Behind the Scenes

A collection of 126 posts

Tenday Notes

Tenday Notes 11 May - 30 May 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've released a new script for the Monome Norns - a kind of open-source musical gameboy with a tonne of amazing free software developed

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Tenday Notes 1 May - 10 May 2023

Hello friends, my name is Duncan and this is Hello From Duncan - a newsletter than I send every ten days or so, rounding up my recent creative input and output. Becasue you can't have the latter without the former. It's free, you're getting it because you signed up for

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Tenday Notes 21 April - 30 April 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. For the last five years or so, the 11-year solar magnetic activity cycle has been at its lowest ebb. Now, however, it's starting to

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Tenday Notes 11 April - 20 April 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. The lovely folks at Ableton have written up an article about data sonification and climate action, featuring quite a lot of the work I’

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Skåneleden Notes 1 Apr - 10 Apr 2023

Usually in the notes that I write every ten days, I round up my recent creative input and output. This time round, though, things are a bit different - over Easter I took a five-day walk through the forests of northern Skåne, so that's what this post is about. First

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Tenday Notes 21 March - 30 March 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. The most clicked link from last time was to a set of badges that allow you to mark content as not created by AI.

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Tenday Notes 11 March - 20 March 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Off the back of the excellent Designing Your System for Creativity workshop by Oliver Burkeman that I mentioned here a few months back, I've

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Tenday Notes 1 March - 10 March 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've figured how to track how many links get clicked in these messages. So, stealing a trick from Quantum of Solazzo, I can exclusively

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Tenday Notes 21 Feb - 28 Feb 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Short one this, as it's a short tenday period consisting of just eight days. THANKS FEBRUARY. I've not had a tonne of free time

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Tenday Notes 11 Feb - 20 Feb 2023

Hello friends. My name is Duncan and this is Hello From Duncan - a regular roundup of my recent creative input and output. You're getting it because you signed up for it, and if you want to unsubscribe then you can do so any time with the link in the

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Tenday Notes 1 Feb - 10 Feb 2023

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. This is a short one, because I spent last weekend seeing friends in Gothenburg, and I'm spending this weekend in a lovely little town

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Month Notes - January 2023

Every ten days or so (a month in this case!), I share a digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Biggest news of the month is that we're making the Elevate Dataviz Learning Community more financially accessible for more people

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Tenday Notes 1 Dec - 10 Dec 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. As promised, a new season of Signal Chain has begun - my creative collaboration with photographer Oliver Holms. Check out the remarkable photograph he

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Tenday Notes 21 Nov - 30 Nov 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I'm writing to you today from a cabin in the woods where I've been spending a long-overdue break from the rest of the world.

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Tenday Notes 1 Nov - 20 Nov 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Scandalously, it has been 20 days since you last heard from me. I write these notes by trying to scribble down a "thing" every

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Tenday Notes 21 Oct - 31 Oct 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I did a little work on the Loud Numbers Norns script this week, which brings data sonification to the Norns ecosystem. The original version

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Tenday Notes 11 Oct - 20 Oct 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. This issue is a little unusual, in that it mostly consists of a lengthy travelogue of my train journey to Amsterdam to deliver a

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Tenday Notes 1 Oct - 10 Oct 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. This week I'm off on a whistle-stop tour through the Netherlands and Luxembourg by train, to give a sonification workshop and a sonification keynote.

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Tenday Notes 21 Sep - 30 Sep 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I’ve been working with Conservation International for the last couple of years on the Exponential Roadmap for Natural Climate Solutions. Exponential Roadmap for

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Tenday Notes 11 Sep - 20 Sep 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. The Elevate Dataviz Learning Community that I run alongside Alli Torban, Will Chase and Gabrielle Merite is going well, and we recently launched a

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Tenday Notes 1 Sep - 10 Sep 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Over the last ten days, most of my freelance time has been spent putting the final editorial touches on Conservation International's Exponential Roadmap for

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Tenday Notes 21 Aug - 31 Aug 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've been in Sweden now for ten years. On 27 August 2012, I got on a plane and flew from London to Gothenburg -

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Tenday Notes 11 Aug - 20 Aug 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've largely finished off the sonification work that I was talking about last time, though there might be a handful more edits. That means

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Tenday Notes 21 July - 10 August 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Most of my work I've done over the last couple of weeks is sonification work, and it's a delight. Not just because I like

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Tenday Notes 11 July - 20 July 2022

Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've been on holiday for the last, well, ten days or so. So this is a lighter edition than normal. But hopefully you'll still