Well, there are plenty of students at CCRMA who might want to do this. You could try David Cope's algorithmic composition program at UC Santa Cruz, IRCAM and Berklee College of Music, but I'd start with Stanford / CCRMA. On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Christopher R. Antila <crantila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi everybody! > > Maybe we could propose multiple ideas for GSoC this year. (Speaking of > which, we'd better get started with posting our Ideas!) > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2013 > > Here's an Idea that I'm willing to mentor, even though I previously > said I wouldn't: we sponsor an electronic musician to prepare a series > of musical works, using only software available in Fedora (including > PlanetCCRMA), and to document their process. > > This would be a huge benefit for us, for a number of reasons. First, > we'd have more tangible demonstrations of the viability of creativity > with FOSS software. Second, we could require different software (e.g., > PureData, SuperCollider, Csound) for a broad demonstration. Third, > we'd have more extensive documentation on "how to use computers to be > musically creative," that would hopefully inspire both "unmusical" > people and people who are "bad with computers." Fourth, we'd > demonstrate that "coding" doesn't mean "use JavaScript to write a > mobile app then profit lawlz" as "the media" seems to think, and to > demonstrate that Fedora isn't only the upstream to Red Hat Enterprise > Linux. Finally, and most importantly, we could use this as the basis > to create a musical community around Fedora. > > When I first got here in 2010, what we needed most was a greater > number of dedicated and active volunteers. That's still true now, but > we're much better off than we used to be. In 2013, we have our own > spin, we have our own documentation, and I suggest that the only thing > we're still missing is the vibrant musical community. Whereas I used > to believe that providing "the right tools" would create an active > community, now I realize it's much more complicated. > > Active communities reproduce themselves. More specifically, the power > relations of active communities tend to reproduce the communities in > which they were formed. What we need to do is create the relations for > the community we want, even though it doesn't already exist. It's a > complicated way to say "cool music attracts people that will make cool > music." > > Consider that, on this music mailing list, we should be discussing > music and related issues, but we only discuss related issues (and > D-flat). I really don't know what musical things people here do, and > you have no idea what I do. I believe this is where we need to focus > our efforts now. If we can use GSoC to basically commission a > composer, and if a few more of us commit to producing at least one > musical thing this summer, and if we do a good job of circulating our > music through the right channels, I think we can kick-start the > community we (or at least I) have been hoping for! > > Any thoughts? > > > Christopher > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRKmwbAAoJEGpo1cWDqVnYj6UP/iPA3qLYJ0N0Msy9kp6pkgh6 > Yd7pgSEwtqh051OQetlvmVCD4bZNahQMTehs+TyCOp+nAimY+LscPG92VA7ETwOJ > inhdEUcPAy+PJk9oNSrOMPG1qrv6AWyz6AmpeRLJqDss61TRQLMhwNlsyEexkYiJ > 9T9fAnsXd6NgzgHvVPSJ578XmfEAqFDsYcrN9zbwW+Py4oYIXKO0tNFdRdiyxn3z > 7UEpkHUpNVS/4G83zyRun3/oAN29w5zeJ2COdDNMQhUWQ7gGYJWPzHUn92jKCx2y > iivVoLJJav/6oSfq7RlsZUKVdL7BOIXc7EP1XIu5xWDYMvEpEzvI+pM9tpMvi0S8 > EQs0CPvbv9QsgZ89wor+CFpZ3OFRVAxUD7D21SYlADSkw0S5jkG9ep1yAoK0uLxs > aqXcpv8W+AFmRugQh7glHstOVwrj/7P4F0p8wikAs3CsrQnruofScYHeDOu6qqmm > hQ7mJKF3QaYUyap6Ra3WW4ZXe5hmX3laWUHfUcMrTj/g2BSYjquC5c3+tlZSyXar > k/WhZUxVO1qA8WB8HG56CahTohjLuMa991m9vSCclp+FCDATdq/mIucZDMATTkRD > nx8U6Squ5b451uRIxtT/nI5ZbwzfyS2E0c+kAda5JmDYgE7RqN6u1QqrvWDPgLjo > QvI7bTZn261QGPoOt3Vh > =I+NX > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > music mailing list > music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench http://j.mp/CompJournBench/ I am not an IP address! I am a free man! _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
