Kompato

Giving It Away

Fri, 31 May 2013 21:40:20 -0400

I’ve decided to make all my music freely downloadable. If you don’t see a download link in the SoundCloud widget on this site, you can get the song from the Kompato SoundCloud Page.

If you enjoy the songs, please consider donating whatever you feel is fair by clicking the donate link on the right.

Thanks, and enjoy!

Suspicion leads down dark paths…

Fri, 31 May 2013 21:33:09 -0400

Suspicion leads down dark paths…

On a night when the energy is high, the music and the city...

Wed, 01 May 2013 14:06:12 -0400

On a night when the energy is high, the music and the city lights share their intensity.

Even in the midst of stressful times there are moments of beauty...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:40:02 -0400

Even in the midst of stressful times there are moments of beauty to savor. Tension filled bass and drums are juxtaposed against gentle piano and strings.

Downtempo song, now available on iTunes. Featuring Dan Lewis on...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:00:00 -0400

Downtempo song, now available on iTunes. Featuring Dan Lewis on guitar.

Chillout song produced with Ableton Live 9 + Push. UPDATE: Now...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 08:49:00 -0400

Chillout song produced with Ableton Live 9 + Push.

UPDATE: Now available on iTunes.

An orchestral piece I’m working on.

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:59:00 -0400

An orchestral piece I’m working on.

Granular synthesis experiment. The drone at the start of the...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Granular synthesis experiment. The drone at the start of the piece is a classical acoustic guitar playing E minor, run through granular synthesis. The kick drum is a sampled hit against a padded piano bench, run through a bass amp and reverb.

Original house song.

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Original house song.

Short, simple piano and vocal piece. Vocals are placeholders, as...

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Short, simple piano and vocal piece. Vocals are placeholders, as I am no singer.

In-Memory Zip in Python

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Below is a post of mine from May of 2008 on zipping in memory with Python, re-posted since Posterous is shutting down.

I recently noticed that there is a for-pay component available to zip files in-memory with Python. Considering this is something that should be free, I threw together the following code. It has only gone through very basic testing, so if anyone finds any errors, let me know and I’ll update this.

import zipfile
import StringIO

class InMemoryZip(object):
    def __init__(self):
        # Create the in-memory file-like object
        self.in_memory_zip = StringIO.StringIO()

    def append(self, filename_in_zip, file_contents):
        '''Appends a file with name filename_in_zip and contents of 
        file_contents to the in-memory zip.'''
        # Get a handle to the in-memory zip in append mode
        zf = zipfile.ZipFile(self.in_memory_zip, "a", zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED, False)

        # Write the file to the in-memory zip
        zf.writestr(filename_in_zip, file_contents)

        # Mark the files as having been created on Windows so that
        # Unix permissions are not inferred as 0000
        for zfile in zf.filelist:
            zfile.create_system = 0        

        return self

    def read(self):
        '''Returns a string with the contents of the in-memory zip.'''
        self.in_memory_zip.seek(0)
        return self.in_memory_zip.read()

    def writetofile(self, filename):
        '''Writes the in-memory zip to a file.'''
        f = file(filename, "w")
        f.write(self.read())
        f.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Run a test
    imz = InMemoryZip()
    imz.append("test.txt", "Another test").append("test2.txt", "Still another")
    imz.writetofile("test.zip")