The traditional view is that the floating-point number format is superior to the fixed-point number format when it comes to representing sound digitally. In fact, while it may be counter-intuitive, ...

Floating Points‘ Sam Shepherd isn’t one for hard left-turns in his loosely beat-tethered meditations on worldly music, but the London musician and producer does have a tendency to upend expectations.

A way to represent very large and very small numbers using the same quantity of numeric positions. Floating point also enables calculating a wide range of numbers very quickly. Although floating point ...

People learn in different ways, but sometimes the establishment fixates on explaining a concept in one way. If that’s not your way you might be out of luck. If you have trouble internalizing floating ...

UK producer Floating Points (aka Sam Shepherd) will be heading to North America for a few dates in August. While he’s here, he’ll hit up NYC for two shows, including Warm Up at MoMA PS1 on August 18 ...

December 22, 2021 • In a year where putting on a record was the only way to escape, we wondered what how our favorite musicians fared. From Lucy Dacus on Dijon to Vince Staples on Doja Cat, these are ...

Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders come from two very different worlds. Saunders is a legendary jazz musician and saxophone player, and Floating Points is best known for immersive electronic music ...

Floating Points has shared a new single titled "Birth4000." The track is out via Ninja Tune and has featured in DJ sets from Four Tet, Peggy Gou, and Ben UFO among others over the summer. Check it out ...

Back in March, the electronic producer Sam Shepherd, who releases music as Floating Points, put out a new track called “Vocoder,” which he followed up a couple weeks later with “Grammar.” Now, a few ...

The term floating point is derived from the fact that there is no fixed number of digits before and after the decimal point; namely, the decimal point can float. There are also representations in ...