouse over the image. The MRI images can be freely explored in all three orthogonal planes (axial, sagittal, and coronal). This tool allows one to become familiar with neuroanatomy on MRI, and realize the importance of anatomical localization in clinical thinking. It is designed to supplement learning neurology for second, third, and fourth year medical students, but can be useful for both neurology and radiology residents as well. Lesion localizer was created with Amar Dhand and Dr. Gillian Lieberman. You can find Lesion Localizer here.

This atlas was created during my radiology rotation. I think it is unique among the many head CT atlases out there, as regions are highlighted as you mouse over them. I was frustrated with the design of most atlases, which used many small lines to point to structures. With this atlas, you simply point to the structure in question: the entire structure visible is highlighted, and the name of the structure is given at the bottom.

You can find the head CT atlas here.

If you think that you may have this problem, please take a new test I just made. It is very similar to the tonedeaf test that has so far had more than 100,000 submitted scores. Any comments you may have on this new test are very welcome.

You can find the test here.

Continue for full track downloads…

Special thanks to uncajesse for ripping and scanning these files - I actually don’t have a copy of this release anymore (there are probably about 200 out there in the world).

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If you enjoyed taking the tonedeaf test, then you will also have fun with this one. This is a completely new test designed to quickly measure how well you can tell two tones apart.

You will get instant results after taking the test. I recommend having a good sound system or headphones. Flashplayer 8 or 9 is required.

You can find the test here.

I love Puerto Rico. The exceedingly hospitable guys running this label invited me to PR twice - each time was fantastic. The first time was when I was living in Minneapolis, the second time was from Berlin. Talk about 180 degrees of culture difference, and about 90 degrees of temperature difference. I love eating fish for breakfast. Unfortunately, Etihad’s too-short life ended after just two releases. This is their first (ET-001). You gotta admire the two extra zeros - that’s the beauty of ambition.

Full EP download after the jump!

All of these tracks were written in Berlin in November/December 2000. I had just moved to Berlin a few weeks prior - even going to the supermarket was still exciting. Well, maybe exciting wasn’t the right word: I saw the same grungy produce each time, and milk was sold in room temperature tetrapaks. I was living in Moabit at the time - an out of the way pseudosuburb with cheap rent and more than a dozen flourescent Turkish Imbisses (what is the plural of Imbiss? Imbi?) per block.

The tracknames were inspired from these German children’s books I was plodding through to teach my self that twisted tongue:

Equipment: I used my 300 Mhz G3 Powerbook, held together with duct tape and a little glue. The software, same as it was since around 1995, was Logic Audio. I used a Waldorf microQ for the strange quasi-string sound in Virtu Hunting. I had just met the developer of Native Instruments’ Spektral Delay, so that is heavily featured in these tracks as well, especially The Storyteller.

The last track is a remix of Die Kleine Hexe by Supersoul.

Jake Mandell - Die Kleine Hexe 

Jake Mandell - The Storyteller 

Jake Mandell - Tim Fireshoe 

Jake Mandell - Virtu Hunting 

Jake Mandell - kleine hexe (supersoul) 

Imagine what an empty subway tunnel would sound like in a thousand years.

Underling is my second ambient CD, released on my own Kodama label. I was working in Minneapolis at Yamamoto-Moss, a fancy design company that had catered lunches every day. They designed logos for Pillsbury and things like that - I worked in IT. I worked there for less than a year - just enough to get a PowerMac G4. Its 400 Mhz was a lot more impressive back then.

This is the first time this album has been available online.

My second album, a product of the Minneapolis winter. There was a coffee shop right up the street from my apartment. It was called something terrible, like “Cyber Cafe”: There were tons of dog-eared magazines in between the crust-filled cracks of an eclectic sofa collection and some PCs to play games on. They closed at midnight, and I would walk there every night at 11:55 and get a big cup of coffee. Then I would stomp back through the snow to my apartment and work on music for a few hours. I didn’t have a TV, and the only Internet I had was dial-up. After making some money with Parallel Processes, I was able to write music full-time.

Full album after the jump!

This album was released in early 2000 on the Frankfurt-based Techno label Force-Inc.

Equipment: Same PowerMac 8100 that I used for Parallel Processes, but I had a bigger ProTools system, including the famous Lexicon NuVerb card. I got really into convolution effects, especially the one in Soundhack. I also found a really strange, teutonic program called Reaktor. I never knew that it would end up changing my life and bringing me across the globe to Native Instruments’ headquarters in Berlin…

This release is out of print, and this is the first time this album has been offered online for free.