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Dan Tepfer
Personal blog · dantepfer.com/blogcultureprogramming
Dan Tepfer's personal blog at dantepfer.com covers culture and programming. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Rhythm/Pitch Duality: Hear rhythm become pitch before your ears”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dan Tepfer's site for his improvised algorithmic piano music and FarPlay, a low-latency internet audio project he co-created. Comments discuss the FarPlay project and his player-piano work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dan Tepfer is a pianist / composer / coder who lives in Brooklyn. He's known for his projects Goldberg Variations/Variations, Natural Machines and his jazz albums.
Most-linked posts?
- Rhythm/Pitch Duality: Hear rhythm become pitch before your ears3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-06-20
What Hacker News says?
Hi everyone, Dan Tepfer here, co-creator of FarPlay. As a skeptic myself, I appreciate the skeptical tone of this thread. And I'd like to address a few points made here about FarPlay and low-latency audio. First, a little about me: I've been coding for most of my life (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaadsrHBygc for my NPR Tiny Desk Concert of my improvised algorithmic music project Natural Machines) but I'm fir…
Comment linking /
on “FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet”Submitted A few things I’ve learned about livestreaming as a story · 263 points
HN discussionFor those who have not heard of him, a good introduction is his set of improvisations on Bach's Goldberg Variations. "Goldberg Variations / Variations": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8WGcjB6ryI Discussion: http://dantepfer.com/blog/?p=444 Also, the animations are stringly reminiscent of the work of Stephen Malinowski ("smalin"). The one around 3:00 is similar to the visualization he made for a guitar transcriptio…
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on “Dan Tepfer's Player Piano Is His Composing Partner”Submitted Rhythm/Pitch Duality: Hear rhythm become pitch before your ears as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rhythm / Pitch Duality: hear rhythm become pitch before your ears as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rhythm / Pitch Duality: hear rhythm become pitch before your ears as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rhythm / Pitch Duality: hear rhythm become pitch before your ears (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bach Upside Down: human/computer inversions of the Goldberg Variations as a story · 1 points
HN discussion