Archive for July 15th, 2009

John Carpenter Themes

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

I have been playing with Lilypond a little more, and here are some themes that I have transcribed. They are all from John Carpenter movies: the first is the theme from “Halloween”, which is an interesting 5/4 time piano riff; the second is the synth theme from “Escape From New York”, and the final is the ending credits music of “The Thing” (known as “Humanity Part II” on the soundtrack album). The last one is a bit messy as I couldnt get Lilypond to hold the ties across multiple bars properly.

carpenter.pdf

carpenter.pdf

This is still not 100% finished – there are some omissions. Plus, my transcription may be incorrect in places.

Here is the PDF:

carpenter.pdf

And the Lilypond source:

carpenter

UseR 2009 Presentation and London R User Group News

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Last week I presented a short talk at the 2009 UseR conference. The conference was the usual mix of varied topics (even more varied than usual this year) and a lot of interesting discussions.

Here are the slides.

Incidentally, Mango Solutions have set up a website for the London R user group meetings here: http://www.londonr.org/